We made the right call to wait it out. Seroja hammered into Geraldton, passing straight over the Abrohlos islands as a Cat 2. The late season cyclones have a tendency to be crazy-Ivans and this one was for sure. Very unusual to have one come so far south and be so active. Probably helped by TC Odette and the Fujiwhara effect....

So we’re still hanging out at Freemantle Sailing club. We’ve provisioned as much as we can (and we’ve probably still missed bits!). A few more jobs to go but we hope to get those done tomorrow morning and head out to Rottnest island for a few days.

Whilst we’ve been waiting, we’ve done some more tourist stuff, including an afternoon doing all 3 of the walking tours around Fremantle Jail which we all good. We’ve walked plenty, cycled plenty and umm may have visited a few breweries too. Amateur curiosity of course, as my home brew is tasting rather good. Wish we could say the same about the ginger beer, but its a learning process :)

After Rottnest, and assuming the weather looks good, we’ll head up to the Abrohlos islands for a while...