Author Archives: Mike
In the Biggara Valley
Just a quick post from a public PC to let all know where we are… We are staying high up near the source of the mighty Murray River, in the Biggara Valley, above Corryong and below Khancoban. There’s hardly any phone or data service up here, so no posts for while. We’ll be here until … Continue reading
Bowling and Horses
Yesterday we went into Shepperton because Dad needed his hair cut. While he was getting his hair cut, Mum, Alex and I went around looking for a coffee stall. He could find, so we asked the owner of a book stall and he said “I’ll take you there, I’m going myself”. We went to the … Continue reading
What I did last week
I liked the trip here. I remember the bushwalk that we did at Canoe Bay. There was a creek on the beach that I went walking through, and I got wet up to my waist. I played with the waves breaking onshore. I waited until the waves would break and wash up to me, then … Continue reading
Engine room, guided tour
In my last post I got the engine room lights working, something my dear wife has been at me for quite some… She even bought the strip lights. Talk about dropping ze hint… Anyway, in that post I have a panoramic stitch together of the engine room. In this post, I thought I’d use that … Continue reading
Let there be light!
I spent this afternoon in the engine room fitting LED strip lighting… And boy, am I happy with the results: I can see my engine! Is that great? All boats should have engine room lighting, even if the only use to show off to visitors. I can now see all sorts of things. Lamentably, or … Continue reading
Some lessons learnt
I have been thinking today of the lessons learnt from our trip, and thought I should write them down. Where better than the blog? Lesson 1. Keep it fun. Obvious if you have kids, but just as important for us grown-up’s too. If it isn’t fun, or if you can’t look back on the trip … Continue reading
End of the leg
We left Fortescue at 5am, with the setting moon. It was cold but refreshing to be underway early. I really like an early start. We needed to maintain 5 knots to cover the distance and arrive at the Marion Narrows by high tide, or just before. 9:44am was high tide along this part of the … Continue reading
Fortescue Bay
Canoe Bay is up in the north-west corner of Fortescue Bay, and it’s a beautiful part of the world. The anchorage is in 3 to 3.5 meters of water behind the wreck. The approach is deep water, past a few kelp forests and then it starts to shallow. The shallowing comes up to about 4m … Continue reading
The washing machine
We left Port Arthur on Wednesday morning with a storm force wind warning in place for SE coastal waters, and 45 knot winds blowing off Matsuyker Island with 7m swell running. The idea was to scurry around the corner before those conditions reached the Tasman Island area, with the front forecast to pass through around … Continue reading
Reflections of Port Arthur
Since we got here last Thursday, we have been looking around the ruins of Port Arthur. We took a ghost tour (our youngest was quite disappointed he didn’t get to see a ghost, and wondered why it was called a ghost tour if your didn’t get to see any), took a ferry ride over to … Continue reading