Delos was a pretty quiet boat
with just the three of us on board. Camilla, Greg, and
Cheyenne had flown home and we were spending
our time catching up on some boat chores. Every now and then
we'd feel the need to get away from the
Nosy Be anchorage, away from the internet,
away from the parties. So we'd head out to
our favorite anchorages around the incredible
cruising area of Nosi Be. Sometimes we'd stay
out for a week or more, only returning when our
fresh veggies ran out. This week was special though,
it was Karin's birthday and the birthday
princess requested sun, sand, of course diving. Mr. Brady. What's up, bro? Nice office you have here, bro. Sunday, work day. Sunday, work day. Yep. You know what I was thinking? I was thinking we do an
afternoon sunset mission to the top of Nosy Komba. Oh, that sounds good. I like it. We'll hike to the top. Delos was anchored
off of a small island just to the east of Nosy
Be called Nosy Komba. There's not a lot of
happening on Nosy Komba. There's no roads, no
cars, and no electricity. Village life is simple. The people here hike
the mountain trails in search of valuable
hardwoods and make a living carving and weaving some
pretty amazing things that are sold all over Madagascar. At the center of the village
lies the school yard. The playground is nothing
more than a cement slab that doubles as
the village market, but nobody seems to mind. Our plan was to walk
through the village to the western
side of the island and follow a trail
as high as we could to get a view of the sunset. Try and lift it, Brady. This thing he's carrying up is-- he's saying it's
120-something kilos. Can I try? And he's carrying
it up this mountain. [LAUGHTER] It's like a person. OK Brady, carry it
to the top for him. We'll see you when you get back. Whoa. It's like-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] I'd say it's a good-- That's crazy. It say it's a good like, Karin. I don't know if it's 100 but-- It's like 50 kilos or something. Yeah, it's like 50 maybe. OK, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Just a completely
different way of life. Like, I mean-- I was like puffing. I was like, [GASPING]. I mean, what did
it take us here? Maybe in half an hour
to walk up or something? Like walking pretty good. But it's just, you know,
the fitness is crazy. What are we doing
up here anyway? Well we kind of want to a
little time lapse of the sunset. So we're going to try and see
if we can do it from here. It's a pretty sweet view. Yeah, it's a great view. When the sun gets a little
lower it's going to be-- Awesome. Spectacular. Oh, how'd it go? That guy is crazy. I got to the top and he
wanted to take it back for me. So I just handed it
over and he just pops it on the back of the shoulders and
puts his hands in his pockets and just walks away. He was fit though. That rice was
soaked, like sweat. Yeah. Like gross. I don't want to buy rice
from the market any more. I guess you don't need to
salt your rice, though. This is the best
time right here. Magic hour. Yeah, this is intense. It's crazy. Look at it's head. The birthday girl. It's my birthday today. How old are you today? I am 28 today. I had to think about it. Whoa dude. I know. I'm getting mature. I'm becoming a mature woman. You're like a fine cheese. Oh, I like fine cheese. What are we doing for
your birthday today? It's your special day. Yeah. We're going out to Tanikely. We're going to
dive because that's my request for my birthday. Really good dive from the boat. And then today it's a solar
eclipse which I haven't really seen, ever, that is
almost full, which is really, really exciting. How do you feel
about me turning 28? I think it's awesome. I think it's a good age to be. It means that I met
you when you were 22 and you've been on board Belos-- Belos-- Delos for, this is
your sixth year of sailing. How crazy is that? Pretty crazy. I think it's gonna
be a good year. Yeah, I think so, too. It's a pretty perfect
morning for a dive. The sun is out. Nothing better than sitting on
the back deck in the morning. Putting a wet suit on. There's not so many people yet. I think we're quite early. We're just going to
dive from the boat. The vista looks
pretty good, too. I'm really excited
to get in the water because it's getting
hot right now. We've got enough
bananas to feed an army. Every time I walk
past here I've made it my goal to eat one or else
they're going to go bad. I know. I've had like six today already. I'm so full of bananas. Tanikely, what a
little gem, huh? So Tanikely is a
national park and there's a 10,000 ariary fee per person. $3. $3 per person to
be here and dive and go on the island and stuff. And it's cool
because they always have people on the
island making sure that there's not fishermen out
here and it's all protected. So it's worth it, $3 per
person to come here and dive. But they come to the
boat and collect it and they usually show up
right away when you pull up. And we haven't seen them and
