...well, south of the Equator it is. In England, as the poet Timothy Shy trilled. "Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing goddamn!"
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Alec's blog follows him preparing his home-built boat, a Flint dinghy designed by Ross Lillistone, and plots his course up the landward side of Fraser Island, a national park on the coast of Queensland, to Wathumba Creek.
This is my type of cruising. Alec plans to float with tide and wind, do a bit of fishing and have a relaxing time generally.
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The latest operation has been to prepare the oars, which are standard chandlery oars improved by shaving so they balance better and give a nice bit of spring, but are still strong enough to use for the inevitable fending-off.
Alec leaves next month, when I suspect we in the frozen north will be fretting indoors, cursing the weather.
(Picture of Wathumba Creek at top by JWarnes on Panoramio)
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