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boat wars and tuna we visit

a unique fish market we get invaded by

giant jellyfish

and expose some pollution we visit the

island the biggest sea battle

ever known took place and yes we tell

you about the frenchman

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we left that beautiful anchorage we

showed you last time and continued

anti-clockwise around sicily

to port drapani

busy fishing port

there's a fish market in there there's

another market up here i'll show you in

a minute

so you won't get fish any fresher than

that literally

caught in the last couple of hours and

now being sold off the back of the boat

they'll gut it and fill it it for you as

well

as with all markets the sellers were

competing

verbally

while you film it

fruit market as well as a fish market

here

look at the size of them melons now

those melons

those melons there

amazing fresh fruit look at tomatoes

a few jellyfish in the harbour this

morning

big ones the rhizostoma plumo goes by

many names barrel jellyfish dustbin lid

jellyfish

and even frilly mouth jellyfish to name

a few it's known not just by the blue

ring

of the umbrella but the sheer size of up

to two feet wide

the barrel jellyfish is so large in fact

that young fish and small crabs

seek shelter under its mildly stinging

tentacles

now here we are at tropini i'll put a

long and

lat down here anchored in the main

harbour

the marina's in there

rather expensive for what it is

very commercial

that's the harbor entrance over there

big barge

teasing eternity hank it over by the

fort

after a couple of days we continued

roughly

due southwest to favignana there was

some strong winds coming in from the

north and we wanted to be somewhere that

was really sheltered

the landing spot walked into town

horrible selfie

we found a tap and wet the dogs down

they've had a paddle as well but

it's just so warm

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but a lovely bay

i'm getting the tender in ancient times

favoritiana

was called aegis meaning goat island in

greek

the present name is derived from faviano

an italian name for the foe in wind

the phoenicians established an outpost

on the island as a stopping point on

their trans-mediterranean trading route

until the defeat of the carthaginian

army during the first punic war

on the 10th of march 241 bc

a major naval battle was fought a short

distance offshore between the two powers

200 roman ships under the consort gaius

luthius catalyst met and decisively

defeated a much

larger carthaginian fleet of 400 ships

with the romans

sinking 120 carthaginian vessels and

taking 10 000 prisoners

so many dead phoenicians washed ashore

on the northeast part of faviana

that the shoreline there was acquired

the name red cove

from all the bloodshed the romans took

possession of the island under the terms

of the treaty that ended the war for

many years the population relied on the

tuna industry

stringing great nets across the bays

with these anchors

unfortunately they overfished and now

all that remains is a sea of used and

broken anchors

an empty cannery and process implant

and a few tranquil bays and of course no

tuna with the tuna gone the locals now

rely heavily on tourism

high-speed ferries now bring people

across from sicily or the mainland

and unfortunately tourism brings its own

problems for the island

one of these issues is the income is

very seasonal

many of the shops cafes bars

brick-a-brac

shops and novelty goods emporiums

all close down over the winter the place

becomes a ghost town given the island's

historical significance

we could really make some money out of

it if enough people just knew

about the history

this is the passenger ship lampedusa

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no it's not on fire that's the pollution

it's putting out

and you can see right

across the mainland of sicily

thick acrid black smoke

he's also on a collision course for us

with the cpa of

just 150 meters so um we're going to

keep an eye on him

that is unbelievable

how many thousand miles did we have to

do to put that amount of co2 and

noxious gases and soot into the

atmosphere

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a few circumnavigations i bet

from the island we travel further south

heading east

to mazara we only stayed one night

briefly taking the dogs ashore

before heading on again

to le carter or liquor depending on how

you pronounce it i guess

having sailed most of the day we decided

to pull in behind a headland

and set out some winds that were coming

very strongly from the west

we all held okay and this was part of

the footage we put in our anchoring

video if you remember

la carte mourinho has good protection

from winds from all direction

and those notorious mediterranean storms

that happened during the winter

we had a real good look around and we

met some of the people liverpool there

all year round

in fact we enjoyed it so much we stayed

a few days

marina has some really good facilities

well kept clean

tidy and the marine arrows are very

helpful

in the town which is only a couple

hundred meters away

all the shops that you could need even a

little

the liverpool community there had

organised a barbecue for the sunday

evening

and so they invited us along via their

facebook page

and we took part in the traditional

finish game it's a

bit like ghoul or piton you have to

knock over sticks and then they put them

up in a different place

couldn't really get the rules but he

seemed to have fun david enjoyed himself

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after leaving liquor we went on to

marina ragouza

it was a kind of soulless place and

absolutely vast

we decided we wouldn't want to stay

there for the winter

and then our chief navigator linda found

this place

it was a stunning hidden little

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anchorage

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so this is porto paulo sicily it's a

marina that never got developed it has

fantastic protection from virtually all

the way around

we had 40 or 50 meters of chain out and

everybody was spaced out

maybe 65 meters or so but the frenchman

drops his anchor in front of us

puts 20 minutes of chain out and then

starts dragging back

i'm farting the direction i don't get it

we seem to have a running battle with

the french is there someone else

up there we can talk to no now go away

or i should

taunt you a second time two days later

we moved on the island of capo paresso

it's as far south and as far east as you

can go

in sicily there's a fantastic

four the statue of the holy madola and

the tuna factory went out of business 20

years ago

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rounding the island we were now

technically in the aegean

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c

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it's not a bunch of girls around

yes

should i say that out loud

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we anchored behind the island for one

night and then needing some ac

and desperately needing some water we

called into a marina for one night

before moving on to sarah coos

there we are sarah coos norwegian spirit

out there

we are

out there by that cat

norwegian dawn there

just tied up the uh just hold up the

dinghies

time for a coffee and a croissant

meanwhile here's some lost footage well

wasn't really lost i'd put it in a safe

place

so here we are we've arrived in sicily

beautiful

turquoise water it's sunday afternoon

people are on the beach

gorgeous scenery apart from

these guys just told up

they're dredging the harbour all the

sand and gravel that's coming out the

harbour

they're dumping just off the beach

dean decided to move from the other side

of eternity

david's boat and although these guys

gave him

a good birth wide berth he decided that

uh

discretion was a better part of valor

when

a four cubic meter bucket on a 70 ton

lever

starts swinging around and you can see

that's a big bucket there

the other interesting thing is look at

the spuds on the back

see how it's bent when he comes around

it's bent by about 10 degrees

this one here look

the same on the front one so that's had

a hard old life at some point

oh there we are bit of industrial goings

on

for you

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so there's all four of us anchors

i don't know who the fourth boat is

um it's got a roman

romana registration number

they came over with us from

volcano which is over there

so volcano the pari in the background

and then the two volcanoes of lapari

sorry not lapari the other one

oh god it's been two weeks

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so

hi everybody hi folks we're currently

anchored in the

beautiful anchorage in syracuse just

behind the main town

we've been here four or five days and i

think we'll probably stay another four

or five days

weather permitting it's been really hot

and uh we've tried to do tried to do

this

outside but there's so many speed boats

and jet skis and

noise from the lapping water etc that

we decided to come downstairs and do it

it's rather hot

it is rather hot down here a big thank

you to all our patrons

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we'll see you again

in a week's time and we'll have some

really good footage

from the temple of apollo apollo

until next yeah and and some other ones

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