Today is a lovely day, we are in Laurieton a lovely little town just south of Port Macquarie resting after two nights at sea. It is also our 34th wedding anniversary today. We left the Gold Coast after 10 days at the Marina Oceanus, which I would recommend to anyone. It was great, very central and the team running it are delightful, thanks “Rooster” and Chris. Our friend Jim Sinclair, from the CCC flew up to help us do the overnight passages, as did James our son. We left on Thursday evening from the Gold Coast to head south. The first night was a bit of a slog, but we made it (a few of the crew did try to berley up some fish for us but as we had no lines out their sacrifice was wasted). Friday was lovely, a nice 15+ knot Northerly breeze and we got a good distance. The night time was a bit different, the odd storm cell, lightening, 30knots but mostly behind us. We got through the storms unscathed, some others were not so lucky with some gear damage reported and I think one lightening strike. We decided to pull into Laurieton to have a break from night sailing and a southerly was forecast and as we all know, “gentlemen do not go to windward”! Also James has work commitments so we needed to ship home faster than 20knots from the south would allow. So we will have a break and head off to sea again on Monday, and hopefully Monday night and Tuesday will see us home.