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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…
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It’s all about the whales in Eden.
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…
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Five days on a boat
We left wineglass last Wednesday as we headed for Eden, motoring into Eden Friday afternoon, we then crashed after 60 hours of insufficient sleep, the crossing was rough enough that sleep only came for a while when you were exhausted and then you would get woken when the boat lurched off a wave and bounced…
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Wineglass to Eden
On Wednesday morning at 8:30 we departed Wineglass Bay in Tasmania heading for Eden in New South Wales. The weather forecast was predicted on Wednesday to start with northerlies, changing to a southerly later in the day which would help us travel North, then to a southwestly on Thursday morning which would have helped us…
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Crossing Bass Strait under our command Friday 13th 2024
Celebration🥳🥂 Well we made it….YaHooo!⛵️ We are exhausted , elated, intact, bruised, chuffed and very very happy to be here at Eden. How was it ???? Rough!!!! The magic bit was getting to Gabo Island when we had the full jib out westerly winds and calm seas. Greeted by tail slapping and breaching whales and…
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This is Roy
He’s our mascot and gets up to antics around the boat, hiding under pillows, inside cupboards, you just never know where he’ll appear. Contemplating his drinking Yes, there is a lot of spare time on a boat 😁 Entertaining a pair of strays we found in the Ku-Ring Gai Chase national park
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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…
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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…
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Finally really cruising for real
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…
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A scary part of cruising
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…
LaGecko Sailing 