Exploring Hatchet Bay and Pineapple Cay in Eleuthera Bahamas | Ep 65 #svaguaazul #sailboat #boat

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so we're heading out to go see the town
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this is off the Anchorage of uh hat bake
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uh hat
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Bay Co something like that but uh yeah
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okay we're there's ACD on the other side
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and uh yeah it's getting pretty windy
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though I'm glad we uh tucked in here
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even though it was kind of scary getting
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in so that's where we came
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in and and uh yeah it looks pretty
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wicked
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today I can tell the sea is uh Angry out
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there yeah we wouldn't have we wouldn't
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have made that cross today we would have
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Ted it somewhere down
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in whever we were at we were uh Spanish
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Wells
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yeah it was already yesterday
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yeah but yeah that looks
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uh that looks uh uh omnus let's see
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let's see here I can zoom in it's hard
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to show on camera though I know
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looks it looks pretty bad on
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camera yeah I wouldn't be coming through
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that okay guys so we just made it to the
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free dock in alist town and
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uh it's a interesting place it's that's
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not where you put it is it no that's not
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where you put it but uh yeah and uh let
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me show you around here but when you
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come up here it kind of looks oh I'm
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guessing that's a little trashy but
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uh yeah I think that's it right there
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this is store yep
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yeah it does my wife is saying that
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looks like our house we had in uh rented
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in comaga yeah so one where the bats
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lived in there yeah that was in Honduras
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they said there's a grocery store
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somewhere around here but uh I'm
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guessing I don't
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know okay so this is a interesting TR
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coming through
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here
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Memorial we're looking for a grocery
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store emergency hurricane
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shelter I think this is it right here
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yeah that's it
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welcome so the prices in
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here
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are few bucks higher than
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normal wow a short walk
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across and you're to the beach
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pot my babe says no
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she didn't want to be uh Crossing
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this but yeah
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it's beautiful what do you think babe be
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out there on the watering this it's only
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going to get
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worse no that I
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probably no I would have had you turn
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back we've been hunkering down where we
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were
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yeah yeah
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looks to be
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closed this is
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Monday I guess we uh picked the wrong
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day to explore but it's really the only
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day we have here so but uh yeah just
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look at that water though it's so
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pretty that is just
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pictures and we have a little school
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here
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it's actually pretty
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nice so pretty close to the dock there's
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a liquor store what is that looks like
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gambling Ser Ni
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requir no way you still doing that I
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hope
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not
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and nice size church here
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keep walking this way we'll hit the atan
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baby
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chickens I think those are yeah those
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are baby
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chicks and there's
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Mama she's telling to get back and that
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dog doesn't have no interest
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in but yeah this
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is ah
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definitely not first world
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here and uh it's on Miana time
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so everything is open when it's open new
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uh restaurants nope they all close on
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Mondays but uh it's still to get out
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it's good to get out here and experience
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this experience uh you know the things
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that you take for granted where you you
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may
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be so around here they do have a nice
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dingy dock you can pull up
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to just the the only thing is everything
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is closed on
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Monday where myand made me get up that
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oh I'll bring the dingy
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over yeah it's really starting to fill
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up out here for the storm
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so there's another boat coming in right
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there
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Bo all over there this is the where
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we're at is the most coveted
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spot
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so that's where uh you get the most
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detection there's my
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babe so my spray nozzle broke off my
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hose right here so I'm going show you
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how you can fix this maybe it'll last
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maybe it won't but uh I'm going to put
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it together the same way that would our
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dog just didn't go over there and puke
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but yeah so let me get this fixed so
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first thing you have to make sure
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everything is there so you have a little
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gasket there this little washer thing
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that and there's a little uh spacer that
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slides in here you have to get out so
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I'm going to work to get that out right
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now either I have to cut this off or
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maybe I can pull out we'll see so I was
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able to pull the little piece out and
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then I'm gonna take and
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I'm going slide this on here
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first so this goes like
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this then this piece goes over
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it let's see if I can do this with one
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hand I'm going have to do this with two
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hands so it look like that and then you
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push this piece in here to complete the
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uh so this expands this and this holds
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it in here so let me do this off
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camera okay so I have that in and uh I
