🏝️’THE GREAT ADVENTURE’ Ep: 32🏝️
Skinny Dipping and camping at one of the most remote and beautiful waterfalls in Australia!
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Kayaking The Wild Ep: 12 🌴
After stocking up with coconuts and travelling 20km, we pull the kayaks up at the mouth of a very small, crystal clean river system. It wasn't long before the curious resident croc came out to see what was going on. This camp...
We leave the beautiful Langford Island and Langford Reef and make our way out to the Great Barrier Reef, namely, Bait Reef and Hook Reef.
Nutshell gets a good clean and we take Peanut out and about to look around and to try and find a pathway through the ...
An in depth look at one of Australia’s most unique animals, The Cassowary.
This bird is a walking dinosaur and a keystone species to the survival of Australia’s lush Queensland Rainforests.
But their size and strength has given them the unwarranted rep...
🏝️’THE GREAT ADVENTURE’ Ep: 32🏝️
Coastal foraging and fishing in remote northern Australia for tropical fruits, coconuts & Barramundi. This is Day 95 living off the land and ocean on 'The Great Adventure'.
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We finally leave the crocodiles and bugs behind at Hinchinbrook Island and sail through the Family group of islands to anchor off the closed resort at Dunk Island. Here we explore national park trails deep into the ancient rain forest, enjoy the constant b...
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Welcome back to another ep of getting b2b as we continue our journey kayaking to the Tip of Australia. We catch fish off a rock ledge over the reef, get reminded that we are definitely not the top of this food chain, and explore some spectacular reef syste...
Join us this week, Bryce leaves, Kieran climbs Queenslands highest Peek Mount Bartle Frere, and we finish off the old coach road. Oh yea we got super lazy with the filming so apologies for the dribs and drabs of footage.
We promise Leeann will be back ne...
In this episode we explore Hitchinbrook island National Park on the east side of Australia.
It’s beautiful hikes and waterfalls are exactly what we needed.
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Join Strick and Fran on the Great Barrier Reef as they find their favourite dive spot in the world and a historic shipwreck.
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We had the honor of diving the worlds Newest Underwater Sculpture Museum before it opened, give this beauty a couple of years and after some coral planting it will really come to life.
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Welcome back to another episode getting back 2 basics. We're almost halfway through the trip kayaking to the Northernmost tip of Australia 🇦🇺 . In this episode, we find well-needed freshwater to stock up our supplies and hike up a creek to find what ...
In this episode we spend a week deep in crocodile country as we sheltered from a strong weather system whipping up big winds and high seas right along the coast. We were very well protected in the waters of the Hinchinbrook Channel running between the Worl...
We continue our passage day sailing through the islands and shoals of the Recherche Archipelago. As you may know, we only carry limited provisions trusting in our ability to live off the sea as we travel.
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It’s day one and we head to the public jetty to fill Nutshell with water and give her a final wash-down before heading off on our sail to the Great Barrier Reef.
It’s a shakedown cruise for us to make sure that Nutty is safe and ready for our imminent...
Join us this week when we tackle the old coach road, with our sites set on Maytown. We get surrounded in Bush Fires and the poor Prado gets a little more damage crawling over some rocky track.
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We are on Magnetic Island at the Wallaby sanctuary learning about the little guys and all the struggles they face.
Adorbs is an understatement!
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Strick & Fran are camped on a little sand cay on the Great Barrier Reef and head out fishing, Spearfishing & snorkelling at one of the best sections of reef they have seen. How many Coral Trout can you count!?
They have to be quick catching the fis...
72 hours before we were scheduled to depart Melbourne, the entire state of Victoria, Australia was placed into a 7 DAY snap lockdown due to covid outbreak.
This week we take you to show some of Australia’s unique wildlife.
An enchanted butterfly forest, koalas & were heading back to the Yongala ship wreck and this time were bringing friends along for the ride!
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When I look back at all the "Catch & Cook-ups" I've been a part of, this would have to be the most memorable...
🌴 Kayaking the Wild: Ep 9 🛶 In this episode we go fishing to get dinner, after catching nothing Albert, Rossy & Az stumbled acro...
On this episode, we sail from Hobart to Sydney on an incredible 50ft X-Yacht, 'Son Of Sam'. Tucana gets a new anti-foul, stanchions and backing plates.
In this episode we do all the important stuff in sailing cruisers lives. We leave a beautiful anchorage at Orpheus Island, catch fish, clean fish, enjoy a fantastic downwind sail, pass closely by the 6 kilometre long, Lucinda Jetty and into the Hinchinbroo...
🏝️’THE GREAT ADVENTURE’ Ep: 29🏝️
3 months into the adventure we take a look back at how the hell we ended up on this little speck of sand in the middle of the ocean, a long way from nowhere and with no sight of the finish line.
We're still ...
Well Speaking of slack video releases, this footage is from back in August 2018, but the good news is that it's finally here.
Kieran's Brother Bryce has joined the adventure whilst Leeann is in Ireland visiting family. We decide to leave the camper in sto...
The drama of Soph breaking her ankle is not over yet.
We find out upon another hospital visit that Soph is going to need surgery to put her ankle back together again. For Soph, having never even been to hospital before let alone had a surgery this is big ...
In this episode, we depart from Cairns, clean Sylfias Hull, and dive to the Historic Yongala Ship Wreck that sank from a cyclone.
She’s covered in venomous sea snakes & some of the biggest fish we’ve seen.
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It’s only a matter of days now before we sail away on Nutshell.
There’s still so much to do but we have decided that we are just going to go and we’ll work out the details along the way! Like they say, sailing is just fixing things in exotic locatio...
🛶 Kayaking the WILD: EP 8 🐟
G'day legends! In this episode we find ourselves camped by the edge of a river system for two nights. We relied daily on catching protein to eat with rice and flour rations. Each member of the tribe brought different s...
🏝️ ‘THE GREAT ADVENTURE’ EP: 28🏝️
Strick & Fran are Camping on a little sand cay surrounded by sharks. While Spearfishing they’re reminded that they’re not the only ones hungry for a feed of fish... with Sharks trying to take Fran’s...
On this epic episode: Our rigging is taken away and getting replaced, John modernises our water pump, we get new flexi solar panels, the winches are serviced.
We sail Our Dreamtime north from Townsville to Orpheus Island and witness one of the Great Barrier Reef's most amazing sights as hundreds of giant clams squirt high in the air as the tide recedes. Moored in crystal clear waters beside a very exclusive reso...
🏝Kayaking the Wild Ep: 7 🛶
In this episode we forage for fresh seafood around the island we're camped on, and after having minimal luck with fishing, we find a good feed of oysters, mud muscles & coconuts. Cape York truly is one of the final fro...
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