This episode we visit a waterfall with friends, have our windless break and find ourselves stuck in Dili.
We visit the museum and learn some of Timor Leste's Brutal past. Mummy and I visit a traditional market and we catch up with Mayra at a Art school.
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With the goal of getting the boat into the water and sailing as soon as possible in mind, we work with haste which results in blunders. One step forward, two steps back; the crane gets cancelled and Avalon remains on the hard stand.
We're still smiling th...
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Join us as on our road trip around Australia. We quit our jobs and packed our lives into Patty, (our trusty Toyota Prado) We left Perth and head north for the winter.
This week we continue our trip up the west coast and make it to Karijini National Park, ...
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 the world to join us for the holidays and we spent several weeks together exploring Australia. W...
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Hey guys this is a vid with some tips on things to consider before sailing to Indonesia. So this our opinions and hope its helpful for anyone th...
The survey report came back sort of OK-ish, but we had already quit our jobs, sold most of our possessions so we were pretty decided on just doing the adventure regardless of what the survey report said. We've been planning this trip for three years now an...
E105 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell world travels.
We leave Finke and the 2018 Finke Desert Race behind us and head towards Yulara and Ayres Rock. After bike repairs and a day’s rest we continue the adventure through the deserts.
Then, it's all over. This ...
We put the Millennial Falcon to bed and fly back to Australia where we meet up with the family on a Lagoon 421 catamaran to cruise the Whitsunday Islands.
We made a clockwise circuit around the islands starting out with Whitsundays peak, accessible from ...
Join us as we begin our road trip around Australia. We quit our jobs and packed our lives into Patty, (our trusty Toyota Prado) We leave Perth and head north for the winter.
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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 Sydney, we went out to the 100 meter depth line and started flying. The wind was from the north and we...
This Episode Lee goes on the hunt for Darryl the dog tooth Tuna and we leave Paradise to continue our sail on to Timor Leste.
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E104 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell world travels.
After delivery the Wicked Van safely back to London, we fly back to Australia for the last few motorcycle tours before our motorcycle adventure tour business is sold.
We are both on the last trip across Aust...
This episode we score some perfect weather and get to hang out at one the most beautiful places in remote Indonesia.
Even though our dive compressor is broken we have 1 last dive with the tanks that have air.
Clear waters and sunshine so we spend most of...
This episode we leave Ambon Indonesia and start our 350nm of travels to Timor Leste.
We see a water spout, some synchronised dolphins in a line, Grandma Shon jumps into the big blue in the middle of the Banda Sea and we reminisce about being full-time cru...
This is the last episode in a series of three that feature amazing Ashmore reef. We find a couple more stunning dive locations and pass on a little of our knowledge about some of the fish we encounter and see if Sea Snakes are the deadly killers some peopl...
Welcome back for part 2 of 3 of our Spearfishing Queensland series. We head further north for New Year celebrations and manage to shoot some epic fish too! We head back down south and camp at an epic Farmstead complete with Horses, Sheep, Dogs and a pet G...
This year, we chose to sail down to Australia in order to escape the South Pacific cyclone zone. And our first port of call was the beautiful Coffs Harbour.
We'd arrived just before a big front rolled through that brought southerly winds, so we ended up ...
Winter is over and its time to head to warmer climes. I fly to Brisbane, Australia for a few days to start some work on my boat then fly to Motueka, New Zealand. Motueka is where I was born and went to school and I was meeting my 3 brothers and Mother ther...
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So this episode we arrive back into Ambon to check out of Indonesia. We catch up with our good friends again experience a Durian Festival.
A what??? Yes a festival for the fruit Durian as you can see we are not all fans of this plentiful fruit...
After travelling the entire length of Croatia, visiting every city on the coast apart from Dubrovnik, we saw 11 rubbish boats and 1 great one. We negotiate an offer and it get's accepted!
We've flown back to Australia now to play the waiting game. Our fut...
After leaving the boat on the Sunshine Coast, we fly to Melbourne, the city I lived for 5 years, my home away from home.
Even if Linda prefers nature, she loved the artistic atmosphere and energy of the city.
We had interviews on SBS talking about the jour...
This episode we arrive at the beautiful Ai Island in the Banda Sea. We show you the beautiful under water world in remote Indonesia. Most of this episode we are underwater just how we like it!!
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Lee, Sara, Taj and Bella xox
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The search continues...
Well we certainly got to know Croatia. We drove up the entire length of the country trying to find our girl and didn't find one single bit we didn't like (because everywhere has pizza).
Thank you for watching; it means the world t...
Hey guys ok so this episode is more then just a PRANK we visit another island in the Banda Sea and the boys do play a PRANK on Grandma. Poor grandma lucky she is a legend!! There is some more fun with the local kids and we sail to another Island only not b...
Join as for an action packed trip as we head north to catch up with Tim McDonald, fellow spearfisher extraordinaire. We come across a leopard shark aggregation, shoot a monster Cobia off the back of a fat bull shark find some nice mangrove jacks, jewfish a...
Making the most of Fife and Morris Island, we observe the animal life and take advantage of what nature has to offer us.
Crocodile and coconut hunting is the dish of the day, come and explore the two islands and finish up with a kitesurfing session
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Step 1 of our quest to sail around the world begins!
We board a plane from Australia to Croatia to find a yacht fit enough to sail around the world. Our first yacht no less.
We were warned it wouldn't be easy, and my goodness they were right. There were ...
Sweet Jules got herself into a tricky situation where she struggled with her emotions while catching a shark.
Being a vegetarian that was open to have fish this was a very emotional moment but in the end she made the decision
to release the shark. But th...
Hey guys this episode we have a visitor from Australia and she brings us some things from Australia!! we see more of the Banda Islands and hang out with some local kids that steal our hearts.
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Lee, Sara, Taj and Bella xox
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In search of hypnotizing reefs as well some back up plans in case the weather force us to take a different path. By looking at the colours on Google earth the Captain tries to see where we can anchor and which are the best spots to visit and we end up in a...
Heading to Flinders Group and having an interesting hike with the crew in a feisty mood.
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Hey beautiful people this episode is reaching the top of an active Volcano in the Banda Sea yes the going down was just as hard see our struggle ;-) Plus we show you a historical Fort on Banda Neira we hope you enjoy.
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The bad weather keeps following us. To add to the peachiness we are now in crocs country which means no swimming. At Cape Melville the crew trys to keep up with the Captain jumping across boulders but ends up doing a bonfire on the beach.
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