Fraser island YouTube Videos
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Not enough wind to sail & the motor quits – 2020 Episode 5
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 ...
Feasting on Crab at Fraser Island – Episode 4
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 ...
Crossing the Notorious Wide Bay Bar – 2020 – Episode 3
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...
⚡Thunderbolts & Lightning⚡: Sailing in Storm Season – Free Range Sailing Ep 96
We sail south with a favourable wind and find ourselves caught up in Summer thunderstorms. With lightning blasting the sky we take measures to protect our electrical circuits. Winds swirl and cause us to be on a lee shore, we show our rain collection metho...
Engine failure in the Great Sandy Straits, Australia – Sailing Australia Ep.44
Experiencing engine failure twice and coming face to face with a wild Dingo on Fraser Island. The life of a cruising sailor can be very varied, having to fix an engine issue in the middle of a massive thunder and lightning storm is not our favourite occupa...
96 – Sailing Up Australia’s East Coast
You never realize just how big Australia is until you have to sail up the coast. Spoiler alert... it's big! We started out this leg of our trip with an overnight passage up to Fraser Island. But to get into Fraser from the south, you have to cross the ...
Sailing Fraser Island to Gold Coast
Sailing from Fraser Island to Gold Coast with four kids on board our 51ft yacht. Life on passage, playing games, making lunch, whale watching and lightning storms passing through. This is the last video of our journey home from Yeppoon. The music we use i...
Crossing The Wide Bay Bar with Four Kids
In this video we cross the Wide Bay Bar - known as the mad mile it has made boaties nervous for years and we were nervous too. However, in the right conditions we had no trouble at all. There was still tension in the air and nerves as we crossed. The mus...
Sailing up the east coast of Australia: Fraser Island | 22° SOUTH | Ep.19
Our first leg is From Mooloolaba to Fraser Island. A short 65nm passage that we will make overnight to be able to time it perfectly to cross the dangerous bar of Fraser Island in the right time. We enjoy a day in land where will go for a hike to the beauti...
Sailing Escape Episode 4 Sharks at Wolf Rock and The Great Sandy Straits
Diving with Sharks at Wolf Rock and sailing Escape through the Great Sandy Straits.
Episode 104 An island walk to Lake McKenzie, Fraser Island
Support us at https://www.patreon.com/sailingintofreedom I am an Australian guy trying to live on a small footprint. I take in crew wherever I go and go where the wind takes me. I catch and gather food wherever I can. I have no fridge or freezer, no ove...
Sailing into freedom Episode 75 The northern tip of Fraser Island
Support us at https://www.patreon.com/sailingintofreedom I am an Australian guy trying to live on a small footprint. I take in crew wherever I go and go where the wind takes me. I catch and gather food wherever I can. I have no fridge or freezer, no ove...
Sailing into freedom Episode 74 Leaving Wathumba Creek
Support us at https://www.patreon.com/sailingintofreedom I am an Australian guy trying to live on a small footprint. I take in crew wherever I go and go where the wind takes me. I catch and gather food wherever I can. I have no fridge or freezer, no ove...
Sailing into freedom Episode 73 (plus) Goofing around
Support us at https://www.patreon.com/sailingintofreedom I am an Australian guy trying to live on a small footprint. I take in crew wherever I go and go where the wind takes me. I catch and gather food wherever I can. I have no fridge or freezer, no ove...