Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Tawoomba Cancelled

Toowoomba is a little town a couple hours drive inland, that we thought we might visit to see a bit more of the area around Brisbane. We had planned to go there and explore a little while there were some delays in the boat transaction - but they have worked out - we bought Maia! We transferred the funds and are starting to process the paperwork today. We should be able to move aboard by Friday. We haul the boat out Tuesday next week, May 8th (happy birthday mom), and there's so much to do to get ready. Our side trip has been trimmed down to maybe a bush walk in Lamington National Park. We are back on the constant quest to outfit the boat, now finally made concrete after years of thinking about our cruising boat.

We now know that we will be on Queensland coast at least until the end of June. We're not sure whether we will have time to leave Australia or not, but are trying to keep our options open for now. Our dreams of places to sail will become real options after the dirty work of our haul out to come. Dave arrives in the morning, then we will be three. Things are moving along here.

6 comments:

Tah said...

Congratulations!

We're all very happy for you. And slightly jealous even though we know nothing about boats.

Love, Anne, John and Sydney

Anonymous said...

Well our friend is on his way to you, we know him as kavika, you know him as David. We are excited for him and look forward to grand tales of your adventures. Be safe, have fun and keep us informed. :)

Nyx said...

I second Nada's message.

You here yet kav?

And thank you to Craig and Evvy for the blog so that we keep tabs on 'the 'ole sea dog'.

:)

volto said...

May 8th, that's my b-day too. Im jealous, I wish i could go with.

Lucky Penguin said...

SO PROUD OF YOU GUYS!!! sorry we are a couple days behind on the news, but we just rolled into Isla Mujeres and got online for the first time in two weeks. Ute says Hi to Maia. rock on you guys and keep the posts comin and the dream alive. love C & A

Unknown said...

Congrats guys! Sorry we couldn't get together again before you headed out but it was good to see yuz at Craig's work party in Oakland.

I spent a weekend in Brisbane 18(!) years ago--I remember it being very clean and pretty. Looks a wee bit more built up then it was back then!

Keep the news and pics comin'.

James Z.