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Retirement Is Fun!
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
Latest News From Esprit
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...