Merry Christmas from the Arjunauts!

Christmas lights in Brisbane after a slap-up feast in town to celebrate the end of school year.

Merry Christmas!

Since our last update some time ago, we find ourselves in Yamba on the New South Wales north coast, watching the trawlers heading out of the Clarence en masse each evening on the rising tide to bring in the Christmas seafood haul.

 

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . .

 So many milestones and miles covered since Yeppoon:

 

We recrossed the Tropic of Capricorn and the Wide Bay Bar.

 

We finished our year of distance education, arriving in Brisbane just in time for the last week of school and to meet and thank the amazing teachers who have supported us all year at Brisbane School of Distance Education.

Brisbane CBD finally on the horizon - Brisbanites thought it couldn't get any worse after G20, but are about to be overrun by pirates.

Arjuna had a haul out and antifoul in Brisbane.

There is something a little disconcerting about seeing your home and all its contents suspended on a travel lift.

 We took on a new crew member in Brisbane for the voyage to Sydney.

Arjuna's salty dog

Sleeping off a tough day at the beach.

We finally left Queensland and sailed into New South Wales.

Moreton Bay to Southport: is this is what you get when you cross a caravan with a boat? Longtime readers will be pleased to hear we didn't run aground this time. We took Main Passage instead of Canaipa.

We reached the most easterly point of our journey. Now we no longer have to fight the south easterlies, although with the arrival of summer we have been getting some nice nor'easters to help out.

Rounding Cape Byron
 

We have the tree and the Christmas lights up and are hoping that Santa will somehow track us down.

 

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone, we are off to get some of those prawns.

Arjuna's fantastical fishing lure Christmas tree with a map for Santa.