in a single day of freediving ... manta rays, snorkeling with our kids and
free diving a 2000 meter drop off completely barrelled by barracuda
welcome back to the island life of us we are free diving with manta rays in this video and
truly the experience that we're about to share is what can happen sometimes when we head out
for a morning with the manta rays good morning what are we going to see philly this morning
nearby to the island here there is a cleaning station which attracts the
manta rays in because the cleaner fish can actually remove parasites and other
unwanted microorganisms from the mantas skin it's basically like a day spa for manta rays
sometimes what we experience is the manta rays coming into the cleaning station and
circling majestically where you can swim with them in shallow water for a good hour before
you come home for breakfast but sometimes that's not the experience that you get
often the manta rays might be swimming up and down the reef
they might be feeding if there's lots of krill or other plankton in the water
and sometimes who knows what's really going on but they don't hang around in one spot
and that's what we experienced on this occasion
the mantas were moving quite a lot so it required a lot of swimming for us
and with two kids and lots of new camera equipment in the water it was pretty full on we managed to
have some beautiful moments with these manta rays and here's what we've got to share with you
[Jase] i love your hair.. who did your hair today?
did i do a good job? all right off we go can you find your thongs please
what have you got here
whoa are we gonna go play some games are we who are you gonna play games against
whoa who's gonna win
oh really.. so we've just come back from a pretty fun manta session uh they made us work pretty
hard today it was not just hanging around the cleaning station, they were moving up and down the reef
um some pretty odd behavior they were feeding a little bit getting cleaned a little bit and right
at the end there was some really cool interactive behavior between a couple of the mantas which
could be breeding behavior not really sure but it's actually father's day here it kind of slips
past us um so what we're doing is we're gonna head up play some games have a late breakfast
and just hang with the family... [Grant] see that one that one goes there and that one goes there
[Jase] right i think we should play a game of
pick the animal then we've got to go find it in the ocean we pick any animal we want and we're
going to find in the ocean would that be fun [Grant] how about a blue whale.. [Jase] oh come on papa ease up i want
to see a blue whale everyone else has seen one well say what do you say to that Arlo?
ohhh well gee... fancy having a blue whale here when i'm not here
so we have been going incredibly hard for the last couple of months getting the last preparations
ready for reopening the resort which happens in four weeks um it's really exciting to be sharing
this place again with our guests that's what this this whole thing is all about for us and is really
why we started youtube to have an extension of that into the online world particularly whilst
we're isolating during the pandemic it's also confronting because you know we've had this
incredible opportunity just to be here with our family for almost three years now and that's
coming to an end and that feels really daunting as well so at the moment it is madness we are doing
everything we can to get ready um but at the same time we're trying to take advantage of every
single opportunity to get out there and do stuff as a family before that becomes more complicated
for a while once we get guests in-house um we are all exhausted absolutely exhausted so today's been
really nice we had an amazing experience with the mantas this morning and spending time with those
animals i think is really grounding because they are just the most peaceful and majestic animals i
think that live in the ocean um coming home now we've just been hanging out playing some board
games and just having a little bit more family time eating some good food and reconnecting and
then we're definitely going to get back out there this afternoon and max out our time in
the water whilst we've got this day off so it's good it's so delicious how was it mate
um how was it
[Jase] Hello..
Filly, can i see your new free diving hairstyle please whoa who does that look like
who's is that mommy's technique is it .. that's cool
look at my free diving hair
what's the rig you're carrying there baby? grant's camera
[Jase] so what did you want to see on your snorkel today Arlo?
guys i'm not gonna lie i feel like you're really setting the bar pretty low
haha yeah not much of a challenge but what else did we see
really? [Katie] Oh that's interesting
oh no there must be a few
there we'll have to go and check it out sometime and try and remove them
yeah we remove them from the reef and then we bury them
well that's interesting that papa could show you that because that's something to be aware of on
the reef here isn't it we make sure that we don't have an overpopulation of crown of thorns starfish
they don't have too many predators only is it the triton shells um and because they're really
[Katie] because they damaged the coral so much we remove them
up yeah and get rid of them yeah we have some triton shells around
yeah it's just not enough to control an unhealthy number of crown thorns on the reef
ha ha Arlo you're eating like a caveman
Not leana plee-ya.. what is it?
Leana via
leana via!