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Get a Real Life
Captain Trevor Jackson
“Your friends haven’t done anything new lately”……….or so I was informed just moments ago. I opened my inbox and halfway down the page, next to the Facebook and Twitter icons, was that message strewn across the page. It threw me for a second, then I realized it was 5am and the message simply referred to the interim between when I last checked Facebook and now. It’s kind of arrogant though, don’t you think? Internet based social media pages declaring that you lot are BORING. Especially since, according to those same pages, posting a photo of the pub meal you’re about to eat is a worthy event. In that case the message this morning may have read ‘Joe Blow has posted a photo”. That is social media speak for ‘Go back on Facebook and waste another of your precious hours’. Read the rest of this entry »
New Years Day
By Captain Trevor Jackson
It’s a funny feeling when you finally get there….. It can be any place, as long as you’ve dreamt about it your whole life. For me it came slowly into view in the grey morning light on the first dawn of this year. With a suggestion of swell gently lifting and lowering Spoilsport, a tiny nondescript island lay spread to the west of an old stone lighthouse. The sand tracks of twenty thousand turtle’s criss-crossed up and down the beach. Raine Island. Read the rest of this entry »
Captains Log, January 6, 2013, 2310 hrs”
Captain Trevor Jackson
I’ve just spent the last few hours with some of my best friends standing on the top deck looking at the silhouetted hills of Mount Adolphus Island gradually brighten as the moon rose. There’s something about this place…I used to daydream about being here as a young sailor, and there it is, just 200 metres off the bow. Tomorrow we dive the greatest wreck in Queensland. Read the rest of this entry »
We Have to Go Back
Captain Trevor Jackson.
It’s not just unusual. It’s not just uncommon. It’s downright rare. To go on a true exploration trip and not just find something new…….but something new and extraordinary…..Something worth talking about, something worth going back for. Read the rest of this entry »
