The weird thing about sailing away from our beloved anchorage in the lagoon at Double Island Point is that when/if we return, it’s probably not going to be there. Storms and swell will shift the sandbanks and reshape the whole thing. It might even attain a better formation – who knows! When you look at […]
Author: beth
The wind is only PART of the weather forecast
M was very keen to head to Lady Musgrave. There will be no ‘but’ in this sentence – suffice to say, when he checks out what the weather is going to be doing, he looks at the wind and the swell, not the sun and predicted precipitation. Our second day at Lady Musgrave Island was […]
Daysail to Lady Musgrave Island
After four or five days drying out with every low tide in Wathumba Creek in deference to the crappy weather, I was more than ready to leave. Our batteries were the worst they’ve ever been – they are supposed to always be around 12.40 – and because of minimal sun and our fixed position, I […]
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Creaky
I appear to be increasingly weather intolerant. As I type I can feel the slightest sprinkle of rain being blown through the hatch behind me which is opened less than an inch. It is as if some malevolent force has moved a pocket of weather from Melbourne and deposited it upon me. The past four […]