- [Stephen] This video is
brought to you by Squarespace. - [Jessica] Hi, this
is my husband, Stephen. I'm Jess, and that's
our little one, Hunter. After spending the last three months living out of our converted van, we've decided to tackle
a new type of tiny house, one that floats, we have
no idea how to drive... Oh my gosh, we've gone. (Jessica screeching) - Again, again.
- No, you do it, you do it. - Wait, wait, wait, let me just... - [Jessica] And is
surrounded by crocodiles. Let's do this. This is going to be one crazy adventure. Since coming to the Northern Territory, I think we have fallen in
love with the wildlife, and especially wildlife on the water. And we were looking for
something a little bit different than what we've already experienced, because we have been having some amazing boat experiences here, but they've only been an hour or two long. So we were searching and we
found out that if you come to Corroboree Billabong, you
can hire out a houseboat. You don't need a boat license, and, we've just checked in, we're spending two nights
living on a houseboat. So I've just finished
stocking up the kitchen, throwing our luggage in a bedroom, and we are about to drive a
boat for the very first time, and it's not only a boat, it's a houseboat. They've left us with the keys. (Hunter muttering) Her name is Janine. - What are we doing? - Stephen, are you ready to
drive a boat for the first time? - [Stephen] In the middle of nowhere in croc-infested waters? (Jessica laughing) - Let's do this. - Alrighty, co-captain. Keys need to go in. (Stephen muttering) Alrighty, so they've anchored us, given us a crash course
on how not to crash. - I'm on anchor duty. Here we go. I'm meant to pull it with my hands. - So what did he say? We drive up to it. (Jessica grunting) - Yeah. Oh, hang on. You need to drive closer. - [Stephen] Closer? (relaxing atmospheric music) Oops, sorry, bubba. Come on, Jess. You can do it. - This is (indistinct). - Oh my gosh this is heavy. (Stephen grunting) (anchor clacking) This houseboat does a cool 2,700 revs. So, it's gonna be a nice, gentle cruise down the billabong today. (Hunter mumbling) - [Jessica] So this one on a croc watch. Have you seen one yet, bubba? (upbeat electronic music) (Jessica muttering) (upbeat electronic music) (Hunter laughing) ♪ Sometimes we're inside out ♪ ♪ Twist turning upside down ♪ ♪ You're the place where I call home ♪ Okay, I'm nervous, but
Stephen is gonna teach me how to drive this thing. - This is like... - I can't even drive a car,
really, let alone this. (Stephen chuckling) - You'll do so good. But I feel like it's apprentice teaching the apprentice 'cause... - This is true, someone who just learned how to drive a boat, a houseboat, teaching me how to drive a houseboat. - Luckily, the only traffic is crocodiles. So... - So you've gone slow, let's go faster. (Stephen laughing) - All right. - Hold on, Hunter. (Hunter mumbling) - So, it's kinda like... Remember your first car, how
you had no power steering? - [Jessica] Yeah.
- [Stephen] It's like that. - My little, green Hyundai Elantra, whatever it was. - And you're gonna be turning. - What was it? - Excel. - That's it, an Excel. Huh? - So you wanna turn. (Stephen laughing) Otherwise, we're going
straight for the water. - Oh my gosh, we're going... (Jessica screeching) - Okay. Turn, turn, turn. Okay.
- No, you do it. You do it. - Wait, wait, wait. Let me just fix this. (Hunter muttering) - So we spend the afternoon just cruising along the billabong. And to be honest, it is way easier to steer than I expected. It's actually really easy. We're finding a place
to stop for the night. I think maybe can just
park up along here, Steve, what do you think? (Hunter muttering) - [Stephen] Yeah, that looks pretty good. Nobody around, just us. - [Jessica] Just us and a
little munchkin loving this. - [Stephen] This one. - [Jessica] It really is handy because it's all kind of caged in. So she's just loving running
around, looking for the crocs. Still haven't spotted
one, have we, Hunter? - Who would have thought upgrading from van life to boat life meant this one's gonna have so much room to run around? - [Jessica] Hunter. Are we steaming in? Hunter, what do you reckon
about this spot, huh? - [Stephen] Is this spot good?
