Make or Break | La Niña Summer Sailing to an Abandoned Leper Colony on the Great Barrier Reef

The second part of our La Niña summer sailing series sees us riding the end of a strong wind warning to Fantome Island – an abandoned Leper Colony on the Great Barrier Reef.

En route stuff breaks (or should I say, “ship happens”), we undertake a jury rig, talk safety at sea (from the ‘safety’ of our cosy centre-cockpit), and learn the back story to the “ship’s log”.

Fantome Island turns out to be quite the destination, where we make learnings of a different sort. An entire community razed to the ground, it certainly puts the popular 'abandoned resort' topic into perspective.

Welcome aboard for the ride!

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Music via www.storyblocks.com
Humans Win (formerly Lance Conrad) / Explorer
We20Fifty / Airport Lounge
Unknown / Designer Tropics
Media Music Group / Let the Expert Explain
Bobby Cole / Chinese Music

Music via www.epidemicsound.com
Gabriel Parker / Intervention - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/U...

Fantome Island Trailer clips – source:
YouTube -    • Fantome Island - Trailer  
Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fantomeisl...
Ronin Films - https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0...

Additional images courtesy:
Ronin Films (press kit) - https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0...

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State Library of Queensland –
Aboriginal Lock Hospital image:
https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/disc...

Cottages image (via Dr Morgan Gabriel Collection):
https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/disc...

Additional information via Leprosy Mission Australia – www.leprosymission.org.au

Maps via Google Earth - https://earth.google.com/web/