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- Look at this morning,
it is so incredibly calm, it's amazing.
Oh, look at the reflection in the water,
it's so pretty.
- [Brian] We just put Delos on the dock
in the drop dead gorgeous Red Frog Marina
in East Isla Bastimentos.
After a teary goodbye to Taylor,
we are back to our little family of three,
and we only had a short time left in Panama
before we would leave behind our floating home
and fly to Sweden for some much needed downtime
with Karin's family.
But before we begin the process of preparing Delos
to ride out three months locked up in a wet
and tropical climate,
we wanted to soak up our last bit of time in the jungle
and meet some of the amazing locals
that call this island home.
(upbeat music)
(waves splashing on the sand)
(gentle instrumental music)
(man singing in foreign language)
- We're back on the boat and it's just the three of us now.
It feels kind of crazy.
I love having her onboard, but it's also amazing to be just,
you know, the family.
And we have quite a few things
that I guess we want to do now before it's time to fly out.
We have a little to do list of, you know,
cleaning up, packing away, you know,
stuff to prepare for storing the boat here for a few months.
It's different, I think,
leaving a boat than leaving a house, you know,
we have to pretty much turn off everything,
and it's so humid here, and it's so much rain.
We have to think about mold and just like,
I think I'm gonna vacuum pack like everything on the boat,
Brian has to pickle the water maker,
it's just a lot of small things,
but we're in the perfect place
and I think we just going to get straight at it.
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I love vacuum packing.
So I love vacuum packing food because
it keeps all the bugs away and I love vacuum packing
our clothes because it like compact everything super small.
This is under our bed and I can store way more stuff
in there when I vacuum pack it away.
And I also like it because like this,
when we leave for a month,
sometimes the boat, like it gets so hot inside,
right, and then it gets kind of funky smelling.
So I put a fresh lavender in there.
It just kind of like keeps a lit of a good smelling
when we come back so we don't have to wash the stuff.
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- Alright, making progress on the list
to put Delos away for a couple of months.
And one of the things that I need to do
is pickle the water maker,
which means I need to get all the salt water out,
give it a really good, fresh water flush,
which I'm doing right now.
So I've just opened the valve
and I'm basically flushing fresh water from the tank
through the pumps, and through the filters,
and through the membranes.
Right now you can hear the water pump going off,
let me just show you what's going on down there.
(water pump whirring)
This is the low pressure pump for the system.
So the salt water comes in from the manifold here,
it goes through this low pressure pump, through a valve,
it then goes through our 20 micron filter
and our five micron filter,
and then it goes through here into the high pressure pump,
and then from the high pressure pump that goes up
through these hydraulic high pressure lines
into the reverse osmosis membranes,
the reject water gets blown out the side of the boat,
and the fresh water comes through here,
and then eventually goes into the tank.
And so what I'm going to do is,
you know, to flush it out,
I just turn this valve, which is pretty cool,
and then it takes water from the tank and blows it
through the entire system to make sure
that there's no saltwater in there.
So I've been doing that for about five minutes
to get it real good.
And then I will take this line off,
I will take the reject line off,
I will put them in a bucket with my sodium benzoate sulfate,
which is like a sterilizer and a preservative.
And then I need to create a loop.
So I basically hook the input,
the water going in and the water coming out together
to make one continuous loop,
and then I fill the system with that.
Okay.
Close the loop.
Alright, that's it,
the water maker is now pickled,
should be good for six months of storage.
Alrighty, onto the next task.
- So I just went through like all our food.
So I basically get rid of everything that is like old,
or expired, or I feel like we're not going to eat,
which wasn't that much because we didn't,
I feel like we provisioned pretty good when we left the US,
and then we had quite a few people on board,
so we ate a lot of the things we bought.
There's a few different ways that I've kind of heard how
you can do it to keep like weevils
and bugs out of your food and, especially pasta
and stuff like that.
And it's freezing it for four days and we've done that.
But then I felt like after a few months,
because I think the eggs of the bugs are already
in the pasta and stuff when you buy it,
and they just hatched anyways.
So from years of experience with a lot of bug explosions,
I find that vacuum packing basically removes all the air
and then the eggs can't hatch.
So I basically vacuum pack everything that is open,
like these noodles, the rice,
you know, all our oats,
all our flour, everything like that,
that is like kind of most dangerous
to being infected with bugs.
So nobody wants to come back to a boat
where your food is not in a good shape.
So I think I've done that with pretty much everything now.
We have a few things that we're probably gonna eat
in the last couple of days,
and then, yeah,
but it didn't take that long, just a few hours.
We're getting things ticked off the list,
but it's pretty crazy, we're leaving in a few days.
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- [Brian] With Delos all packed up and ready to go,
we want to take advantage of our final days in Panama
to explore some of its beautiful surroundings.
Isla Bastimentos is a rugged and lush island
that's bursting with some pretty amazing wildlife.
