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Exploring Hatchet Bay and Pineapple Cay in Eleuthera Bahamas | Ep 65 #svaguaazul #sailboat #boat
Apr 9, 2025
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0:01
so we're heading out to go see the town
0:03
this is off the Anchorage of uh hat bake
0:07
uh hat
0:09
Bay Co something like that but uh yeah
0:14
okay we're there's ACD on the other side
0:17
and uh yeah it's getting pretty windy
0:20
though I'm glad we uh tucked in here
0:22
even though it was kind of scary getting
0:25
in so that's where we came
0:28
in and and uh yeah it looks pretty
0:32
wicked
0:34
today I can tell the sea is uh Angry out
0:38
there yeah we wouldn't have we wouldn't
0:42
have made that cross today we would have
0:44
Ted it somewhere down
0:46
in whever we were at we were uh Spanish
0:50
Wells
0:53
yeah it was already yesterday
0:57
[Music]
1:00
yeah but yeah that looks
1:04
uh that looks uh uh omnus let's see
1:08
let's see here I can zoom in it's hard
1:10
to show on camera though I know
1:15
looks it looks pretty bad on
1:21
camera yeah I wouldn't be coming through
1:27
that okay guys so we just made it to the
1:31
free dock in alist town and
1:35
uh it's a interesting place it's that's
1:40
not where you put it is it no that's not
1:42
where you put it but uh yeah and uh let
1:47
me show you around here but when you
1:49
come up here it kind of looks oh I'm
1:51
guessing that's a little trashy but
1:54
uh yeah I think that's it right there
1:57
this is store yep
2:00
yeah it does my wife is saying that
2:02
looks like our house we had in uh rented
2:04
in comaga yeah so one where the bats
2:08
lived in there yeah that was in Honduras
2:11
they said there's a grocery store
2:13
somewhere around here but uh I'm
2:21
guessing I don't
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[Music]
2:26
know okay so this is a interesting TR
2:29
coming through
2:38
here
2:45
Memorial we're looking for a grocery
2:53
store emergency hurricane
2:57
shelter I think this is it right here
3:05
yeah that's it
3:10
welcome so the prices in
3:13
here
3:15
are few bucks higher than
3:18
normal wow a short walk
3:21
across and you're to the beach
3:27
pot my babe says no
3:30
she didn't want to be uh Crossing
3:34
this but yeah
3:37
it's beautiful what do you think babe be
3:41
out there on the watering this it's only
3:44
going to get
3:46
worse no that I
3:51
probably no I would have had you turn
3:53
back we've been hunkering down where we
3:55
were
3:58
yeah yeah
4:00
looks to be
4:06
closed this is
4:09
Monday I guess we uh picked the wrong
4:11
day to explore but it's really the only
4:13
day we have here so but uh yeah just
4:17
look at that water though it's so
4:20
pretty that is just
4:27
pictures and we have a little school
4:29
here
4:30
it's actually pretty
4:35
nice so pretty close to the dock there's
4:37
a liquor store what is that looks like
4:43
gambling Ser Ni
4:46
requir no way you still doing that I
4:50
hope
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[Music]
4:53
not
4:54
and nice size church here
4:59
keep walking this way we'll hit the atan
5:02
[Music]
5:05
baby
5:07
chickens I think those are yeah those
5:11
are baby
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[Music]
5:15
chicks and there's
5:18
Mama she's telling to get back and that
5:21
dog doesn't have no interest
5:24
in but yeah this
5:28
is ah
5:31
definitely not first world
5:34
here and uh it's on Miana time
5:38
so everything is open when it's open new
5:43
uh restaurants nope they all close on
5:48
Mondays but uh it's still to get out
5:51
it's good to get out here and experience
5:53
this experience uh you know the things
5:56
that you take for granted where you you
5:59
may
6:01
be so around here they do have a nice
6:03
dingy dock you can pull up
6:05
to just the the only thing is everything
6:08
is closed on
6:10
Monday where myand made me get up that
6:14
oh I'll bring the dingy
6:20
over yeah it's really starting to fill
6:22
up out here for the storm
6:26
so there's another boat coming in right
6:29
there
6:30
Bo all over there this is the where
6:33
