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Sailing the Exumas: Navigating Shallow Waters Around Rudder Cay | Ep 70
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May 17, 2025
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okay guys in this anchorage our depth
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has dropped down to 6.5 on our uh depth
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sounder I guess we'll see how accurate
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our depth sounder is because we got a
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foot more tide to go Are we going to be
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touching the bottom 6.4 right
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there So we'll see cuz our our boat
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depth is 6.4 So if that is uh what uh
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our buddy boat said we're a foot off
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that uh that means I've been really good
0:34
But we'll see Okay guys We're going to
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go explore Rudder K It's uh I guess a
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private island so we're going to explore
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things we can like I guess the piano
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There's a cave over there But uh yeah
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we'll go pull up to this private island
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and see see what the sign
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says Okay so right there you see no
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trespassers will be prosecuted So
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stop going
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closer
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Prosecuted camera somewhere know this
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deadly
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conditions I don't
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know but it's beautiful
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island Too bad uh you can't go to
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it
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Problem being a
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nut But yeah that's just pretty right
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there
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And uh
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yeah And look at that You have wind
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protection for that mountain behind
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there
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Wow The last
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part island Yeah This is nice
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And uh I'm sure there's some wildlife
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tucked up under
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there A little
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cavern Want to go in there
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How did that happen I don't know But
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it's got a light through the the top
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there That's
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awesome It's a little rough over here on
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this side
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[Music]
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And there's that beach Let's see if this
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one's
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private It's private No we'll
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see cuz the piano's right down
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there a little ways See where that boat
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is over there tucked in Yeah that's
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where the piano
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is I think this is what the beach they
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were talking about The beach inside the
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cave
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That is so freaky Yeah
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Wow
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[Music]
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It could easily stay out of the sun in
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there
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[Music]
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[Music]
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pipe boarding over there We can go see
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what they're doing Yeah they said they
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were
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Oh this is freaky
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Oh what is this
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That's Bella Beach right
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there Okay we're touching So
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yeah dogs exploring There's no place for
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her to run or hide It's got a skylight
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right there My baby's right
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there But yeah there ain't nothing to do
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in here So before you go to the piano
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this is I guess a little place you can
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stop in and and do nothing because
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there's nothing to do in here But I'm
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going to push this out We're going to
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leave Still got no trespassing Beautiful
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beach Palm
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trees
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Yeah And they Yeah look
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Look right there That orange It could be
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Johnny is Johnny I don't know
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If you know just leave a comment down
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below cuz we don't have
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to So here's the
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piano Why Cuz I'm not going to circle
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it It's too
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I don't know Or it's a rock Another
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two Looks like a piano
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That's why I need an underwater camera
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This is interesting right here
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Uh yeah I don't know if this will go to
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it Come over Oh wow
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go in the Atlantic
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[Music]
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I think this dead ends down here
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Seems like there So we're going
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faster So I might go out to the
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Atlantic Oh this is a nice little
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[Music]
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hole Yep I'm guessing that's where all
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the no trespassing signs come
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from And this is a rotor
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K Yeah This would be a great
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uh uh hurricane hole or not hurricane
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storm
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hole Yeah
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Somebody get this from Marina in
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here and they run
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it But I think that goes to the ocean
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right there I think
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it's causing this pass through here
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Amazing the color of the
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water
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Yeah So beautiful
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I love this in the Bahamas
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Yeah
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definitely be like "Yeah it is the most
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prettiest waters in the river." And
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people say that all the time but you
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know we only stay so
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long hurricane season
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Yeah man We are
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shallow Look at that lack over there You
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zoom into that
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That is tomorrow Are you sure we're
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going to be all right Yeah we'll be all
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right
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Okay he's wondering what this uh dark
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spies in the water
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Probably a rock Probably a rock
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Looks like our rock is moving though
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Yeah I know That's a That's a right Is
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it
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Yeah that is a
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right I can't get too close to it cuz
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we're kicking out dust out here Yeah
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that's a big old Ray right there
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Look at the size of that Right
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Hooray
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Wow that is huge
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Okay
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so we are on the ground and uh it's
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about a foot below So
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yeah low tide is getting us So the
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charts are a few foot off and these
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cameras can get in here But we
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are about a foot uh out of the water But
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it's actually really calm though You
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know it feels like we're on land now And
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uh our depth gauge says uh 5.7 So now we
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know where our floor is 5.7
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[Laughter]
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Okay guys We are in some serious shallow
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water here So we're uh waiting for high
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tide We're going to get out of this But
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right now we're healing at about
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15° And uh never came in this far No
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shouldn't have came in this far This is
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my fault And uh yeah we're going to get
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out this But
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uh let me uh show you Why are we moving
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Cuz it feel like we're going fall more
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over Oh we're not
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babe We're not going to fall more over
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The tide's coming back in So it's not
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coming in fast enough It's not coming in
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fast enough But we're going to get off
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this and uh we're going to anchor
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out probably about 50 ft out that
