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 […]
Family / Friends
Visits from family and friends. As well as new friends we make along the way. This is YOUR category. ?
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, […]
Visitations from relations… Zoe turns ten.
The Mothership and T returned to Bella Luna for a repeat performance in early January. I think they were slightly disappointed there was no sailing involved in their boat-stay, but the weather was a bit dodgy and we are kind of stuck between the Yamba bar and the Harwood Bridge. An hour before their arrival […]
A Happy Yamba New Year!!
We spent New Year’s Eve in Yamba, anchored in Yamba Bay opposite the carnival with our favourite Yamba a people aboard – Belinda, Mariko, Stefan – and their combined offspring. The fireworks kicked off just after 9:30pm and we were all enthralled… …except for Small DB who stayed inside to comfort Honey the BoatCat. It […]