Seeing land 70km out

[D river]

Hinchenbrook island from 68km out for those who doubted me.

[DOGFIGHT]

water is nice and clear........


not to worry....next you will a few people say that is not 68ks out, more like 18ks and you should get a shot from the GPS hahaha

[Kero]

Nice photo, but does nothing to prove your super human telescopic seeing around corners magic eyesight!::)

[whiteman]

eastern edge of Trunk reef?

[nigelr]

Great pic; awesome conditions!

[Dean1]

Looks very shallow??? Zoomed in??? ;D Didnt you say you could see land from 100klms out??

[Lancair]

Simple math says that Mt Bowen, highest point of hinchinbrook at just over 3000 feet should be visible at about 110km out to sea, at sea level. At 70km you should be able to see anything above about 1000feet above sea level. Comparitively for those of us who live much further south, we dont have any mountains anywhere near that high, with the exception of Mt Warning in northern NSW.

[Flex]

One photo i didnt want to see,

Damn floods ruined my 2 weeks fishing at Hinchinbrook Island. Dont tell me you havd those conditions over xmas?...

[johndeere]

Be carefull, you might see Christopher Columbus leaving America!

[D river]

good eyes whiteman, Yeah flex thats what we got twice now since then water was green on tuesday all the way out there but wed n thu it cleaned up on the run in. I did blow the pic up a bit so you could see it on this site but it is much easier to see with naked eye. And I can see land 100km out in the whitsundays but I wasn't out there last week so hence no pic of that. And you should know how well you can see from that far out dean with that nice big cat how I wish I owned 1 of those.

[whiteman]

If you were out there on Friday you would have seen me about 1/3 along the SE edge of Trunk.

[mmmouse]

D river u r right u can see land 100 km out from the whitsundays. i worked on the knuckle reef pontoon for 3 yrs which is 54nm(ha ha) from airlie beach in a straight line.

however the islands u r looking at are 16nm and 18nm from airlie in the direction of knuckle reef which puts them only about 37nm from ur position....mmmm...double it and take off 10% and thats about 67km in ur language!! :-)

[bigdonk]

On a clear day you can see the tip of north strad from Coolangatta!! 80klm by GPS and goolge earth!!! love the conditions on your photo!!!!

BD

[D river]

yea whiteman I seen a few boats out there this trip we were diving all the bombies in a orange n white boat went back into lucindaat around 1130 and yes mmmouse your right about them islands from that pontoon but over at martin reef and showers reef and gould reef you can see glouster island whish would be 100k approx from them. and not sure how far bowen is from there I'd guess about 80km but you can see its lights at night.

[ShaneC]

Who cares?? If I see land it's too shallow lol.....

[Whitey81]

I have been 60 km offshore from Gladstone and answered a phone call on the mobile, Yes it was work

[Gyarados]

Amazing how one man would go through so much trouble as to prove such a small point

Brad

[DOGFIGHT]

Amazing how one man would go through so much trouble as to prove such a small point

Brad

Might be a small point...but it still is a point;D

[Dezzer]

Amazing how one man would go through so much trouble as to prove such a small point

Brad


Amazing how one man would go to so much trouble as to comment about another man proving such a small point ;D

[deckie]

On a day like that in Sydney just keep the brown haze to your left and you're trolling north north east so the noreaster blows u home. Who needs a gps or compass when u have pollution to rely on ;D