- We're gonna go trolling on the outer reef.
Hopefully catch something.
(upbeat guitar music)
- [Riley] This is getting a bit eerie, hey.
I'm getting that post apocalyptic vibe.
♪ If you miss the train I'm on ♪
♪ You will know that I am gone ♪
♪ You can hear the whistle blow 100 miles ♪
- [Elay] We set of for Barbuda last week,
an island North of here in the Caribbean.
Dropping anchor in Coga Bay made me feel
like we'd really made it to the Caribbean.
Turquoise water, the whitest sand, and killer sunsets.
I played captain for the day
while Riley went spearfishing with George.
He didn't catch anything and conveniently enough
a new recipe of mine ended up a disaster.
- Get these at the (mumbles). (laughing)
- Today we plan to go
and check out the town of Barbuda
and see what was going on after the devastation
of Hurricane Irma last year.
We're just moving anchorages to over here.
To where all the people are.
Riley and I have been working.
Smashed a few coffees.
Ready to get some stuff done today.
I've actually been recording some music
you'll be pleased to know.
Was trying to figure out how to use all this stuff.
It ain't easy.
It's not my specialty.
And Riley has been still going through all that footage.
(dishes crashing)
- Whoa! - Whoa!
- So we've just come to the beach here
and we met a lovely man called Emran.
And he's gonna take us for a drive.
Say hello.
- Hello.
- We're just gonna check out what these guys are doing.
They've just got a bunch of supplies from Antigua
and they're unloading.
So I just wanna have a look.
You're the first person we've seen in Barbuda.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
(laughing)
- [Elay] This little ship work as both a ferry and
delivers supplies to the island once a week from Antigua.
- [Riley] Have you been here your whole life?
- Yeah, I've been here most of my life.
Longest I've ever been out of the island is one year.
- [Riley] Where'd you go?
- I was in Antigua.
(laughing)
That far.
(laughing)
- [Elay] We circumnavigated the island with Emran.
Progress on rebuilding after the hurricane was happening,
but very slowly.
Still a quarter of the island was without power.
Look at you!
Aren't you a funny looking goat!
(goat baas)
(laughing)
- [Riley] This is a 40 foot container.
I used to work with these offshore.
I've seen cranes smash 'em into
all different sorts of things.
They do not move.
That was blown from over there
where those palm trees are.
- [Elay] This is silver apparently.
- Silver Salmon - Ah! Okay!
- [Man] (mumbles), silver.
- So this is the main street.
That's the bar.
Over here they have like a breakfast station
where you just saw the fish and the box of cereal.
And yeah, this apparently was and still is
the busiest street here in Barbuda.
But obviously things have really slowed down.
And he was also saying how cruise ships have stopped coming,
and so many people stopped coming.
So, yeah, they're in a bit of strife.
We scoped out possible options for charity work
and we planned to come back once we got a response
from either the Red Cross or Samaritan's Purse;
the two charities on the ground here.
So we just pulled up anchor and we are heading
to the Eastern side of the island because the wind is
swinging around to the West for the next day or two.
Which is super odd for this area.
But yeah, we're hoping to come back around
to this side of the island where all the locals are
because on the way home Emran stopped off at
Samaritan's Purse Headquarters
and we were able to talk to one of the dudes there.
And he said, yeah, they're taking on volunteers
and it'd be good if we could come back on Monday or Tuesday
to talk to his boss who wasn't there today.
At the moment, they're rebuilding
and starting with the roofs.
So, yeah, Riles and I might be able to jump up there
and help put together someone's roof.
Which would be cool.
It's the calmest day today.
Like absolute glass.
And there are turtles everywhere.
But I'm unable to get them on the camera
'cause every time the boat gets close,
they do this duck dive and they're gone.
But there's turtles.
There's turtles everywhere.
- Just from the chart you can tell
that it's pretty treacherous.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's not charted.
Especially after the hurricane.
Like who knows what's changed there.
We'll be coming in very slow.
The sun's quite high.
It's really calm which is pretty handy.
If I need to I'll jump in the water and we'll just tuck up
and find a nice, very, very protected spot.
(upbeat guitar music)
So I've been up here since we rounded the point.
I've just had her on autopilot
and just dodging brown spots basically.
And there's a little gap in the reef over here somewhere.
And we'll end up anchored probably next to
our new mates over here.
♪ Like we were coming through ♪
♪ There is this voice of you drilling me ♪
♪ Your mouth doesn't lie ♪
- [Elay] It's Monkey Man!
(laughing)
Alright, I'm going to put the anchor right on.
(laughing)
- [Riley] Well is he French?
- [Elay] Yeah, he's French.
- [Riley] Do we trust him?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
(laughing)
Oh my God!
(laughing)
Look how he's got one leg crossed over the other!
Like he's super chill.
So not only have I seen my French mate,
Olivier, flying around the boat.
But our neighbours are this young Australian couple
who we met in Antigua.
And they just happen to be anchored next to us.
So Riley just phoned over and asked
if they wanted to come diving for some lobster with us.
So that's what's happening.
So who have we got here guys?
- Katie. - And Byron.
- [Elay] And Katie brings good luck apparently?
So I wanna hold you to that one.
(laughing)
She's the lobster finder.
- Yes!
(slow techno music)
- [Riley] We found a nurse shark trapped
in a large, unmarked craypot.
That I honestly thought had been lost.
So I tried to free the shark and grab the crayfish.
An hour later,
we're about to head home empty handed.
We bumped into the local fishermen nearby
who clearly knew that we're there.
His name was Danforth,
just like the anchor.
