Whimsey's new mooring

As we are planning to stick around Sydney for a while we have secured a mooring spot to keep the old girl safe. We have had a series of strong westerlies that made us a bit nervous when she was at anchor and we were at work. Now we have two tons of concrete and a spectacular view!

Colm, the kayak, Sydney

Happy St Patricks Day

Managed to get Whimsey onto a dock practically outside our new home for St Patrick's Day. Weather was changeable but had a lovely day all the same with friends and family over in the afternoon. Tried the Rocks in the evening, but so did everyone else so we gave up on the queues and headed into the city. Sunday was the big parade, lots of fun and floats. Ready for a bit of a rest now.

New Year 2012

Wishing all our family and friends a very jolly, peaceful and successful 2012.

Sean's next relocation project

Visiting Whimsey and found that there are new tenants.

Mum, dad and the relos were very cross with us when we came on board but sadly we need to relocate them as we are going up on the hard next week.

Time to antifoul, replace zincs and get an insurance survey. Meanwhile the crew are landlubbing.

Christmas in August in Marrickville

We had a lovely get together to celebrate Erin's half century and Christmas in August. Great friends came together to enjoy mulled wine, turkey, veggie sausage rolls and a juice bar.

Back in Sydney

Busy, busy, busy!!! We arrived back in Sydney on the 8th of March and have not stopped for breath since.

We spent a couple of days in Quarantine Bay, dinghied ashore to Manly and walked to get back our land legs. Then over the harbour to Glebe and the fish markets. It was a murky rainy day but through the rain we spotted old friends "The Road". As we hadn't seen the boat since 2001 in Curacao we had our fingers crossed and sure enough it was still our old friends Shirley and Taff and Rubbish the parrot.

The St Patrick's Day photos will follow.