Gone Cruising

Christmas Day was spent opening presents and a get together with Azure, Retour and Dolphin III. We took our eats into the Tamar Yacht Club Boat shed and had a fantastic afternoon, eating, drinking, talking eventually sneaking away to have the obligitory siesta in the late afternoon. We talked to the family and Danielle and Chris via mobile phone-miss them all-Christmas brings the family to the fore.

Boxing Day saw Cockatoo II leave Launceston and head up the Tamar River on high tide, anchoring before the Batman Bridge in Spring Bay (opposite side of river to Deviot). A night spent in this ideallic spot before heading back to West Arm just off Beauty Point. The winds picking up, we are tucked away as there are strong winds expected for the next few days.

Tamara cooked a sticky toffee pudding (yum), Samantha had cooked some scones a couple of days before. They are fully rested and looking for things to do. Tamara has checked her TEE Year 12 scores and has achieved a score of 73.5-well done Tamara-she can get into Curtin University with this score. Samantha has also passed all her university units. Congratulations.

Arriving in West Arm, we no longer had this lovely bay to ourselves-with the Christmas period there were about five other boats sharing it with us. Listening to the VHF we hear that Degrees of Freedom (Mike and Nicky Reynolds) were at the mouth of the river. They expect to catch up with us this evening at West Arm. It will be good to see them, they left Perth just before us one year ago-they have sailed from Melbourne over to Tasmania for their break.