After a short visit to the Whitsunday Islands, we leave Airlie Beach and push on North towards our cyclone season base in Townsville. The first stop along the ...
After a delightful few days at Keswick island off Mackay, we push further north. We still can’t use our mainsail due to the sheet bracket on the boom we broke ...
We have yet another fantastic visit to West Bay and the Cruiser’s A-Frame at Middle Percy Island before sailing further north to Keswick Island where we spend ...
What began as an easy downwind sail from Port Clinton to Middle Percy Island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef became more complicated as the wind and sea ...
After a short stop at Great Keppel Island we sailed on north to Port Clinton while the weather allowed us. When we arrived at Perforated Point we had the ...
We leave Pancake Creek and Bustard Head lighthouse to continue our trek north to our planned stop at beautiful Great Keppel Island. Enroute, we have to ...
We sail Our Dreamtime north from Burnett Heads to remote anchorage at Pancake Creek where we spend some time exploring the natural delights of this out of the ...
We hadn’t planned to spend long in the Port of Bundaberg Marina but unfavourable winds and a long list of boat jobs conspired to keep us there for over a week. ...
In today’s episode we finally leave Gary’s Anchorage at K’Gari and wind our way through the narrow channels of the Great Sandy Straits to Big Woody Island for ...
We were sad to leave the beautiful sand lagoon anchorage at Double Island Point but sailing north in Spring, we need to make use of every weather window ...
We’re on our way north again to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and already the fish are being hauled in while we sail. How we do it is one of our most asked ...
After being tied to the dock overcoming health challenges for the last 20 months, we make final preparations to cast off the lines and sail north to the Great ...
While we regularly inspect our rigging looking for any developing problems, hopefully before they happen, we decided to pay for a professional rig check before ...
Well we’ve finally done the boat tour video people have been asking for. There’s so much to show on and in our 1982 Whitby 42 Ketch built in Ontario, Canada ...
Well we’ve finally done the boat tour video people have been asking for. There’s so much to show on and in our 1982 Whitby 42 Ketch built in Ontario, Canada ...
After a number of comments on our Dreamtime Sail social media, we invited people to send us the questions they would like answered about our sailing, live ...
After a number of comments on our Dreamtime Sail social media, we invited people to send us the questions they would like answered about our sailing, live ...
Our eight month odyssey sailing amongst the tropical islands of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on our Whitby 42 ketch finally comes to an end. We leave ...
In this video we cross some of the most dangerous waters in Queensland, the Wide Bay Bar, but not before waiting for the right weather conditions, consulting ...
On Our Dreamtime we enjoy a fantastic spinnaker run down the inside of K’Gari (Fraser Island) while water bombing aircraft fly over head battling huge fires ...
We’re not quite up the creek without a paddle as we navigate the Burnett River to anchor in Bundaberg’s Town reach for the first time. Here we explore this ...
We leave Great Keppel Island in the early morning darkness with the plan of sailing south to Pancake Creek but when we get there the anchorage is very full of ...
We continue sailing Our Dreamtime south from Port Clinton, making our way past the bogey spot of our passage north at Cape manifold. It was here we suffered ...
Sail along with us through Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Islands on the Whitby 42 Ketch, ‘Our Dreamtime’. After a sleepless night on anchor-watch, we couldn’t ...