Sometimes a simple weekend away turns out to be absolutely perfect. We recently spent three days at Wilsons Promontory, inside Refuge Cove. The weather was brilliant. We sailed slowly from Port Albert on the Friday morning and briskly back on the Sunday afternoon. For three days we chose to stay put, having spider webbed ourselves…
“Hide-dash-hide”seems to be our rhythm these days! After our epic sail to Jervis Bay and a rest day while a weak southerly change passed, we did a dash to Moruya, 65 nautical miles further south when the northerly returned – only just for a day, mind you!
The last post in our Sea Mammals series is the elusive Dugong. The name comes from the Malay “Duyong”, meaning “lady of the sea”. Its slow and graceful swimming is possibly the inspiration for mariners’ tales of mermaids. The common name for the Dugong is sea cow, no doubt because it grazes on the sea…
Sv-Anui 