Category Archives: 2020 December Brisbane
Fun with Lachlan
The storm pasts a week ago now. The river is almost back to its normal height.
The past few days we have had Lachlan staying with us. We went to Southbank and swam. We went and played Mini Golf (Put Put) in the rain and played lots of Monopoly games. Lachlan is very lucky at this game creaming us both every time. Yesterday we took him back home.
We wore him out 
Sunny one day Stormy the next
Those of you in OZ or NZ would have seen the weather reports. Last week sunny with temperatures of 37 degrees and over. This week another storm cell has hit Brisbane. 100km winds 7m waves hitting the coast. We are in the river which is missing most of it, but still getting 75km wind gusts.
As we knew the storm was coming, we hauled anchor and re-anchored another 15m into the middle of the river. we couldn’t venture any further as we were encroaching on the ferries path.
The wind is now coming from the south and pushing us towards the rock wall. This is when we put faith in our anchor as the wind has pushed us to about 25m from shore.
Needless to say we didn’t get much sleep last night and Sue has me still sat in the cockpit on look out. I should have taken the photo at dawn when the water was over the river bank. Unfortunately it doesn’t show how much it was blowing. In the background is our friends ground floor apartment. I think they may have had a restless night as well.
Brisbane River
Yes we are back in the Brisbane river. Oh how we missed the sounds of the sirens, loud motorbikes and ferries constantly passing us. Even the planes are back overhead.
We managed to anchor in the same spot we were in before going to the Whitsundays. We’ve been back almost two weeks and in those two weeks we have had dinner with our friends/neighbours who we have anchored outside their apartment. We caught up with the crew who sailed with us from Brisbane to Mackay. They introduced us to other friends of theirs who live in Brisbane. We will catch up with them again soon.
The rest of the time we have been doing laundry, cleaning and some boat maintenance. The dinghy outboard started playing up so we had to take it for a service. That was a mission in itself.
We had to row up river a bit then put the motor on a hand cart and drag it 2 or 3km to leave it to be serviced then go pick it up the next day. Then three days later take it back because it was still playing up.
There is still lots of maintenance to do on the boat and we have to catch up with Ben, Amie and Lachlan and others, so we will have plenty to do over the next few months.
