- Guys, we're staying here for one night,
and we're just checking in now.
We're just rowing up with our little,
our little boat.
And I think we're pulling up to the house
that we'll be staying in.
I think one of these ones on stilts.
("Where I've Always Been")
(water sloshing)
- [Brad] The water's really shallow here,
it's like a metre, two metres deep.
Maybe a metre and a half deep.
(boatman speaking in foreign language)
And all these houses are on stilts.
Okay.
Guys we're staying here for the night.
Right there, that's our place.
This is our little abode in the Bajo Village.
(villagers talking in background)
This is so cool.
This is really, this is really cool!
We're staying in the Bajo Village.
We're staying in the Bajo Village tonight.
This is where we're staying.
Do you need help?
This is our water, is this for our shower?
- Big tough guy.
- [Brad] Is this for our shower?
- Look I just got it all over my dress.
- [Brad] Oh that's a shame.
- Go on.
- [Brad] Is this supposed, is this for drinking, or?
- This is the shower water.
- Shower water.
We're staying in the Bajo Village,
and this is the room that we're,
this is the little house that we're staying in, right.
And this is our little bed.
Little mosquito net.
- [Robyn] All the kids, they put drawings on the wall.
- Have they?
Oh that's cool.
So like, lots of little kids live
on this floating village, on the ocean.
Anybody can stay here. This is the bathroom.
That's the drop toilet,
that's basically a hole into the ocean.
A hole into the ocean, is the drop toilet.
Insane.
And... is this like a second bedroom?
- [Robyn] Yeah.
- [Brad] So it's like a bedroom two.
Mattress.
Oh man, that's not very stable at all.
(chuckles)
Look at that.
Hey?
Go.
Go to the bathroom.
You'll be the first to use the drop toilet.
Go. Go, do it.
Do it.
All right it's lunchtime, guys.
We're gonna have lunch here.
So yeah, I'll show you what it is.
(sounds of villagers and children talking)
They're doing a prayer?
(chanting in the distance)
Can you hear that?
All right this is where lunch is.
- [Robyn] So you take your shoes off.
- [Brad] Oh, this is cool.
- [Robyn] Hey.
How cool is this?
- [Brad] Oh wow, this is cool!
- This is so nice.
- [Brad] This is where our lunch is!
- Look how amazing.
- [Brad] I love this.
So we're staying in that room there.
And lunch is just here in this room,
in the house next door.
(laughs)
I love this so much. Look at the view.
Lunch is being prepared.
(cutlery clinking on plates)
Okay so lunch, lunch is ready.
This is what we've got for lunch.
We got fish, freshly caught,
I think some kind of chutney, vegetables,
rice,
bananas.
That's our lunch guys.
That's our lunch.
(sound of spoon tapping against plastic cup)
- [Brad] Here's your coffee.
Indonesian coffee, right here.
I think it's a chutney.
(sounds of woman chanting in distance)
- [Robyn] No dressing.
- [Brad] Some rice.
(chewing sounds)
- Mm.
- [Brad] What does it taste like?
- It's really nice.
- [Brad] Is it?
- It's very, very nice.
- [Brad] So is it chutney?
All right folks. Time is one o'clock in the afternoon
and we've just finished lunch.
And I'm just here in the Bajo Village
and that's our place right there.
That's where we're staying for the night.
And we just had lunch over in here,
in this building here, so.
Right next to us.
Hello!
- [Children] Hello!
- [Brad] Hi!
- [Children] Hey!
Hey!
- [Brad] Hey!
Hello!
(Brad laughs)
And that's our house, that's where we're staying tonight.
- [Child] Hello!
- [Brad] Hello!
Maybe two of these?
(foil packaging crinkling)
- [Shopkeeper] Two?
- Yeah, just two.
(speaks in foreign language)
All right, yeah, so just at a little tiny convenience store
at the Bajo Village.
And just buying some coffee, so that's cool.
We'll take those.
So this little convenience store,
this little convenience store where we're staying.
We're staying in that little house there,
on the stilts where Robin is right now.
And here's a little convenience store you can buy stuff.
