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The Hidden Gem of Abaco Island, Rat Cay in the Bahamas | Ep 59 #svaguaazul #bahamas #boatlife
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Mar 12, 2025
Join us on an unforgettable sailing adventure in the Bahamas's Abaco Islands as we explore Rat Cay and uncover its stunning beauty, delicious meals, and unexpected challenges. Blog Post: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/adventures-in-the-bahamas-exploring-rat-cay/ Follow our boat on NOFOREIGNLAND: https://www.noforeignland.com/boat/5694391589011456 š¢ Our Website: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/ š¢ See Our Recipes: https://www.dininginwithdanielle.com Tools I Love: š Milwaukee 18-Volt Drill and Impact Driver Kit https://amzn.to/366BwxM š Husky Mechanics Tool Set https://amzn.to/3kuGUzD š iCrimp Ratcheting Crimping Tool https://amzn.to/3uv7u6i What's In The Kitchen: Beelicious 32QT Extra Large Air Fryer https://amzn.to/48NfQUY Empava IDC12B2 Horizontal Electric Stove Induction Cooktop https://amzn.to/47DD3bz
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so me and my babe are heading to fwell okay the beach is here suck so I she doesn't like jumping as
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much but every day yeah I I can't even breathe y h let
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know and uh yeah our dog still has them hot spots so we have to figure that out
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see you later crab K it was shortlived but you have no beaches
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I got to get this girl some beaches over here that's not we're yeah I
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know well we didn't go through that cut uh Danielle said uh she didn't feel like
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risking it so I didn't risk it I don't need to stress my baby out any more than
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what what I'm doing but here's my baby wow that was a current too yeah there
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was a good current get caught up a night you might I mean there was very little
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room for a mistake I'm like it doesn't take that long to get around no it was
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it just added about 20 minutes yeah and save our boat for damage yes he's
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getting too risky I am uh she's more I'm going to have a boat here soon if he wreck it don't wreck the boat but uh
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we're almost there we're about halfway to uh pal Powell Island and uh over here
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is a private island over there
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but I was wondering how they get their groceries well there a marina over there
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too so I guess that's where all their FS
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stay that's probably very expensive y but we'll uh check back in when we get
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to the island guys okay so P we told didn't look as good so we're
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either going to uh it's manjack K or rat K they're
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both in the same area but uh yeah you think my wife is tired to
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hopping right now she wants a little beach time and relax time
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and it's not where's
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boms I said I just wanted to hop every damn day I feel like getting in the car every day and hopping down the like then
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we have some fun yeah so so you know I have I I need some
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fun they're probably having fun over there that's a proba
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yeah they're having fun but uh yeah I'm going to definitely stop hopping cuz we
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hopped a lot in uh Florida on icw till we got to for
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Fort lale and then we stuck there for 2 months that was a long time and now
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we're ping pretty fast here we only been here for a week yeah and this is
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probably [Music] our six time talking I don't know yeah
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we've gone uh probably close to 200 miles no l 200 miles from for lale yeah
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okay over 200 miles but I want to get back up the H so
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we don't hear anything okay guys we are head s selling
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and 26 knots I've got probably about half the head sell
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out let me show you how I get the head sell back in in these kind of winds without it really flapping bad so as you
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can see I have a headset up it's on my port wench right
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there at the wch not my lovely lady
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and that's a bi electric wench and that's going to the uh Furler sper the
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Furler up there so I can just pull in with the electric Quench and as I pull
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in I slowly uh letay out slack on that side keep some
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time seem to be going through a lot of sour gasm you can see it behind me there going have to check by strainer once we
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again I'm watching my engine temperature we're doing good but I to clean that
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out okay I don't know if you can see these ways
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but it's pretty awesome my wife is becoming a real
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sailor I'm Bor yeah she's bored but she's you know this ain't bothering her
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she's like this ain't crap she's got like Lieutenant Dan out
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here is that all you
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got ier [Music]
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let's see I wish I could get that but yeah yeah they're they're pretty uh rolly out
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here man I wish y'all could see this it looks
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awesome it can't even get low enough but
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yeah that right there is man jet cave and we are going to that rat hole
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way over there or rat cave we're racing I guess that camaran
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there see that camaran right over there we're racing him he's probably going to
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win and here we are threading the needle through this little cut to get over
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there little shortcut but yeah it's tight
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man I would want to be in that little B [Music]
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here yeah we're going down there we are almost
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there that is our [Music]
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destination okay so me and my babe we made it to rat K and she says this is
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more of her tropical destination yes and uh there is instead
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of the you know the East Texas shrubs or the west Texas
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shrubs this is that big flourishy palm trees yeah palm trees and
