the Adventures of Erica and Nico

Let’s visit Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is a national park on the northern side of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The 14,977-hectare (37,010-acre) park is 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the Sydney central business district and generally comprises the land east of the M1 Pacific Motorway, south of the Hawkesbury River, west of Pittwater and north of Mona Vale Road. It includes Barrenjoey Headland on the eastern…

Once we arrived in Pittwater we could relax and nurse Erica’s back. We just had to find a new anchor, and post our boat for sale, and wait for Sophie and Thomas to arrive. The new anchor wasn’t a requirement, since the national park has plenty of public mooring, but a new anchor meant some…

After managing to get a spare anchor in Forster and heading to Port Stephens we had another curveball flying our way. The day after we arrived at Port Stephen’s marina, Erica pulled out her back. The pain was severe enough that she couldn’t sit or walk more than a few minutes and even laying down…

We decided to try and avoid any overnight passages going forward if we could help it. Traveling from Coffs Harbour directly to Port Stephens would have required an overnight passage so we planned two stops along the way, one stop at south west rocks for a quick sleep, and one stop in Forster for a…

After a busy few weeks of visiting with friends, Christmas 2022 was just the two of us. Megan returned to Brisbane after visiting us in Tweed for a day. Zach left just before Christmas, planning to celebrate it with his family (unfortunately the weather in the US had other plans). Erica’s mom was coming on…

The day had arrived, it was the 8th of December and we are heading south, with the intention not to sail back. Corinne was dropped off by her god sister Amy on the 6th of December. We gave her two days at the marina in Scarborough before departing, just enough time to get acquainted with…