Our family of six just sailed our 51ft yacht from Keppel Bay Marina to Southport Yacht Club. This is the video of our first overnight passage on the trip. Checkout how we went...
Even Aussies will admit, there isn't a whole lot in the Australian Outback. But what is there, is well worth a visit. We hopped on a flight to Uluru and spent a couple memorable days being wilderness explorers.
To start things off, you have to wake up r...
A bit of the bad luck from last week sticks around and it all gets a bit too much for the crew. Thank goodness we are in the Ionian Islands of Greece as the enchanting paradise makes it all OK.
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EPISODE 33.
This episode I visit Chris Rees, a very expe...
A huge run of bad luck for Avalon. We leave for our first overnight passage and were forced to learn a series of lessons the hard way. Having to choose between heading into a thunder storm with 40 knots of breeze in irons, or ducking in to a bay and droppi...
After our (first) road trip in Australia was over, we spent a couple of days in Melbourne, enjoying big city life and hunting down the incredible artwork in the famous laneways. But in our hearts, we are boat people and we were ready to get back out on th...
Aspire to the life you dream of and be who you really want to be! And in the end, it's not the years in your life that counts but the life in your years.
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After 6 weeks at sea, we come to understand the challenges of managing a relationship on the ocean. We thought we would give you an unmasked insight into what it's really like.
It comes with its challenges, but the flip side to this is that it brings you ...
We camp the night in the Eyre River bed and then make our way out of the Simpson Desert to Birdsville, the remote outback town that sits at the edge of the Simpson Desert.
We wind our way towards the coast and take in some old homestead ruins along the wa...
At Sea, No One Can Hear You Scream! We leave Papua New Guinea and sail across the Straight of torres along the North Coast of Australia. Laura sees a sea snake and freaks out!
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What a place! Avalon leaves Croatia for possibly the first time in her life and heads for the Fjords of Montenegro, where me make a few awesome friends.
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Hey guys The 100th episode is here so crazy to think we have made that many little vids of us travelling in our humble home This one we get surf at one of our favourite anchorages so far in Indonesia!!!
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This episode is full of amazing desert vistas and Magnus cooking on an open fire in the Australian bush.
We check out Chambers Pillar, a stunning rock formation at the end of a four wheel drive track. It’s definitely worth the hours and hours of driving...
Our best week on Avalon yet. We had heard great things about the Southern Dalmatian Islands of Croatia, but had not been prepared for how perfect they truly are.
We sailed into the famous port of Hvar and explored what lies within the city walls; then to ...
We continue our journey on bumpy, deserted roads, in the deserts of the Australian Outback. We re-water and re-fuel by the side of the road.
The scenery is absolutely stunning in this part of the world and Mavi gets a good workout!
We stop in at Giles We...
On this episode we finally finish all the jobs we wanted to get done before leaving and depart to Fraser Island as for our first leg.
We leave behind people which who we will now be in touch forever.
Besides the sad part of the farewells, we are ready to t...
This week we hit the road from Mornington Wilderness Park heading north to the Mitchell Falls Plateau & all the way out to Walsh Point, we also have a lil hiccup with our roof rack and take an epic flight over the Mitchell Falls.
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Our road trip continues as we make it to the absolutely stunning Great Ocean Road. It may only be 151 miles (243km) long, but it quickly rose up the list to be one of the best drives we've ever done. Not only is it scenic, but it's got a great history to...
Hey guys this episode we explore Savu Indonesia. We meet a beautiful local family and visit some fresh water caves WARNING if you are claustrophobic you may not like this one eeekkk.. We also visit a traditional village where we dress in traditional clothe...
This is an historic episode where we find abandoned mines and an abandoned town in the Outback, as we slowly make are way further and further from the coast, heading west.
Thanks for traveling along with us as we cross the vast continent of Australia fro...
There comes a time when you're just ready to get away from boats for a while. And after a years worth of sailing, capped off by several weeks of projects, we had reached that point.
In order to recharge our batteries, we left Starry Horizons on the hard ...
After a wild and woolly night at the western most edge of Australia, Steep Point, we head off east and explore. We find Wooleen Station, with its abandoned shearer’s kitchen and shearer’s quarters in the middle of nowhere and have a good poke around.
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Hoisting the flag of freedom on Avalon can only mean one thing; she gets to feel the wind in her sails. Press play to watch the magical moment we make this discovery; plus a little bit of the usual adventuring and ocean worshipping around North West Croati...
On this episode, we start getting very excited about the next coming months, Linda will fly back to Noumea for work while I'll stay on the boat finishing the preparations for next season, exciting times ahead!
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Starry Horizons needed a bit of TLC so we headed up to The Boat Works in Coomera for a spa day/weeks. Tops on the to-do list was a mini electrical refit to replace our AGM batteries with Lithium. This was a complicated project that was beyond our comfort...
We thought it was time to give you a rough overview of the trip we have been brewing up over the last three years of our lives. So here it is, in amongst dinghy adventures and a tour round the city of Pula, Croatia with our cute mate, Freyja.
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Join us this week as we start the Gibb River Road heading east, see our first crocodiles in the wild start exploring this amazing part of the country.
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On this episode we show you the real reason why we are not out at sea doing what we love.
Still in Melbourne city, getting something important done before getting the boat ready and going back on our adventure.
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Song: Ehrling - You And Me ...
Boat tour... From the water! Finally, Little Miss Av is in the water and everyone is pretty happy about it. So much so that we would like to welcome you in to our home and show you round.
A special thank you to Ruffy at Barrenjoey Marine Electrics who hel...
In this episode we flew from Hamilton Island where we were attending a family wedding, to Gold Coast to hang out with Khiara’s family.
After a fun filled week in Gold Coast catching nature, car and drag racing highlights we then made the long journey ba...
Hey guys this episode we say goodbye to grandma Shonny as she leaves us in Dili to fly home to Australia. We get sad about being stuck, get inspired by a rad viewer that reaches out to help us and decide to use exercise to make us feel better while we wait...
On this episode we go away from the city, trying to find that peace that nature gives you, and we will enter into the magic hike of National Park of Wilsons Promontory just 3 hours drive from Melbourne.
Beautiful beaches and tracks that will want you go ex...
E106 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell world travels.
With the Australian motorbike tours now behind us, it’s time to embark on a new adventure to earn money so we can afford to cruise.
We have been busily setting up the website for a new four wheel drive ta...
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