Sailing our small boat around Indonesia has been a real adventure, not knowing what's going to happen most days. This video is not about one adventure in particular, more of a round-up for a few different ones. Sailing along the north coast of Flores Island we see a huge pod of whales just lazily floating around, we sailing into a night passage with the most spectacular sunset and great wind, we arrive at one of the most beautiful anchorages imaginable and see some great small coral life.
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G'day guys, welcome back to another video.  Yeah cue some drone footage but anyway,  

we're in a beautiful place called Adonara, Kroco  lagoon this is called and for those of you who  

have been watching for a while uh we were here  last year actually and made a pretty good video  

link up here yeah so we're not making a video  about this area this time but yeah just a couple  

of drone shots to show you where we are tomorrow  morning we're setting off to kupang which is about  

120 130 miles south of here so  that'll be a overnight passage so  

we'll leave with the tide here at eight o'clock  in the morning and get down there probably around  

yeah 24 hours later depending the wind's a big  mess down there so it could be faster it could  

be slower but the good thing about leaving  in the morning is we have the whole day  

and the whole night and then the whole  next day to get there so we could you know  

we could take uh 30 hours and we'd still get  there before dark again so that's a good thing  

so yeah before uh we set off on this crossing  obviously it's going to be a bit open ocean we've  

got to get the boat ready and yeah that's sort  of what i'm going to start working on we've been  

here i think four days and we've been spearfishing  snorkeling stand up paddling walking on the island  

we got coconuts and fruit and stuff brought out by  by the locals here so the boat's a big mess i mean  

look around we've got a couple of coconuts  more coconuts bean bag spear fishing stuff  

beer gun uh some some shells and stuff i found  this massive cone shell and then we've got  

indiana paddle boards out the back towels yeah  we've got all sorts of stuff so we've got to  

clean everything up make the boat ship shape  get the covers off all that sort of stuff so in  

the morning we can just we can just go yeah plus  i've got to put diesel in the boat and check the  

fuel and oil and the water and just check the  engine over hopefully we can sail most of it but  

you never know you want to be ready um i actually  gave the engine a bit of a service last week so i  

sort of know but i'm going to do another step  quickly yeah basically fill it up with fuel  

and yeah this is sort of my area marie's  downstairs um getting getting food and  

stuff ready for the passage you know  it's uh depending on how how it is  

it can be easier or harder to prepare food  while you're underway but in a small monohull  

yeah you never you're never straight up and down  and you're never not moving you know so trying to  

cook anything significant is a bit of a struggle  obviously if you do a passage you just have to but  

when it's a one day thing like this you can  just prepare a couple of meals that can either  

be eaten cold or just need heating up quickly uh  yeah definitely get a bit um jealous watching uh  

catamaran people on a passage in the open ocean  just you know cooking up big meals and sitting  

working on the computers and things can't quite  do that on this boat but uh yeah it is what it is  

yeah so marie's down there and i'll  go and show you what she's up to

it's pretty big mess down here to be  honest as well because we've been just um  

you know here for four days so we've been working  editing and things get a better control after a  

couple days in one place but anyway how are you  doing here i'm doing well i'm preparing the murray  

made of the chicken for doing a bugai it's an  iranian recipe a stew of chicken with tomatoes  

and turmeric i also have a pizza in the oven i'm  preparing the bread i'm gonna do a lentil salad

you've got some bacon and chillies  and potatoes and things no no potatoes  

tomatoes it's just lentils and bacon for the salad  oh yeah like yeah it's not looking so healthy huh  

well i just want his nuts there's only a couple  left okay what are you doing so these are  

they are not really lentils in fact i don't know  if you know they're like beans label rum beans  

then you can also do the the sprout with but you  can also cook them as lentils and make salad with  

so i'm gonna boil them just boil them up yep

pretty sweet spotty oh yeah  beautiful place we got this window

got a little sand spit that comes out at low tide  

and we're just anchored in 15 meters on perfect  sand good holding a couple little islands yeah  

pretty beautiful place okay we've got  a big volcano in the background there

it's actually an active volcano this morning  there was no clouds around because normally  

