Croc ...

This 10 foot croc swam past the boat this morning heading upstream ... and people wonder why we don't swim in the inlet here ...

Dickson's Inlet in Port Douglas, North Queensland. I have my boat on a Pile berth here.

Hope and Lowe as well as Snapper Islands are safe for snorkelling.

We usually sail to Snapper really early in the morning for some fishing. Its about 12 miles from here and we usually leave just before sunup, then sail to Lowe (about 5 miles), round lunch time ... snorkel a bit in the afternoon, swim with the turtles. Feed the bat fish, black tip reef sharks and remora, have sundowners on the beach, then hopefully enjoy a nice fish BBQ in the evening before a leisurely night sail the 8 miles back into Port Douglas arriving round 10pm ... to me this is what life is all about ...

Mind you my partner's work gets in the way at times and I usually do the WAGS, club sail each wednesday afternoon evening but we are really enjoying our lives up here.

Hopefully we will be sailing to Cooktown before christmas for a week or two and we are planning a trip up to the Torres Straights for sometime next year.

Hi Charriot, your neck of the woods is way to cold for me, I am getting too old to handle it and don't go further south than the Tweed River.

There are all kinds of sailors ... each one doing it their way and thats way cool ... for me its a lifestyle and the way I live thats all. I can't help being passionate about it.