Our Own Private Island in Zanzibar__ Baby Sea Turtles, Dolphins And Scuba Lessons For Kids 8 Yrs Old.

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AI GeneratedA family enjoys a luxurious and educational summer vacation on Mnemba Island, Zanzibar. Their trip blends high-end relaxation with immersive nature experiences, focusing on marine conservation, scuba diving, and wildlife encounters, all while strengthening the bond between parents and their courageous children.
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Listen, there's one important family rule while we're here.
It was a Portuguese manor.
Oh shoot. You know what that means? Like the birds means turtles. Guys, we gotta go.
Good morning from... Good morning from Zanzibar.
Big signs.
This is our summer semester on Safari.
What in...
Babies.
Wait, what?
What animal are we learning about this week?
Baby sea turtles.
Mommy, sea turtles lay their eggs at nighttime
and then you have to wait about 50 days
for the eggs to hatch.
Even when they hatch, they stay under the sand
Yeah, that is crazy.
Tomorrow, okay.
We'll do this one because now
Tomorrow.
Yeah, yeah.
They are a little bit deeper.
Yeah.
So by tomorrow, they'll come up a little bit.
They'll dig up.
And then I will, yeah.
So you're going to put him back first?
But this one I don't want to put back
because otherwise it's going to wake up the others.
Oh, okay.
So this one I have to let them go.
When is it coming?
So tomorrow, we'll let...
Well, he's going to cover back up?
Yeah, he's going to cover back up.
And then tomorrow and tonight,
they will climb their way up.
Yep, yep.
Oh, Callie.
Yeah, yeah.
Then you can, you can just follow it.
I need to get it to water.
Otherwise the crab will eat it.
Oh, okay.
We're going to, we're going to watch him go back to the sea.
We'll help him so that the birds don't get him.
Oh, he's so cute.
He knows exactly where to go.
Just watch out for the crab.
Okay, we will.
We'll watch out for the crabs.
What are you...
Help him.
A little boy.
Help him.
He's so cute.
What?
He's so...
Oh!
Oh, come on.
Oh, there he goes.
Did it just happen?
How do sea turtles know that they have to go to the ocean?
With their instincts.
You know how babies,
they, when they're first born,
they don't know how to walk and everything?
Like baby sea turtles,
they know how to climb out of their nest.
They know how to walk already,
even when they're, just when they're born.
And then they know where to go.
They have to go in the ocean.
They get smashed by a wave, but they're still alive.
And they have to swim by theirself.
They know everything.
And there's no mom and they just grow up.
They're so cool.
Oh!
Wait, is this, did this happen?
No, no, no.
No, no, no, stop.
So he just got a check on him.
And he's like, oh, they're ready.
They'll be ready tomorrow.
Should we help him out?
And he's like, we're not gonna put him in,
otherwise we'll wake everybody else up.
He's like, but this won't be ready tomorrow.
So this guy's going all the way.
So this guy, we're gonna help them
so that a crab doesn't get him.
Yeah, okay, you guys take care of them.
Tomorrow.
Yes.
Guys, we got one tomorrow.
Go, go, Callie.
Cheese.
Callie, keep your distance, bud.
Callie, don't get too close to anybody, please.
He keeps falling in our footprints.
He's so strong.
Bob.
Kai, no.
Dave.
Let's name him.
Oh, you're so strong.
Let's name him Cheese.
Let's name him Barney.
Let's name him He-Man.
No, it's gotta be something that's like number one.
Or Pierre-Louis.
Uno.
Go, Uno.
Uno, Uno.
Kev, Kev, Kev.
No, his name's Uno.
Why did, oh, come on, Uno.
Why is he doing that?
Why are you looking for the hard way?
Good job, Dorothy.
Should we make him an easy path?
Okay, Uno, don't go right there.
I love him.
I love Uno.
Don't go the hard way, Uno.
Go, go, go, go, go.
Yay!
Where is he?
Oh, there he is.
Oh, he's swimming.
Oh, a big wave.
Wait, he's right here.
