On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, Emma is finally showing signs of getting better and the crew is anxious to get going again. With the town of La Cruz on partial lockdown, we decide it is time to head back out to more remote anchorages. Come back next week to see where we set sail to. See you then!

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[Music]
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on our last episode of onboard lifestyle
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we're heading out this morning we left
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beiya chikala and travels south to spend
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one day anchored off isla la pina in
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bahia de hatimba our bottom needs to be
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scrubbed to get basic prep for the next
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leg
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the crew had a nice sail to punta de
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meda
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emma catches a bug and is quarantined to
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her cabin for six days while compass
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stands guard we sail east to la cruz to
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get a rapid test for emma which gave us
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a bit of relief that lifted all of our
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spirits you are so good
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that's where we are now so our journey
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continues
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[Music]
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searching
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for something that ain't
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[Music]
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doesn't really matter
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while wishing for something better
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[Music]
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as much as we would like to spend more
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time here in la cruz i think that it's
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time for us to uh get out of here
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you know uh emma got sick
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about i don't know five days ago five
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six days ago and it was a little scary
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she hadn't been sick in a long time and
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so we we did the thing where we
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quarantined her we isolated her which by
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the way having a catamaran is pretty
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awesome because we just quarantined her
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off on her side of the boat and
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we just brought her food through the
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hatch and she was good to go you okay
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down there
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yeah i'm gonna be fine
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just get some rest and
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you'll be back to normal in no time yeah
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we did as a precaution take a covet test
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for her and she tested negative but the
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numbers around this area are just out of
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control
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and well to the point where everything
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is at 50
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capacity restaurants are closing early
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no live music everything is either
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outdoors or just
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not available and so there's no reason
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for us to stay here if it's at that
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point because you can't even get in the
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water here the water just is a little
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too murky and a little too much matter
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um it's a polite word for it so
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since we can't really do much on land
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might as well head further south into
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more remote areas where we can
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swim we can learn how to surf and just
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kind of enjoy ourselves
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at anchor so
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i already reprovisioned the heck out of
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basic and we are all set teal is going
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into town right now to pick up
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that chip that we have been needing
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so we have
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better maps and coverage
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of the areas that we are going into
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as i entered the la cruz marina you will
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notice that i act a bit confused and
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distracted
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the tonga volcano tsunami at this exact
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moment was affecting this area and i was
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obviously oblivious
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well it's kind of bittersweet here in la
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cruz you know we really
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wanted to get here
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because there's a
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big cruiser community
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i feel like i
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went over something there
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right in the middle of marina here
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well it's bittersweet
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coming to the cruise
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it's a big cruiser community here with a
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lot of kids they have the kids club here
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we're really excited to get emma
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involved with that but
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you know this whole town this whole
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region now is
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just mostly in lockdown uh kobe's
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hitting them hard right now
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it's just not a fun scene so we've been
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isolated out on the boat not going to
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town not doing anything nobody is it's
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uh
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pretty quiet here
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you know i'm trying to get our
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our
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chip
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for the
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navionics chip to get our charge for
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south of here
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and uh did get a lead on one they're
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supposed to be meeting me up here
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in the parking lot the marine store that
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has it is also closed due to covid
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so they're going to meet me uh here at
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the marina
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and do the transaction
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it's just a whole different world right
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now
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but you know what we're
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not complaining
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this is still
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an amazing place
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an amazing time
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just all part of our journey
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okay girls are out at anchor
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supposed to be pretty blustery out there
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today got a big tide change so they're
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dancing a bit at anchor along with the
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50 other boats
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so we're only going one ashore at a time
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right now
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it's a beautiful facility here with just
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some amazing boats
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i mean i'm looking at just uh
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25 catamarans some of these are
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multi-million dollars look at these
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things
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just everywhere
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there's profligate over here
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i'm going to the diggy dock
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for about 80 pesos you could uh empty
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your garbage
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they'll watch your dinghy and you have
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shore access
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okay this is who i'm going to meet right
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now
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marine vallarta
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they specialize in electronics but their
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store is closed for kovic
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so they're meeting me in an open air
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right over by the
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uh
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haulout facility here in the
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in the marina
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hope they have the right chip i'm pretty
