LaGecko Sailing

Category: people

  • 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.…

  • Life on hold – Short update

    Just a short update on our activities since our last post, and of what’s been happening during 2025 and 2026. We spent November and December 2024 in the Pittwater and Cowan Creek area north of Sydney with both friends and Family visiting, then on the 9th of January 2025 we had a horrible motor sail…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Kind people

    Anchored at Orford today for the second day and decided to top off our tanks and refill our jerry cans. We took the dingy to shore, tied up at a private jetty in the Prosser river (no public one in sight) and wandered up to the road with our jerry cans. A local (Don) whistled…