Hi,
Yes, there is an anchorage area at Mooloolaba, upstream of the island, keep a good eye on the depthsounder, I touched in that area on my way up in June.
Cheers Gypsypirate

Thanks for the responses, I will take the "dont cut corners" advice for sure. Ill pick the weather, the keel is a bolt on cast iron one and draws 1.3 m all up, i would like to do the crossing before midday i was looking at the satellite on googmaps and there seems to be a nice little shelter at double island point. It would be great to be able to stay there for the second night and cross the next morning. good advice about ringing Vmr tin can Cisco i will do that for sure

G,day Dryrotnot. Welcome to the forum, what type of boat do you have ?

When I stayed at double island point the wind turned onshore....my mate had a dickie motor and sailed back to moolahbar and I up anchor at 4am waiting for the tide at 7am. If you go into moolahbar and intend to anchor personally I would not contact anyone on your arrival it's my understanding they don't really like people anchoring. Also there is a mud bank near the anchorage when I stayed there a woman in a fero cement boat sailed into it in the night and in the morning it was high and dry and full of water and wrecked! You can also anchor in the marina basin but there is only swinging room for a couple of boats.