Awesome foursome heading North!

This is it, the Take It Easy crew has left the Gippsland Lakes, bound for Tin Can Bay in Queensland, some 900 nautical miles North!  For Wade it is an exciting mission.  For crew, Mike & Merv, it will be a thrilling experience, as for Bengie the ship’s cat…well, it’s better than “jail”!

sv-takeiteasy is one year old!

A year ago, we took our first steps into running our website.  They were tentative and a little scary! Taking the plunge into the blogosphere has been very rewarding as it has allowed us to interact with people of similar interests all over the world. When anyone asks ‘why do you do it?’, we can think…

Lakes Entrance at dawn

Winter migration

Winter is approaching, the days are shorter, the temperature is dropping.  These are the signals it is time to embark on our winter migration and sail the boat back from Port Albert to the Gippsland Lakes.