{"id":2061,"date":"2011-05-03T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:32:16","slug":"departing-for-great-keppel-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2061","title":{"rendered":"Departing for Great Keppel Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Tuesday evening in Australia.\u00a0 Tomorrow morning we will finally start our trip up the east coast of Australia.\u00a0 We have given up on visiting the coral atoll &#8220;Lady Musgrave&#8221; as the conditions are not right.\u00a0 Instead, we will undertake a 340 nautical mile, two day passage to Great Keppel Island near Yeppoon.\u00a0 It is supposed to have great swimming and walks, and a reasonably protected anchorage (unlike Lady Musgrave).\u00a0 We will head to the outside of\u00a0 Fraser Island and then inside the Great Barrier Reef at Lady Eliot.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The map below shows the area from Scarborough (yellow icon) to Great Keppel Island (red icon).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2068\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scarb2Keppel.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2068\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scarb2Keppel.png\" alt=\"Scarborough to Great Keppel Island\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scarb2Keppel.png 640w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scarb2Keppel-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Scarb2Keppel-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scarborough to Great Keppel Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Tuesday evening in Australia.\u00a0 Tomorrow morning we will finally start our trip up the east coast of Australia.\u00a0 We have given up on visiting the coral atoll &#8220;Lady Musgrave&#8221; as the conditions are not right.\u00a0 Instead, we will undertake a 340 nautical mile, two day passage to Great Keppel Island near Yeppoon.\u00a0 It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Departing for Great Keppel Island&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia2011","category-other","tag-australia2011-australia-2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}