Sailing the Whitsunday Islands; Seeing Ngaro Aboriginal Cave Art & Waterfalls of Nara Inlet

[@bethcollier3789]

What a beautiful visit, restorative for the soul. ❤ Thankyou for showing this balance to life.

[@Syl-Vee]

Thanks for the beautiful drone footage -- what marvelous perspectives. I love the colour of the water out there. The pools, the waterfall, what an epic spot.

[@MKokruok1]

Drone shots make my day - beautiful! Rhonda climbing the cliffside barefoot, kiwi tough! Love it.... Quote of the day, " slithered right in there."

[@rootbox]

It just keeps getting better!

[@DDK1068]

Marvelous drone work folks. Nice and slow providing good views. Excellent music accompaniment too. Very enjoyable Thank you.

[@zenunla]

Your location by location storyline is a fabulous reminder of how rich and beautiful our planet is. Thank you for sharing each of your visits as you personally enjoy your enlightening journey!

[@TheCaptainwhidbey]

I anchored near the very spot you are! Beautiful part of the world.

[@lloydbrown9327]

Very beautiful area! James it's much easier having a helper, better when she is smart and beautiful! It's good to see you both happy and enjoying life! Stay safe from the east coast of Canada 🇨🇦

[@Mallorica-Reisen]

What a wonderful video ! So peaceful and calm !

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Just to say - I have been catching up on your Ozzy journey's up our Beautiful QLD Coast and it brings a smile to my soul that you both seem to have really enjoyed many of the spots along the Qld coast, VERY cool! Also to mention that to me it seems very obvious at just how much love/respect/consideration you both really do seem to have for each other, this some time now, since Rhonda you joined James sailing journeys - you really do both seem to compliment and respect and love each other, VERY nice to see! Wishing you both ALL the best ahead! SY Mistress, Sunny Coast, QLD.

[@SailorJames]

Thanks for the kind message and for checking out the videos 🙏🏻

[@lazzj4995]

What a lovely area and amazing weather. Also glad you have made it safely to Indonesia in real time.

[@1057FarmWife]

Beautiful!

[@MizzAugust7]

Those were some kind of a gazelle type animal, closest to you on the right, 2 of them, if you stop it,8:11 & squint your eyes you can see them, the downward streaks are the legs.So cool! Love to know what those were. Killer water. Thanks J.

[@victorimmature]

Beautifull .

[@jaydubya4727]

Drone footage was epic! Great editing job - you really told an enjoyable story with some great windows into your life.

[@th7297]

Really great episode. Editing etc gets better and better. Everytime, everywhere, when you hear James like „Now let’s hike back down… And have some lunch!“ is like Clarkson on Grand Tour like „on we go!“. A signature claim. 😂🎉👍🏻

[@SailorJames]

😂😂😂

[@karenlucas8882]

Thankyou guys, so beautiful ... as you say a soul restore❤

[@Wizzard033]

Hello From Lubbock Texas! The adventure looks amazing at another amazing destination.

[@th7297]

My favourite episode so far. A short movie. 👍🏻🦅😎

[@robertomaffioletti4718]

Hallo James bellissimo posto e video. Un saluto dall'Italia Giovanni

[@Peterjenkins1011]

Amazing as always.

[@DaleShirley-o1u]

Good to see you again!!

[@formosa41]

What a cool experience! Probably swimming in the same pools that those cave artists took advantage of...

[@HoferAdam-xz9xz]

Tank you both for this fantastic footage. ❤❤❤adam.

[@DaleShirley-o1u]

Always love the video and music 🎶 thanks again stay safe Amiga and Amigo

[@lisaharper1827]

Fantastic video - beautiful location.

[@randys1889]

James & Rhonda ❤ another great video! Cheers from Southern California USA 🇺🇸

[@daveegan4554]

Another great episode guys, nice how you superimposed the family in the cave. Glad you went to Nara, I loved that anchorage. Fair winds from Coffs harbour this week

[@nivek2157]

Simply fantastic.

[@bryanbadger6841]

Nice one guys. Btw Rhonda, I'm proud of you. Hiking barefoot.!! Pascale, originally Free Range Sailing, now Free Range Living, and Troy, where it was ok, would hike barefoot. There were a couple of views there, that reminded me of certain bays in the Marlborough Sounds. Don't you think.? Only thing missing was the sounds of tuis, and bellbirds. Yeah kookaburras are ok. Btw guys, when you are moving between anchorages, never waste a moment. Have a line in the water trolling at all times. Make more use of that smoker. Yeah believe it not, that's how you catch fish 😂. Free food. More importantly, thank you for taking me along with you. Much appreciated. All the very best from across the ditch here in Nz.

[@newfiescreech7328]

Thanks for the history and geography lesson, but the highlight is the scenery and sounds. I particularly like the digeridoo in the background!

[@flynnorourke7620]

Liking the new video style bro very engaging

[@Pattycakez1000]

Simply beautiful. 😊 I love watching your videos

[@louisavondart9178]

Gorgeous scenes !

[@AGL888]

Cid harbour and the northern wall just outside🥶 5 shark attacks there in 2 years. Nara is beautiful and some nights when a northerly hits there will be 50+ boats in there nose to stern and side by side. Good on you guys, it’s a beautiful place. 🇦🇺🙆‍♂️

[@brusselsprouts6847]

Australia is amazing place , you should keep an eye out for drop bears when climbing through those waterfalls

[@AGL888]

Go for a snorkel at Saba bay southern key hole on hook. Anchor 200 out cause there is some shallow reef, but it’s beautiful. Giant clams on either side, anemones, lots of cool fish and plenty of colour. I haven’t been for a few years but it was one of my favourites. Also butterfly bay, north key hole. Watch for bombies and head in on tender. ✌️

[@nlingle68]

stunning

[@Aribrand-le4fy]

👍👌👍great - from Austria 🇦🇹👍

[@danwilliams8695]

Fantastic edit guys ❤

[@bluesmok_e]

Hello from Yartcevo, Smolensk. Sorry, I couldn't resist.😂😂😂

[@matthewandrews3036]

GASP! im on time! early even.

