- I'm Coyote Peterson.
This is Julia and this is Naia.
And today we're exploring in their backyard,
looking for sea creatures.
Anything?
Should I put my hand in there?
- Yeah.
- Ooh, what if something bites me?
(adventurous music)
(upbeat tropical music)
On this episode of Coyote's Backyard,
I will be exploring alongside
Julia and her best friend Naia.
They are two of the Brave Wilderness Channel's biggest fans,
and over the course of the past year,
have sent many stories and pictures
of their adventures together.
Julia and Naia live on Orcas Island, located
within the San Juan Island chain of Washington state.
This was the perfect place to film
an episode of Coyote's Backyard.
So the stars aligned, and before I knew it,
we were getting ready for an epic tide pool adventure.
All right, girls, I'm gonna get on the boat first,
and then I will help you get down here, sound good?
- Yeah, you go first, okay?
- Alright, Julia, you wanna come down?
I got your hand there.
Go ahead step right down on there.
Okay come on this side.
Sit right up front with me.
Naia, you all set?
There we go.
Got it.
Are you excited to go on the adventure today?
Are you excited to go on the adventure?
- Yeah.
- Are we gonna catch lots of cool creatures?
- Yeah.
- [Coyote] Alright.
Crew ready?
- Ready.
- When we get to the beach,
we can look for alligator lizards, too.
- [Coyote] Are there alligator lizards out there?
- Uh huh.
- What do you think, Naia?
Are we gonna find some alligator lizards?
- Yeah, I love 'em.
- (laughs) Alright!
Lizards and sea creatures, here we go.
(engine revving)
Bye Mario.
- [Woman] Wave to Mario.
- We'll see you on the island.
Woo!
All right guys, we have left the shore.
We're on our way to Sea Creature Island.
Julia, are you excited?
- Mm-hmm.
- We got you tucked down there in your
life jacket like a little turtle.
And Naia, I think you're ready to go, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- All right, I'm gonna hold onto you guys tight.
We're gonna head out across these waves,
and make it to the other side.
- Whoa, an eagle!
- [Crew Member] Whoa, it's a bald eagle!
- [Mark] That's a sign of good luck, guys.
We're gonna have a good adventure today.
- [Coyote narrating] Julia's dad has been taking her
to explore tide pools since before she could even walk.
Now that she's a little older, all of five and a half years,
they often frequent the uninhabited Doe Island.
At low tide, this is the perfect place
to find marine creatures hidden amongst
the inner tidal pools.
So, we slowly ferried over in a small boat
and safely made our way to the shore.
(adventurous music)
Okay, ready? One, two, three.
There we go.
I'm gonna come up here with you guys.
- [Julia] And there's fish here.
- All right, let's do this, let's get up on to dry ground.
Real careful, be careful there Julia.
There you go now.
Be real careful on that kelp let's get on to the dry ground.
- Wow's it so cool.
- And wait for the cameras.
- [Julia] Oh, I saw a sculpin!
- Okay, so right now, Julia and Naia
are fast at work searching out the tide pools.
We've got the rest of the crew coming over on a boat.
It's almost impossible to contain these two.
As soon as they see a tide pool they're
immediately catching things.
So far, we've found kelp crabs and sculpins.
I gotta catch up with them.
They're gonna be leading this entire expedition.
Wait for me guys!
- I found a hermit crab.
(short drum roll)
- Oh, guys, I found something!
- [Mark] What is that?
- A huge fish! Julia!
- [Naia] It's a huge fish, Julia!
You got it!
- Got him right there, there it is.
- You got it!
- So, Julia, what is this?
- A Clingfish.
- That's a Clingfish.
Now, the reason they're called Clingfish
is I'm gonna flip it over like this,
look at the underside there, Mark.
- [Mark] Let me see that.
- It looks like a big bullfrog tadpole.
- [Mark] Whoa!
- But it's got that big suction cup on it's underside.
Now they use that to actually hang on
to other fish, right?
- Mmm-hmm.
- They can hang on to other fish and catch a free ride.
It almost looks like a bullfrog tadpole,
have you ever seen a bullfrog tadpole before?
- [Naia] Mm-mm.
- Well they look just like this,
but they don't have that distinct
suction cup on the underside.
I should put this little guy back under his rock.
- [Naia] Right there.
- [Mark] All right. - Cool.
- [Mark] The journey continues.
- All right, we're gonna put this
rock right back where it was.
And let's see what else we can find.
Good job running the camera there, Julia.
She's a natural.
- [Julia] Okay that's a--
- Here you hold the net and I'll get him in the net, okay?
Watch your fingers, watch your fingers.
- [Julia] Got him.
- Got him? Get him in the net.
There we go, that's big one.
It's a rock prickleback fish right there.
- [Mark] Oh, careful.
- [Coyote] Let's take that up to your little tidepool, okay?
- Okay.
- Well, now we have some prickleback fish.
And what did you find?
Look at that!
- [Crew Member] What? That's a great starfish!
- [Coyote] Naia's got a tiny sea star.
Well, we have spent our entire morning
adventuring around in these tide pools
and we've come across a whole bunch of
different cool marine creatures.
