georgebackhus on July 25th, 2005

July 23, 2005
Sometimes the most difficult aspect of cruising can be saying farewell to friends we’ve met and places we’ve visited and come to enjoy along the way. This was certainly the case with Darwin.
We had spent just a little over two weeks in the lovely little Tipperary Waters Marina, just outside of town, and [...]

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georgebackhus on July 15th, 2005

 

 

 
George next to a “rather small” ant hill at Port Essington.

After two months of sailing mostly in a northwesterly direction up the Queensland coast, we had reached “the Tip” or Cape York, the northernmost point on the continent of Australia. We gybed onto port, and started heading in a westerly direction, “over the top” of [...]

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georgebackhus on July 10th, 2005

 

 

 
Merima with cockatoo, Hamilton Island

I realize that I haven’t tapped out a “Sailor’s Log” for quite some time now, about six months to be exact, but for good reason. I’ve enjoyed the Queensland coast of Australia so much that, in my usual fashion, I got caught in the drift and decided to slow down and [...]

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