ONE more day in PARADISE & Fathom Cat SWIMS at Cuyler Harbor!
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when we left off we had spent two nights

in famous fry's harbor

exploring our surroundings both above

and below the waterline

and are surprised to find our anchor

sitting on the bottom

all right we have left prize harbor on

santa cruz island

we got in between santa cruz and santa

rosa island

and we just got engulfed by this crazy

fog

i'm just keeping an eye out for traffic

and hoping we'll catch a fish before we

get to

san miguel we are hoping to stay there

tonight

and hopefully sunday night and then

early monday morning we'll be

starting our trek back up the coast

heading up to morro bay to get some fuel

and then from there we'll probably head

to santa cruz for one night and then

we'll

head back up the coast to the bay

wow you're pretty dude but are you

edible

wow what is that thing really long

yeah long and skinny okay let's look

i think he's something fast so i'm

thinking he's

close to some of these oh pacific

barracuda watch out

yeah that means they got teeth usually

found so

south of point conception but it may

range much farther north

especially during oceanic warm water

events

so just under yeah ah man

that's okay that was sweet yeah okay you

ready i'm gonna toss them back

okay excellent table fare

they do have strong fish taste like

salmon or tuna

so they may not be everyone's favorite

barracuda or best broiled baked coach

sauteed or grilled

pretty much like any way of cooking well

we were

within an inch on that last one yeah we

are approaching san miguel island

luckily the fog is burning off over here

you can see prince island

says you can go in between san miguel

and that

tiny little island but it's not

recommended if you've never been here

before

there's a lot of kelp and stuff so we're

gonna stay on the

north side of it

it is said that the explorer juan

cabrillo may have died on the island

in 1543. although cabrillo claims to

have

discovered the island in 1540

archaeologists

found bones confirming that humans

inhabited the island

as far back as 10 000 years ago

this anchorage is sheltered from

northwest to southwest winds

but is exposed to strong northeast and

southeast winds

unlike most of the anchorages we visited

at the channel islands

kyler harbour was wide and spacious with

plenty of room to anchor

it's beautiful here there's

four other boats two sailboats two

powerboats

but it's a nice big anchorage so we're

not too worried about swinging into

anyone

we set just about anchor and we

are gonna get ready to go explore via

dinghy

there are sea lions hanging out on the

beach

behind us excited to spend tonight and

tomorrow night here and then we'll be

heading back up north

san miguel island show us what you got

come on

we beat fishing every day all day

doesn't catch anything but two small

barracudas

hey that's something oh the water's so

clear here wow

little pebbly rocks

and a ton of sea lions

man we made it just in time we would

have been coming in

in this pea soup fog

before we could even drop a hook to try

and catch us some

dinner the fog began to roll in quickly

gobbling up the boats in the anchorage

as we headed back to gemini fathom was

on board

standing watch as the fog barreled

towards our bow

hasn't even been like half an hour since

we got here

and the fog has just rolled in and now

it's really thick

you can barely see gemini we spent the

rest of the evening

sipping tea in the cockpit and playing

board games

good morning it is really really thick

fog here

we had all these hopes of getting up and

snorkeling

and going on a walk on the beach and all

these fun things

but now it's turned into a quiet lazy

morning which is okay

we are headed back up the coast tomorrow

so

it's our last little bit of off time

before we're

back to real life

as the sun began to peek through the fog

we jumped in the dinghy to check out the

beach

okay i mean it's pretty shallow it's

faster

like this i think and then whenever you

want i would go that way because i see

rocks or something there

yeah we're still in a lot of water

there you go

okay one two

three

oh we're still working on our dingy

landing skills

but man look how pretty it is honey

so blue

so how often are you on the island um

it's usually eight days at a time

any volunteer or volunteers so um

yeah checking out friday okay and i'll

go home on friday

oh cool do you camp or is there like

housing yeah cool yeah you know it's

typically foggy and windy here but this

summer

i've only had maybe three foggy windy

days wow

which is rare for out here yeah we

always heard that

the san miguel was like the more like

treacherous one

of the islands not this year yeah i'll

enjoy it i'm gonna get down here i don't

get to get down here very often

yeah it's beautiful lisa right yes

sonia and jack nice to meet you guys

yeah for sure okay be safe are we good

here yeah

okay

well that was cool we got to talk to the

volunteer park ranger

lisa today she was really nice she knew

a lot about the islands

she told us santa kappa is definitely a

good one for fishing and lobster

which darn we didn't make it there but

maybe next year so close

but we've had a great trip and this

beach

is so beautiful it's very beachy

very beachy quite

san miguel island is an ecological

reserve and is only open to the public