we're going to go for the dive. So we're going to put the
money on the end of this stick. Hang it out there. Hang it out for them. [INAUDIBLE] put
the handle there. [MUSIC PLAYING] Happy birthday. Whose birthday is it? It's my birthday today. Can you believe there's a
solar eclipse on your birthday? I know, isn't that crazy? In Madagascar of all places. So Brian is setting up the
tripod for the solar eclipse. You think it will work, Bry? I don't know. I think it'll work. Yeah? I don't see why not. What are you snacking on, Bry? It's our last pack of
South African [INAUDIBLE].. [LAUGHTER] What happened? One of the local guys
didn't want to see it. He said, I don't want
to look into the sun. [LAUGHTER] A little soggy. Really? Do they work? Yeah, they work really good. It's already happening. Let me see. Put it in front of the camera. Look. No, you have to go to the sun. I see no nothing. Oh yeah, shit. There it is. Oh my god. Can you really see that? Yeah. That's awesome. Look, it looks like the moon. It is the moon. No it's the sun and the moon. The sun is actually-- Oh the sun looks like the moon. Look at it. Whoa that's crazy. Cool, huh? How fucking awesome is that? We should set this
up as a time lapse. Yeah, you're right. [? Boomtown, ?] the
glasses was a game-changer. And now we can
actually see something. We would have been standing
here like a bunch of idiots. But you can definitely feel
it changing now, right? Like, it's not warm. I almost felt a
little bit of a chill. Yeah. Crazy. And it's kind of a weird light. Like, it should be way brighter. It's probably hard to tell
through the camera, but-- [MUSIC PLAYING] (SINGING) There's a place
I go to no one knows it. [INAUDIBLE] Yeah, it's starting
to come back now. That was our maximum, 12:48. I have goosebumps. It's getting bright
a lot quicker, too. Yeah. [INAUDIBLE] It had already been a
pretty epic birthday for my Swedish princess,
but I still have one more trick up my sleeve. I'm the king of the world. Not really. But it's my birthday. Our buddy
[? Madagangsta ?] came by to sing Karin a
happy birthday song. And for the first
time in I don't know how long, we left Mr.
Brady and [? Madagangsta ?] on Delos and for the
princely sum of 99 euros I found us a fancy
terrorist resort. I'm like the luckiest girl ever. Look at this place,
it's so cool. Look at this place, huh? There's a TV. Brian is spoiling me like crazy. Walk outside, we
got a beach bungalow with a [INAUDIBLE] and a big TV. And Brian is taking
a shower right now and I'm going to have a
massage before dinner. I mean, I don't know. It's just too cool. And we're going to stay here
for a day and just relax and it's my birthday. Happy birthday, Kazza. Wee. So we have some nice
ladies that showed up. Did they leave? Now, they're on the bow. These nice ladies that showed
up to the boat and they're trying to sell us crab. I saw them paddle
from the far corner so I feel bad turning them down. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Oh, it's a big boy. Shit. Mm. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Oh, for the favor? Like medicine? Yeah, yeah. Medicine? Like, [INAUDIBLE] or something? Yeah, I think so. How about Grandpa? Grandpa. Grandpa. Grandpa will work. [INAUDIBLE] thank you. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Thank you. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] So I think it's a
pretty good deal. 20,000 ariary. What's that? About $6? 6 bucks. For four crabs. This one's missing
one of his big ones. But it's crazy how
they tie them up, man. Yeah. It was a pretty chill night. The evening was calm
and the moon was bright. But before we could begin our
crab feast something outside grabbed our attention. The tides Are crazy right now. Well I looked outside-- Holy shit, that is epic. Oh my god. And it's literally
land right there. It's not focusing right. That island wasn't there
a couple of hours ago. I've never seen the
tides this big here. Because it was six-- Can you shine again? Because you can't see,
the focus is not right. Oh there you are. We had six, almost seven meters
under us when we anchored here. Right. And now we have two, 2.4. So we're not on the bottom yet. If there's 2.5 under Delos,
it's 4.5 meters [INAUDIBLE] Fuck, man, if we would
have anchored there-- Oh, yeah, we'd be lying
on our side right now. Laying on our side right now. Yeah so it's a bit scary. [INAUDIBLE] So Brian is
just checking the tide. Dead low's in about
25 minutes then it'll start coming back up. It's so freaky to see the
land right there, though. Dude, this is one of
those times you like, [INAUDIBLE] somebody's-- something-- I don't know. It's-- Yeah. Brady's actually going to
go in in the paddle board and just have a little look
around with the depth sounder and just see if we
could perhaps pick up a little bit of
anchor chain just to move us even five meters more
away would be a big difference. Seven and 1/2 feet right here. OK. And then it goes to one. One? There's like a big