there's all clouds around the summit of it but  uh there was no clouds around this morning and  

there is just a plume of smoke coming out of it  so it is active so yeah what are you getting here  

i think the pizza is ready all right let it rip  we're going to put it here that's a good question

what's on this one uh it's a half bacon onions  and half enchuos and tomatoes anchovies yeah i'll  

show these the anchovies for me no because  you don't like them you don't deserve them

what is that in there there are crossinis ooh  wholemeal ones they're brown huh yeah yeah  

no more meals and cheese and  rice wow cooking up a storm today

well show me that back

please it's painful what happened i had a  good idea to go snorkeling at the wrong time  

and without any protection and a swimsuit not  really adapt that's what happened but we've got  

some awesome pictures yeah we've got some awesome  pictures we did a little photo shoot for indiana  

paddleboards yesterday because they gave us  two new ones and while she looked good in her  

beautiful welcome bikini it was a bit too long  in the midday sun and now she's paying for it

all right while we're waiting for this  beautiful pizza to get cool enough  

to eat um i'll just tell you how we got here  to edonaro we had a few days where we didn't  

film anything um after kilo right we did it since  kilo that was the last no since la bombardo since  

we left lobomajo we didn't really film anything  we didn't make a movie but you know some things  

it's just so nice that i have to film it but  it's not good enough to make a video about so  

i'm gonna roll some clips here of some things  we saw along the way to get here you know we  

had an amazing sunset and we saw some whales and  things like that so here's a little bit of a a  

little bit of a montage of the last few days  before we arrived here in adonair enjoy right  

guys it is uh about quarter to six pm beautiful  fishing boat going through the sun i'm just about  

to pull up the anchor uh we're going to do our  first overnight trip of the season it's about uh  

70 miles or something to riong the next place  we're going and yeah that's just slightly too far  

to do a day trip uh here if you're in the trade  winds and you know we know you're going to get  

20 knots of pretty good wind then 70 miles is  uh you know that's durable that's a 10 10 hours  

at seven knots we can go faster than seven knots  so uh it will be doable but you know as you can  

see it's completely calm and i can't motor at  seven knots uh for that amount of time so we'll  

go through the night uh i quite like going at  night here apart from all the fishermen and stuff  

around it's it's actually pretty cool because  it's way cooler you know and you just arrive  

there in the morning eight nine o'clock and uh  have a bit of a sleep and then yeah you're there  

and we just take turns two or three hours each  and and um yeah that's sort of how we do it but

we had a pretty beautiful stay here and just  been um swimming a little bit around here and  

and yeah pretty happy to move  on let's get this anchor up

as you can see from the drone shots i'll  show now we just sort of anchored on this  

sand triangle in the middle of this  big a lot of coral it's pretty nice  

when it's calm like this you just sort of got  a swimming pool around you it's pretty awesome

you that was that

all right time to get out of here the fishermen  are all going out at the same time so it's pretty  

cool marie's downstairs just putting some bread  in i think how are you doing i've been dead

yeah we've got our new aloe vera plant there in  the sun looking beautiful okay let's get moving

as you can see i'm uh just navigating off the  satellite maps right now so we're in this we're  

in this channel and just got to get out of there  but it should be okay i'll just uh take it really  

reasonably easy we came here last year so we sort  of know this spot it's not ideal to leave a coral  

area like this when you can't really see in the  water but we should be good i'll trust the maps

so

so

oh it's probably too windy we've got about uh

oh about 80 miles to go should  arrive just after sunrise tomorrow  

it's a place called atonara we were  there last year actually i'll link up  

here to the video from there and uh looking  forward to going back for a few days holiday  

it's going to be fun i don't know if we'll make  a video because i've already made one but anyway

looking forward to the night passage

now we started off for about the first hour  motoring and the wind was sort of coming from  

the north which is super weird and the waves  were coming from the south which is normal  

and then it just uh i had to say live action it  was flapping and pissing me off so i dropped the  

sail and then half an hour later it started  coming in from the southeast which is perfect  

