We're heading up into Indonesia next month, so it's better to be safe than sorry. It's fair to say that we scared the crap out of each other on both occasions! (And that now we're even) We've also just included a nifty little water-activated strobe light to the strap. In over 36,000 nautical miles of cruising the MOB alarm has only been activated twice - once when I was recording dolphins hanging off the bow sailing to Fiji, and more recently when Catherine was adjusting the cutter boom preventer. So years ago, after too many restless watches, we bought Raymarine Lifetags, a clever little transponder unit you wear on your wrist which activates a high-pitched alarm inside the boat should you stray more than 40 feet from the receiver. Waking up to find an empty cockpit and your dory mate nowhere onboard, well, it's enough to keep you up at night. J| Thursday Island, Torres Straits - A gun that has never been fired in anger.Ĭonditions: Wind: 20/SE Sky: Partly cloudyįor a cruising couple there's nothing more frightening than the prospect of a Man Over Board scenario. I toasted our arrival with a Great Northern beer at Australia's most northerly pub. While tiny, TI has an impressive multicultural history, it was settled by Melanesians almost 3,000 years ago, was once the center of a thriving pearling industry with a large community of Japanese divers, and in the late 1800's, Battery Point was constructed to defend against a Russian invasion! Today the island is invaded daily, during the dry season at least, by hordes of 4x4 enthusiasts that, after reaching the tip, want to go even further, which means a 1 hour ferry ride from the mainland.
The history is a little fuzzy on whether it was Captain Bligh who named Thursday Island in the Torres Straits, and the neighboring islands of Wednesday and Friday, or Captain Stanley, but either way we arrived on Thursday Island today, Friday, and spent a little time exploring this remote Australian outpost, which measures only 1.4 square miles in size.
(And a huge thanks to our new 4x4 mates, Frank and Wendy, for making the land trip possible!)Ĭonditions: Wind: 20-25/SE Sky: Mostly clear J| Catherine sitting near the most northern tip of Australia's mainland.
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