Make sure you have your foot path out,
and I would go that direction 'cause you're safe.
So, just back it up a little.
- I'm gonna go for it. - Okay.
Excellent, bre. Excellent.
The women out here are different.
They're very self-sufficient. They know how to do
a lot of things.
It's probably sitting on the saw a little bit.
Okay, yeah, it is a little bit. I feel that.
So yeah, get...
Try to get it done and rev that saw.
It looked like it moved a little that way, fyi.
Yeah.
- Good. - I'm scared to fall a tree on my own,
but if I can learn how to fall a tree
and bring in my own firewood,
that's another skill I have under my belt.
- It's going! - There it goes!
Timber!
- Woo-hoo-hoo! - Beauty.
- That was awesome! - Great job!
Damn!
Okay.
Come on, you. Three, two.
Well, you gotta...
- There we are. - Gotta pull it in there.
Well, I wonder where that came from.
- That's been fired. - Yep.
Those guys that, last new year's,
there was a couple of fellas
down here shooting a pistol.
I remember I almost came down and gave them the what's up.
The gillnetting season for subsistence just opened
I think yesterday.
So, me and Dave, we're making sure everything's ready,
and we're gonna go out and make a stab at it.
We're keeping our fingers crossed for sockeye.
We might be a little early,
but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Gillnets are huge pains in the ass.
Just trying to eliminate a few hang-ups.
Well, they were designed to be catchy.
Yeah.
If I had an accurate way to describe a gillnet,
basically like a finely-tuned spider web.
Because if it's...
Been properly hung
and everything is working the way it's supposed to,
once a fish gets in it, they just don't get out. It
I would call it the wall of death.
I know the more of this light line we get out, the quicker.
Yeah, we'll actually start pulling.
What do we got? Just a hang-up? Yeah.
- Hang-up. - Cork hang-up.
Nine times out of ten, no matter how careful you are,
there's always some kind of little snafu.
That sucks. Yep.
Especially at the beginning of the fishing season.
You gotta get the bugs worked out of things,
and when you're only working in a little,
you know, six by six square foot area,
it's pretty hard to untangle a Gill net.
- No, see? It's right there. - It's all.
Nightmare.
Yep. Okay.
That's clear. Hold on. Let me get this re-piled.
That looked proper now.
We'll see here in a minute.
There we go.
Now, we got it.
I have hopes that we're gonna actually come up
with a few fish on this deal.
I'd love a load of fish for the smokehouse right now.
It's been nine months since I've tasted
any fresh, smoked fish.
Now, let's sit and see.
Let her soak.
It's just way too hot.
It's a real big pain in the butt
just to get a glass of drinking water.
Me and Breanna live in a house that floats on top of the water
and as much water as we have around us,
you can't drink the salt water around you,
so it's definitely... Fresh water is a problem.
And here we are.
It's just a hike up here.
What I'm doing is I'm skimming
our water spring to get our water. Normally,
we go to the town hose,
but the town hose has been out of commission
for quite a while now.
So, we come here and have to fill it up.
Just by hanging out here.
We don't actually have any fresh water source of our own.
We either rely on town,
or we rely on the creek in the back bay.
My goal out here is to not have to rely on anybody,
unless I absolutely have to.
There we go!
So, it's time to figure out a way
to where I can just be a little bit more independent,
not have to make those constant trips
to and from the back bay area.
Hope I don't have to come back here anymore.
I bet that's gonna make life a lot easier out here.
Man!
What we're working on today
is I'm gonna strip off this old roof
on this generator shed here, and...
We're gonna try to lay a water catchment system in place.
We're gonna put a gutter all the way around.
We're gonna have barrels stacked up over here.
We'll... yeah.
Hopefully, a nice little thing we can get drinking water from.
And, hopefully,
it'll go fairly smooth.
Off to a great start.
Alright.
Lordy, lordy.
Hotter than heaven's hell out here.
Damn, man.
If only I had some water, my goodness.
Boy, I can't wait to get this water collection system done.
This shed here, it's been here for a long time.
Just kind of an old, nasty wood one.
So, putting a new roof on,
it is definitely a good step in the right direction
because once you got something out here,
you wanna try to take care of it
'cause if you don't, it goes away fast.
Well, sweet, yeah. That's off. Boy, it's messy in there.
Hoo!
So sketchy, so sketchy.
