The white sand and transparent water of Wineglass Bay were somehow far more beautiful than I remembered. The first thing I did was jump into the water – my last Tasmanian swim for quite some time. We were anchored alongside GonYonda and our combined Smalls rowed themselves to the beach each day and spent hours […]
Author: beth
Goodbye Hobart, hello east coast with crew!
Sailing well with Ange and Belle. Due our [failed] real estate aspirations, we have had to forego the west coast of Tasmania. I’m hoping to come back down sometime via the Kent Island Group and then on to King Island and down the west coast instead of up it… but that will have to wait. […]
A crazy weekend
After meeting Ford St Clair (his nom de plume) on the St Helens Pier two years ago, and keeping in touch sporadically from that time, the man himself drove down from Wynyard on Friday to visit us in Hobart. All of us were Very Pleased to see him, and fed him pea and ham soup, […]
Delay, Foamy, and some very hot water.
Our plans, happily, are both minimal and flexible. Which is why we are not too bothered that we’re not halfway up the west coast of Tasmania by now. We were initially delayed a little bit by the floors taking longer than projected, but then the bushfires happened… Franklin, our destination of choice, was on high […]
Shiny floors and marina life
Here’s a little video I made of when we got back to Bella Luna after our weeks away. M had worked his butt off, redoing the floor throughout the boat. Why? To be succinct – he mucked them up the first time around by not putting on enough coats of varnish (actually only one) which […]
Not In My Back Yard
A few days before our odyssey at Garden Island Creek was to end, a (not entirely unexpected) message from M said that he needed a few more days to complete the floors in Bella Luna – as the job had originally taken him a month back at the boatyard, he was still making good time. “I’ll take […]
The Comforts of (not being) Home…
Above the shifting eucalyptus there is boundless blue. I peg the washing out. Clothes and tea towels are clean. Clean. The kind of clean only achieved by a two hour front loader wash cycle. Clothes are generally washed in suspect coin laundries – maximum cycle time: 34 minutes, if you’re lucky. The alternative is submersion […]
End of year blast and a hello to 2019!
[A LONG POST, BUT A GOOD ONE…] Hobart Book Shop My excellent Me-Time. Street art near Fullers Bookshop We have been having a great time hanging around in Hobart for the past week or two. Small Brother came over a bit before Christmas and flew me over to Melbourne where we had a celebratory and […]
Maria Island Redux
We left Bryan’s Corner for Maria Island at some bizarre hour of the morning – M was convinced that every boat and their dog would be whizzing toward one of the three moorings near the ferry dock. Thus, we arrived at around 7am – I sent M to bed for a nap, and he didn’t […]