Always love how authentic you two are through the sailing process. Romantic yes, but not without sleepless nights and long hours of a journey to paradise.
Hello guys! I've been a fan for a long time, recently battled cancer. I can't express how great your channel is to me. Informative, fun, and above all real! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️ Cheers from Southern California USA 🇺🇸
Beautiful place, so enjoyed this video. Maybe it's true that one feels more energised closer to the equator, you both seem to be back in your element. I haven't been able to follow you on the tracker and read your entries because my graphics driver crashes every time. Those entries are wonderful to read, so looking forward to catching up on those. And to your next video. Thanks.
G'day guy's thanks for another great episode! Lady Musgrave is a very special place for me as it's close to home and I've been there few times as a child growing up with my Dad! Cheers guy's and stay safe
Thank you very much for another excellent video of such an amazing place! The drone and snorkeling shots were very well done and gave us terrific views of a place very few will get to visit.
Another great video James and Rhonda!!! I have been to the Reef and Frazer Island and many of the places you are going. It is awesome to see it again through your wonderful videos! I am alive in the ocean with the amazing wildlife who live there! Stay safe and Godspeed!
Thanks for sharing your adventures. I can understand Rhonda's thoughts about, not so much fear of being away from the boat and in deep water.I was snorkelling one day off an island in Fiji and went over the drop off shelf and the depth disappeared into blackness. I look back at the island and began swimming back. Took me 3 breaks before we got the beach. You lose your position of where you are and just amazed at the scenery. We got a little sail boat the next day and sailed over the same area and saw a shark. Great times.
Since this video and snorkel I’ve definitely gained a lot more confidence in depth James has been shocked a couple of times now with my new found “less worry” about it… think the excitement now of finding more underwater creatures takes over, I’ve even snorkelled with three sharks now at the reef, was incredible!!!
Amazing looking waters. You captured it brilliantly at the beach, snorkeling and especially with the drone. Looking forward to more barrier reef action!
Been watching your videos for a long time. You have earned the title of first and probably only Patreon subscription from me. Love your work. Keep it coming guys. You are both awesome.
Hi James, and Rhonda, welcome to the Great Barrier Reef the largest reef in the world. Hope you enjoy it. You guys have just ticked off to big things that most people would love to go and do the largest sand island in the world Fraser island and now you’re on the Great Barrier Reef , I know that you won’t destroy what you come to enjoy. Keep up the good work always enjoy the videos Cliff from Logan City Queensland Australia 🇦🇺
hey James . love your content love how you sail. so encouraging for me. A little sad that you havent included Rhonda in the intro. After all you are no longer alone, you both are doing it together, love to you both !
Dear James and Rhonda, Thank you again. I was watching your walk around and was so glad I could listen to your footsteps with the sounds you were both hearing as we went along. just amazing and your De brief at the conclusion was also relaxing.
what an amazing place, The cut into that lagoon looked exciting , and that water man , the colour is gorgeous ! and that chuckle while snorkeling says a lot ! Great video you guys ! your excitement and joy is contagious!
Absolutely terrifying considering the reef, they didn’t really understand the danger before them until the hit “Endeavour” reef at night. Then all Cook wanted to do was find a way out!
Yeah, Turtles are great. We were diving with them a few years ago at El Puertito, Tenerife Islands. I learned that they think the Bubbles of the regulators to be Jellyfish. They actually follow you closely because they think it to be food. How disappointing, as I thought they would like me personally… 😎😜
Guys, you had the chance to literary use the word octopi and didn't? Have great memories of going in at night there, shallow reef near drop off, staying above the shallow looking down the wall, moonlit night , torch, keeping torch off most of the time and then strobing all the life. Freaky, but so much life, different life, comes out only at night on the reef.
my need to buy a boat and go sailing has been reignited ty sir, i want to go the pacific route as well good stuff ty. so cool how the octopus can mimic the shape of the corals that place looks like a fish nursery.
Uk we get Manx sherewaters and most famously the Puffins ... The males have the thick multicoloured beaks. Both nest in burrows... both are amazing mariners and incredibly long lived... 30 -50 years. The Sherewaters are the marine equivalent of Swifts with incredible flight endurance and only landing to breed.
