The Plan 2024This year we are ready to finally make that jump across the Atlantic. We will be travelling through the Gibraltar Strait from Spain and head to the Canary Islands. All the upgrades are completed on the boat including a watermaker. Mid December we plan to be in Cabo Verde to start the Atlantic adventure.
Christmas Day Spent Xmas with the Sharams and a few of their friends. Jacqui cooked a great meal and I sort of sous "cheffed". There was lots of people around and the afternoon Christmas meal was great. This, added to the previous night's meal at the neighbour's place...
Said goodbye to Port Macquarie around 10 in the morning in order to get the tide across the bar. And because it was a short sail (around 50 nautical miles) to our next destination Cape Hawke or Forster as it's called we figured to get there in plenty of daylight. Cape...
Port Macquarie is a lovely little coastal town with a storied past as a penal colony from back in the early 1800's. We had set off from Coffs Harbour later in the morning and knew that the timing would put us there early the next morning. The overnight sail was...
Left RQS on a sunless day and spent the night at Blakesly so that we could catch the right tide to the Gold Coast the next day. We had an uneventful trip down the inside passage, anchored just outside of Seaworld which is next to the Gold Coast Seaway for a quick exit...
Really have to get better at posting. Been here for close to a month and I haven't posted anything. After we dropped Shelley off back on the 13th, we picked Liam up on the 15th for a 3 week visit. He spent some time with his grandparents while we took the opportunity...
It has been about 3 weeks since I posted our adventures up at Lizard Island ... been a little busy! Picked up Shelley at Cairns airport and came back to Port Douglas to continue our journey south. The goal would be to get as close to Brisbane as we could while the...
