by Jesse Martin
NRMA
Sandringham Yacht Club
Sony
Tag Heuer
Telstra
TXU
William Angliss
Special thanks
AGFA Film
Australian National Maritime Museum
Beyond Capricorn crew
Birds Bees Trees & Things
Cameron’s Metaland
Chroma Media
Cummings Flavel
Deakin University
Doquille Perret Meade
Filmplus
GME Electrophone
Igloo Design
Lightstream Films
Lizard Island staff
Lonely Planet
Mission Aviation Fellowship
Morgans Hotel
Newcastle Fire Services
Novotel
Plan International
Reach Youth
RDF
Royal Australian Navy
Snowgum
Victorian Government
Working Dog
The indigenous and local people
of Australia & Indonesia who
took us in and gave us food
and friendship.
PHOTOGRAPH AND ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Map by Guy Holt Illustration and Design
Illustrated section
Diagram by Herald Sun
Illustrated section (top)
Photograph by Lawrence Blair
All other photographs are from the author’s private collection
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jesse Martin was destined for adventure. Born in Munich in 1981 while his parents were travelling through Europe in a kombi van, he spent his early years in the beautiful Daintree rainforest of north Queensland. By the time he was fourteen he had sailed a thousand kilometres along Australia’s tropical coast on a flimsy catamaran and had trekked through South-East Asia and the Aboriginal communities of Central Australia. At sixteen he kayaked through remote islands of Papua New Guinea and then crewed on a yacht that sailed from Belize to Tahiti. In 1998 at the age of seventeen, Jesse set off from Melbourne on his record-breaking solo sail around the world.
After returning from Kijana, Jesse established an adventure sailing charter business in late 2004, cruising the islands of Papua New Guinea in a 38-foot Polynesian catamaran. For more information, visit