Now that you've broadcast the plentifulness of lobsters in the area, they'll all be extinct by next year. Good job!

It's beautiful there, looks amazing.

I only came here for the sex slavery, but it's KZfaq not pornhub. damit. 😆😆😆

As a Hollander I loved the Batavia story. I knew about it but for you both to actually be there on the island and tell us more made it that much more real. You are amazing story tellers. Keep them coming!

Just as the story got interesting you throw in an ad for a throw. Bad placement guys.👎

Great episode guys

Great narrative! Loved the weave of history with the present. And those crays …. 🎉😊

Slim….KZfaq won’t let me subscribe a second time. 😊🫣🤭 OMG 😱 you guys, what a great story and episode ‼️ Loved the group interaction and of course, the meal time 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 See you next time. ✨🌊💨⛵️🏝️👙🌞✨

Excellent video thank for sharing the great story

Loved it!!

We have not been jealous once watching you guys getting bashed by the west coast - until now. We read Fitzsimons' excellent book when it was released and would love to walk those islands like you did. Thanks for doing it for us. Cheers!

good food, good friends, good times. keep it up

Been fascinated by the Batavia, since I learnt about in 80s

Brilliant video u2, ur editing and filming skills have come so far since the beginning,Myles the cameraman maybe not lol. That popcorn Cray looked so good

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Amazing episode. You guys are great storytellers. I bought the book. Thank you so much!

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Great story telling keep up the great work love the videos. Cheers from Canada!!!!

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Hi Soph and Slim, just a quick word from the city of Gouda - Netherlands (yes, from the cheese). The brothers 'Frederik and Cornelis de Houtman' where born here, just a couple of 100 meters from our house, history is sometimes so far away and also so closeby. We have a nice statue in the park over here. Keep up your channel - we really love it! Frank Jan and Yvonne

Hi Slim and Sophie Just watched your video andyou had my mouth watering for some of the Crays you managed to get hold of by diving!!!!!! It brings back so many memories of my youth growing up on the westcoast of South Africa!!!! We used to boil them in complete form and enjoyed the meat in the legs as well which one broke off the body!!!Promise you a tidy amount of the leg meat we turned into a salad with Mayonaise!!!! The body we gooked on hot wood coal by just turning it every few minutes!!!!!! Now living in Germany and miss the good old days!!!!!!Love watching your videos and your experience whilst Sailing and Studying!!!!! Wish you all the best and enjoy your lovely life!!!!!! Regards from this end of the Globe!!!!!Regards Helmuth

Love you kids! Thanks for the history lesson. Lobster, yum! Safe travels. ❤

An other cracking episode guy's , love the intro to the history of the first Europeans to discover Australia. so envious of all the crays that you dined on, oh I'm pretty sure that would have been Thousands of $'s worth of cray's and that excluding the setting.

Shout out to Miles. Great job. 🫡 🦞 cookout with your mates. 👏 Thanks for sharing.

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Fascinating story of the islands . I have recently read about Matthew flinders and George bass and their circumnavigation of Australia ( 1798 circa) I am finding your Vlogs on of your voyage just as intriguing and fascinating. I sailed the world on merchant vessels but never reached the antipodes. Keep the KZfaq videos coming

Slim and Soph - this was an EPIC episode ! I LOVE the history ! When I was in Tonga many years ago I bought a book that was essentially Captain Cook's logs of his time there and it was absolutely fascinating.... I have already ordered Fitzsimons book on Amazon and I am really looking forward to reading it. Brutality on the open seas was just a fact of life back in the day - I don't relish that but it sure makes for interesting reading... Thank you both for being such spectacular humans and providing me and so many others with a window into your lives... I SO wish I could be doing what you do. Take care and be safe ! Fair winds and moderate swells through WA ;-)

Thank you Slim and Soph. A great episode. As we do boat jobs before heading on our next adventure, we love the way you are able to share with such generosity and skill.

Brilliant episode. Maybe you should get some royalties from the book sales because you've inspired me to go buy a copy!

