Eden has been a surprising place. During federation it was seriously being considered to be the capital of Australia given its very deep harbour and proximity to Melbourne & Sydney. The limestone plains of Canberra won out in the end. Eden was well known for its whaling in Twofold Bay. More extraordinary, the relationship between…

So today we feel we have finally started cruising life for real, we left port Arthur and headed out through the Tasman island gap and SET A NORTHERLY COURSE 😀 This is new territory for us, thank you to Scott Poulter for his wonderful weather reading skills helping to give us the confidence in these…

Yesterday’s forecast was for damaging winds across the state, and although we are in a good protected anchorage at Ladies bay Port Arthur we still felt the strong gusts blowing us around like a leaf, at times we measured 32 knot winds (60 kmh) Thankfully our 50kg Sarca Excel anchor and 35 metres of chain…

So the plan for this morning was to have a leisurely start, get up and dawdle through breakfast and then head down to Recherche. But…… Around 6am the winds picked up a bit, then a bit after 7am the anchor alarm on my phone went off 😕 turned on some switches and then headed up…

After last nights attempted selling the car and finding out it had a radiator leak. I rang up this morning and booked the car in to get its radiator repaired next week and we left the dock about 8am and headed south down the channel. We got a short chance to sail off Middleton in…

The big day finally came, we spent the morning packing away the last few items, catching up with Mick and Julie, returning a book to Paul, a goodbye visit from Michael from Zihir, and lastly Bruce came and saw us off and took these pictures Ended up motoring to Egg’s n Bacon bay and had…

Hello, guess what? We are finally moving off the dock on Saturday the 3rd of August we start our journey. For the first week we’ll stay in the channel winding our way down to Recherche after that maybe up to town, maybe Norfolk bay ……. So I wonder if anyone will read this? Say HI…

05/06/2024 So after a 2-month ordeal in getting our fuel injection pump serviced and back on the engine, we have left the dock. We spent several hours just running the motor through its paces, making sure that it’s behaving itself, running between 1500 and 3000 RPM motoring around Northwest bay. We ended up anchoring in…

Over the last few months we have been getting a bit of Diesel fuel under our engine, it started with a little and got to be a lot more than I was comfortable with. So I talked with Ian Hughes the local Volvo mechanic to get it removed and serviced but he couldn’t look at…