Having our floating home in Sydney, seeing New Year’s Eve on the water, and having David’s family (all four of them!) visiting us makes for a once in a lifetime experience. The icing on the cake was celebrating Jan and Brian (David’s parents) 40th wedding anniversary in Sydney. Sydney Opera House Tour We booked a…
With David’s family visiting us in Sydney, we took a quick detour up to Brisbane to check out the capital of Queensland that we’ve heard so much about. We also returned a few months later with my best friend, Madeline. Madeline has been one of my best friends since kindergarten, almost 30 years. She came…
You may be wondering how to know you’ve got the perfect spot, like we did, for New Year’s Eve in Sydney. Here’s how I know where the perfect spot for New Year’s Eve in Sydney is: That is the Associated Press photo that was used in a TON of press releases (like this one) regarding…
I can’t technically say these are the BEST Sydney anchorages, because we didn’t try them all. But after discussing with our cruising friends and locals, we are pretty confident in saying that these two anchorages in the Sydney area are GREAT anchorages and should not be missed. We had a particular challenge because we had…
This small coastal city welcomed us to Australia quite easily, and we were excited to get out and about for our first taste of this huge country. While Australia is big, Coffs Harbour is pretty small. You can fit all these things into two days; one day walking around the shore, and one day in…
After a glorious second season in the South Pacific, we took off to sail southwest to Australia to tuck away for hurricane season. The Passage We hustled our butts and got out of Noumea before noon on Monday the 27th. Several boats had left for Australia over the previous days, but we couldn’t clear out…
While this is David’s first time in Australia, I visited for three weeks back in August of 2007 – over 10 years ago! I thought it would be fun to show you some of my photos from my original trip. I was there with my dad and my brother. We stayed in hostels, forded rivers,…
A big, exciting thing for us this year is that we are planning on spending cyclone season in Australia! Normally we don’t have too much work to do to visit a country, but since we are staying so long in Australia, we’ve got our work cut out for us. A few rainy days in Tonga…