We were hanging around waiting for our watermaker to return from being repaired but after a week at Airlie Beach we decide it’s time to get out in the beautiful Whitsunday Islands and find our way to Marcona Inlet on Hook Island for some crabbing and beach bumming. We have a great sail over and catc...
75 days after leaving the dock to isolate afloat away from Covid our provisions were holding out but our watermaker needed attention so we sail to Karen’s home town of Airlie Beach and take a berth in a marina for the first time since heading to sea. The Coral Sea Marina is well known as the pricies...
Join in this episode as we rock and roll our way from Goldsmith Island to Long Island in the heart of the Whitsundays.
We anchor off the mothballed Happy Bay Resort with excellent protection from the approaching strong south easterly winds. Karen spent many fun filled days here as a child growing u...
Sailing north through Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Islands, we discover a new ‘to us’ anchorage that very quickly becomes a candidate for the ‘Our Favourite Island’ title. Yes OK. It’s hard to stick with one favourite when the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system compo...
We sailed 79 miles to Brampton Island from Middle Percy Island to shelter from a strong blow coming from the South East. After sitting out days of wind and rain secure in the anchorage, we were rewarded with some perfect days to enjoy this tropical oasis. They were the sort of days that remind us wh...
After a relaxing stop on our Whitby 42 ketch in the Duke Island Group, we sail to Middle Percy Island, THE must visit destination high on all Australian cruisers' bucket list and check out the iconic ‘Percy Island Yacht Club’ A-Frame. Visiting yachties have been leaving their mark at the Great ...
Sail with us on a 46 nautical mile passage amongst Australia’s Great Barrier Reef when the weather forecast said mild conditions but the sea decided otherwise. Sailing north from Great Keppel Island, we experience unexpected high wind gusts and big swells. Our bluewater, Whitby 42 ketch is laid flat...
We spend a week on Great Keppel Island enjoying glorious weather and some of the best beaches in the world. We catch monster mud crab and get to grips with a few boat jobs. In ‘Our Galley’ Karen shows how she makes awesome Fish Tacos for lunch and after a month of isolation afloat we finally socia...
With a gorgeous sunrise as the backdrop, we depart Lady Musgrave Island to make our way north to Masthead island before a change in the weather forecast sees us reconsidering our plans. Light winds hamper our sailing but the marine life around the reefs continues to impress.
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We discover why Lady Musgrave Island and it’s amazing coral lagoon of almost 3,000 acres is a very strong contender for the title of the best cruising destination on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The island’s unique features and birdlife are a big part of it’s charm while under the water the huge ...
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 to the island, the largest pod of dolphins we...
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 engine conks out miles from land and, of cours...
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 to the challenge of making every crab meal dif...
Our journey north to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Islands continues. We touch bottom entering the harbour at Mooloolaba before sailing further north to a wonderful new anchorage recently built by mother nature at Double Island Point. Then it’s over the notorious Wide Bay Bar into the Great Sandy S...
We get a spectacular dolphin send off as we overcome our engine problems and finally begin the passage North towards Australia's Great Barrier Reef Islands. We land our first fish of the trip within minutes of setting the line and Karen shows how she fillets mackerel on the go.
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The Dreamtimesail crew leave our land locked life in the marina and head to sea to escape the emerging Covid 19 Pandemic. With borders closing fast our plans to cruise PNG, the Solomons and into Indonesia are scuttled but Our Dreamtime is fully provisioned for months of "Isolation Afloat"....
The Our Dreamtime crew may be back in the mundane world of working Monday to Friday for a little while to rebuild our cruising funds but we still love to get our ketch off the dock and out on the water whenever we can. Join us for a glimpse of our aquatic playground in Brisbane's beautiful Mor...
Since we began cruising we’ve worked our way through most of the tender options sailors have to choose from. See how the addition of a Kapten Boat Collar to an aluminum hulled dinghy has produced what we consider the perfect tender for our cruising needs on SV Our Dreamtime.
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Dreamtime Sail's Rob and Karen spend the summer leading a charter flotilla around the Greek Isles visiting many beautiful coastal towns, small harbours and secluded anchorages for Greek Sails.
Apart from a little bit of footage from our cheap GoPro clone, and some pics and clips kindly provi...
What Lead Crews really do .... Having fun with Charter Guests from Australia.
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