Our year in 30 photos

Becoming an Aussie citizen with KI mates

 What an incredibly varied year we've had.

Chronologically:

 Sailing Breakfree from Brisbane via Tassie to KI;  Buying Goshawk and then selling Breakfree (included an inspection driving trip to Darwin);  Jane becoming a fair dinkum Aussie;  Jane getting a two term teaching contract,  A short camping trip to the South Australian desert with Kimberley;  Ants flying back to Majuro to help Nige sail his yacht Opus, back to Brisbane;  A visit to Ireland to paint Janes' house and visit mates;  A boat trip down the Shannon (oh and buying another boat!! Echidna nee Nikkijo );  Off to England for two and half weeks in glorious Devon visiting Janes' family;  Amsterdam via Newcastle to visit Josh who is doing a Uni Semester at Utretcht,  Kimberley joined us from Oz for three weeks;  A short family holiday in Lisbon (A, J, J, and K);  Then off to Madeira for a week;  Finally via Paris and Amsterdam to home. 

In between all this Ants managed to prepare a road, shed site with wildlife proof fencing for the replacement "not quite Grand Designs" future residence on the hill on the back paddock. Since then Jane has accepted a years full time teaching at Kingscote but before school starts we will sneak off for a week on the KI north coast aboard Goshawk.

Our friend and crew Rex on Strzelecki peak Tasmania

Sailing off Plymouth on Goshawk circa 1985

Sailing Tasmanian south coast January 2014

Our new Goshawk, a Sparhawk 36 built in 1988

Breakfree spick and span, ready for sale

Ants BBQing in the SA outback

Moonrise near Marree, outback South Australia

Kimberley with SA floral emblem, the Sturt Desert Pea

Rainbow over the Flinders Ranges

Ants and Nige aboard Opus

A canal stretch on the Shannon waterway

Walking in the Knockmealdown hills, Ireland

Pat and Jane at a Mass Rock in the Comeraghs, Tipperary

Ants painting Jane's house in Ireland (note the great O, H & S)

Our Shannon Locaboat, a Penichette 935

Our new boat. Soon to be rechristened Echidna

Jane and sister Terri on the South West coastal path near Hope village, Devon, England

and down on the beach....

having a beer with brother in law Steve on Dartmoor

Devon Long houses down the lane from Terri's

Newcastle on Tyne pretending to be Sydney?

Utrecht lunch with Josh and Kimberley

Lisbon, a city of monuments

Typical Utrecht street scene....canal scene

In the mountains of Madeira, a waterfall crossing a Levada (an irrigation channel and now walking trail)

Here's a nice looking tower!!

Gargoyles on Notre Dam

Waiting for a train in Lisbon

Wishing you all  a great Christmas, stay in touch...hope to see you in the New Year.

 Our plans so far include giving Echidna her first dunking in September (she is on the hard at the moment at a marina in Banagher near Limerick)

Lots of love    Jane and Ants  xx