Ireland

For family reasons we are heading to Ireland for January.

Christmas in Sydney

We have flown to Sydney to spend Christmas and New Year with our Whanau (family and friends). Seans cousin and neighbour Joanne is backpacking in Auz and we met up at the Rocks. This christmas tree is made out of chairs given by the community.

Urangan King Tides

We were looking for a safe harbour for Whimsey while we headed south to Sydney for Christmas and New Year. This is our view taken at the lowest and highest tides of the year.

Bundeburg in November

Catching up on news. We headed to Bundeburg in November to meet up with some of the Bayswater crowd. Blue Heron (in the photo), Enigma and Whisper were all there - it was lovely to catch up with old friends. We also got to see roos in the wild for the first time.

Mission Beach Cassowary

We left Whimsey in Bowen and travelled on the bus to Mission Beach to visit Mike and Tara - formerly on Catalpa - in their own patch of rainforest Eden. It was a packed weekend with Cassowary families wandering up the drive, leeches in the garden and snakes in the wall!! Great to catch up with Mike, Tara and Tia all doing very well and thriving on land.

Airlie Beach

We've been here in Airlie for about 6 weeks on and off - out to the Whitsundays and then back to provision and check out the rum bar. Someone has to do it!!

Had a lovely week when Erin's family came up to visit - and brought Erin's neice who was visiting Auz from England. A week in Airlie goes very quickly.

Promise to update more often and to load some photos soon.

Sunset on Sean's 40s

Here we are in Surfers Paradise enjoying a Guiness on Seans 50th birthday.

The shirt was a gift from Erin's mum - made by her!