That’s right James!! You speak 🗣️ the truth and educate and bring awareness to help others better understand the impact we all have!! Appreciate you speaking on this!! Mahalo!! 🤙🏽
Thanks . when i was a pre teen in the 60's we used to take a wagon around the neighborhood and collect drink bottles not to recycle but to get money for the return. A pay system set up for collected plastic might be an answer. If only a small one every little bit helps. like the camp rule , ( leave the place better than you found it. )
Nice to see caring people at least trying to motivate a task force. Much money can be made in Recycling Projects, if only a crew could be involved in salvaging Plastic Recyclable ♻️ Waste? Not actually waste by the way? Thank you for including this, James..!
Seeing so much plastic trash along the coast at almost every coastline is so heartbreaking. I wish I could pick it all up. It's been there so long in most places that it's now broken down into micro plastics and become the soil in these locations. One person picking up trash isn't enough.. it would take the whole world caring enough about the 🌎 to make a difference 😢. Thanks for the video!
The lack of respect for the environment is a worldwide phenomenon. I live in Northeast Louisiana and the local people here trash the environment too. I think you nailed it when you said it is a combination of poverty and lack of education. The only answer we have found here is to pick it up and organize cleanups which creates a vicious cycle that never ends. Great video enjoyed the snorkeling.
Hi James and Rhonda! Beautiful area and scenery! I was on Vacation in Panama a few years ago, and the same thing, garbage everywhere and no one seems to care! It was 2-3' on some of the beaches. Also on the side of the roads! A beautiful country with great people but the governments should do something about the garbage! Maybe people who are serving time, can be put to work, cleaning things up?!! Stay safe from the east coast of Canada 🇨🇦.
I found the east coast of Australia to be probably the cleanest beaches and shore lines of any country I have visited. Sad to hear Northern Australia has trash blowing in
Fantastic Folks 🐬 Thank you for sharing with the plastic rubbish / thrash situation at such a beautiful anchorage & beach. We live as one or we live has none. Eventually future generations the IQ light bulb will kick in one's brain & this to shall pass. Great job with life folks...
I wish we could make a plastic that breaks down easily over a bit of time. This stuff is out of hand. Microplastics in our blood! Anyway great footage once again.
I just watched the buy now conspiracy on Netflix and was wondering if all the trash was real... and then I saw this episode... something has to change! But what do we do... cancel our Amazon subscription? Get rid of our smartphones? I wish I knew the answer too.. great episode.. 👍
It's terrible you're *right* James. Amongst such beauty, to have the plastic taint the visual splendor, is Truly a crying shame. There are solutions, with mindset & action in need of looking beyond the immediacy of here & now. Case in point: i get 30 days worth of certain medications covered at a time. A plastic container is used each month for 12 containers a year. If the pharmacy would require me to bring my container in for a refill, that's 11 less plastic containers per year for the 1 particular medication. A coordinated effort *must* be made. Leaders of countries, please see this & enforce this necessary change, as well as others for humanity's own good. Thanks for your video James. Enjoy Rhonda & her delicious cookin'! 🙏🦉 🏞️
Indonesia is in a different part of a maturation cycle. Back in the 40's in the US there was plenty of garbage littering our hiways; people just threw their waste out of their car windows. Then there was a "dont be a litterbug" campaign and awareness was raised
In the age of cellphones and the internet you can’t tell me the Indonesian people have no concept of litter or that plastic is bad for the environment. Every person I have seen here, including villages with houses with dirt floors, very person has a smart phone or an iPad
Dude… If James picked up every single piece of trash there it would all be back in a week. You can’t “fix” something if the people who actually live there don’t care about fixing it.
Right? Like his shit don't stink? I believe that if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem... but it's blatantly clear that he worships white colonialism. @Bairdovich
Hey there, It seems like you are following cruising guides when you say things like "apparently there is good snorkling here", if it's not too much bother could you mention the guides you are using or put them in the description as you go. For example I notice you were using "Cruising the coral coast" by Alan Lucas as you visited Aus, be great to know the good ones to use where you are now.