Alright. Hoo! Is it break time yet?
I don't like having to get down low like that.
I think, I think, I think, I think.
I think our boxes, if we repurpose the bed frames,
should put them about that high-ish.
That'll be nice 'cause then you can just kinda
bend over and pick.
I didn't really work in the garden when I was kid, no.
I helped a little bit,
helped plant stuff every once in a while
and pick things for dinner.
Was, "go get lettuce from the garden for a salad!"
That's what I want.
I want a good functioning garden.
You don't just go to the grocery store here and go to
the produce department and load your cart
with good fresh veggies. If you want them,
you gotta think ahead. Is the plane gonna fly?
Can I get them here without them rotting?
Are they gonna spoil?
I've spent a lot of time
getting Greens from my mom and dad
out of their garden in the summer. They grow a lot,
and they like to share, but it's too far away.
So, now it's my turn to try and figure it all out myself.
The sun's hitting, too. Look at that.
Okay.
We did some gardening at the float house, not a lot.
There's just not a lot of room. Everything has to be in little,
you know, fairly compact tubs and containers,
so you can move around your dock, takes up a lot of space.
So, being on land now,
being here at the new house, is a total game changer for us.
We have a big spot picked out for a garden.
And, eventually, if it works out
and we realize we can grow things without killing it,
I would like to have a big greenhouse
and a big healthy garden just like my parents.
Okay.
One heavy thing done.
I gotta do a bunch more heavy things.
Yeah.
I need the boards for the sides of these now.
And then the dirt, then the alder, and the kelp.
Beauty!
Great job!
Damn.
Good job, Bree!
That was perfect, man!
Well, we got our first tree down!
Now, we gotta do a few more.
Today, I'm going to learn how to fall a tree,
and Breanna's going to teach me,
and we have kris and Mary coming along.
Yeah, look at this one. Yo, this one's a nice one right here.
They've all felled plenty of trees,
and I'm excited to learn from them.
- Feel solid? - It feels nice and firm.
- Well... - Let's get started.
Should we fire up our saws?
Veronica's a new member of the community.
- She's really new to this lifestyle. - Timber!
So, I'm really excited to help her learn.
- Very nice. - God, that's gonna
nice solid wood right there, man.
Just perfect all-nighters, man.
So, do you wanna fall a tree?
- Okay, I watched what you did. - You went on the front,
- and that's called the face cut? - Yep, you gotta put...
Yep, you put a notch right here where it's leaning.
Right then, when you're on this cut,
you gotta just keep watching it because it's gonna start moving.
You could just... it could just start moving right away,
so you wanna just keep an eye on it.
I'm terrified to fall a tree.
I only have an inkling
of an idea of how dangerous it is.
Yep, perfect.
- Now, get your footing... yeah. - Right.
Learning how to fall a tree
and stock up on my own firewood is very important to me.
It's important to my survival out here
because if I don't know how to do that,
I can't be out here and I don't wanna rely on my neighbors.
You're almost there. So, if you were to just go back
- and just start again. - Right above it?
And then just go more at an angle.
You can use the same cut, just angle your saw.
Angle it in a little bit more.
And bring it right through there and just cut whatever's left.
- But, you're doing really good. - You're doing really good.
Well, just a couple inches off?
- Jeez. Okay. Alright. - Yeah, you'll be fine.
- It's your first tree, dude. - That's the hardest part.
Yep. You can probably move that now.
- Yeah! - Yay!
Good job.
I need to, at some point,
get off my training wheels, and do it on my own.
This is so hard and scary!
- You can do it. - You can do it!
Line it up like...
- Whoa! God! God! - I'm outta here!
I'm sorry! It was moving that way!
Sorry, guys! I'm sorry! God, what have I done?
You can't get it out without another saw.
Can you grab mine, or.
- Veronica made the right decision. - I failed the mission!
When she wasn't comfortable with that situation,
she took off.
She didn't know where that tree was gonna go.
She was inexperienced.
So, she did a great job of getting out of the way.
- Go back between those. - Okay.
And you're gonna take this out
- and set the brake. - Okay.
The more confidence you have with the more practice you get,
the better off you'll be.
Don't be wimpy right now.
Come on home, baby.
That's very nice.
And that little seam is coming.
- Yep. - Coming at us.
There we have it.
- Water haul number one! - Yes.
Well, crapsicles.
