Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week day 4 - Way up north



7:44 AM Tue 17 Aug 2010 GMT
'Fleet heading north' Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week Click Here to view large photo
Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week day 4. Sailors all over Australia know there are 74 islands in the Whitsundays and over the years the regatta fleets have rounded many of them. Today for just the second time in the 21 year history of Airlie Beach Race Week, the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week fleet rounded Saddleback Island, just behind George Point at the top of the Gloucester Group. Reputed to be death adder snake infested, or perhaps just a really great fishing location, Saddleback is the most northerly Whitsunday Island rounded by a major regatta fleet. In the ...


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by Rob Kothe



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