It's really unique to step off the dock
and walk straight into the wild jungle.
So we couldn't wait to see what treasures awaited us
right in our backyard.
- So it's called a Red Frog Marina because
they have all of these tiny, poisonous red frogs around.
You can find them anywhere,
and it's pretty easy to spot because they're so red.
Sierra even spotted a few, didn't you?
Pretty cool spot, no, you didn't?
I think I saw you do it.
Okay.
- [Brian] The strawberry poison dart frog
is actually one of the more common species in Latin America,
but this particular bright red and black speckled frog
is found only on this island
and uses a special diet of ants and termites
to concentrate deadly toxins on its skin.
And its bright color signals to predators
that not only does it taste bad,
but it can also cause paralysis and death.
In fact, in some species of these frogs,
the poison is so concentrated that one microgram,
only about a pinheads heads worth,
can kill up to 10 humans.
Because of its small size,
this defense mechanism is important,
otherwise it would be an easy meal for snakes, birds,
and many other potential predators found here
on Isla Bastimentos.
Besides it's bright coloration,
they're also pretty easy to find
thanks to the loud chirping sound
that the males make to attract females.
(frogs chirping in the distance)
As we wandered around the island,
we also stumbled upon another animal
that caught our attention.
- [Karin] See the sloth, Sierra?
Where is it?
Where is it, is it up there?
It's up there, Sierra. - Sierra,
how does a slough go? (hums)
Yeah, the sloth scratches himself.
- Oh, it's so cute.
These sloths are absolutely crazy.
And I just had to pull out if you facts about them,
because I didn't really know anything about the sloths.
And then, you know,
we've seen quite a few in the last couple of weeks
and then reading the facts I'm like,
these guys are incredible.
So sloths are actually three times stronger than we are.
They only go to the toilet to do number two once per week
and they actually climb down the tree to do it,
which doesn't really make any sense,
you'd think that it would be safe for just do it up there.
When they do number two,
they lose a third of their body weight in one go.
So they hold it for that long,
which seems not that comfortable.
They're actually colorblind and only see like very poorly
and kind of like a dim light.
And if it's sunny like this now, they are completely blind.
If you can't really see climbing in a tree,
it must be pretty intense.
So maybe that's why they're so slow.
It can take up to 30 days for them to like digest one leaf.
And they can actually fall, this is crazy,
they can fall up to 100 feet
without having any injury to themselves.
So 100 feet is about 1 and a half times Delos's main mast.
Like, that's high.
And on average they do fall out of the tree
about like once a week.
Hopefully not that high every time, but that's crazy.
Imagine seeing a sloth fall out of the tree.
And this is one of the coolest ones, I think.
So sloths actually have like
a really unusual way to camouflage.
So they have like cracks in their hair that allows algae
and fun guide to grow in their hair,
which makes it look green.
And if you look at the video,
when he kind of like pulls himself up,
you can see that he's like kind of shifting in green,
which is absolutely nuts.
And last but not least,
nobody really knows how long they live for.
Like how weird is that?
Like, this is creatures that is everywhere
and we don't know how long they live for.
That to me is very strange.
Well, I love sloths,
I've fallen in love with them,
they're super crazy creatures,
if you've seen a sloth
or if you have any cool sloth interaction stories,
comment below and I would love to read them.
And yeah, that was my little fun fact about sloths.
Back to the show.
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- [Brian] Our sloth encounter was an incredible way
to cap off our time in Panama.
And as we prepared to say goodbye to Delos
and this crazy lifestyle that we've built
for our little family, we couldn't help
but think back on everything that happened
in the last year and a half.
What a season, huh? - It's been crazy.
It's been a while, hey? - Yeah.
I mean we're in this amazing place here in Panama
at the marina, it's a good, safe place.
And for the first time, since this crazy pandemic started,
we've decided to park the boat for a little while
and go back and see mormor and Karin's family.
- Big news, hmm? - Yeah.
- It feels a bit crazy. - We figured,
we counted the other day
that we've actually only left Delos four times
during this entire trip.
One time in New Zealand. - Yeah.
- One time in Borneo,
one time in South Africa, and then the last time in Grenada.
And then since we returned back to Antigua
when nugget was four months old, before the pandemic,
we haven't been back to see Karin's family.
- Yeah. - So we're just
going to do it, we packed up the boat.
- Yeah, feel ready. - We've been doing
lots of work and it's time. - Here we go.
- And I think it's great because we've filmed so much
that we actually gonna release the videos
when we're in Sweden,
and then when we come back. - We're going to be able
to take some time off.
- Yeah, actually quality. - Just sit and do whatever.
- Hang out with grandma, mormor,
- Yeah. - play with the nugget,
go swimming, relax.
It'll be fun. - But yeah,
let's go through these fun facts
because. - Anyway, I actually
put together some fun facts of the season,
and it was a long season,
it was actually like three seasons,
it was a total of 18 months because we did
the first season in the Caribbean,
and then instead of taking a break,
we sailed up to Maine for the summer.
