Phil and Chris

Phil and Chris

Sunday 14 July 2013

The leg to Dampier

 Today we experimented with a new way of preparing the blog post.
These photos are from Serrurier Island, where we had a picnic on the beach and then go through our cruising over to Dampier.  We had a good range of conditions...one day some nice down wind sailing where we put on the pole, and another day we were even able to fly our spinnaker.
   
Another day we saw the demise of another bottle of Mount Gay Rum.  Chris hardly shares any of that with Phil or I.  Below is a photo of the three of us enjoying happy hour on Basanti.  We stopped at Onslow and had Sunday Roast with Jerry and Jean at the pub.

  
We all behaved ourselves so as not to be banned.
   
Along the way Phil fished and caught a few mackerel, yum, and did some splicing jobs.  Never a lack of things to do on the boat.
We passed a big dredging and works area not far from Onslow, and Chris has the job of filleting fish.
  

Closer to Dampier are all the iron ore and salt ships. 
  

We are all pleased with the reception in Dampier...friendly sailing club with showers and laundry facilities and even a nice dinghy dock.  The weather is warm and we look forward to exploring a few more islands and bays before heading to Indonesia.
  

Saturday 6 July 2013

Beyond the North West Cape

We've finally sailed past the North West Cape.  Fifty hours of sailing took us from Carnarvon north and around the cape to Serrurier Island, a small island just north east of Exmouth.  We saw a few whales but as soon as a camera is at hand, the whales disappear, however we managed to catch two tuna during the trip.

Three days at anchor in the bay at Serrurier was pleasant and we enjoyed a bit of time ashore exploring and looking for turtles.  Yesterday we sailed over to Onslow and are currently anchored just off the pub.  It is Sunday, so we will meet the Tigress Too crew for Sunday roast dinner around lunch time.

En route to Onslow we sailed through a busy dredging operation and an oil and gas mining operation.  Our AIS beeps all the time now with the proximity to oil rigs and workboats up here.

Happy 4th of July for while we were out sailing.