The archive · 2009–2015
The Big Voyage
For six years I sailed SV Bobbie, a 36-foot ketch, alone around the world. This is the logbook I kept along the way on Bobbie Rounds the World: photos, links, radio pieces and the odd dispatch, just as I posted them at the time.
2015
May 2015
Been tucked away for some months working, working, working away.…
Feb 2015
Life / Boats
Feb 2015
Roller-coaster ridin'
Feb 2015
SLOWLY BUT SURELY
Feb 2015
Introducing....the most terrifying feat yet: I'M WRITING A BOOK.
2014
Oct 2014
Sep 2014
"DEEP BLUES" this weekend on ABC / 360 DOCUMENTARIES
Aug 2014
Aug 2014
Aug 2014
looking very local” at casa de brighter later
Aug 2014
Hey Aussie folks, For those of you in Melbourne, I’ve got a couple…
Aug 2014
overdressed much?
Aug 2014
Jul 2014
Jul 2014
I wrote another piece for VICE about my attempt at fasting for…
Jun 2014
Jun 2014
VICE published a piece about my time living with the Baining tribe in…
Jun 2014
I’ve gone back to the jungle. Right after I took this, I walked…
May 2014
May 2014
Had to go give this boy a kiss on the cheek before his big day…
Apr 2014
Adi from WWF explaining that the local oil palm plantation will pay…
Apr 2014
Important phone conference today w some potential crew.
Apr 2014
Apr 2014
Apr 2014
Apr 2014
Here’s this chill thing Cass wrote about our adventures over land.…
Mar 2014
Mar 2014
Feb 2014
On the ground in Balikpapan. We were digging the tunes, digging the…
Feb 2014
Feb 2014
Feb 2014
Feb 2014
Got our visas in Tawau, decked out in semi-religous garb. “You don’t…
Feb 2014
Sea-gypsey village: Kampung Bangau Bangau. As stateless persons,…
Feb 2014
You have no idea how much rad stuff is going down right nows. For…
VideoFeb 2014
Teaching Cass how to cream coconuts - essential sea-going life…
Feb 2014
Feb 2014
Pulling up anchor at Pulau Gaya. Muddied and exhausted, but Cassie…
Feb 2014
Feb 2014
Cadging baths anywhere we can…today the boys on the ship next over…
Feb 2014
After this I made her scrub the decks and wash the holds. Just…
Feb 2014
winesburgohio: The surreal city of Semporna. Docked here ‘til Friday.…
Feb 2014
Day-trippin’ to a tiny city in the middle of the sea. Cassie M. is…
Jan 2014
for those of you that think sailing is all smooth seas and sunny…
2013
Dec 2013
Dec 2013
Adopted by this family approximately 4.5 seconds after my arrival.…
Sep 2013
Sep 2013
Aug 2013
Aug 2013
Photo, August 30, 2013
Aug 2013
I’ve grown up in the Himalayas — there’s no cash economy there.…
Aug 2013
found this little gang having some afternoon snacks together
Aug 2013
taking the ceremonious things to the ceremony…
Aug 2013
dudes dress like this all the time. crazy!
Aug 2013
Then this little guy’s gonna come round n snack on all the gods…
Aug 2013
And they gave unto the gods.
Aug 2013
Farah bein’ a goon
Aug 2013
a morning ritual i can get into
Aug 2013
watching some genius local farmers process/wash their own harvests,…
Aug 2013
working on a new radio piece about the lack of fariness in Timor’s…
Aug 2013
Aug 2013
Photo, August 4, 2013
Aug 2013
Photo, August 4, 2013
Aug 2013
he says she’s his mum.
Aug 2013
i don’t know if this kid was actually wearing shoulder pads or not,…
Aug 2013
oh, have you met my bestie yet?
Aug 2013
wake up, sleepyhead
Aug 2013
Just got back from amazing trek out to the mountains of Maubisse. Met…
Aug 2013
Jul 2013
Jul 2013
so adorable!
Jul 2013
my bestie made me lunch. homemade soup, sweet potatoes, and salad!
Jul 2013
Jul 2013
Jul 2013
more of this, all of the time, everywhere!
Jun 2013
blairports: Throwing back to when Em and I marched against Prop H8,…
Jun 2013
Dreaming of those PNG days…. - This is my uncle Phillip in a snap…
Jun 2013
Even with DeathFever2013, tis hard to complain…. / Resting up at…
Jun 2013
Jun 2013
Jun 2013
natgeofound: A close view of the puffer fish found in Florida’s warm…
Jun 2013
goats n boats
Jun 2013
fish on a stick
Jun 2013
the open road…
Jun 2013
Jun 2013
Jun 2013
Photo, June 1, 2013
Jun 2013
like a wazzzzzappp
Jun 2013
May 2013
May 2013
BBQ this, baby
May 2013
Photo, May 27, 2013
May 2013
Photo, May 27, 2013
May 2013
Photo, May 27, 2013
May 2013
took a little jaunt down to the south coast….