we're at is the most coveted
6:36
spot
6:38
so that's where uh you get the most
6:42
detection there's my
6:46
babe so my spray nozzle broke off my
6:49
hose right here so I'm going show you
6:53
how you can fix this maybe it'll last
6:55
maybe it won't but uh I'm going to put
6:58
it together the same way that would our
7:00
dog just didn't go over there and puke
7:03
but yeah so let me get this fixed so
7:06
first thing you have to make sure
7:08
everything is there so you have a little
7:09
gasket there this little washer thing
7:13
that and there's a little uh spacer that
7:17
slides in here you have to get out so
7:20
I'm going to work to get that out right
7:21
now either I have to cut this off or
7:23
maybe I can pull out we'll see so I was
7:26
able to pull the little piece out and
7:28
then I'm gonna take and
7:30
I'm going slide this on here
7:34
first so this goes like
7:38
this then this piece goes over
7:42
it let's see if I can do this with one
7:45
hand I'm going have to do this with two
7:48
hands so it look like that and then you
7:51
push this piece in here to complete the
7:56
uh so this expands this and this holds
8:00
it in here so let me do this off
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camera okay so I have that in and uh I
8:08
haven't pulled this all the way to the
8:10
edge I may pull it a little bit more I'm
8:12
going to see how it works like this
8:13
first put this washer in this and see if
8:17
this will screw on this over here will
8:19
screw on and uh see if it
8:22
leaks I did have to pull it down some
8:24
more cuz it wouldn't screw on but uh
8:27
hopefully I didn't pull it down too far
8:30
and there we go I got it
8:35
together yeah now let's see how long it
8:39
lasts but yeah I broke this when I
8:42
dropped my uh glass off in the ocean and
8:45
then I came back up to R rinse off and I
8:48
guess I put too much uh force on it so
8:51
yeah hopefully it works from this point
8:55
forward okay we had the ferry going
8:58
out almost Dro my drink off in the water
9:01
I think he's going to make it he's got a
9:03
good
9:04
speed it was really pounding you sitting
9:07
over there watching
9:09
it let
9:12
see wow he's even bounc yeah that's a
9:16
big boat to be doing that oh no I I
9:19
ain't going out in that bouncy oh
9:22
no he's oh wow hell no
9:29
a big brother yeah ours would be doing
9:35
this yeah cuz like a boort mission now
9:38
babe a boort mission up there we're
9:40
seeing 22 knots of wind and you can see
9:43
it it just pounding over there so yeah
9:48
no no no no we're going to ride at the
9:50
storm right
9:52
here where we can't feel we can't feel
9:55
the wind down here cuz we're just it's
9:58
calm Hatchet
10:00
Bay we are just surrounded by Hills and
10:05
that's the only
10:08
entrance it's nice and
10:12
calm so it's really calm in here and uh
10:16
up there I've recorded wind speeds right
10:19
now
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[Music]
10:21
of 37
10:24
nuts so really glad we came in here
10:29
it does look like there's going to be
10:34
some realities of cooking on a
10:38
boat my bab
10:43
flies no we've only had FES we're too
10:46
close to land right now it's since we've
10:49
gotten to alra yeah well we've been
10:53
we've been having flies well we've been
10:55
avoiding weather and we're a little
10:56
close to land if you can see out that
10:58
window we're pretty close to land but
11:02
uh yeah no they I mean probably can't
11:05
see them now but they hide there's at
11:08
least two of them in here but uh my wife
11:12
is in here she's making see there's one
11:14
on my
11:16
head I'm trying to make dinner she's
11:19
making the Magic in the kitchen and the
11:21
Flies are distracting
11:23
her need to go
11:26
away go find a new home yeah and we just
11:30
uh we just uh we made it through that
11:32
cold front guys wind's got to about 40
11:35
knots and really at cold front we wind
11:37
front it was a wind front but yeah it
11:39
was a cold front but it got cold today
11:41
that's why my bab's in their uh jacket
11:46
now but uh we made it through that and
11:50
we're going to be leaving soon tomorrow
