The final leg: New Caledonia to Queensland
Photo courtesy of Moonshiner Monday 13 th November, Rivergate Marina, Brisbane, Australia. Brisbane!!!!!!!!! We're back! Very exciting and very weird at the same time. We docked at 1800 last Wednesday, got checked in and allowed ashore on Thursday, found a microbrewery, caught up with the Masters, the Chens and half the crew of Matilda, had a Bunnings sausage sizzle, took the Citycat to town, visited West End and now I'm packing to head to Perth on Wednesday. All a bit hectic really. Karl sets the world record for dock to sausage sizzle. Leaving New Cal, after we checked out of Nouméa, we headed down the lagoon to Amédée island, right beside the channel, to position ourselves for a quick getaway once the weather was right. Amédée is a tiny little island with a very impressive lighthouse opened in 1865. It was manufactured and assembled in Paris for structural and wind testing, then disassembled and shipped to New Caledonia where it took 9 months to reassemble on Amédée. Durin