I fell in love with Meti Island and its people during my visit, so much so that I extended my stay by a week. Such an innocent way of life there, smiling kid...

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so good morning everyone I am walking

along a pathway to the village of Mitty

island this island is just offshore of

halmahera which is the northern molecule

province of eastern Indonesia it's

probably one of the nicest islands and

villages that I've come across yet it's

really in tune with with nature they've

got a real good vibe here the kids are

really happy they don't all want to

leave like other islands it just seems

like there's a good balance here so I'm

walking around today watching trying to

film a bit of how life is still on the

island a lot of it is just doing coconut

work and fishing and gardening so I'm

going to show you a bit of that and then

probably later tomorrow morning I think

I'm going to leave and sail up a bit

more north so anyway enjoy

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so cool to see that kids involved in

this process as well they're the young

girls they were learning how to to get

the meat out of the shelves now pretty

cool the whole family's just sitting

around you know all working all doing

their thing the men have climbed the

trees and collected the coconuts and the

women sawed them and cut them in half

and empty the meat out of them and the

husks get thrown on the fire and all the

meat gets thrown up on the top and that

burns about 24 hours or maybe 30 hours

and it smokes and dries the kapre the

meat and that's the product that they're

selling in the end this is cassava and

behind it here is sweet potato with the

purple leaves they don't just eat the

fruit stayed make some of the leaves as

well and then you've got banana coconut

more Passover they've got nutmeg here

there are also many cows on the island

just roped up through their noses and

they use them to keep the grass down and

amongst the coconut groves and the cows

are just very calm and just wander

around

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middie island was actually a big

Japanese base during World War two I'm

not quite sure of the exact dates and

that there's not really much information

on Wikipedia about that but the whole

village today 1,900 people was actually

built on the old airstrip and as you can

see here there's still cannon around in

the forest there's bunkers there's a

there's a downed warplane in the lagoon

it's in 25 meters of water so I have

actually tried to dive on that pretty

interesting you see a few people here

with real Japanese looks so I'm guessing

that the Japanese soldiers did what they

have been known to do and raped and

pillaged a fair bit and left their DNA

here on the island this is one of the

few Islands that I've been to out here

where you can drink the water out of the

ground the Japanese put down some really

deep bores so the ground water here is

it's drinkable and there's plenty of it

mostly on these islands that the bore

waters is brackish they just use it for

washing and cleaning and things like

that so that's been quite handy they

have big gardens here because of that

because they've got ample fresh water

these kids are so coolly as they follow

me all around the island and whenever I

fly the drone they freak out completely

because they do not know what that is

but and then they watch their they watch

the screen when I'm filming and see

their village and the other huh they

finally realized that that's their

village and there's a camera on the

trailer

it's pretty cool kids here are awesome

the kids everywhere awesome but these

kids awesome

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so today I printed out a bunch of

pictures I've shot in the last few days

here in the village and my little photo

printer on the boat and I'm walking

around the village trying to find the

kids to give them to here's a couple of

happy customers they're so photogenic

I'm just taking photos and lots of them

and they're really stoked to get a paper

copy of them for sure

the so photogenic you I took so many

pictures that sort of lends itself

better to photos and film so so here's a

decent slideshow for you I shot a lot in

black and white even though it's so

colorful here the black and white is

just looks amazing with the textures so

here's a bunch of them to look at

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you that grain it helps us falling

between

why is it so hard

when there's old sky

Hey

another tournament

we always forever

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okay still

we both think alike yeah we seem to buy

dinner

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ting is difficult grading is just a

child

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trust in me

that you

we cheer

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together

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still

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or skirt

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honestly

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in the afternoons mostly around here

there the kids sell doughnuts outside

their houses while other things to

savories and things but my favorites the

doughnut they cost one thousand rupiah

each which is 10 cents Australian well

it's been amazing here I've been nearly

by actually I've been over a week here

now I don't normally stay in one place

that long but it's been sort of a a

little bit magnetic for me this place be

sad to leave tomorrow it's just the

people the people were so good here so

nice and fascinating for me how they

live and their happiness levels are just

on on through the roof compared to

Western standards I must say you know

doesn't come because they they've got

the newest Mercedes Benz and they go to

Majorca on holiday comes because they're

to have simple satisfying lives and they

have love of the family and they have

connection with nature and this is what

they need for happiness and it seems to

work and it makes me happy just being

around them so that's that's why it's a

little sad to leave but I mean there's

obviously you know there's a more good

places coming up but this does give me a

good perspective on what I'm doing and

why I'm doing it not a lot of sailing in

this video but that's okay I don't sail

for the pure pleasure of sailing

although I do love it I use my boat as a

yeah as a a time machine takes me to

places that I want to visit and allows

me to stay there on location and that's

worked out perfectly here hope you

enjoyed this video I really enjoyed

making it obviously this is only a

fraction of what I experienced I could

never capture everything I hope I do a

good job at least giving a bit of an

insight into into this this experience

that I'm living anyway thanks again

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