Which is really handy, so if you ever come out here,
know that there's a little convenience store here
where you can buy coffees, different like, mocha,
three-in-one coffee, white coffee.
In Australia we call these thongs, right.
I know in some parts of the world, flip-flops.
Slops, right.
In Australia we call them thongs.
(calm instrumental music)
- [Brad] Hello!
(calm instrumental music)
Hello!
(calm instrumental music)
What's (speaks in foreign language)?
- I don't know!
- [Brad] What's (speaks in foreign language)?
(girl speaking in foreign language)
Bye!
- [Girl] Bye bye.
- Hey everybody, so a quick update for you.
Just at the village here,
the Bajo Village.
And just in the area which seems like
where all the classrooms and the school is for this village,
which is literally floating on the ocean on stilts.
Just saw quickly before, that looks like a classroom there,
as you can see, on stilts.
And some more classrooms here.
I'll just get out of the wind actually
'cause it's about to rain, right now,
as you can see the clouds are starting to roll through here.
And through here seems like some of the classrooms.
And again, on stilts, check this out.
My first time seeing this, this is what the Bajo Village...
Oh there's somebody sleeping there.
Look at that.
So that's what one of the classrooms looks like.
- [Man] Hello.
- [Brad] Hello, how are you?
Sorry!
(man speaking indistinctly)
I didn't mean to wake you.
Thank you.
All right quick update everybody.
It's four o'clock in the afternoon,
we're at the Bajo Village now.
We've been here for about four hours or so
and we just spent the last hour or so
just having coffees,
some crackers,
just to kind of talk about the experience here
in this village.
I just want to point out actually,
before we go on a little tour again through this village,
and maybe even take the drone up,
is that right now the tide is really low.
Our boat actually came up through here
to drop us off in the high tide,
and we climbed up this ladder
to get to our little house,
so we're staying in there for the night.
We gave you a little tour of what
that looks like on the inside.
We're having dinner in there.
So you can see like, the table set up
and it's just Robin and I.
There's no other tourists here.
Just us staying here,
in the village.
But I want to say like, we actually were talking
about if something worst case were to happen,
and we needed medical attention
there's no way we could leave this island,
because it is a low tide.
There's no boats that could come in or leave.
No one here speaks English,
the medical centre that we saw before
and I think you saw if I threw it up on your screen before,
wasn't even open.
In any case there's no communication,
there's no wifi, there's no internet,
we don't have phone reception here.
Nothing works.
And so, yeah, just one of those things
where you just hope everything goes well
and nothing happens to either one of us.
But it seems like a fairly safe village,
we don't feel, I don't feel any bad vibes
about this place or the people.
But if we were to fall off here
or if we needed medical attention,
then, you know, we'd be hard-pressed trying
to get off this place, as I said before.
We're gonna go for a little walk around,
and continue the exploration of the Bajo Village.
So these are the traditional goggles used by the Bajo men.
When they go spearfishing, they'll wear these goggles,
which we bought a pair of these for 100,000 rupiah
two days ago.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
(chanting in foreign language over loudspeakers)
So that's a drone.
Yeah.
So just showing everybody
what the drone looks like, right here.
(children speaking in foreign language)
They've probably never seen one of these before.
(relaxing instrumental music)
5:30 in the evening
and yeah hope you enjoyed the drone footage.
I took the drone up there.
It's a little bit choppy up there,
so I didn't get
(children yelling)
I didn't get the height that I wanted
but the shots that I did get were quite nice,
I think, so hopefully they turned out okay.
The kids were pretty fascinated by,
hey guys.
Everyone's fascinated. How're you doing?
Hello!
- [Children] Hello!
- [Brad] Hello!
Hello!
(Brad laughs)
- Hello, hello!
- [Brad] Hello!
- Hello.
(Brad laughs)
- Hello.
- [Brad] Hello.
- Hello.
- [Brad] Hello.
- Hello.
- [Brad] Hello.
(children speaking in foreign language)
So, yeah it was just really good to
get up there with the drone.
The kids are super friendly.
(uplifting instrumental music)