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here and now we're at nice Sunday or

Saturday angry now dr. pleasantly stay

in the night out tonight last affair hey

sourpuss how are you doing are we doing

No

that's a sourpuss face right there you

keep Kevin there yet are you looking

good day for being out on the water Edna

Brady Island we decided to go ahead and

anchor out at brady island this weekend

we joined our friends david lee on their

boat and keith and deb came along on

theirs as well Freddie island is a small

little island just off the chip functor

river it's somewhat protected by by the

island from boats going by but as you

can see we're actually parked right in

the river itself right kind of dead

behind the boats at this point is the

southbound side of the river and then is

a curve in it right here so if you look

toward the left hand side of the screen

right about now that's that's sort of

where the river goes up river if you

will and that's that's ultimately where

the river bends the island is just to

the left of this particular scene so we

anchored right here not very protected

as a matter of fact water skiers are

coming by and we're certainly getting

the waves from it if we got in a little

further we probably would have been a

bit more protective but we had a great

time we cooked out we swam and you can

actually see Dave over there scrubbing

the water line right where his air

conditioner discharges are but we just

had a very relaxing time it was a

wonderful wonderful afternoon and you

can start to see a bit of the island

there forming right in front of the

boats not sure if there was any boats

out at this point yeah a few other boats

anchored in their kind of behind the

island

a little more protected in there so

again we had a great time you can see

Lee is actually sound asleep in a raft

she was relaxing in a wrap just kind of

behind the boat so this was a this was a

wonderful time and we certainly enjoyed

ourselves and thankful David Lee asked

us to come on out we had a great time

until we got ready to leave and our

starter wouldn't work so a little more

on that next week or in one of the

upcoming episodes my video to the

removal of the starter the

troubleshooting diagnostics and how they

work and then I'll get a little bit more

detail what the repair looks like huh

there's last affair so we actually took

last affair on a ghost are not

dreamchaser the Formosa off we go we had

a great time swimming i went ahead and

muted this sound just because we had

some music on the radio and don't want

any copyright issues with youtube and it

was asking mckinley if she wanted to

take a nap and she said she did asked

her if you want me to hold their cup

while she climbed up there she's like no

I'm gonna lay right here right she can't

even fill oh and climb that up and took

a little nap all right I just had to

show that so we actually forgot to put a

swimmer diaper on McKinley and we were

all swimming and kind of hanging out

behind Dave's boat off the swim platform

and we had a diaper explosion when those

things get really wet look at how big

you've had died forgot and she kept

apologizing like she did something wrong

there was nothing she did wrong but

anyway obviously I'm gonna cut the film

here but it was the funniest thing this

thing got about six or eight inches

thick was crazy

so we swam for a while and you know I

just kind of left the camera on for a

bit you can see it's a pretty good when

we were swinging around quite a bit and

you know see us rocking a little bit

from the waves of boats coming by but it

was great we had some food out on the

grill and I just fired up our drill

gonna do some fresh green beans to go

along with the burgers and chicken that

Dave was cooking up on his growth so we

had a great time it was a really really

relaxing weekend yeah it's a little

easier to walk around the front of the

boat in the back as I had a bunch of

stuff sitting on the back deck he was

worth show events

very Gator just swimming around by our

boat

which are taking little outings in the

dinghy so in this case we went up the

chip onto river and there's a little by

you that cuts off and kind of goes in

toward a housing development so we're

turning off the chip tanta into this

Bayou I honestly don't even know the

name of it what's amazing to me is just

how far in this Bayou goes and more

surprisingly how deep it is so we will

go in here six or seven miles probably

and all of a sudden you go around a

corner and there'll be a 50 foot or 40

foot August 40-foot vote in there so

it's just amazingly basically deep and

really narrow in a lot of places though

here's a perfect example of what I was

referring to so a little further in on

the bayou you can barely see the house

its way up into the woods there but you

see this boat house with you know this

is probably about a 32-foot maybe I

maybe it's 24 for a 25 foot boat right

there on the boathouse in this

particularly

and this is quite narrow I mean it's not

uncommon that you're dodging down trees

or you'll see stumps stick it up I

wanted to show this just because you can

kind of get a sense for just how windy

this is so we see a little dock on the

left hand side and we kind of make our

right-hand turn here you can kind of see

it's starting to get pretty narrow the

water is definitely up you know the

trees are down in the water all these

cypress trees and you can see the wake

on our right hand side that's from us so

it just curved we basically just made a

complete curve around and the water goes

all the way through you just can't quite

get through that way it's just amazing

so I'm jumping around a little bit on

the footage but you can see we're

several miles in here and there's a fork

in the in the river and the bayou here

we've not gone to left so will probably

turn it on and do that here in a minute

but you know these houses are really

nice right along the bayou I'm there to

know it's not not Cajun swamp people

