What a TRIP!! BOOT KEY FLORIDA - Lazy Days Restaurant - Sombrero Reef 🪸

Hey guys, good morning. Mayan Buntag everyone. Mayan Buntag. Hey, I'm here with John and Buck. He said hello on Facebook or comment section. I said, hey, what's going on? He said, hey, I'm a marine down here in the Keys. And here's my son, Buck. Come on on the boat with us. So, just jumped out about 8 o'clock in the morning here. And this is the area of... This is Boot Key Harbor. Boot Key Harbor over here. And this is Sisters Creek going out to the ocean. Sisters Creek. Seas. Long like that one. Where are we heading? We're going into the ocean. We're going to go out by the reef and see if we can catch some yellowtails. And then we'll take you over to Sombrero Reef, which is where one of the giant towers are. There's giant cast iron towers that were built in the 1800s. They're lighthouses. They don't work anymore, but they're lighthouses. They were to protect the reefs so the ships could see where the reef was at. They'd use those to guide them along the coast. Okay. And that's the sanctuary now. 1800s, and that's the sanctuary. Oh, and by the way, John lives in Bohol in Gitafe, in that Gitafe area. So, a fellow Boholano here. And he loves the Philippines. He's vacationing here. My home here is a vacation home. Yeah, so he's renting his place over here. And then his son, Buck, he already visited the Philippines as well. You've visited Bohol, right? Everywhere. I lived there. Boracay. He drove. Yeah. Buck drove from Papanga all the way down to Lausanne, all the way to Samar. And then we went from Samar over to Cebu, across Cebu, across Negros, up Negros, over to Iloilo to catch a boat because we're driving, and catch a railroad. That's the only one railroad to Palawan. So, Puerto Princesas, and then drove up to El Nido. So, follow Buck's travel vlog. He's gonna soon, I think. But yeah, here, we got the fishing rods, and we're heading out. We're leaving Bukit. Heading out into the deep. Oh, shoot. Is it up here? Oh, we got a tower up here too. Check this out. It's amazing, that little height, the difference it looks. What? All right, here, we gotta go up here. What? You got a steering wheel up here as well. This is cool. Look at that. Yo, this is sweet. Yeah, that's really nice. Spy tower. John just said this is a radio station. It goes to Cuba. That's run by the military. Oh, wow. If you touch foot on that ground anywhere, they will be there in a second. No ----? Yeah. All right, guys. We can't go over there. Sorry, but there you go. We got the... I'm getting called by Bohol right now. When we come back through, I'll drive all around it if you want to get a good... Yeah. Sombrero Beach. How you doing, Sombrero Beach? The sun's right behind here. It's not so dark, but yeah, you guys gorgeous out. Sombrero Beach. And over here, there's where Arnold Schwarzenegger owned that island. And then here's East Sister's Rock. West Sister's Rock. Excuse me, West Sister's Rock. See, way out in the distance, that's Sombrero Lake. Sombrero Reef on the distance. Sombrero Reef. Way out there. Looks a little down, but you'll see later on. We're going to take you there and let you jump in with the fish there. We are well-traveled Filipinos. I've never met a Filipino yet that has traveled more places in the Philippines than me and Buck. Up and down the coast and everywhere. All the way to Benawe Rice Terraces. All the way down to Luzon. All the way across Bohol. Across Cebu. Across Negros. Across Panay. The Palawan of Del Nido. And all the way back to Panay. And then we end up living on Panay. El Hilo, Hilo, then Etiki, then Auckland. Man, oh man. They're more well-traveled than me. They're talking about places I've never been. They're talking about all the Boracay. Different areas of the islands over there. Up and down. We snorkeled in Coron. Coron? Yeah. Corona? Coron is on Baswanga. The island is called Baswanga. The island is Baswanga. It's a little island. And we snorkeled. The most beautiful snorkel spot I've ever seen in my whole life. And I live in the Keys. And there's nothing like that place. Right there in the Philippines. Check out Coron, guys. I'm telling you. The Coral Gardens it's called. It's the most beautiful coral thing that I've ever seen in my whole life. I mean, unimaginable. The colors are just out of this world. Blues and greens and reds. It's just crazy. Check it out. I seen a turtle that I thought they painted and put down there. And I swam down the deep wall trying to get to it. I got right to it. I said, man, I better not touch that in case it's real. It made it look fake. It was so beautiful. And I went to swim back up. I looked down and it turned its head and started moving. I said, oh, it was real. There's actually one more boat over here. You're going to catch a nice-sized yellowtail. Got the yellowtails, guys. They're eating. They're eating on the bait here. There's the chum. Chum blocks in. That's ground-up fish. Yep, this is the chum block. Take the bag. Let the chum flow out. And then the fish will follow up it and eat and bring them right to our boat. All right, thanks, man. What do you do? This is the bail, right? Gotcha. Just open it up. See, I got my finger on that. Just go like this. And then you just leave the bail open like this. Keep letting it go back. And when it takes off, then you close it and then you start reeling. Okay. All right. There we go. Oh, we got one. We got one, guys. Thank you. All right, we caught our first yellowtail. Right on. You made it easy for me, didn't you? Easy peasy. We got him. Good job, Brian. Good job. Thank you. You know what to do. Wow. Just grab that fish. That's a frigate. Frigate bird. Yeah. Just grab that. He'll come back at it. Swallowed it. He's spitting water. He might have swallowed it. He must have swallowed it. You'll flip him around so they can swallow him head first, the fish. Oh, they'll flip it around? Yeah. So it goes in head first? In head first. Yeah, they will do that. Because if it comes in backwards, you know, the fins will stand up and choke them, you know? Oh. So they do it head first, and then the fins lay down, and they can swallow it. All of them do it. That is cool. All right, I've caught maybe three? Two. Two or three. Or four, I think. Doing pretty good. I'm not catching them while they're here. I'll show you guys their next catch. We got one right here. He's undersized. Throw him back. That means he's going to make it. Uh-oh. Wrong kind. Uh-oh. What is it, a chub? Yeah. What's going on with chubs? Wrong kind, wrong kind. We don't eat them. Oh, okay. Throw him back. But I know the Philippines will eat, you know, anything like this, but just the locals here don't eat certain fish. The locals don't? