I’m in the cockpit gazing longingly over at Gili Trawangan. The boat is gently rocking through the swell that’s coming in from the north. We just arrived back on Red Dragonfly after a few hours spent walking around the eastern tip of the island, an area we hadn’t explored yet. The twins are inside playing,…
We’ve moved back on board, so now what? Adventure, exploration, sailing, facing new challenges. Nope, not yet. To make this sailing lifestyle sustainable for us I need to keep working. My work is very flexible and last year I found that once I’d settled in, I could work while we were sailing. But this time…
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…