The Good and the Bad
Posted at 2:19 PM, Apr. 30, 2008
It saddens me to report that one of this blogs keenest supporters passed away on Monday 21st April. Our dear father and father in law had an all too brief battle with cancer. Fortunately we were with him during his last few days at Lake McQuarie, north of Sydney.
Jack has always been a great supporter and hugely interested in our sailing adventures and exploits. He made several posts to this blog over the last 3 years and was an avid reader of our news. I was sitting at his computer a few days ago and had occasion to look at his large world atlas. Inside I found pages of notes and markers where he had been following our journeys so he clearly enjoyed the history, geography and our experiences. It made me think that we need to post google earth photo’s on the blog to help family and friends see just where we actually are. I know he will be watching us as we continue the journey back to New Zealand.
Jack and his girls (Di and Pam)
The good news (and on a very positive note) is that we leave the New Zealand autumn in just under two weeks to return to Sukosan, near Zadar, in Croatia to retrieve Savarna and then head south through the Greek islands and then across to Turkey arriving at Marmaris in mid July.