Good spot

Dockside is a well-known place for weddings and, from time to time, these ceremonies are a little overboard (at least for me who prefers simple) having private fireworks on the river. But hey, I don’t complain and we all love this special extra as we are in prime position to view these fireworks (2 in 3 weeks).

Deux semaines a souffler

Comme le veut la tradition du dimanche soir c’est avec des crepes que nous celebrons la fin des vacances de Paques.

Le temps est passe doucement ces deux dernieres semaines et les enfants ont bien souffle. Un programme peu charge avec :

- un peu de nature

Avec les fortes pluies d’il y a quelques semaines, la foret a repris des habits de printemps et eclate de verts et de fraicheur.

- un peu de culture

La Galerie d’Art Moderne de Brisbane a ressorti quelques expos bien sympatiques dont celle de Yayoi Kusama (apparement l’une expositions les plus visitees au monde). Comme les autres, nous sommes alles coller nos petits pois, en essayant d’etre originaux et differents.

- un peu – ou plutot beaucoup- de lecture

Deux voyages a la bibliotheque et quelques livres electroniques telecharges ont permis a nos livrophages de s’evader de nombreuses heures dans des aventures extraordinaires, matin, midi et soir.

Antoine, un voisin presque comme les autres

Depuis deux semaines, nous avons un voisin francais bien sympa et dont la notoriete n'est plus a prouver. Pour les plaisanciers et voyageurs au long cours, son cata en alu jaune, Banana Split, est tout aussi fameux que son proprietaire (la photo ci-dessous ne montre ici que le bateau)

Il ne faut pas lui demander s’il est alle se faire couper les cheveux ou ennoncer d’autres elucubrations car depuis 50 ans il en a marre qu’on lui pose ces memes questions. Nos petites discussions de ponton furent, ma foi, toutes naturelles et bien normales, comme avec n’importe quel marin.  

Easter week-end on the water

The weather forecast wasn’t looking good: lots of rain and thunderstorms – not great when you are at anchor. So we stayed at the dock on Friday. We went to the Gallery of Modern Art …only to find out that Good Friday was one of the two days in the year when it was closed. We had a little shower or two but no real bad weather. So Saturday morning, even if the forecast wasn’t looking better, we decided to throw the lines.

The wind was, off course, from the wrong direction but Clea enjoyed steering Merlin across the bay.

We anchored in front of our favourite dunes.

As soon as the anchor was down, we jumped in the water (still 26 degrees). It felt so good to be swimming and jumping in the sea again.

Some very impatient kids came to wake us up early on Sunday morning as they wanted to start their eggs hunt.

Most were found (we think there are still one or two hidden somewhere) and quickly eaten for breakfast.

We spent the rest of the morning eliminating these extra calories going up and down the big dunes. In fact, we bought a new boogie board few weeks ago and were eager to try it … on the sand dunes! Wow, this one is really fast! We had loads of fun sliding down these dunes.

The day went with more fun in the water, few games and lots of reading. The sky was still blue and the sun was out.

However, Sunday night was quite bumpy due to the wind being from the wrong direction (again). It wasn’t enough to scare us away so we stayed till Monday afternoon and enjoyed a little more sliding down the sand dunes, swimming, even diving for Greg, Clea and Felix and having fun all together.

Too soon we were back towards the Brisbane river, sails up this time and a roast lamb in the oven. Still no rain and thunderstorms but pink cheeks, sand between our toes and smiles on our face.  We all had such a great week-end ignoring the weather forecast.