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We sail Our Dreamtime north from Burnett Heads to remote anchorage at Pancake Creek where we spend some time exploring the natural delights of this out of the way location only accessible by boat. We also visit the historic Bustard Head Lighthouse cloaked ...

We hadn’t planned to spend long in the Port of Bundaberg Marina but unfavourable winds and a long list of boat jobs conspired to keep us there for over a week. Thanks to one of our generous Patreon supporters, Griff, we made good use of a loan car and hi...

In today’s episode we finally leave Gary’s Anchorage at K’Gari and wind our way through the narrow channels of the Great Sandy Straits to Big Woody Island for a catch up with friends. Our early start next morning goes awry when the engine won’t st...

In this video we cross some of the most dangerous waters in Queensland, the Wide Bay Bar, but not before waiting for the right weather conditions, consulting the Tin Can Bay Volunteer Coast Guard and taking all the sensible safety precautions. Then we sail...

On Our Dreamtime we enjoy a fantastic spinnaker run down the inside of K’Gari (Fraser Island) while water bombing aircraft fly over head battling huge fires ashore. After a stop in Garry’s Anchorage in the Great Sandy Straits to shelter from some stron...

Join us as we sail across Hervey Bay from Burnett Heads in company with buddy boats Whoosh and Velindra to anchor off Wathumba Creek on K’Gari, the indigenous name of Fraser Island, where we discover paradise. Powdery white sand beaches lapped by crystal...

We leave Great Keppel Island in the early morning darkness with the plan of sailing south to Pancake Creek but when we get there the anchorage is very full of boats. So we decide to keep going into the night clocking up 131 nautical miles to reach Burnett ...

The cameras were running as we very, very narrowly escaped the clutches of a raging current trying to smash our boat onto the coral reef at Lady Musgrave Island. We still get cold chills watching the heart stopping footage of our near shipwreck. Sailing t...

We leave Kingfisher Bay at Fraser island sooner than anticipated to sail across Hervey Bay to the Burnett River to shelter from forecast high winds and heavy rain but we catch so many mackerel along the way we have to stop fishing. That’s all before our ...

Our journey to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef islands stalls in the Great Sandy Straits as a new Government COVID 19 regulation prohibits liveaboard cruisers from moving up the coast. While we wait and sort things out, we catch so many crabs Karen rises ...