The sailing season in Australia
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The Whitsundays, like the entire top portion of Australia, has only two seasons - a wet season (October to April) and a dry season (May to September). Day time temperatures are around 25 to 30 deg C (77 to 86 deg F), with water temperatures about 27 deg C (81 deg F). This is the tropics so it can be quite humid - being able to leap into the water to cool off easily is certainly a great advantage of being on a boat!

Wind patterns are characterised by reliable south-easterly trades usually blowing at 15 to 20 knots - ideal sailing conditions for our catamaran! Navigation is a lot trickier than the "Med" - anyone wanting to learn how to do the "real thing", this is the ideal place to learn!

The distances between islands are not great - to the extent that we will be able often to sail an hour or two in the morning, anchor for lunch/swim/snorkel/explore for a few hours, then sail onto somewhere else in the afternoon.

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