We've just had breakfast after our last night at sea for this cruise. Pete Walduck came to the Marina at Coffs Harbour and blessed our departure with an amber libation, then dropped our lines for us two days ago. We were off, with the only hitch being touching bottom on the now rapidly silting-over entrance to Coffs boat harbour.
It is truly sad that for now we will have to slot back into the traffic, the deadlines and the default-Sydney-state-of-mind of rushed impatience. It has taken four months, but somewhere along the way we managed to leave those things behind and relax on a deep level, and worry more about today than tomorrow, less again about the next week, not much at all about next year or life.
But it is exciting to be coming in to Sydney to see our sons, catch up with friends, have a four hour bath, and to earn some more funds for the cruising kitty for next time.
As if to send us on our way from the water world to land things, a huge pod of dolphins joined us off Tuggerah and has stayed with us since then, and we had one of the most spectacular sunrises we have witnessed do date.
We have jobs to do to get "Destiny" ready for port, so we'll leave you for now. We will put up a rambling emotional de-brief post after that bath....