SAILING OUR 40 YEAR OLD BOAT TO A REMOTE REEF ISLAND S1CH.24
August 18, 2021 by Slim & Soph - Sailing Nakama | Language: EN Play Time: 00:18:20 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Sailing our 40 year old sailboat to a remote reef island on the Australian East Coast and we’re stoked!
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We wake at 2 am in Burnett Heads to pull up anchor and head out into the early morning darkness. We are heading to Lady Musgrave Island, the second southernmost reef island in the Great Barrier Reef island chain, this place has been eluding us for years and we are determined not to miss it this time round. We end up beating into the wind for 11 hours until we finally see the low lying island, we are nervous to enter through the very narrow entrance but we make it into the lagoon. We dodge coral bombies finding ourselves a nice patch of sand to drop anchor. WOW what a place. After looking in the binoculars we spot Myles, our good old friend floating away in his dinghy so Slim goes rescues him. To finish off our day we watch the sun go down over the sea on the beautiful remote island, we are honestly so stoked to be here. The following day we wake in paradise to go diving, exploring the coral, spotting turtles and beautiful fishies. WHAT A PLACE.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Waking up at 2am and heading out into the darkness
03:42 Picking up a hitch-hiker
05:45 Going through the narrow entrance
06:16 We’re in!
09:00 Sunset on the island
10:41 Living in a coral atoll
15:40 Slim & Soph rambling
17:55 CYA XXX
SAILING OUR 40 YEAR OLD BOAT TO A REMOTE REEF ISLAND S1CH.24 Locations
- Lady Musgrave Island (-23.9073276,152.3924561)
Slim & Soph - Sailing Nakama
Welcome aboard SV Nakama, We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple tryna get by living aboard our tiny retro sailboat with our cat Chilli. We sail the Australian coastline whilst attending university online and take you with us. After putting study on the back burner for years as we didn’t want to sacrifice adventure, we thought why not have both? Fed up with the outrageous rental prices in our hometown, the idea of doing it afloat came to mind. We figured we could scrape by on our tight student budget if we stopped paying way too much rent and lived minimally on the ocean, whilst continuing our passion for adventure. The plan for now, is to keep sailing onwards, keeping Australia to our left and once we're done doing that...Who knows. Our mission is to prove that anyone can do it, you don’t need the fanciest boat or a squillion bucks, just a whole lot of ambition and a willingness to make mistakes and learn. So join us on this whacky adventure! Slim & Soph xoxo
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