on a limited basis

this is mainly to protect the seals and

sea lion rookeries

as well as to avoid accidents with the

unexploded bombs and ammunition

still remaining on the island's sandy

hills

to explore beyond the main stretch of

beach one must obtain a permit and

coordinate with a park ranger for a

guided tour

pokey rocks pokey rocks

the park ranger lisa told us we had

missed the guided tour for the day

so we decided a quick walk on the beach

was enough to stretch our legs before

heading back to gemini

um kill switch is good

okay just don't freak out

okay come in forward

so this is the less flattering side of

cruising

we are a day and a half away from

leaving

going north i am washing

a bunch of dishes over here because our

boat was starting to smell like fish

and we want to be nice and clean for the

passage north

and jack is down in the hole

doing some engine clean up some checks

part of our engine maintenance is

cleaning out the salt water strainer

because you can definitely end up with

sea grass and we have kind of just like

some like

mossy muck stuff that seems to be just

kind of clogging up all the little holes

so we were noticing a little bit of

smoke yesterday

so it might have been because it wasn't

getting enough

all right today is the day that we

start swimming lessons with fathom cat

we figure she's going to live on her

boat her whole life

might as well get her used to the water

and at least see how she reacts

when she is in the water and how she can

self-rescue with the

braided rope we tied to the stern of the

boat

so fingers crossed she doesn't just like

claw the crap

out of me and hopefully she has the

right instinct

to swim to the boat and to climb up the

rope ladder that we made her

all right here we go

here fathom come here hey

found him look good look here

goes here have him come here hey where

is she

okay let's try to get her to the rope

and see if she'll just climb with a rope

good girl fathom

good girl good girl

she swam really well right here again

oh god i'm shaking

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definitely need to do more practice i

guess

nothing like a wet cat

good first swim hey not many kitties can

say they swam for the first time

at channel islands you look so funny

come here let me keep drying you off we

get her in the sunshine too

yeah i'm sorry we had to do that to you

but you gotta learn you did good but she

found the rope that second time

yeah well i mean i pretty much dropped

her right in front of it

why don't you swam fine like yeah

good girl kitty climb on everything

get dried off

with our wet kitty grooming herself on

board we hopped in the dinghy to squeeze

in

one last island fishing adventure just

as the sun was setting behind the

mountains

oh yeah two big rock fish

and jack had just caught one right

before three rock fish in what

five minutes five minutes all right

let's keep fishing right here

awesome

i think kitty's finally relaxed after

drying herself off and grooming herself

and proving to us that she was

definitely mad at us

about making her go swimming today

we sailed off the anchor the next

morning after breakfast

setting off on the first leg of our

journey home

another day in paradise

vacation's not over yet max moving it to

a different anchorage

all right i gotta pay attention to which

way i'm steering now

as we sailed out of kyler harbor a

passport 40 sailboat was entering the

bay

it wasn't until we were beamed to beam

with them that we realized who it was on

board

well that was sweet we just passed

another

passport 40 and guess who it was it was

hilary and ty on adventure adrift

they've also got a youtube channel

they're way more

youtube famous than we are but we've

been chatting online with them

for quite a while we actually met them

while they were up in the bay

uh boat searching so it was actually

great to

at least get to talk to them over the

radio and great we just missed you

we're planning be in moro bay by sunrise

so

the uh 17-hour trip starts now

that's a good thing looks like you guys

are on a p40 huh

we are we are yeah all right welcome to

the passport club

we were hoping to meet up with them but

you know plans always change and

it's hard to plan when you're out of

cell phone reception it was great to at

least

see that they're getting out here to the

islands and enjoying them just like we

did

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those are big ones too

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tell us our conditions where we're going

what we're doing where we're headed

well we're headed directly north now ps4

must freeze

and we're going to try to sail as high

as we can

once we get up to the shipping channel

we'll try to attack and see

how far we can point up again and then

try to sail until it dies on us

we had some spectacular sailing as we

headed towards the santa barbara channel

but once again we were gobbled up by

more pea soup

fog catch us next time as we sail into

the fog

dodging container ships and wishing that

we had radar

we make it past point conception and

make a quick pit stop in morro bay

before heading up the california coast

all right you guys thanks so much for

watching we really hope you enjoyed this

video

and a special thanks to colleen s and

karen c

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