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haven't pulled this all the way to the
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edge I may pull it a little bit more I'm
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going to see how it works like this
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first put this washer in this and see if
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this will screw on this over here will
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screw on and uh see if it
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leaks I did have to pull it down some
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more cuz it wouldn't screw on but uh
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hopefully I didn't pull it down too far
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and there we go I got it
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together yeah now let's see how long it
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lasts but yeah I broke this when I
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dropped my uh glass off in the ocean and
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then I came back up to R rinse off and I
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guess I put too much uh force on it so
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yeah hopefully it works from this point
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forward okay we had the ferry going
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out almost Dro my drink off in the water
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I think he's going to make it he's got a
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good
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speed it was really pounding you sitting
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over there watching
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it let
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see wow he's even bounc yeah that's a
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big boat to be doing that oh no I I
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ain't going out in that bouncy oh
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no he's oh wow hell no
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a big brother yeah ours would be doing
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this yeah cuz like a boort mission now
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babe a boort mission up there we're
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seeing 22 knots of wind and you can see
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it it just pounding over there so yeah
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no no no no we're going to ride at the
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storm right
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here where we can't feel we can't feel
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the wind down here cuz we're just it's
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calm Hatchet
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Bay we are just surrounded by Hills and
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that's the only
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entrance it's nice and
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calm so it's really calm in here and uh
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up there I've recorded wind speeds right
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now
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of 37
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nuts so really glad we came in here
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it does look like there's going to be
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some realities of cooking on a
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boat my bab
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flies no we've only had FES we're too
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close to land right now it's since we've
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gotten to alra yeah well we've been
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we've been having flies well we've been
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avoiding weather and we're a little
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close to land if you can see out that
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window we're pretty close to land but
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uh yeah no they I mean probably can't
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see them now but they hide there's at
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least two of them in here but uh my wife
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is in here she's making see there's one
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on my
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head I'm trying to make dinner she's
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making the Magic in the kitchen and the
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Flies are distracting
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her need to go
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away go find a new home yeah and we just
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uh we just uh we made it through that
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cold front guys wind's got to about 40
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knots and really at cold front we wind
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front it was a wind front but yeah it
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was a cold front but it got cold today
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that's why my bab's in their uh jacket
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now but uh we made it through that and
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we're going to be leaving soon tomorrow
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yep getting out of here
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he I see the fly you can't see it on
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camera but I see
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it okay guys so we're heading out of
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hatchet Bay Harbor going to Pineapple K
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should be uh more beaches over there
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this was a great place to hide out but
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around us nothing but rocks so tired of
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rocking except for in storms this was a
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great place to not rock in there
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oh yeah but uh we're going to head
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through that very narrow uh cut to get
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out of here the only opening in here
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surrounded by all Hills and uh get on
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out here calmer than when we entered oh
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yeah this is a lot calmer than when we
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entered we entered at 15 20 knots we're
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leaving at uh uh 5 to 10
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knots so think done enough be in Exumas
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soon done enough turning go straighten
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out a little bit and we're going to go
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through this cut so babe it's a stark
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contrast from what we saw coming in
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here yeah like night and day yeah that
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is
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like it looks like you just kayak
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through
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that then the other day when it was so
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windy it was horrific you would have not
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wanted to come through that no no we saw
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that fairy go through there and that
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looked that looked
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terrifying you could just see how narrow
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it is through
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here yeah that is a tight
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squeeze we're like 10t from that rock
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right
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there so we had to about 10 foot on each
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side going through there and now we're
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through
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now we're into the the bouncy big
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blue
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yep so this is the side of hatchin bay
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we walk to and there's a little beach
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over there it's not much of a beach but
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you know get grab a beer just now on
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Monday and you can't even see the
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entrance you almost have to be directly
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in front of it to see it it's so
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tight but yeah this is a great place to
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hide
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out well my wife got to see her uh first
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dolphin in uh the
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Bahamas and now we're uh actually
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looking for crab pods cuz uh they're out
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here
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yeah
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why yeah we've uh passed to too yeah
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there there's no uh Rhyme or Reason
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where they place them they're just
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scattered all over the place you just
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have to look for these ones were white
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but you know sometimes I guess they
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could use milk jugs or anything to
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Mark no the Sun's shining from up there
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but uh we got about
