Even after all the time we spent in Raja Ampat, we still have new things to see! In this episode we are exploring a labyrinth of waterways in Allyui Bay.
A crazy adventure day of exploring in winding rivers half in our sailboat, half in our dinghy. Green jungle, wild birds and beautiful rock formations : a landscape from another time, where we enjoyed discovering hidden bays and a crazy Hong.
Come with us visiting this maze of rivers in wild nature, far from everything.
PS: This video is edited by Marie so please give her some positive vibes in the comments below.
Enjoi !
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0:06
Good day guys welcome back nice to see you again! We can't really see you but we imagine you all out there looking at us all 26 000 of you watching us here today.
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Marie is the silent one today, she's got a little bit of a
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throat sickness, she can't talk, it's pretty good, I can just talk all the time now and she can just
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move her lips and i can't hear anything. You wanna show ? I can do this voice that's all and it's super painful.
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That's the maximum you're gonna hear anyway. Today we are in a place called Allyui bay
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and we've come up to a place that i've never been to and here, you'll see on the maps, we'll zoom
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around a bit, but this is crazy rock formations and fingers and little fjords and what ? (whispers)
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oh yeah a labyrinth ! I'm getting good at at lip reading now, it's pretty good, it's taking a new dimension on our relationship. So we're going to cruise around there with Schiehallion.
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I'll fly a bit with the drone, you'll see this and uh it's all quite deep and amongst there but if we see anything cool, we'll find somewhere to anchor and zip around the dinghy. There are a few like
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hungs, i call them. You've seen in a couple other videos, little inland lakes that you can maybe sneak into with the dinghy or swim into i've seen a couple of them on the satellite pictures so i'm
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gonna look for them and if not we're just going to cruise around a couple of hours and then heading down south and we're going to do a oh i call it a river passage but it's just a really narrow
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waterway that goes between this bay and another bay. It's a short cut of 10 miles and I first
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remember seeing Delos do that, maybe eight ten years ago, when they were coming to Indonesia, and i thought that was amazing i would love to do that one day and we're gonna do it tomorrow !
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So that'll all be in the video and uh plus we're getting some water doing some washing yeah ! Not a
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lot of sailing but we're doing a lot of boating and exploring so yeah enjoy the video ! Have fun !
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So we've got Greg and Kik behind us today, they're coming in as well. We're going into these really narrow passages because i want to look around. There's no wind so we're pretty safe but um
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gonna have to be a little bit careful because i'm gonna fly the drone, obviously because you really get the best view of this sort of thing and the perspective of how big the boat is in these
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little zones um with the drone, so i'm gonna do that and Marie will probably steer a little
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bit but there's no wind, so we know that we can just, you know, put it in neutral and drift a little bit, turn around if we need to. It is 17 meters right here and it looks sort of consistent all the way
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so we could actually just anchor here though and go with the dinghy but it sort of looks cooler with the boat so we're going to go with Schiehallion. Anyway let's see how this goes !
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Well we're in this cool little round thing, Greg just passed us over here and we're gonna drop the anchor just around the corner here because
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we just spotted that you can get into this little entrance. It's just over there, you can't quite see it from here but there's a little lake in behind
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there. So we'll drop the anchor and they'll go in with the dinghy and check it all out !
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Wow, it's very still here. Now we dropped the anchor in this little circle of
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water here. Greg's dropped back inside. Now, the engine's off, wow it's so still here,
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so many birds uh we're going to jump in the dinghy and go and have a look in that little lake. Oh no,
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scratch that i think we're going to jump on the paddle boards. I think the hole we saw is too small to get through in the dinghy. so we're going to look in there, take you guys along with the
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Gopro and we'll see how it looks ! Look at this place, stunning !
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and yeah this is just the first first one, that we just arrived at, there's a whole bunch bunch
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more ! You can see here on the google earth pictures but it's just unlimited ! You could spend days here. You
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could just literally park the boat somewhere and cruise around with paddle boards or dinghy for days and days, exploring around here and no one would know you're here you're, guaranteed not to see any
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humans anyway. But uh there's definitely mantas and turtles around, i've seen a few of them.
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All right, off for a paddle !
