Nassau, JAWS Beach & World's Largest Underwater Sculpture (Sailing Curiosity)

It is a busy day aboard Curiosity. We are taking care of business today. Let me show you around. On our sail here to New Providence, Providence Island, we realized we had a leak. A pretty good sized one. And it is coming from right up there in the ceiling. So we've been chasing that down. Found it. Going to fix it. What's going on in there? Jason is taking care of laundry. Laundry day. Run the generator, make water, wash a load of clothes. Yeah. Go into town, get groceries. Go into town, get groceries. Water heater on. I'm still talking about the generator. We're close. And we've got bicycles out. Ready to go. Got some friends right over there in that. Nope. That boat. Yep. That one right there. From Germany. I think they're going to go explore with us for a little bit. And we're just airing everything out. Desalinating. Cleaning up. Trying to make a livable boat again. But first things first. Can't go anywhere until turn everything off. So first, the water heater. Normal shutdown procedure. Yes, I read the manual every single time so I don't screw it up. All right. So I turned everything off. Then basically I have to turn everything back on so that we can do a freshwater flush on the system. Flush out all the seawater so that we can then turn it off and it's stored and ready. Well, can sit for like three to four days and then we have to run it again. Okay. That was a very abbreviated version of our water maker, but kind of gives you a brief idea of what we do to make water. We do that process kind of in reverse and it runs for a while. We make about 40 gallons an hour and it's a beautiful thing to be able to turn seawater into drinking water. The RO system that we have was part of the boat when we bought it and it does work really well. It's definitely very manual and hands-on compared to some of the other options we've seen out there, but it works like a champ. Okay. Now I can turn off the generator. First. No more engine noise. We'll be back kitty cats. Let's go see something. We've got to find it first. Then we can see it. Let's go. Third time, every time. Nuh-uh. Sometimes it's the first time. Well, first time after we start it, but it's like when it's dead cold. Third time, every time. Okay. Let's go see if our friends want to go. I forgot. I did that. By the way, Nikki, I hooked that on there. Thanks for letting me know. We're leaving. Not really. Just kidding. Somebody's cleaning their boat. Yeah. We're not the only ones that are, uh, taking on chores today. Have we caught you cleaning? Yeah. We've been doing the same. The most important part. Yeah, of course. When you pop in on a cruiser, you never know what they're doing. They're cleaning, got bread in the oven, doing a bunch of chores. They actually chartered their boat and they have a charter coming, I guess, on Sunday. Plus a big blow, so they got a lot to prepare for. Sorry. I think we'll convince them to play tomorrow. Tell me that doesn't look like a swimming pool. Amazing. Just ridiculous. Ridiculously gorgeous. From where we're anchored in Jaws Beach, just, I don't know, maybe one nautical mile over, is the Clifton Heritage Park, which I'm assuming this must be it. And it's supposed to have some heritage things. I don't know, old buildings or something. I'm not really quite sure. There wasn't a ton of information about it. I didn't have good enough internet to really research, so we thought, eh, we'll just come and see for ourselves. And then part of the heritage park is the new sculpture, new-ish in the last few years, from Jason DeClaire's whatever, anyway, supposed to be this huge underwater sculpture. And that is kind of my mission for here. I want to see that. So we're searching for it. Let's see if we can find it. This could be promising. Just in case there's some snorkelers here, because there is a nice big reef. And I'm assuming this is it. I don't want to have the prop in the water. I don't want people to be afraid. So we're gonna row over. It's so weird, though, that this would be like a great snorkeling spot, and this is where all the big freighters come. And then you've got some sort of power plant or something. I don't know, whatever that is. Definitely interesting. It's coming up on your left. Oh, I think that might be it. That must be her. Maybe this was very intentional, because I know it's supposed to raise awareness about our environmental impact. So maybe seeing those smokestacks in the background was part of the deal. We will mark the charts and explore her tomorrow. Very cool. All right, we found it. Looks risky. Yeah, might be rocky. Okay. All right. Nevermind. Maybe we come back when we're wearing our bathing suits. Yep. No exploring land today. Not here anyway. Look at the color of that water, though. Ah, paradise. Now we look like alcoholics, but that's actually from like two months worth. Okay, we're gonna switch cameras, and time to go. Ready? Yep. Left our little mantis lights on there. So when we come back, the boat won't be dark. Start that boat. Let's go. Sorry, sorry. It's a little bit like sardines in here, but there's plenty of room for all of you. Huh? Uh, maybe like one and a half. One and a half people. We can bring one of you. Who's coming? Here you go. No more pretty water. Water looks radioactive. It's like Simpsons green, baby. Super, super she-she. Expensive. Lots of wealthy, famous people have homes here, and we met a guy at Just Catamarans who owns a