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Above the shifting eucalyptus there is boundless blue. I peg the washing out. Clothes and tea towels are clean. Clean. The kind of clean only achieved by a two hour front loader wash cycle. Clothes are generally washed in suspect coin laundries – maximum cycle time: 34 minutes, if you’re lucky. The alternative is submersion …
On the way to Copper Alley Bay we passed a little spot that we scrambled to look up the name of, because it was just idyllic. Surveyors Bay. There were old beach houses down on the shore – as in – you could step out of your front door on to sand. Because it was …
Bella Luna sailed from Cygnet on 10 January 2016 at about 7am with T and the Mothership aboard. Both M and I were glad to see the back of Catos Bay – it’s hard to relax when you think the boat might be slowly dragging the anchor to the shore/other vessels/out to sea… This was …
Dear Zoe, Every birthday is a joyous celebration of your arrival. You made a couple into a family. You turned the Mothership into your nana. Every birthday is also a little bit heartbreaking, because… you’ll never be that age again. Never again will I sail around with my eight-year-old Zoe. I have felt the same …
We were too skint to buy tickets to the Cygnet Folk Festival, but based on our previous folk festival experiences, we were pretty sure there would be a whole lot of stuff on for free anyway – CORRECT! The weather was hot. Hotter than I thought Tasmania got! We tried to keep to the shady …
We sailed Bella Luna from Hobart down the channel to Cygnet on a Thursday and arrived just before dinner time. It’s a difficult spot to anchor securely, and this was a problem that dogged us throughout our stay there. (M says it was because we didn’t do our motors-in-full-reverse anchor check…) However, the conditions calmed …