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 […]
Family / Friends
Visits from family and friends. As well as new friends we make along the way. This is YOUR category. ?
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 […]
Merry Iluka Clarence River Christmas!
Christmas Eve of 2017 was spent – as I had hoped – at Moriartys in Iluka. My favourite spot in this whole area – where the sand of the beach drops away at the shore into a deep swirl. There were other boats pulled up further down the beach, and GonYonda were close by. The […]
Brunswick Heads to Maclean via Yamba, a snake and Iluka
The day we left Brunswick Heads was like a reward for the many days we had waited until conditions were just right for our departure. The bar was incredibly benign and there was hardly any wind. We were particularly excited because we had an extra crew member on board – our nine-year-old friend Marco – […]
Brunswick Heads Revisited
Although we hoped to be in the Clarence River by now, we are not. We remain in Brunswick Heads – and OH MY GOD – it’s hardly a chore! We love it here!! As I type this, M has taken the Smalls to a Hogwarts School Fete at Coorabell Primary, where our friend Marco is […]
Gold Coast to… Brunswick Heads.
There was not a lot of sorrow entangled in leaving the Gold Coast. It’s a fun place to stop, and we were thankful for a protected place to anchor – but the helicopters flying overhead every half an hour were starting to do my head in. As I’ve written before – the foreshore is full […]