Who's never dreamt of having a private island? Our dreams came true at the perfect moment. Things are not going really well at the moment in Indonesia, covid numbers are up, there's some panic going on and many new rules and lockdowns every day, administered in chaotic fashion. We sailed 100nm over night to get to Banta Island, a pretty remote uninhabited spot with no cell reception. We enjoyed 4 days there completely alone and away from the madness. Snorkling, hiking, beach cleaning and more.
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Haha, what are you doing?

Jolly good morning good still pretty early sun  is well i guess the sun's technically came up  

but it's behind a cloud so we can still say it's  just sunrise shahelian or as you like to call it  

sushi let's park down there beautiful anchorage  on the calm side of this island called banta  

banter in uh the northern end of komodo so we've  hiked up to the saddle here and bought some  

beautiful banana cake that marie made yesterday up  here for breakfast and yeah just enjoying the view  

it's not the most amazing weather but i think it's  got potential no and this weather is perfect about  

the temperature i'm super happy to hiking not  so early and not having too hot yeah it's pretty  

amazing place here as you'll see in the clips  coming up we're finally back in really clear  

clean water amazing snorkeling and stuff here  but we'll show you all that yeah enjoy the video

so

what do you think oh it's super beautiful it's  good to be up here sometimes because on the boats  

we are always at the sea level so i'm always  happy when we have a little bit of altitude

beautiful banana cake marine made yesterday  yeah breakfast time what is a banana chocolate  

yeah banana chick light ginger and coconut milk

thank you

that's good

i can eat the whole thing right now

tell them what happened to your knee yesterday  vernon was really wanted to have one shot  

of dive from the boat and we had to do quite a  lot and one of the last ones i have to climb from  

the front but i was already wet because i already  did it a lot and i sleep from the oh you call the  

power rail the bar rail of the front of the boat  at the moment of diving and my legs was stuck  

inside and i did a super bad jump and i twist  a little bit my knee being careful today yeah

so we're gonna go smoking at the point of the  island of banta what is crazy clear around you  

can see really straight in the water super deep  i don't know if you can see but just like crazy

wow it's incredibly clear here so we're gonna jump  in the water here and there's a lot of currents  

that we're gonna drift thing or this cat cause  it's really really deep and you can see so clear  

super deep but i hope it's gonna be fun  this is incredibly clear like we're uh  

the last few videos we've been  in lombok and zumba and now we  

yesterday we left zimbabwe and we're back in  well sort of komodo i guess and the water is  

just incredible the coral and everything is just  oh you know you're back you know like can't wait  

to get in the water we'll show you what it's  like though it's freaking awesome looking here

so

so

well pretty incredible here so nice  to be back in really clear water  

what sort of blows us away a little bit though  is that just the lack of fish it's uh it's sort  

of i'm not a marine biologist but you know  we swim a lot and and you know many tropical  

places all through australia and solomon islands  papua new guinea all through indonesia and this  

indonesia in general just has no fish and  it's sort of mind-boggling to me because  

the nature you know the coral the the clean water  the the this plankton plankton and phosphorescence  

every night there's obviously a lot of life in  the water but there is just no fish of any size  

it's sort of i blame it on the local fishermen  i guess because you see if you go to a fish fish  

market anywhere you'll just see the tiniest of  coral trout being sold and just all you know  

there's no limits they just take everything so  they'll just net every and they'll take everything  

they won't throw anything back even if you know  catch it on a hook line and sinker they just take  

everything there's no uh oh this is too small  we'll let it get back until it breeds it's just  

take it you know but i don't know there's not i  mean there is thousands and thousands of fishermen  

obviously but there's no i haven't seen big  commercial trawlers especially not in close around  

where the coral reefs and that are so i don't  really understand it i do know that in australia  

there is thousands time more fish it's just  incredible the difference you know like you go  

to the great barrier reef and you go into a green  zone where there's no take and there is just coral  

trout there is emperor there is parrotfish there  is just every description and huge but here we're  

more you know the coral is better the the water  is definitely clearer than in australia all of the  

things that you would think would make for  a healthy reef but there's just no fish  

and uh you know because of that there's no sharks  we you see a shark maybe i don't know i've been  

here three years i've seen maybe five you know  and some places there's turtles but there's just  

a real lack of life in the water which is just  i don't know i guess uh it would be interesting  

to hear from any people that really have facts or  know about this because i can't believe it's just  

um the way it is you know i i can't believe  that there's just this huge lack of fish but  

anyway uh i stopped snorkeling now because i was  getting brassed off with my i bought these crazy  

goggles not so long ago because i i bought  these ones a few months ago because i had  

the gopro mount but they're just rubbish and i  know chris is a good brand and i paid you know  

they weren't the most expensive goals you can  buy but they definitely weren't the cheapest  

but uh they were just fogging up fogging  up so then i googled it and i saw on um  

what's his name brody i think off youngbloods  he was you know he sells these ones and uh i  

watched what he does you know you use a cigarette  lighter and burn off the inside plastic and then  

use soap and hot water and blah blah did all that  like a few times actually and they still just fog  

up and they fog up and it's normally you know two  three minutes of clear diving and then it's just  