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tropical trees and guys and this is not even that far from where we were just stared no it's not it's uh it's so oh I
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don't know like 15 miles well by boat a few hours three
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hours but uh yeah this has a lot of stuff places to explore we're going to
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check that out let me show you what we're looking at here on the map before we uh call it at night so right here on
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the map you'll see we're here right here and you can go all the way to the atank
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over here you can got all these little back roads up here and here is Hand Jack
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where we're probably not going to go because this one's much cooler so this is a r k
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[Music] near rack K right there near crab K we
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just came from CRA crab K crab K looks way different than
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this they let me see look at she's reading the ingredients guys oh my gosh
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this has everything in it I bought the wrong one this is we're making dinner we're in
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a rat K and uh we're making dinner know when
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I when I bought all the stuff at the grocery store in um Fort
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Lauderdale I just saw crushed tomatoes but
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apparently this has everything in it it has garlic parsley onion
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oregano that's not what I wanted how many did I buy of these you bought a lot
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of them babe all of them like this oh my gosh how' we do
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that oh we're going to have to use it now let me see how how does it taste I
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mean it'll be good I'm making spaghetti I guess it's pretty good for spaghetti I guess it's a spaghetti sauce yes but I
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was going to put my own ingredients and now I'm not you're going to put garlic basil I'm
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still putting garlic in well you're also adding a little uh cane sugar yeah a little bit cuz I I I like
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yeah I cannot believe I did that which means I can't use these ones that I
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bought in my Curry my curry chicken oh that would did yeah I know so I would
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have to go find the ones that don't have this in it cuz I do have
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some I'm going to have to look are all of them like this inury Italian style is what it
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says that's what happens when you're in a hurry trying to provision going to the
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Bahamas yeah but yeah we're just having
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vegetarian spaghetti tonight and we have a lot of meat yes but we do
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need to put some vegetarian meals in there at least once or twice a week or else cuz we went to one store already
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here in Bahamas two stores you know they don't have
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meat I haven't seen any meat I saw this thing that looked like it could possibly
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be a remnants of a chicken wing or something but I'm not buying that cuz I
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don't eat chicken wings I'm like oh no so we're going to
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have to wait till we get some to some bigger islands with some bigger stores to find meat so we have to be and by the
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way we do have a lot of meat in there mhm but it's supposed to last 2 months
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and we're only 19 days in in the Bahamas I mean no no no 19
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days in on this buying this meat yeah cuz we didn't leave yeah cuz we didn't leave until
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what the 10th I think it was the 10th that we left yeah yeah mhm yeah so we got to calm down a little
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yeah we'll we'll make it and so I'm going to turn I'm going I'm guess I'm going to be a vegetarian guys have
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garlic bread too get my veggie on oh and that's bahaman made bread we bought some
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yeah not the coconut one mhm I cannot believe I bought this I'm
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not putting basil in I am going to have okay I got to lift
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up that thing and go see see what's in there cuz now I'm very
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curious it's a surprise I put a little bit of sugar in my
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spaghetti M but it's good
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[Music] sugar okay so the night of our finishing
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our passage to rat K where we are now right after was
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done our Inver quit working and uh yeah
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more that breaks our boat I think it's uh all the time but uh I found the
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problem and it was weird cuz it was at night and I was seeing 2.6 volts coming
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to our Inver and that was actually our solar panels pulling in 2.6 from I'm guessing the moon so I'll
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show you what I did I'll show what the problem was so our inverter is under this uh Our Salon bench in here and
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right here I pulled this top off and I was testing I was getting 2.6 volts so I
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went over here and I was testing there was a it was connected let me turn on a
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little light here so it was connected to this terminal right here and uh I was
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getting um no voltage but these two terminals I was getting of course my
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battery voltage of 13.4 or something and uh yeah so I ended
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up uh end up under here is the reset for the solar so I turned that off and my
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voltage dropped to zero that switch this battery selector switch went bad so now I have a uh
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bus bar that I had sitting over in the corner I'm going to do something better to mount it but uh this bus
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bar and uh just connected my wires to it I'm going to connect the last ones to it
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that's I've got two wires coming from the battery that was previous and I just
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kept them cuz they were the same length so yeah the power's back on we
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can make our coffee this morning a little bit late and uh yeah it's all
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good but uh man I'm getting some of that uh vitamin D I think we're going to get
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some more of that today it's supposed to be a windstorm but right here in rack we're
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pretty well protected and I want to go sit there and see it cuz it's it's supposed it's this is one of the better
