In our last episode of our Far North Queensland series, we sail from Magnetic Island to Townsville to haul out Mirrool. Featuring: 6:58 Twilight Tuna under ...
Free Range Living
Is there a better way to celebrate your birthday than island hopping and sailing around the Whitsunday Islands in Australia? I'm not sure there is! Our mad ...
Out Chasing Stars
Join us this week as we visit Broadhurst Reef on the Great Barrier Reef. The visibility was great and we were thrilled to see the corals in such good ...
You never realize just how big Australia is until you have to sail up the coast. Spoiler alert... it's big! We started out this leg of our trip with an ...
Join us as we explore the beautiful Magnetic Island off the coast of Townsville in Queensland. We find Koala bears, visit the World War II anti-shipping forts ...
We say goodbye to Hinchinbrook Island and head south to the Palm Isles. Once there we feast on coconuts, explore the fringing coral reef and look for ...
Sailing around the world on a boat is a lot of work. Sometimes, it's more work than others. We had a stretch of about three months where it felt like we were ...
There's a lot to explore on the east coast of Australia and we began by taking the inside passage from the Gold Coast up to Moreton Bay. This was a great way ...
This week we discover a fuel blockage motoring to Cardwell in a glass out. We sail down the Hinchinbrook Channel past Lucinda Jetty and decide to make our way ...
Join us for our last day at Holmes Reef before we hoist the sails and head towards Hinchinbrook Island. This episode features another free diving sequence, ...
Join us as we continue to explore the beautiful Holmes Reef in the Coral Sea. We discuss our dive in last week's episode, discover a lost tuna long line, ...
We love our boat, we really do. But she was over on the East Coast of Australia and we wanted to go sailing on Ningaloo Reef on the West Coast. What to do? ...
After keeping busy with boat chores in Cairns we decide to take a break and be tourists for a few days exploring the World Heritage Rain Forest around Kuranda. ...
In this episode we make the necessary upgrades to our dinghy in the process learning a lot about working with epoxy and fibre glass from our new friend David ...
Keen for a swim, we take a break from beating to windward and sail on a reach to the famous dive site on the Great Barrier Reef, the Cod Hole, to discover that ...
In this episode, we leave Tijou Reef and continue south to Cairns. On our way, we experience some more wild weather and discover that in some conditions our ...
We say goodbye to Margaret Bay and continue sailing south down the Queensland coast against the trade winds. Troy discusses the best way to bleed tuna, why it ...
In this episode of Free Range Sailing we start the journey against the trade-winds down to Cairns some 600 nautical miles south. We say goodbye to Badu and ...
It is always our preference to sail, but when faced with the choice of sailing in high southerly winds and huge swells (against the EAC) or motoring in light ...
The next stop in our Australian Adventure takes us 40nm up the coast to Lake Macquarie. The sail was pretty easy but the entrance into the lake required us to ...
We spend our last day on Thursday Island attending the Dawn Service and Parade for ANZAC Day before sailing to the island of Badu where we meet Councillor, ...
Pascale arrives back on Thursday Island with a rattling parcel! We prepare for our trip south by making a giant batch of biltong with our mate Raph and Troy ...
For the last year, we'd had one date circled on the calendar: New Year's Eve in Sydney Harbour. And we finally made it... David's family flew halfway around ...
It's always nice to get a speed boost when on a passage and the East Australian Current is about as big as they get. Sailing down from Coffs Harbour to ...