Today was a day of relaxing and baking. Freshly baked soda bread accompanied a cooked breakfast, complements of Roy. Then Elaine decided to bake an apple pie. Guess we'll have dessert for a few nights again, given that we've consumed all our baked goodies we bought on our last provisioning trip before we left Sydney.

Elaine spent the rest of her day continuing to write our next website article, while Roy got stuck into polishing the stainless steel and fixing the back rest of the cockpit seating area, which has been an annoyance for a few months now. When he ran out of inclination for any further physical work, he enjoyed the rest of his day reading.

Weather wise, it's been gusty and slightly lumpy most of the day as the forecast strong northeasterly winds kicked in. Fortunately we're nicely protected for the most part, but it did force us to change our plan of going ashore for a beach picnic. Or, it may well have been the case that we were both actually just happy to stay on board and chill!

With the weekend approaching a number of motor boats and house boats have left their marinas in Pittwater, about 3NM away, and headed here to Refuge Bay. Maybe that's what we were missing yesterday; these mooring balls are for all the various yacht club and marina members. Guess we'll know by tomorrow for sure!