2022
Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025.
We emailed our Christmas greetings mid December and received many in reply - good news from all around the world! Another year over and an exciting 2025 ahead of us! This year we plan to visit the USA and Cuba in July and August. At the end of the year we plan to sail...
January 2023: New Zealand and another medical adventure.
Kia Ora! We flew in to Auckland on the 18th December 2022 for a busy three weeks, visiting friends and family. Annie’s brother Johan (Joe in New Zillund), kindly picked us up from the airport to spend the first week with him and his partner Mary Griffiths in Brown’s...
Sydney November/December 2022.
Our previous post of September/October probably didn’t reach you by email, as we were busy migrating our website from a UK host to an Australian host. That post is on our main page, if you want to catch up with our earlier news. November and December will go down as...
Sydney September/October 2022.
With the warmer weather, the snakes are coming out of the wetlands to sun themselves. Walking with Karen and Annie on Sunday morning, we took a wide berth around a 2 m venomous red bellied black snake and 50 m further, found a sleepy python enjoying the sun next to...
Moving towards spring – whenever that may be.
In a previous post, I showed the banana trees that were taking over the back yard garden. Having trimmed the trees, we soon realised that this mini banana plantation was going to give us grief in future, due to it's invasive root system spreading out under the paving....
Sydney in July: A cold and wet winter.
At the end of June a big weather system formed off the NSW coast. This resulted in severe flooding of the northern coastal plains along the Nepean and Hawkesbury Rivers and the coastal plains to the south of Sydney. The system dumped between 700mm and a metre of rain...
Sydney May and June 2022.
Well, here we are in mid June: Settled into our new townhouse, the federal election is behind us, with a new Labour government in power, winter is upon us and four weeks of prostate radiation therapy has been completed. Coffees after the swim. Shortly afterwards,...
Sydney: March and April 2022.
In this post, we will depart temporarily from our sailing and travelling news, to report on the whirlwind of activities in selling our family home and downsizing to a smaller townhouse, since arriving back in Sydney. Also, I report on the treatment for my prostate...
Sydney January to March 2022.
SV Esprit tied up at the Royal Motor Yacht Club on Friday 14 January 2022. The next day we were issued with new photo ID security cards, replacing our six year old membership cards and registering our vehicle number plate for the new camera gate opening system. All...
Newcastle to Sydney.
Annie and I enjoyed a 5 week break from sailing in Newcastle, about 2 hours (155 km) north of our home in Sydney. Esprit was tied up at the Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club, where we spent some nights, while on other nights we stayed at Eugene Quinn’s (Evan’s dad) quaint...