Fiona Harper is one of Australia’s most experienced travel and boating writers. She is the author of Boating Guide to NSW – short stays and long weekend getaways published by New Holland. Fiona has travelled the world on assignment, with her articles and images appearing in print and digital publications across the globe. When not chasing a story or photographing land and seascapes, she’s probably running a marathon, hiking up a mountain or barrelling down one on a mountain bike.

Though Fiona’s true passion is the sea and she is most at home, in, under or on the water, particularly when bound for destinations beyond a watery horizon. She discovered a passion for the boating lifestyle after sailing through the Kimberley as an 18-year-old backpacker. Teaching herself to sail on Perth’s Swan River, she has since sailed tens-of-thousands of miles, whether at the helm of her own yachts, delivering yachts across Asia/Pacific or guiding holidaymakers through island archipelagos as a charter skipper.

Poking around waterways on vessels of all sizes for her entire adult life, Fiona has developed an enduring respect for the preservation and conservation of the sea and its marine inhabitants. Fiona established the first comprehensive guide to Australian marinas in 2008 and runs the successful Travel Boating Lifestyle website. (travelboatinglifestyle.com).