Kindle Edition
Jack and Jude
Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Tujays Publisher
Type: Non-Fiction
Copyright: Mar 13, 2020
Price: $3.95 (eBook)
This trilogy is definitely not a travel guide, nor is it meant to be. And it’s not just a tale of travelling the world’s oceans and meeting people in faraway lands. It’s a series showing how to live a life of adventure, and survive.
After sailing our vessel the equal of three times around the world, we set off from Australia an accomplished team of explorers searching for the unusual and inspirational.
The Four J’s ~ Jack, Judith, Jason, and Jerome had already lived ten years afloat, experiencing daily-life with a multitude of diverse societies. Always being the new family in the neighbourhood, we shared dinners, hosted sleepovers, swapped kids, and were invited to local events. To earn our keep during this decade of life afloat, we successfully completed internationally acclaimed amateur radio expeditions to mid-ocean ribbons of sand.
A finely honed team at the peak of our sailing prowess, we set sail around the world on Voyages of Education seeking knowledge and adventure.
In Book One – Sailors on Safari, we conquer the stormy Indian Ocean, nearly losing our ship and lives on a storm enraged Madagascar shore before arriving in strife-torn Tanzania. By good fortune, we survive to explore the slave island of Zanzibar and then land on our feet organising a four-wheel drive to explore magical East African game parks rich with Earth’s last collection of wild beasts. Seychelles next, finding Ol Joe, the Rarest Nut, before becoming entangled with Somalia fishermen, and nearly losing our mast. Then on to the Heart of Islam, encountering Red Sea gunships in a frightening middle of the night battle of wits.
Excerpt
Forever a different man, I realised, but for a stroke of luck, God’s will, whatever you wish to call it, we would have either been dead or feeling our ship being destroyed by a cruel sea. And if they weren’t already dead, I might have been hearing the screams of my loved ones.
And why? Because of my mistake. The burden too great to bear, I turned to the privacy of the dark sea and wept.
Jude heard my sobs and came to draw me into her arms. She knows I’m more impetuous than a fool and had refused to commit our ship to the unknown. Stroking my ear, brushing curls from my neck, blowing cooling air onto my tears, hers joined mine falling freely as she whispered. “Love, we are one. You’re my true north. I’ll follow you to eternity.” Then giving me an affectionate squeeze, “But hey, let’s not go on that big adventure just yet.”
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