11:52
yep getting out of here
11:56
he I see the fly you can't see it on
12:00
camera but I see
12:08
it okay guys so we're heading out of
12:11
hatchet Bay Harbor going to Pineapple K
12:14
should be uh more beaches over there
12:18
this was a great place to hide out but
12:21
around us nothing but rocks so tired of
12:25
rocking except for in storms this was a
12:27
great place to not rock in there
12:29
oh yeah but uh we're going to head
12:32
through that very narrow uh cut to get
12:35
out of here the only opening in here
12:38
surrounded by all Hills and uh get on
12:41
out here calmer than when we entered oh
12:44
yeah this is a lot calmer than when we
12:45
entered we entered at 15 20 knots we're
12:49
leaving at uh uh 5 to 10
12:53
knots so think done enough be in Exumas
12:56
soon done enough turning go straighten
12:59
out a little bit and we're going to go
13:02
through this cut so babe it's a stark
13:05
contrast from what we saw coming in
13:08
here yeah like night and day yeah that
13:13
is
13:14
like it looks like you just kayak
13:16
through
13:17
that then the other day when it was so
13:20
windy it was horrific you would have not
13:24
wanted to come through that no no we saw
13:27
that fairy go through there and that
13:28
looked that looked
13:34
terrifying you could just see how narrow
13:37
it is through
13:39
here yeah that is a tight
13:46
squeeze we're like 10t from that rock
13:50
right
13:51
there so we had to about 10 foot on each
13:54
side going through there and now we're
13:56
through
13:59
now we're into the the bouncy big
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blue
14:20
yep so this is the side of hatchin bay
14:23
we walk to and there's a little beach
14:25
over there it's not much of a beach but
14:28
you know get grab a beer just now on
14:31
Monday and you can't even see the
14:34
entrance you almost have to be directly
14:37
in front of it to see it it's so
14:42
tight but yeah this is a great place to
14:44
hide
14:45
out well my wife got to see her uh first
14:48
dolphin in uh the
14:52
Bahamas and now we're uh actually
14:56
looking for crab pods cuz uh they're out
14:58
here
14:59
yeah
15:03
why yeah we've uh passed to too yeah
15:07
there there's no uh Rhyme or Reason
15:10
where they place them they're just
15:11
scattered all over the place you just
15:13
have to look for these ones were white
15:16
but you know sometimes I guess they
15:17
could use milk jugs or anything to
15:21
Mark no the Sun's shining from up there
15:26
but uh we got about
15:29
three and a half hours and uh we'll get
15:31
to our destination pineapple K and
15:34
hopefully we can get off and stretch our
15:37
legs a little bit there cuz uh I think I
15:40
think there is a white sand beach
15:44
there so we're passing Governor's Harbor
15:47
right
15:48
here and uh we're going past it because
15:51
we really don't want to be
15:54
in Hustle and Buel which there's no
15:57
hustle and Buel around here and
15:59
also the holding is not as good even
16:01
though there's no wind so but yeah
16:04
that's it right there airport over that
16:07
way somewhere and this over here in
16:10
these uh little chairs on the end great
16:12
place to sit to see and uh uh
16:16
lookout for our crab pods which we've
16:17
been seeing but also you can see all
16:20
your gauges right there and you can look
16:23
through I have this little hole in the
16:25
solar panel where I can see my tail
16:27
tails on my cils
16:29
let see if I can get there or no but uh
16:32
not a bad way to cruise and uh yeah it's
16:36
really calm out here today oh there's a
16:38
dolphin over
16:40
there so we've been seeing some dolphins
16:43
on this
16:45
trick okay so I reefed my headset a
16:48
little bit cuz I'm still seeing crab
16:50
pods out
16:51
here see that right there but there's
16:55
one so I can see better through it
16:59
and so got my head so up too and we're
17:03
cruising along about five 5 to six knots
17:08
but there's not much wind out here we're
17:10
getting about 7 knots of wind that's why
17:12
I'm motor selling
17:14
because right now yeah wind angle
17:19
