Showing posts with label Iluka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iluka. 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, 4 January 2015

Up the Mighty Clarence


 On Boxing Day, we headed 15 nautical miles up the Clarence River on a Huck Finn style adventure. The Clarence is navigable for about 100km inland to Grafton, but this involves getting under the Harwood Bridge which, with only 8.5m clearance, is too low for our 19m high mast to pass under.
Have we got enough clearance, Clarence?