This is great cruising, weather is nice not too hot. Jim is working daily on his tan. Granny would say “gosh a mighty knows Jimmy” The islands are really different, we just left Magnetic Island this morning, it was mountains and big rock boulders, maybe what the Maine coast looks like. We are now passing […]
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Stonehinge Bay, Hook Island, Australia. We have been back in Australia a little over a week. Enjoyed a few days in Cairns, then met George Nason “VENTURE” in Hichinbrook Channel. Jim and George spent their time fishing, no fish! George did catch 1 mud crab and shared with us. Had one night in Magnetic Bay,
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NEWSFLASH-YACHT BOARDED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT this was on Tom’s daily report, they are crossing into Australia from Port Vila, slowing down as not to get here on a weekend as we did. Customs is free check in but quarrentine charges and doubles on the weekend! Bright daylight was no protection for the US registered yacht
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We are still in Hichinbrook Channel, early in the morning we are heading out. Will be going to another small island. This area has been beautiful and different, kinda reminds us of South Florida with all the mangroves, and horse flies, but the mountains are a dead giveaway it’s not Fl. Jim and George haven’t
We arrived in Hinchinbrook, Jim and George have already scooped the place out, going into the marina for lunch. We will be here a few days. Not sure what there is to do, but George will be our guide. More later, Martha
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Had a really good day, this is a fun city. Lot of things going on. Very tourist oriented, Jim doesn’t seem to be minding it. Nice to have real stores. We went with our neighbors, Nancy and Dan to a big mall and did some real grocery shopping. They are living here now (23yrs) but
Great Barrier Reef Here I am idleing along 25 miles off Cairns’ Harbour’s entrance through the Great Barrier Reef. The entrance looks really wide on the map, but our official policy is to do reef entrances during daylight hours only. (unless real inconvenient) This time we are anxious to get our first glimpse of the
We arrived in Cairns about 12:30pm. By one I had called Christy in USA, customs and immigration were on their way. Easy check-in with them, they ask if they could bring a dog on-board to look for our firearm (dog in training) no problem! Quarantine took some time. He looked at every carving, checked for
It is a beautiful night, wind about 10kt, nice seas, have cut back to 1500rpm to slow us down a little bit, still doing about 5.5 to 6 kt. 30 more miles to the entrance of the reef. Not sure just where to go, but will radio when we get close enough. This is a
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We had a wonderful night, sat off the reef for an hour or so waiting for daylight. Right at sunrise we started making our way into Cairns. We have spoken to the coast guard, also customs. Customs will board us when we arrive at Marlin Marina. have some tidying to do before I can allow
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