- [Grace] But I am covered from head to toe.
I started counting them
but I think I have 1,000 bites.
- [Brian] Oh my god. - [Grace] I'm so itchy,
and my sheets are like full of my own blood.
(upbeat music)
- [Brian] There's **** bugs
- [Brian] Everywhere.
- Oh my god.
These tiny little biting bugs
will drive you crazy in the evening,
leaving you with a wonderful array
of itchy bites by morning.
- [Kazza] Oh my- - [Brian] Those are all bites.
- [Kazza] God.
- It's hundreds of bites.
Even John Steinbeck notes in his
"Log from the Sea of Cortez"
of his encounter with these little devils.
I don't know.
Can you hear the noise?
(bugs buzzing)
It sounds like an electric buzzer.
It is always good
to be armed against these little bastards.
It doesn't say that.
- I added that.
- [Kazza] Yeah, I don't like this place.
I think we should move.
- [Brian] Ah.
Ah.
- [Kazza] Did it get you?
(Brian shrieking)
- I don't like bugs.
It's too much for me.
- It's no wonder
why the girls didn't want to come in, right?
- [Bill] They were smart.
(Brian laughing)
- [Grace] Is there anywhere else we can go?
(soft guitar music)
(sail clicking)
(photo shuffling)
(camera shutting snapping)
(photos shuffling)
(upbeat music)
(paper crunching)
(can hissing)
(liquid sloshing)
(paper crunching)
♪ Onetox represent what Solomon Island people see ♪
♪ We people styles originally from my homeland ♪
(water sloshing)
(soft guitar music)
- [Man on radio] Delos,
this is Floating Stones.
We were sitting just southeast of you,
and saw you sail on by.
I've been watching your YouTube channel
for a number of years,
and thought we'd say hello.
(radio crackling)
- Are you in the Nordhavn,
or what are...
What's going on?
- [Man on radio] Yes, we're in the Nordhavn.
We've been out here for about three months now.
Just bought it a few months back.
(radio crackling)
- Amazing,
and yeah, what a perfect boat
to explore the Sea of Cortez too, huh?
Well, if you see us around, give us a shout.
It'd be nice to meet y'all.
- [Man on radio] Alright man, same here.
Great channel.
(radio crackling)
- Thank you so much.
You guys take care.
Delos back to 16.
Oh, that's nice.
Those Nordhavns are so cool. - [Kazza] I know.
- 68, dang.
- [Kazza] Crazy, huh?
Who wants to live there?
(Kazza laughing)
- I don't know, it's a fishing village.
It's called Isla El Coyote.
- [Kazza] It doesn't look like much.
- I don't think there's any water on the island.
I have no idea why out of all these islands,
that's the one you would live on.
- [Kazza] The only thing I can think of
is like no bugs.
- No bugs.
- [Kazza] And a lot of fish, maybe.
- Maybe.
(anchor whirring)
- [Kazza] Dropping.
(anchor whirring)
- [Brian] And so we arrived
into this truly picturesque little spot,
and happily set our hook
as close to shore as the shallows would allow.
(bird chirping)
It was idyllic,
or at least it was until the sun began to set.
(upbeat music)
- So we're anchored
kind of next to some mangroves,
and even though we're so far away from shore,
so many noseeums, like crazy,
and yeah, it's not very nice,
and Brian stayed up all night with the boys,
and there is like 1,000,000 bees,
because they left some beer cans.
- Here we go.
All right, this is boys times laps, times laps.
(men laughing)
We're off to a good start.
(Brian laughing)
Boys times lapse mission one, whatever.
(men laughing)
(Brian laughing)
All the girls decided to stay home.
I have no idea why they would do that,
but here's the setup.
We have a tripod, we have beverage number one,
beverage number two, which is water.
We have a speaker,
we have Sony a7S III,
we have headlamp,
and oh yeah, a GoPro,
'cause we're going to do Sony a7S III
versus GoPro Hero 10.
There's bugs everywhere.
- [Man] Yeah, I-
- [Man 2] Kinda swear it's the bug spray.
- [Brian] Oh my god.
I forgot the bug spray- - [Man] I got plenty.
- [Brian] But I maybe use some of yours.