Big wave.
This place is not easy to get to.
And this time, it was a little dramatic.
Planes are tiny.
Wait, wait, wait,
Cali's got to show you something super cool.
Guys, look all the way back at Cali.
Whoa!
Super short, I can see the island.
All right, we got to get to that boat.
See the white one that says Mamba?
And here comes the rain.
I think we can make it.
Come on, sit down, sit down, sit down.
Hold on tight, hold on tight.
Stay sitting, okay?
Hold on.
More, Jess.
Hold on.
You feel safe?
Yep.
What?
You okay though?
Hey, well done.
Well done, wow.
You guys are heroes.
It was crazy.
The person who carried me to the boat,
they fell in quicksand,
and then they were like.
How scared were you when that craziness was going on?
I was pretty scared.
How are you keeping it together?
I was losing it inside.
Yeah, you were more scared.
The boat could have tipped.
This is why I was confused.
You were keeping it together almost too much.
Like, suspiciously so.
When we're around sharks or other dangerous situations
that seem dangerous,
but as long as you're keeping it together,
you're actually safe, then I'm cool.
But this was actually dangerous.
This boat definitely could have flick-rolled,
especially while we were getting on,
or especially once we were on board.
I mean, and it had not only us,
but it had all our luggage, all your camera gear.
Our children.
No, I'm just kidding, not only us.
I think I was just so like,
we gotta get to Mimba Island.
That was it.
After a long, tired, stressful travel day,
it was kind of this feeling of,
if we don't get to this island, which is paradise,
and we knew once we arrived,
they would take such good care of us,
but if we didn't make it to the island,
we would just have to go find...
I was not gonna stay anywhere else that night.
That was it, that was spot on.
We had our eyes on the prize,
and the prize was Mimba Island.
Did you hear what Manila might do, Dorothy?
I might do scuba diving.
Whoa!
How'd you just find that?
It was just sitting right there.
Wait, another one, another one.
What?
What was it?
I don't know.
You need to give me time.
Really?
All right, you guys wanna do one, two, three, wow?
Yep.
And we can't really see it.
Our house that we stayed in,
like it had no doors, no walls.
It just had like things that hold our house up.
Didn't have any walls.
Yeah, but it's your stuff.
And we were inside, or were we outside?
Yeah, it was like we were just walking,
and then we would like walk right into our house.
You're so stoked to be here?
Uh-huh.
Me too.
Dorothy, you're so grateful to be here?
Yes.
Me too.
Calvin, which bed is yours?
This one.
Girl's chain, Dorothy.
It's called a daisy chain,
but he calls it a girl's chain.
That's really funny.
We get our own kid towel sandals.
What?
Towel sandals?
Yeah, towels.
Are you kidding?
What?
And we get our own bathrobes.
When are you guys gonna wear your bathrobes?
Today.
Today, for bedtime?
Yeah.
Or just whenever you're feeling classy, okay?
Yeah, okay.
A shower.
A what?
A necklace shower.
Yeah, we could just go through my bed.
No, no, no, just go through the door.
Careful, Cali.
And look at our own.
Okay, guys, this is the kids' room only, all right?
Be good.
Me and Mom are gonna be in the tent just over there.
If you need anything, how do you get ahold of us?
Yeah!
All right, you guys good?
Yeah.
All right, see you guys in a few days.
Okay, bye-bye.
And welcome to the parents' villa.
Again, no walls.
We are outside, but we're inside.
Wow.
Just the nicest.
Jess, how stoked are you to be here?
You know those places you arrive to
and you just feel like you're back home
and you just knew you were meant for a life of luxury?
Got a question for you.
How weird is the indoor-outdoor kind of hut villa
and how much do you love it?
I love it.
But isn't it kind of strange that you're always outside,
that there's no doors or walls to your place?
I don't know, but it still feels like home when I'm there.
Isn't that the weird,
I'm trying to figure it out even for myself
why it's so cozy and just so awesome.
I think it's because you're one with nature
and yet you feel perfectly protected.
