Latest Sea life Podcast Episodes
Jeanne Socrates - sailing record holder Part 3
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - July 15, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingJeanne Socrates (at the time of writing) is back on her boat in Canada after an extended (land) stay in Australia (Covid). She is busy prepping her boat to sail to Australia. What drives Jeanne to keep sailing and traversing the long distances...?
Jeanne Socrates - sailing record holder Part 2
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - June 18, 2022 23:12 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingJeanne is a powerhouse of energy and smart thinking. “I am small I needed to think of the location of everything!” She has manuals for everything and has no problem repairing her engine while at sea. San Francisco and Alaska help her plan for single-handing, and upside down fixing t...
Jeanne Socrates - sailing record holder Part 1
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - May 07, 2022 22:32 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingJeanne started her love of the water with surfing and dinghysailing. Soon she found out that although sailing is simple there is a lot to learn, Navigation, Col Regs, Passage Planning, weather. Hear about her first sailing experiences, her loves and losses. This is part one - part, two...
Lisa Blair Record Breaking Antarctica Attempt PART TWO
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - April 26, 2022 00:43 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingImagine for a moment.... months at sea - 12 metre waves (great walls of water) being knocked down and sliding across the ocean top wondering if you'll come out of it. No one there physically to bounce ideas off.... reassure... give you a cuddle or a high five. Icebergs threatening and...
We chat to Lisa Blair as she hurtles around Antarctica PART ONE
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - April 26, 2022 00:39 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingLack of sleep, knockdowns, icebergs, broken equipment, repairs at sea.... alone... the thought of her previous dismasting looming....
Flopper Stopper in a Flap
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - April 26, 2022 00:07 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe scene is set on an 'open road' anchorage. Jackie and I sit, outside Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador... the day we supposedly finish a two thousand, eight hundred nautical mile journey. This odyssey cruising the ITZC with all its associated calms storms and lighting and running before a h...
Distil the Essence of Sailing
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - February 25, 2022 04:43 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingDistilling the essence of life at sea: It’s a love-hate relationship, a roller coaster. The journey becomes etched on our skin. Vibrant bruises match vivid sunsets. There are tremendous stresses on equipment as well as our bodies. We learn something new each day, about sailing and ourse...
Costa Rica's Little Gem Isle de Cocos
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - August 23, 2021 02:20 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWith nothing more to worry about than craving succulent roast chicken and gooey ice cream, we sliced through the ocean, enjoying the stuff dreams are made of. The concerns of motoring much of the way temporarily held at bay. Leaving Acapulco, Mexico for Isle de Cocos we were blessed wit...
Visit San Diego: War Ships, War Cries and Wannabes
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - August 05, 2021 22:27 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWith a charming mix of mega yachts and masquerading pirates onboard 7-metre sailing ghettos, San Diego is like a melting pot of poverty and prosperity. On the edge of America, with Mexico insight, here lies the stepping-off point for cruisers. San Diego is not a cruising ground as such ...
Visit Las Perlas with us onboard our sailboat
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - July 17, 2021 00:39 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingChatting to my dad on Skype, he in England me in Ecuador, I told him how we planned to sail to Panama to collect our new sails. “You talk about it as though you are popping off to Supermarket” he laughed. With only 560 nautical miles to traverse, we thought the journey a breeze. But the...
Join us in Diverse San Francisco with (near) Calamities in California
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - June 24, 2021 08:02 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingSan Francisco is one of the most diverse and exciting cities we have had the pleasure to visit. It has a unique cultural tapestry and is a gay hub in more ways than one. Open water vistas are just waiting for a breath of wind to kick up into a brutal chop. Combined with a myriad of shal...
A Trip to Niue - A Jewel in the Pacific Ocean
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - May 26, 2021 03:37 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWe are 15 metres underground in a silent, echoing cave. Only the solemn plop of icy, freshwater can be heard, woven between our awed whispers. I take two big breaths, the chill of the encompassing sapphire water temporarily forgotten. Two metres down, with lungs bursting only moment...
Futile Thoughts, Towing traumas and Exploding Toms
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - April 27, 2021 04:53 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingFirst stop, Salinas, an over-nighter from San Diego, into a new marina. The entrance is narrow and has a distinct ‘east coast of Australia bar’ feel, creating a strong desire to make use of a rather large blindfold. The marina is reasonable at $30 US per night, but there is no running ...
Angels, Goats, and Eloquence, in Aitutaki
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - March 24, 2021 04:33 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIt stole our hearts, we wanted to stay. The island's charm, the people, the way of life appealed to us both, although we tried we couldn't. We did make the most of our stay - dancing, lunching, sharing, making new friends, even doing the laundry became a cherished memory! Join us in Ai...
