Make or Break | La Niña Summer Sailing to an Abandoned Leper Colony on the Great Barrier Reef
The second part of our La Niña summer sailing series sees us riding the end of a strong wind warning to Fantome Island – an abandoned Leper Colony on the Great Barrier Reef.
En route stuff breaks (or should I say, “ship happens”), we undertake a jury rig, talk safety at sea (from the ‘safety’ of our cosy centre-cockpit), and learn the back story to the “ship’s log”.
Fantome Island turns out to be quite the destination, where we make learnings of a different sort. An entire community razed to the ground, it certainly puts the popular 'abandoned resort' topic into perspective.
Welcome aboard for the ride!
💙 @shazatsea (Instagram)
Music via www.storyblocks.com
Humans Win (formerly Lance Conrad) / Explorer
We20Fifty / Airport Lounge
Unknown / Designer Tropics
Media Music Group / Let the Expert Explain
Bobby Cole / Chinese Music
Music via www.epidemicsound.com
Gabriel Parker / Intervention - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/U90DAk1fXp/
Fantome Island Trailer clips – source:
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAJKKFIMlnw
Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fantomeisland2
Ronin Films - https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/160/6911.html
Additional images courtesy:
Ronin Films (press kit) - https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/160/6911.html
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fantomeislanddoco/photos
State Library of Queensland –
Aboriginal Lock Hospital image:
https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99183858897002061&context=L&vid=61SLQ_INST:SLQ&lang=en&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=All&query=any,contains,Fantome%20Island&offset=20
Cottages image (via Dr Morgan Gabriel Collection):
https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99183992117702061&context=L&vid=61SLQ_INST:SLQ&lang=en&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=All&query=any,contains,Fantome%20Island
Additional information via Leprosy Mission Australia – www.leprosymission.org.au
Maps via Google Earth - https://earth.google.com/web/
The Sailing Adventures of Brilliant II
Join the Smallwoods - Sharon, Julian, Josh, and Pepe (the Blue Burmese) - aboard Sailing Vessel Brilliant II. Brilliant II is a Kelly Peterson 44, built in 1978. Julian and Sharon bought the boat in Phuket, Thailand, in 2005, and sailed her slowly back to Sydney, Australia. Over the next five years they lived aboard and sailed the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. They are currently based in the Whitsundays, Queensland, where Josh was born in 2010. In 2021 they began a refit of the water-damaged interior (which had needed doing since the start!), while continuing to sail on mini-adventures north and south of their home port. Sharon is a photojournalist by trade, but realising YouTube is a thing has started creating videos too. You can also follow their adventures on Instagram at @shazatsea.
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