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places we've been Bahamas for it looks like beaches and waterways and stuff
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so now we're going there next okay we're just now exploring in
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Rat K there's my babe and there's some green on the hole of our boat that it's
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cold it is cold it's very cold actually it's not the Bahamas I don't know where the hell we
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went this is not what I I can't even get in a bathing I actually want to go back
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and get a
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jacket so that's the beach line here we missed the trash pick up this morning
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but way over there there's a little umbrella on the beach I'm hoping looks
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like one that actually looks like a beach
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there you think it's a beach
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babe chly it is chilly fire
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see you want to get off here no to do over there okay look how
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clear that water is I have to step in water I'm
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getting that is clear
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wow look at that babe I know if it was warm I'd be in
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it I don't even see any wild they SC ad to they said heck H
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this down South we have a blow coming in in the next couple days and we're going
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to have to move to another location so this went South
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but it just wasn't working out trying to get there and now I know
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why uh yeah this uh this actually you can take this little path here I mean that wway
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and go straight out to the alac that it's cold out there it is cold out
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there we got the shade shelter of these trees the bahaman trees they're kind of
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little I was like did I get off you want to get off too huh
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you see that beach over there yes I
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do okay this in the uh warm weather would be like a lazy
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river and look at them beaches over there but we got here off and there's
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the right over
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there but yeah whichever way the tide was going you could ride that either
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way had a plan right
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now around it I am going around
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it I don't know what that [Applause]
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is but right now our lazy river is going in the wrong direction so we are moving at the speed of
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smell but we are moving we're going to let Bella get off
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yeah we're going to let Bella get off that you want see your butt right there
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it's the butt cam this is where the clean crew came
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this morning we missed it
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oh my God I don't know what I old age
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huh so we made it to Rack K on the island over here and uh yeah there's a
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little Trail over there and everything little Art Trail okay guys we're going down the Art
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Trail I don't know Cruisers open to the public so we are the public here if you
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lost your flipflop there's one two rights look at
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that just all kinds of little Trinkets and trash lying around there an Airborne flag oh Airborne I was chairborne you
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know that's my son he's Air Force I just didn't jump out of
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airplanes but yeah
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Cactus 651 miles how many somebody came from conquered North Carolina oh I guess
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you just you uh you leave the you're you're right to dump off your boat in here yeah pet chickens roaming
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please leash leash dog our dog is on a leash but uh she she wouldn't go after
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him roosters last time uh she met chick they chased her around the
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art so we explored the island the Art Trail was less than to be desired our
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friends in their go fast dingy they're got to go run the lazy river we can't
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get there that
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fast oh there is a there's tailo back yeah I thought it was in that Co no it's
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not it wouldn't make it in that Cove but we're going as fast as we can
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go so you having fun babe you got off the
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boat well I got to stand around and listen to you and KY talk about um hi
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see yeah he so boring that I
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forgot no over here no yeah I don't know put
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some more okay guys so my last fix on my Bim top temporary fix wasn't working so now
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I'm using a like a upholstery tape and then I
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resined the tape on so it's not coming off and I'm probably going put a little
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bit more res on and of course tape this up right here and do that but yeah I
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know it's kind of ghetto but it works okay so I'm taking my wife out on
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a little adventure with our Brad dog B get in the Dy get in the D get in the
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boat come on let's go come on let's go look at all the ropes in
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there I got to lower that down okay have our dingy down and our
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dog is going nuts she's spicy Sky raisins [Laughter]
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so we're going to go explore the uh little uh Rat cave or this is the crab cave or
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many names but there's little um water uh inlets and you have to explore them a
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high tide cuz it's like 2T deep also they said there's like a 10t tiger shark
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over there there's a jeez big Ry today can't
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even have any fun without her being such right I will put her back on the
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boat have my own fun just looks so
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shallow yeah but it's got at least be 6t deep in there yeah cuz that's a c right
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there and I know that would be uh maybe 5
