The Journey Begins! Barefoot Sail and Dive (Episode 1)

Hi I'm Davey. I'm Erica. Hi and we've decided to start a YouTube channel to document a little bit about what we're doing now. We've been traveling by what air and land we've done. We've been in Sri Lanka. India. Sorry it was Fiji before that. Fiji, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Nepal, Canada and now the States. So yeah we've done a few countries. It's gonna be good. But this is our dream. We're going to get down to the Bahamas and the aim is to actually get around the world. Yeah and we just want to share our journey with you guys and see what happens. If they want to follow along. Maybe some people want to follow along with our dream, our little journey. We're doing this on a budget. I was living abroad in New Zealand for the past year and a half and I decided to go on a bit of a holiday and I went to Fiji and I ended up meeting their son. Who? Is that me? Yeah I met him in Fiji and I was only supposed to stay there for about a month traveling around and things just kind of changed and I stayed about three and a half months. You did. Working in Fiji I was running a shark dive in the Saura Islands doing my scuba diving. I'm an instructor. Erica now has been training a lot and she's actually a dive master now aren't you? Yeah I am. Congratulations. Go girl. So that's where we met. We met in Fiji when you turned up on the little island I was working on. So one of the big points of our channel is not just about sailing. We love to sail and we need to learn more about sailing. We're looking forward to learning more as we travel along but a big part of our channel is also going to be about the shark diving. Not just shark diving but diving in general. We have a huge passion for diving with sharks. After I was working in Fiji with Awakening Shark Dive it's an amazing amazing thing that's been set up there in the Saura Islands. It gives you a new light on what sharks are actually like. Everyone says that sharks are terrifying and sharks are deadly creatures who are going to eat you no matter what but they didn't eat me. I still have all my fingers and all my toes and they just they're such majestic creatures and they're absolutely stunning. They're beautiful and they they're very skittish and if you're in their water they know you're there so you need to either back off or you need to respect them and in Fiji they're like they're treated as a god almost. They're very highly seen and highly respected and that's why it's... No but it's just the way it's really really good that there's so many places in the world now that are starting to use not sharks as a... they're not the big scary monsters. Use it as tourism. It draws people in. This actually brings millions of dollars into so many countries and a lot of countries that need money they need tourism money and the sharks are starting to bring it in so Fiji has adapted it not just really because of the money but because the locals they respect it the fact that the sharks are there's a shark god you know there is actually it's part of their culture so in Fiji they're allowing people to do shark diving which is really fantastic. A lot of countries haven't embraced it. They'll fish for the sharks. They'll kill the sharks. They just wipe them out. Somebody gets bitten or something like this and it just wipes them out. I mean you're more likely to get killed by a vending machine if you actually look at statistics like there's a vending machine is more dangerous to get a pack of chips or a coca-cola. You're more likely to die getting that pack of chips than you are from swimming in the ocean. It's a huge huge statistic. It's really really good. So Fiji, the Bahamas they're pretty much on the same level. They're using the sharks for tourism to bring look bring dollars in you know the American dollar the English pound everything else is now being brought in and it's helping the country it's helping the community. But that is why the Bahamas is pretty much our number one stop. Bimini is known for their tiger shark diving pretty much they have hammerhead sharks as well schooling hammerheads which I would absolutely love to see. I like I honestly cannot wait for a hammerhead shark. Your first tiger shark did freak you out. My first tiger shark did freak me out a little bit but I mean now after learning more about sharks and knowing that tigers really aren't as dangerous as bulls and I was swimming in the water with 20 bull sharks every day every day and I was all right. So I'm really excited for Bimini like hopefully we will use Bimini as kind of a base for a little bit so that we can then travel around the Caribbean a bit more. Going back and forth to Bimini and hopefully working there for a little bit. So when we were living in New Zealand um Davey would actually watch loads of YouTube channels pretty much daily and I would watch them occasionally as well. I was working I was quite busy but Davey would watch these and tell me different ideas and different things that they have been doing to make their. That's how we basically came up with the plan of what we're going to do. I would watch these and I'd see like people like Sailee Uma and La Vega Bond and Sailing Nanji and Delos as well and it's just it gives you the motivation and it gives you you know just it makes you excited about traveling by sailing. Yeah traveling by sailing travel by water yeah what we do is water it's all about the water so let's let's sail let's dive and let's yeah that's the way it just feels like it's the way to do it feels like the way to do it. I'm just gonna talk over it because you can't use it. No I know this wasn't the point of using it. Yeah you can't snort. Why not? You can snort all you want. I can snort now. We're down to 30. Cut. I'm Erica. I'm Davey. And what are we doing again? Cut. Hi I'm Erica. And I'm Davey. Hi Erica and Davey. You crashed. You crashed. I crashed. I crashed. We've had a Catalina 96 again. You're gonna love watching. Whatever it doesn't matter just let it roll. Hi I'm Erica. And I'm Davey. It's nice to meet you. You can't say that. Yes I can. Why not? Or everything.