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Episode 137- Naked sailing in Croatia and we explore the Blue Lagoon!

What a fantastic week, beautiful locations sailing through the Croatian islands and staying at the stunning Blue lagoon, having some epic and wild sails, and obviously enjoying the fabulous weather, clothed or unclothed! 😜

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Episode 136 - Paddle boarding in Croatia and we find Roman ruins!

We have so mush fun explore our new location in Murter, Croatia! We buy a long waited for paddle board and have endless fun trying to find our balance.... and falling off a lot! We stumble upon Roman ruins, find swordfish heads and have an epic sail to fingerprint island, join us to be part of the Adventure and tune in next week as we take you on another amazing sail to the phenomenal Blue Lagoon.

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Episode 135 - Troubles at anchor, Run in with a Super Yacht in the Kornati Islands, Croatia.

We finish our week exploring the beautiful Kornati National Park Islands in Croatia, with a couple of smashing sails, crazy water sports, diving on our lost anchor and a serious run in with a Super Yacht who decided to anchor literally on top of us!! Scary stuff! And some terrific thunder and lightening!  Moving on we have a great fast sail out of Kornati and over to Murter, so tune in next week as we get all the usual jobs done, do a bit of exploring and finally invest in a paddle board...

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Episode 134 - Sailing Kornati Islands National Park Croatia, Celebrating Bears 9th Birhtday!

There is only so much you can do miles away from proper civilisation, but we manage to have loads of fun for Bear's 9th birthday aboard Pickle, then sail into Kornati National Park in Croatia for a week of fun, sailing, swimming, hiking and enjoying our beautiful and tranquil surroundings!  We can't find a shop near a anchorage, so I do some heaved-to loitering while Chris and Beau jump in the tender and dash ashore for the essential provisions, and Bear grabs a sneaky quick dip to cool ...

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What would you guys like to see more on here?

Hi, hope you're having a great weekend! What are you getting up to? I'm busy editing and making the most of the weekend days when I don't have to do schooling with the kiddos!ðŸĪŠ So I know you guys like to have extra content especially made for our patrons, but what sort of videos would you like to see in the upcoming months? 

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Patron Only, Behind the Scenes - Nicky's Birthday!

Thanks guys for completing the poll and helping me to decide what to do on my birthday! And it was way more fun than buying trainers, who doesn't love being bear foot anyway! ðŸĪŠ Thanks for all your love and support, hope you enjoy all our fun and silliness in this behind the scenes video for our patrons only!

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Episode 133 -Sailing the Croatia Islands, Should I go to hospital!?!

This week has been so busy, but so much fun! The Croatian islands are absolutely stunning, the sailing is perfect with flat sheltered seas and good sailing winds, we find tranquil anchorages and deserted beaches to explore. My (Nicky) ankle is still badly injured and causing me a lot of pain and general disruption to our sailing life, it is not easy sailing all day when you can't stand on both you legs for long! We were going to head to Zadar for an Xray, but its out of our way and more disru...

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Episode 132 - Topless in Croatian Paradise!

What a crazy week! Nicky still has a busted ankle, but we manage to do some big sails with some big winds, find some gorgeous anchorages and another piece of paradise where you can just strip off and dive in! We are having an amazing time exploring in Croatia!

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My Birthday... What shall I do?

Hi guys, Take a minute to watched the little video posted before this poll so you get the gist or my ideas for my birthday on the 27th, then vote below! Hope you can help me decide what to do ðŸĪŠ and remember all that really matters is being with family...... and cake ðŸĪĢ

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Patron Only - My Birthday Poll!

Hi my lovely patrons, I need some advice! I can't decide what to do for my birthday, and because we usually do nothing this will be lovely regardless, so please watch the little video of my silly ideas and then vote so I can decide what to do, Thank You!!! XXXXX

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Episode 131 - Busted ankle on a sail boat in Croatia!

Well this weeks been eventful! Sailing Croatia has so far been fantastic! It started well this week, with exploring Pula and the wonderful amphitheatre there, but during a provisioning trip I managed to go over on my ankle and do some very serious damage! follow along as I deal with that problem and the boys manage to go off exploring some awesome caves!

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Episode 130 - Light Wind sailing and we get our Anchor Fouled on Rocks!

We are thoroughly enjoying sailing down the coast off Croatia and exploring all these fun new destinations, we enjoy some light wind sailing, some very cool little bays and after freeing our anchor once again from around a rock we go on a adventure to find a laundry in Pula and start to explore!