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All right there's the spot guys, it looks to be very very low, we're gonna have to lie down
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on the boards and go in this one. A little bit more difficult than the one in Triton bay but you never know ! Maybe we'll find a dinosaur or something in there ! That
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who knows? Exploration, it's pretty awesome! It's what makes my heart pump.
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Well as you can see it's only about as high as my board so to go in there we're going to have to get
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in the water and just swim beside... oh no.. Marie's going to give it a crack, all right here you go !
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You gonna to scratch your butt though, look how sharp those corals are !
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- It's so too scary, i can't ! - Just go in the water then... -No, I can't ... -What ?! It's too scary? - Yeah, I can't.
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What's too scary?! - I'm claustrophobic ,you know that! I can't, i can't ! - It'll take you 20 seconds ... - It's too much.
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So she's claustrophobic. Because she's whispering all the time, i'm whispering too, you know?! Because
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it's like a whisper day, but i'm going to go in there, because i'm not claustrophobic.
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It's find babe, it's no problem.
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Wow this is so sick but yeah really uh if the tide's coming in, you're really not getting out
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of here ! Well i can always dive under that hole but i can't get the paddleboard out. I'm gonna go for a quick paddle around here because i'm not quite sure what the tide's doing.
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I don't wanna get stuck so i'm gonna paddle around quick and then zip back out, before i get trapped !
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I don't know if you guys are getting sick of seeing these but i'll never get sick of seeing these little hidden gems ! This is so cool ! So cool ! Really just surrounded by cliffs and trees
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and birds and the feeling that yeah it's maybe like, if i think back, when i was a kid, to
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making a tree house or putting a wigwam or a tepee in the backyard and you really feel like,
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no one can watch you, parents can't see you and you know, no one knows what i'm doing right now, no
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one can hear me, no one can see me and i'm just in my own little paradise and that is amazing ! I mean,
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you feel like that on a sailboat quite a lot in the middle of the ocean as well, but in here, amazing yeah ! you do your bird, sorry for being in your little zone here because
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this is probably your little dojo but i gotta come and check it out, i'll be out of here soon.
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I can see marie out there she's tempted, she's tempted to come in but she doesn't like going in the cave uuuuh...
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Wow look at this zone full of stalactites! Wow, so sick !
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You see?! That's the hidden gem that you find coming in places like this ! Look at this place, this is amazing ! This is a natural paradise that i'm guessing, very very few people have seen,
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maybe no one ! Who knows? I'm sure some people have but wow i feel pretty honoured... All right time to
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head back out now ! I'd love to stay longer but i really don't want to get trapped in here, so i feel
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like the other guys are waiting for me and i don't really like to do adventures without Marie now...
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So um i've left her out there and i'll get back out there and we'll go for something together.
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you really can't see where the entry is even. It's over there in the corner just under those
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trees, like a black hole. You really can't see it until the angle's right. Pretty cool !
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I found a cave with stalactites ! finally time to explore together
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oh we can nearly going through...
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such an incredible place it's just magical all these fingers you could really like i said before
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you could feel like you could explore here for weeks. Look at all this stuff, we're just in amongst it all now. We're going to go in another one now. It's a bit longer one, it's got a few offshoots
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and fingers. Probably get back in the dinghy and explore a bit more there. It's just cool ! We'll have some
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lunch afterwards and yeah magic ! Pretty stoked to come and had a look around this place today !
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Okay so stay on the left a little bit and just take it easy...
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Pretty narrow through here, pretty shallow as well but we're making it four or four point five meters, it's enough yeah, the cliffs here are pretty crazy !
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Wow what a spectacular place, look at these cliffs in front of us !
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- Is that consistently getting deep ahead or it is shallower? No it gets shallow about 30 meters ahead of you, it probably goes to f**** all. -Okay, game over.
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Seven? I put about 20 meters, You can turn it off. After dropping the anchor, we decided to have some lunch before to go for further explorations around because no explorators can be good with an empty stomach.
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We've got soursop, in Indonesia is called "Sirsak",
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papaya, avocados, carrots ginger, potatoes, onions, garlic
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cabbage, bananas... ...dragon fruit, turmeric, lemons !
