There Are Ants In My Gin!
February 2020 in Darwin Storm Clouds over Yellow Waters The Wet season in Darwin extends from November through to May; it is hot, oppressively humid and usually stormy. During the…
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October 25, 2020
Tech Talk 3 – What To Do During COVID
A quick recap on what Suz has said in other sections of the blog: We arrived in Darwin in late October 2019, with the intention of staying during the cyclone…
October 23, 2020
Greetings From Port Essington
Sept 2020 I have really missed the sunsets over the the ocean The boat engine is purring, the cat is full of fish, Beloved is tinkering with his splicing kit…
September 16, 2020
DARWIN in the COVID19 Times
I came across a piece of writing the other day that uses a boating analogy to explain something that I have been contemplating of late (the original was a bit…
May 1, 2020
Birthdays, Bushfires and Cyclones that weren’t
Peter turned 60 in December but did not want a big ‘do’, which left me in a pickle, as I have bad form with these things at the best of…
January 15, 2020
Why Darwin for ‘The Wet’? (Oct-Nov)
Tipperary Waters Marina It is November and we keep being asked this question by the shocked locals. Why would anyone choose to spend 6 months in Darwin during the ‘wet’…
December 10, 2019
And On To Darwin
Our last travelling sunrise We left King George River on the morning of 22nd October and made excellent time across the Bonaparte Gulf to Darwin, a total of 237 nautical…
November 25, 2019
KIMBERLEY III – KING GEORGE RIVER
The King George River is one of those iconic Kimberley places that we were very keen to see and yet feared we might have to pass on. Across the entrance…
November 20, 2019
The Kimberleys II – Prince Regent River and Swift Bay
Tides and Whirlpools Rule After checking the charts, and the tide records we had previously downloaded, we decided to leave Sampson Bay at just before 6am to work with the…
November 15, 2019
Kimberleys I – Two Archipelagos
Cruising the Buccaneer and Boneparte Archipelagos (4th Oct - 11th Oct 2019) Sunrises are pretty cool too The waters along the Broome coastline contain many fish and pearl farms. We…
November 10, 2019