catamaran, a very normal catamaran. Yep, he was getting his catamaran worked on while we were getting our catamaran worked on. Exactly, his catamarans, and now he's let us, he's gonna let us tie up to his dinghy so we can, or he's gonna let us tie our dinghy up to his boat so we can go to the grocery store. Because he lives here. Because he lives here, but this is the only way we could ever get in here. Surprised we're not getting kicked out yet. I'm, yeah, the little security thing. You see all the security lights on the way in? Holy cow. Lagota. I sees it. Look at that big pretty sailboat over there. All right, we won't film Adolfo yet until we ask him if he's okay with that. Not everybody likes cameras shoved in their face. It's hard to see all the Chinese. Really? Grocery shopping. Fresh market. Solomon's fresh market. Very fresh. I think we might have gone a little overboard. $300 oops. $288. We got quite a bit of food. Quite a bit of good food. Fresh food. That's the first fresh food place that we found. That's been really good. Dollars in groceries, but it's enough fruits and vegetables to get us by for probably an entire month. How are you guys doing? Good, how are you? Yeah, a little bit. Oh hi Cleo. Cleo's gonna come for the update too. Sorry we left you hanging last night. Last night day. Day night. It turned into night. Yes, we brought our bikes and Adolfo said no way you're not riding your bicycles. He did not think it was a good idea, so he offered to take us to the grocery store, which was super nice. And he's a very private person, a little bit shy. We didn't really film. Yeah, we didn't really. We didn't even ask. No, but once we got in the car and got on the road to the grocery store, we completely understood why he was like don't ride your bicycles to the grocery store. Very narrow roads that move like highways, lots of construction, lots of people. It's definitely the busiest island we've been on. Yeah, so riding a bicycle would have been, we would have made it, but probably not the best idea. A bus or a taxi would have been a better way to go, but it was a fantastic grocery store. Amazing grocery store. It was like Whole Foods almost, right? Like a mix between a Publix and Whole Foods sort of feel. Yeah, very much like a Publix or a HEB or something. I don't know, but anyway, it was really nice. They had a good selection. Fruits and veggies were the best we've seen so far. It's the first time we've had a full fridge full of veggies and fruit since we left Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, so it was awesome. Typical Bahamian pricing from what we've seen at the other stores. We did make one major mistake. Oh man. We saw these tangerines, sumo tangerines, which are very tasty, and I think they were on sale. Like they're supposed to be like, I think like $2.95 per pound or something like that. Yeah. But they didn't ring up that way. No. So for six tangerines, we paid $20. $21. All right, but everything else is great, and trust me, we had one tangerine just a minute ago, and it was good. $20, but it was good. Yeah. So other than that, we are gonna go jump in the water. Right? Yeah. Go actually see the statue. Finally. Yeah. Put the bikes away and get on with our day. All right, I know that was on your Bahamas bucket list, Nikki. What'd you think? Kind of have mixed emotions about it. The statue of the girl herself, or the sculpture, is the largest underwater sculpture in the world right now. And, well, according to the website for the sculpture. And I don't know if it was intentional or not, but that whole industrial scene with the freighters and those smokestacks in the background, I don't know, it just felt like a clash of things. You know, you're supposed to have this natural environment, and the statue itself, or the sculpture, I keep saying statue, it's the design of a young woman hunched over, much like Titan Atlas holding the world on his back, symbolically represents the shouldering of the environmental burden we are asking of younger future generations. And I was looking to see, and I can't find anything about, like, purposefully placing it there, I guess, to make you see that connection of our industry and what we create and what we produce and what we pollute directly affects our oceans. But that's the way that I felt. I thought the statue was, or the sculptures, were interesting. The coral around the area definitely felt like it was not flourishing as much as some of the other reefs that we've seen. Definitely served its point to make you think. Interesting, for sure. Very interesting. Anchor lights on. We'll be back in a little bit. Oh, beer. Oh, yes. Okay, our friends invited us for sundowners. That's the nice German couple. New friends, I should say. We're gonna go have a sundowner, watch the sunset, and we are leaving tomorrow because there's a big, big blow coming. You know, insert expletive there. Yes. Anyway, it's gonna be a big one. It's gonna be a big one. We don't want to be here. No, no, there's no protection from the direction that the wind's about to blow, so everyone's leaving. Yep. Everyone, all two of us. All two of us. We're gonna miss the sunset. I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying. Yeehaw. So these are our friends. Yeah. Hi. Yes. Introduce yourself. I'm Katie. I'm Hannes. Hannes. And what's the name of your boat? The boat's name is Maverick XL. I had a and the first one was a 27 foot boat. I sailed across the Atlantic in 2006 and that's the biggest so far.