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Mini Series -16- Reach for the Sky

Last in our mini series, hoping everything we do and share with you guys helps to inspire! climb the mountain, eat the cake, have the beer, life is for the living! Love you guys and all the help and support you give us, thanks for believing in us and following along on all our crazy adventures xxx

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2022 Mini Series -15- New Destinations

One of our favourite things to do is explore, especially when castles, and ancient buildings are involved! Hope you've started to enjoy the episodes in Croatia there's lot more to come including the full episode from the little clips in this mini video, thanks guys for following along our adventures and being part of our crazy Pickle Family! X

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2022 Mini Series -14- Golden Hour

Throughout the season I see so many amazing sunsets, which inspire the soul and swell the heart, I've shared them with friends, family, strangers and on my own, but most importantly I share them with Mother Earth, as she keeps spinning around the sun and giving this amazing gift of life! 

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Episode 129 - Sailing from Gnarly Winds and Spear Fishing!

This episode we explore a deserted island with very cool pizza ovens, then move on to avoid some Gnarly winds which are coming, thankfully the new anchorage is sweet as a nut, perfect for using our jets, exploring with the dog and we try out our new spear gun for the first time, with great success!

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2022 Mini Series -13- Christmas and Bubbles

Sneaky peek into our little Christmas celebrations, You gotta love a few bubbles, whether it's in my glass or in the air!  

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2022 Mini Series -12- Crazy days with the Pickles!

This footage was literally just the other week! You'll have to wait a while before you get to see the full episode on this 😃 But it was a crazy time with a massive storm me managed to out run, this poor boat wasn't as lucky!

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2022 Mini Series -11- Summer Sailing Days

Chris, Buddy and Nicky enjoying a nice sailing day, although this is just a few clips I like the way is shows the relaxed feel you get when you get good winds and can sit back chill and allow Pickle to do what she does best. 

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2022 Mini Series -10- Visitors with Pickles

For the first time we had visitors stay with us on Pickle, and although it was a bit nerve racking not knowing if they would enjoy the sailing etc, we had the best time ever! 

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Episode 128 - Our first taste of sailing in Croatia! Jellyfish Sea Soup!!!

This episode we night sail to Croatia and go through the very easy and fairly quick checking in process, which was a breeze! We are soon off exploring Croatia, fantastic little bays and the biggest amount of jellyfish I've ever seen! It was literally like swimming through jellyfish, sloppy, gooey soup!

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2022 Mini Series -9- Family

I can be anywhere, doing anything, what really counts is having these guys with me to share the adventures!

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2022 Mini series -8- Budva, Montenegro

Working out and exploring Montenegro! What a fantastic and interesting country. 

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Dreaded Surgery!

Just a pick post to say sorry for any late posts or replies to messages lately I've been a little off my game after minor hand surgery to remove poisonous Urchin spins which have been stuck in my finger and causing problems for several months, as you'll see in up coming episodes when I have a little run in with Urchin while swimming with a baby shark! 

For now I'm resting and will keep up as much as possible 😅 Love you guys! Thank you for all the understanding, love and support!...

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2022 Mini Series -7- Our Salty Sea Puppy Buddy

Everything's better with a Dog including sailing life! 

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Sunsets and Sailing!

Exploring the world by sailing the sunsets 😜

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Episode 127 - 60kts of wind on a Lee Shore! Leaving Venice for Croatia, Collision Course with a Cruise Liner!

We definitely had some crazy winds at anchor this week, Wow they come from no where and we found ourselves extremely close to a solid wall on a lee shore in 60 knots of wind! Scary few hours of thunderstorms and unpredicted winds but thankfully we always dig our anchor in well and we didn't drag a inch 👍 This week after finally getting all our engine parts we've been waiting for, we leave the beautiful Venetian lagoons and sail on to Croatia, remember to join us next week as we start to ex...

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2022 Mini Series -5- Buddy's first season sailing.

This season has been brilliant, made even more special by Buddy our new salty sea dog joining the crew! It really has changed our lives and filled my heart âĪïļ

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2022 Mini Series -4- The Love of Water!

I think on a boat you live and breathe water, it is not only part of our life but your entire existence.... enjoy everyone.

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2022 Mini Series -3- At the beach!

Day three.... Tender rides and swimming with Puppy, finishing with more amazing sunsets 😃 You'll see some of this footage for real in up coming episodes soon too! 

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