- [Man] Yeah.
(man chatting)
- [Brian] Okay and we're off.
Got the GoPro set up, we got the Sony set up.
It's doing a shot every 10 seconds,
and it's time to get into these beverages,
and some other things, and kick back,
and get eaten by bugs,
because they're (beeping) destroying me.
This is so ridiculous, they're kinda...
Ah, you gotta love this.
No wonder why
the girls didn't want to come in, right?
- [Bill] They were smart.
(Brian laughing)
- [Brian] They're back home
watching shit on Netflix.
(Brian laughing)
(suspenseful music)
The situation is
the bugs drove us to build a fire.
- [Man] The situation is deteriorating.
(Brian laughing)
- [Man] I swear it's just bugs.
- [Brian] And the fire-
- [Man] Now there's a scorpion.
- [Brian] Where is it?
- [Man] Right in the center,
my knife is touching it.
- [Brian] Oh, Jesus Christ.
- [Man] It's on the move.
(men laughing)
- [Brian] It's a tiny one.
- [Man] Yeah, it is a tiny one.
- [Brian] You know what?
I think the smaller,
the more poisonous when it comes to scorpions.
(man laughing)
- [Man] I think you're making up facts.
- [Brian] No, I think that's true.
(bell dinging)
- [Man] Really? - [Brian] Mm hmm.
And I think the bugs have won,
'cause we've decided to call it.
(Brian laughing)
We just got back to the boat,
and it turns out that there's a swarming nest of...
I don't know.
Can you hear the noise?
(bugs buzzing)
It sounds like an electric buzzer.
That is the craziest thing.
- [Man] There's more bugs than air.
- [Brian] Oh, I just swallowed so many of them.
Okay, we should go inside.
- [Man] We going to turn the light
before we're go in?
- [Brian] Yeah.
(Brian and friend laughing)
Good call.
- [Man] Ah.
(Western music)
(bees buzzing)
- There is like so many bees out there.
Don't open the window please.
- Holy crap.
- I know.
I don't really know what to do,
and they're coming in too now,
because it's so many,
so they're going through the crack there.
(bees buzzing)
Yeah, I don't like this place.
I think we should move.
(Kazza laughing)
I don't like bugs.
It's too much for me.
Makes life a bit hard,
like I'm stuck inside the boat.
(mouse clicking)
(bell dinging)
(engine whirring)
- Okay, covering.
Well, I'm going to move those beer cans.
- [Kazza] Okay.
I sprayed a little bit
just slightly here,
and it seems to have moved them.
- [Brian] Okay, get out.
Get out of the way.
I'm coming out.
- [Kazza] What are you going to do
with the beer cans?
- [Brian] I don't know.
(cupboard door banging)
(plastic bag crinkling)
- [Kazza] Put 'em in there and close it up.
- [Brian] 'Kay.
(plastic bag crinkling)
- [Kazza] Do you want to spray
on them a little bit,
just so they kind of disperse?
- They're dispersed.
I'm going out.
(upbeat music)
(window thudding)
(Brian grunting)
- [Kazza] These bees are crazy.
- [Brian] I should have put socks on.
(beer cans clanging)
- [Kazza] Well, these two, these two.
(beer cans clanging)
These better have water on them.
(plastic bag crinkling)
- [Brian] Ah.
Ah.
(beer cans clanging)
- [Kazza] Did it bite you?
- [Brian] Ah.
- [Kazza] They're not happy Brian took their
(beer can clanging)
source of goodness.
- [Brian] Whoa.
(window thudding)
(Brian exhaling)
- [Kazza] Good job, Brian.
- I'm so hot.
- Hi.
- I did it, Nuggs.
- [Man] She's like, what are you guys up to?
- Dad, dad?
- [Brian] Yeah, the bees.
The bees of Cortez were getting me.
- [Kazza] The bees.
(Kazza laughing)
- [Sierra] Oh.
- Oh, I was right, nugget.
We got a bee infestation,
'cause I drank beers last night,
and I threw the beer cans outside.
- [Sierra] Yeah? - [Kazza] Yeah.
- [Sierra] Yeah?
- [Kazza] And the bees like to be with you.
- And the bees like the beer,
(Kazza laughing)
and I like beer.
