. To see the SHIP\’S BLOGS associated with this PHOTO GALLERY: Click the following links…… Morris Island – Portland Roads – Cape Grenville & Margaret Bay – Escape River – Escape River Pearls & \”The Top\” . […]
25 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The Torres Strait Islands are a group of islands, (a few dozen) of which 18 are inhabited. They lie between just a few miles from Papua New Guinea in the north and Australia in the south. They are the islands which differentiate the \”Pacific\” from the Arafura Sea;
Torres Strait Islands…Thursday Island….. Read More »
24 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Today we went ashore at Cape York and did the vigil to \”The Top\” sign at the very tip of Cape York (The MOST northern piece of land on the Australian Continent). Interestingly, we did this with about 100 of our \”closest friends\”!…:-) It turns out, this is
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/24 04:33 LATITUDE: 10-50.87S LONGITUDE: 142-21.78E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.3 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Seisa, (at the north entrance to the Gulf of Carpinteria)….. Correction, GPS hadn\’t updated!…. resending
23 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Today was quite a day for the crew of good ship \”Beach House\”. We were hailed and invited by Bronwyn and Rusty of \”Torres Strait Pearls\” off their residence at the Escape River. After a coffee and some chat, Nikki and I took a serious look at some
Escape River Pearls & Rounding \”The Top\”….. Read More »
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/23 07:30 LATITUDE: 10-41.29S LONGITUDE: 142-31.54E COURSE: 276T SPEED: 0.8 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.1 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Cape York, \”The Top of OZ\”….
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/23 07:07 LATITUDE: 10-40.65S LONGITUDE: 142-31.92E COURSE: 310T SPEED: 8.4 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.2 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ROUNDING & ABEAM – Cape York, \”The Top of OZ\”….
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/22 06:52 LATITUDE: 10-58.04S LONGITUDE: 142-40.82E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.9 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Escape River, lots of pearl farms…
22 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We traveled 71 miles today having left Cape Grenville at 0645 local time. The first 15 miles we motor sailed in what was the lightest wind day we\’ve seen. After that, we had a brilliant 40 mile spinnaker run with 13-19 knots of wind almost directly astern. When
21 June 2012 Welcome to the shortest day of the year here in the Southern Hemisphere! We got off a bit later than usual, but today\’s journey was only 45 miles. The sail was yet again brilliant. That\’s 4 out of the last 5 days. We had 22-30 knots mostly from 150 degrees aft on
Cape Grenville…Margaret Bay…… Read More »