Never heard of the Marquesas? Don't worry. Neither had we. But boy were we happy to be there. After 20 days at sea sailing across the Pacific Ocean, we were ...

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it took us 20 days to sail 3,000

nautical miles from Mexico to the

Marquesas but we made it never heard of

the Marquesas that's okay neither had we

but man were we excited to be there

after a long and bumpy ride there was

only one thing we had really wanted a

long shower after three weeks you'd be

surprised at how your standards might

change

getting ready to take your very public

way yeah well you see pretty well

covered up now that you smell so fresh

and clean it was time to go to town and

by town I mean a little village to take

care of some official business checking

in the country enjoying a cold beer

getting some fresh food you know that

sort of thing

lucky for us nearly shave and showered

hitchhiking is common practice in Hiva

OA and within minutes we had a ride

about to chug a beer actually it looks

just like the governor so we went to the

ATM say get some money and didn't know

how much francs were so pulled out the

middle option it was 5,000 francs so we

came to the shop to try and get little

idea of how much this is worth and if

you pick any random thing like pick up

some baby powder it's $10 for a thing a

bit better so we're in we're in for

quite a sticker shop I'm pretty sure

5,000 francs or $50 so yeah ten bucks

basically for baby powder this is gonna

be great

well I'm checking out these Gina's got

her

tell us a couple prices you found

so that's $100 that model of champagne

right

I'm not even champagne which is not

unusual because not that to Avenue that

you recognize the car you lost $33

you're gonna okay there's a couple more

fun ones bag of Lay's BBQ chips $7 $14

if you want to go big and get the big 15

ounce bag $14 if you want to go big and

get the big 15 ounce bag at least the

view is free

right here burn laundry it's laundry day

Mexico or you get laundry done for 10

bucks for all this

I'm gonna I'm just some hand washing huh

you don't get a dryer you gotta like

hang it up you gotta bring it down gonna

be a different experience yeah no

definitely I'm very spoiled but pretty

I think detergent cost more than it

probably get laundry done in Mexico yeah

that's probably true and where our

washing facilities okay you mean the

shower showering in rinses

laundry machine so I guess this is a

little introduction to super yachts in

Tahiti and French Polynesia we've got

this see what do you think 300 foot boat

yeah I'm bad with measurements 300 foot

boat

I don't even tell there I've got a team

anchoring a team dropping their 150

horsepower dinghy

and I think just like the rest of us

they're really excited to go take that

shower onshore and check out that spigot

of water a sailor's life isn't always as

romantic as you might think it would be

but after a full day of laundry behind

us

we were finally ready to do some

exploring we rented the 4x4 and took off

with new friends to visit the oldest

archaeological sites member cases we

were advised to hire a guide to the

island especially after a heavy rain

turned the roads into slippery muddy

terrain but we prefer a DIY approach how

hard could it really be

oh wow right there

after a lunch break on the beach

grapefruit and really really fresh

coconuts we were back on the road

Jose made sure the car was ready for the

next leg of our journey for smiling TV

the directions were a little iffy they

want something like this go up the hill

will be a little white time i'ma do it

hardly being able to see it but when we

do and if you do yeah oh there's

something there's something all right so

we thought we were this before

you

get the machinist

it's up there but it's like

and this is what we have come for the

smiling Tiki the smiling tikis weren't

exactly what we thought they'd be but

it's all about the journey not the

destination right well we got back in

the car to check out our necks aight but

not without first saying hello to a

couple of friendly goats we saw on the

way

all the way up here I'm outdoors wanna

know everything I know the rest of our

day was spent collecting a bit more

fruit and visiting the island cemeteries

were famous French artists like Paul

googa and singer Jack Braille were

buried we even managed to score a lesson

in making coconut milk from our new

local funds once they heard stories of

Hosea's coconuts killed they were set on

teaching us the ropes turns out it's

actually pretty easy

to make the best coconut milk ever

next up we head south to snuggle the

blue waters of Tata and hyper waterfall

set to eat for more of our adventures

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