Showing posts with label Coffs Harbour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coffs Harbour. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Iluka to Port Stephens

It has now been twelve months since we sold and packed up our house in Brisbane and moved onto Arjuna. Over recent weeks many miles of slogging south have brought our voyage close to completion, but the adventure is not quite over yet.
 
On Tuesday 30th December, we headed off from Iluka at the very crack of dawn, so we could cross the Clarence river bar at high tide. Along this section of coast, it's all about getting across river bars at the right time and in the right conditions.


Life jackets are compulsory when crossing river bars.

Sunday, 9 March 2014

Inconceivable

Our next hop up the coast was another mighty day's jump of 68 (or more depending on whether you take the northern route or the slightly longer northern route) nautical miles into another predicted nor'easter. Our destination was Coffs Harbour. North of Port Macquarie there was only one real other possible anchorage at Trial Bay but with a nor'easter there would be no shelter from the wind or the swell.