FROM UNDERWATER TO ABOVE WATER
“My wife and I decided we would sell our business, licences and home to travel Australia”
My father Russell Snook, born in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), arrived in Australia in the early ‘70s with a childhood full of hunting, self-engineering knowledge, an obsession for spearing and a fascination of the Great Barrier Reef. This led him to being one of the pioneers of Marine Aquarium Fish Collecting.
In 1985, I was born into the industry and taught the ropes of Aquarium Fish collecting and Coral Harvesting which led to me owning my own wholesale business from 2010, exporting all around the world.
But having spent my whole life in the industry, my passion was starting to wear thin. By 2019, even though our family had grown to five, my mind was always at work, and it was starting to drive me mad. I just wanted to spend more quality time with my kids, so when our third child was on the way, my wife and I decided we would sell our business, licences and home to travel Australia.
PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE
It was the hardest decision we ever made, but the most exciting! We imagined spending weeks on end living off the land, on beautiful beaches fishing, spearing and exploring, as a family.
“It was the hardest decision we ever made, but the most
