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.
Whitehaven is the goto beach in the Whitsundays. Long stretch of white sand and blue water. All the charter and resort excursions end up at Whitehaven. They even bring them in by seaplane. Gets very crowded at one end of the beach in the lee of the island ... which...
Stock Up!! ... and a decent shower! Time to come in to a posh place for some provisions and of course, more grog. Seem to be drinking a little more than usual, but then again whose counting. Hamilton Island is an expensive holiday resort with some mega yachts. The...
Cid Harbour has been the scene of three recent shark attacks in close succession causing the local council to ban swimming in the harbour. The locals have always known that Cid Harbour was a bad risk for swimming. The reason for the recent attacks are still undefined...
After Happy Bay we spent a week anchored outside Airlie Beach using the dinghy to run errands. Laundry and shopping, getting ready for our guests from Vancouver. Don't want to see the inside of a shopping mall again, at least not for awhile. Guests arrived on time as...
Stopped over in Happy Bay on Long Island outside another closed resort. We discovered that around the corner was Palm Bay with an OPEN resort and we ventured over to use the store, but alas we were met at the beach landing by the resort patrol that wouldn't allow us...
We stopped in at Boat Port anchorage on Lindeman Island as we had read there was some walks around the island. We found a trail that went through the middle of the island to the abandoned Club Med resort on the south-east side. It was like walking around a ghost town,...
