Join us on a unique adventure to Tana Toraja, Indonesia, where the fascinating customs of life and death come together in a truly extraordinary way. In this video, we explore the intricate funeral rituals, traditional ceremonies, and stunning landscapes of...
The unique and intricate death customs of Tana Toraja have been celebrated for centuries, making them some of the most complex and expensive funeral traditions in the world. Before Dutch Christian Missionaries arrived, Torajans practiced Animism, the belie...
The unique and intricate death customs of Tana Toraja have been celebrated for centuries, making them some of the most complex and expensive funeral traditions in the world. Before Dutch Christian Missionaries arrived, Torajans practiced Animism, the belie...
In this episode we sail, we motor sail and we get stuck with our anchor wrapped up in an old net in the harbour at Tanjung Siwa. Don’t worry, we’ll show you a very quick and easy way to untangle a fouled anchor. After sailing in Greece we have plenty ...
We’re sailing with friends Daniel and Emma on our our buddy boat Lola B in an area of the huge Indonesian Island of Sulawesi very rarely visited by cruising boats. We’ve only scratched the surface so far but we’re already in love with this amazing ar...
In this episode we sail, we motor sail and we get stuck with our anchor wrapped up in an old net in the harbour at Tanjung Siwa. Don’t worry, we’ll show you a very quick and easy way to untangle a fouled anchor. After sailing in Greece we have plenty ...
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional phinisi wooden ship...
We sail by massive squid platforms to a complex of reefs in remote Sulawesi, Indonesia.
We have just begun our exploration of this, the world’s 11th largest island but already we have fallen in love with sailing this remote area populated by such warm, ...
We sail 'Our Dreamtime' further north in Indonesia to Bojowe Harbour on the Sulawesi mainland. Here we race to anchor before a fierce monsoonal storm that strikes with big winds and driving rain. Did we make it? Let’s call it a draw.
We have just begun...
We sail to a complex of reefs in remote Sulawesi, Indonesia and discover a great anchorage at a tiny island. Here we are enthusiastically welcomed by the villagers, who tell us we are the very first westerners ever to visit their stunning home. They proudl...
We sail to a complex of reefs in remote Sulawesi, Indonesia and discover a great anchorage at a tiny island. Here we are enthusiastically welcomed by the villagers, who tell us we are the very first westerners ever to visit their stunning home. They proudl...
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional wooden ships
The B...
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional wooden ships
The B...
There's some cool sailing in our latest full episode on our way to explore Bira on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Check it out here - https://youtu.be/WHGQQIkVBlI
There’s a first time for everything and before stopping at Pulau Sabalana on our way to Sulawesi, we’d never been chased out of an anchorage with explosives before. When the locals started throwing sticks of dynamite around the boat we got out of there...
Our most explosive @Dreamtimesail episode ever will be published on Friday Jan 17 as we are literally BLOWN out of our anchorage. There's also some cool sailing on our way to explore Sulawesi in Indonesia. Check it out.
Our latest @Dreamtimesail episode is out featuring champagne sailing and our best ever night passage to a remote Indonesian island anchorage on our way to explore Sulawesi in Indonesia. Check it out.
Isn’t it fantastic when a plan works. In this episode we take into account wind, swell, current and weather forecasts plus satellite imagery of potential anchorages before undertaking a 110 nautical mile overnight passage to the remote island of Sapuka B...
In our first 179 days in Indonesia we have sailed two and half thousand nautical miles or four thousand seven hundred kilometres around this amazing nation of islands. We’ve had more than enough breath taking experiences to know we want to spend a lot mo...
Six months sailing around in Indonesia had flown by and with our 180 day visas fast running out, we were forced to leave the country in order to obtain new visas. Fortunately, we’d found a safe place to leave Our Dreamtime in the care of the villagers on...
This episode covers our extended stay at Gili Asahan in the secret Gili Islands off Lombok's south west coast, an incredible and, as yet, unspoiled corner of the world. We LOVED the place and are really happy with how the episode came together to highligh...
After our encounter with a reef on the island of Sumbawa, we’re very happy to be safely on a mooring in Medana Bay Marina on Lombok for a while. We enjoy some time off the boat exploring the local area, get a new bow cover made and Rob sits Marina owner,...
Living our worst nightmare, we ran Our Dreamtime up on a reef. Terrible weather conditions, poor light and a 500 metre error in the charts combine to lead us onto a reef on the island of Sumbawa. In this episode we detail the how and why of what happened, ...
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