Another sailing passage you say?? Yes we are on the move again, this time from Fukfuk to Misool in Raja Ampat. Pretty boring passage, mostly under engine power but it was spiced up with an amazing sunset then an epic electrical storm at night. Once we arrived we show you how we fix the boat in place when its impossible to anchor.
There's also a bonus section but you'll have to watch till the end for that one.
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Hey we're getting in close we gotta get in close to get the action!
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Nice nice nice good job.
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G'day guys welcome back another video coming to you from somewhere in indonesia pretty much
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eastern indonesia nowadays we're heading back into papua yeah today we're doing a passage
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from tip of the papua mainland you can see here on the google earth map and we're going north
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west over to missoula the southernmost island of the raja ampat group i've been there before
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a couple of videos actually my two boat tour videos are pretty popular
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i did there marie's never been there though so we're gonna go for a week or so there uh
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and check all that out so um look forward to those videos it's for me nearly one of the most stunning
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places in the world i probably said that a few times but like this is truly for me personally
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it's just a mind-blowing place and i can't wait to go and see more of it because i definitely
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haven't seen all of it i've only been there twice so yeah i'm about to crank up the engine hook the
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heliad on pull up the anchor and get out of here it probably won't be a very exciting sail over
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um this region i'll show you a wind map here but the last few well the last couple of weeks and
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where we're going now until all the way to sarong basically we're against the wind it's just the
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northwest and monsoon and uh it's sort of like a channel it funnels down through between saram
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and papua and we've sort of been motor sailing for the last i don't know a few few passages for
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sure it hasn't been much fun at all sometimes it feels like we've been just going in glue i mean
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engine revs are quite high and we're only doing four and a half knots and uh just feels like we're
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not really getting anywhere but we knew this part of the trip it was going to be like that at this
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time of the year so that's the way it is ready to go i hope so how far are we going how long
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is this place uh it's around 95 miles so it's not so far um the navionics maps here are just useless
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they're about i don't know maybe half a mile or a mile out look at this i'll show you exactly
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so we're here obviously we're anchored right in this corner here last night on that green
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spot and we're just leaving there now and this is where it says we are and that is um
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1.1 nautical miles away from where we actually are
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so yeah pretty bloody useless the maps here
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uh just using satellite maps for navigation and the navionics basically for a rough
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idea of how the farther distances are it must just be down this part of um papua because in
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raja ampat yeah obviously they're not perfect those maps but they are way more better than here
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so there's open ocean straight in front of us now it looks very very flat very calm
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which is good because at this time of year as i said it's the north west monsoon so you either get
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20 knots in your face and they're accompanying swell or we've gone for
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a window of basically calm for 24 hours so it's probably going to mean motor
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sailing hopefully we can do some zigzags and at least get this sail to help us on our way um
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but yeah it's calm so that's good you know you'd rather be motoring in calm and flat water than
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then pushing against a dead head wind of 20 knots and and one and a half meter swell so
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yeah as much as i dislike motoring if i have to motor i definitely prefer it in calm water
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um over that direction is about 100 miles of saram maluku regency and yeah as i said behind us is
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papua fuckfuck it's quite a big city quite a nice place actually um we only stayed one day there got
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40 litres of diesel and a pizza and then we left uh looking forward to getting to places a bit more
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where we can be alone in nature and uh yeah where we're going is no internet
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probably going to be two weeks offline and uh really looking forward to it
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but yeah it's probably going to be about 18 hours of just diesel diesel sounds i'll put on the
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put on the headphones and i downloaded a few podcasts and i still got a couple of books
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to read so we'll just uh take turns being at attention and the other one can just do whatever
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i'm going to pull the sail up now even though there's not much wind you can see the flag
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there above marie it's it's blowing a little bit straight from the front obviously but um
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i always pull the sail up because this boat doesn't need much to help it out you get a
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little bit of a parent wind for motoring five knots and it actually is enough to give you
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another knot from the sail so it definitely makes sense but when i'm motorcycling like
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this i tend to put the first reef in just because if there is any bit of a swell
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it doesn't tend to bang from side to side when there's one reefing i think it's just the balance
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of where it is on the mast or whatever when i have the full sail up it'll tend to the top half of the
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sail or sort of flop over side to side and it's a bit annoying and not good for the sail obviously
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it rained overnight quite a lot actually and i didn't have the sail bag closed because we
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only arrived in the evening it's happened a few times that um i went to pull up the sail
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the next morning and i'd forgotten to shut the windows in the galley and just the water pulls
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in the top of the sail and as soon as you pull the sail up you get about 20 liters on the couch
