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we drove all day from Bundaberg and still not very far west , fun to look at all the different trees and stuff.. Staying the night in a mining town at the Coal & Cattle Motel and Bistro. Did have a wonderful dinner. Room is small but clean and a good bed. Tomorrow we will […]

yesterday afternoon when we arrived in Tin Can Bay we went to the little Cafe’/Marina where dolphins are supposed to come into the creek. We spoke with one of the ladies in the cafe’, she said that they feed the dolphin at 8am but to be there a little after 7 and we could wade

we had a great day driving around through the mountains. About 3pm we realized we were near Tin Can Bay, didn’t have time to stop here with Special Blend. There is a little place right at the tip of the Bay that a couple of dolphins come in every morning to be fed. At some

We are off this morning to do a walk-about. Got word yesterday that the boat will not be loaded til the 4th or 5th of Nov at the earliest. It is being held up because of the rains somewhere north of here. They don’t load steel when it’s raining. Not sure just what we will

nothing exciting goin’ on here. Wish you were here to help pack up. Jane Nason “Venture” came yesterday to take all Jim’s ex-tre oil, flares ( we could have had a great fireworks show) booze, etc. We took all of our give-away stuff (flour, sugar, rice soap ect) to the laundry room (the yatty’s trading

Scarborough Marina, Australia. This is where we started our 2010 Adventure in May. Glad to back back safe and sound and sad our South Pacific Adventure is over. The next few days will be a busy time. Special Blend has to be ready to load on a transport ship around the 29th of this month.

Mooloolaba Marina, Tom and Betty Lee (Quantium Leep) met us last night to help us tie up when we came in about 9pm. Went for a bite to eat and ended up at Mickie D’s, everything else was closed. This morning we had coffee, then breakfast with them. So nice to meet up with friends

we have had our very own whale show, this last one was so close to the boat we could hear the plop. I was focused on the baby showing me his tail when the BIG one did a full breech, the spray was yards across. Then he breeched about 5 or 6 more times getting

We are about 12 miles off shore. Tonight is the kind of night we all love (motor boats) clear sky, little wind, stars, moon….no rough seas. The past few days have been horrendous. We will be going into Hervey Bay off Bundaberg by morning. We are a slow go, can only do about 1300rpm before

25*22′.650S/153*00′.238E we are making our way through the Sandy Straits between Bundaberg and Mooloolaba, have to go into it on the incoming tide and exit on the out going. One good thing is that we are making good time, easy passage no big waves. Kinda like the intercoastal water way in Fl, except with mountains.