LaGecko Sailing

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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.…

  • 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…

  • Port Davey by Air

    It’s my 60th birthday today, Karen and my family got me a flight to Melaleuca and a boat tour of Bathurst harbour and Port Davey. Our friends Gary and Ally came with us, we departed Cambridge about 9am and flew down over the Derwent river, Storm bay, south Tasmanian coast then between the mountains landed…

  • 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…

  • Well this is Bermagui 😊

    After six days in Eden we were fed up with the wind and decided to head up to Bermagui, we met the owner of a Cavalier 37 called “All the Stars” in Kettering about a year ago who recommended visiting here. We left Eden at 11pm and arrived in Bermagui at 6.30am after a very…

  • Wineglass Bay and departure 12/09/2024

    Yesterday we started the last leg before the crossing of Bass Strait, moving from Mayfield Bay to Wineglass Bay sailing across Great Oyster Bay through Schouten passage. Stunning scenery! Motoring north and into Wineglass Bay, the scenery and rock formations were fantastic, though difficult to capture and photograph well with our phone cameras. The entrance…