Those of you who know us realise we are not big on overnight sails; they are tiring, especially when it is just the two of us on board. But with our friend Waz crewing with us from Port Macquarie to Eden and very short weather windows to make progress south, we did not have much…
We have seen the last of the Gold Coast for a while! We said goodbye to our local friends including our cruising friends on Oceaneer, and turned right at the Seaway for the first time in two years, bound for Melbourne.
Cyclone Seth The weather has conspired to hold us here longer with Cyclone Seth raging. But we were safe at Marina Mirage … going deaf from the incessant helicopter flights overhead and the squeaking from the surge in 40 knot winds, but you can’t have everything! We were able to get ashore and catch some…
Anyone who thinks life afloat is a dream has a romanticized view of how it really is. Right now health issues, boat repairs and bad weather are demanding a huge effort to keep our chin up. We can’t tell you how many times we have looked at our cruising photobook to help remind us of…
Just as we are getting ready to leave Queensland for a few months, the cruise story of our 2021 journey through 37 individual reefs is ready! It is of course illustrated with a selection of aerial, underwater and seascape photos. 2021 Reef Addiction binds together our experiences, impressions, emotions during a five months exploration of…
We were just about ready to leave Queensland and start our journey south but got delayed again! It has been one thing after another. This time it is ships not passing, but rather hitting in the night!
There is a say about cruising plans: they are drawn in sand at low tide.
When you are a little obsessive about photography and about the Reef, what do you do with the many hundreds of images you captured? Select the very best and put together a photobook that showcases the Great Barrier Reef – above, on and below the ocean surface!
Sv-Anui 