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okay job done settle in well as you can see it's very calm as you can also probably hear
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the engine's on uh we are motorcycling though we're only sort of chugging along at half revs
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and we're doing yeah five and a half knots it's all right is what it is it's very very
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calm though maurice just out the back knitting a new woolly jumper because it's so cold here
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now i might be going back to europe in march so i might need a woolly jumper
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and i'm cooking up some lunch that um marie made yesterday roast chicken roast potatoes
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it's calm enough that i'm sitting inside marie is sitting outside crocheting as i said but
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she's keeping a look out and there's nothing around anyway and i'm editing that the video
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the passage from tual to triton bay so you guys will have already seen that
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by now obviously but um yeah that's what i do when we're cruising along
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a little update guys it's about four in the afternoon now yeah dave's just flowing on by
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really we've just been i've been editing hanging out in the computer rhys still crotcheting
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all that it's got half a half a jumper done how's it going
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i would say it's not even a quart but yeah it's good you got any uh arm pump
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you're getting swollen wrists from all that knotting yeah i'm feeling like an old lady
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and yeah we're passing by these islands over here it's a whole bunch of them they are called
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and yeah that's on the way so we're heading up to mizzle up there left from down here going over
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there only got 70 miles to go with that'll put us in at about 5 30 6 in the morning so there's
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no point going any faster than that anyway um you'll see when we get there but there's no way
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you can arrive there it darks impossible whether you're you know just asking to wreck your boat so
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no point getting there before sunrise and uh when we get there it's not an anchorage we're
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gonna tie the boat uh bow and stern to rocks so i have to put the dinghy in the water beforehand
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prepare all the ropes sort of stuff so by the time i got that done the sun should be up and we'll be
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good to go well it's that time of the day it's golden hour photographers love this time and uh
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yeah i'm going to throw the little drone up it's a little bad boy a little dji air 2. throw it up
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get you some nice sunset shots before the dark ascends for another night let's do it
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please check it out
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well i love the drone shot it always looks so good just a different perspective i mean look at this
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this is right now this is also right now it's crazy technology i love it
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all right i'll fly turn the gopro off and fly the drone
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all the places
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well dinner time here on chahelion it actually looks bright with this camera but it's pretty
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much long gone sunset looks pretty good still huh
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what are we having tonight
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okay you asking me when i'm with the mouth full it's uh your mother would be so proud yeah it's a
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sober noodle with chicken garlic and vegetables is it splendid yeah it's quite good enough and
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accidentally ah it's been the more mellow of days ever i mean not great if you're talking pure
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sailing obviously but easy on the boat easy on the mind it's the evening and we can so from far away
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we call that a storm a storm with a lot of lightning and it's super nice to watch from far
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i would love to be not inside but from here it's just like all these big clouds
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just suddenly light from inside and make it all this beautiful shapes
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well good morning as you can see we've arrived in missoula it's about 6 00 6 30 or something
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in the morning a pretty uneventful night apart from the big lightning storm you saw
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we're pretty happy that didn't uh come towards us because that thing just was exploding
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electricity bombs for like an hour but it it just stayed about 10 miles away from us it
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was pretty amazing it's cool to watch but why you wouldn't want to be in the middle of that
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thing anyway arrived here looks amazing um it's a bit tricky place to tie up so we'll show you that
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so because this is uh not a place we can anchor it's very deep we've got a tie foul and stern
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to rocks inside here i've got to prepare the ding in advance because i've got to get in the
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dinghy to go to tie up onto the rocks so we're just drifting around outside here where it's
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where there's a bit more space i'll put the engine on the dinghy and tow that in and then
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i've already prepared some ropes and we'll get in there and uh should go pretty quick there's
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just really much space inside where we've got to tie up there's not a lot of space
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for the um you know to maneuver so you got to be pretty pretty ready when you get there
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look
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so it's pretty optimal conditions as you can see there's no wind
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because if there's wind it swirls around in these big cliffs there's no wind it's very calm um
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i know where i have to tie up so it's all going to be good marie's pretty nervous
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because last time we were here it was a big storm and it was just getting dark
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and we actually pulled the pen and didn't stay here at all okay look how clear the water is
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look at this place
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oh it's crazy or the reef is closed here
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all right i'm gonna jump in the dinghy now leave marie here on the mother ship
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jump in the dinghy and go and sort out the ropes and uh get us attached
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that's the first time we are doing that like i am doing that
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and definitely yeah i am not feeling super good with that like there is definitely super close
