VISITING SAILERS, UTV BEACH PATROLS and DOLPHINS
Hi again
In the last post I mentioned an 86 year old yachtie who dropped into Croker Island with engine trouble.
Last weekend I invited him ashore for a meal (and a chat). What an interesting person!
As a 15 year old he left Norway and went to sea. He jumped ship in Melbourne as a young man. With a cheeky smile he said, ' you could do that in those days without getting locked up'. He headed off to inland Australia with a dream of being a ringer, which included working at Panda Pandi station near Birdsville. After some years of working in dry and dusty places he realise the he 'had the sea in his blood' so he moved back to the coast. After building a yacht in a back yard in Fremantle, WA, he worked at many remote mining sites around the coast. Somewhere in there he circumnavigated the globe in his yacht which included wintering in northern Norway, crossing the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Before Covid came upon us he was planning another circumnavigation which was to include passing Cape Horn, which can be a particularly dangerous stretch of water. This plan is still to be ticked off.
Below he is in his tender in Mission Bay.
Below he returns to his yacht with a tropical storm in the background. After months of largely cloudless skies during the dry season, the skies recently are much more interesting.
Below I have included four short videos taken while involved in our ranger work. The first two are taken from one of our UTV buggies. Firstly, travelling down to, and along a remote beach at low tide.
Comments
As usual, your blog is very interesting. Makes me somewhat jealous of your lifestyle out of suburbia .I’m sure that the temperatures and humidity would probably scare me. God’s richest blessings on you as you toil away in paradise.
Kent