Comments on: Binalong Bay, Tasmania, Australia

By: Richard Gittings

Richard Gittings — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:48:55 +0000

Happy New Year guys – too late to wish you aG’day,Australia Day! It’s great to be back on your track again after busy Christmas, New Year, birthday parties and my “op” in Ryl Bnmth hosp, but I’m out, fit & well AND still on 2 legs! Glad you dug yourselves out of Sydney (and B4 OZ day and even the Australian open tennis!…but you cheated going to TAZ by ferry – I’m disappointed – and I do not see why you find “time of the essence”. As long distance sailors and now ,as you say Jason, inveterate travellers,remember:It’s important to travel in hope, arriving is a disappointment (a bad misquote, from Byron I think).
Almost didn’t recognise you guys with clothes on! If you felt the cold, think of New Yorkers, fellow Canadians and …it,s coming our way to UK and N Europe! Wish you luck along the rocky S coast of OZ, good travelling & “Bon Vent”. R1.

By: Jason Windebank

Jason Windebank — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:09:59 +0000

In reply to Maria Smith..

Extreme change is something we get used to after so much time traveling, and are perhaps addicted to now. While sailing too, conditions change in seconds, or we can go from chaotic winds in rough seas, pass through a reef, and be swimming in a still paradise a few minutes later. The problem is that we get bored easily when things don’t change – even after a couple days in one place…. probably not a good thing.

By: Maria Smith.

Maria Smith. — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:24:00 +0000

I would like to hear your thoughts, at some point, about how your mind and body reconciles/adjusts to the enormous differences visiting
various parts of the world – for example, paradise like places of Polynesian Islands and chaos and mess of India (as per your description)
as just reading it myself I find it hard, but you experiencing it and therefore adding another dimension to it – must be mind boggling????