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Ep 267 | Searching for Fort Wellington, Abandoned British Military Outpost, Raffles Bay, Australia
We leave Valentia Island and head through the Bowen Strait and slowly make our way to Raffles Bay in search of Fort Wellington, an early British pioneer settlement. After a good look around we leave Raffles Bay and float our way around the peninsular to P...
Ep 265 | Shallow Water, Rocks and Narrow Passages, Wessel Islands, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
It’s finally time to leave Guruliya Bay in the Wessel Islands and head east to the ‘other’ half of the Wessels, or so some people say. We take refuge in Refuge Bay. It’s pretty ordinary and we only spend one night there. We make our way to Galiw...
Ep 264 | Exploring the Wessel Islands, Northern Territory, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
After sailing through the Gulgari Rip we found a safe anchorage close by. We then make our way further north in the Wessel Islands, checking out the anchorages as we go. We look for Aboriginal rock art and explore the stunning rock formations along the s...
Ep 261 | Beautiful Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
We arrive at Rat's Cove on Angarumurada Island just off the coast of Groote Eylandt. It’s a magical place and we spend quite a few days there. The rock formations are stunning and the fishing is good too. Then we leave and head around to the main island...
Ep 260 | Sailing Across the Gulf of Carpentaria, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
After we receive our second COVID shots, it’s finally time to leave Weipa and head west. We do the final preparations for the off and set sail across the Gulf of Carpentaria. The wind has been 30 knots for the past few weeks, but when we leave it dies d...
Ep 258 | Beer, Canning, Provisioning and Boat Jobs in Weipa, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
We take a look around Weipa in search of a new water pump which is pretty hard to find. Magnus replaces the battery in Wendy’s laptop. Magnus makes a start on working out what to do about the broken jib track. Wendy continues to work on the patterns f...
Ep 257 | Winch Servicing, Weipa Arrival, Sailing Nutshell Australia
We spend the night at Mapoon and Magnus services the mainsail winch. We head off early to the Pennefather River and Magnus checks out the bar in Peanut. Magnus chat about Fiinders and his explorations. We continue the sail on to Weipa. Thanks for watch...
Ep 256 | Guns on Thursday Island, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
We take Peanut across the dodgy waters to Thursday Island to do a bus tour. We head up to Green Hill and wander around the guns and check out the war items in the many displays. We have a drink at Australia’s Top Pub, fill in our Census and get our Covi...
Ep 254 | Making our Mizzen Stack Pack, Seisia, Sailing Nutshell
We’ve made it to Seisia and go ashore in Peanut, to the Loyalty Beach Caravan Park, to pick up our spinnaker sock., finally! We measure and mark out the fabric for the mizzen stack pack. There isn’t enough room on Nutshell to do it easily so we use a ...