[Katie Voiceover] Hey guys welcome back. This week we are giving you a good look into the very real challenges
[Katie Voiceover] of self-reliant living on a remote island. But our efforts are rewarded with a very special
[Katie Voiceover] experience. So stick around as we ID some ocean friends we haven't seen in a while.
We have been in isolation now for a couple of weeks since COVID started spreading around the country.
We've been spearfishing and doing what we can to sort of survive from the ocean but
when it comes to vegetables there's not there's not really enough food for us here just on Uepi Island.
So in our typical resort mode we would be purchasing market from local suppliers. Who
have gardens on the mainland where they can grow a larger quantity and a bigger variety of vegetables.
Than what we can actually grow here on Uepi. Uepi is actually a coral atoll. So we don't have ideal
soil here for growing all types of vegetables. We grow what we can and we have amazing hydroponic
gardens for our salad and our herbs and things like that. But we can't grow everything and we
certainly can't grow enough. At times it can feel a little bit stressful and that's one aspect of
isolating here but also just living this kind of lifestyle on a remote tropical island. I don't know
if you've ever thought about living this sort of lifestyle if this is something that you've
considered. It's not easy, it's not like you can just go down to the shops and buy what you need
or what you want. You are very dependent on what is available and how you can get it. In this
current situation when we've got a family to think about um it has been a little bit stressful for us.
I don't know let me know how how you would feel in this situation. Are we a bit immune
to the circumstances here now? Are we so used to this that it just seems normal? Or is it so far
from reality that you think we're crazy I don't know?
[Jase] Out and I are out harvesting vegetables.
[Jase] So because of the situation we're in um all the local markets and everything closed. It's not
[Jase] really an area that we'd want to be in anyway at the moment just with those large gatherings. So we're
fortunate enough to have a market producer that we normally purchase from who has an isolated garden.
Which we're actually going to go and harvest from ourselves. He hasn't been there in the last
two days, he lives in an isolated area as well by himself so my overall risk is really really really
small. We are being super cautious but that's just the way we are so yeah we're gonna have some veggies.
So we're just getting shown in today so that we can um know the boundaries of his
[Jase] They are just sort of scattered all around in little plots so
we shall see. There's lots of freshwater shrimp in this reverse it's pretty cool.
Yeah so we've got our potatoes, some peppers, some beans not a whole lot of everything.
Um some tapioca, cassava, some tomatoes, some eggplant, and some more spring onions and we
get some more beans as well. So we are actually doing pretty well. It's really hot I'm ready to go home.
[Jase] Okay Otu, can you run through all those prices again?
All right we've done pretty well all right now we're just gonna pay. All right done.
Arlo and I am making some banana nice cream.
Because i don't know ice cream makes you feel happy. Does it make you feel happy?
[Arlo] Yeah. I'm going to eat a whole bunch of it.
I've been feeling a little bit low just a bit down emotional and i think it's pretty normal.
And I did a workout this morning, been doing some things to try and make myself feel good and I
think nice cream is the way to go. So this is going to be a banana, ginger, lime and mint nice cream.
I'll put the recipe in the description below and probably also on our blog. If you haven't already
and you want to check out our blog i'll put a link in the description below for that as well.
We've shared a few recipes there so far and there'll be lots more to come.
Um this should be pretty yummy let's see how we go. [Jase] Did you have a sleep?
[Filly] No!
[Jase] Are you a bit coocoo are you? What are you doing? What are you contributing to this process?
[Jase] What do you reckon Sumi? That any good? [Sumi] Its good!
What do you think
[Jase] So how are you finding lockdown Grant?
[Grant] Lockdown found me but nevertheless
at the moment i'm enjoying it immensely. I think we should have ice banana ice cream every meal.
It's like super stormy and cold but we need to go and get some fish while we can still get out.
The weather totally fits the mood.
But it's still kind of beautiful like this, it's amazing.
Weather won't stop us let's go get some fish!
All right we got some fish it's not a lot um but it's enough to keep people.
Yeah three and a half hours that was so rough it was a full on hardcore effort.
I don't think i've ever swallowed so much sea water in my life.
Look at this day!!
[Katie Voiceover] For whatever reason the moon, the current,
[Katie Voiceover] aggregating trout, or just our own self-inflicted desperation to catch fish for the gang. Left us
[Katie Voiceover] pretty well empty-handed after hours and hours underwater. But in the end it takes a moment with
[Katie Voiceover] a beautiful cuttlefish to make everything feel worth the effort despite not catching any dinner.
I just spotted my first whales from the deck I was just putting some sunscreen on and there's
a little pot of pilot whales just at the front of the passage. So I'm gonna run back uh I'm trying
to grab the kids and Katie and we'll just go out for a bit of a play in the boat with them. Second
guessing myself they weren't dolphins but they're too big for dolphins and they're behaving exactly
like pilot whales. Just sitting on the surface I'm gonna run now before we miss our chance.
It's funny because this is actually one of the big reasons why we wanted
to live on the open ocean side here. Is spotting whales as they come past so
this is pretty cool.
That was definitely the fastest I've ever got ready.
[Jase] Okay this is pilot whale safaris.
[Katie Voiceover] We spent some time out here together until the kids really needed to be back on land for lunch.
[Katie Voiceover] And Jase and I came straight back out again to get a better look with the drone and try
[Katie Voiceover] to swim with these beautiful mammals. Which turned out to be quite large Risso's dolphins.
[Katie Voiceover] We didn't have a lot of luck in the water but this really was a good day.
That's pretty freaking cool they're so beautiful.