Thanks again for joining us on our Sojourn through the Caribbean Islands! In this video, Quarantined COVID-19 and Sailing in the Dominican Republic, we skip ...

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thick mucus that blocks the airways and

they've have come to the realization

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able to dream this last time on Saline

Valley Chandra we swam with turtles in

Cooper's Bay then left Georgetown for

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button so we're gonna fast track here

and give you guys an update on the

coronavirus and how it's affecting us

I'm sure some of you back home even just

other viewers out there curious about

how US cruisers are dealing with this

issue we're already well into the

Caribbean about halfway through our trip

which ultimately is going to be Grenada

is our final destination for the

hurricane season and we are in the

Dominican Republic that's about where we

got to when the coronavirus hit there

was a lot of time of uncertainty maybe

for about a week or so where everyone

was trying to decide like all the other

cruisers that we knew we're trying to

decide what they should do some people

talked about going back home I know our

government asked for all Canadians to

come back to Canada so we had to

consider whether that was the right

option for us or whether it was better

to stay here I had some friends

messaging me all concerned curious as to

what our plans would be and we figured

that the safest place for us to be is on

our boat seeing as that we had

provisions so well I went through all

our provisions to ensure that we were

stocked up and it looks as though that

we should have enough food to last us

about

if things really get hairy yeah we

really dug deep we got into all the

bilges and it turns out that the

incident where we had really awful

weather and Cape Hatter and some of our

compartments on the boat had flooded

with seawater we lost some cans but you

know that's a small loss but it wasn't

too bad we still have tons of food left

and we should be able to survive and it

rains like crazy here in the Dominican

Republic you look at the weather report

and it says no sunny all day but then

it'll rain like three times we set up

our water collection device here like

the first thing we did when we arrived

in Dominican and we've never had to buy

RO water or any water of any kind since

we've gotten here it's raining so much

that we were able to collect all of our

drinking water which is fantastic so we

stocked up on diesel mae ensured

everything was full and ready we were in

Sammon a-- when dominican republic had

announced that we will be under

quarantine for 15 days no flights coming

in and out of the country they are not

granting dispatch iou's for us to leave

as salmon as a larger city and some of

the locals are getting a tad desperate

we were concerned of people boarding and

taking things from us in order to make

ends meet

the Navy had allowed us to come to the

National Park on the other side of the

bay and they allowed us to stay longer

than the two day duration that typically

is all cruisers are allowed to have

staying here at the National Park us and

a couple of other cruisers I believe

there's six other boats here we all came

over to wade out that 15-day period the

city has closed off all street vendors

there's very few supermarkets open at

the moment just as we were leaving

semana the grocery stores were being

rated the way that they've been rated I

guess all over the world but Dominican

was a little slow to be affected in this

way but just I think it was the day we

were leaving the day before we were

leaving people started to panic and

started getting crazy and the Navy spoke

to us and told us you know you're better

off going and get

over to this national park it's the only

place we're actually allowed to go

besides Samana itself we're not allowed

to move within the Dominican Republic by

boat other than Samana so this is really

our quarantine zone it's unfortunate

because we're trying to make headway and

get to Grenada in time and a lot of the

boaters here are starting to feel a bit

Restless we want to move to ensure that

we do make it to Grenada in time for

hurricane season if we happen to be

stuck in Samana and hurricane season is

upon us and if Samana does get hit with

a hurricane we don't have very good

protection here there's another Harbor

in the Dominican Republic which is a

hurricane hole they call these protected

areas it's a little bay that's

surrounded by mountains called

Bluebird on we were there a couple of

weeks ago and you'll see that in an

upcoming video if for some reason we

aren't allowed to leave this country for

you know two three months and we get

stuck here we can try to get to looper

on maybe if we convince the Navy that

it's okay for us to travel there what's

unfortunate about that is that our boat

insurance will not cover us in the

Dominican therefore we would be riding

out hurricane season uninsured this Bay

were in here next to the National Park

is actually a lee shore and quite windy

