Boat are leaving and Boats are moving
August – Sept 2020 Early morning view of Darwin from the harbour What do we all do in the Marina while waiting for travel clearances to be approved (or the…
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November 19, 2020
Onward to the Gove Boat Rally
(Thursday 17th Sept – Thursday 24th Sept) Sunset at Grant Island I like staying anchored at a nice spot for a few days and then moseying on to the next…
November 8, 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 Dry
June - July 2020 Sunset from Crab Claw Resort “Poor You Stuck In Darwin”; we regularly had friends phoning to sympathise that we had been stuck in Darwin for ages…
September 15, 2020
Life Back At The Marina
May and June 2020 A mackerel cloud formation over the surf club beach We moved back onto the boat at Tipperary Waters Marina in May, and straight back into the…
July 12, 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
Still Getting Out and about in The Wet
March-April 2020 Fishing at sunset We took a tour bus to Katherine (just in case everything got shut down due to the you-know-what of 2020). We were easily socially distanced…
April 20, 2020
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…
March 25, 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