Pacific PARADISE and a PLASTIC problem. This week we explore the underwater world of Ailuk lagoon and have a beach walk around one of the small islets in the lagoon. We are horrified by how much fishing gear, plastic and rubbish washes up on the windward side of the atoll. A sad reminder of the ever increasing global plastic problem. Mark's Birthday is a great excuse for another beach picnic and sundowners. Footage from June 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: https://sailingdoubletrouble.com 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library #sailingdoubletrouble #AilukAtoll

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so today we are moving rob's is bringing

up the anchor

rob has brought up the anchor i'm

filming and keeping us off the reef

and we've got lots of sailboats around

us today which is nice very nice so bye

bye beautiful anchorage here

and we're gonna go a little bit further

north and it's a beautiful day

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well we've moved anchorages today we've

come from over there

to over here with the other two boats it

was getting a wee bit

sloppy so we have another dreadful view

surrounded by crowded beaches we're a

little bit deep here we've dropped in 25

meters

yeah it's fine we've got the chain to do

it but we couldn't see the bottom so

rob's chucking a tank on

he's going to go down and just make sure

that we're sitting nicely in sand and

not wrapped around anything onto water

yeah it felt okay

but let's double check again i have to

say but yeah it's always good to have a

check if one has the means

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anchoring when you can't see the bottom

always carries some risk of snagging

corals

we dropped the hook in shallower water

so the first part of the anchor and

chain were well set

unfortunately the chain had snagged some

low corals but i was able to move the

chain

so we were swinging freely

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have fun

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what you got cooking a big veggie

stir-fry

hurrah sounds good smells great yeah

it's it's the

uh combination of a great day's

diving and just chilling birthday cake

don't forget birthday cake

it's alex's birthday with offshore haven

yeah

it's been a pretty good day we just run

out of gas oh

we have always in the middle of dinner

hurrah

should we swap that then yes let me give

you a hand

our gas is just here people fortunately

we fold them all before we left

that's not gonna be annoying at all is

it and you've waited until the sun comes

down to the back of the boat so it's

nice and hot for you doing that yeah

you got a busy afternoon just trying to

spring clean the boat a little bit

really

you've done a good job yeah it looks

very uh

mold free yes so um

yeah just and also just clearing out the

front lock a bit talking pump talking

pump

pumps

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it's good it's been a good day this is

what happens when there's no internet

you see to distract us

what are we having for dinner bread

fruit curry

we got given two bread fruit today yeah

from emily and pumpkin in the village

rob has made let me just take the lid

off this bad boy

and in there oh steamed up the lens

look at that it's good it's breadfruit

curry for dinner

breadfruit and lentil and spinach i

believe oh i haven't put the spinach in

actually i should do

oh probably thanks for reminding me

that's okay

it looks like it's going to be a

beautiful sunset

no complaints here this evening it's

been a good day

dinner is served

check that out that's pretty good

breadfruit spinach and lentils

wow i just got up to put the kettle on

and noticed this beautiful rainbow off

the back

it's a nice start to a saturday morning

isn't that the swell has died down in

here

it's a bit cloudy and a bit showery much

calmer today no rocking and rolling

going on

looks like it's going to be another

beautiful day

these are in the oven and it smells

fantastic in here doesn't it it does it

smells very nice

i'm very excited this afternoon we're

going to go and have a little another

little snorkel or dive on that reef

behind us

the wind has dropped we had a very very

very bouncy night with winds up to about

27 knots

yeah and it's below 20 now so it's a lot

less

bouncy it's lovely and it's a beautiful

day sun's out there's a bit of cloud

around but it's generally very nice

happy sunday i know i can't wait for

those brands to come back

not long now and there it is

we have to we can't touch it for 10

minutes and then we have to let it cool

completely

but just think when we come back from

our dive this afternoon we'll have some

we'll have a snack

hey sunday cake i don't know it's good

i have a pumpkin in your hand are you

just placed to see me oh groceries just

close up

i'm um sorry big knife i'm trying to use

the heat from the oven so i'm

in a rush obviously i do actually do

quite a lot of cooking on this boat it's

just whatever films we're doing

that's right it's all about me

so it's done it's 10 minutes in the tin

and now we have to wait for it to cool

completely this is the hardest part

waiting half an hour after it's cooked

it's looking pretty good

oh man yeah the bits that have

accidentally fallen off

they uh they taste pretty good actually

the best that we accidentally hacked off

the side

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i just come back from a snorkel and now

it's time for

tea and cake

the cutting of the cake that's a serious

cake does it feel

moist yes actually let's cut it into

squares it's brownies

okay i'll do it

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just having a little meander around the

island coming around to the seawood side

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and here it all is ladies and gentlemen

plastic rustic

and more plastic it's just depressing

you can hear me above the wind noise but

all the way along here

on the high tide line on the windward

side it's just a mass of

plastic flip-flops bottles

lids fishing floats nets

there's just rope there's a whole sort

of way around

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[Applause]

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well what are you doing there my lock

that looks like a breadfruit it is a

breadfruit but it's

very ripe and pretty much perfect

for cooking actually it goes all

sweet so instead of doing a banana cake

i'm replacing the banana with

breadfruit and this is so soft i can

actually just scoop it out with a spoon

softly smells really good can't wait for

the cake

very perfumey yeah hopefully it'll work

hopefully it won't be too heavy we'll

see

it'll be fine it's got sugar and good

stuff in it

it's all right nice darling

i'm having a little snack breadfruit um

bread shapes

and we are at ali what did you say was

cool

elliot island something like that

anyway it's very pretty i'll show you

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saturday morning and we're off on a dive

yay we're going off with uh uno mas

and uh to that bomby

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we circled it the other days we're going

to see what it's like as a dive site

it's going to be a good one

shall we let's do it

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so

we did a few dives around the various

bombings in ireland lagoon

the visibility was always a little

cloudy and the underwater structures

were plate and staghorn hard corals

there have been a number of bleaching

events in the last few years

which unfortunately has meant there is

now very little soft corals

there were a few fish around but not as

many as we expected

most likely this is because the locals

spend a lot of time fishing as local

resources on land are so scarce

fish is the primary source of food

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we're going to the beach we are going to

the beach indeed it's mark's birthday

and we're going to go and have a fire

and some din dins on the beach

may there be much merriment i think

there might be actually

let's go

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beautiful evening

and here we have the arrival of the

birthday boy you want me

yeah yeah definitely and the birthday

boys

better heart hey thank you hello

pineapple pineapple pineapple upside

down

okay yeah it's yay and everybody gets

cherry

all right oh he's got a rug to sit on

and everything

the man's a legend happy birthday sir

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and here we have the birthday boy

birthday boy eating his ravioli

from the can phenomenal is it hot or

cold

oh it's cold no they're better it's like

cold it's actually it's air temperature

it's a lukewarm because it's like 90

degrees it's like a cold baked beans

thing isn't it

beans out the can always tastes better

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