Making Memories - Sailing to Meet a Guinness World Record Holder on the Great Barrier Reef
One of the best things about cruising as a family is spending quality time in some pretty awesome places with the ones you love.
As parents, we get so much joy from taking our son Josh to destinations we’ve sailed to previously and experiencing them again through his eyes.
Green Island in Far North Queensland is one of those places.
It’s somewhere Julian and I have been to countless times before (check out the slightly cringeworthy old photos from 00:25 in), as well as being an amazing place to sail to in its own right.
Green Island is Australia’s first protected coral cay, the Great Barrier Reef’s first tourist destination, site of the world’s first underwater observatory, and home to the world’s first (and only) crocodile exhibit on a sand cay.
The most famous resident of that exhibit – otherwise known as ‘Marineland Melanesia’ – is Cassius.
Now the world’s oldest known surviving crocodile, at a recently estimated 120 years old, Cassisus also holds the Guinness World Record for being the largest crocodile in captivity, measuring a whopping 5.48 metres (17ft 11in).
Come along and meet him with us, and welcome aboard for the ride!
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https://youtu.be/dudXPzkHX-4 - Green Island Resort
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/cassius-worlds-largest-crocodile-120th-birthday-green-island/102435256
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-10/fnq-crocodile-hunter-george-craig-celebrates-90th-birthday/12408554
https://www.greenislandresort.com.au/marineland-melanesia
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/book/2019/7/an-introduction-to-the-biggest-crocodile-ever-that-makes-todays-crocs-look-ti-584595
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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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