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[1802 July Tuesday - 27th. H.M.S. Investigator] along the east coast - Cape Moreton to Wide Bay
[Astronomical observations not reproduced - see original journal]

The strange sail I suppose to be one of the two whalers, which are fishing off this part of the coast. -
When going into Glass-house Bay in the Norfolk, I had not seen the reef which lies off Cape Moreton from its being nearly dark, and from hauling being so close to in round the cape. It This reef is the more dangerous from being at that distance from the cape, at wh. any vessel would judge herself to be in safety: it is fortunate for the Investigator that we did not pass Cape Moreton in the night. -
The neighbourhood of Double Island Point and Wide Bay, appearing to have been indistinctly seen by C.C. [Captain Cook] we brought to in the night that we might not pass this part without examination. The point is a steep head at the end of a neck of land which runs 11/2 mile from the main. The bight on the north side seems to afford shelter from the S.E.ly. winds as far as SE. - The opening in Wide Bay, I judge to be a large shoal place, but there seems to be a passage into it on the north side of the shoals for these seem to lie directly off the mouth.+ This neighbourhood seems to be well inhabited from the numbers of smokes, and the natives seen near the Double Island point. Numberless blubbers of a blueish colour fill the water, off the opening At Noon, offshore 5 miles