YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/07/04 09:06 LATITUDE: 12-02.81S LONGITUDE: 134-54.98E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 15% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.4 AIR_TEMP: 23.3C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Yabooma Island Estuary… Moved yet again. Now in 50 feet of water, awaiting 15 foot tide drop to 35 feet. Cheers, Scott and Nikki (done just […]
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
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/07/04 07:38 LATITUDE: 12-03.42S LONGITUDE: 134-56.30E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 15% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014 AIR_TEMP: 25.0C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Yabooma Island Estuary… Interesting post tonight!… see: www.svbeachhouse.com
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
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/07/03 05:26 LATITUDE: 12-05.91S LONGITUDE: 135-21.09E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1012.5 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Howard Island Bay, SW Howard Island…In company of \”Mr.John IV\” and \”Silver Girl\”…..
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/07/02 05:48 LATITUDE: 11-49.88S LONGITUDE: 135-51.95E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 24 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 60% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1012.8 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Refuge Bay, Short day due to LOTS of wind…..
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!),
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/07/01 09:07 LATITUDE: 11-33.59S LONGITUDE: 136-21.08E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 25 WIND_DIR: ESE CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 5 BARO: 1014.7 AIR_TEMP: 25.0C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Raragla Island, Just beyond \”Hole In the Wall\”…
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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