Tuesday 21 May 2013

Leaving for Cairns tomorrow

Well, we have finished all the preparation for our trip. We are on the plane tomorrow to Cairns. We are staying a few nights in Palm Cove whilst we wait for our boat. This time tomorrow night we'll be in the Palm Cove Surf Lifesaving Club drinking a XXXX or two, or maybe 3 :-)!!

Over the past few months we've sold or thrown out just about everything. We've sold our house (well a 2 bedroom unit), all our furniture and our car. Our lives now consist of about 15 boxes full of stuff, our boat and all the things on the boat, we are sure we've got too much on board!

We visited our boat yesterday for the last time before we see her in Cairns (She's a Chaparral 310 Cruiser, we bought her approx 18 months ago and have been learning all about boating in that time). She looked beautiful, she's been getting a lot of attention the past week with Engine maintenance, de-fouling, new water pump, macerator charcoal filter (she needed that, wow the smell when flushing the past few weeks is almost unbelievable!), polishing, etc. Thank you to Troy, Glen and the guys at National Marine Services for looking after her!


On the hard stand getting some love and attention!




2 comments:

  1. Hi guys, are you happy with the kayaks you have? If so where did you get them and what is the brand? Regards Peter

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    1. Hi Peter. Our Kayaks are great. Because we don't have a massive boat we only wanted small kayaks. Our ones tie down nicely on the bow or on the swim platform. We bought the "Riot Escape 9" kayaks from The Sydney Kayak Warehouse in Taren Point, Sydney. http://www.kayaksydneyaustralia.com/.
      So far we've spent a lot of time on them, looking at the reef around Orpheus Island, circumnavigating Fitzroy Island, used them to row from Dunk Island to Mission Beach and back to buy nore food, etc. Great little kayaks!!
      Hope this helps, Regards Darren

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