For nine years, an Aussie family of four has lived aboard a 53ft sailboat, spear-fishing for food and exploring the world.
After losing a parent each, Sara and Lee Rice decided life was too short to wait for retirement.
They pulled their kids from school and set sail from Australia in 2016, later upgrading their boat to a bigger model.
Now in Mexico and Costa Rica, they’ve travelled to eight countries and homeschooled their kids along the way.
“We wanted to inspire others,” said Sara. “We’re normal people chasing a dream.”
After losing a parent each, Sara and Lee Rice decided life was too short to wait for retirement.
They pulled their kids from school and set sail from Australia in 2016, later upgrading their boat to a bigger model.
Now in Mexico and Costa Rica, they’ve travelled to eight countries and homeschooled their kids along the way.
“We wanted to inspire others,” said Sara. “We’re normal people chasing a dream.”
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00:00My family of four live on a sailboat and this is our home. Let's go take a look.
00:04The saloon area. One of our fridges is over here.
00:08A freezer under here.
00:11This is our table where we eat.
00:13Something called that our table. It has all the cutlery inside the table.
00:17We'll head to the galley.
00:18This is the galley. This is a kitchen in a boat. It's called a galley.
00:22We have a fridge under here.
00:23A chest fridge.
00:24We have a lot of food storage behind here and in here.
00:27And we have a stove.
00:29Oven.
00:30And storage. Storage. Storage.
00:32The kitchen bay is in here.
00:38Moving to the back of the boat. This is where Lee and I sleep.
00:42Hey baby.
00:44This is our bed. This is the aft cabin.
00:47And we have our own ensuite.
00:50An inside shower.
00:52And spacious.
00:54Toilet.
00:56Let's enter the front of the boat.
00:58This is Taj's room.
01:01And this is Bella's room.
01:06The V-berth.
01:07And we also have another bathroom that's in here.
01:20A shower.
01:21And a toilet.
01:24That's it.
01:25That's our home.
01:26We live on the ocean.
01:27Full time.
01:28Now we go to Costco.
01:29Living on a boat.
01:30Remember shoes?
01:31There's our sexy driver.
01:32You got shoes?
01:37He has a chance.
01:38Shoes are so cool.
01:39It's been dropped off on the beach.
01:41And then we're going to walk to where we get the bus.
01:51There's a line.
01:52We didn't have to run.
01:53Psychic.
01:54We'll do every hour.
01:56I think it's like...
01:58I think it's like...
01:59I don't know.
02:00I don't know.
02:01What?
02:02The guy changed twice.
02:03The 40-30 person is all red.
02:13Alright, so it's a 20 minute walk.
02:15So we're going to walk the rest of the way.
02:17Because we've been sitting for an hour and a half.
02:19So why not walk?
02:20Hi Belle.
02:21Hi.
02:22We're walking the wrong way, aren't we?
02:25We're here.
02:26It wasn't a 20 minute walk.
02:27I don't think.
02:28It was probably more than 10 minutes.
02:29For a slow person.
02:34Hello.
02:35We live on a boat.
02:36And usually we catch our fish fresh.
02:38But today we are going to the fish market in La Cruz in Mexico.
02:41Let's go check out the fish market.
02:43We're just going to the fish market, but we just remember we don't have any cash.
02:49We're gonna go find Naitien.
02:52Hi.
03:05Two and a half kilos of fresh tuna for six hundred and something.
03:09Thirty bucks US or something like that.
03:12is super fresh come straight from these boats you get much fresher unless you
03:17catch it yourself got a little bit hungry we saw this place with this cool
03:21whale on the front so we had to go in there and have some breakfast we ordered
03:26a breakfast burrito they were massive we actually could have shared it but we ate
03:31it and we're very full we got back on the bus and headed back
03:36the water looks so nice they had to jump in for a swim headed back to the boat