Snake eyes blows.
This looks good.
Yeah, the gravel, I think, is done.
I kinda was just kicking some spots down,
- anywhere there's typar showing. - Yeah.
- Good job! - Thank you. So, okay,
what do you wanna do here?
I want you to kinda show me how to use the skill saw.
I absolutely can.
What do you think, belle?
It's tough. It's hard to figure.
What do you think about it?
Any idea at all?
No!
Alright, get outta here. Get outta here. I got to do.
There it goes!
There we go. See? Nothing bad happened.
Sorry, guys. I'm sorry. Did I Jack it up? That's okay.
It's not your fault at all. It was leaning.
Honestly, it was. The day's just begun,
we're gonna continue to knock trees down
and just, like, learn this whole time.
This is like a clinic, so we just are gonna continue
to keep knocking trees down
until we're just tired, exhausted.
Thank you!
You did great, you did great.
- You got right outta there. - That's what you're...
That's a good thing to do.
Nice. Now, we haul it out? Yep!
Well, sweet.
I used to be a handyman in wrangell
working with friends of mine,
and I've done a fair amount of construction in my past.
Feel very confident taking on these projects.
I stand there and scratch my head quite a bit,
but I know I'll get the job done,
one way or another.
For the corners that are going down at a 45 degree angle,
I'm not sure if this is gonna line up quite right,
and it kinda might be funky and blow away in a strong wind.
As me and Breanna were building this room here,
one, it'll open it up,
and make it a little bit brighter in there
so we can actually do some work in there from time to time.
And also, we can utilize it
and see it catch water. So, it's gonna be
a nice double purpose thing going on in there.
That seemed to all work out pretty good!
Just cut that with the tin snips, and wham bam!
Man, this is bright in here! I like this!
This is like new and improved! I'm digging it!
Yeah, I can't wait! Man.
It's a big mess.
That's what I can really see now
is that I got a mess to clean up.
Just one more step done on this project. Awesome!
Well, this might be an exercise in futility,
but at least it's exercise.
Yeah.
I'm thinking we're about two weeks early.
But, we'll go out and ply the trade
and throw the web out again and see what we can find.
I just really want a fish that hasn't been frozen
since last year, damn it.
Well, this will give us good practice, if anything.
I noticed that when I was hauling the webbing
the second time, it's like my shoulders
- could use a little workout. - Yeah, got a little...
Knock the rust off. The season's upon us.
I think I chewed on my last piece of good smoked sockeye
probably in February.
We try to put away just enough
so that we eat it all in a year,
and by the time it comes to catch new stuff,
we've got room for new stuff to go in the freezer.
Well, we're fortunate, from here on in after...
Especially the next few sets of tides coming up.
Yeah, the next couple tides...
If the salmon move in, we'll...
Whack the crap out of them.
Deal with them.
Gillnetters have a tendency to grumble
on the bright, sunshiny days
because it drives the fish deeper,
and they're not right on the surface.
'Cause we may have 50 fathoms of gillnet,
but it only goes down about 25 feet deep.
So, we're limited to just what's swimming on the surface.
We've got something happening right here.
Ooh.
I'll pull us up there and see if we got anything.
Okay.
Well, moment of truth, Sammy?
I see a piece of kelp there.
Yeah, that's probably it. It was just the kelp.
Damn it, Jim, I wanted a fish.
It is, obviously,
a little too early, which, actually, I'm alright with.
We've checked out the gear, preparedness is key out here,
so at least we've got that going,
even if we don't have any sockeye
for the smoker just yet.
Alright.
Damn it.
Well, something tells me we don't have
a wall of fish in our future just yet.
- Couple weeks out maybe. - Yeah.
But, it's alright, Sammy, we broke the rust off.
Yeah, you gotta dust off the cobwebs.
We'll get there.
Well, if we were totally starvin' marvins,
it would probably behoove us
to throw a sport rod on board the boat...
- Yeah. - Play the jigging game,
see if we can't find a bomber or two?
Yeah, we'll see what the weather forecast says.
- I would like a... - Something fresh.
A piece of something to eat.
Think we're just too damn early, Sam.
Too damn early.
Also, when you're pushing the thing across,
you want the table, which is that flat base of the saw,
- to be sitting flat on the wood. - Yeah. Okay.
- So, just make sure it's setting down. - Was I...
