YAMBA,
NSW - AUSTRALIA,
March - May 2009
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of the time after Eirik's birth, we have spent either in Yamba or together
with Madeleine and Bror in Cawongla and surroundings. We have had a great
time New South Wales, watching Eirik grow - and getting ready for hislong
voyage. |
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Eirik
Våge Bogerud, 1 day
old, at Grafton Base Hospital,
NSW, Austalia. |
Tanya
and Gingelily (and Steve)
our nearest neighbours in Yamba Marina - Heidi was happy to have someone
to ask... |
Heidi
and Eirik are still at the hospital when the cocgnac is emptied and the
cigars are smoken. |
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| Eirik
was salutted with cognac and cigars also in the saune at Bever Creek. |
A
big one - and a small one. |
"The
Sailor" - everybody working at the hospital droppet by Heidi's room
to have a look at "the Sailor". |
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| Grafton
Base Hospital is where it happend the 4.th of March 2009. |
Ready
for the first trip in the car to Yamba and Empire. |
Training
starts early - if you are going to be good. |
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| The
Royal Norwegian Consulate in Brisbane got the challenging job to get Eirk's
Norwegian passport and personal id-number. |
Eirik's
"general practitioner"
enjoyed being doctor
to a sailor-baby. |
Joyce
- Marina Grandmother
at Yamba Marina. |
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| Eirik
is already a bathing angel - and he is the only crew onbord with a bathing
tub. |
Testing
expressed
milk-feeding. |
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17.th
of May (the Norwegian National Day) 2009. |
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| Great
yacht-neighbours. |
Eirik
and Dad. |
Eirik
Jumping Jack. |
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Bushwalk
at Angourie. |
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| Tanya
and Gingerlily looking at the big seas after the storm. |
Steve
and Eivind with "one each" - Angourie near Yamba. |
Leaves
from the Pamdanus
tree are used among others to create baskets. |
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| The
flood in the end of May isloated Yamba from the rest of the world for one
week. The shelfs in the grocery-stores became pretty empty, but Empire was
stocked up for the coming long voyage, so the foodstock onboard lastet througout
the flood... |
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| Boys
playing with their lives at risk - after the storm. |
Empire
is made ready to head north. |
Eirik
mostly uses cloth-nappies, but sometimes dispoasables... |
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Flood
in Yamba. When the water ran away, we could pick fish
at the road and cows at the beach. |
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| The
concrete coloumns are normally several meters above the pier. With the waterlevel
at its highest, it was 80cm left of the coloumns above the pier... |
Eirik
- 3 months old and ready to sail. |
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| We
sold the car - and the new car-owners wanted to know about our way of living. |
"Peptalk"
in cockpit before the first sail. |
"Suddenly"
clothnappies is a usual sight on the drying-ropes onboard... |
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| The
new mainsail from Ullmann Sails in Australia is inspected. |
The
zip-pack got in some trouble during the storm... |
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| The
little sailor also wants to give a hand... |
Property
for sale... |
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