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Published: March 17th 2008
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15 March 2008
When we woke up this morning, after a very comfortable night's sleep, we had breakfast on the verandah watching the birds. It was really beautiful. We never imagined that they lived in such a wonderfully isolated spot. It was lovely to be off the tourist trail, out of the traffic, away from all the city pollution and able to enjoy the peace and quiet in their gorgeous family home. The house must have been a real labour of love and the results are stunning. John told us about building the house which took 7 years and then building the boat which took 5 years. This was going to be our treat for today as we are going out for a sail!!
They have just taken the boat on a maiden voyage up the coast to the north as far as Port Dennison. They had hoped to go across to the Abrolis Islands but the weather was not suitable. The islands are way out in the Indian Ocean and have no provisions there so you have to take all you need with you and the winds can be very strong so getting stuck out there is a possibility if
you don't study the weather carefully. The boat passed it's maiden voyage and they are planning all sorts of other exciting trips as well as building another boat with Sandra's son Kit.
We went down to the boat harbour at Two Rocks where the boat is moored. They are very lucky to have got a mooring as there is a waiting list and down at Fremantle boats are stacked in rows and you have to hire a lifter everytime you want to get your boat in the water.
Hey Lubber is a lovely boat. It is an 11 metre catamaran and there are two bedrooms and a kitchen and 2 showers and toilets. It has twin hulls with two outboard motors and two electric ones. It also has sails.
We went out of the harbour under sail but there was not quite enough wind to get out to the reef so we motored sailed for about half an hour and covered about 5 kms to the reef to do some fishing. We caught break sea cod, pink rass, a small cod and, wait for it ,Dinah caught a reef shark!!!!!, Yes a shark. It was about two feet long but
still had very sharp teeth and John was a bit worried about us landing it on the deck of the boat. We did release the shark back to the water, after we had got a few pictures of it, of course.
We were out at sea for about 5 hours and although there was a bit of a swell none of us were sea sick. It was very pleasant bobbing about in the sun with a slight sea breeze, casting the lines out until we had used up all the bait.
We motored slowly back to the harbour and enjoyed a doze in the evening sun with a cold beer and a packet of chips. About 7.00 we went to the small restaurant above the harbour and had an excellent meal, as we hadn't caught our supper, while the sun went down.
We drove home and forced ourselves to do the diary although we were really tired. Tomorrow is Bob's big birthday and we are looking forward to seeing the whole extended Jillard family.
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Roger and Wendy
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Happy birthday Bob and welcome to the over 65s club. We've really enjoyed the blog so far and been most impressed with the time you must have spent compiling it. Have a safe trip home.