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Everything to stay healthy ! And yet Marie's sick... Strange that, you must need some more turmeric...
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Lunch is smelling good we're having yellow rice, tuna, eggplants, tomatoes a bit of a mix...
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Pretty indonesian anyway ! She's using her favorite spice mix Bumbu Bali, it's going to be good !
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Yeah but i said we were going to have the yellow rice and tuna like we've cooked it ourselves... - No because we are lazy.
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Lunch done ! Time to jump in the dinghy and see what we can find in this remote area.
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Like a little boy! Ah, that's you are thinking !? Yes ! Never grow up ! Never grow up !
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This place is just unbelievable you can really easily be lost if you are not memorizing your way...
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We start to understand why they call that place Alice in Wonderland :
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this place is a huge labyrinth of rivers in the middle of nowhere.
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We're croc hunting... watch out ! We're looking for crocs ! Marie really wants to see one,
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but not too close... It's pretty awesome this is uh little offshoots from the main part
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and it's just these little mangrove swampy things. The water's super dirty in here but
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they sort of just keep going they just zigzag around. What is it?
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Oh a walking spider !
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Oh damn ! Just that like zigzag backwards and forwards full flat out in the dinghy though ! it was great on the way back, the little coves ... - yeah imagine having dingy racing up in here.
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I still reckon there are probably not crocodiles but one could definitely live here ... - not like, no because...
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- it's not shallow... - it's not muddy but it's some mangroves but the water's definitely not clear.
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I definitely wouldn't want to really be that keen on swimming here... - no...
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Argh, selfish bloody tree ! Fall down right across the road !
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If only had a chainsaw... A pet beaver ! That's what we need !
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We are in a different world, a different realm, a whole different scenario !
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still didn't see a crocodile though... no it goes further, i thought that was it all right it journey continues...
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lots of mosquitoes ! Can you here the Ouh Ouh?
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you have probably 10 or 15 mosquitoes... Yeah... Should we go?
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Back to Schiehallion, time is running fast and we want to reach a place that has normally fresh water to fill up the boat today !
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So we've anchored here in this beautiful little bay, uh it's close to the river entrance that goes
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through to the other side and i've been here before and there used to be three houses here,
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and uh up on the top of that peak up there no up there... There's a lookout and the families
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that lived here used to make their money off people going up to the lookout and also water. There's a spring here but as you can see this uh has been left, it's all fallen into the water
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but the spring and the pipeline are still here so we're here doing some washing and picking up some water for the boat. I'll get 120 liters three jerricans and we'll be good for a couple more weeks.
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Pretty handy too, you can just roll straight up with the dinghy. how's it going babe?
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it's uh spring water, probably got a bit of limestone in it, comes from up the hill they're pretty good to drink. The last month or so we've just been drinking rain water that we've caught
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so this one has got a bit more minerals in it, it'd be good for us and uh yeah it's not rainy season,
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although it has been raining a lot so we've just been collecting it but we can't really rely on the fact. We're going up north and uh it doesn't tend to rain a lot up there so we're getting enough
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that even if it doesn't rain we should be okay. All right i'll fill up these next bottles !
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ll right i'm gonna go and drop this water in the boat and come back for another load...
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It's just so beautiful here just incredible everywhere we've been today is just
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national geographic, birds everywhere, no people ! Haven't seen anyone else apart from Marie and Kik and Greg today
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Wow what a fantastic ending to the day look at this sunset ! we just finished the water, we just finished showering, washing our clothes
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and we're just going out a couple hundred meters to anchor where there's a bit more space but look at this ! we'll come around the corner now look at this, it's just amazing ! What do you reckon babe?
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look at this...
