RICHARDS BAY, in the land of the Zulus! Welcome to Coffee Time with the Drifters! These will be short more frequent episodes where we tell you about where we are, what we are doing, our plans going forward and all sort of other stuff.
In this first episode...
Incredible discovery whilst I was free diving off the coast of South Africa so lucky to find this jelly fish and get a close up of how it moves in the water and the beautiful colours it has on display.
Free diving is an incredible hobby of mine and has t...
We sail the South African Wild Coast and something breaks at sea! The Transkei wild coast is notorious for being a treacherous stretch of coast along the Eastern Cape. Known to many sailors for its rugged terrain, violent storms, big seas and unforgiving ...
EP 154: Leaving South Africa. First Leg to Cross the Atlantic.
We have finished up our last minute tasks on Lady Africa, provisioned the boat, ticked off some last Cape Town bucket list items and now the time has come to say goodbye to South Africa. Our...
Episode 149: SAILING after COVID!
We haven't been out on the open ocean since lock down started.. firstly because we couldn't and then when we could we had way to much boat tasks to complete. It was so good to go out but the boat needed a good hull scrub...
Episode 147:
Rickys butt was itching to go for a dive so we mustered up the courage to go diving and when I say we I actually mean Ricky. 😂 The coolest part about it all is that we found baby octopus. Having heard how difficult it is to actually find t...
Episode 146:
My family came to visit & what do we do? Put them to work 😂😂
We changed up the swivel system on our anchor, tensioned up the forestay and rigging. Hung up some ties to neaten up our cockpit but then amongst all of this our head fre...
Episode 145 : We are so close to having all our boat jobs that are required to have completed the rebuild of Lady Africa, the rest would just be upgrades and maintenance. ;) We serviced our hydraulic steering, ran a fresh water flush system for our water ...
Episode 144 : Since we have really been feeling the pressure, we decided it was time to put our heads down and gets some boat tasks finished. Yes they are not completely necessary to do to leave for Namibia but South Africa is known to be a lot cheaper whe...
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.
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