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foot so there's the big blue from the
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Atlantic what are you thinking babe here there a motor trimmed up going
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through here so I imagine it's pretty
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shallow
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yeah but you come through here
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and uh basically a tube from that side to
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this side I think we're coming in here on the high tide or higher
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tide ton of Turles through here like they said
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yeah always it's getting your turtle fix on yeah they are all up in
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here there's another turtle turt yeah there one over there up there
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tons of turtles over there over there let me raise you up here oh my
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goodness yeah we're stirring up dust back here so I'm guessing we're close to
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the the bottom there's another turgle right there
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that's why they say come through here in high tide that's why it's coming here at
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1 gets deeper over there that's probably why the other boat
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turned around yeah
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but we're going to that beach over there we're going to make it okay we went as far as we could go and it was like a
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nogo but now we stirring up all kinds of stuff [Music]
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yeah we just got to drive out here in the path we came which is where there's
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no sear grass and uh yeah we didn't get to go on
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any Trails out here I guess the Tide's not high enough so we didn't make it to the
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beach if this is high tide then my God I guess you could just walk
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there yeah I guess we could just walk
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there yeah I got the engine tilted up
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still so when not going as fast but hopefully we Ain get off the bat over
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there I know if you're trying to burn down mohamad's supp to over there all the way
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across over there fire over
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there and uh we have some uh high winds coming here soon hope they stay in
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control what is going on
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Little Beach Therapy baby and the
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puppy L of SE
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here hammock under a beach umbrella the hammock doesn't look usable right now
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with the chair you want to sit in water at oh yeah it kind of looks like it's uh a
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little bit rotten
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though that's cool oh you walk out here it gets a little chilly in the
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[Music] water Spanx a little silbo over here
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little picnic table Spanky so this
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is this is a little map of what's here on the beach so you have Beach Art Trail we've been on the Art Trail
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a house gazebo
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Road I wonder if it's how much of a road it is it goes at Blue so or green
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doesn't go very far yeah this is our own little Private Island out
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here n there's few other here but I don't see any people yeah well I saw
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this guy come out just a second ago then he ran in the
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woods so he lives there yeah now he probably on one of these boats cuz uh
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Bridge here there quite a few boats I don't know if they're hiding from there's a a pending storm coming
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but yeah it's uh pretty uh pretty Crow here
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Bella where you going she's
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hot I'm just cooling [Music]
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off it's like they're almost like green clear green clear fish yeah
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[Music]
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[Music] I definitely don't want to nipple on you
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them fish are so [Music]
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small looks like the smoke is increasing our dog was just chasing Sky
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raisins they wen't the spicy ones are they [Applause] [Music]
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Bella it's my baby enjoy I wish I had a round chair
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right now we have a dingy oh a lounge chair just loue on the
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beach we to get some oh wow what was that just jumped in the water there probably a
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lizard oh he swimming around underw let's
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see yeah
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okay guys so sitting here we're waiting on uh weather cuz it's supposed to get
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blowy today or this evening through the night through till about 10 12 but it
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looks to be calming down it was saying we were going to get upwards of 40 knots of wind right now I'm seeing 27 24 knots
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is uh about the average so a lot better there and uh we were going go to Green
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Turtle uh K but we opted to stay here for the protection we had some friends
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that went over there they tried to get in this uh that uh there's a little
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Harbor in there and uh unsuccessful their boats too deep so they're stuck on
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the outside but with this calm weather they should be fine as well but uh have our chain out and uh my
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babe is like uh waiting for this beautiful tropical
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destination yeah I don't know when the perfect time
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to go to Bahamas was but I don't know if we picked a good good time no it's
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been less than eventful no I saw Turtles yesterday that was the only thing that
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I've seen since I've been here you know I haven't even seen Dolphins it's like they don't exist in
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the Bahamas anymore like I don't know where they're at yeah hopefully we see dolphins but yeah we did see turtles and
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saw Barracuda under the boat it was cool just not not cool if y was under there
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but yeah and uh yeah making water now so hopefully we can still be
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