And then we received a call
from Grace on Calico Skies,
who was having some issues of her own
with the pesky little devils.
- [Grace] Oh-
- [Kazza] Grace has called me.
- [Grace] When you want me to start my rant?
(radio crackling)
- Yeah, please begin rant right now.
- [Grace] So everything was fine
until like midnight.
I was watching a movie, "Thirteen Lives".
Really good.
Brooke recommended, highly recommend.
(Kazza laughing)
Go into the berth and I was swarmed.
I think the net on our hatch
is just not fine enough.
I don't know why there was so many in there,
but I am covered from head to toe.
I started counting them,
but I think I have 1,000 bites.
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- [Grace] I'm so itchy.
I had to vacuum out my sheets.
- The noseeums is so bad.
- [Grace] Because there were so many
noseeums in my sheets,
I could feel their crunchy little shells so-
- [Brian] Oh.
- [Grace] I got back into bed
at like four in the morning.
My sheets are like full of my own blood
from getting bitten,
and there was still some in here this morning.
- [Kazza] Yeah.
- [Grace] I don't know what's going on.
(radio crackling)
- "If you have yet to experience
Mexico's (speaking in foreign language) noseeum bugs,
nighttime at (speaking in foreign language)
is your chance.
These tiny little biting bugs
will drive you crazy in the evening,
leaving you with a wonderful array
of itchy bites by morning."
- [Kazza] Oh my god.
I kind of got a little bit scared
when you showed me before.
Oh (beeping).
- [Brian] Is that- - [Kazza] Move your hand.
Oh my- - [Brian] Those are all bites.
- [Kazza] God.
- Even John Steinbeck notes in his
"Log from the Sea of Cortez"
of his encounter with these little devils.
"We were anchored quite near San Jose Island,
and that night, we were visited
by little black beetle-like flies,
which bit and left a stinging itchy burn."
(soft guitar music)
- Yeah, it was so bad last night for me too.
Luckily, I think the boys
maybe like brought them back when they came,
because it was like a swarm too,
and when I went into Sierra's room this morning,
it was so many in a room.
I got like 50 bites
just as I walked in on my leg.
- "On the mainland,
where coconuts are more readily available,
locals burn the (speaking in foreign language),
which seems to instantly drive them away.
However, for those of us whom do not travel
with a hold full of coconuts-"
- [Sierra] Mama.
- "Insect repellent can sometimes work."
- [Sierra] Ma.
- [Kazza] That's...
Yeah, we should have read that
before we anchored here.
- "Many times, the noseeums are not a problem,
especially during the day,
but if you stay the night,
it is always good
to be armed against these little bastards."
It doesn't say bastards.
- [Kazza] Well they did- - I added that.
(slide clicking)
If you're fortunate enough
to have never encountered these little devils,
consider yourself extremely lucky.
These tiny biting insects
are nearly invisible to the naked eye,
hence the English nickname, noseeums.
Like mosquitoes,
they bite hosts to feed on blood.
The bites can be incredibly irritating,
and even leave lesions on some people
that can last an itch for days.
They're easily capable
of driving one to the brink of insanity,
and even emptying
entire anchorages of naive cruising sailors.
(slide clicking)
What should we do?
- [Grace] On that note,
(Grace laughing)
we don't have a guidebook.
Is there anywhere else we can go
that's close to here without noseeums?
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Yeah.
I kind of started looking
straightaway this morning,
because these bees
are just going crazy in our boat.
I don't think it's any anchorage
like super close to here,
unless we go back.
- [Man] Probably what about San Evaristo?
There's like a north and a south anchorage,
like a little fishing village
that have like a little restaurant and stuff.
(radio crackling)
- Okay, so we're going to go somewhere else.
- [Kazza] 'Kay.
- I might go wakeboarding first.
- [Kazza] No.
(water sloshing)
- [Brian] In a last ditch effort
to enjoy this otherwise spectacular spot,
I decided to bust out the wake board,
and hop in the water,
hoping that a little fun in the sun and saltwater
would take our minds off the constant itching.
(upbeat music)
(water sloshing)
(wind gust blowing)
(boat engine whirring)
(woman cheering)
(boat engine whirring)
(woman cheering)
- [Woman] Oh boy.
