Two's a Crew: A Planet in Peril

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Two’s a Crew

One of the world’s greatest adventures - Nine thousand miles across six climatic zones, Jack and Jude explore their adopted homeland following Flinders wake around Australia. An ancient country, one filled with beauty, yet harsh, remote, and containing mysteries that still baffle the greatest minds.
Jack and Jude have travelled the remoter parts of Earth for more than fifty years. Land trips across America and Europe led to a honeymoon trek England to South Africa. Moving to Australia in 1969, we home built a yacht and started a family. After three arduous years, with our sons Jason and Jerome now walking, we launched our ship to grab the dream of sharing nature and adventure with our children before what seemed mandatory school years. Miraculously that odyssey lasted not the one-year first imagined, but the next fifteen. In ever increasing circles, the Four J’s explored Earth, touching eighty countries while we boat-schooled our sons to their final year of high school. You can take this amazing journey with us in our latest book, FOUR J’s Around the World.

Grandparents Now ~
In our lifetime, mankind has dominated the wild kingdom, taking what it wants. In doing this, the balance of Nature has been upset. And while no one would deny the improvements enjoyed today, Jack and Jude often wonder if such a growing impact isn’t robbing all Earth’s creatures of a better life.
Jack and Jude are now grandparents to ten terrific kids who are fast maturing into future leaders, and so aboard the same vessel, we circumnavigated Australia to compare today’s world with what we saw on previous travels. During this odyssey, we posted anecdotes to our grandchildren to educate and entertain, and we peppered these with historical notes woven into the adventurous fabric of two grandparents, alone, sailing a powerful craft across some of the world’s most dangerous waters. These anecdotes became the core of Two’s A Crew.
A film was produced while taking this voyage around Australia. Available from our website.