Arrived in Australia!

We have just arrived in Bundaberg, Australia. The passage from Noumea took 6 days. There were 2 days of very light winds and the rest was nice comfortable sailing. The night before we arrrived we watched a lightening storm over the horizon. That was close enough thank you!

People have asked what sort of things do we do on passage. If the weather is fine and the sea flat the children do school work. If not we read, watch DVD's, play on Nintedo's, read, fish (no luck since Fiji), do cooking, eat, do dishes, spot sea life and identify them (saw Brown Boobies and our first Pelican today), read, keep a look out and try to keep comfortable. Pretty much the same sorts of things we did when we sailed around the coast of NZ.

This trip was a very nice trip but as Hamsih said it seemed to go on forever - he was beginning to think Oz was a myth. But he was the first to see it. Now we are here and when the welcome party of thunder and lightening let up (thank goodness it started after we arrived) we are keen to go exploring. Stay tuned for some photos.