KIMBERLEY DREAMING
Greg was eying the depth sounder and electronic plotter. “We'll give it another half hour. Let's have breakfast and then we'll have enough water under our keel to slip through that gap.”
I looked at that chart on the sounder and noticed the words that are so common when sailing the Kimberley: 'Inadequately charted'.
While we might have been in uncharted, or at least poorly charted waters, our skipper was not.
With 30 years’ experience sailing small boats into every inlet, cove, bay, creek and passage in the Kimberley, Greg was one of the most experienced skippers in the entire region.
His boat, the Kimberley Xplorer, was the third in a series of charter boats he owned and skippered, while before that he had run around the coast in nothing more than a six metre tinnie, seeking adventure and exploring every inlet and island he could come across.
Back then, not every voyage had ended drama-free or even without damage.
But as he told us, in those days he was young and indestructible and he was willing to give anything,