and I certainly would not want to be

here during any kind of a hurricane or

even the any storm at all for that

matter it's it's pretty exposed on the

plus side things are reasonably priced

it's fairly inexpensive for us to be in

quarantine here we are trying very hard

not to go into town at all we do not

want to get exposed all the boaters are

feeling the same we recently found out

that the virus attaches itself to

clothing so it's not just your hands and

your face that you need to be worried

about but we also need to ensure to wash

our clothing every time we do go in and

out of town

I think it's clothing hair and something

about metal it's can live on metal

surfaces so it does not attach itself to

pets I was a bit concerned about Zeus

for a while but I am happy that I I

don't have to be so concerned about Zeus

the park is called las Hetty ISOs it's

famous for its caves and there's

paintings in the caves like original

peoples from you know pre-columbian

times and it's quite amazing actually to

see this is also one of the set

locations where they shot scenes from

Jurassic Park I know they shot some

stuff for pirates the Caribbean here so

it's kind of neat as we see the park

we're trying to figure out like you know

where these locations might be it's kind

of cool so there are much worse places

to be during the corona virus outbreak

and being under quarantine as we are our

little Posse here for entertainment

started a little Instagram chat and we

named ourselves Koren Atilla yeah it's

clever it's hilarious we all still have

connection to the internet so we are

communicating boat to boat both with the

VHF radio but it seems that Instagram is

the communication of choice right now so

we also started our own little cruisers

night on VHF radio on 68 and we've been

doing your own little morning

announcements amongst the crew it's a

pretty sweet it's really good actually

today was the first one and it was

sailing the vessel

Timmy's run from Canada who took it over

for this morning and they did a great

job that's really yes to all you out

there who were wondering how we're doing

we are okay we're safe we're in a safe

place I think we're better off here than

we would be in some of the other parts

of the world and here we're able to

remove ourselves from the population

which is probably what people generally

think about when they think about

getting on a boat and running away from

trouble ashore like viruses and

outbreaks and things like that you know

get on a boat and get away how how much

safer it could that be

but people on boats do need to go and

pick up supplies they do need to go

from time to time and there is risk and

also if you're in a zone that that's

dangerous people could board you or

steal something we had one person in our

flotilla had their outboard engine

stolen back in Samana just this week so

I mean there are desperate people out

there and it's not as safe as it sounds

always but we do feel pretty safe here

in the park

there's not many locals here in the park

just a couple of Rangers close by we are

in a beautiful spot to be under

quarantine we are finding ways to keep

ourselves busy constantly socializing

with the boats around us we are on day 3

of 15 wish us luck we'll try to get

another video up this week for you guys

and get back on track with our progress

so look out for that video should be in

a couple days hopefully we have data in

order to upload next week's video if

next week's video is not uploaded it is

because we are unable to recharge our

data plan on our cell phone that's right

but we will try our very best to get

that uploaded by hook or by crook so far

along this trip even remotest places

we've had lankan been able to upload

videos we'll do our best for you guys

and try to keep them coming weekly I

hope everyone out there is staying safe

and taking the proper safety measures in

order to stay unaffected by the virus I

am wishing you guys all the best and my

heart goes out to you yeah we love you

guys thanks for watching and we'll see

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guys see you later so the 10 steps that

have been recommended to deal with this

virus is number one drink lots of hot

liquids coffee soups etc take a sip of

warm water or warm liquid every 20

minutes

number two gargle with an antiseptic

antiseptic in the warm water every day

editor will work number three virus

effects attaches itself to hair and

clothes any detergent kills it but you

must take a shower or bath when you

return from the streets

number four wash metallic surfaces

carefully because the virus attaches

itself easily to these and can remain

viable for up to nine days number five

don't smoke number six

wash your hands every 20 minutes using

any soap that foams wash your hands

thoroughly number seven eat fruits and

vegetables

number eight animals do not spread the

virus it is only transmitted from person

to person

number nine try to avoid getting the

common flu and avoid drinking cold

things number ten if you feel any

discomfort in your throat or have a sore

throat treated immediately and this

little stem the onset of this