You were lifting up a little bit on it. It's okay.
Okay.
It's important for Morgan to have
some basic carpentry skills.
She's a sponge, so she'll pick it up real fast.
But, sometimes, the saw binds and it jumps,
and it's kinda freaky.
This is probably one of the most dangerous parts
of this thing.
Gotta be careful about it.
Hi, kitty man!
Come here!
We're making him a giant litter box in the yard.
- No. - He's gonna love it.
- It's not a little box for you. It's not. - So happy about it.
That's why we're fencing it.
- 'Cause of you. - Who would have thought
the biggest problem with a garden
is trying to keep the cat from in it.
I wanna make sure I know how to do things
by using the skilsaw
and knowing how to tack things up a certain way
and taking the correct measurements.
That is a huge goal for me,
being able to learn these things,
and I wanna know how to properly do it.
It would be 54 inches on this side.
Do you have a place to write it?
- 54? Right here. - 54.
Alright. You know, our future here
is adding on to this house
and building wood sheds and sawmill and all kinds of stuff.
Her being able to just, you know,
even have a cut list and being able to do that
is gonna be a huge help in the future for both of us.
This looks amazing.
- I'm very happy with this. - That's a lot.
One more 51-incher, and we're good.
Let's put this thing together.
- Woo! - Yep.
That's what happens when it catches.
- Yeah. - Isn't that terrifying?
- Slightly. - Yeah.
Why did it catch?
'Cause the board bound.
It didn't drop right.
I'm starting to see the shape it's taking,
and I'm beyond excited
'cause I had no set idea of what it was gonna look like,
and now, it's starting to take form.
And I'm so excited for it.
It looks good. We should start
filling it with the alder and the kelp?
Yeah, I think that's the next step.
- Okay. - I'm really excited about it.
- Let's go get some stuff. - Yeah.
So, we got a nice little...
Six inch yellow cedar, dry.
- Looks like a good one. - Yeah.
So, we're gonna take this little guy out,
give these other guys room to grow.
Yeah, let the bull pines grow big.
These women are badass!
I just see them as so courageous and fearless,
and I feel a little bit inept
not knowing how to fall a tree.
And if you take one wrong step,
you're gonna go through a rotten log
or trigger a chain reaction. I mean, it's dangerous.
It's just hung up.
God, here she comes... Gonna work her magic!
Might have to just push it.
Let the saw go! The saw!
Well, that didn't wanna fall off.
One of its branches was still long enough
to hit the branches in the back tree here,
so it held its grip there for a minute.
- You're brave. - I would have just
I know, I was like, "my god!
- She's still gonna do it! - She's doing it!"
When you got a tree standing
that doesn't wanna fall, you gotta figure out
a way to get that down. Stay on it.
Well, we can toss a rope on the middle,
and she can pull it that way. It'll come outta that bull pine.
Get that tree down. That's the safest way
to make your surroundings better for everybody.
That's a lot of rope, Mary.
But, we're gonna need it.
It's gonna fly.
The plan is get that damn tree outta there
without anybody getting hurt.
Okay, girl, you can do it.
Don't bust your truck.
Ram it!
- Ram it! Ram it! - Yeah.
Now, I'm just screwing my gutter hangers on,
and gonna put these here about one foot apart.
Yep, perfect. Alright,
that's all good and tight in the corner there.
Sweet! That's all done!
Now, all it is is getting this barrel system ready
and all rigged up and...
Waiting for it to rain. Cool.
Well, see if we can't find something fresh today.
I guarantee we will catch a little black fish.
Well, I know Dave's got a real hankering for some fresh fish,
and I think it would probably be in our best interest
to head out to the reef and see if we can catch
sea bass. Aka black bombers.
Okay.
I have a natural dislike for fishing Poles.
And little hooks and line that tangles real easy.
I guess when push comes to shove, every now and then,
you gotta break out the finicky little sport fishing gear.
All our ducks in a row?
Yes. We are ready to go catch
some of the tastiest fish on the planet.
- Yeah! - That's good.
- Perfect. - Good job! Sweet!
Good. I am glad that worked.
Yeah, that worked fine.
Grabbing some kelp.
This stuff's already starting to compost.
- Yeah, it's been sitting here for a while. - That's awesome.
It's gonna be killer fertilizer.
- How many buckets are we? - Quite a few.
Probably a dozen at least.
