- Well, we made it to the Bahamas!
- This is surreal.
- This is incredible!
(lighthearted music)
- That looks like a mean pig.
Hey little baby.
- This other one snuck up behind me and
bit me on the leg.
- [Elayna] Oh babe!
♪ Take it to the next destination ♪
♪ And life's got a score for you ♪
♪ Don't ever let her go ♪
- [Riley] Welcome back!
Just a quick recap on what happened last week.
We left the Turks and Caicos Islands for an overnight sail
to Acklins Island, our first stop in the Bahamas.
(relaxing music)
We flew the whole way there with just the headsail up.
We actually had to try and slow down for the first time
to avoid arriving before the sun came up.
Elayna and I were pretty happy with our new location,
Atwood Harbour.
It's a great protected anchorage with the longest white
sandy beach we had seen in a long time.
There were only a few other cruises in the anchorage,
and it was good to be able to share some stories, sunsets,
and drinks with them on the beach.
(lighthearted music) (people laughing)
(woman laughs loudly) (woman claps)
- [Elayna] Wow!
- Big shark under the boat.
This is when you don't wanna fall in Pants.
- [Elayna] I got toast inside burning, hang on.
Oopsie. Sorry Riles.
Well, we're leaving.
We're going to Clarence Town,
which is 65 nautical miles away.
It's quite a small town but apparently there's,
you know like, a little store there.
We're meeting our friends from Lucille,
is the name of their boat.
They're gonna be there too
but they left really early this morning.
So, it would be good to run in to them along the way.
Not actually run into but see them.
(guitar music)
♪ Farther down and further off ♪
♪ Sick plates react in circles, no cycles will be stopped ♪
♪ The movement from the centre amplifies the end ♪
♪ You're in the open per-- ♪
- So, we only had a really kind of
rough weather update from Terry on Tanga Roa
and we thought we'd have more wind today so we left at--
Well, it's 10:00 a.m. now, we left at about 9:30.
And we're sitting on seven knots, is our speed overground.
But, Riley thinks that maybe we won't get there
before the sun sets because, yeah, we just thought
we'd be going faster right now but there's not much wind.
So, anyway, we have two options.
We can go to, like I said, Clarence Town,
but the wind is taking us directly to Rum Cay so,
we have options.
We have options.
(strong wind blows)
[Riley] - How you feeling Pants?
- Alright.
I just put my head down for two seconds,
and that wasn't good so I'm just like, watching the horizon.
I'm gonna be good today, I'm gonna be okay.
(strong wind blows) (waves crash)
- We've got the kite day up,
but we can't point as well as we would have liked.
So, we'd be preferring to going there,
but we can only go here.
And we're not going as fast as we thought so,
I was thinking tens but it's really only sevens.
Which means we can't get to any of the places
that we liked to get probably by nightfall.
The other thing that we can do is just sail overnight,
but I didn't think it would be necessary from where we were,
so it's a bit disappointing to have to end up doing that
because there's so many islands and reefs around,
you really gotta be on the ball all night, so.
And the reason for all this is
because we gotta get to Florida.
(television show plays)
- We're sloths today,
but it's really fun,
because we never sit down and watch a TV series, so.
And we're flying.
The wind's picked up and, yeah,
we're just been really like hammering along.
Quite comfortable in the water, it's nice.
We got cabin fever.
My eyes hurt.
- My beard's long.
(Elayna laughs)
(lighthearted guitar music)
- [Elayna] So, we came up like this, we jibed,
and we're gonna jibe again in a sec
and head through this channel here.
- [Riley] Eventually, we did decide to sail overnight.
We took down our light wind sails,
so we could have a more relaxing night on watch.
If we fly the kite day and night it means that
an even more vigilant watch must be maintained,
and for us, not in a hurry,
it's better if we take it down most of the time.
Just gone into night time.
How's your day been?
- Really good.
- [Riley] Big difference between 15 and 25 knots isn't it?
- I feel normal.
I feel like I'm on land, it's funny.
- [Riley] Yeah.
- It's just, yeah, there's a certain point where it turns
from really, really good to terrible and that's really fast.
This is like, this has been a really good sail.
- [Riley] 25 knots on the old boat,
and we would have been like hanging on for dear life.
On this one we're like, you're a little bit uncomfortable,
I'm totally fine.
And in this which is 15, we're like--
- 15 is a pretty sweet number.
- [Riley] Sitting around and watching movies.
- I know, and I can't usually look at laptop screens,
- [Riley] Yeah.
- usually, this is like amazing.
- [Riley] Maybe you were just having a bad day
the other day.
- It could've been.
- [Riley] On top of everything.
