So when you first came back in September ten days after the hurricane, what was it like?
Day two on the job, we're all wearing pants today
Go team, go team, go team, go!
no, you don't you need to wash the beans first.
Honestly so funny
Last week was one of the best weeks
We've had in a while. Anchored here in Barbuda in the southeastern side of the island, a place called Spanish Point
the seafood was plentiful and the friends too
Can you kick it into gear now?
Yup!
The weather was in our favor
And we could finally head around the corner to a spot where the town of Barbuda was easily accessible
Us and our friends were going to try and help clean up Barbuda
What are you upto Riley?
Trying to find some food
We've got to buy it
We run out of gas again
No, well, we got it filled up, but we left it in Antigua and now we're in Barbuda
and then [...] ran out
we weren't expecting that to run out though. I'll find you something
You just sit down and relax all right
He's really stressed out
Before..
Give me a storm and ill take it on no worries
Before, honestly he was looking through the pantry cuz cuz I'm working and he's like 'Oh I guess I'll make my own dinner' and I'm like 'okay'
Honestly its so funny
I hear him rummaging through the cupboard, and then yeah, I could hear he's given up and he's like what the f*&^...
and
I'm like 'just settle down. Let me find you something.' He doesn't know what to do
Elayna
I dont think you should eat any more beans today, please no you, you need to wash the beans first Riley
Thoughts?
All there is for us to eat this morning
Is a mocha shake
basically it's coffee and breakfast in one shake so I got some oatmeal in there, coffee, cacao
Some superfood stuff and some agave nectar and ice and milk
I'm sure it'll be all right
If it turns on.. we turned the power off last night to save energy
That's okay, take two
I was a million miles away then, cheers
We met our neighbors at the pier at 8 a.m.. Where we arranged to be picked up by a driver
He took us to meet the man running the cleanup, Maverick
So we're just in the storage house right now
Getting some overalls from maverick
This is the smallest one show me that again
Do you reckon that will fit me?
He got us started straightaway, the aim was to remove all large objects from each paddock, make a pile
Load it into the truck and start on the next block of land whilst Aldon would take it to the dump
So I'm in the truck with Aldon, say hello
hello
You're on truck duty today. Are you driving the truck every day?
Yes ma'am
So I'm just going to the dump with him to see where they're offloading all of the rubbish. So you
dump it all in the one spot, and then you're separating it?
sort of..
the separation hasn't started as yet
we're just dumping everything in one area right now
fair enough
Alright, we're just unhooking the rope.. and we're going to dump it
here she goes
So when you first came back in September ten days after the hurricane. What was it like?
It was very filthy
animals that died stink up the place
a lot more damage was on the ground
But we made progress
from September to now, a lot. A lot of progress
So this is Aldon's house, and he said that only today since September has he actually done a clean up on his own yard, so, this is what we're doing today, cleaning up his yard and the next door neighbours
So we thought that was pretty cool, he said they've been taking care of those who need it most first and only now he feels he can start the cleanup around here
That one's really wedged in there
Found a gold mine in here, problem is, getting all the tin, out there
Alright Elayna
After spending the day in town
Seeing the devastation and hearing a few peoples stories from the hurricane the situation became more real for us in a way only
Six hundred residents came back to help rebuild Barbuda out of the 2,000 that lived there before
the others remain in Antigua
It was good to see that Barbuda was donated generators for power tents to sleep in and a few other basic amenities
Day one complete
So Mavericks gonna pick us up again tomorrow morning in the truck maybe
We got some gloves
He gave me some boots because my ankles were getting all cut up so these are
Donated from the military, and they got a whole bunch of these except the full body suits are
Like massive, they're not going to fit any of us
So we've just decided that we'll wear our own jeans or something tomorrow because we definitely need pants
I'm scratched up to the bone, but yeah, she was good
and the weather's just
turning to crap out here very unexpected actually Riley just checked the weather
We don't know what's going on, but it's not terrible, but there's just waves and I think the wind is wrapping around the island
It's coming around this point here
a lot of splashing going on in here
there is
What are you doing? the washing. right, that makes sense
Just stinking work clothes
oh it does stink.
Does it?
Yeah
maybe its the det, oh its the dettol
Yeah
I was like 'wow that's a strong scent'
so you guys are deciding, just to fill everyone in, you guys are deciding where to leave the boat for
The hurricane season
yeah
is that what you're doing?