Well, and we had a bit of rain, you know?
So it'd be pouring rain and you'd still just feel cozy
in your open-air hut.
You gotta experience it.
We can just say it has no doors.
My foot can't move.
Or walls.
Mine too.
It can't move.
Same foot.
Does it feel cringy?
Yeah, what is this feeling?
What is this feeling?
This is random.
Why are we talking about this?
Dude, why are you talking about this?
But does it?
Yeah.
Does it feel like needles like this?
Yeah.
Punch it?
Yeah.
That's what I've been feeling.
Okay, what else, guys?
What happened, Callie?
You scared him.
Did they scare you?
Yeah.
On purpose?
Yeah.
Oh, jerk.
Jerk one.
Jerk two.
♪ Come stop your crying, it'll be all right ♪
♪ Just take my hand, hold it tight ♪
♪ I will protect you from all around you ♪
♪ I will be here, don't you cry ♪
♪ For one so small, you seem so strong ♪
♪ My arms will hold you, keep you safe and warm ♪
♪ This bond between us, oh, it can't be broken ♪
♪ I will be here, don't you cry ♪
♪ You'll be in my heart, no matter what they say ♪
♪ Yes, you'll be in my heart, always ♪
Oh, that's a good nest.
So, Dorothy found these eggs.
I think they fell from a nest up there.
You can hear birds all around us.
We don't want to leave them on the sand where they fell,
or someone might step on them.
So, Dorothy made a cute little nest.
My favorite part of Zane's the bar where the dolphins.
Tommyball, where are you?
You're doing good, okay?
If you ever need anything, just come to me, okay?
Otherwise, I'm going to kind of focus on Kelly.
Kelly, you feeling good?
Look, when I give you the thumbs up,
you come to me, okay?
Peace.
Before we could tour with dolphins,
I need to practice my snorkels.
We all needed to practice our deep dives.
When we were ready,
Dorothy, we did a special dolphin call.
Thanks, for as they say in Tanzania,
Humbo.
I think we're ready.
Let's go.
Twin day.
Where are you from?
Ukraine.
Oh, from Ukraine.
Wow.
Hi.
How are you?
Ochim priyana.
How about you?
What was one of your favorite parts of this trip?
The thing that is sticking out in my brain
that I will always remember is finding seashells.
Oh, yeah.
Seashells.
Okay, let's talk about seashells.
Okay.
We looked for seashells.
And we found so many.
But they were mega cool.
Like, but like,
so, um.
But still, a lot of them were like this big.
Oh, yeah.
And then we did a trash pickup on the beach.
And there was so much.
And then when we.
In the middle, I crushed it.
Yeah, you crushed it.
We found a sand dollar.
Actually.
All right.
Here's the plan for today.
First, we're going to take a bucket
and go do a beach cleanup.
Then, we're going to watch Manila and Dorothy go scuba
while me, Mom, and Callie snorkel.
And then at the end,
we're going to look for baby turtles.
Deal?
Yep.
All right, let's go.
Mom, you got a good bucket?
Ooh, coming in hot.
Put that in Mom's bucket.
There you go.
Wow.
Good job, man.
So basically, it's just all plastic sacks.
Guys, the ocean is gone.
Should we walk out just a little bit?
We got to.
Look at that.
How can you do it?
So the tide changes.
When the tide is high,
the water comes all the way up to the trees.
When the tide is low,
it goes all the way out there.
Look at that.
It's like the ocean is just gone.
Look at these ones.
I thought you'd like these ones.
Look at those.
Wow, look at that pointy one,
Dorothy found.
Look at this one.
Wow.
You found an alive one?
Yes.
Look at my pointy one.
Look at Dorothy's.
There.
Whoa.
What the?
Look, no broken pieces.
That is incredible.
Look at that.
Dad.
I got to take a picture of that one.
Amazing.
Oh my.
We're putting our legs.
I got to show you guys the one I just found.
No cracks or anything either.
You guys ready?
Yeah.
Look at this one.
Oh, you got a baby.
Included in your stay at Nimba Island is scuba diving.