ledge right there. [INAUDIBLE] big. 11, 12. So it definitely deepens up. So we could probably take
in some chain, no problem. Yeah. Here we go. OK, and now after doing
that we're in 2.7. So we haven't gained
a lot of depth, but we're further away
from the shallow bits. So that's good. Thanks for doing that, brother. Yeah. So you had a pretty good
night's sleep, right? Yeah, I slept really good. And we didn't land. No. So that's good. But now the wind's from
the other direction and we're right over
the shallow spot. So if we don't leave soon-- Yeah. It's dropping fast, too, so-- We go. We're out. Look at-- see the
one in the front? Yeah. See he's got the fish? Yeah. That's cool, man, I've never
seen them hunting before. It's so cool. And he's just carrying
the fish around, which is kind of strange. It's just so chill. We should get the GoPro, huh? Yeah, if we're going to
stick around for a bit. [MUSIC PLAYING] I was just snorkeling straight
up to the back of the boat, doing nothing wrong,
just snorkeling up and an eel came up from
underneath the boat. Let me see your finger. He just nicked me. I said, what the
[BLEEP] was that? I thought it was a log
or something floating. And then kind of was
looking me going, oh shit, like he was scared like he
didn't know what it was. And then he just went back down. I've never seen them
off the reef before. What was he doing? So you've been
bitten by a monkey. Yep. By a barracuda
and now by an eel. Yep. Amongst other things. Amongst other things. Sometimes, Mr. Brady, sometimes
life is not as straightforward as it should be. Why are you destroying
our regulator for the-- We need to fill our propane
tanks and in a lot of places it's not as
straightforward as just taking your tank in and having
them plug it into the big tank and filling it. Like, nobody does that
here in Madagascar. So what you have to do is
buy a regular regulator that fits one of the tanks here. And then you have to remove
the guts out so that it's not a regulator. And then you have to find a
way to hook it up to your tank and then you put the
new tank up on top and you just let it drop
down into your tank. I got it to work one
time in the Philippines and we're about
to run out of gas. So I am trying to replicate
whatever I did last time. So that basically turns from
a regulator to an adapter. An adapter. Free flows. Yeah, a free flow
high pressure adaptor. And what are the
dangers involved? Explosion, you can
freeze yourself with LPG gas, which
I did last time. It flash-freezes your skin. What-- Come out of there. So far it looks like
it's working good. So here's the fixed regulator
that's not a regulator anymore. And then we've made the
other understand end of this tank out of some
spare dive adapters and things that we have that happened
to be the right thread. And then we'll do
it-- we're doing it on the back here
so that if it does leak, then the gas just gets
blown off the back of the boat. [INAUDIBLE] give out. Yeah. Blew the top of it right off. Really? Yeah. Failure. That's how you freeze yourself. Yeah. This is attempt two and
we modified this regulator to be a little bit
stronger because it didn't hold the pressure last time. Jammed it full of goodness
and then zip tied it. OK, so, I got my
safety glasses on. [INAUDIBLE] OK, it's holding. Do you hear any leaks? No, let's get the soap and
water and rub it around. I'm going to open this tank. It's going. It sounds awfully fast. Well a little-- I think it'll-- It'll equalize. It'll go fast until
it equalizes pressure. And then it'll-- And then it'll start dripping. Yeah. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] We have so much
fishing gear, huh? Yeah. We had a lot of stuff that was
given to us by other cruisers specifically to give
to people in Madagascar because they actually
have so little I think the average salary
for one of these fishermen is something like just
over a euro a day. Bye. Bye, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]. And so, you know, they
make their lives fishing and they don't have anything. So any time we see
some guys paddling by I try and come off the back and
wave them over and give them some old line or some
hooks because they can't get spare hooks here
and some lures and stuff. So hopefully it'll
be good for them. It's always nice to do. Definitely. So that was it. The birthday week of Kazz out in
the islands had come to an end. [MUSIC PLAYING] (SINGING) Heed this
warning from the earth. Up next, we head out
for a week of buddy boating with [INAUDIBLE],, our
traditional Malagash pirogue. [LAUGHTER] [INAUDIBLE] First thing in the morning. That's a wrap. (SINGING) All starts with
choice, ends up as one voice. Like it? I like it a lot. God damn it. Yeah, but you say happy-- I'm not recording
yet but practice. Say, happy birthday Karin. Karin! Yeah. So just say, happy
birthday, Karin. Karin, we like you all. Go, go. Wait.