Oh.
(woman laughing)
(woman and man laughing)
Oh man.
- [Man] Oh, Gary. - [Woman] Oh, shit.
(man laughing)
(water splashing)
- [Brian] Are you okay? - I'm okay, board's okay.
- [Brian] Okay, good.
(woman laughing)
- No harm, no foul.
Wow.
- [Kazza] That was an amazing dismount there.
- That was a face plant.
(Kazza laughing)
- [Brian] All right, who's next?
Brooke?
- [Kazza] You want to go, Brian?
I'll go after you.
- [Brian] Yeah?
Okay.
- [Sierra] Wee. - Okay, I love you.
See you guys soon.
(wind gust blowing)
Okay, hit it.
(water sloshing)
(boat engine whirring)
Hi guys.
- [Sierra] Hi.
(boat engine whirring)
Hi.
(Sierra laughing)
(Kazza laughing)
- [Kazza] Who's that?
- Dada.
- Sierra, do you like
your rash guard and your pants?
Your sun clothes?
- [Sierra] Mm.
Mama, go.
(Kazza laughing)
(water sloshing)
- So we sell this full set
in the shop, svdelos.com/shop,
and- - Mama, mama, mama.
- Sierra loves the set,
like she wears the rash guard all the time,
and when the sun is like really intense,
or when it's a lot of bugs,
I have her wear the pants too.
- Mama? - Yes.
(Kazza laughing)
Do you like your sun clothes?
- [Sierra] Look.
- Yeah and she's been wearing it a lot,
and they've been keeping up really good too.
- [Sierra] Ho ho.
(Kazza laughing)
(slow music)
- [Brian] As per Sierra's stern orders,
we raised our sails,
and made our way to San Evaristo,
a small nearby settlement,
which we prayed would give us a reprieve
from the flying little demons and bees of Cortez.
(water sloshing)
- [Kazza] Do you have a lot of bites?
- Oh my god, I'm so itchy.
Ah.
- [Kazza] I know.
- It's the worst, Kaz.
(water sloshing)
We decided to leave.
We couldn't take it.
(Kazza laughing)
There's no way we could stay there,
it's ridiculous.
- [Kazza] Yeah.
- Swarm of bees.
These dang Mexican noseeums are no joke.
- [Kazza] Nope.
- We're across the way to this place called...
I don't know what it's called,
but it's seven miles away.
Seven miles away from those bugs
is all I care about.
(Kazza laughing)
- I know.
I hope bees can't fly that far.
- [Brian] Oh Jesus.
Everybody put their kites up.
- I know.
Everybody put their beautiful spinnakers out.
- [Brian] Not us.
I'm a little lazy today.
- It's too much.
I'm feeling pretty tired.
Didn't sleep great last night.
It's so interesting how anchorage
could be completely ruined
by something so small,
so hopefully this new anchorage
will have less bugs and still be nice.
Oh my God, I'm just getting bit by a noseeum.
You couldn't help it
to put up the spinnaker, huh?
- I couldn't help it.
It's just beautiful conditions, right?
Look at her kite.
It's barely full,
and we're just ghosting along at like two knots,
(Kazza laughing)
but it's so peaceful.
- [Kazza] I know and it's no bugs.
- I don't want to like do anything.
I'm just enjoying the sail.
- Da.
- Arrr.
- I think this small place looks really cool.
(spinnaker whirring)
- [Sierra] Wow.
(upbeat music)
- [Brian] Up next on "Delos",
(water splashing)
we arrive into San Evaristo.
- Woo, exciting.
- [Brian] Only to have Kazza fall incredibly ill
with a mysterious sickness and a very high fever.
- Her fever was 39.5 Celsius.
She's not improving,
and it's been three days of high fever so...
She's not responding to treatment,
so Grace comes aboard to help us sail
for the closest doctor,
and we seek medical attention for Kazza.
- Thumbs up, Sierra.
- Ah.
(Brian laughing)
She just poked me in the eye.
(Brian laughing)
- You didn't, did you?
- Thumbs up.
(bike clanging)
(people laughing)
- Woo hoo.
(people laughing)
(person clapping)