Sailing Tasmania: Stanley and onto the West Coast
We are making progress with our circumnavigation of Tasmania! After a few days in Stanley, we are now on the wild West Coast having sailed to Macquarie Harbour where we will be for a while.
We are making progress with our circumnavigation of Tasmania! After a few days in Stanley, we are now on the wild West Coast having sailed to Macquarie Harbour where we will be for a while.
The North West has such an impressive coastline with its typical Bass Strait colours: rugged foreshores with jagged granite boulders painted with orange and yellow lichen, deep ultramarine seas and aqua waters close to the sandy shores.
What crazy weather we are having! SW storm, NE gale, Westerly gale… the only constant is the strong wind and quickly moving weather systems. We left East Telegraph Bay on Three Hummock Island after a Westerly gale eased, and had a beautiful sail to Stanley, a fishing village on the far North West coast of…