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way But uh our buddy our friends they
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went to a shallower area and they're
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sitting on the bottom too
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So it's uh pretty damn shallow in here
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Okay So we're still at
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15° and
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uh not happy but we're going to we're
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going to get off this Okay So our boat
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is kind of
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leaning Yeah I screwed
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[Music]
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up And
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uh this is what we look like right
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now I did go ahead and clean the bottom
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while it was uh over So that was a good
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thing on both sides cuz I can walk
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around the boat My my babe is not happy
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with what I
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did but it's coming back down Okay guys
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We are almost
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uh we're at 5° right now We're getting
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uh a little bit better and uh yeah we
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should be literally do this now Yeah So
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we should be getting out of here soon
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and uh we're getting a little deeper
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water and Danielle can't wait That was
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crazy Yeah So we should have known
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better As Danielle said we do have a
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deep gill So we should have known better
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When we came in here it was 8t and we
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didn't consider
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how far the tide would drop We thought
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it would drop a little bit but not like
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it did It was That was crazy Yes Yeah it
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was We're trying to get off this and uh
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we're pretty much
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stuck Uh we made it about I don't know
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50 foot and now we're
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here We're heading Rudder K That's where
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uh we got stuck But that was that was
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not fun Hopefully our bomb's a little
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cleaner so we can maybe go a little
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faster because I did take the uh that
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chance to clean the bottom But yeah we
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didn't get off that until like 7 at
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night and that sucked So we're not going
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to do that again But I'm going to have
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to get back behind the helm because
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we're going towards some others I hope
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it's calm out there It's already
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windy in here and you know it's just
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more out there I got to get behind the
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hill
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Now we're back on course I'm hoping that
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the the we're going through in slack
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tide So I'm hoping that uh entry point
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or that uh cut is not too bad And uh
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yeah
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uh hoping the waves on the Atlantic cuz
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the wind speed's not supposed to be too
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high today So we're looking at about
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maybe 3T waves 6sec spacing so it may be
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a little uncomfortable but the waves and
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wind are coming from the same direction
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So you'll see my wife has her harness
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all on She's like I'm not doing it I
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just feel it gives me a comfort Yeah I'm
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going to get mine on too But uh yeah I'm
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going to get behind flying off somewhere
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Yeah I'm gonna get behind the helm and
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uh maybe I'll show you this cut
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Hopefully we timed it right and it's
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just beautiful
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Yeah
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Yeah Rudder Town is is beautiful beaches
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The big problem is everything is private
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So you know no I mean I'm sure that you
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could and nobody would find out but
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I'm thinking there's some cameras over
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there or something
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Yeah they said trespassers will be
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prosecuted
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So go there at your go there at your own
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peril Also on a higher note the prop
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glide we have on our propeller it's
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doing really good We had uh some bar
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build up on the the base and we had a
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couple on the shaft but not much on
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there Now the uh super expensive uh
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paint we put on while it was pretty easy
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to clean we had some uh probably uh
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scraped off about 50 barnacles but it
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had been almost a year Yeah Well it been
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uh almost a half a year but uh yeah so
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that No it's not But uh yeah I need to
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Yeah our speed has picked up so I need
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to pay better attention to our bottom
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The ride is not that comfortable out
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here but it's not a washing machine They
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were just kind of
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beating And our autopilot is going crazy
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cuz the waves I may have to go back to
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hand steering again What do you think of
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this babe
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Stomach's going to
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Yeah
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Yeah Just keep looking at the horizon
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baby
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That's worse I think if I look at land
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but we're getting through this We got uh
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about an hour to get uh to our next uh
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where we're going to go in and it should
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be a slack tide
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again So we're heading to Lee Stock Lee
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Stalking K uh here in the Exumas and it
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supposed to be a lot calmer anchorage
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than what uh we were here at uh oh sh
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what was what rudder rudder K And it's
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also uh got more deep areas than rudder
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K So and maybe a little bit more
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protection would be
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nice And uh we should be staying there
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just one night before we head off to uh
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Georgetown We'll see The weather always
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dictates our
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life And I'm hoping my babe gets a good
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night's sleep tonight Whoa that jerk me
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Yeah this
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is Should I drink three cups Oh I drank
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three cups
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places around the Exumas is just so
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beautiful But it's a rough
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country And uh we're about 14 minutes
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from our cut And what are you thinking
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babe
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I was going to say let's just head to
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Georgia This is kind of
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good That's another 4 hours So
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Yeah Yeah we'll wake up tomorrow Yeah I
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mean I'll show you what she's talking
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about beating her up If you look at the
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beach here this is what we're dealing
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with And uh yeah it's slamming that
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beach But it looks rough Wicked
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rough Okay guys We have a rock over
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there an island over there and we're
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going to thread the needle That's what
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Neil looks like right there So I'm going
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to get off this and I'll get back to you
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when we thread it So we made it through
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the worst of it and now we're
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just cruising along here Yeah it's a lot
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better What are you thinking babe
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In seconds big difference Uh-huh It was
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like this would be going first
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This is
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fun
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but that's like over
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Yeah Yeah This is quite nice in here And
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you can look around and that's where we
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just came
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through That was our safety rock right
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there
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That's the thing Look out there and
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you're like "Oh whatever."