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. We're just looking for yellowtails, but that's a chub. Nice. Chubby. All right. This is a mooring ball. Here, we're in the sanctuary, so these buoys are for everyone to borrow. Yeah. Line right through this line. Okay. And we just clean off here. Tie her up. And when we get ready to go, we just untie our line right here and it'll slide right out of that one and we just drift away. So that's going to help us stay in our... We're anchored. We're anchored, basically, with that. That's anchored, so we're tied onto it. Oh, that is anchored. The buoy's anchored. Okay. It's called a mooring ball. A mooring. Mooring ball. M-O-O-R-I-N-G. It's moored, but it's called moored. Okay. It's anchored to the body. Cool. Oh, we got a couple other people out here. We're right by this... Sombrero light. Correct. We're on the sombrero sanctuary. Put a dive flag up. This is one in the water. We're all going in the water, I think. Need to help me measure? Good. Hey, guys. Look at these guys checking us out. They're eating all the stuff off the boat. Probably leftover chum and whatnot. Bunch of fishes. I'd be afraid of sliding off. Hey, Brian. They're freaking everywhere. What a beauty. So, we went diving. Now we're talking about the Philippines. He's got a solar pump and everything. Really cool setup. Probably have to come on over there and check it out sometime. But he's heading back to the Philippines later this year. And right now... So, we caught some yellowfin. Yellowtail. Gotta go scuba diving. It's been a really amazing morning. It's still early. It's what? Probably 11 or something. 11, 12 right now. Now we're heading back. We're gonna get some grub. There's a place they're gonna dock the boat and eat. It's like a... You pull in and it's basically parking and then go eat. We're going to Restaurant by Boat. Restaurant by Boat. Guys, we'll see you there. I'm a procrastinator. He's got his flight ready back to the Philippines. Alright, guys. We're getting back over here to the land. Got the dock over here. Marathon. We're here in Marathon. Marathon Marina. Marathon Marina, guys. Hey, shout out to Mike in the Keys. I forgot your screen name was here. Big Keys Mike. Shout out to Mike Keys. I know you're somewhere else right now, but if you're down here, shout out, brother. I know you know this area. We're going to Lazy Days. Lazy Days. Alright, guys. Alrighty. Pulling up. Here we are. They got a pool right there. They got some seaweed collected. Probably from whatever. Hurricane Helene didn't really come over here too bad. Just got some strong winds for Hurricane Helene. And we got John tying it up right here. Alright. Here we are. Yes, sir. We'll go drinking. Thank you, thank you. Here we are. Sagan, she was asking what Salamat meant. I want to say I always forget when I'm here in America. I always forget. I start saying Salamat. So I want to say Salamat to her for bringing me a beer. She wanted to know what it means, so I said it means thank you. Salamat. Yes. Very good. Alright, I got it. Salamat. You got it. Perfect. Yes, sir. Oh, oh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, oh. Wow. Listen, I'm trying to learn Spanish, and now I'm going to be like multi-linguistic. Dame uno cerveza, por favor. Oh, snap. I can't do that. Yeah, we could add some more words in there. Cerveza, por favor. Yes. Gracias. These are going to be all my specials for today. Alright, guys, what are we going to order? Yellowtail, fish grouper, lobster. We got some yellowtail, though. We just went catching yellowtail. Yeah, we did. It's like a cowboy's, you know, when you have your horse laid up over there. But it's a boat. Yep. Got the parking right there. Pulled into the saloon. The boat's pulled into the saloon. Then Buck's the designated driver right there. Designated, yeah. He's good. Designated driver. Shout out to Buck. Thank you. He's going to start his vlog here soon. Done lots of traveling. We're just having a good time here. Yeah. Cheers. Tagay. He keeps saying salamat to the waitress. It's funny. Now I follow his lead. I said salamat as well. Once you got our orders. Thank you. Gracias. I'll be right back. Salamat. Gracias. Wow. Right. That's a beautiful event. All right, guys. Let's eat. Cabrera snapper. Yep. Right there, guys. That's a real fish. Caught down here. Caught down here in the Keys. We're going to jump back on the saddle. That is cool. Finish eating and then back on the boat. Thank you, sir. The father and son duo. That is awesome. All right, guys. We're heading out. Say again, John. We should be out in the deep sea. Oh, snap. On a beautiful day like this, we should be way offshore. Out in the blue ocean. Next time. It's nice and calm. All right. We're heading out. Had a good lunch over here. At the... Lazy Day's. Lazy Day's restaurant. Birdines. Yeah. Just birdines. Birdines. Seasons, so they're closed. He's talking about this restaurant right here. Down here is totally different. Everyone's living on the water. Living on the water. God bless the USA. Yes, sir. American flags everywhere. Gotta love it. Oh, they're changing it up? Who's that? Spotswoods. Giant resort company. There's always going to be a giant resort. It'll be all yachts in there. Yeah, they bought all the way to US-1. They bought the trailer. All the way to the highway. Giant resort. Big money. Oh, you see. This used to all be docks and piers. They just pulled out all the rest of it. Yeah, there would be a massive resort there. Boat. Boats everywhere. Boats and boats and... Boats and boats. You guys know. We already know. Yes, sir. Magga.