Unintentionally we arrived in the school holidays, meaning there were library activities aplenty… but there was also the scourge of the homeschooler – Other Kids Everywhere. We like the other kids, we do – but in horde proportions? Only just tolerable. Yesterday, however, Queensland children Went Back To School. We…went to the State Library, the […]
Exploring
Port Clinton to North Keppel Island
After spending two nights in Port Clinton (which I belatedly realised was not an island, but a part of the mainland), we sailed to North Keppel Island. A lovely spot with a little creek perfect for high tide paddling in the kayak… THE WHAT??! The KAYAK. It was gifted to us two days ago by […]
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Middle Percy Island. Again…
It is a delectable feeling to be back in a place you know and love. None of the trepidation that comes with a new anchorage, a comfortable knowledge of what to expect once you go ashore. After the previous few days, it was a very soothing prospect. Our first morning we motored Foamy into the […]
Brampton Island
We left Goldsmith Island, aiming for Scawfell Island, but the wind dropped out and we diverted to Brampton Island instead. We needed somewhere to hide from a large south easterly wind for a few days – I was glad that the wind had decided the destination for us, because M and I could not. I […]
Genesta Bay and on to Goldsmith Island
We actually did finally manage to leave Airlie Beach. It took three attempts – the first being thwarted by Small DB having her leg sliced open on an oyster shell, the second by staying at Hill Inlet for five days and getting so low on water that it was silly not to return 20nm to […]
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Nara Inlet x 2
Five days in Airlie Beach was enough. M fought the toilet and won – although he was literally sprayed with shit three times during the process. Bella Luna stank like a sewer and the Smalls and I tried to make ourselves scarce. The toilet itself wasn’t the problem. The pipes had gradually built up layers […]
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Bowen
Should I ever need to disappear myself from society in general, I could do worse than live on a boat attached to a pile mooring in Bowen. It would set me back $64 a week and I would just have to cope with the occasional cyclone. (All this rests upon the supposition that I would […]
Hook and Border Islands
Since the beginning of the year I have been hunting for a fender – one of those squishy things that go in between your boat and the jetty, saving your paintwork. I love a quest. And I love beachcombing – but I had looked and looked for a fender and found NONE… until we neared […]
Middle Percy Island
Coconut trees. Actual proper ones, each with a little warning sign on the trunk cautioning potential conks on the head. I’m pretty happy with this being my first experience of a tropical island. (And I’m not really counting Lady Musgrave Island, because it’s more coral than land…) For all the people who know about the […]
Lady Musgrave to Middle Percy Island. Whale music.
Someone who will remain nameless forgot to get diesel in Hervey Bay. We are not like many boats – our outboard motors run on petrol. But our stove… my precioussssss Wallas Nordic DT – it runs on diesel. And thank god it’s very economical with its fuel use, because we’ve got less than a quarter […]