- [Jessica] Is it good? - [Stephen] You gonna
do the anchor for us? (Hunter muttering) (Stephen chuckling) I think the anchor is the size of Hunter. (Hunter mumbling) - I'm parking up tonight, Steve. You be anchor boy. - Do you remember what he told us? - Yeah. He said, "Throw the anchor
and hope for the best." (Stephen laughing) - And I think... - Throw the anchor, this
is perfect, go, go, go. - [Stephen] This is perfect? (chain clanking) (chain creaking) (Jessica laughing) - [Jessica] What was that? - Did I get you a little wet? (pole clunking) Being on a billabong, you guys can imagine just how crazy the mozzies are gonna be tonight. (parents beeping) - Before I start cooking dinner, I thought we need to give them a tour of our new, humble abode,
so welcome to Janine. This is our little, I guess,
downstairs patio area. We have a little dining table, barbecue, which is where I'm gonna cook tonight, and where all the magic happens, where Jessie steers,
(Stephen laughing) and if you come through here... This place sleeps six people, which I did not expect
because when you come in here, first of all, there's
double bunk beds here, so if you have a big family,
you can fit a lot of them. Bunk beds here, and here is a bedroom, a double bed, so there's two more people. If you are here with a little one, I definitely recommend
keeping an eye on them 24/7 because this staircase is
a whole lot of fun for her and a whole lot of nervous
heart attacks for Jessie. (Stephen laughing) Up we go, bubba. - [Stephen] So Hunter wants to show off the master bedroom then? - Yes, she does. She's cutting corners, there's
a whole other area down here, but if you come up here,
you'll see our bedroom. (relaxed acoustic music) And welcome to the master bedroom, and the reason we're calling
it the master bedroom is this is the one that has the balcony. (door creaking) (relaxed acoustic music) I think this is the nicest
views from the boat up here. I can not wait in the morning, having a coffee and enjoying the sunrise. Still trying to spot crocodiles. They are around here somewhere, Hunter. Where are they? (Hunter muttering) Oh, on this side? Oh, okay. - [Stephen] She wants to show the kitchen. - Mm, good idea. - [Stephen] To be honest, as much as I want to find crocodiles, the night I'm sleeping is not the night I wanna be seeing any crocodiles. (Hunter muttering) - And in here is our kitchen. So we have a stove top and oven, a fridge, a full sink area,
and with such nice views, I love how many windows
there are on the boat. And in here, we have a full bathroom, shower, toilet and sink. (relaxed acoustic music) - [Stephen] I think Hunter
is ready for dinner, and to be honest, I'm
also ready for dinner. I think my favorite thing
about this houseboat is just how rustic it looks. It pretty much just feels like a tin shed that's been placed on a floating pontoon, chucked an engine on there, it is all off the grid as well, so there's solar on the roof, we pretty much have enough water to keep us going for the weekend. This is really cool. I just love all these little,
tiny house experiences that we're gonna be having in Australia. (upbeat electronic music) (onions sizzling) ♪ I said baby ♪ ♪ Let me hold your hand ♪
- Quick Hunter toy update, we've been working out in the van what she likes and what she doesn't like. She kinda wasn't into blocks, so we're swapping the blocks out, gonna go donate them, and instead got her her first Lego set. So we got her some Duplo. While Jess cooks, I'm probably gonna have
more fun than Hunter. I can't remember the last
time I played with Lego. (upbeat country music) (sausages sizzling) Do you like your treat? (whistle blowing) (Hunter laughing) (Stephen laughing) All right, it's a whistle now. ♪ Snap snap ♪ ♪ Where's the crocodiles ♪ ♪ Snap, snap, snap ♪ ♪ Where's the crocodiles ♪ ♪ Snap, snap, snap ♪ ♪ Where's the crocodiles ♪ ♪ Snap, snap, snap ♪ That sunset. Wow, that is so beautiful. It's so quiet, all I
can hear are the birds. (Hunter muttering) (relaxing atmospheric music) Alrighty, sorted for the night, I definitely feel like a dad, sausage sizzle for dinner, and I think we're just gonna play Lego until the sun goes down. See you guys in the morning. ♪ The end of my favorite road ♪ ♪ Above the rest ♪ ♪ You're the best I know ♪ (water trickling) (fire creaking) ♪ You are my favorite shade of rose ♪ ♪ A flower made on my favorite stones ♪ ♪ I love the ground ♪ ♪ Where your ruins are found ♪
(Hunter muttering) - Honey, hey. - [Stephen] Honey. (Stephen laughing) - She's off. We were very impressed. We woke up this morning
and boat had not moved, so it meant that our anchor worked. I was just... in the middle of the night, I was just picturing us waking up and we were like off
drifting off and away, but it's all good. - [Stephen] Down in South
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the river as we go past. (water trickling) (upbeat electronic jingle) (Hunter mumbling) (upbeat electronic jingle) (Hunter mumbling) No, mom has cooked us breakfast. How good does this look? We have pancakes and strawberries, which one do you wanna go for first? A little piece of pancake. Or you want some straw... Okay, good girl. (Stephen groaning) So good. Sharing these out, or is
this just Hunter's plate? (Hunter mumbling) (Stephen laughing) Okay, I'll take one strawberry. There we go. - Should we cheers? Hunter, ready? - Do you wanna cheers with your water? - Are you ready, Hunter? Okay, cheers. Cheers. Cheers. So just spent the last, few hours watching the birds duck
down under the water and catch fish. It's so weird, every now and then, you see a little bubble. I think it's gonna be a crocodile, and instead, a bird comes out and flies straight out of
the water, it is pretty cool. But Hunter just had her nap, and now I think we are heading off. So far we spent all our
time on the billabong, but today, we're gonna