is uh a close reach okay the first place
17:23
I was wrong that's just Governor's
17:25
Harbor Airport this is Governor's Harbor
17:27
right here so we'll zoom in there and
17:31
you'll see that there's nobody anchored
17:33
here there's a saell tower over there
17:34
that's why we're getting good sell
17:36
signal but nothing here we're going
17:40
about five uh five naal miles past here
17:44
okay so this morning we have a bunch of
17:46
sailboats heading that way now I see two
17:49
more sailboats heading that way are we
17:51
going the wrong
17:52
[Music]
17:54
way everybody did the Exumas like
17:59
they left like a whole month before we
18:00
did
18:02
MH
18:04
so it's getting warmer now though but
18:06
they're all going back to the United
18:08
States we're
18:10
not we're going further
18:13
so I know I think we're doing it this
18:16
fine oh me as will baby and uh plus it's
18:20
warmer here now than it
18:25
was we're close to Pineapple okay it
18:28
looks like we have a few caves over
18:29
there that is
18:32
awesome I think my babe wants to go
18:35
check them out right
18:37
babe that's
18:41
freaky BS in yeah that is pretty cool
18:46
close up to that again oh
18:48
yeah I don't know if we'll have time to
18:50
go over there but it's like we're two M
18:53
two knal miles away from here
19:00
well I thought we were going to get our
19:02
own private pineapple K but nope we got
19:07
looks like five five other boats in here
19:11
and uh yeah a few of these I pretty sure
19:14
they red um Hatchet yeah running ring
19:18
out that wind storm but now they're here
19:21
looking at that beach over there you see
19:23
that see that beach back there yeah
19:24
that's a big old Long Beach that's Paul
19:27
paw Bay Al Luther is is really pretty
19:32
actually so yeah get your butts out here
19:35
to arua and uh get some beach alra it's
19:41
not our first alra I say it right now
19:45
but uh yeah we're going to go check out
19:47
um pawpaw over here and see what it
19:50
looks like little swelly little swelly
19:52
yeah probably not as bad as it was
19:54
probably this whole entire oh no last
19:56
two days and the swell should be dying
19:58
down a little bit bit more uh tomorrow
20:00
we're going to have a little bit more
20:01
Breeze probably a couple knots but
20:03
that's about it and uh we got two more
20:07
days in this window to get to uh zumas
20:10
before it gets kind of kind of wild
20:12
again mhm so that's why we're pushing
20:15
forward let's go check out this
20:18
beach okay guys so we are going to the
20:23
beach this is palp Beach
20:27
header oh what P pom B thought you call
20:31
it pineapple or something no we're in
20:33
pineapple K and and the beach is a p p b
20:39
oh so and then uh back behind us here we
20:43
have bird islands and uh I thought we
20:46
were going to get a little Bella Island
20:48
here but there is no Bella Island cuz I
20:51
ain't going up that whatever that is
20:54
can't get on that
20:58
snork under there and find fish oh
21:01
probably some lobster under
21:03
there so we made it to the
21:06
beach and there's like a little shade
21:09
thing over there and there's a lot of
21:11
people down over there and we are over
21:16
here and the dog is wrapping us up she
21:19
wants to go in the woods and I I'm not
21:21
going in the woods there's just no way
21:24
I'm sorry no but
21:27
uh beautiful lovely
21:35
bride my bab's out here looking for
21:37
nature we saw a ray coming in
21:39
oh I don't know what that
21:43
is I see it hopefully the camera picks
21:47
it up but we saw a ray coming
21:51
in it could
21:53
be yeah
21:56
[Laughter]
21:59
yep that could be a shark baby know the
22:02
way it's swimming and the way the th is
22:04
on the back
22:06
and
22:08
[Music]
22:10
there and she was just looking for
22:12
wildlife and it appeared and we saw
22:15
Dolphins comeing here
22:17
too yeah we did I think they were um
22:20
swimming underneath our boat they're
22:22
coming up right on the side yeah they're
22:25
clean we were going too slow yeah
22:28
they're probably trying to do our bow
22:29
and then they were like whatever I'm
22:32
