There was not a lot of sorrow entangled in leaving the Gold Coast. It’s a fun place to stop, and we were thankful for a protected place to anchor – but the helicopters flying overhead every half an hour were starting to do my head in. As I’ve written before – the foreshore is full …
Month: October 2017
Our first day here, anchored with 52 other boats in Bum’s Bay, was sunshiney and gorgeous. And then the past five days have brought an EPIC weather system that has included more rain than we have previously encountered, high winds (though we are well protected from them) and crazy seas. If I had organised a …
Poor Small Z has been struggling with the fact that Z-Mow is really gone. We hoped so much she would somehow magically reappear; rescued from a lost and found or discovered hiding out in an op-shop. I had (in retrospect) suggested I could make her another cat far too early in the piece. She had …
Why would you name the best cup in the world the ‘Contigo West Loop‘? It sounds like a freeway in Florida. Nevertheless, it is an exceptional entity; I consider that providing one each to M and myself has contributed to the stability of our relationship and the serenity of our vessel. It was recommended to …
We left Brisbane at daybreak, found a 24 hour fulel dock at City Gate Marina, dropped $120 on diesel/petrol and filled our totally empty water tanks. It felt good to be on the move. The longer I was in Brisbane, the more I liked it, but I because simultaneously less and less enaboured of the …
I delight in the fact that Queensland does not have daylight saving. I do not delight in waking up with the sun at a quarter past five every morning, but I’m learning to cope. But today, even at that early hour, I could tell that the day was going to be a hot one. Fact: …