2018 Wooli – Lizard Island

Out trip to the Gold Coast included an overnight stop at Byron Bay. When we travel north at this time of year, the days are shorter, and the distance is actually longer, as we are pushing into the East Australian Current that brings warm tropical water down to NSW. This means that we can not…

While had dried out a number of times on sandbanks with the tide, this was the first time of being mechanically hoisted and placed in a yard. Not as scary as the initial launch with the crane, but still an experience that makes you a bit nervous. We were here for over a week, and…

We woke at Garry’s Anchorage in the Great Sandy Straits to find the air over the massive sand island to our east was cold enough to condense up a heavy fog. We were heading north with the ambition of getting through the shallowest part of the straits and anchored in a position ready to make…

This line of Rivieras came past us in the Great Sandy Straits I am always pleased to see people enjoying their boats. Ratty knew that “there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats”. They can bring such pleasure, and it sad to see them sitting on a mooring being…