Our ocean holds secrets: the strangest alien forms, reminiscent of spaceships. These gelatinous creatures are luminous, spreading waves of colour through their unpigmented body. They are the ctenophores, or comb jellies, and are our latest discovery of the magical organisms that lurk under our hulls.
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!
