Necessity is the Mother of Invention With no gas cooker and no mains electric for the microwave we warmed our pre-cooked lasagne by placing portions into a plastic punnet and sitting it on the hot surface of the engine as soon as it was turned off and making ‘just hot’ black coffee using water from …
South to Bass Strait and Tasmania On the 3rd December Zoonie sailed out of Newcastle heading south, ducking into two bays to escape an unfavourable wind direction on route to the Bass Strait. The first anchorage was Jervis Bay, still on the NSW coast; a beautiful expanse of water that included some naval ships and …
Coffs Harbour Gardens – Native and Newcomer The smoke hanging over the hills to the west was all too visible the next morning as we made our way ashore for a wander. At the beach a teacher was unloading his Heron dinghies for a friendly potter around the harbour. They are a very popular class …
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Queensland Museum and the Library Culture in excess if that is possible I am not going to attempt to separate by location the topics I found interesting at these four cultural buildings because there is little point and they are but a miniscule part of the …
Mooching Around Mooloolaba It is not only humans who enjoy this Australian East Coast Seaside Resort; we awaken on Zoonie in the mornings to the sound of the local mynah birdsong, paddle-tailed bush turkeys pick over the tinder dry undergrowth for grubs and ospreys nest happily on the top of poles within easy reach of …
Let’s Get Things Strait – Zoonie heads for The Great Sandy Strait 25:13.93S 152:59.64E The shags on the fairway Navigation Marker were still either asleep or yawning as we passed by and shortly afterwards Zoonie was under full sail and heading directly for the northern entrance to the Great Sandy Strait at 5.1 knots in …
Bounding Forth to Bundy 22:31.64S 166:17.89E In the far distance we could see the slim tower of Amadee Lighthouse, for which we were heading as it marked the Boulari Passe and our safe passage between two reefs, Recif To and Recif Sournois. At the Maritime Museum I noted the lighthouse was built in Paris and …
Of the Drinking Kind you understand Around the year 1870 there were many ships here in Baie de Carenage being loaded with chromium and cobalt. The chromium was washed upstream and brought down to the waiting ships at the quay on a little Decauville railway. While scrambling ashore at this old quay for one of …
Noumea Aquarium and a Bohemian Beer This is the last of my decablogs for you, the tenth for which you already have the photos before I can start on our current adventure, which I have been looking forward to because it is all to do with life on Zoonie, so here we go.. A walk …
Sliding south down the Tropics After the excitement of seeing the young humpback breach alongside us just a few metres away, Zoonie settled into her groove with her full headsail a taut wind filled curve and her kerchief of mainsail supporting her from behind the mast. The wind was a generous 22 knots at first …