We are reveling in these reef anchorages. The beauty and remote locations fill our souls. This week we explore Walker Cay after more divine diving at Kelso r...

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last time you checked in we had left

broad history for for dawn on a lovely

spinnaker run to what turned out to be

an incredibly stunning and diverse Kelso

wreath we netted about the need for the

perfect boat Darren tried to pull a

mutiny on Nick's favorite hat then made

it up by running repairs on our

spinnaker before we hopped in to explore

this underwater wonderland

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okay we're out on day two the circling

at

hello right

so the drying is today - big puddle so

we're going to simplify the team

another beautiful day

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baby

my mother on a beautiful day when

deciding where to anchor we watch the

currents and anchor off to the side we

then drop anchor in a sandy spot for

good holding away from the coral then

dive down on the anchor to make sure

it's well placed

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once again we found the rave teeming

with life fish seem completely heard

with us in their presence and we found

several large plans wits and play cards

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and the car would take you around

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beautiful what's happening here

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haha I'm making you some lunch my love

so I'm just making up MacDowell some

some meat patties and you wouldn't know

it but these there isn't a piece of meat

in here these are all vegetable so

they're really healthy for him and yeah

really easy to make so I'm just dry

frying them up cuz we don't use any oils

anymore and we certainly haven't noticed

any difference in their cooking actually

so yeah this is my my meat patty mix

almost my own hamburger mix and what

it's got in it is some lentils then I

cooked in vegetable stock to give them

some really nice flavor and some

mushrooms and some vegetables so it's

got carrots and celery and some herbs in

there and yeah you can see it's bound up

really well that's all it's got in it

apart from almond meal which is what I

use for the egg as a substitute for egg

so basically a quarter of a cup of

almond meal into half a cup of water and

that'll actually soak up and turn into a

sort of sticky binding kind of mix so

it's super healthy and yeah

a yummy scrummy snack for my honey for

later on may even smell like meat

patties yeah I don't I I don't yeah if

you didn't know you wouldn't know and I

taste delicious that nice girl

yeah McGee's vegan mushroom and lentil

burger patties for Darren I'm on the

fruit I'm on the fruits loving it

I smell pretty good though babe a little

bit what's your name

bird what are you doing bro you come for

some fish and chips it's a beautiful day

isn't it when do you reckon have you

caught much this Celso race pretty cool

isn't it you know this is a green zone

it's like a no fishing zone you're a

funny fella

my name's Meg the mad Meg wishin a Bri

are you hungry

see ya have a great day

feels like we're in a Caribbean paradise

we just got this whole reef to ourselves

it's just beautiful when there hasn't

been anyone here for three days we

haven't seen another boat it's just

amazing we're so lucky the planet is a

beautiful place and the oceans have so

much to offer look at this

not another boat in sight amazing anyway

enough of me renting I gotta get going

I'm gonna put some lunch on hoist some

sails and take off to the next

destination with the weather closing in

on us we chose to sell to great pop

island to wait out the blow following

our track out we passed the bomb ease

that weren't marked on the chart

they're actually showing us including

their direction of pet

it was a pretty casual sale and we made

easy time to our anchor chat North East

Bay it turns out it was a stunner with a

long white sandy beach reef extending

out along the edge of the bay and what

looked like a huge waterfall that would

flow right onto the beach during the wet

season

what's that money one of the engine

start Patrice is actually gassing and

how you can tell that is that you get

this like a rotten egg gas smell through

the cabin and it's not a good thing

because it can be quite explosive so we

need to we need to fix it I'm tipping

our one of the batteries is fried would

be a pretty good scenario organ I can

feel the heat of this thing it's just

like I almost can't touch it so we're

like quite lucky that the thing didn't

didn't blow up

sorry I'm hoping that with us later on

cut it outside yeah yeah we will

that's exactly what we all do it's I

think she's done so I was busy making a

curry right and well cauliflower soup

actually and I did put a little curry in

there to make it sort of curry like and

I cooked up Darrin some of his favorite

eggplant chips and I haven't to burn

them typical not doing well with the

eggplant chips right now but um yeah

like I was down here in the snow I

couldn't really smell up and Darrin

could smell something a little bit sort

of chemically and a bit chemically smoky

would be the way of describing it so

yeah if you're busy burning your

eggplant chips and you husband says to

you that smells fine maybe check out

your batteries sometime good picnic

dazzle this smells really bad as we were

pulling the battery out it started

really guessing so we've secured it to

the back deck set up a stormy weather

then headed out onto trunk and bramble

reefs which lie 20 nautical miles to the

northeast of great palm island radio

