Yesterday morning we scooted around our new anchorage at Gili Trawangan in the tender, weaving our way through a stack of local boats. Markito and I pointed out rogue mooring ropes in the water that Simon artfully dodged. Sometimes boat owners here drop the anchor and then pull their boat up on shore and tie…
We’ve spent the last 5 months and a lovely summer at home in the mountains of Northeast Victoria, while Red Dragonfly has been on a swing mooring at Marina Del Ray at Gili Gede in Southwest Lombok, Indonesia. We had two big questions in coming back to the boat: How on earth were we going…
Last year we sailed from Hastings (Victoria), up the east coast of Australia, turned left at the Torres Straight Islands to Darwin, then hooked a right up to Dili (East Timor), where we meandered westward through East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesia) until we got to Lombok. We left Red Dragonfly at a little island called Gili…
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Check out these links to two newspaper articles about our sailing travels this year. The Saturday Herald Sun: Living a Life Less Ordinary (30 Sep 2017); and The Shepparton News: Family Living Their Dream (19 Oct 2017) Also – we made a little cameo appearance on our friends youtube channel. Subscribe to Sailing Catalpa for some great videos following…
Friday 13 Oct – Cairns to Low Isles “It’s a bit rolly today Dad”, Zach said as we left Cairns. “Ooh Dad. The boat is too wriggly!” It wasn’t really. The weather was beautiful and the ocean was calm. But as we motored away from Cairns a few big tourist catamarans zoomed past and our…
Picking up from the last blog post….we sadly left Lady Musgrave Island earlier than planned as some big winds were forecast. We wanted to get to a more protected anchorage so we packed up and left as soon as it was light enough for us to spot and avoid the bommies (small patches of shallow…
It’s 7pm on Saturday night. There is a crescent moon above us and it’s dark outside. The kids are all in their beds having a play or reading. They’ll eventually fall asleep one after the other and we’ll go and check on them later. Simon is sitting in the cockpit. He’s on watch. I’m sitting…
We made it to Queensland! Woohoo! We’re anchored at Marine Stadium (also referred to as The Spit), just near Seaworld on the Gold Coast. This is the busiest place we’ve stayed so far. There are approximately 60 boats around us. All sorts – big and small monohull and catamaran yachts, huge luxurious motorboats, compact little…
We are dancing to the Moana soundtrack in our ‘loungeroom’ (cabin). When I say we, I mean Markito, Freyja and I. Zach is wrapped up in his game on the long couch that runs along the port side of the cabin and barely notices us. Simon is sitting lounging on the other couch catching up…