A couple of days ago, after lengthy cogitations about how we would traverse the 6km to the Saturday morning market, but at the same time try to climb the highest point on the Isle of Pines before midday to avoid the heat, I decided to forego the market and head straight to the mountain. Our […]
Author: beth
Boat Hacks 01: BoatCat
Much time was spent on BoatCat research before I allowed an invasion of the fur that has trashed our cockpit floor, vomited in various locations and bitten all of us multiple times. In case anyone else is still thinking they will also obtain a boatcat after that sentence, I will now write about the LITTER […]
Up and down and down and up…
Like almost every online glimpse of other people’s lives, I’m sure ours looks better than yours. You don’t tend to keep bad photographs in your album, and likewise, you don’t tend to exhibit the mundane bits of your life online. Where’s the interest in that? I’ve had several people comment; ‘Your life is amazing.” and […]
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Fruit, vegetable, plant. Going, going, gone.
Holy moly. It is so easy to leave Australia (once you have that ship’s registration thing) – but it is so HARD to enter New Caledonia. Not hard as in physically hard (although the passage did suck) – but hard as in knowing which regulations to observe. First of all we believed that we could […]
Honey Goes to a Health Farm
This is where I write about Honey the BoatCat. I have failed to mention, thus far, that on the Friday before leaving Australia I took her for the final vet-check that had to be done within the seven days before departure. All was going well, at the wonderful Happy Paws Veterniary Clinic – when there […]
Gold Coast. Show me the money.
Over two and a half weeks in this joint and a large part of it has felt quite fraught. The travel immunisations we had really knocked around the members of the crew who have an autoimmune disease (i.e not M) – who have correspondingly caught some kind of snot/sore throat / general malaise kind of […]
Farewell Yamba and Iluka
We said a bit of a sad goodbye to Belinda, Roxy and Eddie – our Yamba posse – they have helped us SO MUCH while we have been hanging around. It’s been a joy to get to know them, they are the good people – we shared some wonderful times with them… May 5, 2018. […]
Where it’s at. Two timestables and a floating home.
Can’t even remember last time I updated and am too scared to look. So. Be prepared for some unintentional repetition. Briefly – Since February we have left Yamba for Pittwater (via Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Crowdy Head, Broughton Island) – picked up our awesome new outboard motor ‘Growler’, sailed from Pittwater to Manly and will […]
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Complacency Combust-a-Tron
“We’ve got a couple of choices,” said M, as we sat on the sand at Bayview yesterday afternoon. “The weather is pretty much going to be ballistic for the next week, which means we’ll have to stay in Pittwater, or…” “Or?” “Or we can leave early in the morning before the ballistic really kicks in […]