Part of my sail training was to be able to recognise differenet types of vessels, their direction of travel etc. at night. This is done by decoding the various different light patterns the vessel has on display. Here is my favorite one:
This is one you really want to avoid,it’s a Minesweeper, less than 50m long, seen from ahead, under way, coming straight for you!!!
Well guys, my time in Australia is about to come to an end. Tomorrow I am off to Singapore. Australia has been great, and I’m sad to go, but its a long way home; and my visa runs out on Sunday!! I got to Melbourne on Tuesday, hopped on the plane from Cairns, where I was relaxing after 10 days at Sea!! Yes folks I’m now officially a sailor! Check me out! 
I spent 7 days, on a yacht called the 007, learning to sail in the Whitsundays, a beautiful set of Islands, 74 of them in total. We had great sailing weather, 20 - 30 knots some days, rain, sun, wind, calm, we had it all. We lived aboard for the 7 days, so we did some night sailing too, which is a interesting feeling. After the weeks training I had earned my Competent Crew sailing Cert. something I’ve wanted to do for about 10 years!! As well as the sailing there was plenty of time for Snorkelling on the Reefs , chilling Whitehaven beach, dolphin, shark, ray, turtle spotting, and drinking and BBQs. Yes of course we had a BBQ on the yacht, this is OZ!
I also had 3 days aboard a large sailing yacht, the Eureka II, big boat = big fun, fast!!