But right now, we're gonna get three of them
up close to the cameras, are you ready for this?
- Mm-hmm.
- How 'bout you, Naia, are you ready?
- Yep.
- Okay, now the first thing we're gonna look at is called
a chiton, I'm gonna grab it, it's right here.
We put it in this pocket of water.
Come here big guy.
Oh whoa, look at this.
- It's really heavy.
- It is heavy.
Look at this, it is like a creature from another planet.
Naia, have you ever seen something like this before?
You think we could put it on your head?
(laughs)
- No? You wanna see what happens
if it suctions on to my face?
Aaaaaahhhhh!
You know what, nothing's happening,
it's just kind of like a big suction cup
and you can see that, see how it's
kinda curling up into a ball?
It's doing that as a defense, now.
Touch the back of it, what's it feel like?
- Rock.
- Like rock, right? It's very rough, it's very rugged,
it almost feels like rhinoceros skin.
You know what, pet the back of that,
does that feel like a rhinoceros?
- Yeah.
- Have you ever pet a rhinoceros before?
- No.
- Well we're gonna guess that this
feels like rhinoceros skin.
And on the inside, it has this big foot,
and that's how it suctions on to rocks
and it just kind of moves along, eating algae and kelp.
You wanna put your finger in there, see if it bites?
No, it doesn't bite, does it?
Julia, you do it, put your finger in there,
tell me if it bites.
- No, it doesn't bite.
- Nothing, totally safe to handle.
All right, I'm gonna put this back into the pocket of water.
You guys wanna see what's in that net over there?
- Yeah.
- All right, we're gonna see what is inside of the net
- I'll hold the big guy.
- You wanna hold the big guy?
- Yeah.
- All right, put your little net down.
Oh boy, come here Naia, check this out.
All right, I'm gonna slowly kind of reveal
what's in the net, Julia can you get the big one?
This is a rock prickleback fish.
Hold on, he's kinda stuck in the net there.
Very slippy.
Now it looks like an eel.
You got ahold of it, there you go. Two hands.
It looks like an eel, but it's actually a fish.
Did you know that?
- [Naia] Yes.
- And the way you can identify it as such,
Mark, if you zoom in there you can see all
that stripe patterning on the side of the face,
right there by the gills, that's how you identify it.
- Coyote, he's trying to bite me.
- He's trying to bite you, you want me to hold onto it?
- Ah, I got to put him back.
- Yeah let me see for a second here.
Here, put your hand flat.
There you go, Naia's gonna help me hold it.
There you go, can you zoom in on the side of his face there?
- [Naia] Whoa.
- You wanna know something pretty cool?
These fish can breathe out of water, did you know that?
- [Naia] I knew--
- But they do have to go back into the water eventually
and then they will swim off into the water.
And these can grow to be about three feet in length.
Did you know that?
That's like as long as you are tall.
Three feet, how tall are you?
That tall, yeah, this can grow
to be about as long as you are tall.
- Whoa.
- Isn't that crazy, pretty wild huh?
All right, you also have a little sculpin in there, right?
I'm gonna put the prickleback down into the water,
in the net and let's hold up this little sculpin.
Can I see? Put him in my hand there.
Now this, Julia, this is your favorite fish, right?
- Yes.
- The sculpin. And aren't they cute?
Look at it's little face!
And you know what they have on the side of their gills?
Little tiny hooks, and you know what they use those for?
That's for defense, in case a predator tries to eat them,
they'll puff those out and they're very spiky.
So if something tries to bite it,
it's gonna get like a spike right in it's mouth.
Have you ever tried to eat a sculpin before?
- Yecch.
- Yecch, that's what I would say.
We don't eat sculpins right?
Now, here's a little, teeny, tiny, one.
All right, you wanna put the sculpin
back down in to the net there?
Julia, are you ready...
for
the spider crab!
- [Mark] Aaahhh!
- Eeee, look at that!
- (giggles nervously)
- Have you ever seen a spider crab before?
- Yes.
- Put your little finger on his back there and pet it.
What does he feel like?
- Fur.
- He's fuzzy!
Pet that crab.
- Whoa!
- Fuzzy crab, right?
- It feels like a short-haired cat.
- Like a short-haired cat, that's a great description.
Now, we're not sure exactly what variety
of spider crab this is, so we'll have to look it up.
(record scratches)
- [Coyote Voiceover] As it turns out,
this is actually a helmet crab,
A species that is often misidentified as
either a kelp or a spider crab,
and which can often be found forging
amongst eelgrass or kelp beds.
That's what we call facts from a field guide.
Now, look at this it's not even trying to pinch me.
It has very small pincers up front,
and they use those pincers to pull apart
all of the plant material that they
then feed into their mouths.
Look at those claws up front there, Mark.
Zoom in on those.
Pretty crazy looking isn't it?
You wanna put your hand out?
Here, put your hand out.
And let's let it walk. You see that?
Look at that, look how the legs on this side
are longer than the legs on that side.
- [Mark] Why is that?
- It could be possible that this crab
lost some legs at one point in time
'cause did you guys know that crabs
can grow their legs back?
