Bestest for the New Year.

[tdw]

Good people, we are out of here in the morning , heading off for a few weeks pottering about the NSW coast.

We'll be without internet so this is a Happy New Year from the Wombet and Wombat for 2010.

Thanks for all your friendship over the past year.

Bestest Wishes

Andrew, Wombet and Silver Raven.

Cheers

[wind_magic]

Thank you TDW for all that you and the other moderators do! The place just wouldn't work without you. Happy New Year to the entire .. err, pack ? uhh, okay, I just looked it up, a group is called a "wisdom", a wisdom of Wombats, dig that!

You're the king TDW! You are the KING!!

[chall03]

Nice Windy! That face is freakin me out just a little...
Happy cruising TD. Happy New Year all......

[bubb2]

Happy New Year to you and yours, Andy.

Where you live does the ball just slides off the top of the pole and falls in the sky, unlike Times square where the ball drops? being down under I never figured out how that worked there!

[smackdaddy]

Have a great trip Andrew. We'll try not to burn the place down.

[tdw]

Home is the sailor home from the seas and the Wombat back from the south.
(with apologies to A. E. Housman)

Got back in last evening after less than a BFS from Jervis Bay. Around a 100nms half of it under power. Such it is but we did have some great sailing over the past two weeks.

Will get a decent report up shortly. Lots of pics of bits of water where a whale or a dolphin or a penguin or a seal may have been just before the Wombet pushed the shutter button.

Cheers all.

Ah sod it...Housman deserves more.....it really is a great poem.

Home Is the Sailor
Home is the sailor, home from sea:
Her far-borne canvas furled
The ship pours shining on the quay
The plunder of the world.

Home is the hunter home from the hill:
Fast in the boundless snare
All flesh lies taken at his will
And every fowl of air.

'Tis evening on the moorland free,
The starlit wave is still:
Home is the sailor from the sea,
The hunter from the hill.

A.E. Housman

[tdw]

Originally Posted by chall03

Nice Windy! That face is freakin me out just a little...
Happy cruising TD. Happy New Year all......

Hey Chall you need to give JB some serious thought. It has its negatives but in the main s..t hot. Not so many cosy little anchorages as Broken Bay but but but.....tell you all about it later.

[CalebD]

Originally Posted by tdw

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Ah sod it...Housman deserves more.....it really is a great poem.

Home Is the Sailor
Home is the sailor, home from sea:
Her far-borne canvas furled
The ship pours shining on the quay
The plunder of the world.

Home is the hunter home from the hill:
Fast in the boundless snare
All flesh lies taken at his will
And every fowl of air.

'Tis evening on the moorland free,
The starlit wave is still:
Home is the sailor from the sea,
The hunter from the hill.

A.E. Housman

And still the sheep are scared ...

That poem is lovely TDW.
Up in the northern hemisphere it it is great to hear about southern hemisphere sailors having fun in their summer excursions by boat. We await the mellifluous account of your trip.

I could not quickly find a nice nautical poem to match yours but I want to include this one:
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,... See More
Nor wholly reassured and comforted
By promises of others in their stead,
Which, though more splendid, may not please him more;
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently, that we go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How the unknown transcends the what we know. "

(I'll look up the link to the author tomorrow if you haven't 'googled' it yet)

My best to the Wombats,
Caleb D
Tartan 27' #328 owner, 1967