Hello family and friends sorry for not posting earlier, but here goes we didn't leave to cross the gulf till Wednesday as the weather was crap and to be honest we wish we had waited as the crossing was very lumpy we had at times a  2m swell and with all sail up we averaged 5.5 kts. We arrived at Stansbury at 3.06 pm and that night we got hit with a thunder storm quite eerie thinking are we going to be hit by lightening ! but we were ok had some good gusts of wind though

Stansbury anchorage 

Thursday 27-3-2014

We are now motoring towards Edithburgh its 9.30am and having just passed the Oyster bay spit pole we are alarmed to see that the oyster lease passes past the spit pole by about 200m I wouldn't like to be coming into here at night from the south.As is usual with us and sailing we had a head wind the entire trip so we motored  the whole way,we arrived at 1.50 pm and picked up a RSAYS mooring ........nice.Later on we put the dingy down and had a wander around Edithburgh and restocked with only essential items  like farmers union iced coffee  !,after returning to tri-n-escape we fished and the squid jag was only in the water for 30 seconds before we had 3 squid fighting for it ,we also caught some tommies and a few small leather jackets.

Edithburgh anchorage

Today Friday we have just looked at the weather and in 2 days time there will be a 25kt wind change to the S/E which will put us on a lee shore some where around Stenhouse Bay, so what we have decided to do is we will go to Troubridge Island and anchor there for a few days till we can make the crossing to Wedge Island !  well that's it for now hope all is well with everyone take care Andy &Tina