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three and a half hours and uh we'll get
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to our destination pineapple K and
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hopefully we can get off and stretch our
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legs a little bit there cuz uh I think I
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think there is a white sand beach
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there so we're passing Governor's Harbor
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right
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here and uh we're going past it because
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we really don't want to be
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in Hustle and Buel which there's no
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hustle and Buel around here and
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also the holding is not as good even
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though there's no wind so but yeah
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that's it right there airport over that
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way somewhere and this over here in
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these uh little chairs on the end great
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place to sit to see and uh uh
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lookout for our crab pods which we've
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been seeing but also you can see all
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your gauges right there and you can look
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through I have this little hole in the
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solar panel where I can see my tail
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tails on my cils
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let see if I can get there or no but uh
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not a bad way to cruise and uh yeah it's
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really calm out here today oh there's a
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dolphin over
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there so we've been seeing some dolphins
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on this
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trick okay so I reefed my headset a
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little bit cuz I'm still seeing crab
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pods out
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here see that right there but there's
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one so I can see better through it
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and so got my head so up too and we're
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cruising along about five 5 to six knots
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but there's not much wind out here we're
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getting about 7 knots of wind that's why
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I'm motor selling
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because right now yeah wind angle
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is uh a close reach okay the first place
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I was wrong that's just Governor's
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Harbor Airport this is Governor's Harbor
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right here so we'll zoom in there and
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you'll see that there's nobody anchored
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here there's a saell tower over there
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that's why we're getting good sell
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signal but nothing here we're going
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about five uh five naal miles past here
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okay so this morning we have a bunch of
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sailboats heading that way now I see two
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more sailboats heading that way are we
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going the wrong
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way everybody did the Exumas like
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they left like a whole month before we
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did
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MH
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so it's getting warmer now though but
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they're all going back to the United
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States we're
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not we're going further
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so I know I think we're doing it this
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fine oh me as will baby and uh plus it's
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warmer here now than it
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was we're close to Pineapple okay it
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looks like we have a few caves over
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there that is
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awesome I think my babe wants to go
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check them out right
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babe that's
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freaky BS in yeah that is pretty cool
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close up to that again oh
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yeah I don't know if we'll have time to
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go over there but it's like we're two M
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two knal miles away from here
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well I thought we were going to get our
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own private pineapple K but nope we got
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looks like five five other boats in here
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and uh yeah a few of these I pretty sure
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they red um Hatchet yeah running ring
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out that wind storm but now they're here
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looking at that beach over there you see
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that see that beach back there yeah
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that's a big old Long Beach that's Paul
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paw Bay Al Luther is is really pretty
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actually so yeah get your butts out here
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to arua and uh get some beach alra it's
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not our first alra I say it right now
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but uh yeah we're going to go check out
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um pawpaw over here and see what it
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looks like little swelly little swelly
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yeah probably not as bad as it was
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probably this whole entire oh no last
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two days and the swell should be dying
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down a little bit bit more uh tomorrow
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we're going to have a little bit more
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Breeze probably a couple knots but
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that's about it and uh we got two more
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days in this window to get to uh zumas
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before it gets kind of kind of wild
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again mhm so that's why we're pushing
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forward let's go check out this
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beach okay guys so we are going to the
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beach this is palp Beach
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header oh what P pom B thought you call
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it pineapple or something no we're in
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pineapple K and and the beach is a p p b
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oh so and then uh back behind us here we
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have bird islands and uh I thought we
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were going to get a little Bella Island
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here but there is no Bella Island cuz I
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ain't going up that whatever that is
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can't get on that
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snork under there and find fish oh
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probably some lobster under
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there so we made it to the
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beach and there's like a little shade
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thing over there and there's a lot of
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people down over there and we are over
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here and the dog is wrapping us up she
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wants to go in the woods and I I'm not
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going in the woods there's just no way
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I'm sorry no but
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uh beautiful lovely
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bride my bab's out here looking for
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nature we saw a ray coming in
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oh I don't know what that
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is I see it hopefully the camera picks
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it up but we saw a ray coming
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in it could
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be yeah
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yep that could be a shark baby know the
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way it's swimming and the way the th is
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on the back
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and
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there and she was just looking for
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wildlife and it appeared and we saw
