DB finally loses her snaggle tooth, mid-whinge. I no longer feel like I am living with a Small Nanny McPhee… The tooth fairy made it to the middle of Bass Strait – amazing!! After breakfast we motor back to the shore. I have lost a part of my heart to West Cove on Erith Island …
Up at 6am, underway by 7am – M having fixed a blockage in one of the outboard motors that was stopping it cycling water. He had been right (WHAT THE?!) – the conditions were excellent. We pointed at 100 degrees – Deal Island – skirting around Hogarth Island. The Smalls had benefitted from the baptism …
Up early – we were over on to the beach before 9am – M was keen to add our boat-name to those in the Refuge Cove walls of fame 😉 The Smalls and I then stayed on the beach while he hiked the trail we had already done – in order to get some exercise, …
Sleet during the night. Actual sleet. I am so grateful for the woollen blankets that Jess washed and dried for me ? Snugged up under one of them, I was warm as a bug. I thought briefly and unsympathetically of all the motorboating people over in their camp, shivering wetly, and slept in until eight …
Yesterday we had seen five souped up motorboats pull up – they appeared to be filming each other as they whizzed around the cove. I have no objection to non-wind powered vessels – until they begin doing laps around your catamaran at an illegally high speed, anchor 20 feet away and then fly a drone …
The downside of having offspring is that, when you’ve sailed for 18 hours and felt f!$king dire for most of them, they awake at the same time as usual – meaning that you get approximately four hours sleep. Joy. It’s lucky the surroundings were sublime. It’s easier to feel hungover when it’s 20 degrees and …
We left Hastings at just before 8am on Wednesday morning – after days of strong wind warnings necessitating remaining tied up to the pier, it was our window of opportunity. It was initially straightforward, the closer we got to the mouth of Westernport, the bigger the swell got – it was like being on a …