we made cairns
I see skies of blue …
A lot has happened since our guests recently departed … doc appointments, calm weather, outer reef visits, fish caught, countless snorkels, a naughty drone and even a hospital visit. We have also enjoyed some of the best conditions to date this season, especially while at our two favourite coral cay reefs, Taylor and Beaver, just… Read More »
the best of plans …
back to the reef
my happy place … part two
my happy place … part one
whitsunday wanderings
yeppoon to the whitsundays
stunning yellow patch
coral bleaching at lady musgrave?
back to the bossa
it’s a wrap
lady elliot … definitely my last snorkel
I’ve been wanting to snorkel the Lady Elliot reef for a long time. I finally have! It’s such an exposed island with little shelter and only two public moorings, so it’s really not an overnight stop. Anchoring is difficult due to the depths, but its really about picking a day that’s calm with little swell… Read More »
one last snorkel?
the keppels
wow … what a week
duncan and walker reefs
lodestone and kelso reefs
Back to the reef! We anchored in Radical Bay, Magnetic Island, when we returned from our first reef adventure with Vivacious and Chances. The wind arrived with rage during the early hours of the morning. After an aborted attempt to move around to Horseshoe Bay, we spent the morning at Radical Bay instead, watching the… Read More »
colours of the reef
reef magic
when there’s two boats
We left Keppel Bay Marina in the company of Chances and Vivacious. That’s three boats! Once the wind eased after a few days in the marina, there was a ‘conga line’ of yachts heading north, not just our three. Our plan was to sail three long days through the Percy islands to the Whitsundays before… Read More »
friends aboard
back to the bossa
It’s 2023 and our sailing season on The Bossa has begun. After our special time at Wakatobi I am now looking forward to returning to the Great Barrier Reef and playing with my cameras in the Queensland waters. This will be our ninth year on the water, eight cruising the Queensland coast (New Caledonia and… Read More »
goodbye to Wakatobi!
day seven …
day six …
day five …
day four …
Dive sites – Barracuda (and The Zoo) – Fan Garden – House Reef This was my first time on the dive boat ‘on my own’ – 7.30 am and 9.30 am. With a visit back to the resort in between, (hopefully to sneak a freshly cooked donut from the Longhouse!). We hadn’t booked any boat trips… Read More »
day three …
day one … and day two
wakatobi!
time to go home
lady musgrave island
a little slice of heaven
monkey beach
the good, the bad and the ugly!
whitsundays wanderings
We’ve spent the last few weeks wandering around the Whitsunday islands, and enjoying the best weather! We’ve also had guests aboard for a week. They told us they ticked every box on the ‘brochure’ and I think maybe we just we nailed it … apart from the sailing box (no wind!). We’ve spent the last… Read More »
keeper reef
It had been three weeks since we’d seen a shop or laundry so after a quick visit to Townsville to reprovision and visit a laundry (3 weeks’ worth of washing is big), and some unexpected socialising with Lukim Yu and Pacific Dreams, we dropped by Maggie for our last stopover for this season. It had… Read More »
hinchinbrook island
colours of the reef
reef hopping to maggie
whitehaven beach
curlew magic
where’s the warmth?
here we go again
it’s a wrap
Another great sailing season has come to an end. We have been very fortunate getting to our boat again this year. We left Victoria back in July crossing the NSW and Qld borders, but little did we know Victoria and NSW would experience more Covid lockdowns and that there would be more border closures.
a last hurrah
There has to be a last snorkel! Sitting at the Gladstone Marina for nearly a week, waiting for strong SE weather to pass through, we had plenty of time to plan a Lady Musgrave visit but I think we must have exhausted the alphabet with the number of plans we came up with. Tides, winds… Read More »
monkey beach
We have visited Monkey Beach on Great Keppel Island many many times and I’ve snorkeled here most of those visits. But this time we scored the perfect anchorage. My ‘dream’ anchorage is one that lets me snorkel straight from The Bossa. There’s no need for Neville to hang about in the dinghy. He can return to the… Read More »
airlie to keppel
The strong northerlies have been blowing forever and with daily thunderstorm warnings we decided to stay in the Port Of Airlie Marina for a few nights (no anchoring off Airlie in northerlies). We were also waiting on two packages, one being our new screecher which we had been missing big time since our old one… Read More »