The white sand and transparent water of Wineglass Bay were somehow far more beautiful than I remembered. The first thing I did was jump into the water – my last Tasmanian swim for quite some time. We were anchored alongside GonYonda and our combined Smalls rowed themselves to the beach each day and spent hours […]
goodbyes
Lord Howe Island to Manly
We took our leave of my new favourite place before 6am on 17 November 2018. Conditions were clear and calm. I photographed everything as we departed our mooring on North Passage. The light was ethereal. There was no wind. The sky was clear. The swell was low and M was able to hold the mooring […]
Espiritu Santo.
By the time we arrived on Santo, anchored off Beachfront Resort, I was SO READY for some urban life. That would be a guarranteed fruit and vegetable market and a supermarket. Luganville ticked both these boxes. I’m happy to rough it, but when food supplies get low after six weeks going from island to island, […]
Goodbye Honey…
She landed on all four paws. Honey the BoatCat was my midlife crisis. The Italian man I couldn’t resist, the Ferrari I had to have. So it should not be any great surprise that it didn’t work out. Honey is a gorgeous feisty fuzzbot, but, as it turns out, fundamentally unsuited to life on a […]
Middle Percy Island to Airlie Beach
It was *hard* leaving Middle Percy Island. One of the downsides of finding people with whom you connect, is having to leave and continue on the journey, not knowing when you might meet up again. Our Treehouse friends were difficult to leave behind – if it wasn’t for the battalions of sandflies eating every exposed […]
Port Davey to Franklin via Recherche Bay
The trip back to Franklin did not daunt me; the weather forecast was good, and the Smalls and I had our minds firmly fixed on the gluten free fish and chips there. We left at about 6am, bidding farewell to Spain Bay and the Breaksea Islands. It was useful to have the track we had […]
Goodbye Manny
Many years ago I bought my car on ebay for $1100 from a guy called Manfred in Kilsyth. He was a very nice man and had looked after the car beautifully. He gifted us $50 for the baby that I was very obviously going to be soon having. We named the car in his honour; […]