Hi Rapscallion

At high tide the reef is completely covered, so the lagoon is pretty much unprotected.

The sandy bottom between bommies affords good holding so, if your anchor is dependable, it's doable but it will be rolly and uncomfortable in anything more than about 12 knots.

Many anchor in the lee of the island on the western side in suitable conditions.

It is, however, heaven on a stick out there and not to be missed.

Definitely aim for slack water to enter the lagoon.

Hope you get out there

there are about 10 or 12 public mooring buoys in the lagoon now rated to 33kts. i was there about a month ago and there was allways a few spare

Hi rapscallion, did you get out to the reef that day, and did you leave at 3am?
If you did I went past the marina where you were about 20 past 3am, I didn't see you, but had a bizarre incident 5 minutes later and wondered if you suffered the same thing?....
As I was heading out of the Burnett River, just going past the boat harbour (last harbour on the right heading out), all of a sudden there was this massive green light all over me and the boat, I immediately thought I had some how stuffed up the Nav and run into a starboard marker! But as I looked around some dumb moron with a powerful laser was shining it directly into my eyes, I had my eyes wide open already just by sailing at night, and coped some solid direct hits to my eyes before turning away, as the pr!ck was still trying to get my eyes for nearly a minute, the wind was a decent SW'er I just kept going, but as the sun rose, one of my eyes became hot and had to wear a patch over it for the rest of the day to rest it, pirate jokes aside, it was pretty dangerous moving around the boat with just one eye, this laser the military would have been pleased to have, I hope you didn't cop it too,
cheers

Unfortunately we didn't get out there. We got up at 3 to leave but the admiral was not well so decided to stay. We are really disappointed that we didn't get to tick musgrave off the list but we intend to get there next chance we have.
There was a decent wind that morning. It would have been a good run out to the island just to rub a bit more salt into the wound.
The laser was probably from one of the less desirable looking individuals I saw fishing off the banks during our stay there. They probably don't even comprehend how dangerous what they did was.
I was pleasantly surprised by the bundy marina. Very clean and modern facilities. It was a good spot to hide out for a couple of days.