Following our Great Ocean Road trip (post to come) and prior to heading up to Uluru, we had a few days exploring Melbourne. I was completely absorbed in a book by Rob Mundle – Flinders. Mundle writes fantastic historical and nautical books, and his book about Flinders is no exception. This incredible man followed in the footsteps of…
I feel like I have been a bit misleading to my readers in my previous posts about Uluru, Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon… In those posts I showed beautiful pictures of the amazing scenery, punctuated every so often with our smiling faces. In reality, it was more like this…
After a great day exploring Uluru, we were ready to adventure further afield. About 50km in the distance, still in the same National Park is Kata Tjuta – the Olgas. This literally means ‘many heads’ and that is exactly what they look like – similar kind of rock to Uluru, just a few more of…
After the three hour drive from Kings Canyon we arrived back where we had flown in to the day before – Yulara which is the little resort town servicing Uluru Ayers Rock. The whole town, the accommodation, and many of the tours are all owed by one company – Voyages Indigenous Tourism. It is about…
Andrew’s nose was pressed up against the window as we flew over thousands of miles of red desert towards the heart of Australia. You can clearly see where ancient rivers once flowed over this now dry land. The vast flatness of the land is suddenly punctuated with an enormous red rock – Uluru.
Many of you will have seen my posts relating to the Ocean Yachtmaster course I am doing. Coastguard Boating Education is the NZ equivalent to the British RYA courses. I have already done many of their courses and found them really useful and interesting. About five years ago I purchased the Ocean Yachtmaster home study…
I remember my lovely Nana used to say to me “You learn something every day.” Well – here is your something for today! That is unless you know everything there is to know about anodes already? And if you don’t even know what an anode is, well – today is your lucky day! You are…
So, you are sailing off to a lovely tropical island… great! But what are you going to eat on the trip? Especially when you can’t just nip down to the supermarket and grab some extra supplies – (Not that I do that anyway – I hate supermarket shopping – the un-steerable trolleys, the dawdling people,…
There seem to be lots of songs about sailing and or the sea. I think this is clearly just another reason why sailing is so fantastic. I mean, you don’t hear people singing songs about jet-skiing now do you? Here are some of my favourite sailing songs. You can click on the Apple music icon…
Knowing how much I love travelling and having adventures, my fabulous friends all chipped in and bought me a weekend at a flash resort on the West Coast of the South Island for my 40th birthday party. Last weekend we finally found a free weekend to squeeze in a trip and stay at this amazing…
Astrolabe Sailing 