Nearly home!

Full of hopes for a spinnaker run all the way, based on a solid forecast of NE winds, we left Bittangabee at dawn on Thursday. Shortly after Green Cape, Big Red was flying and we were going great guns, into Victoria, past Gabo Island, Mallacoota, and Little Rame Head. 

Australian fur seals

Sea Mammals Series – Australian Fur Seals

Our third post in the Sea Mammals Series is dedicated to Australian Fur Seals.  These are rowdy, noisy, inquisitive and fun animals to watch. They are found mainly in Bass Strait.  We have seen them in Victoria, on islands off Wilson’s Promontory and in Tasmania at Judgement Rocks which are part of the Kent Group…

Australian fur seal

Seals of Bass Strait

Our wanderings around Bass Strait have given us the opportunity to observe several colonies of Australian Fur Seals on rocky islets off the coast of Victoria and Tasmania. We love watching them, we have collected many photos of them and as you know, we like to research what we see.  So we thought it was…