After a few minutes of struggling to understand
our Australian accents,
he agreed to come by the boat and sell us some
of his catch for a ridiculously cheap price.
- One, two, three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
- [Riley] There would be dinner onboard
La Vagabonde for us and for our neighbours.
- [Elay] There is honestly
an overload of lobster here tonight.
- There is.
- [Elay] You full as a 'goog'
- I am. - Yeah?
- 'Cause there's pasta as well.
- [Elay] Yeah.
Pasta and so much lobster.
Like it's ridiculous.
(speaks in foreign language)
Si!
- Lobster for breakfast.
- [Elay] Oui!
There is your lunch.
- Thank you.
- [Elay] And left over past from last night.
This is the way life is supposed to be lived.
With crayfish.
(laughing)
- This is really good.
So we're gonna go and explore that abandoned...
Probably abandoned hotel over there?
- [Elay] Yeah.
Well it looks abandoned.
But, yeah, I guess we'll find out.
- Mmm.
- There could be people living in there.
Free building, et cetera.
But, we are pretty far from the town
so it wouldn't surprise me if it was still abandoned.
Riley lost my favourite water bottle.
No! (laughing)
Hang on, let me try and swing ya.
(laughing)
(upbeat guitar music)
- [Riley] This is getting a bit eerie, hey.
- Yeah, it's super eerie.
- [Riley] I'm getting that--
- I'm a little like scared.
- [Riley] Post apocalyptic vibe.
- Yeah, It totally is.
I am so unbelievably on edge right now.
And I don't know why.
It just doesn't feel...
It just doesn't feel right.
Like, I don't know.
It's hard to explain.
- Ah, would you relax? - This is weird.
Let's get out.
(upbeat guitar music)
- Oh!
Backgammon!
- [Elay] Oh!
Epic!
It's broken.
- [Riley] It's a bit broken.
- [Elay] I don't know if you should take it.
- [Riley] Well, I'd rather fix it up and use it,
than have it rot here.
- [Elay] Yeah.
I guess.
There's heaps of games here.
(slow guitar music)
Butterflies everywhere Riles.
What are you doing?
- Don't you worry about me Elayna.
Go and explore that house over there.
- [Elay] No!
No, it always. (laughing)
- [Riley] That afternoon, we caught up
with our French mate, Matu.
We're off in search of lobsters for a second time.
The water was super murky on the windward side of the island
and there was pretty crazy surge.
But we had heard that this would be the best place
to try to find them.
(slow techno music)
- Yeah!
(laughing)
- [Elay] Whoo!
It's a good size.
(laughing)
Yeah!
Three lobster.
One snapper.
Not bad.
To think I was gonna stay home and edit.
(laughing)
That was so good.
- This is the life.
This is what we're talking about.
- So we've got some battered fish.
I'm frying up a piece for myself.
And we've got one half a crayfish each.
That is a Blood Moon everyone.
Just rising up now.
- [Riley] What are we doing Elayna?
- Riley's convinced me to scrape the hull this morning.
So that's what we're doing.
- [Riley] We should be able to push up off the floor
and that would actually apply leverage.
- Which is a first.
So it's going to be interesting.
(upbeat music)
What have you found?
- [Riley] This is what got in my ear in the Galapagos.
Having that in your ear is actually extraordinarily painful.
- Riles is just going to pick up
our friends from the other two boats.
And they're gonna come onboard for the day.
We're gonna go trolling on the outer reef.
Hopefully catch something.
And the boys can jump in the water.
That's the plan.
So who have we got here?
The Media Luna crew right here.
Bona is the back.
Ready for a nice day of sailing around Barbuda.
Hopefully catching a few fishes along the way.
- [Elay] Fingers crossed.
(laughing)
♪ She's never gonna quit, never gonna quit ♪
♪ Die with me as is ♪
♪ Do real ya ♪
♪ Someday, she starts ♪
- No I'm too scared to be hopeful.
We're just going for a cruise.
If we catch a fish that'd be nice.
- [Elay] That's a good way to look at it.
♪ She died the other day ♪
- [Elay] Pressure's on mate!
Pressure's on! - Pull those lines in!
- [Elay] Pull the lines in!
(yelling)
- [Riley] It's a Marlin!
- [Elay] It's a Marlin!
Come on baby!
(yelling)
♪ I wanna feel it too ♪
♪ I wanna feel it ♪
♪ I don't wanna move too slow ♪
- Forward! - Forward, forward!
♪ This is touch and go ♪
♪ I wanna feel it too ♪
♪ I wanna feel it too ♪
- [Elay] Woo!
(laughing)
- Now if you're going mental.
♪ I can't realise ♪
- Can you kick it into gear now?
- [Elay] Yup!
How's that for speed?
♪ Get up, the only truth here for me ♪
- [Riley] Beautiful!
- [Elay] Yeah?
- Nice!
(yelling)
- I was not expecting a Marlin.
- Why, and you landed it. - I wanted a Wahoo.
- [Elay] Good job everyone!
- Are you a bit tired mate?
- Mm-hmm.
- [Elay] Big day in the sun?
And you haven't drunken any water.
- I don't know if I told you,
but I caught a Marlin.
(laughing)
- We've formed a bit of a convoy.
We've got Matu hanging back.
Our Aussie friends getting real close.
But they're not gonna overtake us.
And we're heading around the corner to the tower
to anchor for a few days.
And hopefully head into town tomorrow and do some things.
♪ I guess I'll go, 100 miles ♪
♪ You can hear the whistle blow ♪
- [Elay] Tune in next week as we get our hands dirty
and really get to know the Barbadians and their story.
(upbeat music)
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