Passion for Cruising
| Vessel Name: | Truest Passion |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Seawind 1160 Catamaran |
| Hailing Port: | Southport |
| Crew: | Stuart Simpson & Nanette Black |
18 May 2012 | Mooloolaba
Good News-Bad News
Hello to all our yachtie friends, it is so long again since I have posted a blog, but the moment has at last arrived that I can talk to you all.
02 November 2011 | Mooloolaba Marina
Home!!
The last lap, so we left Garry’s Anchorage at 5.50am to catch the incoming tide to cross the bar. No wind at all. We started down the “mad mile” towards the bar crossing – not for the faint hearted today, it was like a washing machine, however the largest wave we saw was about 3 metres. Finally [...]
30 October 2011 | Sandy Straits
Yankee Jack Creek
Off yet again at 5.45 am, I was almost sleepwalking as the skipper did his usual, go, go, now.........
29 October 2011 | Bundaberg
Nearly Home
We had a lovely quiet day in the creek, we even played cards and Scrabble, beaten again!!!
27 October 2011 | Pancake Creek
Dawn Start
Up at 4.30am [we must be mad]! To get to Pancake Creek before tomorrow, when a S Easter is forecast, means a very long haul today. We will pass Cape Capricorn at about 10am before sailing down the outside of Curtis Island and Gladstone etc.
26 October 2011 | Great Keppel Island
Another Ripper!!
Another day, this time up at 5am and underway at 5.40am. The water is like oil, not a breath of wind. The clouds are quite heavy at present, but it is very early yet.
New Places
Today, the 17th, went first around James Bond Island, then off again to Koh Pan Yi, which is a Muslim stilt village which was originally all fisherman, but today is a major tourist trap. Huge restaurants all built out over the water and hundreds of shop stalls, all selling the usual stuff. We hired a 'longtail' for the first time to take us all up-river at the very top of Phang Nga Bay, about an hour's ride through mangroves winding past enormous 'Karsts', and we drove through a huge cave, the biggest yet. On our return we saw 'Neanderthal' cave paintings of recognisable fish. Lunch was on the stilt restaurants, very expensive to catch all the tour boats. However, we all felt the day worthwhile. As I write this, we are enroute South again to a 'safe' anchorage to avoid the worst of tonight's storm which is already coming up behind us, and the wind has changed from SW 5kts to NE 17 kts and rising fast. We are under full jib at present. No main. Temp has dropped to only 32 deg; barometer 990 dropping.
