We're at anchor in the river in Bundaberg. We'll clear customs tomorrow. Rough day today. Don't want to think about it now. Want to drink and then sleep!

We've had a strong current (two knots) pushing us north all night. See more on Passage Brain at www.twoatsea.com. We're 34 miles out from our turn north of Sandy Cape. Then it's about 50 miles to port. With luck, we'll make it in before dark today. Rough with sails doin' fill-n-dump all night in 6 second period swell. Major swells from E, SE, and ESE, all about 1.5 meters. OK, enough complaining. More after we get in.

The wind filled in yesterday morning and we're having a great sail - flying along. The wind's been mostly 15 to 20 and is down a bit now.

We did a 158.8 mile run in 24 hours. That's fast for us. (Any mistakes here are the result of Passage Brain Syndrome - PBS. I wrote about it here: www.twoatsea.com.)

Motoring in almost no wind and glassy seas. Sky is clearing a bit. We thought we might have some rain last night but it didn't happen. It's so nice out here. I love it like this. In about 20 miles, we'll turn to lay the top of Frasier Island. We have 387 miles to go. I can hear the dingoes howling!

Wind's dropping off as expected and the motor is running. Seas are getting pretty calm. Sky is mostly clear but we're expecting it to cloud up as we enter a trough/low/front? but no real wind expected. To avoid the strong counter current that Bob McDavitt warned us about, we're heading to 24 30S, 159E (Thank you Bob, not for the current but for the warning!!!). From there, we'll head mostly due west to Bundy (Thank you Tuuletar Mark for the Ozzy slang lesson!). Kangaroos (or is it Kangarai?), here we come.

We're having a really nice ride (knock, knock, knock - sound of knuckles meeting kwood ;-). We've motor sailed all but three hours of the last 24 and have made 145 miles. I might not hate sailing so much if all passages were like this one has been so far (wow, have I ever jinxed this!?).

We're in Noumea, leaving for Bundaberg tomorrow at first light. We're looking forward to what looks to be a mostly windless, calm passage. Oh no, have I gone and done it now?

We're in New Caledonia! We're sitting here with our Q flag flying, sipping a nice white wine. Hopefully we'll get checked in tomorrow.

Wind's still been up around 17 knots and now, instead of trying to squeeze every last fraction of a knot out of Legacy, we've been trying to slow her down to make the flood tide at Havannah pass. We're now 13 miles from that pass and we need those miles to take three hours. That's my long way of saying, "It's 8 AM Fiji time (we haven't changed) and we're almost in!"

Quiet out here with just us and a few thousand of our closest friends (I hope the picture of the cruise ship shows up on this post). We're motor-sailing to try to keep up the speed so that we can make Havannah Pass on the flood tide tomorrow. The wind has dropped but the seas are still pretty big with a major swell from both SSE and E. We're rolling but comfortable.

Squally night last night with the wind up and down. We ended up motor sailing to make life simpler. This morning, the wind is more steady and the sky more clear. We have 302 miles to go to Havannah Pass. We're trying to make low tide on Monday at 10AM (boat time - which hasn't changed since Fiji). To do that, we'll have to average 5.81 knots. A little high for us but still doable.

Seas are moderating and it's getting to be less uncomfortable. Making great speed. Burnin' up the miles and the Mecklezine. Can someone please remind me why we do this!?

Not the most comfortable passage so far, but not too bad either. We're making good speed.

Departing Suva for Noumea, New Caledonia in a few minutes. ETA, Monday sometime.

Sitting in Suva, waiting for weather to head to Nelson NZ