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We cleared Customs mid afternoon on 19th January 2011, 11 months after leaving Adelaide - not a lot of miles under our belt for 11 months but we did enjoy Tassie. Caught up with old friend Don McIntyre who called by after we had cleared & about to depart. The wind was blowing up the Derwent River so it gave us an increasingly stronger wind on the nose, and having to clear Tasman Island & the East coast of Bruny Island, it would have been an exhausting bash to windward to reach clear ocean. It...

Life carried on in Hobart & we eventually got our new toilet holding tank from the plastics man at a very reasonable price. Had a battle with Telstra to have the phone we bought from them "unlocked" from their service as we thought that we had bought the phone outright & did not see that we should pay a hidden $100 unlocking fee to use the phone with other simcards as we travelled - success after hours of phone calls & threatening behaviour at the Telstra Shop!

With the Sydney Hobart Race comm...

Shortly after arriving in Constitution Dock we secured the boat & flew up to Brisbane for a family birthday party - about 36 of us having a BBQ at the dam,playing with a canoe, dinghies, golf, & motor bike.  We stayed on at brother Peter's farm, and because Pete & Ginny were heading over to Thailand for a couple of weeks we spent time here looking after the farm & trying to do a lot of the chores that P & G were having trouble getting on top of - we fed a cat, chickens, 3 dogs, 10 puppies, & ...

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...

   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...