Medical Pause in Boating

 Wake up call... After having another heart attack, number 2. It is clear that life is short sitting in ones berth achieves nothing in completing ones dream or bucket list. The modern world contains too many pressures. Being trapped in a life of living to work, clearly working to sounds way better. Being confined by appointments, pay packets and the trend mill of life is counter productive. Wake up calls such as this, underlines to saying. "Cast of the lines, go simple, go small, go now". There could well come  time that you can't, then it is too late.

 Wired into computers and monitors

The hospital food was good, but not a patch of boat food. My wife Julie sitting behind me being cute.

                         
My eldest Daughter (Cassie) and her partner (Tom) visiting me in hospital

The Cyclone Waldo turned Tropical Super Cell

Cyclone Waldo turned Tropical Super Cell kept us busy for 3 days. Although here is Scarborough we were so so lucky to those in the southern end of Moreton Bay. VHF 16 & 63 were very busy with boats adrift, breaking moorings and being overwhelmed with the conditions., 

The Tropical Super Cell hung around for 3 days

The tides were so high it caused one to think that the marina walkways would lift up over the pylons.

The wind just blew and blew, and at time we sat at 10 degrees on our finger

            At time we were to record 52 knot winds through the marina

Lucinda Bay Revisited

This was what greeted us on arrival Looking south along Lucinda Bay

Sand Hills on the south western side of Moreton Island with pristine clear waters.

We were so lucky... A pod of dolphins just casually swam past us without a care.

So nice to be able to see such a sight

The was so clear one could see how their anchor and chain had set

Astig is currently at 27° 11.614 S and 153° 06.370 E

 

Astig on C3 at Scarborough QLD

 

Just another aspect looking back at C row Scarborugh  Qld

 

Lucinda Bay

Astig looks eerie... Just like a pirate ship in a move

S. V. Astig

On our way back doing 3 knots off a 6 knot wind

Goodonya and Astig anchored for the night in Lucinda Bay

Goodonya at anchor in Lucinda Bay

The girls below and the guys in the cockpit

The girls(the two Julies) below doing the galley thing

The two Julie busy below decks

The two Julie's bonding in the cockpit

Simon after catching a ray shark

Simon mending his like for another shot at fishing