When was the last time you watched the sunrise?
The warm colors.
Nature's sounds.
I'm not a morning person and never have been.
Good morning.
But like a chameleon
I'm changing, and adapting to this new life on the water.
On this episode we're going to show you what an average day
looks like on our floating home Tucana.
And if you've been following our sailing adventure up the east coast of Australia
We're now currently anchored off Great Keppel Island which is part of the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, so we're going to show you around the island as well, before
we continue our sail up north.
Our mornings always feature coffee.
John loves coffee. And a weather update.
And a breakfast feast. Is it filming normally? Maybe it's important to show the thing on my head?
That would actually be pretty funny.
I think your camera needs to be pointing down a bit more.
Do you reckon?
Extreme breakfast making.
Well I feel like this is definitely part of our breakfast routine.
I'm always filming with this thing on my head.
Anyway so I'm making breakfast bowls. We have these pretty much every single day.
John has muesli on his i don't that's really the only difference.
Sure they'd love to know that. John can you tell me who's more of a morning person out of the two of us?
On Instagram you guys thought I was.
I think I am.
Definitely. Well there's a difference though because...
Oh no, i wasn't thinking and I just put muesli on mine. I don't have muesli, but I have muesli.
It's all right. We'll work this out. Sorry go on as you were saying. As I was saying I think I wake up
earlier in the mornings. Yes, however I'm not sure I enjoy mornings as much as you.
Really?
I don't know. What makes you say that? Because I'm always chirpy?
Yeah or maybe it's just because you're well well rested.
I'm a bit of a light sleeper aren't I. Yeah. As soon as the lights up.
Definitely you sleep with one eye open. You feel like every single roll.
Shall I take this off now? Do I look silly?
No not at all. Okay I'll leave it on, um yeah
you sleep with one eye open. Every single little creak, every crack. I don't know why that is.
John, do you explain why you can't sleep properly? Oh well.
Is it a male thing?
I'm just a bit of a light sleeper really. Yeah. In general.
But being on a boat you're just aware of everything aren't you. Am I going to drag.
Is someone going to drop an anchor right next to me. You know is the tide gonna change?
Is the anchor gonna you know, reset when the tide changes. Yeah.
Blah blah blah is it raining, are the hatch is open? Are the hatches closed?All that sort of stuff.
And I guess I probably sleep well because I know that John's worrying about all that stuff.
Taking one for the team. Taking one for the team. Which is what you're doing right now making me breakfast.
Thank you. This is true.
And that's what it's all about on board, being a team, because when we're not in flow
our equilibrium is out of whack, so communication is key in these close quarters. Saying sorry,
thank you and the occasional I love you also helps.
Exercise and exploring new places is also important for a healthy head space.
So today we're stretching our legs.
Wow it's absolutely stunning.
Well welcome to Great Keppel Island we are going to go exploring today and we're going
to go for a bit of a walk and a relax.
You have got an amazing ankle tan line.
Our daily routine does change from day to day. Sometimes we're more active
and other times we feel flat. And then there are days where we spend the whole day
sailing to a new destination. And when we do make it to a new island
fun outdoor activities depend on the weather. If it's raining we usually tend to stay indoors
but today we are blessed with sunshine.
I kind of wasn't expecting it to be like this to be honest. I thought it would have been
you know, pathways and just a little bit more man-made. But this is great.
As long as we don't roll an ankle.
On Great Keppel, paths lead up to a web of hiking tracks that are spread across the island.
Wow.
We have literally just arrived to paradise, oh my goodness.
Wow. It's very nice. It's kind of weird with the houses in here. Pretty cool relaxed sort of place.
I don't know what the deal with...
If you can rent them or if they're owned by residents here. We'll have to look into that.
Most of the islands we travel to don't have grocery stores - they're pretty remote,
so we have to make sure we stock and pack enough food and water to last us a few weeks.
We didn't pack anything for lunch today so we're going to walk back to Long Beach
and tender back to Tucana and we'll make tuna salad wraps on board.
So some of you might not be aware but these videos take me about three days or so to edit.
Today I'm doing a little edit session from around two till four in the afternoon but
every day is different. So as you can see I use just my laptop. I have a microphone and I use a
program called Final Cut Pro. So if you want i'll show you what the timeline quickly looks like.
This is the timeline and there are hundreds of edits you've got the audio down here, visuals
up there and graphics at the top. And also just wanted to say a huge thank you to our Patreons.
We started a Patreon account a week ago and we are so grateful for those people who are supporting us.
What's next - subscribe. After this I'm going to go and have a shower and cook up some dinner.
This is going to be freezing.
Oh it's so cold.
Fresh hair don't care. I've literally just come out of the shower. I think he wants to see what he's doing.
I'm just syphoning fuel out. This is the BA technique.
We briefly introduced you to BA in episode six.
This bloke Brett Avery a delivery skipper well known around Australia and beyond.
It is a short little um hose and a bigger one without the the jiggler on the end
because you get better flow through this and you just blow down into it and it pumps it down to the tank.
Okay yeah right.
Whoa you just blew down into the small hose?
Yeah.
So we just got that from Bunnings. Well you could use anything really.
And it flows pretty fast like that takes probably less than a minute. You can see the levels about here.
And it's yeah going pretty fast.
Wow okay let's see how long that takes to do a whole 20 liters.
That was about a minute.
How long would it take if you use the um jiggler?
Maybe like four or five minutes, there it is there, see it's got the ball valve on the end
so you don't get a lot of through put there with the ball valve blocking the flow
but with this big hose just goes straight through.
Thanks BA, another handy tip.
BA taught us this technique before we set sail into the Bass Strait in the event we had headwinds
and were using more diesel than anticipated we could quickly siphon a large amount of fuel
into our tanks while in the rolling seas.
A lot of wind.
Guess what else it is today? Friday?
Not only Friday but it's been two weeks since you got your stitches in.
Guess what we're gonna do now?
What I'm gonna do.
Hang on. Can you just tell people that there's a warning ahead of this?
Warning!!!
No one has to see this.
A couple episodes back, John sliced his knuckles while working on our steering system in the lazarette
and we had to make a dash to the doctors.
Shouldn't use shifters to tighten up nuts. Should use spanners.
What you do is get clean stanley knife.
Don't have any sharp scissors, they are so filthy.
Looks a bit sore doesn't it.
Yeah you'll be right. How are you feeling?
A bit hungry.
That is the most incredible moon rising I have ever seen in my life.
I bet that will not do it justice.
Wow I can't get it in focus.
I don't endorse illegal fireworks but that was cool. It's like a full moon party.
So you know how at the start I said I wasn't a morning person? Well tomorrow
the alarm is going off at a ridiculous hour. I don't want to go early tomorrow!
Coming up next, we set sail.
Making our way to the Percy's.
where we check in to a unique yacht club.