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Sydney Escape – week one
We are on a three week escape from Tassie. Sunday For our first week we are staying with Rob and Michael in their beautiful new to them 1888 built Country Cottage in the Blue Mountains We started off with a walk to Bill Wilson’s lookout on Sunday afternoon, with a champagne welcome to the mountains.…
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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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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…