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We don't realize that you're literally
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surfing for the
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waves Smack
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Smack Yeah Our windcreen is our dodger
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is just salty as heck Everything's salty
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I can't get it out of the house
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Yeah
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It's so damp in the house It's just
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gross I can't wait for
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it I don't know Maybe we need to turn on
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some AC or something Yeah we probably
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need to do
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that My babes uh digging into a care
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package courtesy of Lonnie and Marty
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Thank y'all guys
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I need to stop though I'm not doing this
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passage very correctly I need snacks
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candies because that seems to get you
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through it Just call out some chocolate
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in your mind
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Looks like we have a uh one of them
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tours I think there's some resorts over
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here and stuff but they're up there I
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guess touring the beach over
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there Doesn't look too fun
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But there's some pointing around What I
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think it's iguanas
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Oh it's iguana beach Oh yeah I see them
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Yeah Yeah that's iguana beach Oh that's
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cool
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But yeah so that's that's where we are
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now What
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I don't know
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[Music]
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Yeah that right there If you're
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interested in seeing that one it's a
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wildlife reserve called Leaf K It's uh
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looks like some nice water and in
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there
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Okay that's Lee Stalking Island right
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behind
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Danielle And uh should be cuz right here
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we're still getting some of that
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Atlantic uh swell Hopefully it smooths
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out cuz it's still a little rough in
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here but not that bad
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We don't get a lot of those two
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Yeah we may have to we may have to go
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further down on the on the charts here
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to get away from them but that's where
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we are We're right down here coming
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in Well we changed our mind We're not
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going to Lee uh Stocking K We're going
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to Children's K right down the road So
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should uh cut off about an hour on
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tomorrow's passage which
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uh you know hour go we're going to be
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doing a lot of ocean tomorrow but uh
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yeah that'll be fun No we're going
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further down but there's my babe She's
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down there cooking us a quick snack
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since we are going a little further
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We're about to turn We're just uh that's
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where I was going to anchor
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uh the second choice and uh we're
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continue to go down because it's just so
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easy to move back
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here Okay there's childless
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K or I'm sorry children's K My calling
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childless And look how shallow the water
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is over there So we're going to go ahead
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and get our asses out of here And we're
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going to go up a little bit further to
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Pigeon K or I think it's actually I
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think it's another rat K up here Rat K
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next to Pigeon K Shifting Sands So
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that's where we're
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[Music]
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going Wow Look at them waves This is a
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rat K next to pigeon K And uh that is
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Sunriser there They helped us with Deb's
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coming this over here
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Oh it's
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we were just out there But I'm hoping
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it's calming down cuz uh we want to get
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out here tomorrow and uh the rest is all
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I'll have to route it out because we
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knocked an hour off but the hour we
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knocked off was all the inside stuff the
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smooth stuff
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So now we just got the rough stuff Yeah
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we got a little rocky It's it's a little
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rolly in here But yeah it's
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a wonderful anchorage where you could
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actually see if you really want to go in
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the morning or not Yeah And that you can
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hear the ocean slamming against that
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island over there the back side Yeah
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it's pretty loud
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But there's some beaches we could
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actually go to You want to go to the
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beach
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Okay we're going to head to the beach
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[Music]
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