We all had a good sleep in and surfaced around 9 to another sunny day, but the breeze was up. We had smoothies for breakfast and cleaned and tidied the boat. Clare talked to Paul who was on track for airport and we talked about what birthday party arrangements we would make for the returning […]

There was an amount of tension in the air as we set off, though more with Clare than Pete and I as we didn’t know what to expect. We slowed down to ensure we reached the shallow section at the right stage of the tide, and from South White Cliffs the hard work and heavy […]

An early start, coffee, tea, clean up and prepare for departure including filling water tanks. Then we headed into town to see Paul and run the plan by him. By this time, Clare had thought about the possibility of us doing wide bay bar without Paul and perhaps meeting him at Southport instead. We went […]

Shocker of a night, though most everyone else declared they had slept ok. Though there were a few night walkers around the deck, I wasn’t one of them! We rocked and rolled and lapped as we sat into the tide rather than the wind and breeze blew all night, creating a short chop that got […]

So, it transpired that Paul did not make it into surgery until much later, and there was some confusion about whether he would get there at all, but more of that later. Though we were feeling tired, we got ourselves up to the marina office and hired the car ($49 for 24 hours) and headed […]

Bummer when the alarm went off at 5am, I was just getting into a really good sleep after a fair bit of rock and roll, especially when the tide turned! However, it was so worthwhile, because we had the sun rising in the East with a moonset in the west, and a glorious moon path […]

Day started with Petes alarm going off at 4am. He got up to watch the Wales England game but there is no way I could watch it, so I stayed in bed with my head under the pillows so I couldn’t hear. My phone then started going nuts receiving messages, so I knew something was […]

we made an early start to discuss plans around the saloon table. The wind was fixed in the South east about 15-20 kts which meant that anywhere we wanted to go we would be bashing into it. So after some weather checks, pilot guide checks and discussion, we decided we would miss out on pancake […]

i have to wait for the lost luggage area to call me if they find the tail on the plane. If they do, then I have to find a way to collect it from Brisbane airport

We landed in the beef capital of Australia without the mermaid tail! I realised I had left it on the first plane, and so decided to call up to see if it could retrieved. However the Yeppoon bus had left, and there was to be an hour and a half wait for the next one. […]