May 2013
heading out to see the wilds of this great country. see you all in…
May 2013
Photo, May 21, 2013
May 2013
whale shark, oh whale shark. how i love thee so….
May 2013
everywhere you go, there you are
May 2013
scenes from bro zone aboard the good ship bobbie
May 2013
May 2013
nice new parks happening in this tiny, turbulent nation
May 2013
May 2013
world, meet Tino. my new budddddddy!
May 2013
learning to speak Tetum
May 2013
pre-sleep ritual
May 2013
Photo, May 13, 2013
May 2013
May 2013
ictidomys: Isothermal chart, or, View of climates & productions. By…
May 2013
newsweek: Brazilian marine geologists believe they may have found…
May 2013
havin’ one of these mornings now. life is good.
May 2013
May 2013
commovente: “Women who encountered Joan Didion when they were young…
May 2013
welcome to timor leste
May 2013
Photo, May 4, 2013
May 2013
xanana gusmao’s release from prison. gonna go out on a limb here and…
May 2013
Photo, May 4, 2013
Feb 2013
Feb 2013
hello new life of pizza and other baked niceties all the time! just…
Feb 2013
One of my favorite things in the world right now. Several new ones…
2012
Oct 2012
Doctor Lolo prescribes a cannonball.
Oct 2012
Forget Apathy...
Oct 2012
in flight!
Oct 2012
Going up.
Sep 2012
Sep 2012
Photo, September 22, 2012
Sep 2012
so we fell asleep on the beach…
Sep 2012
Sep 2012
cure for the common breakfast
Aug 2012
Aug 2012
Outside the haus boi (men’s house). No woman had ever been allowed in…
Aug 2012
Aug 2012
route planning from new guinea to darwin, australia.
Aug 2012
Aug 2012
Aug 2012
Aug 2012
Aug 2012
Jul 2012
Jul 2012
kitty’s a climber.
Jul 2012
epic dudes.
Jul 2012
big brother getting ready for flying fox huntin’ in the cave
Jul 2012
Photo, July 12, 2012
Jul 2012
stone cold chillin’ with the Kivung spiritual leader
Jul 2012
bush dress
Jul 2012
the welcome ceremony at kivung HQ
Jun 2012
Jun 2012
happy father’s day to the best one out there! and big ups for never…
Jun 2012
morning gift of kaukau, aka sweet potatoes.
Jun 2012
Jun 2012
seafolk: most beautiful life in the world, methinks
Jun 2012
May 2012
probably the only person in the history of vegetarianism to have…
May 2012
Photo, May 16, 2012
May 2012
My sweet little stoic new brother, Ramsey.
May 2012
Photo, May 2, 2012
Apr 2012
Apr 2012
one year older, the head wiser, the heart softer. and still we know…
Apr 2012
you’ve got to let it come to you”
Mar 2012
Mar 2012
hey dudes - got some extra tanks from the kickstarter run as well as…
Mar 2012
brain underwater
Mar 2012
you learn something new everyday…
Mar 2012
seafolk: adventure-babes of the 50’s really had it goin’ on…
Mar 2012
Mar 2012
Mar 2012
from: a modest portrait session commemorating 10 years of best…
Mar 2012
a spritz of water and a handful of sand to the face = “the weekend…
Mar 2012
have i mentioned it’s really beautiful here?
Mar 2012
go ahead and treat yourself.
Mar 2012
the little scraps of paper that make us who we are…
Mar 2012
Mar 2012
Mar 2012
playing SGT. PEPPER’S (and explaining LSD trips) for kids who’ve…
Mar 2012
Photo, March 7, 2012
Mar 2012
Photo, March 6, 2012
Mar 2012
a liglig mangi named Mason.
Mar 2012
seafolk: a nice veg brekkie before the jaunt to mathu’s village.
Mar 2012
Mar 2012
Mar 2012
Photo, March 1, 2012
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
gettin’ purty by the seaside
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Yes, please / I’ve got a lot of letters to write …
Feb 2012
Super thrilled to be a part of Wayfare Magazine’s pilot issue! Head…
Feb 2012
A New Home!
Feb 2012
on my way to matupit island, crossing the desert below mother…
Feb 2012
le intruder.
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
it’s still the simple things, man…
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Jan 2012
2011
Dec 2011
Dec 2011
Dec 2011
Dec 2011
Be a part of the adventure - 8 days left to get involved! Chip in a…
2010
Oct 2010
Oct 2010
Oct 2010
Oct 2010
In the early hours of the morn, baby Cheke left the island, his…
Oct 2010
Mar 2010
Photo, March 6, 2010
Jan 2010
