Ship Cat’s Adventure

While the humans are busy with chores on the Gold Coast, I, Bengie, am in charge of writing this post!

Looped the loop!

We have looped the loop and are back on the Gold Coast! Here are the last of our passages to Southeast Queensland. Shortcut to Double Island Point After spending a couple of windy days hidden right inside Pelican Bay, behind Inskip Point, we exited at mid tide on Saturday with perfect conditions for a new…

Adventures

Going south, fast!

We spent a week at Mackay waiting for our engine controls to be fixed, which as usual took five days rather than one, but with strong SE blowing, we could not have moved earlier anyway! We took off as soon as the work was completed, and left the marina first thing Saturday, which coincided with…

Conservation

A matter of life and death

Today we want to talk to you about a matter of life and death: the state of health of the Great Barrier Reef.

Adventures

Changes at Little Black Reef

We caught our breath in the Whitsundays for a few days after arriving from Cairns and we held it too with some massive thunderstorms descending on us. But then the reef sirens seduced us again and we had to go.

Southward Bound – Cairns to the Whitsundays

We have turned back! We have taken advantage of a longer bout of light northeasterlies and gone south.

Extraordinary Agincourt Reefs

Agincourt Reef #4 was the northernmost point we sailed to at Latitude 15oS, and the pinnacle of our reef explorations. What made it so? Being somewhere new with our friends from Oceaneer and Clair de Lune in a breathtaking anchorage, snorkeling and diving with a staggering amount of marine life, over beautiful coral, swimming in…

Heavenly Opal and Crispin Reefs

With nearly a week of calmer weather, we have decided to head a little bit further north of Cairns and explore a few reefs on the very outer rim of the Great Barrier Reef offshore of Port Douglas and Cape Tribulation: Opal Reef, St Crispin Reef and the Agincourt Reefs.

Sv-Anui

Sailing adventures and photography