Port Stephens to Port Hacking, 4-11 January 2015
Having arrived at 0200, we awoke late on Sunday morning to find a beautiful sandy beach that is popular with the locals.
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| Jimmy's Beach, Port Stephens |
We went ashore and walked up to Hawke's Nest village to get fresh bread and the paper before having our first swim (and maybe last) of the trip. I can see why southerners like the Gold Coast as the water temperature here was brisk on first entering.
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| Confident windsurfer crossing our bow |
In the afternoon we sailed around to Fame Cove and managed to get a mooring. We had 2 nights here with a kayak trip each day exploring the creek and nearby North Arm Cove anchorage.
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| Fame Cove |
On Wednesday, we set sail for Broken Bay. We motor sailed until about 1130 when there was finally enough breeze to get the spinnaker up. We then had a great sail in breeze that strengthened to 15-20 knots. As we approached Broken Bay we were joined by about 10 dolphins that rode the bow waves for half an hour.
GoPro clip here!
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| Passing a Salina 48 as we approached Broken Bay |
We spent 3 nights in America Bay with between 20 and 40 other boats. We went down to Pittwater on Thursday to pick up a fitting we had ordered and we motored around Lovett Bay - where
Susan Duncan wrote about life at Salvation Creek. Below is the house Dorothy MacKellar built and star of Susan's book
House at Salvation Creek. I loved the books and was keen to see the bay she had written about.
On Friday we kayaked to Halletts Beach and met some old friends on
Adagio. We then made new friends after being invited to sundowners onboard
Moor R & R with the
Toucanoes crew. I love this cruising life.
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| Freshwater beach shower |
On Saturday, in light winds we motorsailed 44nm to Port Hacking. We had been assured there was plenty of room under the power lines close to the cliff however we made sure we weren't touching any metal as we went under.
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| Our air draft is 18 metres |
We continued further up the river and we picked up a mooring in South West Arm. It started raining last night and we have had steady rain since. It is a lovely peaceful spot now that the rain has deterred the runabouts and jetskis.
Tomorrow we are booked into the Cronulla marina to reprovision and do some washing before heading further south when the next northerlies appear.
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4 comments:
I heard you on the radio this morning as you left Port Hacking. I was on my cat, Catlypso, in Yowie Bay. I watched the AIS as you headed south. We also saw Toucanoes and Moor R&R two weeks ago when we were in America Bay.
Have a great time in Tassie.
Michael & Kelly
Catlypso
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Hi guys. Good to see your navigational skills are well honed - managing to turn right for Tassie, that is!! I tried to post on this blog a week or so ago with my Google account but it misfired, so am trying again today as Anonymous (that will surely be illegal one day). We are following you (and Joule/Matilda) on skipr.net and the occasional sighting on our AIS apps: green with envy of course! You seem to have found some more unusual and lovely stopping off places judging by Google maps. Best wishes for fair winds to you both. Fred and Marie, SV Genesis.
Thanks Michael and Kelly-hopefully we will catch up somewhere on our trip north.
Thanks for the good wishes Fred and Marie. Lester tells me you have given him the hurry up!
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