Ahh, good news from Oz!

>I'll now start putting my "thinking" cap on and begin looking at options
for - if that's OK? - late October/early November 2006?  It'd be great to
see you all again - and to meet Kuty at long last ... if he's up to a trip
to the land of beer, birds and burgers?  :-))))<

You mean steak sandwiches? Kuty loves his meat. And I rather like beer and
birds.

But October? I was thinking February or so. That's my plan at least. If
there's no NEDFest then, I'd really like to do Jervis Bay around that time.
Seems like a good time to do that without lugging the drysuit around. And
I'm sure you can point me to the relevant people to talk about that. 

michi