Be careful what you wish for! We were leaving the Marquesas when we decided to check out a teeny uninhabited island called Tikei that showed up on our charts...

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which gun direction mm-hmm how's it

looking good all right step there we

just don't know where maybe we'll

discover anyway be careful what you wish

for in an effort to slow down and reach

our destination after daybreak we tried

to explore a speck of land marked on our

charts little did we know we would soon

have company

all right so what's going on that's me

so here we are counting time and we sir

found a way to kill time oh thank you

for giving them a lift home

the fisherman cooked us up three giant

lobsters for dinner they had been

surviving on Lobster for a week and had

had their fill what did they want most

coffee and cigarette how French take it

12 hours later the Sun was up and we had

arrived in Tokoroa what would soon be

our first atoll and the Tuamotus but

first we had to navigate its narrow path

yeah this is definitely sketchy I mean

my hands are shaking it's it's scary

we're powering through this and we're

barely moving like we should be going

about 7 knots we're going like

three-point-nine right now

chainsaw he's getting a puff of a

cigarette yeah what started off as a

12-hour active kind faith suddenly

turned it into the most remarkable

experience we could have asked for our

new friends Henry and James took us in

made his family and taught us what life

was really like in Tucker aah

was it possible that we had gotten the

better end of the deal

okay explain a little bit about what or

anything here I have no idea what I mean

about we got two new friends and put us

at the American table and we had before

which was tuna right or some sort of

fish in fermented ocean water which is

very smelly it's checking all the Flies

got all kinds of bananas and plantains

and what kind of bread is that coconut

bread and then that looks like something

sweet over there you got a little bit of

pork here Gina thinks it's banana leaves

and you know you're ever in Polynesia

and they bring you a bottle of something

don't immediately drink it it might be

sauce food like sour cream is delicious

once we were stuffed Henry and James

took us to see the famous ruins of a

1905 shipwreck the four-masted iron ship

met her end on the reefs of Tokoroa

during a heavy cyclone rumor has it one

of the survivors family still resides on

the island today

after 24 hours of sailing celebrating

and socializing we were ready for a calm

night's sleep

turns out we'd need it Henry woke us up

with a surprise spearfishing lesson this

would also be our first time swimming

with sharks

shut what a zero

we went fishing

we went there fishing

you got all these

I've got a lot to learn one thing that

was tricky one

in the super there was the stock right

there

this is our friends home see all the

kids in town come and jump off these

rocks he's got a little bit of pearl

farming out here mainly they're

fishermen the water is just absolutely

transparent big huh hang on it's very

big see look at the size of this thing

Wow

they took us around on a tour of the

island and they explained that once upon

a time there was a small one-room

bed-and-breakfast Ilic but because all

the pearl farms have closed on the

island

now there was there only four of them

that has also closed why have the pearl

farms closed explained to words against

the one son like zero hesitation when we

asked

apparently this atoll used to be one of

the most prosperous for pearl farming

and three years ago because of the

increased temperature of the ocean

waters an algae started to form in the

lagoon that could not nourish the I

don't know how you call them in English

but the shells that they grow the frozen

and because of that they all died and

the one product that they exported and

they're waiting with their fingers

crossed hoping that the algae will go

away and that things will fix themselves

which we know is not gonna happen

because it's an effective global warming

this is the very reason that we decided

to do this trip and the very reason that

we decided to cut on to you know the

South Pacific versus going to a being

the world is changing so fast and we

wanted to make sure that we could get

out here and see everything before it's

not as it once was and everyone shares

and everyone is family everyone takes

care of each other it really does take

the village to read the person and

this day