DIVING in to Great Keppel, GREAT BARRIER REEF on a BOAT - Ep 105

DIVING in to Great Keppel, GREAT BARRIER REEF on a BOAT – Ep 105

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We have sailed north once more, along the Queensland coast, to a little gem of an Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Great Keppel Island.
Great Keppel gives the much more renowned Whitsunday islands a run for their money. It boasts beautiful white sandy beaches, numerous walking paths and some excellent scuba diving sites. It was a blessing to have our baptism in to scuba diving here. The coral and sea life was second to none. We even heard humpback whale song while we were diving then, from the comfort of Javelot, watched these magnificent creatures taking it in turns to breach as they made their way down the coast. If you are visiting the Queensland Coast then we recommend Great Keppel Island as a place to visit.

Music
The Brooke the Bluff – Rush – Musicbed.com
Brooke Annibail – Underneath – Musicbed.com
Cricket Farm – Like we’re famous – Fantastic NZ artists please support them on spotify
Dansu – Say say say – Musicbed.com
Jason Dering – Wildcard – Musicbed.com
Deraj – Breakout – Musicbed.com
Jamie Lono – New Orleans – Musicbed.com
Model Citizen – Make it what you want – Musicbed.com

After a long and drawn out process taking nearly three years filled with doubt and anxiety about whether or not to take the plunge we have set up a Patreon page for creators of artistic content here: https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis

Should you choose to support our journey please know that we are very grateful and hope that the rewards meet your expectations. Any contribution will be helping produce videos (which take between 30 to 50 hours a week to make) and support on going boat maintenance.
Regardless, we are stoked if you take the time to watch our journey. Even better if you take the time to ‘like’, ‘comment’ or ‘share’ (or all of the above) our YouTube videos. These are free things that help us enormously.
Thank you!
Rob, Rachel, Finn, Declan, Ivan
https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis

BACK STORY
In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob decided to row a tiny seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race. His first taste of a blue water ocean crossing.
Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and Rachel purchased Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Rob’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn 18, Declan 16 and Ivan 13, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world.
Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed. www.brothernumberone.co.nz
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