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Sunset, Sails and Skylarking

Just another night in Paradise with Whitsundays Sailing Adventures.

Sailing the S.V. Whitehaven with Whitsundays Sailing Adventures

This picture was taken on December 20th by Kristian Pletten, a guest who travelled aboard the Eco Tallship sailing safari vessel SV Whitehaven.

Whitsundays Eco Tallship Sailing Adventures Wins 2009 Steve Irwin Eco Tourism Award

Whitsundays Sailing Adventures’ Eco Tallship Safaris was recently awarded the Whitsundays Tourism Steve Irwin Award for best Eco Tour in the Region.

Eco Tallship Adventures operates two and three day live aboard sailing safaris in the Whitsunday Islands Region of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. They are the only sailing charter operator in the Region [...]

The Hunter in Paradise

With sixty years working under sail behind her, the 90-foot, Walter Wilson-designed, gaff-rigged topsail schooner, Derwent Hunter, is claimed to be the last Australian vessel designed and built to work under sail.  Her decades of adventuring cover everything from fishing and trading, oceanographic research, movie roles and even the odd spot of gun smuggling.  And [...]

Derwent Hunter – a life of adventure

I’M STANDING ON THE SUN DRENCHED FOREDECK of one of Australia’s maritime treasures as she gently raises her bow to the swell.  Beyond the massive bowsprit stretches a 3D postcard of azure sea studded with rich green islands …  It’s a timeless panorama, one viewed by thousands of Australia’s earliest sailors and now being experienced [...]