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 […]
Family / Friends
Visits from family and friends. As well as new friends we make along the way. This is YOUR category. ?
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 […]
Brisbane
A brief stopover in Brisbane was what was planned – long enough to catch up with the Almost-Bus-Dwelling-Cousin and get a sail fixed. However, the aforementioned cousin texted me just after we’d gone over the Wide Bay bar – there was some work for me in Brisbane – so 24 hours later, we were motor […]
Epi Epi Joy Joy. Daisy is Eight.
Revelieu Bay, Epi. Small DB, the sparking fire in the belly of our little family, you are EIGHT. It’s always tricky, the actual birthday DAY. By then you have been counting down for at least three months, ticking off the days. Also conflicted by the fact that you desperately want to be eight, but would […]
Tanna to Erromango
Travel makes me fickle. On arrival in Tanna I was fairly certain I could dump everything and live there for a year in my own hut, tending my own garden, beachcombing and cadging an occasional ride into Lenakel. However, after being knocked out by food poisoning for three days, and then having seriously contemplating leaving […]
Catching up. And I need a holiday.
In circumstances such as this – when I have neglected the blog for an unreasonable amount of time – it is easiest to do two things. 1) Write in point form 2) Include lots of photos as evidence of busyness Thus; • after the Isle of Pines we spent some quality time in Baie du […]
Dog for a day. Nga Peak.
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 […]
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. […]
Pittwater Guests
On the second last day of February I recieved a text message from one half of some of our BEST FRIENDS EVER. He asked how long we planned to be in Sydney, and were we sailing any further south. I said ‘about four weeks or so’ and ‘no’. By the end of that day we […]
January 2018
As is usually the case, January felt like a race. We begsn with New Year’s Eve, continued with one lot of visitors, then Small Z’s birthday, another lot of visitors crossing over with the first – all intermingled with Bloody Hot Weather… So really, it was a conglomeration of family, swimming, sunshine, family, exploring, surfing, […]