Wait till she sees a giant Leatherback.. Oh shit ... dinosaur.😂 Favourite food like the Sun fish is jellyfish they even come into 🇬🇧 summer waters 🧙🏻♂️. Great place to explore ...
Hi great show , while I admit it skairs the willes out of me , knight diving with lights on a reef is so much more spectacular! The Corel comes alive with colour, cheers
Mr. James I m not sure what s next planned trip but if you plan to move towards Burma, India, I suggest you check out for burma teak wood...in Europe its extra pricy but so cheap there and its such great wood to put in boat cockpit....love videos keep em coming...one day i ll do circumnavigation with my boat as well so you re my idol till then lol
Oh you missed the best part of this area, up the western side of fraser north of the sandy straits (wutumba and beyond) super white silica sand, clear water and heaps of humpbacks and their calves playing. That "lace" coral was once apon a time a goniapora, i had live ones in my reef tank before we sold everything and got the boat
@SailorJames it's hard to explain but they act differently up there, it's like their rest area/ playground but I guess you have to pick and choose what to see with having time restrictions
Good Nz morning guys. Now Tuesday over here, but a great way to wake up. By the way Rhonda, I was on board a mates 50 footer back in the mid 90s, up round Bay of Islands, and we heard someone on the VHF, saying he had not one, but two turtles around his vessel. So no need to go to Oz to see them. Disclaimer, I have no way of validating the accuracy of this story. I didn't see them? Um there is a warm current originating at Lord Howe Island which flows that way. So maybe it's true. 🤷 Thank you for sharing guys. All the very best.
I’ve never seen turtles in NZ, do know they visit an island off the coast of Papamoa though. Have friends who have been out to see them there. It’s a very particular time of the year.
Finding your channel has been one of the best finds. I am looking to buy a boat on Lake Michigan next year and start my journey...I have so many more videos to catch up on, do you ever go over average costs keeping it frugal?
I talk about costs and expenses on one of the episodes of this miniseries: THE CRUISING DREAM: A Mini Series th-cam.com/play/PLm0chdAnUTpzi31bjtb87RXhazWwxzNVq.html
No way!! I saw that turtle too!! But only half but with head😁😁 by the way, quite a lot of sailboat's I saw when you parked your little 🚤 😁 I don't know how to pronounce it 🚤 😁 and thank you for beautiful shots🙂 that 2 octopuses such a cool thing to see and that sea turtle was checking you James😁 I'm not sure I saw orange sea horse😀
It's great to see you attached and in a bouyancy device, even in fairly steady conditions under a broad reach. It only takes one slip, trip or unexpected wave to end a lifetime of sailing Also, I don't know how far up the coast you are when you read this, but stay croc-safe. You're far enough north now that the water isn't a friendly environment anymore - but I'm sure you know this!
Another great vid thank you. Hope you don't mind me asking but are you able to recommend an editing application that you like for putting vids together?
@@SailorJames Thanks. I use Adobe photoshop and lightroom a lot for stills, which you can only get on subscription ... so first thought was to add Adobe Premier Pro to it for vid ... until I saw that Adobe charge AU$32 / month. Holy hell ... quickly crossed that one off the list ;)
Noob question: I thought the rule was red-right-returning. When you guys were cruising into the lagoon, it looked like the red buoy was on the left/port. Was that just footage edited in while you were motoring out, or am I misunderstanding the 'rule'?
Also #2: you should take some rubbings of those coral on the beach! You know, where you put some paper on it and use a pencil/crayon/whatever to transfer the texture onto the paper.
James, when you decide to replace that US flag with a new one, if you would please send it to my boy scout troop in Burlington NC. We will make sure it is retired in a proper, and respectful manner.
@@SailorJameseveryone tells me my 30' Catalina is not a blue water boat but I have watched you damn near sail around the world in yours it gives me hope that me and my wife can do the same
Thanks
🙏🏼 thank you
Always love how authentic you two are through the sailing process. Romantic yes, but not without sleepless nights and long hours of a journey to paradise.
Hello guys! I've been a fan for a long time, recently battled cancer. I can't express how great your channel is to me. Informative, fun, and above all real!
Thank you so much for sharing ❤️
Cheers from Southern California USA 🇺🇸
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Hope you’re doing well Randy, thanks so much 😊
The boat is looking really good and loved. She's a fine ship.
