Back to where it all began

It’s another “pinch me” moment when I think that we’re now back in Broken Bay, which we left almost 3 years ago when we started our adventure north. We left as very inexperienced cruisers, only having gone into two different marina berths, only having bought fuel at one marina, only having gone to Sydney harbour […]

Cruising Lake Macquarie

It’s been nearly three years since we were last in Lake Macquarie and back then we were very inexperienced cruisers. In fact, on our first night in the lake we managed to get some of the mooring rope tangled around our prop and Robert had to jump in and luckily managed to free it! You […]

Camden Haven to Port Stephens

After spending 20 days on anchor enjoying Camden Haven, we finally had a perfect weather window to head south. In summary, our trip from Camden Haven to Port Stephens involved three stages: Camden Haven to Crowdy Head for a 3-hour layover, then on to Forster Forster to Boat Beach Boat Beach to Soldiers Point Marina […]

Pelican Paradise (a.k.a Camden Haven)

Today is 26 April and we’ve been in Camden Haven since 13 April. This area is well-populated by pelicans, who mainly eat fish but are also opportunistic feeders. They eat a variety of aquatic animals and there’s an oyster farm nearby! I take great delight in seeing them.  We spent longer in Coffs Harbour than […]

Power to Poseidon

When we were in Townsville in 2021, we made the biggest visible change to Poseidon in 40 years! We had a bimini constructed on our flybridge deck to provide us with a more usable and shaded space. We also had in mind that this could be the base for installing solar  panels at some point […]

Pam’s passage planning process

Below is the process I use to plan our passages and it works for us and our boat. I use it for both overnight and multi-day passages, bearing in mind that we’re “coastal cruisers” rather than “blue-water” or offshore cruisers. If you want lots of details and some references, then after the process diagram is […]

Back in Coffs Harbour

After nearly two and a half years with most of that time in Queensland, we’re now back in Coffs Harbour! We had a great trip south from Iluka after waiting for the effects of Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle to pass. It turned out Australia was lucky when compared with the North Island of New Zealand and parts […]

Clarence River do-over (aka Clarence River Pub Crawl!)

In December 2020 we cruised the Clarence River as far upstream as Cowper/Brushgrove and I wrote about this trip in my blog River Ramblings. At that time, we were having problems with our generator. This meant we couldn’t spend time on anchor because we couldn’t charge the batteries. As a result we didn’t travel as […]

So long Queensland

After two years in Queensland travelling as far north as Dunk Island, it was finally time for us to say goodbye. We’re excited to be spending most of 2023 travelling south, to explore places we haven’t been to before, and then to cross the Bass Strait to Tasmania in 2024.  Unlike our trip north from […]

2022 – that’s a wrap

As we come to the end of 2022, I’ve been wondering what we’ve done this year, especially as we’ve spent the last 5 months on the Gold Coast. But made our way here from Townsville, over 800 nautical miles, so that was something. We also installed a radar earlier in the year, and then we […]