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Sailing to Sulawesi’s Untouched Gem: Will Nickel Mining Destroy Labengke – S5 Ep 124
Sail with us aboard Our Dreamtime to the island of Pulau Labengke, a remote ecological paradise off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, where crystal-clear waters, vibrant coral reefs, heart-shaped bays, and lush rainforests teeming with hornbills, kingfishers, and other exotic bird species ...
Our Yacht Was Rammed By An Indonesian Customs Boat – S5 Ep 123
Leaving Kendari, Sulawesi our sail boat was rammed by an Indonesian Customs Boat. What did we do wrong? Nothing apparently. We had reluctantly gone to the city of Kendari to get fuel after not finding any diesel available at our previous stop on Pulau Wowoni. Other cruisers had reported experiences...
Finding Remote Anchorages with Satellite Images
Sailing around the remote Indonesian island of Sulawesi, we rely on satellite imagery to find stunning, safe anchorages. In this episode we do just that with our buddy boaters at an amazing beach where the dense, tropical jungle cascades down the mountainous coast to meet powder white sand, fringed ...
We’re Aground On A Remote Island – Sulawesi, Indonesia S5 Episode 121
We’re in for a surprise when we wake in the morning to leave Excelsior Cove. The boat is aground so we’re stuck and not going anywhere for a while. When the tide eventually lifts Our Dreamtime off the seabed, we sail over calm seas to anchor at the town of Raha, Sulawesi in search of ancient civilis...
All Alone in Nature’s Tropical Playground – Sailing Sulawesi, Indonesia – S5 Ep120
THIS is why we go sailing. To be all alone and at one with nature in amazing anchorages like the one featured here. Floating calmly in warm, crystal-clear waters above pure white sands, brilliant corals and abundant sea life while surrounded by amazing rock formations and lush, tropical jungle with ...
From Ocean Debris to Balinese Hindu Fire Ritual – Sailing to Buton, Indonesia – S5 Ep 119
Join us as we sail our classic ketch through the stunning waters of Southeast Asia, journeying from the remote village of Baopinang in Sulawesi to the vibrant port city of Bau Bau on Buton Island, Indonesia. In this episode, we navigate through pristine seascapes before encountering masses of trees ...
Anchored beside shocking destruction in Indonesia – Episode 118
During our first three weeks sailing the coast of Sulawesi we met many, many beautiful, welcoming people and saw nothing but the unbelievable beauty of the world’s eleventh largest island. But in this episode, we finally come face to face with the environmental vandalism of unregulated nickel mining...
Sailing Where No One Else Has, We Learn To Expect The Unexpected In Sulawesi, Indonesia – Ep 117
Ever heard of Palopo? How about Lasusua? No? Don’t feel bad because there are probably very few people on Earth who have. They are two very rarely visited towns on opposite sides of the gulf like Bone Bay in a remote area of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia but they’re precisely the towns we’re ...
Living With The Dead In Tana Toraja – Indonesia
The unique and intricate death customs of Tana Toraja have been celebrated for centuries, making them some of the most complex and expensive funeral traditions in the world. Before Dutch Christian Missionaries arrived, Torajans practiced Animism, the belief that non-human entities possess a spiritua...
A Happy Sailor’s Heart In Remote Sulawesi
In this episode we sail, we motor sail and we get stuck with our anchor wrapped up in an old net in the harbour at Tanjung Siwa. Don’t worry, we’ll show you a very quick and easy way to untangle a fouled anchor. After sailing in Greece we have plenty of experience. Then we motor sail again and, fin...
Why Motor Sailing Is Not A Sin and How To Clear A Fouled Anchor
We’re sailing with friends Daniel and Emma on our our buddy boat Lola B in an area of the huge Indonesian Island of Sulawesi very rarely visited by cruising boats. We’ve only scratched the surface so far but we’re already in love with this amazing area. As we move ever closer to the equator the wind...
The Amazing Timber Ship Builders of Sulawesi – Indonesia
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional phinisi wooden ships. If you’d like access to our live-tracker ...
Where You Can Still Be First Yacht Ever To Anchor At An Island Paradise – S5 Episode 114
We sail to a complex of reefs in remote Sulawesi, Indonesia and discover a great anchorage at a tiny island. Here we are enthusiastically welcomed by the villagers, who tell us we are the very first westerners ever to visit their stunning home. They proudly showed us around their small but truly bea...
Timber Shipbuilders of Indonesia #sailing #sulawesiindonesia
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional wooden ships The Bugis are the predominate ethnic group on sou...
The Bugis – Master Builders of the Traditional Timber Sailboats of Indonesia – S5 Episode 113
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional wooden ships The Bugis are the predominate ethnic group on sou...
Chased Out Of An Anchorage By Explosives – Series 5 Episode 112
There’s a first time for everything and before stopping at Pulau Sabalana on our way to Sulawesi, we’d never been chased out of an anchorage with explosives before. When the locals started throwing sticks of dynamite around the boat we got out of there as fast as we could. Fortunately we avoided bei...
Our Best Night Sail EVER Island Hopping Towards Sulawesi – S5 Episode 111
Isn’t it fantastic when a plan works. In this episode we take into account wind, swell, current and weather forecasts plus satellite imagery of potential anchorages before undertaking a 110 nautical mile overnight passage to the remote island of Sapuka Besar as our next step towards Sulawesi. The co...
All New Dreamtime Sailing Adventures – Where Are We Going? – S5 Episode 110
In our first 179 days in Indonesia we have sailed two and half thousand nautical miles or four thousand seven hundred kilometres around this amazing nation of islands. We’ve had more than enough breath taking experiences to know we want to spend a lot more time exploring this incredible country. So...
Forced To Leave Indonesia – We’re Out Of Visa – S4 Episode 109
Six months sailing around in Indonesia had flown by and with our 180 day visas fast running out, we were forced to leave the country in order to obtain new visas. Fortunately, we’d found a safe place to leave Our Dreamtime in the care of the villagers on the island of Gili Asahan off Lombok so we fe...
No Drama, No Big Seas, Just Easy Sailing & Our BEST EVER Indonesian Anchorage – S4 Episode 108
This episode covers our extended stay at Gili Asahan in the secret Gili Islands off Lombok's south west coast, an incredible and, as yet, unspoiled corner of the world. We LOVED the place and are really happy with how the episode came together to highlight its beauty and charm. This amazing a...
We’re Reluctantly Splitting Up – A Real Time Update
We rolled back into Australia five weeks ago for a wedding that was worth every mile and to tackle our 200,000-kilometre health check-ups. Rob zoomed through his appointments like a superstar, racking up gold stars left and right! On the flip side, Karen’s journey was a bit more of a rollercoaster. ...
Time To Get Off – Medana Bay Lombok – S4 Episode 106
After our encounter with a reef on the island of Sumbawa, we’re very happy to be safely on a mooring in Medana Bay Marina on Lombok for a while. We enjoy some time off the boat exploring the local area, get a new bow cover made and Rob sits Marina owner, Peter Cranfield, for a very interesting chat ...
Aground on a Reef – Facing Our Worst Nightmare – S4 Episode 105
Living our worst nightmare, we ran Our Dreamtime up on a reef. Terrible weather conditions, poor light and a 500 metre error in the charts combine to lead us onto a reef on the island of Sumbawa. In this episode we detail the how and why of what happened, the mistakes we made and the aftermath. But...