Beautiful place, so enjoyed this video. Maybe it's true that one feels more energised closer to the equator, you both seem to be back in your element. I haven't been able to follow you on the tracker and read your entries because my graphics driver crashes every time. Those entries are wonderful to read, so looking forward to catching up on those. And to your next video. Thanks.
Hi. Great vid thank you. I was on Lady Musgrave in 1974 and i am pleased to see not much has changed. An amazing place. Cheers.
Wow 1974 that’s incredible, was such a neat spot over!!! We LOVED it!!
I was fortunate enough to experience the Barrier Reef, a night dive with scuba. And snorkel with Manta Ray Lady Musgrave. Great video well done guy's
This content is superb. Thanks James and Rhonda!
G'day guy's thanks for another great episode! Lady Musgrave is a very special place for me as it's close to home and I've been there few times as a child growing up with my Dad! Cheers guy's and stay safe
It’s a remarkable place !
Thank you very much for another excellent video of such an amazing place! The drone and snorkeling shots were very well done and gave us terrific views of a place very few will get to visit.
In the last drone clip you can see a turtle swimming!
Another great video James and Rhonda!!! I have been to the Reef and Frazer Island and many of the places you are going. It is awesome to see it again through your wonderful videos! I am alive in the ocean with the amazing wildlife who live there! Stay safe and Godspeed!
I love that I could hear you laugh with joy underwater! What a magical place.
Absolutely 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Beautiful! Once again, the photography skills are Nat-Geo quality. Thank you for sharing with us. 🩵⛵️💙
Thanks ! I was super stoked on how the video came out
Thanks for sharing your adventures. I can understand Rhonda's thoughts about, not so much fear of being away from the boat and in deep water.I was snorkelling one day off an island in Fiji and went over the drop off shelf and the depth disappeared into blackness. I look back at the island and began swimming back. Took me 3 breaks before we got the beach. You lose your position of where you are and just amazed at the scenery. We got a little sail boat the next day and sailed over the same area and saw a shark. Great times.
Since this video and snorkel I’ve definitely gained a lot more confidence in depth James has been shocked a couple of times now with my new found “less worry” about it… think the excitement now of finding more underwater creatures takes over, I’ve even snorkelled with three sharks now at the reef, was incredible!!!
Fabulous episode! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing my bucket list item with me - as it's one I'll never get to do -Darcee
Amazing looking waters. You captured it brilliantly at the beach, snorkeling and especially with the drone.
Looking forward to more barrier reef action!
It has been the highlight of our time in Australia so far!
Been watching your videos for a long time. You have earned the title of first and probably only Patreon subscription from me.
Love your work. Keep it coming guys. You are both awesome.
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Thanks for the ride :-)
Hi James, and Rhonda, welcome to the Great Barrier Reef the largest reef in the world. Hope you enjoy it. You guys have just ticked off to big things that most people would love to go and do the largest sand island in the world Fraser island and now you’re on the Great Barrier Reef , I know that you won’t destroy what you come to enjoy. Keep up the good work always enjoy the videos Cliff from Logan City Queensland Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks!
Thank you 🙏🏻
some beautiful footage... thanks for sharing
Your best video yet. ❤ thank you
hey James . love your content love how you sail. so encouraging for me. A little sad that you havent included Rhonda in the intro. After all you are no longer alone, you both are doing it together, love to you both !
Dude, go back and watch the intro. She is on it
Dear James and Rhonda, Thank you again. I was watching your walk around and was so glad I could listen to your footsteps with the sounds you were both hearing as we went along. just amazing and your De brief at the conclusion was also relaxing.
That sounds like it could be an amazing art project/installation.
I'm glad you found your person. Y'all are amazing.
James sailed a long way to find me 😅
what an amazing place, The cut into that lagoon looked exciting , and that water man , the colour is gorgeous ! and that chuckle while snorkeling says a lot ! Great video you guys ! your excitement and joy is contagious!
It was one of those adventures I will never forget!
@@SailorJamesditto 🥰
Really enjoyed this episode thanks very much for making it 😊
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Favorite part of my Monday!
Same here! :))
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Too cute!!!
So far, NZ and Australia are my fave of your adventures. So much diversity of flora and fauna.
How cool that you're at the GreatfrickinBarrier Reef!
