A few days fishing and exploring Cooktown, one of the best fishing destinations in Australia!
This was our first time fishing out of Cooktown, and it didn't disappoint... so many different species of fish caught just a stones throw from the boat ramp.
Grea...
G'day legends, welcome back!
Join Az for a cook-up with one of his favourite fresh seafood meals. Two different size crayfish (tropical rock lobsters) are cooked up on the BBQ after a day on the Great Barrier Reef. We're grateful to call this part of the ...
UNDERWATER HUNTING & GRABBING CRAYS.
Join Az, his brother Jack and "Reddog", as they go for a dive in their own backyards to get a good feed of fish for their families. Using the left over frames and heads to fertilise their veggie garden!
We will be...
Where to begin, we commandeer an old Toyota Camry on the mainland during a much needed supply run. Then battling a hangover and the seas we beat into the wind back to Keppel Island where we commence a game of cat and mouse with the wind. Our musical chairs...
We spend a week on Great Keppel Island enjoying glorious weather and some of the best beaches in the world. We catch monster mud crab and get to grips with a few boat jobs. In ‘Our Galley’ Karen shows how she makes awesome Fish Tacos for lunch and aft...
Magnus heads out the back of our block to clear the track and ends up stuck in a ditch which wasn’t there the last time we were back at the farm pre Cyclone Debbie!
He continues the work on Nutshell’s Volvo engine’s exhaust outlet.
More components ...
We ran out of tofu and basically everything else so we are on a mission to catch a fish. Still on Great Keppel Island, Slim is determined to go catch us some dinner. With a combined experience of bugger all, we get lucky and join friends on the beach to sh...
We discover an abandoned resort and more importantly a bar on Great Keppel Island. We wash off the hangover diving the beautiful reefs and have to get creative with our increasingly low supply of food onboard.
With a gorgeous sunrise as the backdrop, we depart Lady Musgrave Island to make our way north to Masthead island before a change in the weather forecast sees us reconsidering our plans. Light winds hamper our sailing but the marine life around the reefs co...
We discover why Lady Musgrave Island and it’s amazing coral lagoon of almost 3,000 acres is a very strong contender for the title of the best cruising destination on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The island’s unique features and birdlife are a big ...
Magnus is busy with jobs for Peanut and Nutshell. Peanut’s pimping continues with a new propeller guard and Magnus works on Nutshell’s new engine.
It’s time for some chill time out on the water and Magnus takes the day off to go mud crabbing and fis...
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The cameras were running as we very, very narrowly escaped the clutches of a raging current trying to smash our boat onto the coral reef at Lady Musgrave Island. We still get cold chills watching the heart stopping footage of our near shipwreck.
Sailing t...
We are having issues with the water pump so Magnus pulls it apart to see what the problem is and hopefully to fix it.
It’s very windy in the Whitsundays with extreme gale force winds reaching up to 46 knots and we’re out in it!
But, it’s just great...
We leave Kingfisher Bay at Fraser island sooner than anticipated to sail across Hervey Bay to the Burnett River to shelter from forecast high winds and heavy rain but we catch so many mackerel along the way we have to stop fishing. That’s all before our ...
Our journey to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef islands stalls in the Great Sandy Straits as a new Government COVID 19 regulation prohibits liveaboard cruisers from moving up the coast. While we wait and sort things out, we catch so many crabs Karen rises ...
Hello, I'm Adventureman Dan, and welcome to my life of adventure!
Join me, as I take you back to where it all started six years ago. Then racing through the years of adventures around the world that lead me to where I am today.
This video is meant to on...
We drive down to Mackay to pick up our new outboard for peanut and Magnus, then head out for a test drive in the bay and through the Coral Sea Marina.
Then its off for a sail to the reef, weather dependent. It’s a windy time and on the way we decide to ...
Our journey north to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Islands continues. We touch bottom entering the harbour at Mooloolaba before sailing further north to a wonderful new anchorage recently built by mother nature at Double Island Point. Then it’s over t...
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Ditching the sailboat to go bush
Short and swee...
Join us as we make the most of the Summer trade winds and try our hand at spanner crabbing (Kona Crabs) and we try Marlin Fishing but catch a Cobia instead.
Videos Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Spanner Trapping
03:22 - Fishing
04:38 - Cooking Spanne...
Hi guys this week we take you through one of our longer episodes. After an adventurous few weeks up the Cape we decide to stop at a nice campsite in Cooktown for a couple of nights. Here we explore the town along with a decent hike (well for us) up Mt Cook...
Coral Trout Crackling on the BBQ.
G'day legends, join Strick in the B2B beach kitchen as he whips up one of his favourite parts of a Coral Trout- The Skin! (This is what they're called here in Australia, and can be found in shallow or deep water along the...
We have been hanging out to take Nutshell out for a sail but the weather has not been kind enough. I wouldn’t say that we are fair weather sailors but huge storms hit the coast and we had to delay heading off.
After much fiddling Magnus finally manages ...
It’s a week of finishing things off, fixing stuff and finding a bargain sail!
Magnus makes new stickers for Peanut. He fixes the impeller on the Honda outboard which has totally shredded!
Plus, Magnus sorts out the broken ST60+ wind instrument which h...
Join Strick & Fran as they head out to find a Tropical Island to setup camp for the night. They need to go spearfishing for dinner while living from the ocean and having some pretty wild encounters with a Big Bull Shark and Mother and calf Humpback Wha...
This week Peanut gets a lot of TLC. Magnus installs a rail on her to help prevent damage when she comes alongside other boats and Nutshell.
Magnus installs the Dragonfly echo sounder so we can poke in to the various waterways the Kimberley and check dept...
Ultimate CATCH & COOK Competition of the BEST EATING FISH
Spearfishing for some of the best eating fish in Australia. Join Strick & Fran as they recap one of the best days spearfishing and then fillet and cookup their catch. Which of the 3 species ...
And, once again, we have problems with the engine, well the gearbox actually. After Magnus had spent hours rebuilding it, it suddenly fills with water!
Magnus attempts a MagGyver fix, but is it enough to get us back to Airlie Beach or will we be stranded ...
SPEARFISHING BIG BARRAMUNDI & FINGERMARK ON SECRET WRECKS
Strick takes Fran out on a date spearfishing wrecks and secret spots for huge Barramundi & Fingermark. We've been trying (unsuccessfully) to dive these spots for the past 2-3 years... the p...
Magnus wrangles a dangerous snake and saves the girls from harm at the farm.
We head off to Happy Bay on Long Island in the Whitsundays, with our youngest daughter, Emily who is staying with us during the pandemic. The once popular Long island Resort is n...
Welcome to our first PODCAST episode! Stick this one in your headphones and go about your day, or indeed watch it as a video, we don't mind.
We are looking forward to introducing you to a few cruising legends who we have met along the way on our voyages ...
1 WEEK SPEARFISHING, FISHING & DIVING AT THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
Following on from this: https://youtu.be/O9l9pORzl4k
We set sail for the Southern Great Barrier Reef with the Adreno Spearfishing Crew for a week of diving and underwater adventures. The f...
Magnus makes a start on converting our existing staysail into a furling one. He begins by removing the old bolt rope, which is too small, and then sewing in a new one, making various repairs to he sail along the way.
We head out to Happy Bay but are thwar...
Spearfishing & Living on the Ocean. We set sail for the Southern Great Barrier Reef with the Adreno Spearfishing Crew for a week of diving and underwater adventures. The first day goes horribly wrong with one of the crew evacuated in the Emergency Resc...
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