We’ve been sailing past those green hills for hundreds of miles, now we’re keen to see a bit of the hinterland. Escapade is on a quiet river mooring upstream from Cairns and we have hit the open road in a whacking great land yacht. Our circuit of the sunlit uplands took us out to waterfall […]
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Above and Beyond
Chasing waterfalls After a windy grey start at 6am we sailed in to Zoe Bay a bit overpowered, making our usual entrance at 15kts with spray flying up through the trampolines. Then in the lee of the headland all was calm, jib rolled, main dropped, the sun came out and we anchored in 2m of […]
The Land of Plenty
Good Queensland Casual We are enjoying an old copy of ‘100 Magic Miles’, the classic sailor’s guide to the Whitsundays, first published 1985. Ours is the fifth edition from 1997, found in a Mackay Op Shop by our new friends Michael and Shylie. It’s full of great pilotage information, but some of the advice seems […]
Nouvelle Calédonie
02.11.2023 Another new country already! Not really Escapade style to be moving so fast. But here are the red hills and pine clad shores of New Caledonia. Our passage planning worked out perfectly and we arrived at the entrance to the Havannah Pass at 6am with the sun rising and the tide flushing us in. […]
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