This is a great idea for all KZfaqrs who are bereft of ideas for their so-called content. buy a book. Do some graphics sit on a beach and talk about it.

'Islands of Angry Ghosts' by Hugh Edwards is the go to book on the Batavia. He was on the team that found the wreck and is a excellent author.

The story is a little more complex. The Netherlands at the time had been at war with Spain for about a century. It would continue to be at war with Spain for another century, because the Netherlands - through a series of complicated intermarriages - belonged to the Spanish crown. But the Netherlands became a protestant "state" and Spain was - famously - the home of the Inquisition, resulting in a series of vicious wars tinged with religious zealotry on both sides. To make it a little worse, the Netherlands (a bit like Switzerland) were actually a series of small and not always co-operative states and each of the rulers of these cantons had slightly different protestant religious views. On top of that the staunchly catholic French were constantly invading to take control of valuable territory. The great war of the counter-reformation - the 30 years war - had erupted in 1618 and the whole of Europe was entangled in a religious war that would eventually turn into war for the sake of war, with massive mercenary armies roaming all over central Europe destroying as they went. But that would be the most destructive war in European history, including compared to both world wars. In that climate, the Netherlands had become a hotbed of protestant religious kookiness and fervour that the various rulers of the states of the Netherlands found hard to control. Much like modern USA many many cultlike christian sects had sprung up all over the Netherlands. Most of them were tolerated - barely - but some of them, even the tolerant Dutch found so heretical that they had outlawed them and the punishment for adhering to such beliefs was death. Jerome Cornelius was one such adherent and the reason he was on the ship to the Dutch east indies was to escape that punishment. The particular train of religious thought he adhered to was one that taught that any act done on earth - no matter how apparently bad - was okay by god because otherwise god wouldn't have permitted it to be done. You can see why the Dutch authorities had a problem with that belief. To make it worse, Cornelius was from a family of rank but had fallen on hard times, so he also had a chip on his shoulder, which had driven his animosity towards the Batavia's top officers during the voyage. And that was the mindset that Cornelius - and others aboard the Batavia, crucially including most of the low ranking ship's officers and a number of the crew - brought to the Abrolhos islands on the morning the Batavia ran aground there. It was that belief system, and the intention of putting it into effect, that drove the subsequent appalling events on the islands. Its also why the Dutch pastor and his wife and daughters were targeted so brutally. It may sound bizarre, but at all times during these events, Cornelius sincerely believed he was doing his god's will. The wreck of the batavia isnt a simple story of people behaving badly under terrible pressure; Its an object lesson in what happens when reason is overcome by misguided beliefs. ps Peter fitzsimon's book about the Batavia is awful. He's not a historian and he's not even a good writer. Dont read that one. Pretty much any other book on this subject is way better. As a western australian I was outright offended by Fitzsimon's book on the Batavia and never got far into it.

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We dutch say "Bat-ah-via" so more like your "Bat-ar-via". And hout (from Houtman) is pronounced like 'cloud'.

It’s an amazing story and it’s said 2 were put ashore near Kalbarri and the DNA of local inhabitants of the time is another story 🙏🤙

Hey guy's thanks for another awesome episode and for bringing me along with you on this epic adventure of yours

Just drove from Perth to Broome and back down the western coast in a big loop. I can say that the wild coast is what you Aussies say is heaps better than the interior route by road. Love the channel. All the best from the US

slim get ya self a sun hoody, brilliant worn with a cap to keep sun off.

That was quite an informative history lesson. I have a question: Does Nakama use AIS? We had a look to see if we could follow your journey across the bottom of Australia, but the only Nakama sailing vessel showing up over the last few weeks says it's moored near Hobart. We wish you fair winds and pleasant skies. ⛵️

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I saw the title and was so glad that you, Sophie was not the Sex slave! André

The wallabies are called Tammar "Taymar" a small wallaby species. Tammar's are also on Garden island south side of Perth

Ba Tay Via - Tay as in Hay.

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