Dorothy's been working on her Patti scuba diving course
for the last little while.
But who else went?
But who was old enough for Patti's bubble making course?
Eight-year-old Manila.
Oh.
Okay.
Scuba diving.
Manila, what was it like?
This, you put it on like a rock.
We're at Nimba Island in Zanzibar.
And here we have Dorothy and Manila taking
their first ever bubble makers
intro to scuba diving class together.
It's Manila's first ever dive.
Cannot wait.
He was so excited when he found out
he was able to scuba dive this week.
If happens, you don't have air to blow.
You can simply push.
This is called a pipe button.
You can just push that.
It's the same as blow.
You push that, all the water will be flushed out.
Out of air, which will not happen,
but just for you to know, that's out of air.
Comes down means you go down.
What means you're okay?
Does it mean this?
I'm okay.
Does this?
Does this mean okay?
I'm okay.
Yeah, and you say no.
If you say, are you okay?
And then you say, I'm okay.
Are you okay?
I'm okay.
You okay?
I'm okay.
No, I'm okay.
And he says, if you have a problem,
and if you ran out of air, you do this.
No, we never did.
Yeah, we never ran out of air.
It was 2,000 gallons of air.
Oh yeah.
All right, Kyle, you can do this too if you want.
Okay, show me.
I have a problem with my ear.
Good.
I have a problem with my mask.
I have a problem with my sister.
Dorothy, on a scale from one to 10, how nervous are you?
One.
Not at all?
What?
Okay, Manila.
1% nervous.
On a scale from nine to 10, how nervous are you?
Nine to 10.
Dad!
Are you nervous at all?
No.
You're really not?
No.
I'm not nervous for you.
You'll be great.
Look at this guy.
He's like surfing, diving.
Look at those bubbles.
You see how comfortable they are?
♪ I'm a new soul, I came to this strange world ♪
♪ Hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take ♪
♪ But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear ♪
♪ Finding myself making every possible mistake ♪
Wow, I'm very proud of you.
I'm so proud of you.
How was that?
Good.
Yeah, you're a champ.
He was so good.
Just so...
You know how sometimes we try to like play down our kids
and be like, you know what?
They're just regular kids.
They're living this extraordinary life,
but then at the end of the day,
there's regular kids and everybody could do this.
All right, I'm gonna be transparent with you guys.
We've got super kids.
They're incredible.
And it just was so evident watching them scuba dive.
Oh my gosh, that was my favorite.
This was one of those times though,
where I didn't want to, what's the word?
Where you like push your fears on your kid.
Were you nervous one?
No, I mean, but scuba diving was nervous for me.
Like I was...
This is hard.
This should be difficult.
Yeah, I had a hard time when I learned to scuba dive
and I didn't want to put those fears on Manila
and Manila just is like,
oh, you want me to take out my regulator and put it in?
You want me to clear my mouth?
Sure, done.
Manila, you just scuba dove.
You're eight years old.
Are you so proud of yourself?
You were a natural down there.
You're gonna do it again tomorrow?
Yeah.
We went scuba diving with a scuba teacher
and we had like these tanks
and there was this button that made you sink
and then there was this button
that made your life jacket puff up.
Like you can make it as big as you want.
But your head can explode if you go like too fast,
like puff, puff.
So you'd be like puff, puff.
You can't go up too fast or else you'll get blood.
So you'll die maybe?
Yeah, you will die.
Your head will explode.
Like if you did dive kind of like two of the...
Can we talk about here now?
Okay, two of the 16,000 of us.
Yes, of course, 16,000 of us.
16,000 of us on top of each other
would, what if you came up too fast?
Like that's how tall the water was.
And if you...
No, it wasn't 16,000 of you.
There was about like 10 feet, Manila.
There was like 10.
There was a cliff.
And then there was the deep ocean
like and then the cliff went down.
I'm talking about the bottom of the cliff.
Backwards.
Manila, turn around and go backwards.
I like this.
So you can just...
Spitting in the mask?
Before it starts going down.
