08 -10, July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, When we woke up in Mullet Bay at North Goulbourn Island, we saw that new friends \”Silver Girl\” had just arrived and went to sleep. They, and \”Mr. John VI\” did a day/night/day passage from Howard Island where we\’d left them three days earlier. We enjoyed our […]
North Goulbourn Island to Coral Bay, Coubourg Peninsula on to Darwin….. Read More »
06 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last I wrote, we\’d anchored at Yabooma Island and I\’d gone over the whole big tide math to make sure that at \”O Dark Thirty\” we didn\’t visit the muddy bottom of the Yabooma Esturary. WELL…. I got nervous after my own lecture and figured it would be
Mlingimbi Inlet to North Goulbourn Island and assorted other stuff! Read More »
04 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well, the wind didn\’t look all that bad to us this morning despite the forecast for gusts up to 30 knots. As we would be very inshore next to the \”continent\” vs. small narrow islands, we thought the winds would be lighter and indeed they were! With two
Yabooma Island Estuary….. Read More »
3 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last night, we anchored in 15 feet of water and did indeed check the tide at Refuge Bay. With the full moon, they are pretty big here. So we estimated that we\’d get down to 5 feet at around 1:30 a.m. Well, maybe my math was off just
01 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We felt in no rush to leave Gove today as we decided to just go to Elizabeth Bay and stay the night, planning to arrive at Hole in the Wall at the morning slack low tide. We got the expected wind however and decided to press on to
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30 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Today we were able to get a \”hire car\” as they are called here. A beat up Toyota Hilux. These types of vehicles are referred to in \”OZ\” as \”Utes\”. That\’s for Utility Vehicle. Ours wasn\’t a \”Mine Spec UTE\” according to Nikki (actually is was a beater!),
Gove tour and Aboriginal Art Center…. Read More »
29 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We just arrived in Gove, Northern Territory. The \”NT\” is so remote, it\’s not yet a state! (They\’re working on it!). We are truly in the \”B of B\” (back of beyond) up here. I suspect there are less than 30,000 people (except for Darwin which has 30,000
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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
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 »