Sharks, Iguanas, Pigs (EP 66)

Wow! What a load of wildlife while sailing here in the Exumas, Bahamas, including our close encounter with lots of sharks! 🦈 We take you to Allan's Cay, Highborne Cay, Norman's Cay, Shroud Cay, and Staniel Cay. 🐷🦎
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Hello! We are Holly and Stephane 🇺🇸🇫🇷
We have made the transition from full-time software professionals from the SF Bay Area to liveaboard sailing explorers who always keep one eye on the weather and our hearts in a song. Our goal is to complete a circumnavigation and we recently transitioned to a performance catamaran and are madly in love with our Outremer 52. We are working with Outremer in France (with the help of Google translate) to launch our boat project and start our journey as sailing vagabonds. While it’s not a race or speedtest, we are doing our first Bluewater crossing this year and we are excited to see AWEN stretch her legs and dance on the water. Join us as we share what we’re learning living without Amazon, (but with Starlink), and attempt this new life of travel and adventure on the ocean. Please be patient with us as we continue to improve our KZbin vlogging skills. Our goal isn’t to make our life a movie, it’s to give back to what others have shared with us, which is why we don’t monetize our channel.
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[@AndreNiemeyer]

It’s so beautiful to watch you live the dream ❤🎉

[@yunaquerne3338]

I love your new intro! Have fun 🌞

[@dreamofsailing]

We are really enjoying following your adventures! Unfortunately we missed you in Miami by 1 week.

[@dianabaz]

Exumas is the prettiest place on earth to me. But, dang, Awen looking like the prettiest thing on the Exumas this season! I love how you demystified the horrendous pigs :D I did exactly what you did there a few years ago :D Go dive the Grotto! Time the crowds and the tides well.

[@alofns]

Great shark footage. Love the Bahamas! Thanks for the video.

[@MrJerobona]

Ces requins sont incroyables et franchement pas dangereux! J'ai nage avec eux plusieurs fois, les Bahamas était ma destination favorite quand je vivais sur mon yacht en Floride!

[@tomwolf9420]

Chief Holly: “we gonna need a bigger boat!”

[@fabricecolleu6464]

Mer..ki..❤... From britany😊

[@thermathome]

The floaters are not from the pigs, they're from Riley la vagabonde. I unfortunately saw that epsiode.

[@bishopkinlyside8477]

Hi guys, it’s wonderful to see you both starting to enjoy your catamaran. Without all the stress you’ve been having keep the smiles on your face. Keep loving each other from Australia

[@malcolmdann3581]

I just binge watched all of your videos in about a week! You guys are very engaging and your misfortune in Martinique made for compulsive viewing (even my wife who is not a sailor) was “sucked in” by the drama. I have to say jolly well done to the both of you. On the darker days bear in mind there are many who would gladly exchange places with you guys. I spent many years at sea as a cruise ship officer and looked at your videoed seascapes with much longing.

[@SailingAWEN]

Thank you so much for watching our humble ramblings. It’s been quite a ride in so many ways. Yes, the notion of ‘trouble in paradise’ is not lost on us for sure. We are grateful to be here but as you know one’s world on a boat can get small so we have to complain about something - even if it’s a broken flip flop! 🤣 Thank you for your kind note.

[@malcolmdann3581]

@@SailingAWEN As I said... well done! Keep the videos coming. We are now invested in your adventures and living vicariously through Holly and Stephane. Awen is Beautiful and Outremer should be grateful for the free promotion as you guys show her off in the best possible way.

[@patrickgelinas5241]

Being an experienced scuba diver, I can reassure you that the nurse sharks in the video are ‘not really’ dangerous. By that, I mean compared to other sharks species. Any approach with a wild animal requires common sense, respect and giving them room to move. I am especially careful with animals which have interacted with humans, as seen in the scene with the guy cleaning out the lobsters and chumming the water. These sharks and the pigs as well, will associate humans with food and may become ‘impatient’ when expecting a snack…

[@rmkep]

Ahoy Awen, my wife (also Holly) refers to herself as "the safety Zarina". Turns out, you have one of those too ... 🙂

[@SailingAWEN]

😂

[@SailingAWEN]

If there weren’t ’Hollys’ our species would be extinct by now 🤣🤣

[@kcsunnyone]

Just gorgeous. I love seeing the clear water and white sandy beaches. Beautiful weather.

[@JRTurgeon13]

Wild guess. Holly would not dive to experience the 'Wall fo Sharks' in Fakarava (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)!😉

[@SailingAWEN]

She has time to build to it 👍

[@user-pe6hh4rp6c]

That’s ok!

[@user-pe6hh4rp6c]

Great shark video!

[@laurence9695]

Funny how you were looking forward, in your last episode, to be around other boaters. Now you realize the majority of them are incompetent sailors, with 50 mtrs of chain in 2 meters of water. Or anchoring right on top of you. Probably running their generators all night... ah, the joys of sailing. 😅

[@julienpubert2699]

becarefull witn another crazy boat in anchorage.....

[@justinstevenson5807]

Awesome.. thanks guys. Luv that Bahama water and beaches..

[@yves33740]

Ma Doué c'est presque aussi beau que Plouescat....des gorets qui finiront pas en pâté Henaff 😂

[@lindavan7497]

Beautiful video and love your sense of humour. ⛵⛵⛵

[@user-ku9wf3si5c]

Super video, I can’t blame you both being nervous at anchor with idiots like that around, especially after the horrible experience you’ve had

[@LeeYvesMexico]

Another very informative video. Being nervous is kinda normal on anchor. Nice beach shots too 💗 the sharks 😮

[@cjasonclark]

Hope you make it to the Chat N Chill! What a beautiful part of the world. 🤩

[@lpauline]

Eeek .. I wouldn't go to that beach again.