We arrived yesterday around lunch time with Border Force waiting for us on the yetty. It was a howling gale and the guys very kindly helped us get the boat tied up securely, which was a bit of a task as the bow thruster stopped working half way through 😱The guys from Border Force were great and we even had a sniffer dog 🐶 (a beautiful black Labrador wearing booties) come aboard to check for drugs, then the bio security (quarantine) did their check. After we were all cleared we headed off and anchored in Hampton Harbour, drinks that evening at the Yacht Club and dinner at the Mermaid hotel.

Our trip from Bali took a bit longer than expected but was generally uneventful, very tiring  though as we were on a tight port reach for pretty much the entire trip - I thought I was going to end up on a permanent lean 😂 and sleep was difficult to get. We spent today doing some cleaning and washing, and Nikki flew back to Perth 😢, we are now down to four.

We will spend some time tomorrow looking at the weather for the next week and make a decision on where to go from here, maybe the Montebello Islands?