fogging up and then then you're sort of forced to  put salt water in them and then it's just downhill  

from there and it's just a pain in the ass so i  don't know if any of you have got a good hint i  

guess probably the best place would just be in the  rubbish and start again but it seems to be a shame  

because if i'd only paid 20 bucks and there was  some crappy brand i would expect it sort of but  

you know it's fine i don't know i'm not a big  free diving freak but i've heard of cressi it is  

a brand and i don't expect their product just to  be rubbish so if there's anyone out there that got  

better hints maybe this cleaner with petrol or  something i don't know maybe there's something  

toothpaste i don't know boil them with a  rock give me your best uh clues how to fix  

this problem i do have another pair on the boat  that i have used in the past that don't fog up  

but they don't have the gopro mount so anyway  um i've lost marie she kept swimming oh there  

she is i'm watching there's some carrot fish  with the the forehead the bump on the forehead

yeah nice we're just cruising along with the  current huh yeah yeah we're about uh we actually  

ended up quite far now from the boat uh from  shahelia we're about two miles we've sort of moted  

the whole way out of the bay and around the point  but uh the water is so nice here it's hard to stop

what is this

oh

yeah so we're still here on banter island and uh  so i did a little beach cleanup yeah uninhabited  

nothing here at all plastic everywhere what  do you do though it's pretty uh sad to see  

yeah it washes up from somewhere comes from the  land out there where people just chuck stuff in  

a river and it ends up on a beautiful island like  this we can't really do anything else but uh set a  

fire to it just burn it and uh it's not really  good smoke going up too but at least yeah it  

stops it going back in the ocean you see a lot  of the plastic here it's been on the beach for  

a while in the sun and as soon as you touch  it it just crumbles and that's microplastic  

that's the stuff that gets in all the animals  and all that sort of stuff so yeah burning

okay it's even going in your fingers and  it's closed like even it's broken like this  

it's like glass like it's little splinters  yeah now have a look up here this is just

on the beach washed up at high tide as  far as you can see obviously the fishing  

industry also has quite a big role in throwing  stuff away losing nets and ropes and boys and  

stuff bottles everywhere i would say after bottles  and shampoo and all that like just plastic bottles  

i would say flip-flop sandals and that are the  second most popular uh reef dweller of the plastic  

family and then yeah after that it's all just  sorts of stuff nets yeah nets and ropes a lot of

don't all start commenting that you know  indonesia indonesia are so disgusting you  

need to clean your act up indonesia sure it's bad  here but if you look on the big google machine you  

won't find amnesia on the top 10 consumers  of plastic per capita it's way down there  

where you guys all live where your viewers all  live at the highest uses of of plastics you  

know and we can't really get away from it in our  world anymore but in my view yeah it looks bad on  

the beach but the day it's made and sent out to  the world plastic's already out there you know  

we in western countries we just tidy it up more  but the plastic itself is the problem right  

so i like buying tvs and all this bigger stuff  here it's like flip-flops and bottles but the main  

usage of plastic are bigger things you know like  all cars are pretty much made out of plastic these  

days all the interiors anywhere and clothes and  you know all that like the whole fashion industry  

is plastic and the western world consumes  so much more of that than indonesians do so  

don't bag on indonesia too much they just  don't have the infrastructure to clean it up  

but um they don't actually use that much plastic  so yeah just thought i'd throw that in there

how do you like your new smashing bowl  

quite happy cuz we don't need electricity so i  can take it on the beach and it works well yeah  

but i have to learn a little bit how to use it  more efficiently but yeah it's working super well

so tonight we are cooking on the beach  

so i prepared sambal it's a chili sauce  to eat with grilled fish corns and some  

potatoes so i hope it's gonna be good even if  vernon doesn't really like this kind of fish

what do you reckon good time in banter  

yeah super good that was super good to a  few days without signal without internet  

and just enjoying the nature snorkeling  hiking and yeah just being by ourselves  

and enjoying the simple things around we haven't  seen another person for what four or five days  

it's pretty nice actually we saw a few boats  in the distance uh just fishing boats and one  

police boat maybe but um yeah we had this big  beautiful island to ourselves very very nice  

we're going to the top of komodo island now  and then just slightly working our way towards  

you and stopping in some nice places through  komodo park we don't really know what to expect if  

the parks open or if la bombajo's welcoming of us  sailors you know we haven't been online we've said  

there's a lot of stuff going on in indonesia now  with covert so lots of things could have changed  

but we're gonna see thanks patrons again uh  awesome you guys super cool i say super cool every  

time i need to come up with something new but uh  yeah you guys are awesome um it's really really  

amazing to us that you know you guys are willing  to support what we're doing and the time we invest  

in making these videos obviously it is a fair bit  of time but um and effort but we enjoy it right

yeah you know we were climbing to the top of the  hill yesterday and um sort of talking about ideas  

for future videos and it's you know it's quite  inspiring sometimes you know trying to keep  

ourselves entertained with the new videos not just  doing the same thing and uh hopefully you guys  

keep entertained as well um by that anyway we'll  um see you next week with something about komodo  

probably be a lot of snorkeling and uh hopefully  some mandarins that would be awesome because  

marie still hasn't dived with amanda ray  so we're gonna try and find that see ya