An Escapade of Misadventures in Eleuthera (Sailing Curiosity)

Okay, here's the deal. One of our viewers, David, decided to reach out. He looked at our map of where we currently are. It's on our website. And he found out that we were in Eleuthera. And he decided to contact us and get us a rental car, which is awesome. We've never needed a rental car before, but this strip of land is so long that going by car would be good. And the main reason, he said, was there's a vegetable stand that it looked like we were really craving vegetables. So that is why he got us a car, so we could go to the vegetable stand, explore Eleuthera, and get some nice drone shots, he said, specifically of the pink sand beaches that are in the southern part of Eleuthera. It's just a little drizzly. Excellent day to have a car. The drone, the camera, my shoes, the cooler pack for our vegetables, and it's a serious problem. Fun. Yep, this looks safe. Yes, totally safe. She can't bend over because the backpack will just lose everything that's in the pockets. What an adventure already. Stable yourself. I really can't bend over. Good thing this is a really short battle. Okay, I'm on. You want me to let go? Yep. Crazy days, where the weather isn't right, and you're running late, but you got lots to play. Always makes everything extra exciting. Exciting's one word for it. I'm having fun already, and we've just left. Okay. Made it. Coco de Mama's here is actually not open to the public at the moment. It sounds like they are possibly expanding or something. So anyway, the restaurant is not open, so we will not be able to patronize, but the people who are staying here, who I guess are like park owners, super, super nice people. They were like, no problem. Hang out if you want. Anyway, typical, really nice people here in the Bahamas, whether they're from here or not. And the car was apparently just left somewhere on the highway with keys in it. Also typical Bahamas. So we're going to go on a mission to find the car, and then we will deflate the board, pack up our stuff, and the adventure will continue. Found the car. I kind of do love the like super casual way they do business around here. It's like you can just leave a car with keys in it somewhere. You'll get picked up or dropped off. It's not a big deal. There's no paperwork to sign. Just here's the car. No walk around. A little scratched up. People drive on the left side of the road, but just in case you forget. No, but what side of the car are you on? Oh yeah, I meant this is an American car, so the steering wheel is also on the left. So it's kind of, everything's kind of backwards-ish. I don't even know. It just feels odd. It feels like you're driving normal, or I'm driving normal, but yet on the wrong side of the road. Normally when we go to Europe and stuff, we're on, the steering wheel is on the opposite side of the road too. Opposite side of the car. You know what I'm saying. All right, I'm trying to focus. Leave me alone. There was not a sign or anything. We just turned on a dirt road that was right about where the pin is for the Hatchet Bay Caves. And sure enough, it led us down to this very unmarked entrance. It's literally right here. Yeah, a little overgrown. Gonna get exciting. I'm bummed didn't bring the good flashlights. I know. You know, I have to say, it's hard because when stuff like this isn't protected and isn't on some sort of guided tour, everybody is coming in here, touching everything, and slowly killing it. Killing it all. And leaving the trash behind. People are awesome. You want to come take it out? Sure. Somebody nicely welcoming us there. Yeah, look at that. Welcome to hell. Oh, look at that little ladder. How deep you want to go? Well, I feel like this is one single path, so as long as we don't go on these offshoots, we should be fine. Yeah, I agree. Okay. Time for us to follow our way out. It's hot in here. I was gonna say the same thing. I'm like, that is the warmest cave I've ever been in. That was exciting. After a bit of wandering around, we found French Leave Beach. It's a lot of dirt roads. Anyway, it's supposed to be beautiful. We got lunch. So it's lunchtime. On the pink sand beaches of Eleuthera. The pink sand beaches. We'll see. If the weather, the rain literally just stopped, so if it stays like this for more than 10 minutes, we'll fly the drone. Greek yogurt, a local avocado, some fresh cilantro, black bean, corn, green chili mixture with a little bit of hot sauce. Little lettuce taco wraps. Yes. Oh, here comes the rain. Pink sand beaches are just like the ones we saw in Harbor Island, which are, they're just sand colored beaches with pink flecks. It's neat, but it's not like you look around, you're like, wow, pink sand beaches. You have to get up close, like here. And then you can see those little pink flecks in there. That's probably the pinkest spot I've ever seen. Yep, just that one spot. Still neat, but it's not Oh, is that it? Yeah. I missed it. Somebody missed their turn. This is totally safe. Nothing that a local wouldn't do. Maps, postcards, nine to four, hot sauce, honey, jams, jellies, greens, herbs, fresh produce. We'll take it all. Smells sweet like honeysuckle and jasmine or something. Yeah, that's actually a good idea. Recycle all of your bottles. Recycling. I haven't seen any recycling. There really isn't here because the thing is there's no facilities for it. All right. Got a stash of fresh bread, veggies, greens, salad greens, tomatoes, squash. So yeah, not too bad. And that's considering that it's winter. So a lot of the stuff is going to be like all the citrus and everything else will all be summertime. So $18. Yeah. It's quite a bounty. Yeah. It's good. Sorry. Drop this and go for a walk. Sure. There's that little crabs on the wall. This beautiful pond is actually a blue hole that is more than 183 meters or 600 feet deep. It is thought to be connected to the ocean through underground passages formed nearly 300,000 years ago when the island's limestone bedrock eroded. The pond's somewhat salty water has a high mineral and sulfur content. Many locals believe it to have healing powers. You may spot angelfish, parrotfish, mangrove snapper, and surgeon majors among ocean holes pet fish. And that is the official tour of the blue hole. Let's go. I have no idea what we're going to do if another car comes. Nope. And we definitely don't want to be coming back at night. On Google Maps, it shows that we're still on the main highway. And you can tell this used to be paved. It's just obviously not. Anytime recent. Man, this is crazy. It's a good thing it's all limestone here. Otherwise, such a rainy day. Oh, we wouldn't be making it. Yeah. I think we're getting close though. We made it to Lighthouse Beach. Look at that. Wow. Ready to calibrate. Well, here we are. Drove all this way and the no-see-ums are absolutely insane. Untolerable. So. Of course, we've been for the past 20 minutes. Yes. And then we've been struggling with the drone. We were kind of having some issues before, but we thought we fixed them. Apparently not. Keeps flashing warnings and errors at us anyway. So no drone flying. And that sucks. And just lots of no-see-ums. And lots of no-see-ums. So now we get to get back in the car. All right. You know what? Sometimes it just doesn't work out. I got to go inside and open the thing. Just put it in the back. Obviously, brain's a little crazy because it's been just... Stinking drone. Stinking no-see-ums. Man. I thought it was just going to be an amazing end of the video. I know. I thought we were going to get to see the lighthouse and take the drone up. Nope. Nope. Nope. All right. Fail. Just giant fail. It's a good day though. Yeah. It just... Man. All right. Well, something good is going to happen. Something good will happen. Yeah. I feel it. Our tire's flat. No, it's not. No, it is not. Yeah. It might have been flat the whole time. It said low tire pressure the whole time. Tire's flat. Something good will happen. We have to make it back at least. Yeah. To somewhere. Man, this road is terrible. All the gas stations are closed. So we couldn't get fuel, which is a bummer because we're getting close to empty. And we're about three quarters of the way back and the tire just went... Kaput. Kaput. So now I got to see if there's a spare in here. Stanton, this is Jason Nguyen and we're the ones with the rental car. There it is. Yippee. What's going on, Jay? Help has arrived. Man, this guy's on it. Not that I can't change his tire myself. Just want to make that clear. I was told not to. You were told to wait for the guy. And the guy is here. You live in Tarpon Bay? Yep, Tarpon Bay. I knew it was bald. These roads are rough. I can't, I can't imagine this happens a lot. Yep. To a tourist on the way to hold this. Yeah. Clifford? Was that his name? Clifton. Clifton. Clifton. Man, nice guy. In and out. We were only probably pulled off the side of the road for 10 minutes max. He said the gas station is just up the road. All right. Oh my gosh. Good job, honey. Good job. Thanks. Did you get the car packed up? Almost. Didn't put away the camera but I thought I should show everybody what you're out here doing. Pumping up the board. Getting all of our stuff out of the car. Gonna carry the board down to the beach over there. You can see those little, little tiny lights out there. Those are the sailboats. So, okay. See everybody back to the boat. See ya. What a difference a day makes. I mean, look at it. It's beautiful and just think yesterday was non-stop rain. Obviously, we made it back safely. The boat, to the boat, on the paddleboard with all the groceries and the drone that doesn't work anymore. Thank you, David, for hooking us up with the car. That was a lot of fun. And a lot of crazy. And a lot of crazy. So, anyway, it's a beautiful day. We are heading south to Rock Sound. We're going to jump off from, uh, where are we? We're in Eleuthera. And we're in Eleuthera and we're going to jump down to the Exumas and start continuing our way south. Yeah. Okay, here, I'll have something to say. Okay. I have something to say. A lot of people get confused because on social media, we might post a photo or say something about where we are right now. But our videos are always a little bit behind because these adventures take a little bit of time to film and edit and get uploaded and write the posts and all of that. So anyway, they're always a little bit behind. But if you want to know where we are right now, which is how David knew where we were right now, is on the bottom of any page on our website, you'll see a little where we are now map. And we try to check in every place we go so that way it kind of always gives you an idea of where we are. But if you want to see all of our travels or how we're leading up to where we're going, we have a map on our website as well, which is all of our published videos and all the places we've gone. So anyway, check those out if you're curious about where we've been in case you missed something and where we are right now. So there you go. Thanks for joining us on the adventure. Yes. Thanks for watching. Give us a thumbs up and we'll see you in the Exumas. Is that the Exuma dance? That's the Exuma dance. I want to do the lunch dance. I'm hungry. Which should be... Bye guys.