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Arrival at the Whitsunday’s
Posted by in Car Rental, Fun, General, Tourism, Travel on July 20th, 2010
A short trip to Rosslyn Bay Marina on 1/7 of about 1 and ½ hours left us in the lap of luxury for about twelve days, i.e. power, water, showers and all the facilities of Yeppoon and Rockhampton. Met some interesting people as usual and made friends with Bill and Sue from the yacht Dreamtime, [...]
Travelling in Ariel
Posted by in Car Rental, Fun, General, Tourism, Travel on June 29th, 2010
In the past week we have come a long way from the last entry at Pancake Creek. We left Pancake to travel through the” Narrows” which is a body of water between the main land and Curtis Island. They call it the narrows because that’s exactly what it is. The sailing and motoring up these [...]
Tuesday 15th June – A hike to Bustard Head Lighthouse
The weather has not changed, it is still terrible. It has only rained a little today but the breeze is still 25knots with gusts of 30knots and it is still cold. To our surprise this morning several boats left before we got out of bed, I have no idea where they were going but it [...]
The Queens Birthday long weekend
Yesterday, to celebrate the holiday, we had a leisurely morning – not that that is any different to any other morning, did a few chores around the boat because there is always something to do. Just after lunch packed a backpack with some goodies and into the dinghy, over to the beach to go for [...]
The Continuing Travels of Ariel
A friend reminded me that I hadn’t entered any news into the blog for some time sorry; I have been updating the facebook. We are now in Pancake Creek – today having a wonderful day, sunny and a little warmer. Caught two fish this morning – one each and had them for lunch (Parrot fish). [...]