I met up and went for a sail with James and his two daughters in ‘Salty Jocks’ while I was in Darwin after first chatting with him on the podcast a year ago (episode above).
I couldn’t help but reach out to have a chat, living on a boat with two kids isn’t something you see everyday nor is going for runs with them in a wheelbarrow.
On the podcast we spoke about discovering an alternative path to life and finding solutions when things aren’t working out in life.
A few years ago James bought Salty Jocks, left the Marina and ‘just figured it out’. The kids were only young, (the photo shows where Isla’s booster seat was bolted on) but when I met the two girls I had never met such intelligent kids, they were years ahead for their age. Halle even used the coffee machine to make me a coffee (which you can actually buy the Salty Jocks beans here) - it’s his way of making it work on the water.
We headed out across Cullen Bay to a beach, the girls collected shells, found a cave and spent their time how they love to most- exploring. It reminded me of Nim’s Island, the girls were just out in the world learning and playing, how it should be.
But it hasn’t been easy. Life was hard and James made the decision to do something about it but moving onto the boat brought it’s challenges too. Even when we were chatting, it’s a full time job to be looking after and school two girls on top of learning how to maintain and fix the boat and plan for a sail.
It was incredible to see how adaptive James was not only with fixing problems on the boat but with his minset towards problems. I guess it went to show how you can make it work even when you don’t have a clear plan, sometimes you just have to ‘throw caution to the wind and leave the salt for the jocks’.
I think what we got from the conversation we had as we saw dolphins and the sun setting is that you just have to go out and do it. Road bumps will still happen, problems will still exist but we have one crack at life and we may as well see where it can take us.
(Couldn’t leave without doing an iconic wheelbarrow run in town).
Follow along his adventures here and support him by buying Salty Jocks coffee here.
Check out the video from the little sailing trip here and stay up to date with more podcast episodes here.
Until next time,
Explore Your Core
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