We spent the last night in the Hawkesbury river at Refuge bay, an iconic spot with a huge number of mooring buoys, waterfall, and wilderness all around. Being mid winter, the place was almost completely empty. Nice and quiet.
We left our mooring well before dawn for the short trip north along the coast to Newcastle – an urban stop to see Marc, Rachel and their boys for a few days.
Still a fair bit of preparation to do; food shopping, spares, snorkeling gear … handily we could borrow Marc’s ute with a carry trolley to ferry things to the boat which was parked in a basic marina in the middle of town.
Tilly had fun playing with Arthur and we had a few days break from the boat. But, keen to get north we continued on to Port Stephens on the 29th.
Road and Ocean 