and uh yeah it's just been hovering around  

yeah 25 to 27 knots and yeah we're doing boat  speed of eight to eight and a half knots just  

with two reefs in the mine just flying along  and jeb sun just came out again and beautiful

give us a wave

so

what you got there for dinner we took some  takeaway in la bombacho we have a chicken rice  

some spinach some i don't really  know what it is but it's good

so is that the tactic we're going to do now when  we're doing long passages we'll just get we'll buy  

a bunch of takeaways from from a town before we  leave and put them in the fridge it's possible and  

we have a good time to doing that yeah definitely  it's the best way they'll get a good snack in  

now before nightfall and then they'll go through  the night oh yeah beautiful evening look at that

you call me

you never once

i don't feel much better i'm all alone

don't feel much better

so

me

i don't feel much better i'm all alone

don't feel much better

this is just a sandbar that's  coming out of the water

pizza time

but my bacon one's better than your anchovy  one i don't think no i think i have the best  

one anchovies are too salty to be on pizza  what do you guys think give us a um a poll  

that uh what do you think anchovy pizza or  bacon on pizza i'm sure the team forever  

you probably win because people like you more  be honest guys what you really like not who you  

like more anyway so how are you feeling about  the passage tomorrow well i actually talked  

about it because to be honest this day is not  my favorite one so i decided to talk about my  

feelings of this day okay well i roll that now  so here you go this is marie's feelings on the  

upcoming passage sailing is almost paradise all  the time but some days is quite odd and i think  

this is from here they quite up we are in adonair  a paradise place like it's amazing landscape  

super good snorkeling like i really loved this  place and i was waiting to coming back here  

but yeah i don't know today i'm feeling a bit  homesick i'm missing the clean mate i think  

like a bit tired of the heat and also about the  movement on the boat some days i really feel  

comfortable in it and some days not really and  this morning we had a little bit of swell on board  

so i was feeling a bit i don't know you know it's  a bit like make me out of passions everything  

i'm gonna try to do if it's not working because  things are moving i'm super angry for no reason  

so it's totally comfortable so as to vernon  to drop me on croco island it's a tiny island  

uh just close to the anchorage and if you  remember in last year's video about adonair  

it's the bat island so yeah i always needed  to be on land and feeling it's not moving  

but now i am beaten by hundreds of sunflowers  so i don't really know what i'm preparing  

but yeah this is this kind of day and i'm sure  it's gonna be better in a while but i think also  

we are both vernon and me under pressure a little  bit about all these paperworks we have to do in  

kooping and we are really waiting for it trying  to be in time try to have an idea for oh it's  

gonna turn so it put a little bit of pressure  and maybe make it all of this less enjoyable  

for a while but at least we are close tomorrow we  go in coupeng we're gonna do what we have to do  

and after that we're gonna be able to relax again  and dry again so it's gonna be good morning guys  

well we're about to haul up the anchor and leave  now it's about it's about eight o'clock i think  

yeah so i hope you enjoyed that video it was more  of a typical vlog i guess you would say just a  

little bit of what we're doing yesterday and a  bit of a look back on how we got here and stuff  

uh as i said yeah we're about to head off on it's  120 130 mile passage to kupang and uh yeah our  

season will become clearer once we arrive there  i guess but uh yeah looking forward to it it's  

sort of hard to enjoy all these beautiful places  when there's sort of a weight hanging on us on  

you know officials and regulations and all these  new rules in indonesia right now so we'll get  

down there face the music and uh see what yeah see  what the future the next few months holds for us  

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you know like a coffee's worth of money each month  or something at us anyway how do you feel about  

what's going on uh we're gonna go as i already  said like i'm not feeling super comfortable  

because it's quite a long navigation 24 hours but  yeah i hope it's gonna be good we watched a little  

bit the wind and the weather forecast normally  it's gonna be good so i hope we're gonna enjoy it  

and there'll be a little slideshow here as well i  haven't done a slideshow for a while but um yeah  

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all right see you next week probably  from kupang over and out bye-bye

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