- Yeah. - And then when
we were in Maine, we sailed all the way down
to the Florida Keys, and then to Mexico,
and then to Panama.
So it was 18 months of cruising.
- Wow. - I calculated the miles,
we sailed 7,000 miles.
- So that means the Sierra
has sailed 7,000 miles. - Sierra
has sailed 7,000 miles.
Pretty good for a baby. - She is a baby sealer.
- [Brian] She is the baby sailer.
(groaning together)
(laughing together)
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Do you know how many countries you visited during the trip?
- Oh like, 1, 2, 3, 7?
- Eight.
Actually Karin was right,
I was counting the US Virgin Islands
when it's technically a part of the US.
Eight countries, you probably forgot St. Barts.
We went from the sub-zero temps in Maine
to the sweltering jungle heat of Panama.
- Yep. - The lowest temp we saw
was -5 degrees Celsius.
And the hottest temp we saw was 42 degrees in Mexico.
That's a crazy, - Yeah.
- That's a 47 Celsius degree change, that's a lot.
The highest wind we saw at sea,
55 knots during that storm in the Chesapeake.
- It's a solid 40 knots, 45, 50.
50 right there, 55.
55 (beeps) knots.
- That anchor in Maine,
when one of those hurricanes blew over us,
we saw 62 knots in
that valley near ICW. - Oh yeah.
- Man, that channel is going nuts back there.
It's gnarly out there, Karin.
- [Karin] Oh my God, is the generator okay?
Crazy weather. - We destroyed
one sail rounding, Cape Hatteras,
that's not so bad.
We ran a ground anywhere from 6 to 10 times,
depending on. - I feel like
we run aground a lot. - Especially in the ICW
and the Chesapeake,
like we were on the ground all the time,
but it's mud, so it doesn't matter.
Oh, the other thing we had this season was really good crew.
- Yes. - We had some
really nice people stay with us.
We have Ryan who helped us so much
during the tricky sailing. - Super Ryan.
- [Brian] And then we had Taylor jump on board in the Keys.
- Lifesaver. - We had Jade and JC
meet us in Mexico
and sail with us to Panama. - So much energy.
- Oh yeah,
and there was also a Grace that joined us
from Bahamas to Annapolis.
Yeah, it was just a real,
like I thought like we had - Yeah, good vibes.
- a really very cozy crew this year.
Everybody got along well and the filming was good.
Everybody was super excited too, which is cool.
Do you want to guess how many videos we made
during that 18 months? - No, I'm not very good
at math. - 68 videos.
- 68? - 68 videos we made
with the nugget. - Wow.
It's been great though,
we've had like so many amazing people follow us.
Like I was really nervous when we came back to Delos
in Grenada, not Grenada, - Yeah.
- Antigua. - Antigua.
And it was just me and Brian,
we were all of a sudden faced with the task of, you know,
running the business, filming,
making the videos, - Editing the social media.
- [Karin] everything, taking care of Sierra,
and sailing, and making all the decisions
of like where to go, like food buying.
- It seemed like a lot. - It was
completely overwhelming, but I think with
did really, ah. - I think we did,
- So fun. - we took it slow
and we just did what felt right.
- Yeah. - And now here we are.
- And I mean,
it's really all thanks to all of you guys
that have been following along with the adventure
and all our amazing patrons
that have been like funding our trip.
- Wouldn't be possible without them.
- Yep, so. - We love you.
- Huge thanks, lots of kisses to you guys,
you know who you are and yeah.
I feel ready though.
Even though it's really sad to leave Delos for a bit,
I feel super ready. - Yeah,
we're going to come back and be charged up
and ready to tackle - Yeah.
- it again.
- I know, and for you guys,
it will be a blink of an eye because next episode
we'll probably be us back on the boat.
- Excepted Sierra will be like probably three months bigger.
- This is true. - Can you imagine that?
- Anyway, thank you so much for watching,
we really appreciate it, thank you for support,
and we love you all very much.
- Okay. - And we'll see you soon.
- Let's travel to Sweden. - Okay.
- Crazy, bye. - Bye.
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- [Brian] Up next on "Delos",
we fly to Sweden to visit mormor.
- [Together] Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, yay.
- [Brian] And I show my top five favorite things
about Sweden. - Yeah,
it's basically just rotten herring.
(Brian coughing)
- God, it smells so bad. (groaning)
You eat that? - Yeah.
Sierra, do you like it? - Oh God.
Oh, Jesus. - Come on.
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- [Brian] And Brian shows us
his favorite things about Sweden.
I'm Brian,
I shouldn't talk about myself in the third person.
- Oh Jesus, I almost fell into the hole. (hums)
I hope you like my sloth fact window here.
Oh, that was so awkward.
And there's heaps around and they're super easy to.
(Sierra crying)
Nugget.
Honey, okay.