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sure they do
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they speak english and it was uh pretty
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clear
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what we needed and they had it
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we'll see how this goes
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and then i think that he wants to pick
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up another 15 gallons of fuel just in
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case as well
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just basically we want to make sure that
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we can be off grid literally for the
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next two months if we have to or if we
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want to
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we will come back here at that point
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hopefully we can fly out and work on
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getting our visas renewed and also to go
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see some family as well
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success
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got it
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a tough thing to find in mexico
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but
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you network enough you make enough phone
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calls you talk to enough people
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you find things down here
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so
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we are good to go
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it's getting boring just sitting at
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anchor out there
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i know the girls want to jump in the
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water and just kind of play a little bit
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but it's tough to do on the cruise here
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water's a bit murky in this corner of uh
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bandera's bay
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so we want to get out to some cleaner
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water
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so we're starting to make plans now
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we'll look at weather and uh make a jump
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maybe not tomorrow but uh for sure the
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next day maybe tomorrow i don't know but
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kind of look at it when i get back
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we're getting things lined up that's for
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sure now back to the boat
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[Music]
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you got it
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so aside from that we are just about
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ready to go then huh i got your uh
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shrimp
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good husband
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teal just got the kit but before we
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insert the new one i want to show you
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the detail that we currently have versus
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the new one hopefully the new one will
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have a lot more detail than this one
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here is banderas bay
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and we are currently anchored in the
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cruise
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let's just zoom in
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and see what kind of detail we have
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that would be no detail
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but there's a lot of boats around us
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okay i'm removing the sd card
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new card is in let's see if there's a
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big difference
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oh yeah
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better
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much better
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we're ready to go
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the la cruz anchorage has been rich with
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sea life
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dolphins would pop up here and there
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massive schools of jack crevalles would
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swim by basic
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dorados would circle around us for hours
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at a time
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oh there's a big one too wow
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look at that sucker
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mobile arrays
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drifting bias in flight formation
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an occasional sea turtle would awkwardly
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kick their way around the anchorage
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and the humpback whales can be seen all
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day long feeding their young
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god so cool
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you got mama
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and a baby humpback just i don't know
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150 feet from the boat right here
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there's baby showing off
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it's only 25 feet of water here
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this is so cool to be anchored watching
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the whales
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this corner of banderas bay is so
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predictable
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the calm morning offshore winds build to
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stiff winds from the west by noon
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then like clockwork
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all is be calm by seven o'clock for a
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nice relaxing evening at anchor
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[Music]
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a big day we're heading over to punta de
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media um
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we
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i'm gonna head us out of the anchorage
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and we got our new chip so we can see a
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lot more detail and it should be a lot
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safer too
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a whole eight miles emma yes big
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big day
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i can handle it
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heading out of the cruise anchorage
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seen a lot of boats come and go
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about about 45 to 50 boats in here at
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any given time
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and a lot of cool multi-holes
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last night
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we saw two uh of these uh new kneels
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pull in
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must be heading for a boat show
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because they are uh twins
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they look brand new just a really slick
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looking boat
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so
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if we were to ever go for a try again
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that would be it that is
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there's something about it
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that's the best of both worlds it's fast
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it's spacious
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it's sexy
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and what else what else do you need
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[Music]
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we are now in punta de mida and this is
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the perfect spot to jump off
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and head further south
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we are with
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oh
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about 20 other boats
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at anchor
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just had a really nice meal
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and just kind of
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hanging out it's uh it's a beautiful
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night
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it's gonna be a
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92 mile run
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to chamela
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we just want to hit it just right going
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across or not across just past cabo
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coriantes
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which is notorious for some unsettling
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weather but
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if you plan it right it's going to be a
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great ride the weather is favorable
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we're going to have some down wind
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sailing and yeah it's a
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it's a beautiful day
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it's a beautiful evening and it's going
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to be a beautiful passage
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i'm so bummed i missed out on single
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cruise because i was sick but excited to
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head further south now that i'm better
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i'm ready for more sailing swimming and
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learning how to surf come back next week
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to see what we are up to see you then