It is no secret and yes, the rumours are true, we have just purchased and almost moved into our new home, right on the Burnett River here in Bundaberg. We had our first night sleeping on a mattress on the floor last night, this morning we awoke to the beautiful sound of the birds singing.

Before you jump to conclusions, we still have Annecam and she is moored about one hundred metres from our front door and our plan is to keep sailing using our new home as our base for the Australian cyclone season.

This is the location where we first made landfall as we finished crossing the Pacific Ocean, we fell in love with the place then. We sailed south as far as Sydney after clearing in and stopped here for a second time at the end of May as we sailed north to Cairns. It was during this second stop we started looking at the real-estate that what was available in the area. As we sailed south from Cairns we started short-listing likely homes that would meet our needs and through our agent John we found our dream home.

I mentioned earlier that we slept on a mattress on the floor, this is because we are waiting to hear back from a transport company re-transporting our shipping container from our old home town of Horsham Victoria to where we live now, it will be like Christmas when it arrives.

Always look to the future because that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives.

The photo, just checking the pool, just to make sure it is all good.

The video is our new home.