From Waterfall Bay we went past Breaksea Islands into the Port Davey Bay, meeting a significant leftover swell (9 metres 2 days before) but with not much wind.  We motorsailed accross the bay to the northwest before tacking to clear various rocks and islands off the south west point.  From here it was only about 15 miles to the fiirst cape on Tasmania's southern coast, South West Cape. We kept a couple of miles offshore to help avoid the backwash from the cliffs, and then continued our eastwa...
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Friday 23rd April 2010
We had a peaceful night at Schooner Cove, then had a dinghy trip around the bay and a short walk ashore. The Bathurst Channel then took us to a narrow section of water called The Narrows, before opening up again into Bathurst Harbour, a shallow area of water about 5 miles square.  We went to the southern side past Cellery Top islands and into a protected corner called Claytons.  We anchored for the night, not far from another yacht Tammahini who was moored to a short pie...

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We had a few days in Strahan which lies at the northern end of Macquarrie Harbour. Our first chores were to do some washing at the laundromat, and find the leak in the fore deck!!!!!!!!!!!  On the journey from Pearson we were devastated to find drips of water coming through the ceiling above our front vee berths - fortunately it only wetted a couple of magazines which we were able to dry out, but it is definitely poor form to have a leak anywhere on a boat.  The problem was that I had not ful...
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   Written in Hobart 15th May 2010
We had a reasonable hop the first day from Port Lincoln to Memory Cove named for the seamen who drowned on Mathew Flinder's voyage through this area. Thorny passage has significant current flows into and out of Spencer Gulf, as well as meeting the Southern Ocean swells, and is a notorious area in unsettled conditions. The cove was a delightful anchorage with sea eagles overhead, a white sandy beach and clear waters, and a blowhole a dinghy ride away. We walke...

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