Yeah, yeah, okay
decisions decisions
I feel ya
one of my suggestions would be to just go straight down to Bonaire
We only went to Bonaire, but I mean that's a really nice spot it would be a shame to miss that
Our friends felt sorry for us not having any gas so they're gonna join us on the beach as we light a fire and cook some dinner
The realities of time lapsing, you always get left behind by whoever you're with
So I've got no idea where they are. Im just going to look out for a smoke signal
Look at the beautiful pink sand, its so nice
Ginger ale, alright
Matthieu I have to film you
Because other Matthieu in France...
Will want to check if I'm doing this by-the-book
The other Matthieu in France made us ti punch once
So it's French
It's from I believe Martinique,
okay, and what does it consists of?
its very simple
yeah?
You're supposed to use liquid cane sugar
yeah
So i think about a third
Yeah,
maybe a bit less lime juice for third and then run for the rest
yeah
Whats happened?
We nearly got hit by a wave, so we dug a moat
So that means I'm technically not helping, I'm sorry I'm filming
Go team go team go team go
yeah alright
Aldrons picked us up in his truck today, we get to ride in the back
Day two on the job we're all wearing pants today apart from Riley
He only has a few pairs of jeans and he didn't want to wear his skinny leg jeans, be very inappropriate I think
How are you today Riles?
Good, bit puffed but im alright
This little guy was playing with his toys until we came over to clean its house
Then his heart was set on helping us we got him to work
But only for a little while because he didn't have proper shoes on and there was nails and glass everywhere
After a serious morning's work everyone was thrilled to be escorted to the soup kitchen.
Yams, its like a root
Oh ok, its ok, good, good, I dont care any kind of potato is fine
All the workers come here every day to eat for free, so yeah.
Not bad food!
Good food?
Well yea
You won't hurt me mate, I wrestle crocodiles
This lady's name was princess. I had previously notified her of the spider on her hat, and she replied with a 'I don't care
I'll let it curl off later.' She was great
How was your day?
good
we
all went in together
spirits were high and
I think we nailed it a lot quicker than they thought we would, had lunch and got a bit of a minute
Yeah
we did we did all the paddocks allocated to us
fairly quickly so
Maverick was pleased
so satisfying
and so was, what's the other ladies name?
Aldron and Belinda
Belinda was stoked
yeah she's great
Hmm
cool, all right. It's knock off time. What are you doing?
just have a poke around the boat here, clean a few things up
go for a swim
maybe a swim
What's for afternoon tea Riles?
Cereal
My mate [...] would just love this and my other mate Meowsly eats cereal like this
Oh that's weird
every time, its the weirdest thing ive ever seen
does he wipe his chin even when there's nothing on there?
Usually he's dribbling,
Oh weird
Meowsly
Sorry Meows
What are we upto Riley?
Changing spots. I just went and motored over to those two boats, to our mates
Media Luna and Ceylon, and I said stick on
chat, your radios cos none of us young kids
Not that im that young I said stick on your radios because none of us used our radios we're all on WhatsApp
Well we are. anyway, We're gonna go around the corner, Elayna and I are..
and see if it's calmer. There's a northern swell, but a south easterly breeze so we're getting
Slop here and potentially rollers from there, so we're gonna go in
Around this point here and tuck up under tuck up in behind a reef all we're trying to do is
Stay here so that we can keep doing our thing.
So this is where we are
And we're just gonna go around here around the corner
What's wrong? ahh twist
Look at that
look at that Elayna, that is how you do it
I think, can I give you that, up under there. I dont have much longer left in the this left arm
Ready? got it
Wow she's really twisted
It was pretty unlikely that the Anchorage that we're going to check out around the corner would be any better
But we thought that we would check on behalf of ourselves and the two other boats at the Anchorage
What have we done?
Well the
ocean floor topography has changed since the
Hurricanes, I got a bit shallower
Before which you know of course there's going to be errors there, but look at those breakers
Yeah, so the breakers came and we turned around it's quite shallow in parts where it shouldn't necessarily be
We're not going to risk it today, We're gonna go back to our friends
Yeah, you'll see us coming around the point very shortly
Roger. did you get that Byron? and Kate?
Next week we finally
rendezvous with Elon Musk to discuss solar-powered cutlery and begin drawing the blueprints for La Vagabonde de Tres
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