🤯🤯🤯 really mind blowing to sail my own boat to the GREAT BARRIER REEF!!!!
Wait till we go back and visit…. I’ll take James on some adventures into my favourite wild places… so we can share even more with you.
I can't help but think, of what it would have been like for Captain Cook sailing "down under" in this magnificent region.
Absolutely terrifying considering the reef, they didn’t really understand the danger before them until the hit “Endeavour” reef at night. Then all Cook wanted to do was find a way out!
Another lovely video!!!
Wonderful….safe travels and thanks for continuing to share😊
Enjoyed the vid as always!
Amazing ! Thank you !
Really cool folks 🐬 🐬💫💫👍👍
Great episode, Bro!
Surreal seeing you sailing up the QLD coast. Enjoy it.
Queensland has some remarkable beauty!
Yeah, Turtles are great. We were diving with them a few years ago at El Puertito, Tenerife Islands. I learned that they think the Bubbles of the regulators to be Jellyfish. They actually follow you closely because they think it to be food. How disappointing, as I thought they would like me personally… 😎😜
😂😂😂 I have such a new love affair with turtles 🐢 they are sooooooo cute!!!
I love you guy's!! Greetings from Romania🎉🎉🎉
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Looks like new mexico with an ocean attatched...bendiciones...m
Hopefully ya guys see a whale or sea turtle...Happy Sailing and Sunrises are Spectacular
Great episode. Been following since you left USA and lost your steering and
had to steer the rest of the way with your drogue.
Good book!!
Great episode ❤️☁️🌙☁️🌈🌈☺️
Fair winds, James and Rhonda 🌬
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Guys, you had the chance to literary use the word octopi and didn't?
Have great memories of going in at night there, shallow reef near drop off, staying above the shallow looking down the wall, moonlit night , torch, keeping torch off most of the time and then strobing all the life. Freaky, but so much life, different life, comes out only at night on the reef.
I love night dives and night snorkels, they are amazing
Fantastic video, what a beautiful place and so fortunate with the weather. Hope you get to lizard Island too, fair winds mate
Heading to Lizard!!! Can’t wait!
my need to buy a boat and go sailing has been reignited ty sir, i want to go the pacific route as well good stuff ty. so cool how the octopus can mimic the shape of the corals that place looks like a fish nursery.
Uk we get Manx sherewaters and most famously the Puffins ... The males have the thick multicoloured beaks. Both nest in burrows... both are amazing mariners and incredibly long lived... 30 -50 years. The Sherewaters are the marine equivalent of Swifts with incredible flight endurance and only landing to breed.
First time I saw Puffins was in Newfoundland, then I saw hundreds off the Westfjords of Iceland, I love them
Great place 🎉
Turtles do fly!!!
"Turtle, Holy shit" 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Wait till she sees a giant Leatherback.. Oh shit ... dinosaur.😂
Favourite food like the Sun fish is jellyfish they even come into 🇬🇧 summer waters 🧙🏻♂️.
Great place to explore ...
Fantastic
Are you certain you guys aren't secretly working for National Geographic? The footage at the island in the water was amazing, spectacular work.
It was a very photogenic location 😂
Hi great show , while I admit it skairs the willes out of me , knight diving with lights on a reef is so much more spectacular! The Corel comes alive with colour, cheers
Yeah I have done a ton of night dives, I love them, it’s amazing to see all the creatures sleeping and the ones on night shift
Would like to see more of what you are doing it sounds great
Mr. James I m not sure what s next planned trip but if you plan to move towards Burma, India, I suggest you check out for burma teak wood...in Europe its extra pricy but so cheap there and its such great wood to put in boat cockpit....love videos keep em coming...one day i ll do circumnavigation with my boat as well so you re my idol till then lol
Rhonda with the eagle eyes 👀 to spot those octopus 🐙
👀👀👀
I’m getting really good!!! Hahaha
Oh you missed the best part of this area, up the western side of fraser north of the sandy straits (wutumba and beyond) super white silica sand, clear water and heaps of humpbacks and their calves playing. That "lace" coral was once apon a time a goniapora, i had live ones in my reef tank before we sold everything and got the boat
We aren’t interested in white Sandy beaches 👍🏻 we have seen tons of humpbacks on our way up the coast
@SailorJames it's hard to explain but they act differently up there, it's like their rest area/ playground but I guess you have to pick and choose what to see with having time restrictions
Good Nz morning guys. Now Tuesday over here, but a great way to wake up. By the way Rhonda, I was on board a mates 50 footer back in the mid 90s, up round Bay of Islands, and we heard someone on the VHF, saying he had not one, but two turtles around his vessel. So no need to go to Oz to see them. Disclaimer, I have no way of validating the accuracy of this story. I didn't see them? Um there is a warm current originating at Lord Howe Island which flows that way. So maybe it's true. 🤷
Thank you for sharing guys. All the very best.
