Photos from previous days

Feeling like a very bad Aunty and Uncle -we forgot to say Happy Birthday to Steven on 3 December
Hope you had a wonderful day. And in case we are not back before you and Bree leave, have a fabulous trip to Canada - enjoy. Love Janette & Craig xxx

Happy 50th Birthday Richelle. Hope you have a wonderful night out with the girls tonight. Sorry I can't be there to help you celebrate. Love Janette & Craig xxx

I don't know why meteorologists bother giving us weather forecasts - they are so often completely wrong! Yesterday, what should have been a strong (but not too strong) easterly turned out to be a strong (25+) SW, which meant that we were once again punching into it under motor, and the sea was again washing machine like. I spent several hours sitting in the inside helm chair listening to Mamma Mia on headphones and aparantly singing badly! By late afternoon the wind had shifted around a little more to the south so we were able to turn the motor off and sail. We had pies for lunch and I managed to heat up the beef stroganoff that I had prepared the day before and some pasta for dinner, without it ending up on the floor in the very bumpy conditions! We sailed through the night on main only, then at around 4:30 am the boys put the jib up which meant our speed increased to 6-8 knots. We are now still sailing with jib and main with a nice 15 knot southerly breeze, and the sea has calmed a little, so a much more pleasant day (so far).

Position 0800 Friday 5 December

We are on our way out of Esperance Bay, not much breeze so are motoring for now. Had a lovely dinner at the Pier Hotel last night and an OK nights sleep tied up to the Yacht Club jetty.
Didn't end up getting fuel at Bandy Creek, the entrance to the marina was looking a little shallow to us so decided not to risk bumping the bottom! We are not going to call into Albany, as we did enough provision shopping in Esperance to get us home and the fuel was more "to be sure to be sure", figure that we could motor the rest of the way to Fremantle on the fuel we have, and hopefully we wont have too, as we would like to sail some of it!!
So, we really are on the homeward stretch - although I wont quite believe that until we have turned the corner at Cape Leeuwin.
xxx

A "Where's Wally" style challenge!

I know we have more time on our hands than the rest of you, but we thought we would give you something to do in your "spare" time. The photos above have Maneki cat hiding somewhere - can anyone find him?