just going here now well guys this beach
22:36
has gotten too
22:38
crowded so my baby's waned to go check
22:41
out over there she says that looks like
22:43
a beach over there on that little
22:45
island and uh that too crowded it's just
22:49
there's like eight people on this Beach
22:51
right now little hide over here there
22:54
Shades so we don't have umbrellas nope
22:57
we didn't bring chairs
22:59
umbrellas
23:00
so go see what that is over there kind
23:04
of reminds me of scout Island yeah and a
23:07
Coco but we we probably get over there
23:09
and it would just be a rock cliff
23:12
probably but uh yeah it looks like is
23:15
that the shark
23:17
again no that's not moving but yeah
23:20
there's
23:21
a swimming in this
23:24
water it's a shark it's a small shark
23:28
yeah and I'm no I'm not sure what kind
23:30
it is it's a togetter I think they say
23:32
there's
23:33
tigers and Nerf yeah there's more than
23:36
that but like the ones that you mainly
23:38
see yeah yeah well let's get in the
23:41
dingy and let's go Bella you ready to
23:43
get to the Private
23:45
Island there's uh my bab's private
23:48
Island
23:53
Resort
23:55
what yeah
24:01
no but
24:04
I where you going you going to jump
24:11
off let's see how shallow is it in
24:18
here little fishies
24:22
what I think we can uh pull up right
24:25
there it looks pretty
24:27
soft looks like rock that looks like
24:30
sand we'll do the
24:34
sand okay my bab is on the
24:37
beach digging her feet in the sand like
24:41
a little island OB the island over here
24:44
that way were just
24:45
got but it's just kind of a little
24:48
private thing so we're just going to
24:50
have a few drinks and then yep leave
24:53
before the bugs because I got eaten a
24:55
lot with no at uh meat meat PCH
24:58
Meek patch but this sand is oh so soft
25:02
but you can tell that the tide comes in
25:04
at some point oh yeah comes all the way
25:06
over to this rocky area the way so we're
25:11
going to leave before the tide comes in
25:13
but yeah I'm not sitting in
25:17
there we're on low tide right
25:20
now and uh they throw out my anchor
25:25
[Music]
25:28
yeah this is nice my wife said that she
25:31
thinks that's a historical brick right
25:36
there from the
25:38
1600s oh it looks like a standard cinder
25:41
block
25:45
prick oh that's where we're sitting yeah
25:48
that's where she's sitting oh
25:50
okay get out
25:55
here yeah but wherever you step out here
25:57
it starts pulling up
26:01
water so the island is
26:05
sinking yeah it gets really
26:08
soft don't know if you would want to
26:10
build a house well up there on that rock
26:13
that's
26:15
rock this is all
26:17
sand so nice sand beach our chairs are
26:21
going to be covered in
26:22
sand okay that's where we
26:25
were this is where we are and that tide
26:29
is coming in okay guys this is the life
26:33
look at Bella back there I know that's
26:37
on but uh
26:40
yeah this is uh it's not pretty that way
26:44
but it sure is pretty that
26:47
way just all these Blues in the water it
26:52
is pretty let me just pany around here
26:55
yeah just look at that
26:59
only took us how long to get here but we
27:02
are here and uh no it took
27:05
us N9 years nine years yeah so we've
27:10
been moved to
27:11
Florida oh uh in
27:15
2016 with this in mind yeah that we were
27:18
eventually going to but we were talking
27:20
about this before back in Texas yeah so
27:25
this is it's been a long long long
27:29
oh time
27:33
yep but now I'm old not got more gray
27:38
hair got more wrinkles we have uh empty
27:41
nesters our son just uh sent us a photo
27:44
of his dive suit for dive welding he's
27:47
in dive school right now yeah he's going
27:49
to do dive
27:51
welding but uh yeah and then our he's
27:54
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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bird
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dog oh she's just looking no she's just
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looking
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right
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