radio we prank the donk on because we do

need to arrive at our anchorage well

there's still light to see where to go

in or to watch out for those bunnies

yeah as you can tell the wind hasn't

gotten this stronger those sails are

flapping away behind me without

direction anyway it doesn't detract from

the day it's still stunning out here yes

so we are expecting sort of variable

days to sort of team 2:15 for the next

three or four days and yeah so we've

come out to a place where this three

sort of rethink urges quite well click

quite close together while within sort

of five nautical miles of each other and

we expecting winds from the east

northeast so we're going to come in and

tuck behind these Anchorage's I'll show

you I'll show you on the charts where we

think we're going to be most comfortable

from the East norisse swell and yeah

then we're just going to track our way

in being mindful of Bobby's

and drop anchor somewhere nice and close

to where we think there might be a

little sand case so that'll be quite

exciting to see if we can find it and

just see another boat off in the

distance there might be at there one of

those reefs already beautiful day

hope you got a little loose catch

schedule some dinner

that annoys fellow Gary donated that

lure to us in the slip yard which scored

good he he swears bought and he reckons

the mackerel does love them anyway we'll

give it a crack

so here we are with a black dot and we

are just

skirting around rocks everywhere we're

just skirting around this is caught

bramble reef this is trunk grief and

this is a little K I think it's called

waka cave we're just going around the

edge in the 50-meter line around the

edge of the reef

so they haven't surveyed inside the

wreath

as far as we know for depth but they are

saying there's some rocks and some

scattered bommies everywhere and they're

not necessarily placed where they are

marked on the charts so you do have to

be very careful about when you're going

in and making sure that you get there

closer to low tide and with a the Sun

high in the sky or behind you so that

you can have good vision through the

water but yeah we just think she's going

to scoot around and try our luck over

here at this K first the sandy K because

we're told to at low tide that that

sandy ko reveals itself and it's really

pretty so we'll see is it something

caught on it

bartender

I think it's cool

I just write

I know I say beautiful a lot and that

everywhere we have been is just

beautiful but this is just beautiful

it's a little Sam you came all by his

little lonesome on this gorgeous train

and he's just out there just beautiful

Wacka kay popped up to welcome us with

her stunning sandy beach we played and

swam in the protected in a reef area

where we discovered deep drop-offs and

beautiful coral scenery from above reef

Anchorage's are interesting as you've

nothing to make bearings on it literally

is only water around you if the reef is

breaking you might see it from half a

mile away if not three hundred meters

might be where you see changes in the

water so well mig celebrated our

unbelievable location darin prepared for

free diving the next day super awesome

super awesome

supid do back we're off to go and check

out the reef Dan's going to see if you

can steer himself from sitting for the

next few nights

I'm just going to enjoy the environment

a little bit rolling in the Anchorage

today it's currently approaching my

pride

although the tides only about a metre

difference today so okay covered either

by water and yeah protection from the

races okay it's still a beautiful day I

love it so we're gonna go for circle see

what we can find

oh yeah everybody

olga kay is three and a half nautical

miles long with a deep ball to the

southern edge the inner reef hosts large

bodies and offshoots of wreaths which

hold an array of coral and fish life you

could even catch a mini surf on the

break next to the sand ek if you were so

inclined and we were thrilled to spot

two stingrays resting under one edge of

the reef just beautiful

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well Carl was lost the waterless cars

Darrin's running around I didn't want to

get a new Whitsitt when we were in

Townsville so he's complaining about the

cold I got a new wetsuit it's so well

anyway patent is gonna get a new wait so

when we get the kids which i think is a

really good idea

hey hey I'm warming to the led I thought

that was stunning actually there's just

this big as you saw is just this big

expanse is a beautiful coral and little

fish there weren't a lot of big fish and

unfortunately wasn't anything for Darren

to catch for dinner but it was just

beautiful well worth coming out here and

spending a couple of days out here if

you can just exploring that beautiful be

all the beautiful reefs lots of begged a

lot big drop-offs and did you see the

stingrays yeah it was really cool to see

those stingrays having a little snooze

and their little cubbyholes yeah so yeah

beautiful beautiful dive really loves

going down there no it's alright

anyway we got to take off and we warm up

and have some lunch and take off over to

trunk wreath which apparently he's got a

wreck on it a submerged wreck so we'll

see if we can have a little bo-peep at

that well be nice to find out anyway

yeah I just see another ships pulled in

over there so I think that they might be

they might know where it is we might go

and ask them fancy looking ship we want

to get some scones or a pina colada

we hope you enjoyed that video as always

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they've just been blowing us away

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