Sailing the World - Panama Canal Experience
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - February 12, 2021 09:12 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are assorted methods to choose from to achieve the same thing. Whether at anchor, or in the mosquito-infested marina, there is a standard three days to complete all the paperwork. Once you have handed over all your dollars to anyone you meet, lied through your teeth, and signed ...
Sailing the World - San Blas
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - February 12, 2021 07:43 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingBehind schedule by three months (due to problems on terra firma not nautical) we hurriedly sailed 2,500 miles in six weeks to enable us to witness for ourselves why the San Blas is “a place to see”. We are also preparing for the Panama Canal experience, traversing the magnificent Paci...
The Essential Cruising Peacemaker
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - December 23, 2020 23:57 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingA successful ‘Flopper Stopper’ principally has to do two things. (1) Sink easily. (2) Resist an upward force. One simple method is to have a weighted horizontal door. The ‘door’ opens on the way down (sinks) and ‘closes’ on the up lift from the halyards, a bit like a one-way valve. I ha...
Precision Performance by Marine Police and Volunteers
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - December 23, 2020 23:02 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWith unemotional precision and no time for niceties the facts are disseminated to the awaiting crews. The silence buffets between the groups and the adrenaline starts pumping as a few of us peek over the wall to the building seas that await us. Many of us are scribbling down the info...
Being a Licenced Captain Carries a Heavy Responsibility
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - December 06, 2020 21:49 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIt's easy to judge people's decisions, especially those on the water. Being a Skipper must not be taken lightly. That little piece of paper saying you are a licenced Captain carries a heavy responsibility. As a Skipper, you are responsible for everything and everyone on board. You are...
Tantalizing Tahiti - A circumnavigation of an Island
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - November 14, 2020 22:35 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWe arrived Papeete the same day as Noel’s daughter, Mel arrived from Ayers Rock. We were nonchalant about the timing, only because we had not considered that marvellous innovation of the date line. After negotiating low flying aircraft, we chose the most popular anchorage, on the wes...
A Tender Moment in a House of Ill Repute
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - October 23, 2020 22:22 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 1 rating‘Successful cruising is a matter of continual awareness’. This adage was not followed. Sitting at a beach bar, boasting about crossing oceans to the only people who care to listen, other cruisers, is not awareness. With my back firmly placed to the worrying scene of two dinghies porpo...
Refined Wayfarers
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - October 13, 2020 04:19 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWe may not have the refinement of fine arts but what we have is so much better. In a remote anchorage, with a welcoming beach and shady palms, where do we get our culture from here? Well these can be the best spots. Good anchorages will fill by the end of the day with Aussies; Pommie...
Five Capital Experiences
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - October 10, 2020 05:39 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingFeaturing just five of the many cities we visited - here are some unique escapades that make us smile - from mesmerising strangers in Paris, to Mad motorboat owners in America. Plus fun in Havana, Casablanca and San Juan, in Puerto Rico.
Fear is a Funny Thing
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - September 12, 2020 23:05 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingRecently, in the midst of teeth grinding fear I realised it was not the event itself causing my sleepless nights it was the lead up to it. It was the ‘what ifs’ that stirred up those little fear gremlins into a frenzy. I know this because during the event as we surfed down waves at twe...
Destination NSW Australia: Greenwell Point
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - September 09, 2020 23:54 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe ebb and flow of wants and needs alter unexpectedly for us all, we will deal with the quick-sand of life, but we think it'll be okay at Greenwell Point. Nestled in the heart of NSW this lovely little village welcomed us in and allowed us to call it home for a brief time.
Buying and Selling a Boat
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - September 01, 2020 02:31 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 1 rating"It was wonderful to see Mariah sing along to the tune of her new owners." But before we reached the stage we had to weather the storm of time-wasters and dreamers... but then we are all dreamers...
Suwarrow - No Strangers Here
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - August 07, 2020 05:58 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingParadise - A word I try not to use often. Previously, we’ve visited a handful of islands without airports, cars, and supermarkets, but Suwarrow (pronounced sue-warh-row) has its own, unique, harmonic constant. The north-facing entrance has a low reef extending east of the wide bar that...
The Cruising Lifestyle - "What do you do all day?"
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality - July 24, 2020 03:14 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThere is always something to fix, maintain, improve or add on. Once the boat is running smoothly, we do one main job a day, around the day-to-day chores. Then occasionally we can have a day off for sightseeing or simply enjoying swinging on anchor.
Australian Animals with Sam's friends, Eric and J.J.
Sam's Wildlife Podcast - July 18, 2020 15:00 - 7 minutesSam is joined by his friends Eric and J.J. - all the way from Australia - to talk about Australian animals. They discuss dingos, kangaroos, wallabies and more!
Honey Guide Birds and Honey Badgers
Sam's Wildlife Podcast - July 10, 2020 17:00 - 3 minutes5-year-old Sam invites his grandparents, Momma and Popi, to join him on an episode about Honey Guide Birds and Honey Badgers.
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