17,000 Pulau - the Sailing Adventures of SY Mad Fish

 Exmouth, and our temporary relapse from sustainable living  Its now been a little over 6 weeks since we left the marina in Mandurah and embarked on our sailing adventure on board Mad Fish.     It is a very different lifestyle to our life working full time in Perth and living in a conventional house.    Not only is Mad Fish our tiny house, but also our means of transport and our own power and desalination plant.  Living in a small space with no utilities, no nearby shops, no fuel stations and no rubbish service, has taken some adjusting!  We have become much more concious of how much water and power we use, making use of all our left-over and manky food, and generating as little rubbish as possible - essentially living much more sustainably than we have in the past.    We carry a total of 400 litres of water in two tanks - which lasts us up to 6 days depending on how often we shower (personal hygeine has somewhat declined since we l...

Speeding up the Coral Coast  We seem to be making a habit of early departures!   Another 5 am departure saw us leaving Broadhurst Bight on the Peron Peninsula on 18 May for a sail past Dorre and Bernier Islands, and Carnarvon, to Coral Bay.   We were nervous about getting to Coral Bay during daylight hours, but need not have worried -  we covered the 163 nautical mile trip in very good time, arriving at 9.30 am the following morning.    Anchoring at Maud's Landing, just north of Coral Bay, we quickly planned our diving and snorkelling schedule to make the most of the amazing Ningaloo Reef.  Mauds Landing was beautiful - thankfully the marina development planned back in the early 2000s was rejected by the then Premier Geoff Gallop.  Before we departed Perth, S2ee and I invested in a little dive compressor so we can fill our own tanks on board - it is a little beauty and we fired it up to do several dives on the inner reef, from The Guppy....