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 […]
Hello Honey!
Boat life, for me, has always felt incomplete without a cat. In many of the books I have read about people living on boats, there has been a cat – sunning itself on deck, occasionally doing an acrobatic leap for a flying fish, sitting on your lap under starry night skies as you scan the […]
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 […]
Yamba and Iluka and a change of plans
Since leaving Maclean about ten days ago, we have been hanging in Yamba, but have been across to Iluka twice so the Smalls can go to Bush School. We were lucky enough to also attend a couple of homeschooler get-togethers in Grafton while we had the use of a car. This led to a connection […]
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 […]
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Grey Gold Coast
Our first day here, anchored with 52 other boats in Bum’s Bay, was sunshiney and gorgeous. And then the past five days have brought an EPIC weather system that has included more rain than we have previously encountered, high winds (though we are well protected from them) and crazy seas. If I had organised a […]
Z-Mow’s cousin comes to stay.
Poor Small Z has been struggling with the fact that Z-Mow is really gone. We hoped so much she would somehow magically reappear; rescued from a lost and found or discovered hiding out in an op-shop. I had (in retrospect) suggested I could make her another cat far too early in the piece. She had […]