The Hunter & The Gatherer: Cooking and Provisioning for Sailing Adventures

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Cruising is much more than just sailing. Its about travel, exploring empty shores and plunging into new cultures. Its about taking time for your passions and living in harmony with the watery world that buoys, sustains, and changes you.Dave, the hunter; Catherine, the gatherer; and their little fish Maya, have spent the last two decades afloat in the most remote corners of our planet. They cant imagine a better way to live and sate their adventurous spirits than cruising the world on their catamaran Wild One. More than twenty years in the making, this book is for ocean-loving foodies striving for better health, greater self-sufficiency and a tiny footprint on the sea. This is food for tiny galleys, long passages and perfect beach sunsets, and those times when food stocks might be low, but the fish are biting. This is a guide for anyone who wants to hunt and gather rather than collect and accumulate.

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Catherine Lawson and David Bristow have called Tropical North Queensland home for over two decades. Although, their home is a yacht called Wild One, and they divide their time between exploring the reef under sail, or the land in their modified Toyota LandCruiser 4WD camper. Its okay to hate them a little bit. Catherine Lawson and David Bristow have called Tropical North Queensland home for over two decades. Although, their home is a yacht called Wild One, and they divide their time between exploring the reef under sail, or the land in their modified Toyota LandCruiser 4WD camper. Its okay to hate them a little bit. Catherine cut her journalistic teeth as a cadet in a regional newsroom, but her love of travel made keeping her itchy feet under a desk pretty challenging. After tackling a Big Lap of Australia, she landed a job as editor of Go Camping Australia magazine so that she could legitimately travel for work, and pretty quickly became a digital nomad, editing the magazine on the road and freelancing for some of Australias best travel and camping magazines. She launched Australias first outdoor Gear Guide, and after meeting David on an idyllic Thai island, moved to Tropical North Queensland to manage News Corps Port Douglas Gazette. The author of two Australian travel books, Catherine has spent the last 25 years writing for the likes of Australian Geographic, Wild, Outdoor, Action Asia, Get Lost, WellBeing and ROAM magazine. David began his career as a television cameraman in Western Australia, filming in the most remote corners of the state. Born in Perth, he spent his youth camera on shoulder, surfboard in car travelling the entire west coast until he and Catherine met in Thailand and moved to TNQ. Dave transitioned to stills photography, and now devotes his days to documenting Australias wild places (and wild creatures) for magazines, books and his own website, wildtravelstory.com. Together, Catherine and David prefer to be exploring the path less travelled and specialise in dreaming up and documenting the kind of adventures and wildlife encounters that inspire intrepid travellers to pack their bags. They dont write about the worlds hippest bars, or which galleries to visit (unless they are Indigenous rock art galleries) or what hotel deals to snap up. But they do guide travellers to some of the wildest natural destinations on the planet. The authors of 100 Things To See In Tropical North Queensland, Catherine and Dave said of their home, Every time we fly back into Cairns and see those green hills and white strip of sand and just hugging the coastline, this opalescent sea, we just think theres nowhere else in the world thats this good. Some places have pretty beaches or a nice strip of reef, but they just arent as green and vibrant as TNQ. And it doesnt matter what season it is, its always lush and gorgeous, and you can do whatever you want, outdoors, year-round. Weve never found another place in the world thats quite like that. Catherine and David also contributed significantly to 100 Things To See On Australias Coral Coast. David is a Western Australian by birth, and spent much of his career as a roving cameraman for various news shows travelling up and down the Coral Coast. Both Catherine and David have both travelled extensively through the region by 4WD and camper. They have a 10-year-old daughter, Maya, who, as-well-as being the youngest Australian to reach Everest base-camp, accompanies them on all their travels. Find out more about their travels, their work and their envious life at wildtravelstory.com.