Yes agree, Rubbish problem is quite immense in Indo, they treat the strong currents as a endless conveyor belt, even in so called pristine National parks, they allow towns with no organised rubbish collection. A real shame and tragedy on this earth.
Hi James and Rhonda. This plastic story just doesn't go away. Eh.? One of the biggest problems that I know of, is on the main beach of Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands group. Up to 3500 pieces per day get washed up there. None of which is generated from the main island of Pitcairn itself. My research tells me that it's a current known as South Pacific Gyre that's responsible. Owing its direction of flow, it couldn't pick up any rubbish, from Pitcairn. (Not that there's any.) The last You Tuber I know of, that hopped ashore there was James, on Zingaro. Don't remember what quantity was picked up. Yes there is an "Insane amount still floating around out there." Thanks also for showing us the "beauty" that still exists out there. Thank you guys, for sharing. 👍 Spot you next time.
Out of curiosity I asked GPT why this effects indo and not other similar regions and it says "Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 islands, creating extensive coastlines that are particularly vulnerable to marine debris. The ocean currents in Southeast Asia converge near Indonesia, which amplifies the accumulation of trash from both local and international sources." I guess this makes sense, it also mentions that a lot of waste is being imported from developed countries. I guess checking the labels etc would make it clear if it's domestic or not.
How do you dispose of your own trash while in a country like that? Are there trash cans near marinas or populated places, do you take it to shore to burn yourself, or some other option?
You talk about trash and doing something ,a super important topic ! Check out plastic odyssey ,a refitted trawler with many professional trash recycling machines on board ,traveling the world ,cleaning up on the go ,intend to inspire and educate others . Most sailors are quite good handyman/women ,many of these could make a movable DIY trash recycling unit ,put on their dinghy ,go on shore and recycle their own and local trash into fuel and new items ,inspiring and educating locals of how to make their own trash recycling units ,size according to their needs . Other sailors coming later getting needed parts and help ,if needed . Even sailors with to small of a boat can at least stop accepting plastic bags when shopping .checking on sailing channels ,nobody seems to care enough ,to make the effort in reducing plastic trash .one can see them accepting plastic bags ,plastic wrappings ,discarding them at the next place ,without research if the next place does proper recycling . Whoever traveled in coastal regions likely knows what happens to the trash ,tragic and irresponsible . At least UA-cam sailors should show more responsibility and try to organize themselves and others to improve common ways !
First notice of your new significant other, congratulations from NC. Hold it down brother. If she will drop in the bucket she's a keeper😊😂. Yoo are a winner. I subscribe
As an aging Xer looking for a place to chill and an old surfer, ihave considered Bali. I cant stand watching locals throw their trash on the ground with complete apathy. Its a peeve. Ill pass on indonesia.
That's depressing --- you see the variations in the states too. Trash strewn on the streets of NYC, and piles of garbage where rats play and eat, but they're sweeping the sidewalk in Hoboken NJ --- Nothing is " ours " so a bit more self awareness abt our behaviors would be nice. Enjoyed the vid anyway --- Blessings guys
the plastic is made using fossil fuel components and can be turned back into a fuel. imagine a solar powered fuel maker using plastic scrap! ecodiesel?
Maybe the plastic problem is a global problem. It would seem that, at least initially, Indonesia didn't create the plastic, it was a luxury they bought from the west. Other waste decomposes and therefore isn't a problem, this new product is a problem. I think the best fix is if the companies that produce the plastic should be involved with the education and infrastructure of places like Indonesia in the clean up and maintenance. It's not like they don't have the money.
Perhaps a clean up tax on every piece of plastic sold at the source and an international guard type organisation to focus on cleaning up the seas from it? You can just imagine the corruption in the administration of something like that though. Still better than nothing.
How about corporations stop making products with plastic. Gotta make that coin, this is the consequences of those choices and until they can share the world properly and stop being good for nothing dirtbags, it won't change anytime soon.
It's not just corporations, we're all complicit, tacitly or otherwise. We get the society we ask for, which basically means that if you put up with shit then you'll continue to get shit...
@@saylaveenadmearedead The difference is that James will dispose of his rubbish responsibility and not just discard it in the ocean or on the side of the road. What happens after that he's not responsible for.