- Mm-hmm. Not today.
- [Riley] So you're gonna keep sailing with me?
- Yup. - [Riley] Okay.
- Ask me next week. (Elayna laughs)
(strong wind blows)
- [Elayna] I'm just about to go and wake Riley up,
to jump on shift, it's 4.30am.
Sorry.
(Elayna yawns)
It's been a really relaxing sail.
Just been sailing the south side of Cat Island,
and that's really deep water so,
there's not much to look out for apart from other ships
and I've only seen one, so, yeah.
It feels really good to be of some help on this trip
because you guys know the last one I was helpless.
And I do really love sailing,
and I really love the night watches,
like you just get so much time to yourself
and there's just something mysterious about it, like.
I've just been smashing the podcast
and just been deep into the work.
And it's been nice but now I just cannot hold my
eyes open any longer.
So it's time to wake Riley up.
I'm not sure what anchorage Riley has in mind.
He kind of mumbled it to me before he went to sleep
but we'll figure it out.
We're just gonna anchor somewhere when the sun comes up.
But for now, I am out. That's it. That's all I got.
Gotta go to sleep.
(strong wind blows)
- [Elayna] Good morning.
- Good morning Pantaloons, how are you?
- [Elayna] Good. How's your morning?
- I've got my guide book here which I've been going through.
We're gonna go to Staniel Cay.
Because we've still gotta check into the Bahamas, so.
We're gonna go-- It's gonna be, like, chaos here.
There'll be a million boats I'm sure, but this is the place
where there's the pigs and Thunderball Grotto which is all
pretty, like, unimaginative and just the exact thing that
everyone else does when you go there.
But you're pretty keen to see the pigs, aren't you Elayna?
- [Elayna] Yup.
I need to see the pigs.
- And we gotta check in anyway, so we go to Staniel Cay.
I've heard it's amazing, Staniel Cay.
I have heard that it is stunningly beautiful.
We'll go check that out.
I've been on the sat phone,
and another mate of mine's having a kid,
so I sent him a little congratulations.
Scotty and Casey.
- [Elayna] And we have the same due date.
- And we've got the same due date, which is--
- [Elayna] We cannot believe it.
- Absolutely, that is crazy.
I lived with Scotty for about six years so, yeah.
It's weird that we've got the same due date of a child.
I think we synced up.
- [Elayna] Must have.
- We synced menstrual cycles.
- [Elayna] Yeah. (laughs)
(lighthearted guitar music)
- [Elayna] This is beautiful!
- This is stunning.
- Riley and I were just saying this looks a lot like the
Tuamotu except there's definitely gonna be tomatoes here.
Man, this water's insane!
So, we are 0.4 metres beneath the dagger boards.
Which is pretty shallow, I'm getting a little bit nervous.
It's alright we'll get used to this navigating
in shallow water business.
We're not used to it, we used to,
like long distances and deep water.
Well, we made it to the Bahamas!
- This is surreal.
- Congratulations.
Riley and I were just saying how we
feel like we're dreaming right now.
This--It's just one of those places, like the blue water,
and it's just, yeah, it's really surreal.
But I have to admit I've seriously dreamt of coming to the
Bahamas since the movie 'Into the Blue' with Paul Walker
and Jessica Alba in it. (laughs)
- Oh!
♪ A time to live, a time to die ♪
- I was young! - Really?
- I was young. Yes!
I mean Paul was amazing in that movie but anyway.
We are here now in the same water
that they would have been frolicking around in.
Somewhere nearby, I'm sure.
So, I'm excited.
♪ Cut off your hair and plug your-- ♪
- [Elayna] Come up with some kind of
Pad Thai concoction here.
You rate it Riles.
- This?
- [Elayna] Mmm.
- I'm going to give this a 10 Elayna.
- [Elayna] Really? - Yeah.
If we went to a restaurant, and they served this up,
I would be raving.
[Elayna] Aww. Thank you.
- And, to be honest, you're knocking up quality
restaurant food, more often than not. (laughs)
I need to be careful with my compliments
or you might take your foot off.
(Elayna giggles)
(raining)
- Not happy.
Just woken up and--
it's raining and the sky is completely covered in clouds.
(Riley scrubbing the yacht)
(raining)
- [Riley] Raindrops are like bullets.
- Yeah that hurt.
I thought there was hailstones at one stage (laughs).
(splashing)
♪ Oohhh, but whose to blame ♪
♪ Well so it goes, yeah so it goes ♪
- [Elayna] Thunderball Grotto is a limestone cave
that you got to swim underwater to get inside.
It got it's name from the 1965 James Bond film 'Thunderball'
that had an underwater fight scene filmed in it.
