Day 46: Great Keppel Island

Provisioning day. From GKI, there are a few options. You can hire a berth in Rosslyn Bay Marina and get a bus / use the marina car to shop in Yeppoon. Alternatively, you can put a delivery order into Coles or Woollies. They will deliver to the GKI ferry and you can pick it up on the island. But no grog.

Or you can do what we did which was to anchor off Emu Park. This needs calm conditions and you have to respect the tides. Also, there is no convenient dinghy lockup spot so you may end up just leaving it on the beach. If you're not long, this should not be a problem.

Emu Park has a big IGA, bottle shop, servo with swap-and-go, small hardware store, pharmacy and a number of other shops and cafes. On top of that, it is a really lovely town with parks, a museum and a couple of clubs.

Emu Park town centre.

We went it for a big shop - two full trolleys - booze and a few other odds and sods. A long tiring day dragging the dinghy around the beach - every time I came back from the shops, the tide had gone out another 50m!

Priorities sorted.

Went back to GKI for the night.

Location

Great Keppel Island