This article was originally published by Riviera Australia on 16 July 2025.

This adventure was experienced aboard a Riviera 505 SUV equipped with a Seakeeper 9 Gyro Stabiliser.

Exploring the enchanting Abrolhos islands of Western Australia

Lee-Anne and Anthony Yewers sat in the cockpit of their Riviera 505 SUV and marvelled at another brilliant sunset over the ocean. They were some 32 nautical miles west of Geraldton in Western Australia and about a million nautical miles from care.

The couple live in Perth and have owned their Riviera named Berry Sweet for two years. They are berry fruit farmers. The period May through July is a relatively quiet time for their business so, when Riviera dealer principal Ryan Lloyd recommended a voyage to the legendary Abrolhos island group, they quickly put their hands up to join.

Ryan knows the Abrolhos and was keen to give his clients this very special experience. Initial response to his invitation to local Riviera owners was strong but work or family commitments or health left only the Yewers’s signing-on for the adventure.

Now Berry Sweet was tied up to a timber jetty that serves a group of shacks built by rock lobster fishermen. Visitors are not allowed to stay among these islands unless they are guests of one of those fishermen, in this case Reece Newbold, a third generation “cray” fisherman. The people who work here are called cray fishermen and their craft are called crayboats. It is simply a colloquial term because they are here for the single purpose of catching the local rock lobsters. Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans.

The Abrolhos provides the largest single-species fishery in Western Australia. It has a small seasonal population of fishermen, and a limited number of tourists are permitted for day trips but most of the land area is off-limits as a conservation habitat.

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