head off and go to a river. There is a connecting river, Mary River, and we're gonna go find some crocs. So in terms of knowing where to go, we really just have this
old-school navigational map right at the back of the boat with a few spots on where we can go, and spots where we can't go. Hopefully, heading north
will take us to the river. (Stephen muttering) (Jessica muttering) - Time. (chain creaking) (upbeat acoustic music) ♪ I saw you pass me in your limousine ♪ ♪ And just seeing you brought
back forgotten dreams ♪ ♪ As I watched your car roll
by this thought took place ♪ ♪ May the kangaroo ♪ - [Jessica] One of my favorite things about being on this houseboat, I think it's because we're on a billabong. There is no waves or current
or anything like that. So we're just floating along
and don't feel seasick at all, which is so good because sometimes, I can feel a little water
sickness, seasickness. It's just so nice, but I'm coming to the kitchen while Stephen takes us over to the river, and I'm making us a little
kind of board for lunch, it's like one of our favorite things to have for lunch. We've got a bunch of cheeses, we've got some hummus, Jatz, of course, the rest of the strawberries because Hunter is obsessed, I've got some smoked salmon. I was saying to Stephen, "I feel like now that we've done this and we've realized that
boating isn't so scary, we should go get our skippers license, 'cause then we can do this way more often, otherwise we're gonna
always have to find places where it's, you know, no
skipper license is allowed, which I think is rare." I'm sure most times you're gonna need some sort of boat license
to do things like this. - We have just spotted out first croc. - [Jessica] We can confirm that there are massive
crocodiles in this billabong. - And literally, 50 meters from where we
were sleeping last night. (Stephen chuckling) - Who knew? - I'm glad we knew that this morning and not last night. They are seriously massive. There's now another one we
spotted on the other side, and we saw him and it just goes. (Stephen muttering) Under water. Wow, this is cool. All right, let's see how
many crocs we can spot today. (eerie atmospheric music) - [Jessica] Another crocodile, bubba. (eerie atmospheric music) - [Stephen] Alrighty, so we're
leaving the billabong now, and there is a little
bit of a turnoff here, and I think we're gonna
go to the Mary River, 'cause I've heard it
looks completely different to whoa, hello. What have you been doing? - Hunter spotted it. - Thank you.
- Hello, co-captain. You need a strawberry? (Stephen moaning) - Love a good cheese butter. Alrighty, I might switch the reins to Jess and go have a snack. - Oh, which way are we going, this way?
- Down here. (relaxed electronic music) (water rustling) (relaxed electronic music) This has actually been
so nice and relaxing. We've just being cruising
down the billabong, seen so much wildlife, we've seen birds diving down,
getting catches of the day, we've also seen crocodiles
going through lily pads. It's just been so nice, and I think just the coolest thing. Sent a message to my sister, and I showed her what she doing. She just expected someone to be driving, I was like, "No, it's
literally just us on the river, we're in control of where
we go, what we see." And I think that is the coolest thing. Actual a little excitement, especially when you've
never driven a boat before or pretty inexperienced, it just has that extra
kind of spice to the trip. (Stephen laughing) (feet tramping) - Oh, I feel like this
is an even nicer spot than last night, Steve. This time we've decided
to park up for the night right next to... (Hunter mumbling) Oh, she's found a crocodile. - [Stephen] And what have you found? (Hunter mumbling) - [Jessica] What I was gonna say is that we decided to
stop off at some lily pads because we keep noticing that there's like little
crocs around there, so we thought we might spot some. But this is so beautiful, so peaceful, it's been a good day. (relaxed acoustic music) ♪ Go ♪ ♪ Now ♪ ♪ Don't think twice ♪ ♪ Breathe ♪ ♪ Deep ♪ ♪ Close your eyes ♪ ♪ Let's find a getaway ♪ (relaxed acoustic music) ♪ Say ♪ (relaxed atmospheric music) (birds chirping) (soothing atmospheric music) - [Stephen] Good morning, everybody, just woken up, and there's just this haze
covering the billabong. Wow. So eerie. (birds chirping) Water is so calm and flat, and
all we can hear is the birds just waking up. (soothing atmospheric music) - [Jessica] Waking up on our
final morning on the boat was a sendoff we couldn't have asked for. The haze around the billabong, the early birds on the
same schedule as Hunter, and the bubbles of what was lurking below made for an unforgettable cruise, like a cherry on top of a perfect weekend. (soothing atmospheric music) - [Stephen] He's got
something in his mouth. (soothing atmospheric music) (Hunter mumbling) (birds chirping) - Oh thanks. (birds chirping) (soothing atmospheric music) See, this is so cool 'cause Hunter can get so
up and close to nature. Bird's currently her favorite. (Jessica muttering) Yeah, it's massive. (Jessica muttering) (soothing atmospheric music) (Jessica muttering) (soothing atmospheric music) Alrighty, everybody, time
to bring the boat back. Hope you enjoyed this little episode. If you want us to do some
more boat life stuff, let us know below 'cause
we have had so much fun. - I definitely think if you're
coming up to the top end here in the NT, definitely look at doing one
of these houseboat experiences. I feel like it is the
best way to see the nature on the water. - And to make it a bit more fun, yeah. Thanks so much, guys. If you're new around here, hit subscribe, and we'll see you next time. - Hunter, you can say bye bye. (Hunter mumbling) She found a meerkat. - Okay. (Jessica laughing) We got important stuff to do. Hope you guys have a good weekend. See ya.
- See ya.