Now, Julia, if your leg falls off, is it gonna grow back?
Probably not.
Naia, if your leg falls off is it gonna grow back?
No, I don't have that power either,
but all crabs have the ability to drop their legs,
which means they can pop off
and then after a little while they grow back.
All right, you guys can be super brave, right?
You're brave members of the Coyote Pack, aren't you?
Okay, so to test your bravery,
we're going to see if you can hold the spider crab.
Are you ready?
All right, we're gonna go with Julia first.
Ready, keep those hands flat.
- [Mark] Ooooohhh.
- [Coyote] Oh, I hope it doesn't pinch you!
- There you go, that's you holding
a little, fuzzy, spider crab.
- [Mark] Whoa.
- Pretty cool, right?
- [Mark] So brave!
- Naia, are you ready?
- Mm-hmm.
- All right, here we go.
Spider crab.
(moans nervously)
- Ooohh, there it is!
- [Mark] She's doing it!
- That's no problem, right?
- [Mark] Oh wait, Julia!
- Julia, where are you going?
All right, let's dunk it down in the water
because you know they breathe using their gills.
And we have to put it under water for a little bit,
There we go crab.
See that, it's just curled up in a ball?
- [Mark] Well, I think Naia gets to name the crab,
since she's the last one to hold it.
- Would you like to name this spider crab?
- I'm gonna name him Fuzzy.
- Fuzzy! Fuzzy the spider crab.
- [Mark] Coyote!
I think you uh, you lost your team.
- I did lose my team.
Mario's up there exploring and
he found some alligator lizards.
So, the girls left me to release
all of these marine creatures.
But it was one epic day, exploring here on Doe Island.
I'm Coyote Peterson.
Be brave!
Stay wild.
We'll see you on the next adventure.
Animals are present in almost
every backyard around the world.
And to find them, you just have to know where to look.
Exploring alongside Julia and Naia was an absolute blast.
And it's young, adventurous members of the Coyote Pack
like the two of them, who truly bring a smile to my face.
Knowing that they have a genuine love
and admiration for the natural world.
- I saw another one, Julia.
(exciting music)
- Oh guys, this is so cool!
The official Brave Adventures tour poster.
- [Mark] We're going on tour?
- That's right guys, we're hittin' the road
to meet members of the Coyote Pack.
- [Mark] That's awesome.
So what are we doing on tour, Coyote?
- Ah, it's gonna be incredible.
We'll be talking about animals,
the adventures we've been on
and the locations we've visited,
some exclusive and funny behind the scenes stories,
plus taking pictures, signing autographs,
and most importantly, meeting members of the pack in person.
- [Mark] Man, that sounds awesome.
So, where's this tour going?
- We'll be traveling down the East Coast,
from New York to Florida,
and there's a good chance that
we will be visiting your city.
- [Mark] Awesome. So Coyote,
I'm guessing since this is an actual tour,
there's gonna need to be actual tickets.
- Ah yes, the tickets, there definitely are tickets.
The good news is they're on sale right now,
both general admission and VIP.
VIP is extremely exclusive and there's a very limited number
but what it gets you is an autographed copy
of the Brave Adventures book,
plus a hang out before the show with me and the crew.
Exclusive hang out time with me, Mark, and Mario.
How awesome is that?
- [Mark] So what about general admission,
can you still buy a book?
- Oh yeah, books are definitely gonna be for sale
and actually I have one of the
first prints with me right here, you guys wanna see it?
- [Mark] Oh, I think we should check that out.
- Yeah, all right, let's take a look inside
at some of the featured animals and the illustrations.
Are you ready?
- [Mark] Cool, let's take a look.
(intense music)
- [Mark] What is it?
- Oh my gosh, Mark!
- [Mark] What?
- It's a golden adventure ticket!
- [Mark] A gold what?
- A golden adventure ticket.
- [Mark] What's that?
- This is an exclusive invite to a very special event
that we'll be throwing next spring.
- [Mark] Awesome, and how do you get a ticket?
- The only way to find one of these golden adventure tickets
is that they will be hidden within the pages
of the Brave Adventures books
that we'll be selling while we're on tour.
- [Mark] Nice, so tell me about the
event that you get to go to.
- Well, you know guys, it's pretty top secret.
But remember, the only way to find
one of these golden adventure tickets
is to actually be at one of the shows.
Now, tickets are on sale right now,
and to get your tickets, all you have to do
is click on this link right up here
or the link in the video description below.
Remember, tickets are limited, and they're selling quickly,
so make sure to get yours today before the shows sell out.
Whew! I'm so incredibly excited to finally
get on the road and meet so many
members of the pack in person.
I'm Coyote Peterson. Be brave, stay wild.
We'll see you on the road guys!
If you are excited for the tour,
and we know you're excited to get the Brave Adventures book,
make sure to go back and watch our famous
click bait book announcement video,
where you can pre-order your copy today.
And don't forget, subscribe!
So you can join me and the crew on our next big adventure.
(shouting)
I got him, I got him, I got him!
He's super big!
(coyote howls)