Our friend got us free access to kayaks in Newport Beach, California! We had no expectations for what this adventure would hold, so we were SHOCKED at how much fun we had this day! Marinas. MOUNTAINS. Dolphins! And the most BOATS we've ever seen! Plus, we get IN-N-OUT. It was a great day.
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What's up P Nation? Today we're going kayaking!
So today is very exciting. Our friend has hooked us up with some kayak rentals in Newport Beach.
It's going to be amazing in the bay. Last time we did kayaks we were in Vietnam and like
it didn't go well. I lost my phone into the ocean and it took me like two months to get my phone
back to Thailand and it was a crazy story. So hopefully nothing bad will happen on this trip
but we got 30 minutes to go to Newport so let's get in the car.
It is a beautiful day in California. We got our boat rentals. We have two single kayaks.
We're in Newport Beach. This is going to be the most magical day on the water. I already
saw a dolphin out here. All right let's do this thing. Don't put your shoe on. I will get you in.
Okay you got it. Yay. Really? You look good. All right we just dipped in the water and it's so
funny because the people behind us are like middle schoolers. Sorry. How do you kick it?
The kids behind us are middle schoolers and they're like rowing which in Texas we did not
have but I think that's so cool that they have it here and they're like trying to figure out
what all the rules for coronavirus are. So they're like we have to disinfect our paddles after we
touch them. Do we wear a face shield the whole time? They're about to get on the water with us.
I hope we're fast enough.
Now they're getting closer. I just heard the instructor say Leah come on you're bringing
down the back and that's really funny because that's what my Leah is doing. She's way back
there somewhere. I don't know where she is. Do you think you would want to be in the rowing team?
If my high school had one I think I feel like it costs a lot. You know what I mean? Soccer's free.
Field hockey free. Minus the stick. But yeah I think I would want to be on it. Here comes another
crew and I don't know if you guys can see or not but there is snow on top of that mountain. I just
find it so crazy that there's snow that close and yet we are here and it's 70 degrees. Like this is
amazing. Oh my gosh. I don't know if you guys can see in the distance. I can't even talk because I'm
so excited. There is snow on the mountains and there are sailboats in the same shot. Like where
are we? How is it this warm? You see the snow? It's a beaut. It's like Jake Paul's boat or something.
I mean look at this military vehicle. It's got like a fake machine gun. I hope they're fake
machine guns. On the back on either side they've got the escape boat if it capsizes. One of the
hatches if it capsizes is open. I don't know if you can see but they have the seats for like
a jet plane on there. It can't be going that fast. There's no way. Those seats are crazy.
What am I looking at? Guys I think we found some dolphins. All of a sudden I heard like
behind me. I was like and I saw like big ripples. I was like oh they're gonna be here and they're
curious about you most of the time. So I don't think it's uncommon for them to like come up
next to your kayak and so I was like zack. They like surfaced maybe three more times but they're
heading out. That was really cool. We found the dolphins. We'll keep going.
So just across these houses in the road is the beach. Like this marina is so big. We've been
in here for like an hour. This community could be getting their groceries delivered on boats. Like
all these little boats are coming with like groceries and repairs and it's just really
interesting because like we don't have this in Texas. There's not a bunch of sailboats just
sitting in a bay right next to the beach. Like this is truly unique. Like this is crazy. I don't
even know what it'd be like to live on a boat here but I kind of want to know. Also like what address
do you deliver food to a boat? What address are you delivering food to? Like you're on a boat in
the middle of water. Is this just look for the big black boat with a sail on it because there's
like a million of those. I wonder how this works. Seriously guys. There's a lot of traffic out here
and like this is I've never kayaked in a marina. So like this is like a different type of beautiful
because there's like palm trees in the distance. There's like all these different types of boats.
There's people on the water and there's sailboats and the water's beautiful and there's dolphins around
and there's mountains. I don't know like I wouldn't expect from kayaking. You know like when you think
of kayaking you're like we're gonna be in nature and like not run into any any
It's colder out of the water than it is in the water. That was true. I was like very prepared for
it to be super cold but it was so nice. I am so exhausted right now. Like that was the
most arm workout like the biggest arm workout I will get in a year's time. That was really hard.
Wasn't that crazy? They didn't have a drive-thru. That was the first in and out I've ever been to
that didn't have a drive-thru. I feel like this was right up past it. Why is it taking us so long
to eat these? Well because we just spent three hours kayaking. Got my arm workout for the entire
year. I feel like we deserve it. I'm too hungry to even talk anymore.
I should have had a bigger breakfast. I had one of these and it's only one o'clock.
Ah it's so cool to see like all the locals and the grandmas. You know like this is what I normally
do on a Saturday. Well I wish it was what we normally do on a Saturday. I know.
The bun is good. The burger I can't tell a difference between any other kind of like
oh patty. The patty patty. The onion's good. The lettuce is good. Tomatoes normal. It's the sauce.
It's the sauce. It's the freshness. Definitely the freshness. When you like get a whopper
it's just gonna come with like one little piece of lettuce. This is like 18 pieces of lettuce.
Really thick slices of tomato and we get it with onion so really thick slices of onions too.
So good but like it's the sauce though. Really? Yeah. I think it's the freshness. Like In-N-Out
is a place that you just have to come to when you're in California and we were just having
this like discussion this morning. I thought In-N-Out had pretty much crossed the entire
United States and that is not the case. There happened to be one down the road from us in Texas.
That's what made her start thinking that way and it seemed very accessible even though when
the first one got to Texas everyone was like freaking out. This might be the best double
double I've ever had. Same but I'm really hungry. Me too. It seems a lot more salty.
Yeah. Like you can taste, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. This tastes really good. I'm so full now it's weird. I
normally can eat like two or three or four. My max is three. I've never actually had four but that was so good.
Thank you guys for watching today. It was amazing. I think my favorite part was when we got to the
wide open part and you could see the mountains and that was like the perfect like California day.
Southern California. Thanks for watching.
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