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Christmas & first year on LaGecko
On the 5th of December last year we moved permanently on LaGecko, since then we have had a year of, for us, many new adventures. Now we are at Christmas 2024 in the Pittwater – Cowan creek area roughly 30km north of Sydney finally living the Cruising lifestyle as started by a simple idea five…
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Slowing Down for a while
We are in Pittwater/Cowan creek/Hawkesbury river area about 17 nm (30 km) north of Sydney. Coasters Retreat has been our base off and on, the home of our friends Lucie and Paul and the home port of their Amel Sharki. Many cruisers we have met rave about this area and now we understand why. It’s…
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Superb day with great friends sailing to Pittwater.
Yesterday we motor sailed from Manly, approx 4 hours north, into Pittwater, to where our friends Lucie and Paul live at Coasters retreat. It was a little bumpy with disturbed lumpy seas. Under Paul’s guidance and vast sailing experience we managed to try out different sail configurations making the best of the conditions. Lucie and…
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Sydney almost over it
The last two and a half weeks in Sydney have been interesting and amazing. After the five nights in Blackwattle bay we set a course back through the harbour to Spit bridge into Middle Harbour. Spit bridge only opens a few times a day. Passing through the bridge was a bit intimidating trying to time…
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Sydney- Loving it 😊
It was approx a 9 hour motor sail from Shell Harbour to just inside North Head at Quarantine near Manly where we picked up a mooring. A night of wake from the Manly ferries doing 20 knots had us moving on early the next morning to one of the very few good anchorages in the…
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Collision – adding some more deck space
Just having a shower this afternoon when Kaz starts yelling that another boat has just crashed into us, I run up on deck with just a towel wrapped around me, have a look at the problem which Kaz is handling well and decide to put some clothes on 😳 Que Sera a seemingly abandoned 40’ish…
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Shell Harbour Marina
We left Shell harbour Marina this morning and are currently motoring up to Quarantine bay near Manly in Sydney Harbour. SHM is an amazing place. It used to be marsh land then the Shell Cove council decided to make a marina complex. They dug out the marina through to the bedrock to a minimum depth of…
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Jervis Bay
The approach to Jervis Bay from the south has the highest cliff in Australia. Point Perpendicular to the north dominates the landscape with its straight squared cliffs standing proudly as the swell pounds away at the base. It truly is a sight to behold. We are now in ACT! Approx 8km wide and 14 km…
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Wedding gifts
As you know Karen and I were married on the 20th of February 2022 on board LaGecko. A few of our wedding gifts are now a big part of our lives as we travelling on LaGecko up the east coast of the big island, tonight we are anchored off Vincentia in a very windy Jervis…
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Topping up with everything we need and leaving Bermagui
Yesterday we did our last shop and paid our marina bill for the 12 days ($660), and last night we topped up our water (800 litres) and power (not much as solar is covering our usage in the marina easily) and packed up the boat back into sailing mode. This morning after disconnecting the power…
LaGecko Sailing 