[@andresinnett4319]

Ha ha ha , I just left a comment on your last vlog , & I'd just watched this vlog , and somehow mixed them up 🤗 , anyhow I won't rattle on 😆👍✌

[@kaine10gabriel]

⛵ ❤ my new wallpaper 3:18

[@Thislittlelight11]

❤

[@bishopkinlyside8477]

Hi James and Rhonda, thanks for the wonderful video. I can never understand why people want to come and destroy what they come to enjoy and it’s amazes me that some absolute idiots wouldn’t want to crawl in the cave and destroy these wonderful cave art. Anyway, sometimes you can’t put brains in monument. Keep up the good work guys. Always enjoy your videos. , Cliff from Logan City Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 we are on the big island 🏝️

[@jamesmotorcyclechannel]

🤘

[@phillipobrien7365]

You have probably already done it, but Whitsunday peak is a long, hot, uphill bitch of a climb. Great views though ! The marker bouys are Shark warnings, as 2 people were killed by sharks there a few years ago, not long after we were there and my wife went swimming off the boat !

[@mikeh-p7q]

Anchoring in the Dull Drums.

[@calmauric8218]

My best turtle drawing went on mums fridge door. However, i am not sure how well the fridge preserved my art.😊

[@BenSymington]

[@rosslevitates]

Great vlog guys. BTW aren’t you worried about snakes, spiders and creatures that would rip your arms off!!!???

[@jaysummers9396]

Such a good video this week James and Rhonda, I'm reading a book at the moment, "Sapiens, a brief history of humankind." And it talks about success being measured in time, and how low calorific diet hunter gatherers lasted for tens, of tens of thousands of years and how high calorific diet post industrial societies have only lasted so far about 300 years and we're in the shit. They say necessity is the mother of invention, clearly the aboriginal cultures had everything they needed. Thank you both 🤘👍..

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

It's the longest known continuous human culture on the planet .. dating back 60,000 years. Sea levels have changed repeatedly in that time and so has the climate...and biology.

[@cruzmgt]

Crocs ?????????????????? :)

[@mom2eando]

left in 2021 and set sail away from the jab and clown world. There goes my hero. Looking for a boat just like this.

[@bluesmok_e]

Hello, James! Do you have any children?

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

I'm pretty sure that's a no... but he probably if he did he's never mentioned it .... He was in a relationship way back when he was first sailing to Catalina island but she left and took the dog they had. After that he commited to boat life and sailing round the world ...first leg was to Hawaii.

[@SailorJames]

No

[@bluesmok_e]

@@SailorJames ok. Thank's.

[@anonymous.notatall6419]

2:31 um, not meaning to be rude but there are so many maps/brochures/online guides why not do a bit of old fashioned reasearch and navigation to those sights rather than have the need for multiple physical eyesores (to some at least) of the touristy signs pointing to this and that defining reality like the wild is some huge museum on show. Some of us want to just experience not needing a definition or explination thrust upon us at every turn. I would suggest if you like that stuff, take a guide book, rather than need infrastructure for people everywhere to see in the wild. There are only more and more of these, never less, same with walkways, duckboards, fenced off areas, restricted areas. As you said, makes sense in high traffic areas but we need to 'learn when to hold em'. Unless I got you completely wrong and when you said there are no signs you were saying it, like I would, with joy. " 🎶 And the sign said long haired hippy people need not apply... 🎶 "

[@SailorJames]

Seems like a strange thing to get defensive about 😂😂😂

[@anonymous.notatall6419]

@SailorJames yeah I guess hearing a local view against the gentrification and "civilised" organization of the wilderness would seem strange to people touring the world escaping areas already so much more controlled and ordered. It's just I grew up in a world where you could walk for days to weeks in the wild without any evidence of humans or their input other than a thin dirt track, and I miss that, so I find it hard not to comment when people suggest there should be more signs or infrastructure. It's along the same lines as if you grew up under street lights you will never quite get how gastly they are to the bushman or the sailor who just wants to see the stars. I am sure you get the idea from navigating fish farm lights at night at sea or city approaches compared to the open sea. I am sorry for using your comments as a vechile of comment if it offends, but where I can I like to say can we please have less not more evidence of humans out of towns and cities please. The old saying was "leave it as if you were never there" not plant a placard.

[@williamtownsend3279]

Not many people actually live. You are.

[@jakecallaghan5515]

The reason for the lack of signage is racist people graffiti and destroy our art. It's a fine balance

[@bobomac8330]

Proof please

[@lifeliver9000]

Yip your comment is racist. People are idiots and destroy stuff mainly kids but for some reason you know everyone’s ethnic back ground and what they do there. Maybe you are just speaking for your own past actions

[@julianbatcheler9970]

Yes I have seen in the news here in the UK reports of some very important aboriginal cave art being destroyed by vandalism.

[@willknight1005]

Be careful launching drones, local Rangers and extorting tourists and people with fines. Flying over certain areas at your own risk!

[@SailorJames]

Not concerned

[@durango4624]

@@SailorJames The non paying youtube plebs and there stupid advice Get your head out of arse mate

[@durango4624]

So what did they do with that dead kangaroo in the last picture if they didn't eat it Play soccer with it?

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

Turn it into backpack 🎒😉 for Canoe Quantas 🛶 line.

[@СергейАликперов]

Красиво !