That’s right James!! You speak 🗣️ the truth and educate and bring awareness to help others better understand the impact we all have!! Appreciate you speaking on this!! Mahalo!! 🤙🏽
The legend is BACK! I respect you. Just turned 18 and will be for sure circumnavigate the world in the future.
Great video James and Rhonda. Totally awesome.
Your boat is beautiful mate, true classic 👍
Thanks . when i was a pre teen in the 60's we used to take a wagon around the neighborhood and collect drink bottles not to recycle but to get money for the return. A pay system set up for collected plastic might be an answer. If only a small one every little bit helps. like the camp rule , ( leave the place better than you found it. )
Much of the plastic is non recyclable
@@SailorJames Well not economically but eventually humans will have to figure it out.
That looked like some very decent snorkeling! Awesome video! ❤
Nice to see caring people at least trying to motivate a task force. Much money can be made in Recycling Projects, if only a crew could be involved in salvaging Plastic Recyclable ♻️ Waste? Not actually waste by the way? Thank you for including this, James..!
Far out man. Thank you so much for these. Be safe always, cheers!
❤❤ I love your videos, awesome content😊
Glad you made it you Joga James, we had a fantastic holiday there 5 years ago. If you ho north I hope you get to Morotai!
Thanks!
Thank you 🙏🏻
Another good video.
James can’t agree more. We all live on this planet and it is the only one we have. It is in no culture to pollute. Cheer Bernie, MV Andalea .
Seeing so much plastic trash along the coast at almost every coastline is so heartbreaking. I wish I could pick it all up. It's been there so long in most places that it's now broken down into micro plastics and become the soil in these locations. One person picking up trash isn't enough.. it would take the whole world caring enough about the 🌎 to make a difference 😢.
Thanks for the video!
The sweetest love Pirates on the Seas!
The lack of respect for the environment is a worldwide phenomenon. I live in Northeast Louisiana and the local people here trash the environment too. I think you nailed it when you said it is a combination of poverty and lack of education. The only answer we have found here is to pick it up and organize cleanups which creates a vicious cycle that never ends. Great video enjoyed the snorkeling.
Hi James and Rhonda! Beautiful area and scenery! I was on Vacation in Panama a few years ago, and the same thing, garbage everywhere and no one seems to care! It was 2-3' on some of the beaches. Also on the side of the roads! A beautiful country with great people but the governments should do something about the garbage! Maybe people who are serving time, can be put to work, cleaning things up?!! Stay safe from the east coast of Canada 🇨🇦.
Beautiful Waters...Big 🦞 be nice😊😊😊
Love watching you two what a good team you are glad you met each other. And your boat looks awesome.
Slokum walked clean beaches !
Missed you yesterday haha I am glad you are here today Pirates! (Love the Warmer Climate!)
I always release videos on Monday (in America ) 👍🏻
@@SailorJames OKAY haha Idk why I thought it was Sundays, maybe I was a film behind every time lol hahaha
Their Garbage is all over Northern Australia too!
I found the east coast of Australia to be probably the cleanest beaches and shore lines of any country I have visited. Sad to hear Northern Australia has trash blowing in
Good points about the plastic. Simple solution..put a value on it. People will collect and recycle. Charge the packaging companies.
Most of it is none recyclable
Fantastic Folks 🐬 Thank you for sharing with the plastic rubbish / thrash situation at such a beautiful anchorage & beach. We live as one or we live has none. Eventually future generations the IQ light bulb will kick in one's brain & this to shall pass. Great job with life folks...
I wish we could make a plastic that breaks down easily over a bit of time. This stuff is out of hand. Microplastics in our blood! Anyway great footage once again.
Would u catch me snorkelling there, hell no, shark frenzy. Epic and good on you doing that
I just watched the buy now conspiracy on Netflix and was wondering if all the trash was real... and then I saw this episode... something has to change! But what do we do... cancel our Amazon subscription? Get rid of our smartphones? I wish I knew the answer too.. great episode.. 👍
It's terrible you're *right* James.
Amongst such beauty, to have the plastic taint the visual splendor, is Truly a crying shame.
