Follow the sailing adventures of the cruising yacht NAHANI
Just back from six days sailing and socialising. [Top]
We spend two more days here catching up on boat chores, then fly back to Melbourne on Friday, returning on Wednesday 1 February. [Top]
Blichfeldt extended family, including daughter Alex with her children Max and Ruby, daughter Liv with husband Andrew and his parents Neville and Marieke, were all camping at Koonya in Norfolk Bay for the weekend so we sailed around to join them. Weather perfect both for the sail around, and for spending time there - southerly winds making it OK to anchor off the beach, but warm enough to enjoy kayaking and swimming. Very social time, much eating and drinking ashore. We left midday Sunday and had a great sail round to Dover, stopping overnight in Barnes Bay on the way. More socialising with Rosie's old friend Jeremy Firth, then a return trip to the RYCT, mostly under sail, with another overnight stop in the Channel, this time in Little Fancy bay. You can read more about this voyage and earlier trips this summer in Around Hobart, Summer 2012.
We spent last winter up north, leaving Hobart in May 2011 and returning in September. Read about how we survived sailing to the Gold Coast just two up, where we went in Queensland and who visited, and how a harem of three women helped the Captain sail Nahani back to Hobart. [Top]
Rays gliding across the sandy bottom off the beach in Koonya. In the evening it was so shallow and calm that you could see their wingtips break the surface as they swam. Live crayfish, freshly caught. Lots of seabirds: terns, gannets, silver gulls, Pacific gulls, penguins, black swans, plovers, a sea eagle. One seal, flippers aloft. One very large dolphin, all on his own, who came for a play round the propeller area as we were motoring in the Channel. [Top]