I am at the top of Fraser Island. Or K’gari, which is it’s proper name. It means ‘paradise’ in the language of the Butchulla people. It is, in fact, quite paradisical. The sand is white, the water is aquamarine, and when anchoring the boat, I could see the chain laying across the sea bed with …
Our visit to Pele accompanied by Pandion. Melissa and I circumnavigate the island on foot, get adopted by two dogs and M has a go at being a surf photographer…
We hoped to spend a couple of days at Hill Inlet – a spot at the back of the famous Whitehaven Beach (one of only seven silica sand beaches in the world) that is generally only accessible by multihulls as the water is very shallow. In some places the water dries out – and we …
Someone who will remain nameless forgot to get diesel in Hervey Bay. We are not like many boats – our outboard motors run on petrol. But our stove… my precioussssss Wallas Nordic DT – it runs on diesel. And thank god it’s very economical with its fuel use, because we’ve got less than a quarter …
From Tweed Heads you can see Queensland. Really! When I worked for a while in Surfer’s Paradise about a zillion years ago, people from Tweed Heads would wear a watch on each wrist, because New South Wales has daylight saving, and Queensland (because they don’t want their curtains faded or their cattle confused) does not. …
The glory of the morning was our visit to an op-shop in Glebe where I snaffled a possum merino jumper for $18. THIS EXACT JUMPER!! We had left rather late and noodled our way through Glebe: light-rail, train and a bus got us to Bondi Beach. Excuse me if I don’t rhapsodise about the beach …