Episode 1 of our cruising the Wild West Series. We say goodbye to Perth and head to the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, the southern most coral reef in the Indian ...

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we left Perth headed for Darwin in the

top end of Australia a distance of over

2,000 nautical miles our first stop was

to a braless islands situated 35

nautical miles west of Geraldton when we

left Perth

it was beautiful wasn't it and we we

just set off on a just a perfect day and

here it is we knew that there was a

low-pressure system further north and we

ran into it pretty quick so we went

through the night actually on a spinet

but when we woke up this is sort of what

confronted us we sort of just tucked in

and out works we thought I will just be

close hauled into some in some North

Elise and you can see that we are close

hauled away but a pretty good laying on

so we just thought we'd deal with that

and then hopefully as the low-pressure

system worked out we'd be on a beam

reach that didn't happen just ended up

close reach the whole way but on that on

the upside we had a we had a ball in

that weather I mean you're really going

fast you can see a lot of grey clouds

and and that what we what we didn't film

was the lightning storm that we went

through we actually disconnected all the

electronics and then just batten down

really

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but all that hard sailing was worth it

for the Welcome Committee on the other

side

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we visited hillside island and looked at

the Sabbats there's plenty and save out

there and that was an island that way

they used to mind bran oh yeah that's

right if anyone doesn't know what guano

is that's the accumulated bird food of

centuries and people would dig it up for

the phosphates Liza yeah

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wind returned with a vengeance and it

actually got so strong that our wind

generator cut out the particular stuff

to any lady too much energy

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so even with the water maker going and

the solar panels and everything she's

getting 440 volts batteries are full

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so he said goodbye to the Passat group

of islands and we were off to the east a

group of islands yeah and it was

beautiful conditions again and we throw

out a fishing rod didn't we well threw

out of law

so a big hammer hit pin before I've it

stucked at the lower answer

Rocinha Oh China we fed the cioppino to

the shocks but it wasn't long before he

had another tuner on the world because

it's on autopilot there'll be constant

pressure so as long as we don't do

anything too erratic this little fish

should come home nicely this pump wind

it down early bring him up one Dan

so get related to the road tip

to get the gap

so there we go that low he's a pro 160

has done it for about the hundredth time

this color and this one the LP 160 shall

lead all of us

I've used this from pens and now we're

here in the Aramis and it's still

feeding these I love this law called out

fish so that's it time to put it all the

way this was a little yellow thing we

waited till we got in where is a big car

mark because you can see we're just

ripping along and then we process the

fish you can see I had to do it in the

cockpit that's just one of the drawbacks

of a small boat but we manage it we've

got a procedure and it was well worth of

the precious machine

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and once the Philips came off the tuner

then of course we had to skin it and by

this stage a whole bunch of Pacific and

silver girls had seen what we're up to

and they were complicated fresh air

which we gave them but they did have to

look out for the neighborhood sharks

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injustice where we were anchored near

white bank we'd seen a few seals through

the binoculars and we'd heard that they

were quite used to humans so I took off

in the kayak and went for an explorer

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well win the stash Amy came to an end it

was time to take the speed gun and go

get us some real fish

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that was quick

how long were you gone for like ten

minutes long enough to get food

when we moved to the Wallaby group

that's when we saw the best example of

all the fisherman shacks on the islands

and then we went and we did a little bit

of fishing it was nothing serious we're

just having a look to see what was

around

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whilst at the hipper Ellis Islands I

took a keen interest in the history of

the Batavia the flagship of the Dutch

East India Trading Company which sunk on

morning reef in the world a big group in

1629 here under pearl side and the

skipper Jacobs and some of the survivors

left in the ship's longboat for Batavia

or what is now known as present-day

Jakarta to organize a rescue party their

departure left the under commander

Geronimo scorned elites in charge who

sent away the soldiers on the pretext of

finding food and water then gathered his

fellow mutineers and murdered anyone

unwilling to join them or who didn't

suit his plans

with leaves to create massive smoke

signals in front of me and is instable

of the island which is where they

initially went to find water for

parenting

they were on a win and there was a

meeting about when the soldiers signaled

fires were unanswered they may have been

confused but this confusion was

dispelled when escapees from the

massacre started arriving on the island

the survivors also had news of the

mutinies plan to attack the island under

the leadership of webby Hayes the

soldiers constructed this fort with a

view of the beach when the mutineers

arrived they had to wade ashore and the

soldiers only had improvised weapons so

they threw rocks into the water aiming

to whet the invaders gunpowder the

soldiers won the battle taking Geronimo

scorn alerts captive the soldiers also

built a second fort at the fresh water

well we suspected that it may have been

to guard this precious source of water

the mutineers attacked the soldiers a

second time in order to try to take back

kornel it's during this battle both the

meet news and the soldiers spotted a

rescue ship on the horizon and a racing

suit webby Hays rushed to a raft they

constructed out of driftwood from the

remains of the Batavia and managed to

warn pelsaert that the mutineers were

coming to seize the rescue ship the

mutineers were arrested by pelsaert and

were hung on the island for their crimes

two of the minor mutineers were left

marooned on the mainland of Australia to

fend for themselves this chapter in

Australian history cost the lives of

more than 100 men women and children

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