Leg 1 Completed - We made it to Sydney (14th April 2013)

I forgot to mention that Broulee was officially our first spot for a swim and shower on the back of the boat which is always a bit of a treat!

Sunset at Jervis Bay

After departing Broulee Island bright and early the conditions were in our favour so we decided to continue on to Jervis Bay rather than having a stop over in Ulladulla. It makes it a pretty long day with about 58nm to be covered but we made it to one of our favourite anchorages at "Hole in the Wall" by 15:45 so not a bad run at all. So far we have seen and even fed lots of fish but so far the catch count is still at zero.  We are waiting for our crew, Graheme (aka Roger) to arrive to turn things around on the fish catching front.

We spent a nice day at Hole in the Wall and went for a great walk on the Murray Trail which takes you around the southern headland of Jervis Bay. 

Sally and Lil Sally off the Huskie Pub

As the weather is lovely in Jervis we decided on the morning of the 10th to head over to the main township of Huskisson and pull up a mooring to spend a few hours in a bit of civilisation.
We had a nice coffee and read the paper in the morning and then we were off the Huskie Pub for a spot of lunch - not a bad way to spend a sunny day in Jervis!
After lunch we are off to the anchorage in Callala Bay (where all the private boat moorings are).  Again a lovely anchorage for the night.

We were given a real treat on 11th at Callala with a dolphin display that went on for most of the morning,.  Having now seen three sides of Jervis Bay we figured we must spend a night on the east coast so we up anchor and head over to Binjindee Bay on the Beecroft Peninsula for our last night in Jervis.  On the way across the wildlife display continued with a bit of a penguin parade and next we spotted 3 hammer head sharks - as a result the swimming for the rest of the day was rather limited and pretty brief...  To finish off the wildlife spotting we even got to see three wallabies on the beach when we went for a stroll around to Honeymoon Bay

After exploring all sides of Jervis it is a very early start on Friday with the alarm going off at 4.30am.  The plan is to go to Wollongong however, if things are going well we will hopefully make it through to Port Hacking which ended up being the case.  It ended up being a very long day with 75NM covered but we ended up dropping our anchor in Gunnamatta Bay at around 17:00H.... just before the sun set.  We know we are getting close to Sydney now as we have planes flying over us every few minutes and are surrounded by house lights and have a ferry wandering past our stern on a regular basis.

One surprise we encountered in Port Hacking was seeing "Xanadu" anchored off Jibbon Beach (Xanadu was previously down at Eden for far too many years and is in included in the last editions of the Alan Lucas guide).  Doug promised last time when we saw him in March 2012 that he would be gone this year and was good to finally see him on his way north.

Arriving in Sydney

Another lovely morning on Saturday and we are on our final stretch to Sydney.  Naturally the water ways are going off as it is a calm sunny day on a weekend.  After a very pleasant motor up the coast and into the harbour we tied up at the CYCA at lunchtime.  The total for this leg of the trip is around 620NM.

We wandered over by ferry to Kirribilli on Saturday evening to meet up with Mark's old boss Rod and Jade for a spot of dinner at RSYS which was lovely and great to catch up with them again...  Must report that there were no Ranga's spotted!

We are now waiting at CYCA for a weather window to head out to Lord Howe.  There are a few jobs to do but in general we are pretty much ready to head off on the next leg of the adventure.