In this episode, I visit a beach bum's paradise, a pink sea with pink flamingos, a slave village, a salt mine. I fix a broken mooring and dive the famous ree...

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the nice thing about Bonaire is you can

get really close to the island you're

not allowed to anchor as most of the

shoreline is a park you have to use the

government moorings provided

unfortunately the ropes that were used

with the moorings were not very good so

I decided to put a couple of my own down

for safety you can see the blocks that

hold the mooring lines and of course

it's the ropes that are the worst part

and that's one that broke earlier on

this one I actually knotted together

which is hardly a proper fix but it

would have to do until I put my own down

got a couple of extra crew they've been

living on the bottom of the boat has one

of them they're big large underwater

crabs

they've been with the boat out for

thousands of miles making sure I got all

the bits I need spare fuel here weight

belt fins radio in there few days later

some friends and I decided to take the

dings and go across the small channel to

an island called Klein Bonaire a small

bonnet which was beautiful sort of

desert island it was a great trip

getting across coming back later

a turn into a bit of an ordeal

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by the time we'd arrived on the island

the wind had come up you can see that

with our t-shirts blowing and I was

starting to hurry just a little bit on

how we were gonna get back after a walk

we decided to go for a snorkel but to be

honest it was a little bit disappointing

with time running short we decided to

leave the wind 'red come up it doesn't

look much on the camera but it was quite

sporting in the end bridges had a good

fun ride back but it kind of focused the

mind everyday

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this has got to be the weirdest place I

have ever been in my life pink water and

foam everywhere

that is crystal

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this is just part of the secret cocaine

mines open air once they got the cocaine

out of the ground they load it onto this

conveyor belt and he's then loaded onto

ships and take him to New York and they

were last seen trespassing on the mine

before they got arrested and taken away

how's that for a dive site this is our

car for the day what a great place to

park a car look at this here on Bonaire

they probably got what are they coolest

number plates in the entire world just

look at that isn't that wonderful

came across this place this is actually

an old slave camp these are slave houses

for the workers that used to work in the

salt mines son Alec

it is rather rather weird to think

people actually lived in these things

the salt pans are just back there but of

a swing round you can see the coast and

some ruins and an obelisk down there and

there again another obelisk if I can

pronounce that right in front of yet

another slave village each colored

obelisk would represent a different

great assault and the captains out at

sea could tell where they had two more

their ships to get the correct salt that

they needed now as with many other

historical sites this particular site on

Bonaire is given over to tourism and

scuba diving

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this is where you fix all the boards is

it displaces of beach bums paradise just

look at this gear

yeah guys

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it had been a long time since I've done

some scuba diving many years had passed

since I've done some proper sea dives so

I wanted to go see the reefs around

Bonaire I hired a professional dive

master to come with me just to check me

out

but everything was fine it all came back

to me and I had a good afternoon diving

the reefs around Bonaire

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this is another of those really cool

poets they do say I make it here some of

the guys are having a wind scoops paid

for the boats holy crap

that was somebody's beautiful boat once

I can see why this ended up in here now

reef damaged

this is odd it's like a small steel

sailing bar G both kind of affair

that's probably worse a few quid in

Europe this is what will happen a shadow

if I don't keep up with the rust this is

what happens to steel boxes they're not

taking care of

I could do with those moss steps though

this is interesting he sounded an extra

he's Akhil in the back here yeah you got

in the way yes while we had the higher

car we put it to good use just to prove

that it's not all mine that's mine there

and now I've got to get it into the

dinghy they're busy with theirs and mine

well it's not all beer there's other

things as well there's one full dinghy

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next time on adventures burn old sea-dog

I get to hang out and meet some really

cool YouTube sailing celebs am on Rann

at the moment and they're trying to get

me drunk they've run out of beer and

they're trying to feed me some stuff

called old Danish oh you can still

breathe stuff up and then I meet a

monster and then things get serious so

there's a panic on here there's a big

storm coming moorings that I'm on here

are not safe because when whatever it is

passes through the wind changed

direction and it'll be blowing me onto

the beach

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