[Katie Voiceover] This is Dusky the SUP and she joined us here on our beautiful remote island home
to help us explore and enjoy the magical Marovo Lagoon
Our backyard, the longest saltwater lagoon in the world, was yours to discover and countless marine
species and underwater friends were ready to meet you. Even the less friendly looking ones.
Exploring with you, Dusky was incredible. We have had some glassy sunshine days
paddling over the Uepi coral reef, plenty of afternoons playing with the kids off the deck,
and even taking our dive gear to explore together below the surface.
Dusky you were always there when we needed you. You never complained when we played our silly games,
or when everyone was just jumping off you.
Hanging off you
You loved to paddle with the kids and you didn't mind a stormy adventure for the
sake of seeing something beautiful. You didn't even get upset when I used Jase's
board just because it matched my bikini better. I'm wearing green. Dusky you were light-hearted
and physically very light. You were a yes girl and never turned down a sunset paddle. In the
short time that you were here with us you helped us to enjoy those small moments and not take
anything for granted. When you went missing our hearts were broken. Dusky, this episode is for you
all right good morning that was a crazy night oh this really really intense storm
it's just smashed everything and it's picked up Katie's SUP and thrown it off the deck.
And we've lost the SUP. I was up at 4am with the spotlight looking for it i don't understand where
it's going because it should have just blown straight on to the island in the wind direction but
it was not here and we're gonna go have a little look for it
but it's not looking great.
Arlo's a bit beside himself with the idea that the SUP might be gone and that Filly and Mummy won't have a SUP
Alright we are an hour in. Still have not found it. Or more than an hour in
So we have searched all the outer islands and now we'll search inside the lagoon
Super hard to tell which wind direction it was actually following last night so
i was trying to cover all bases but we're pretty low on fuel as well so we kind of
need to go home as well. Sometimes these things here they just show up later. A bit
like a dog that ran away in the storm it might come home. *laugh* Plus if anyone finds it in
any of the communities they'll know it's ours so they'll report it in all right here we go
really wet really cold
Katie's not smiling really she's just smiling or the camera..
Mission fail. So I don't really have a positive spin on that
but the lesson is to look after your stuff which is what we have to explain to Arlo
is that because i didn't strap it down last night and we had this unexpected crazy storm
it's gone we've been out for three hours haven't found it but i guess if enough of
you use our link below to purchase a SUP then we might be able to afford to buy a new one
Okay so I'm not actually sure what we've explained this morning about what happened. We had an extreme
storm last night so it was blowing evidently from the North and we probably didn't feel it
quite as strongly here at our house which might have been when the stuff went over at about 2
a.m and then it swung at 4 am to sort of the West and where you cocked it on the front here
which is when i woke up and went and checked and discovered the board wasn't there and put a few
other things away but it was extreme like easy 40 plus knots um on the face of our house here
there's just stuff everywhere the coconut trees .. I wish I could have filmed it I probably should
have tried to take a gopro spotlight out but like the coconut trees were like almost
like horizontal it's crazy there's trees down everywhere there's stuff broken everywhere
the guys on the next island over lost their roof on their sort of semi-permanent dwelling there
Madness. Anyway so that's what happened. We didn't find the board this morning we've got calls out
to all the communities on the mainland there which it's possible the board floated towards.
This sort of stuff happens often with um local canoes so it's not an uncommon thing
this thing stands out like you wouldn't believe compared to a dugout canoe so i'm
pretty confident it will be found it's just a matter of when and what condition it's in
when someone finds it all right another day it's friday it's monday again so if we get market
um one last time before i go you give me a kiss
*Jase kisses the kids*
[Jase] Love you babe
[Katie] Thanks for doing the veggie run..[Jase] um no worries
[Katie] Breakfast.. [Jase] oh take away look at that.. [Katie] and coffee, it's not very wholesome thank you darling there's oat cookies..
all right bye guys. The kids are going down to the beach with Jill and Grant, with Nana and Papa
but um while they get other jobs done this morning we're jumping in the water
in the water for a quick swim and we're gonna do some big jumps kids
Yes. [Ophelia] Yeeaahh
and how are you two feeling about growing Aussie? Good good. What do you think we're gonna see when
we go to Aussie? Grandma, Grandma and grandma and grandmas and grandmas
I think we're gonna we're gonna get to meet baby Maynard. Yes who what else are we gonna see
in Aussie? Filly.. um Penguins. [Katie] I don't think we'll see penguins, maybe i don't think so what else um
all right well who knows what we'll see and do an Aussie, we've had all sorts of funny
requests like get a haircut and eat some apples which will be nice
Apples as well in Aussie anyway we're gonna jump in the water and then we're gonna SUP (stand up paddle)
across to the beach we still haven't found Dusky .. which is very sad and quite surprising really but
yeah that's Dusky story
All right i just got a phone call we're on our way to market.. Dusky has been found
the board was actually found almost exactly where we stopped searching
He found Dusky!!!!!
WHAT?! We found Dusky?? He found Dusky!!!!
*screaming - laughing* [Katie] Arghh
[Katie] I can't believe it!
my gosh yes don't know what condition she's in but she was floating out the
passage heading out to the open ocean when he found it a piece of pvc pipe the white side
[Ophelia[ I want to go see it
we'll bring it back today that is incredible i was starting to give up this morning i thought today
because I've paddled the kids out on your board and I thought to myself now if it hasn't shown up
by now it's been there it was that same day they found it been sitting on Mahoro for three days
coffee for the road yeah all right we're gunna go pick up the board
[Katie] Your shorts look really good!
[Jase] You like this? *Katie laughs*
*Jase speaks pidgin to the local man* *Katie laughing* [Jase] Be quiet and jump out the road.
thank you thank you
[Katie] Dusky is home
Home sweet home darling.. back in the rack where you belong. [Katie] Oh dusky. Alright so as we
mentioned the very first time that we took these out the one thing we weren't able to
guarantee or really put to the test with it was the durability of these boards - only because they
were new to us - brand new we didn't know how they're gonna go so this board's probably done
at least a 20 kilometer solo voyage and then been picked up and towed back probably probably across
the reef and then towed back another eight kilometers back to the mainland how do you
sleep over at someone's house in this beautiful little uh canoe house for a couple of nights
then made it back it hasn't lost any air you can stand on it it's ready to paddle
um so it's done really well .Yeah so she's got a few blemishes a little bit of paint off
good character yeah a couple of little nicks and we lost the fin but otherwise it's in amazing
condition so that really speaks to how durable this product is.. The adventures of Dusky the SUP
So if you want to get yourself a HONU board there's a link in the description below
we have a discount code that you can use to get five percent off and
yeah know now that they're a highly durable product they can weather any storm and
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I forgot my sunnies
[Sumi the doll] Do do do do do do.. Bye bye [Arlo's doll voice] Bye bye, here Daddy.
Classic Sumi. [Katie] We'll have to blur her out, she's nude *laughing*