This is incredible!
- [Riley] It's amazing, look at it.
♪ Oh take a chance and roll the bones ♪
- [Elayna] The gloomy weather really made this cave
all the more magical once inside.
♪ Yeah try to forget all your enemies and debts ♪
♪ They'll just chase you around and give you sour dreams ♪
♪ Try to forget all them enemies and debts ♪
♪ They'll just chase you round and give you sour dreams ♪
♪ So it seems ♪
♪ Yeah so it seems ♪
- And that's it. That's El Grotto.
I'm impressed, I did not realise it was that beautiful.
I'm stoked we were the only ones there.
Okay now, we gotta swim back to the dingy.
Clearly the current is still the same direction as it was.
(strong wind blowing)
- We have falafels for lunch.
You guys can get, actually, if you guys can get your hands
on falafel mix, it's brilliant to have on-board.
- [Riley] I'm sure they can get their hands on falafel mix.
- Well, some people might be on a Tuamotuan island.
(Riley laughs loudly)
- Where there's not even tomatoes, so--
- [Riley] What's the correct pronunciation of the--
- Tuamotan? I guess, the Tuamotos--
- [Riley] I like your Tuamotuan.
- I don't know if that's correct, but anyway,
if you can get your hand on some of these,
they're dry and you keep in the pantry forever,
and they're amazing.
- [Riley] Good for boats.
- Good to handy dressing, yes.
(pan frying)
- Ten.
I need a good, healthy salad.
I've been drinking so much beer lately.
- [Elayna] You're in a habit after your parents left.
(strong wind blows)
- We're gonna move in a bit closer over here
because it's just--we're just getting a little bit of
swell and current, I think, as well from over there.
- [Elayna] And I'm navigating from inside so I don't
have to get wet as well.
We have not had a full day of rain like this for so long,
like I really can't remember a day where it's just rained
all day, so I'm wondering like if this is--
Because I've heard at the Bahamas,
in the middle of the year, during the Hurricane season,
its their raining season and it's quite horrible,
so I'm wondering if this is-- If we're experiencing that
or it's just a random day of rain.
I don't know.
(yacht engine roars)
- It's quite an art moving,
like letting your boat come backwards on the chain
without it jagging and drifting off to the side.
So just sort of like put one engine in forward
because it wants to come back sideways
so you got one in forwards.
You wanna be coming backwards but not too fast,
and you just get her perfect, and then--
Then you come forwards and put the bridle on,
but there's a certain amount of time between
before you put the bridle on and running forwards
to put it on where the chain can, if you're too fast
sideways, the chain can scrape underneath your helm.
- [Elayna] Hmm. It is an art.
- It's just. It is.
It's good fun getting it out.
- [Elayna] It's fun, I really enjoy it.
- Yeah, exactly.
(lighthearted guitar music)
- [Elayna] Riley I don't know if I trust the pigs.
That looks like a mean pig.
Oh my gosh!
Hello.
- [Riley] Hey buddy!
- [Elayna] Be careful, I heard they bite.
- Yeah, they do.
- (Elayna laughs)
- Where you going mate? Come here.
- (Elayna laughs)
- [Riley] We're suppose to bring food, aren't we?
- [Elayna] Sorry.
Alright, shall we go walk on the beach?
- Yeah, I think they cry when you turn away.
- [Elayna] Oh look at the big poo floating!
- Oh! (laughs)
- [Elayna] Did that come from you?
So this is pig beach. I can see two big mama pigs,
or daddy pigs, and I can see some piglets
over in the corner, so I'm gonna go try have a look at them.
Hopefully, I don't get chased down.
Hello!
Don't come too close.
(Elayna laughs)
- You're a good pig.
- You're very cute. Hey little baby.
(Elayna laughs)
(lighthearted guitar music)
- Fuck, look at that one!
- [Elayna] I know it's huge!
- Yeah.
- [Elayna] Bye.
(Elayna laughs)
So what just happened?
- Well, I'm not very happy.
The pigs, they-- We went over--
Elayna went over to play with the baby ones
and the big ones stole--We had some trash in the tender,
so, ran off into the bushes and I chased after them.
Whilst, I was collecting rubbish and mucking around,
this other one snuck up behind me and bit me on the leg.
(Elayna gasps)
- [Elayna] Aww babe!
- Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
- [Elayna] Should we try again tomorrow?
- No.
(Elayna laughs)
- I'm not interested in these pigs at all.
- I would not want to go swimming with that bloody thing.
Seriously.
- I'm glad they've had their tusks and whatnot removed.
Could have been a damn site worst.
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(lighthearted guitar music)
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