I’ve been based in Australia on and off since 2003. I met and married Bronwyn here, we became citizens and we’ve bought some property.
We like Australia because it is beautiful, fun, prosperous and safe. Another bonus is that it makes a great launching platform from which to travel to a wealth of island countries in the Pacific, not to mention Asia and even Antarctica.
Blogs from Oceania:
- Silver Fern in Bathurst Harbour
- Silver Fern to Port Davey
- Silver Fern to Deephole Bay
- Silver Fern from Hobart to Quarantine Bay
- The Driveway Junction
- Fixing the little things
- Draining the Creek Crossing
- Hiking the Three Capes Track – Day Four
- Hiking the Three Capes Track – Day Three
- Hiking the Three Capes Track – Day Two
- Hiking the Three Capes Track – Day One
- The Little Pump that Didn’t
- Eye Splice
- Hiking to Cathedral Rock
- Oil in the Bilges
- New acrylic windows for the yacht
- Surf Lessons
- Colquhoun Mountain Bike Trail
- Gravity Mountain Biking
- The History of our Snook 26
- The Pocket Cruiser
- Hiking the Organ Pipes Track
- Irrigation Irritation
- South Bruny Island Cruise
- What’s happening in the forest?
- In the Flesh
- Moving the house!
- Substantially Commenced
- Where is our Permit to Build?
- The Dreaded Decor Sheet
- We submit the plans
- Plan B for Tasmania
- Shall we build a bespoke house?
- Bulldozing a Road
- Canberra to Launceston – Road trip to escape the bush fires
- Where is Marius?
- Erakor Island, Vanuatu
- Exploring Éfaté with Marius
- Shall we build a prefabricated house?
- Shall we build a round house?
- I am an Owner-Builder
- Where should we build our house?
- Beach bums in Fiji
- St Arnaud, the town with no beer
- Crossing the Nullarbor
- A night in Norseman
- Golden Pipeline to Kalgoorlie
- Hailstorm in Perth
- Pindimara costs
- Monsoon Goodbyes
- A Postie in Perth
- Life on land
- Penniless in Perth
- The Darwin Build-Up
- Darwin
- The tides of Beagle Gulf
- Decisions at Gordon Bay
- Musings in Milikapiti
- Snake Bay
- Victoria, an abandoned settlement
- Epiphany at Black Point
- Across the Arafura Sea
- The Hole in the Wall
- Gove and Nhulunbuy
- Across the Gulf of Carpentaria
- The Katadyn Makes Water
- Weipa
- Into the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Thursday Island
- Horn Island
- Rounding Cape York
- Big Fish
- Lizard Island
- Entering the Great Barrier Reef
- The Low Islets
- Cairns
- Slow Boat to Cairns
- Hinchinbrook Island
- The Palm Group millpond
- We like Townsville
- Magnetic Island
- Breakwater Marina
- Cape Bowling Green
- Gales at Cape Upstart
- Orange Bloom
- Some New Tactics
- Dragging Anchor: A Hard Day’s Night
- Bowen
- Hamilton Island
- Completing the Whitsunday Circuit
- Mikayla sails us to Lindeman Island
- Whitehaven Beach
- Cid Harbour
- A Tirade Against Mooring Buoys
- Lindeman Island
- Goldsmith Island
- Mackay
- Our first fish
- Middle Percy Island
- An island of our own
- Keppel Islands to Percy Islands
- Gladstone to Great Keppel Island
- Gladstone
- Gladstone Marina
- Kalgoorlie
- Pancake Creek
- Bustard Head and Pancake Creek
- Bundaberg
- Across Hervey Bay to Bundaberg
- North White Cliffs, Fraser Island
- Garrys Anchorage
- Mad Mile at Wide Bay Bar
- Escape from Mooloolaba
- The Natives are Restless
- After the Deluge
- Mooloolaba
- Escape from Moreton Bay
- Mud Island
- Urban Life
- Brisbane
- Sand surfing on Moreton Island
- Running Blind
- Having a Swell Time
- Surfers Paradise
- Arrival at Queensland’s Gold Coast
- Escape from Iluka
- Hello John, Got A New Motor?
- Still here!
- Gales, Water and Wine at Iluka
- Waiting at Iluka
- The Solitary Islands
- Hat Head to Coffs Harbour
- Escape from Camden Haven
- The Mountain
- Sojourn in Laurieton
- Arrival at Camden Haven
- Port Stephens to Camden Haven
- An evening with Evie
- Fame Cove
- A Magical Interlude
- Thinking about the Future
- Salamander Bay: The morning fish fry
- Pittwater to Port Stephens
- We’re off, you know
- Almost…
- Free! Free! Free!
- Two weeks to go
- Feel the Power!
- Beating the boundaries
- Sea trials and the Sydney to Hobart
- Where’s the money?
- We buy a Ute
- We bought a forest
- Night Watch
- Steeling Up
- Going Coastal
- Balloon over Canberra
- Looking for a forest
- First Maintenance
- The Floating Gourmets
- The Tale of the Zodiac
- Problems with the Propeller
- Our first Antifoul
- Fitting Out
- Crocodiles at Yellow Water
- Kakadu’s Wet begins
- Darwin, and the road to Kakadu
- Margaret River
- Climbing the Karri Trees of WA
- Going for Survey
- Hunting for a Yacht
- Princely Problems in Tonga
- Mala Island, Tonga
- Savai’i, Samoa
- Sea Kayaks to Nu’utele
- Apia, Samoa
- Pumpkin Festival
- Kosciuzco Dawn
- Climbing the Franz Josef Glacier
- Rotorua
- Lake Wakatipu
- The Awesome Foursome
- In the Beginning
- Tasmania: A tale of three corners
- Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Narooma
- Mungo Desert
- Benighted at Kalang Falls
- Parachute into Canberra
- Phillip Island
- Overland to Eden
- Canberra