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Hi Mom, A day before departing I found crew and have set sail from Darwin for West Timor (not East Timor with internal strife from the news). We were able to leave earlier than expected and now can stop in Timor, Komodo Island (where live the fabled Komodo Dragons), and Lombok Island before meeting Amanda in Bali. It will be a fast trip though, no time to settle in anywhere, just enough for som... [read more]

Hi mom, All's well on board, we arrived in the Komodo and Rinka Island group, nice easy downwind sail for 2 days. Nothing eventful on the passage aside from nocturnal visitors. A few nights ago while underway, Tess was in the cockpit when I came up to relieve her watch, and I must have caught her in a riveting part of her novel. I spoke very softly not to startle her, yet I did and we were c... [read more]

Hi mom, We arrived Kupang (East Timor) and once again after these last many months have entered the domain of "have's and have nots" and corrupt bureaucracy. Indonesia is foremost very poor with a great disproportion between the wealthy and not so wealthy, and it is the first country where I have had to have a fully processes visa, cruising permit and ships papers before arriving. I had been wa... [read more]

An email to friends, Hi Everyone! Am once again underway, settled into serene downwind sailing solo. As I had mentioned with 10 extra hours a day for myself, the reading, sailing and bongos leave much time to contemplate. Sailing west atop Northern Australia's flat barren coastline of wind worn broken rock, red bauxite infused dirt, and the occasional scrub gum tree shading lifeless tufts... [read more]

Hi Mom Well my weather window is shut tight with a storm advisory, so looks like a few more days trapped in the bauxite strip mining town of Gove. Like a miniature Odessa where the most common pick up line is "Hey babe, NICE TOOTH!" Gove resides in a part of Oz that looks like west Texas also; scrubby, dusty, and for all purposes uneventful. The 20 or so cruisers in the anchorage were all talki... [read more]

Hi Mom Just a quick email to say I made it and arrived safely across the Gulf of Carpentaria and am anchored with about 30 sailboats in a town called Gove. It was a great passage, very few ships to dodge, good winds on the beam and hardly a sail change for the entire 350 miles. It was weird though as the water in this gulf, 1/3 the size that of Gulf of Mexico, is less than 200 feet deep. There ... [read more]

Hi Mom, All’s well and I’m sailing northbound again, this time without crew. The winds are unseasonably light, balmy days, and the area I'm sailing is protected from the Coral Sea swell by a much denser portion of the Great Barrier Reef. From the south, the GBR’s widest distance off shore is in Gladstone where I began was some 50 miles. It has now narrowed to about 15 miles, which is where I'm ... [read more]

Hi mom! Arrived Port Douglas which is ‘the end of the road’ quite literally. 3ooo miles of east coast Australia has beautiful highways, from the very southern tip near Tasmania north to here where the road ends and the real Outback begins. Land travel north of Port Douglas is nothing but corrugated dirt roads. There’s still some 600 miles from Cape York, the northernmost tip of Oz, much of it i... [read more]

Hi mom, An ‘All's well’. Made it “Over the top” of Oz, the northern tip of Australia called Cape York & through the Torres Strait. As I began this email the famed peninsular tip is just astern one mile and it was like sailing through a window into the Austral Asia arid-tropics. The southeast trade winds monopolize the coastline south with its Antarctic chill blowing unhindered up the Gold Co... [read more]

Hi Mom, As summer is obviously sweltering by now back home, here in Oz it's beginning winter, the equivalent of November in Texas. Temps are in the low 70's at night and 80's during the day and the air crisply refreshing after the time trekking outback. Within the month the Gypsy Soul will be far north in the tropics again but for now I’m just happily sweat-free. Underway once again with yet... [read more]

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