[Katie Voiceover] You can hear the rumbles and grumbles of a submarine volcano called...
Happy anniversary, five year anniversary
We're going to the beach, going to the beach, going, going, going to the beach
I've decided that everybody needs a day of rest in the week. We don't normally give ourselves that and
being able to just have a chill day where we're actually not allowed well it's disrespectful to go
fishing um to do anything major. All the food for today is prepared in the motu already so that's
good to go at lunch time and we just get to be on the beach hanging out as a family. It's also our
wedding anniversary so that's pretty special um to have today just to chill out together and have fun
We asked you guys if you wanted to see a motu (Earth oven) meal whether that was something
you'd be interested in watching and lots of people commented to say yes so here we are
[Katie Voiceover] In the previous episode we shared the motu preparation and closing of this
traditional Solomon Earth oven. Around 18 hours later and it's finally ready to open
for us to enjoy a midday feast together with the whole family
I've been slaving away... aahhh
[Katie] aah ha ha don't lie
[Katie] Smells sweet
[Jase] It's got so much coconut cream in it, you should have seen the thickness of the coconut
[Katie] Wow
[Jase] Look at all of this amazing food, all done in an earth oven
[Jase] Are you excited Arlo?
[Jase] What are you doing?
You finished eating cake
By now you guys have hopefully seen our shark episode. It's an episode that I'm really nervous
about I think because it's not a vlog style episode it's a little bit different to that so we
um you know we're experimenting and trying to be a little bit creative in the things that we do on
this channel and that video really means something to us. Shark conservation is something that we care
about a lot. Raising our family to understand and respect the creatures of the ocean is
is the essence of who we are. So, that was a video that we really enjoyed making and we really hope
that people feel the same way about it that we do when we watch it, and I just think it's a special
one if you haven't seen it already I'll link it up here um so that you can go check it out and
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[Jase] Arlo's got his crew here
We've had an amazing couple of days really slowing down and um
especially today enjoying the Sabbath and the motu with the family it was really nice
Yeah it was a very different pace to normal
just to really spend time with our family and our good friends here and enjoy it. So tomorrow
we've got a massive adventure we're heading out to an uninhabited island off the coast here
and hoping to head out for the whole day picnic. [Jase] So it's situated like 20 nautical miles offshore
so there's nothing anywhere near it comes up from 3000 meters deep to this one island and
back down again so it's a pretty unique spot and it's marine protected areas yeah fairly
recently declared a marine protected area um and we've got a map here that we've been looking at
just to see exactly what what the zoning is and it's really great to see that that's happened
All right we're off to the island. Okay let's go. Where are we goin' guys? We're going to Kicha!
[Jase] Where are we going Filly? [Mirriam answers] Kicha!!
[Katie Voiceover] On our way out massive schools of yellowfin tuna were driving bait towards the surface
in an absolute feeding frenzy. We could see sharks on the surface and we threw a couple
of lures but had no success. It was really awesome to see the ocean so alive out here
[Jase] Here we go
[Jase] Woohoo landing... [Katie] Jump out Arlo here we go
[Jase] Take the sunscreen
[Jase] Ok go.. [Katie] Bye Daddy
[Katie] Everyone swim now
[Katie] We're the first on the island
Here bubba you go to Mummy
[Waelinah] Laughing
[Jase] Oh your wet now, I'm sorry
Wooo
Yeehaaa
Gimme five!
[Jase] What you got?
Cracker. And peanut butter on there.
[Jase] Filly can you laugh? Where's your big smile? Hey Filly *Mirriam laughs*
[Jase] Honey what have you found
Look.
It's a roll up. [Katie] Oh a roll up shell
[Katie Voiceover] Kicha is an incredible uninhabited rocky oceanic island. It is home to several thousand island
imperial pigeons and is the first stop on the migration highway for many forest birds.
It displays a beautiful combination of tropical rainforest fauna and flora through to a diverse
marine ecosystem. The recent declaration of the MPA was instigated by and will be maintained by
the local resource owners within the community of Peava. So we really hope to see them benefit
from protecting this special place. Oh and when you dive here at Kicha you can hear the
rumbles and grumbles of a submarine volcano called Kavachi just a mere 45 kilometers away.
Hang around to the end of the episode I've included some GoPro audio sounds of this insane experience
[Katie Voiceover] Join us next week as we wrap up this trip. The boys get super lucky spearing some massive
[ __ ] and we take you free diving to some incredible caves nearby. We'll see you then