View to Little Squally Cove from Barn Hill

Christmas at Deal Island

Our Tasmanian adventure has started! We left the Gippsland Lakes last Friday, bound for Deal Island. We are old hands at Bass Strait crossings, but sharing this part of the voyage with our friend Trevor is great fun as the whole experience is new to him.

Approaching Deal Island

Passage to Deal

This is the second in a series of four posts about our Easter 2016 Cruise.  After the big emotions of the first passage, Outback Dreamer elects to stay put at the Prom rather than follow us to Deal Island.  But for us the opportunity to escape is too tempting and we are off!

The Real Deal

It had ben three months since our last decent sailing adventure and we were having withdrawal symptoms.  So over the Easter break we took an offshore trip to Deal Island, in the middle of Eastern Bass Strait.  “What?  3 months later, you post a blog on this?” I hear you say.  Well things have been…