Our Life At Sea
Welcome to our website - Our life At Sea. We are an Australian couple from Sydney who are living aboard and cruising on our Beneteau 393 sailing yacht "Sea Life". We hope you enjoy our website, please feel free to contact us via the 'contact' page or leave us a message on the website, we would love to hear from you! Smiles, Laughter & Happiness, Mark & Nicolle.
Our Life At Sea
Tonight we are enjoying another beautiful Caribbean evening at Grand Case, one of our favorite places in Saint Martin. We can hear the gorgeous live French music from the shore and are sleeping on deck tonight in the gentle cool night breeze. That is one of our favorite places to sleep, out under the beautiful evening sky watching the sparkling magical stars. Last time we slept on deck I saw a shooting star and made a very special wish! Tomorrow we are going to take a short day sail and try out our new fishing hand reels and see if we can catch a nice yummy fresh tuna from the back of the boat, yum I can't wait to have some of the freshest fish I will have had in my life. Other than that we are having a wonderful and relaxing time together on our treasured "Sea Life". Wishing you a happy and wonderful week! Smiles, Nicolle xxoo 08/05/08
We have been living aboard our lovely boat "Sea Life" now for two weeks and are anchored at Grand Case on the French side of the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean. Life on our boat is just glorious and we are enjoying it so very much. We are both happy and relaxed, getting to know our boat and enjoying some treasured sailing time. Grand Case is a beautiful area, so peaceful and just gorgeous! Today we are going to "Walrus" which is our term for simply relaxing and doing nothing but enjoy the beautiful Caribbean (or in other words to just be completely relaxed and laze in the sun like a Walrus does). We might go for swim in the beautiful water, or do some turtle spotting, or have an afternoon nap... but whatever we do we will be relaxing and enjoying our time together on "Sea Life". We wanted to say thank you to our friends and family for supporting us on our new journey and for keeping in touch. It is always lovely to get your emails, phone calls and messages on the website. We miss you and hope you are all happy and well. Have a wonderful "Walrusy" day. Love Nic & Mark xxoo 24/04/08
Knocked off another site: Mark Twain “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” 5/04/08
Mark has added a map to show our current location in the world and our journey on the "route" page of the website, he has also added a new web message function on this page and his page so that you can leave us a message on the website, how cute!!! Thanks for visiting our website, Nicolle 31/3/08
Our boat has just been named: Sea Life 26/3/08
There is still a few weeks work before we take delivery of Sea Life, but the confirmation from the Australian Ship Registry came through a few minutes ago confirming her narten, Netherlands Antilles where she is getting her bottom scrubbed, scraped and some antifouling paint. Other work is making sure her equipment is all functioning and ready for her life at sea.
We are currently in Saint Maarten in the Caribbean. Here are a few photos taken by Nicolle from this beautiful part of the world. 21.3.08
We just bought our boat!!! (14/3/08)
Details to follow but she is a Beneteau 393. Thats 39 feet and quite large enough for friends to come and stay!
This site is about our sailing and as we get going so will it.
We have left Sydney, Australia and are now in the USA to begin our exciting sailing adventures. 5/3/08:
We got engaged! There are some photos from the real life moment, taken by the wonderful Cathy Crawley on the "Mark & Nicolle" page, see more of Cathy's lovely photos on her website: beautifulmoments.com.au 13/02/08
This site is about our sailing and as we get going so will it. 01/02/08