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After finishing all our boat jobs to get the boat ready for the cruising season, we are finally off. Leaving Moreton Bay we head up the Sunshine Coast and over the Wide Bay Bar. Short overnight stops as we sail across Hervey Bay to reach Bundaberg.

Follow Sailing Catamaran Escape as we cruise the Queensland Coast After staying at The Keppel Bay Marina for a short time we set off again. Heading south towards Hervey Bay we motor up the Mary River to arrive at the heritage city of Maryborough.

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...

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...

This week we get some cranking speeds in light winds behind Fraser Island while discussing something we'd overlooked over the last couple of months flying our cruising spinnaker! Had you picked up on it? Once at Kingfisher Bay, we go on a whale watching t...

We sail south with a favourable wind and find ourselves caught up in Summer thunderstorms. With lightning blasting the sky we take measures to protect our electrical circuits. Winds swirl and cause us to be on a lee shore, we show our rain collection metho...

In this video we cross the Wide Bay Bar - known as the mad mile it has made boaties nervous for years and we were nervous too. However, in the right conditions we had no trouble at all. There was still tension in the air and nerves as we crossed. The mus...