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Dolphins comeing here
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too yeah we did I think they were um
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swimming underneath our boat they're
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coming up right on the side yeah they're
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clean we were going too slow yeah
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they're probably trying to do our bow
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and then they were like whatever I'm
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just going here now well guys this beach
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has gotten too
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crowded so my baby's waned to go check
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out over there she says that looks like
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a beach over there on that little
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island and uh that too crowded it's just
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there's like eight people on this Beach
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right now little hide over here there
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Shades so we don't have umbrellas nope
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we didn't bring chairs
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umbrellas
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so go see what that is over there kind
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of reminds me of scout Island yeah and a
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Coco but we we probably get over there
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and it would just be a rock cliff
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probably but uh yeah it looks like is
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that the shark
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again no that's not moving but yeah
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there's
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a swimming in this
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water it's a shark it's a small shark
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yeah and I'm no I'm not sure what kind
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it is it's a togetter I think they say
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there's
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tigers and Nerf yeah there's more than
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that but like the ones that you mainly
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see yeah yeah well let's get in the
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dingy and let's go Bella you ready to
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get to the Private
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Island there's uh my bab's private
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Island
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Resort
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what yeah
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no but
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I where you going you going to jump
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off let's see how shallow is it in
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here little fishies
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what I think we can uh pull up right
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there it looks pretty
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soft looks like rock that looks like
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sand we'll do the
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sand okay my bab is on the
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beach digging her feet in the sand like
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a little island OB the island over here
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that way were just
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got but it's just kind of a little
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private thing so we're just going to
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have a few drinks and then yep leave
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before the bugs because I got eaten a
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lot with no at uh meat meat PCH
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Meek patch but this sand is oh so soft
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but you can tell that the tide comes in
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at some point oh yeah comes all the way
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over to this rocky area the way so we're
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going to leave before the tide comes in
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but yeah I'm not sitting in
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there we're on low tide right
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now and uh they throw out my anchor
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yeah this is nice my wife said that she
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thinks that's a historical brick right
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there from the
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1600s oh it looks like a standard cinder
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block
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prick oh that's where we're sitting yeah
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that's where she's sitting oh
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okay get out
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here yeah but wherever you step out here
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it starts pulling up
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water so the island is
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sinking yeah it gets really
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soft don't know if you would want to
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build a house well up there on that rock
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that's
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rock this is all
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sand so nice sand beach our chairs are
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going to be covered in
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sand okay that's where we
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were this is where we are and that tide
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is coming in okay guys this is the life
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look at Bella back there I know that's
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on but uh
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yeah this is uh it's not pretty that way
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but it sure is pretty that
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way just all these Blues in the water it
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is pretty let me just pany around here
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yeah just look at that
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only took us how long to get here but we
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are here and uh no it took
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us N9 years nine years yeah so we've
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been moved to
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Florida oh uh in
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2016 with this in mind yeah that we were
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eventually going to but we were talking
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about this before back in Texas yeah so
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this is it's been a long long long
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oh time
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yep but now I'm old not got more gray
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hair got more wrinkles we have uh empty
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nesters our son just uh sent us a photo
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of his dive suit for dive welding he's
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in dive school right now yeah he's going
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to do dive
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welding but uh yeah and then our he's
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paying for it himself mom and dad got
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too much money in the boat we don't got
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no
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we broke we we po but uh yeah just uh
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but you you plan you you you dig in you
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dream and uh but you have to eventually
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make your dreams a
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reality and what they say is what it's
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90% work and 10% fun exactly this would
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be part of the 10% yeah this is the 10%
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cuz man it's been probably I think 99%
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work that and we've been having to run
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from and hide from a lot of wind storms
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here in Bahamas I mean I can't believe
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it it's like every 4 days and there's
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supposed to be another one coming and
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we're going to be in the Exumas at that
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point Y and we hope that we can hide
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somewhere yeah but uh if you if you're
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ever down in uh the um where is this uh
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alra
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alra uh this is a pineapple K so and you
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got paa over here and this is I think
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one of the bird Islands or something so
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I haven't seen any I haven't seen any
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birds either M just a dog go she's a
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Exploring Hatchet Bay and Pineapple Cay in Eleuthera Bahamas | Ep 65 #svaguaazul #sailboat #boat

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Exploring Hatchet Bay and Pineapple Cay in Eleuthera Bahamas | Ep 65 #svaguaazul #sailboat #boat

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