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and yeah my instinct is i don't want to because of a rape
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i know danver knows what he's doing but it's a bit it's a bit hard to just watch and relax
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okay
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beautiful
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yes they're all tied up now that was relatively easy uh obviously it makes it a lot easier
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if there's no wind in here blowing the blowing shahelian around so now i mean
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basically the the goal is to just get a secure and now i'll go around and uh retail the knots
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make sure the ropes are all good all that sort of stuff just just make sure we're actually secure
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it's quite a distance though you can see the bow rope goes all the way over
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to this island i don't know it's probably 60 meters or something it's not too bad but
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so we'll tighten up the ropes a bit more make sure she sits here good because as i said
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when the wind does blow through here it really whistles around and amongst all these big cliffs
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but um should be good we'll sort it out and then yeah get some breakfast i only slept i think two
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hours last night some get some breakfast and then probably have a sleep but pretty stoked to be here
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what do you reckon babe the bags are eating our bananas is that your most pressing worry
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yeah right now to eat my bananas we're gonna stay here far from everything i have to take care of
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the food yeah you happy what do you think of this place no it's quite amazing and i'm quite happy to
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see corals like beautiful crawls again and clarity in the water because this last uh weeks or months
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we didn't have that yeah the corals that go around here are just crazy they actually come out and
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they're just a flat plate and then they overhang everywhere so it's from a distance it looks like
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these islands are actually floating sort of on these coral beds anyway yeah that was this video
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we'll probably bring you another video from here in missoula before we head up to sarong thanks
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content that you guys help us produce basically so anyway see you next week cheers guys bye bye
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good morning we just dropped anchor here along the coast of um well papua mainland actually we
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left kaimana yesterday last night and we're just heading north and we came across this massive
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waterfall here probably doesn't look that big in the gopro but it's called kitty kitty but we
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didn't just come across it we knew it was here obviously but it's uh very far from anywhere
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and there's no you know there's no marker signs or walkways or anything like that it's just a massive
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waterfall in the middle of nowhere pretty sweet just a sand patch there we anchored the boat i'll
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show you some drain footage in a minute we're going a bit closer now and try and get under it
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maybe but there's a couple more small ones around the corner we're going to go and do some washing
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i don't know if you can see the power of it but we were expecting
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to be able to go in there but i think it's not possible because the west went directly
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on the reef and it's really strong i would not be uncomfortable to be under that surface
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what are you doing what's safe to be here hey we're getting close we've got to get in close to
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get the action oh we're getting wet now here comes some white no baby stupid look at the waterfall
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nice nice good job
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yellow here as well all right we made it though okay
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we are wet and everything is wet
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oh
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oh yeah
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oh what a freaking amazing looking place
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you can't quite see chahalia but it's just around the corner there two minutes away and
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now we've got a more manageable waterfall one that we can uh yeah actually sort of wash off
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get some fresh water vibes going pretty cool start today it's only about eight o'clock in the morning
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i've had a little guy behind the waterfall that's pretty loud in here
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but what an awesome way to start the day eh yeah just magical and we were thinking or maybe skip
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this part because yesterday it was rough and we were not sure it was possible to anchor here but
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i'm so happy we did it it's so nice yeah we were anchored further down because yesterday it was
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really rolly here and uh we couldn't anchor here overnight it would have been terrible
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and then this morning we thought it'd be the same so i packed up the dinghy loaded the outboard all
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that sort of stuff and mowed it up here and it was uh calm enough it's still a bit rolly but
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you know we're not on the boat so it doesn't matter but so nice i could get the opportunity
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to get in a waterfall clean some clothes a little bit mostly just clean us and yeah fresh water is
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such a such a treat for us you know i mean we have fresh water on the boat but just it feels
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wasteful to use too much of it because it's hard work to go and get it from somewhere
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but here it's just pouring out of the mountain and you just doesn't matter how much you use it's
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pretty awesome the simple joys of a long-term sailor right these days everyone's got a bloody
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water maker so no one probably knows what i'm talking about anymore we're old school just poor
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so now to get out of here we have to pick the right moment
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not being smashed by the way and being all salty again
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okay
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legs
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you
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Added on
01 March 2022
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Location:
Misool, Raja Ampat
Description
Another sailing passage you say?? Yes we are on the move again, this time from Fukfuk to Misool in Raja Ampat. Pretty boring passage, mostly under engine power but it was spiced up with an amazing sunset then an epic electrical storm at night. Once we arrived we show you how we fix the boat in...