We've been away from Civilisation for 2 months now but as we'd heard things had relaxed a bit we decided to visit the small town of Waisei to do a major refill of provisions and fuel. It turned out to be a pretty cool experience as we only met happy helpful people, it seemed they were just as happy to see us as us them! We also caught a really nice fish on the way to town and saw some dolphins acting weird.
Enjoy!
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wow that's a big big one
three maximum we still have a whole one left.
we're just coming into Waisai to get
some shopping and we put the lines out
we caught a fish, don't normally catch em
this close to town
but caught something. It's not fighting
much though
i think it's a mackerel yeah this it is, beautiful!
wow that's a big big one
Wohooo! Haha.
woah a big healthy fat mackerel.
nice
hello, we have just put the anchor down
in front of waisai village as you can
see back here
and we're going to go up the river here
to the market.
Now we haven't been to a town since
our last quarantine which was two months
ago maybe even slightly more
so yeah uh we're gonna go and check it
out apparently we have to go and get
temperatures taken and write our names
down and stuff
but uh apparently it's mellow. Jim,
just over here behind me he's the guy
that came and picked this up from Halmahera
from my episode whatever it was link up
here
he's here at the moment and he's been
here uh a few days
so he sort of knows the rigmarole and
given us some tips
and yeah we're going to go and get some
food
so we're only going to stay here a
couple of hours because as you can see
it's pretty lumpy it's completely
exposed to the southeasters here
spray time
go
so we just arrived in Waisai
and they have a checkpoint for the Covid19
so you have to be sprayed here and after
they just check the name
and after we are free to go to the
market and have fresh vegetables.
So it wasn't a big deal hey they're all
friendly? Yeah super nice every
everyone is super nice here yeah
pretty cool and there's the market over there.
How many, 3-4??
three maximum we still have a whole one left.
okay one of these for us too
thank you
Hiii Missus, want Banana??
Cumicumi(squid)
ahh beautiful, looks how big the squids are!
little tick-tock session on the jetty
with the girls. I don't even know what
tick-tock is but apparently it's pretty
cool
yeah you just have to dance or something
you do it
But I dont know how to dance!
it's good??
Nooo
just credit please.
so as you can probably hear it is
absolutely bucketing it down
as it sort of often does at this time of
the year in the tropics
we try and harvest this water as much as
we can because it's fresh and it's cold
and it's clean
and it definitely beats filling up with
water at a jetty somewhere with
20 liter drums and stuff so i'll show
you how we uh
harvest the water on Schiehallion. So we put
all our buckets out to catch the water
off this blue tarp
and that goes here in the uh the
showering
thing and the whole deck is catching
water for the
for the tanks
so
you