sort of style this is really nice stuff

a lot of these sort of shallow draft

boats in this particular area but what

made Deb and I come down this particular

part of the Bayou is we've seen this

house once before we actually came

exploring down this same spot one time

with Keith and Dev they were in their

dinghy and we were in ours we brought

some lunch and stopped and had

sandwiches really cool but this house on

the left right here I thought it was

abandoned because the doc is in really

rough shape we were just kind of curious

what it looked like we marked the spot

on our

GPS on the phone so we can go find it

via streets I'm really kind of curious

where it is but this is it was starting

to get a little shallower in here we

were at about five and a half feet deep

and definitely getting dead getting

narrow so I wasn't sure how much further

up this was going to go and we will see

here in just a moment because it looks

like it turns pretty much into a creek

right after after this last house here

and this guy didn't even have a boat

tied up it certainly looks like he could

we've got a place for it right there on

the back of his doc I'm not sure if they

fish there more often or what but I'm

kind of contemplating that I can see

where it goes forward but I'm also now

getting down to about two feet deep so I

decided to go ahead and make this our

stopping point so just went ahead and

swung are you little u-turn here nice

and slow but you can see just how

gorgeous it is out here really been

impressed with this whole area it's very

pretty very pretty you see all the

bubbles now as those turn up mud and

that trail coming down those we were

cruising back up the river i saw this

fender there and thought all right if

it's in decent shape i made just stop

and pick it up certainly not near

anyone's house and was actually a nice

seventy-five or eighty dollar fender so

we have an extra one on the boat now

so I cut ahead by quite a bit we were

actually the spot where i showed that

fork in the river we turned and went up

that particular fork in the river got

kind of all the way toward the end of

that as well and now we turned around

and we're starting to head back you know

you'll see the sun's starting to come

down a little bit we know we have a ways

to go you know waving to some of the

folks there just now that in a backyard

or not the fool whatever it happens to

be again it's a it's definitely a

different look you know I I grew up as a

kid going on vacation to my grandparents

house in in Fox River Grove Illinois so

up on the Fox River and you know just a

very different River look you know that

sort of shorelines and sand on the sides

in place of the mud but you know here

it's a it's by you and you don't always

see the actual edge of the waterway you

actually see trees cypress trees and

cypress knees sticking up

so it's just a very different look but

but pretty as can be I'm sure there's

amazing fishing in here yeah and you saw

the size of that boat that I definitely

just passed right there there was

another fork in the river here and we

haven't even taken the time to go to

that spot that's in the right in this

particular view but it goes off to the

left as far as heading out direction we

were before the other interesting thing

is and I'm not sure if you can see it in

some of the footage here we had but

along the edge of the shore you will see

what looks like kite string and like an

orange sort of ribbon tied to the kite

string maybe a foot above the water line

i'm sure those are an alligator traps or

alligator hooks swab was get Nancy she

kept saying she wanted to go fast so we

were finally getting toward the edge of

the river again we went ahead and

throttled up and

I probably did this just a little bit

earlier than the no wake zone sign but

we were buzzing on out of the bayou and

you can see the actual chip functor

river up ahead of us we were

sweeping turn to the left here and start

heading down

I'm gonna let this play out for a second

as I said a couple of times that the

homes here

are just amazing you will see a fish

camp the equivalent of a mobile home on

stilts that somebody has for fishing and

then you'll see homes like this one dead

in front of us and I don't know how well

you're going to see it here at this foot

but it is humongous just gorgeous

there's another one down river with big

marble columns around the pool

hit something slowed down real quick

knew that wasn't good I didn't see

anything in front of us of course the

Sun was there so I was a little hard to

see if something might have been

floating in the water because we're in a

river right here every once in a while

you will see chunks of logs or whatever

and just wasn't necessarily sure what

was going on but decided to go ahead and

turn around and see if I could figure

out what it was we we ended up hitting

and then we saw this chunk of cedar log

or something like that we went ahead and

pulled it out of the water it's actually

a pretty piece of wood I would have

rather have found it just floating

around then already something we've

whacked into pretty good with the prom

there was a little bit of vibration on

it so I do need to check it it seems to

still be okay but I need to just verify

the prop still kill so we always enjoy

taking these little rides we figured

we'd give you an opportunity to take the

entire ride with us at 20 times the

speed we took it it'll be a little

interesting on debating whether i post

the whole video up there is a different

link in case somebody really does want

to kind of ride along at a slower speed

and see it cuz there are some there are

some interesting areas that we go

through here you know one spot we had to

sort of zigzag around it down vlog I'm

sure there's a way that all the people

living here know exactly how to get

we weren't sure and I'm just kind of put

it in neutral let ourselves cook slowly

over hope you enjoy it

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