There are solutions, with mindset & action in need of looking beyond the immediacy of here & now.
Case in point: i get 30 days worth of certain medications covered at a time.
A plastic container is used each month for 12 containers a year.
If the pharmacy would require me to bring my container in for a refill, that's 11 less plastic containers per year for the 1 particular medication.
A coordinated effort *must* be made.
Leaders of countries, please see this & enforce this necessary change, as well as others for humanity's own good.
Thanks for your video James.
Enjoy Rhonda & her delicious cookin'!
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Indonesia is in a different part of a maturation cycle. Back in the 40's in the US there was plenty of garbage littering our hiways; people just threw their waste out of their car windows. Then there was a "dont be a litterbug" campaign and awareness was raised
In the age of cellphones and the internet you can’t tell me the Indonesian people have no concept of litter or that plastic is bad for the environment. Every person I have seen here, including villages with houses with dirt floors, very person has a smart phone or an iPad
100% on the Rubbage😢😢😢
Welcome to Indonesia... Yes plastic trash is a big problem. What do you suggest to do about it?
Dude… If James picked up every single piece of trash there it would all be back in a week. You can’t “fix” something if the people who actually live there don’t care about fixing it.
@southernpaths2986 I only asked what he suggests... chill dude 🤣
It's a western imported problem and now you are bitchin about it
@@southernpaths2986 Regrettably it's not just the people living there, it's everyone on our planet.
Right? Like his shit don't stink? I believe that if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem... but it's blatantly clear that he worships white colonialism. @Bairdovich
Don’t even try and say all the trash in Indo is a western import issue, you know that’s total bullshit
Hi.
What are lines that go overboard either side of the anchor chain.?
I hope you're pulling the anchor up from 60ft with a winch?
They are the snubber which takes the loads off the windlass. The windlass is super slow and I rarely ever use it other than to break the anchor free
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The plastic issue, it's southeast Asia.
Did you say future generations will sort it? I think you've been a bit optimistic there! 😢
Better than being completely hopeless
@SailorJames When the economy trumps Earth's survival, hopelessness is the just word.
@@birdinthebushRemind me not to invite you to any parties 😒..
The states are crazy on every level stay free!!
Hey there,
It seems like you are following cruising guides when you say things like "apparently there is good snorkling here", if it's not too much bother could you mention the guides you are using or put them in the description as you go. For example I notice you were using "Cruising the coral coast" by Alan Lucas as you visited Aus, be great to know the good ones to use where you are now.
The NoForeignLand app is a great resource for cruising info
@SailorJames thanks
Yes agree, Rubbish problem is quite immense in Indo, they treat the strong currents as a endless conveyor belt, even in so called pristine National parks, they allow towns with no organised rubbish collection. A real shame and tragedy on this earth.
We're all lucky that glass sinks both in water and most grounds.
Really sad about all the rubbish… I remember Sailing Florence commenting on it.
Such beautiful islands and all that garbage.☹️🌴🩵⛵️💙
Yeah, plastic, God help us!
Hi James and Rhonda. This plastic story just doesn't go away. Eh.? One of the biggest problems that I know of, is on the main beach of Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands group. Up to 3500 pieces per day get washed up there. None of which is generated from the main island of Pitcairn itself. My research tells me that it's a current known as South Pacific Gyre that's responsible. Owing its direction of flow, it couldn't pick up any rubbish, from Pitcairn. (Not that there's any.)
The last You Tuber I know of, that hopped ashore there was James, on Zingaro. Don't remember what quantity was picked up. Yes there is an "Insane amount still floating around out there."
Thanks also for showing us the "beauty" that still exists out there.
Thank you guys, for sharing. 👍 Spot you next time.
Out of curiosity I asked GPT why this effects indo and not other similar regions and it says "Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 islands, creating extensive coastlines that are particularly vulnerable to marine debris. The ocean currents in Southeast Asia converge near Indonesia, which amplifies the accumulation of trash from both local and international sources."
I guess this makes sense, it also mentions that a lot of waste is being imported from developed countries. I guess checking the labels etc would make it clear if it's domestic or not.
99% of labels are local.
