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…
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Hill Inlet
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 […]
Lady Musgrave to Middle Percy Island. Whale music.
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 […]
Byron Bay to Tweed Heads
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. […]
Sydney wandering. Bondi. Library.
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 […]
Bramble Cove, Port Davey.
M heaved himself into the day at 6am and somehow managed to untie the ropes from the shore, secure the dinghy and pull up the anchor without mishap all on his own. I had earned a Small in the night – courtesy of the cold – and I earned another – Small Z – who […]
The Quarries to Mickeys Bay
Not a lot of wind to propel us when we left at 10am or so. We were aiming for Mickeys Bay with the intention of a protected anchorage to ride out the gale warning that was due the next day. Another catamaran was already in situ – Even Keels, a catamaran we have been lucky […]
Christmas 2016, Bruny Island and the rest
On Christmas morning the Smalls erupted at about 6.30am and went foraging for their stockings. We are very DIY in all aspects, and in the absence of stockings they had used my biggest wooliest socks, both of which had huge bulges in the bottom – mangos! There were presents from Santa, us, and other family […]
From Refuge Cove to…where?
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, […]