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All right, down with the anchor
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All right guys, i think we'll call it quits there for a day i was going to um show you going through
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this river and stuff for tomorrow but i think we're packed in quite a lot for today um and
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also we'll be making like crazy long 25 i think the last video is nearly 30 minutes and it's a
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bit too long ! I always sort of think i can't cut it in half because the story is not right blah blah
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blah but still it ends up being like three days of editing doing a 30 minute video so this one probably more like 12-15 (not at all ) which is what i planned on doing um anyway so yeah. That will stick to that
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and then going through the river and heading up north and all that we'll just put that the next video (nope it will be straight after) you guys will see it all anyway, so all good ! Thanks to patrons, you all awesome, i obviously say that
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every week but we appreciate you guys, every week, it looks more and more likely well by the time
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you see this i'll probably be in Darwin (Cairns) and then my bank account will just be hemorrhaging money
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like it's going out of fashion ! Last time i was in Australia was probably four or five years ago and even then it was expensive but i heard it's just gone off the hook since Covid and everything's,
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just crazy expensive so i'll probably just go bankrupt there, trying to get the boat all sorted
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out so uh yeah, all the Patreons and Paypal supporters big thumbs up, i'll put both of them up !
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not like booming, like some channels do but we're growing consistently and getting really good messages from all you guys and we are super stoked really ! Really uh makes us happy! I'm gonna get her to say
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something but she can't say anything, so you just have to wave and we'll see you next week bye bye!
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Bonus time : Good morning guys morning morning morning, it's about 6 :20 a.m, sun's not quite come up yet and uh pulled
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up the anchor and i'm just moving slowly over to get ready to go through this channel the Allyui passage,
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i think it's called. Something like that. And uh yeah Marie's feeling more sick today than
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she was yesterday, she couldn't talk yesterday but she's feeling worse today so she's staying in bed... So i'm doing this through here solo, well Greg and Kik, they'll be in front of me
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but uh so i'm filming all this. I've set up a few cameras around : We've got one Gopro here, I
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push record on that one and i got one up there on the HF aerial, push record on that
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one in a minute and then i'll put the drone up as well but i probably won't fly the drone i'll probably have too much to do so i'll just leave that static up above there, somewhere.
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Should be all good, we'll see how we go, it's a beautiful day for it
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A little washing from yesterday hanging up like a proper gypsy boat !
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Greg and Kik just got their anchor up and coming around the corner.
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Wow that was pretty cool eh oh we got through there pretty good ! Marie's actually woken up and come and helped steer thought, she was going to stay in bed
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it's pretty shallow right here at the end unfortunately the drone battery just got
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really low ... a bit weird maybe that battery's on the way out ... Anyway, i had to land it before this final
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part but anyway you get the drift i think, you got some good shots uh with the drone from the first
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80% of it yeah ! Pretty uh awesome. the current's relatively strong ,you probably can't see that
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on camera but i've been through in the dinghy when it was like a river and it's really scary coming around those corners because it really washes you around the corner, so you sort of got to pre-steer
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into the corner to get sideways and then sort of like rally drive through them, gonna get sideways before and in the middle of the corner opposite lock steer the other way, cut across !
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It's pretty cool today, it was current but not not as strong as i've seen it in other times but that's the point you know. You want to go through right on high tide so that the
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water's not yet rushing after an hour or two of the tide moving it's really flying through there !
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oh we're on eight metres again already ! That's pretty cool!
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Sunshine ! Why can't we see anything ... yeah it's like a beautiful day anyway it's probably
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seven o'clock now and uh yeah good start to it ! I hope you guys enjoyed that little
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little river. I still call it a river, it sort of seems like a river just because of the currents ripping through and it's really narrow. But the bird life and that through there was
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pretty crazy yeah really cool experience ! You know you you're out in the out in the boat,
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50 miles from land, and and you're sort of worried about a ship that's five miles away, and then you start doing stuff like this in Raja Ampat and it's just uh you know you've got
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rocks seven meters away from you and you're going at five knots with the current and you can't stop...
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A different, uh different perspective for sure but um good to learn all that stuff !
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Uploaded by:
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Category:
Sailing, General Vlogs
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Added on
05 April 2022
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Location:
Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Description
Even after all the time we spent in Raja Ampat, we still have new things to see! In this episode we are exploring a labyrinth of waterways in Allyui Bay.
A crazy adventure day of exploring in winding rivers half in our sailboat, half in our dinghy. Green jungle, wild birds and beautiful rock...
A crazy adventure day of exploring in winding rivers half in our sailboat, half in our dinghy. Green jungle, wild birds and beautiful rock...