How do you dispose of your own trash while in a country like that? Are there trash cans near marinas or populated places, do you take it to shore to burn yourself, or some other option?
We saved all our trash until we were in places with trash cans on shore or dumpsters in the harbors and then disposed of it that way.
You talk about trash and doing something ,a super important topic ! Check out plastic odyssey ,a refitted trawler with many professional trash recycling machines on board ,traveling the world ,cleaning up on the go ,intend to inspire and educate others .
Most sailors are quite good handyman/women ,many of these could make a movable DIY trash recycling unit ,put on their dinghy ,go on shore and recycle their own and local trash into fuel and new items ,inspiring and educating locals of how to make their own trash recycling units ,size according to their needs . Other sailors coming later getting needed parts and help ,if needed .
Even sailors with to small of a boat can at least stop accepting plastic bags when shopping .checking on sailing channels ,nobody seems to care enough ,to make the effort in reducing plastic trash .one can see them accepting plastic bags ,plastic wrappings ,discarding them at the next place ,without research if the next place does proper recycling .
Whoever traveled in coastal regions likely knows what happens to the trash ,tragic and irresponsible . At least UA-cam sailors should show more responsibility and try to organize themselves and others to improve common ways !
First notice of your new significant other, congratulations from NC. Hold it down brother. If she will drop in the bucket she's a keeper😊😂. Yoo are a winner. I subscribe
As an aging Xer looking for a place to chill and an old surfer, ihave considered Bali. I cant stand watching locals throw their trash on the ground with complete apathy. Its a peeve. Ill pass on indonesia.
Bali is absurdly clean compared to the rest of Indo because they make more of an effort since so many white people visit
The movie The Graduate has a line about our future Plastics!!
This is the person you've been holding captive at sea
The garbage!!! That makes me sick .Takes away from the beauty of the place.
The music has a different flair. Did capt. James let Rhonda choose it? Its cool. Just curious.
I choose all the music
You realize you are not solo anymore… right?🤔
Not understanding your point
That's depressing --- you see the variations in the states too. Trash strewn on the streets of NYC, and piles of garbage where rats play and eat, but they're sweeping the sidewalk in Hoboken NJ --- Nothing is " ours " so a bit more self awareness abt our behaviors would be nice. Enjoyed the vid anyway --- Blessings guys
the plastic is made using fossil fuel components and can be turned back into a fuel. imagine a solar powered fuel maker using plastic scrap!
ecodiesel?
Maybe the plastic problem is a global problem. It would seem that, at least initially, Indonesia didn't create the plastic, it was a luxury they bought from the west. Other waste decomposes and therefore isn't a problem, this new product is a problem. I think the best fix is if the companies that produce the plastic should be involved with the education and infrastructure of places like Indonesia in the clean up and maintenance. It's not like they don't have the money.
I have watched Indonesians dumping entire rubbish bins into the sea on multiple occasions
@@SailorJames That's sad
Perhaps a clean up tax on every piece of plastic sold at the source and an international guard type organisation to focus on cleaning up the seas from it? You can just imagine the corruption in the administration of something like that though. Still better than nothing.
Keep going man!!! also part of the problem is that the US and other countries have paid INDOS to dump trash there so its not even all theirs
99% of the trash I have seen in the 1600+ miles of Indo is Indonesian trash not from western countries
How about corporations stop making products with plastic. Gotta make that coin, this is the consequences of those choices and until they can share the world properly and stop being good for nothing dirtbags, it won't change anytime soon.
It's not just corporations, we're all complicit, tacitly or otherwise. We get the society we ask for, which basically means that if you put up with shit then you'll continue to get shit...
What type of packaging is that new waterpump coming in btw? Asking for a friend who roars about his hypocrisy.
@@saylaveenadmearedead The difference is that James will dispose of his rubbish responsibility and not just discard it in the ocean or on the side of the road. What happens after that he's not responsible for.
So sad about the rubbish .
Do you ever wonder about a giant mythical squid coming up from the dark depths to cover your boat with its slithery tentacles.
There is tons of documentation of the giant squids, one of the few sea creatures from old lore that turned out to be real