I’ve never seen turtles in NZ, do know they visit an island off the coast of Papamoa though. Have friends who have been out to see them there. It’s a very particular time of the year.
Finding your channel has been one of the best finds. I am looking to buy a boat on Lake Michigan next year and start my journey...I have so many more videos to catch up on, do you ever go over average costs keeping it frugal?
I talk about costs and expenses on one of the episodes of this miniseries: THE CRUISING DREAM: A Mini Series
th-cam.com/play/PLm0chdAnUTpzi31bjtb87RXhazWwxzNVq.html
@SailorJames thanks. You're a rad person and I'm only sorry I found your channel a week ago.
No way!! I saw that turtle too!! But only half but with head😁😁 by the way, quite a lot of sailboat's I saw when you parked your little 🚤 😁 I don't know how to pronounce it 🚤 😁 and thank you for beautiful shots🙂 that 2 octopuses such a cool thing to see and that sea turtle was checking you James😁 I'm not sure I saw orange sea horse😀
Annie Lenox Just like walking on broken glass !!!
Beautiful ❤
It's great to see you attached and in a bouyancy device, even in fairly steady conditions under a broad reach. It only takes one slip, trip or unexpected wave to end a lifetime of sailing
Also, I don't know how far up the coast you are when you read this, but stay croc-safe. You're far enough north now that the water isn't a friendly environment anymore - but I'm sure you know this!
I wear a harness or PFD when it’s necessary 👍🏻 yes we are very cautious in croc waters 🐊
oh and also Triteia was built when I was borne
You must be past Cairns by the timeline
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What can I say? Life is a beach man.
Another great vid thank you. Hope you don't mind me asking but are you able to recommend an editing application that you like for putting vids together?
I use Final Cut Pro
@@SailorJames Thanks. I use Adobe photoshop and lightroom a lot for stills, which you can only get on subscription ... so first thought was to add Adobe Premier Pro to it for vid ... until I saw that Adobe charge AU$32 / month. Holy hell ... quickly crossed that one off the list ;)
I stopped using all adobe products when they switched to a monthly billing system
Nice video whats the air temp thank you
wait, the kiwi didnt know about birds like the kiwi that burrow underground? fair enough
Noob question: I thought the rule was red-right-returning. When you guys were cruising into the lagoon, it looked like the red buoy was on the left/port. Was that just footage edited in while you were motoring out, or am I misunderstanding the 'rule'?
Also, burrow birds/owls made me this of this classic Dead Milkmen tune. :D th-cam.com/video/71PNZH1OaW0/w-d-xo.html
Also #2: you should take some rubbings of those coral on the beach! You know, where you put some paper on it and use a pencil/crayon/whatever to transfer the texture onto the paper.
That rule only applies in the Americas it’s the opposite everywhere else in the world
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU(!!) for not stacking coral on the beach…
28:49 😍
Do you have a zoom in that camera?
No it’s a GoPro
James, when you decide to replace that US flag with a new one, if you would please send it to my boy scout troop in Burlington NC. We will make sure it is retired in a proper, and respectful manner.
I keep all my flags 👍🏻
@@SailorJameseveryone tells me my 30' Catalina is not a blue water boat but I have watched you damn near sail around the world in yours it gives me hope that me and my wife can do the same
Do you guys ever get pissed at each other stuck on that little boat for so long
The size of the boat is never an issue, but yes we are human beings so we have bad days sometimes
So when are you going to pop the question to Rhonda James ?😅
Your both two of the same
The question we ponder daily …. “What should we have for dinner?”
@@SailorJames😂😂😂
Damn James, wish you'd change shoes. The noise from your flip flops is annoying while trying to watch your videos
Ain’t gonna happen 😂😂😂