Go down a little bit.
That one.
Yes.
Looking good.
What's that?
He's like a remora.
If you feel the piece is loose,
you can just pull this, okay?
And make it tighter.
Now the one on your chest?
That one.
Chest.
Pull.
If it's too tight, you can loosen it.
So much air.
Give it to me.
Chin up.
There you go.
That feel good?
Okay, we are ready.
Divers are ready to dive.
All right, have fun.
Okay.
If you guys look up every once in a while,
you'll see a callie popping your bubbles.
Dorothy, this is how you're gonna say hi.
Say hi.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
See I'm a young soul in this very strange world
hoping I can learn a bit about what is true and fake.
The wildest hate, try to communicate,
finding trust in love is not always easy to make.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
This is a happy end
because you don't understand
everything you have done.
Why is everything so wrong?
This is a happy end.
Come and give me your hand.
I'll take you far away.
Yeah.
You got it.
What did you do?
I hate to admit it, people,
but these kids are no ordinary children.
They are super kids.
What's in our sails?
About three seconds.
What's it called?
In Ketumse.
Oh, I forgot to count it.
Are they still kissing?
Go kiss the rope.
No.
What did you do?
I made it a little smoother.
Smoother, how did you do that?
Oh, look at this nice little, oh my gosh.
Look at that smooth ramp.
So all throughout Namba Island,
there are nests and they're marked with days.
And as soon as we arrived,
I went all around the island
and I was like, there better be a nest.
Because it's marked with the date
that they are expected to arrive,
their delivery date.
And when you only have a couple nests
in like that short window,
you're like, oh my gosh.
You're just hoping so much
that you get to witness a hatch
because it's unpredictable, nature, wildlife.
And it wasn't until our very, very last night.
Show me how cute baby sea turtles are.
Like this big?
No.
Oh, we didn't say how big they are, bro.
How cute are they?
Oh, so cute.
Show me.
Very.
How cute?
Cuter than that.
And he's very cute.
Oh, shoot.
You know what that means?
Look, the birds means turtles.
Guys, we gotta go.
So many black and white birds.
Like, a few were white.
And not black and white.
One were a black queen.
No, a few were black and some were white.
Last time we went, they were just black.
And so we scared them away to save the turtles.
I see them!
Ah!
Come on!
We gotta save the turtles!
They're coming!
Now we'll hold
No matter what this world will throw
It won't shake me loose
I'll reach my hands out in the dark
And wait for it all to enter
Like I'll wait for you
I'll wait for you
Cause I'm not giving up
I'm not even when I'm down on my last breath
And they say there's nothing left
So don't give up on me
Now we'll hold
It won't shake me loose
Cause I'm not even when nobody else believes
So don't give up on me
I'll fight
I will fight for you
I always do
Until my heart is black and blue
Here they come!
Oh wow!
Oh, look at the little guy!
Dad!
They can hear the ocean.
Oh, they're so special.
Oh, they're just like,
I thought you were just going to the beach.
He's like, I'm not going out there.
In my heart, so, so happy when Callie asked me,
Dad, can I snorkel with you when the baby sea turtles hatch?
It's my favorite thing is that whenever I'm watching them
from the beach, I want to get in the water
and see them take their first swims out to the beach.
And Dorsey and Manila were like,
Oh no, we're okay.
We're going to stay on the beach.
And Callie was like, give me my mask.
And I kind of, I tried to almost like talk them out of it.
And I was like, look, buddy,
it's a little more murky this time.
Like you might, the waves are big.
And he's like, no, I want to go.
I want to go.
I am so grateful that I got to share that experience.
Sometimes I lay under the moon.
I thank God I'm breathing.
And then I pray, don't take me soon.
I am here for a reason.
I love you, buddy.
I love you!
I love you, Zanzibar.
Are you going to talk about it or do you want me to?
Talk about what?
Your book.
Ugh, again.
Every time.
I'm going to tell the whole world, every time.
My wife wrote a book and it's the best book.
It's available for pre-sale.
I love you.
