After much tossing and turning during the night while both of us lay in our bunk wondering what was about to unfold on the 8-9 hour trip to Wollongong, we left our secure anchorage in Jervis Bay at 0600hrs and headed off into the unknown..
We’d checked and double checked Buoy Weather and Coastal Waters forecasts. The winds were meant to be 8-10 kts which was a little less than we would have liked, the waves were meant to be 2.5- 3.0m which was a little more than we would have liked (but they were 12 seconds apart so, you can win some!!) I’d prepared a thermos and the bread rolls I’d baked the day before. Mike decided these would also double as ammunition if the guys at H.M.A.S.Creswell began firing at us as we passed. (cheek they weren’t that hard !!).
We nosed our way out between the headlands and followed the same course we’d taken 2 days previously. This time it was much less lumpy and the decision was made by us and Sentosa to ‘go for it’.
Gunnery practice was not on that day, so we ended up spending a pleasant day eating and drinking our way past Kiama, Port Kembla and into
It’s a picturesque little harbour: ‘little’ being the optimum word. Unfortunately because it is so compact we are compelled to raft up next to the local charter fishing boats whose habit it is to take the paying public out at the extremely unsocial hour of 0530. Naturally we have to get up and move our boats or be towed along side to the deep seas for a day of fishing!!!
The entrance to the harbour... scary!
Our plan is to leave tomorrow (at 0530hrs of course!) and make our way to
We’ve been told and judging by articles read, there seem to be a few good anchorages in and around
