"Hoges in WA" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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"Hoges in WA" wrote in message
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Wow... that would make me get back into diving. I've never been to the
Perth area, just eastern Aus (didn't have much time though).

NOT good sailing - nowhere to go really. Very ancient flat land.

Diving, however, is a different story altogether. There's a chappy from
your country who's crossed the Pacific in a Beneteau 45 currently
advertising for crew for a trip from Mooloolaba in Queensland to all the
way around to my place and he's surfing and diving all the way. I'm
tempted to quit work and join up.
Hoges in WA


Shows you how much I know about sailing in that part of the world.... I
just figured Perth was great sailing. By nowhere to go, do you mean there
are no good anchorages within reach?

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Yes. If you're in Perth, the capital of WA, you can go to Rottnest, some
12 miles away, with 300,000 other people. If you're lucky, you can get a
mooring. Maybe. After you've gone in the ballot for it. Rotto is a good
place to dive - something like 13+ wrecks and all shallow. However,
because it's the ONLY option for Perth, it's crowded.
North you can go to the Abrolhos but its a couple of days away.
South you can come down my way but there's nothing to explore - no rivers,
no bays, just long stretches of beach inshore with a prevailing
south-wester pushing you onto it.

Way further up north it gets more interesting but there's not much in the
way of shore-based support. Down south, you have to get to around Albany
before it's interesting also but it's pretty hairy weather down that way.

This is the principal reason why I do not yet have a boat - I'd be going
nowhere and what I want to see is half a world away. I'll be buying in
Florida and heading up the east coast of the US. I'll probably keep it
for when I return, but it'll simply be a floating RV, because the baby
boomers are going to clog the roads with caravans before long and I can
still anchor out in the places they're staying in.
Hoges in WA




There's always Diego Garcia. LOL


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