North to Adventure

Tuesday 5th December - Our number 2 grandchild, Ava Lauren O'Connor's 12th birthday.
I am buggered! We went for a bike ride looking for an auto parts store....and got lost on the way back "home" to the boat. "Oh....it should be just up that hill, turn left and there you are....Several HUGE hills, highways without foot paths or cycle-ways later..... we found that we had over shot the left turn and had to back track two more steep hills! My thighs look like the incredible hulk's!!! Luckily we only had a few blocks left to go before Terry got a flat tire. He walked and I rode to the bike shop for repairs. We left the bikes there, went and got ourselves a well deserved ice-cream cone and headed back to the boat for fish & chips for dinner.

Today is Friday 8th November - we are at the marina now preparing to leave. We have done our shopping, laundry, filled water tanks, and I have done some cooking so we can leave in the wee hours of tomorrow (or midnight-ish tonight) if weather stays like it was predicted. There will be at least a 3 day window with great winds for heading south without having to smash into it.

This morning we met Gordon for breakfast to say goodbye - His motor repairs have taken much longer than predicted and the weather report is just too good to pass up. Such a wonderful person and we will miss him....but he said he will come down to Bunbury in the New Year to catch up. He may even catch up with us on the water depending on when he is able to leave!!?!

I will end this now and will post again once we get to our next stop.....