Well, sweet! It looks like
we got this roof on just in the Nick of time!
Starting to rain, which is perfect
'cause now, we'll get to see the gutters actually work.
I'm glad that it starting raining
right at the end of my project.
That's kinda convenient.
Looks like everything's flowing
just about how we want it. That's perfect.
Let's go see how it's draining out the other side.
Sweet!
Yeah, definitely coming out right where we want it to!
Look at that! Yeah, it's working pretty good at the moment.
I'm digging on it. Now,
I feel like I'm just wasting all this precious resource.
I gotta get a barrel under this thing, so...
Damn it, man.
The plan here is, well, I got this barrel off the beach,
and so I gotta get all the sand out of this bugger here.
Which is no easy feat, but...
The other day, we were out hunting
Sam, Breanna, and I,
and we found this barrel up high on the beach.
And it looks like it's gonna hold water good,
so I'm gonna definitely try to utilize it
and work it into this rain catchment system.
If I could run my little 45 here to my barrel here
and have it nice and high up and draining down into it,
then the next barrel will be,
the top of it will come to here or so.
And then we'll try to get
everything kind of flowing downhill
with enough angle and everything.
But, I think that's what we're gonna go for.
We're gonna have to build a stand here,
and then same for over here,
and then that one will just rest on the deck right there.
It works!
Boom.
Right where we wanted it.
Cool.
Maybe we can even actually get some water
starting to flow in this bugger here.
Just like that, we're collecting water already.
Heck yeah. Digging it.
Alright, onto the next step.
We'll build one just a little bit lower than this barrel,
so it'll siphon from one to the other.
Hoo!
- Babe, hold on. - What?
You have a massive spider on you.
What? Are you with me? Stop.
- My... - Get it the off.
Get it the off. Get it the off. Yeah.
Carl, he does not like spiders, and he does not like blood,
so it brings him down a little bit onto my level
'cause I don't like any of that.
- Get it the off of me. - - It's off, it's off.
What?
That's not cool, man. I don't want this on anymore.
This is absolutely Morgan's project.
I mean, I want a garden, too,
but she's got a lot of ideas,
and I'm just gonna try and step back
and give her what she needs,
try and set her up as best I can
and see where she goes with it.
We should save some of the small pieces
for the other beds, too. So, it's not all just...
- Small pieces in one. - Sure.
We had a patch of alder we wanted to take out,
and one of our good friends told us that
if we put that in the garden bed, it'll help mulch down,
and it'll become good dirt in the next few years.
So, we're starting with store bought dirt now,
but it's gonna turn into good dirt
because of that kelp and alder.
Just kinda wanna see how this packs in.
Yeah, I don't really wanna overload it too much.
No.
Do you think that one's good?
- Like that? - I think it's more than good.
It's been cool seeing her kinda acclimate
to the idea that this is hers,
and she can do whatever she wants.
She has an idea, go for it.
This is as much hers as it is mine.
Hi. Did you see that?
Yes.
And this is why we need a fence.
If we let the dog or the cat out,
and we didn't have a fence around the garden,
first thing they would do is straight into the garden box.
I know it. I've seen it. They did it at the float house.
The dog is just gonna romp through it,
and the cat's gonna in it, so...
Gotta have a fence.
Whoa!
Did it suck in?
It's on the dog.
Should have seen that coming.
I never wanted to go normal for anything.
We're struggling today.
- Struggle bus. - The life goals
that everyone wants to get where they get promoted
and make money and buy a house and have a few children,
that was never what I wanted.
Go on, get out of there now.
When I met Carl, it changed my whole perspective.
It changed my whole life.
Now, it's gonna be just a little bit different,
where we live out in port p in the woods
and build gardens together
and eventually get married and have children
and do the whole thing.
This is gonna be sweet.
Yeah, I'm excited about this actually.
I'm liking it more and more.
I always had in mind trying to find a home
and didn't know when or how that was all gonna happen,
but I got this place, kinda speculating
that this would be my future forever home,
and I'd find the right partner, and it happened
a lot quicker than I thought it would.
Looks like we know what we're doing.
Do you want to take the end of it there,
walk it down that way?
You know, Morgan came into it,
and I think it all just sort of clicked for both of us,
and we're gonna make this our family home.
They just pop right on and off.
Like nothing.
- That edge over. - Babe, it's like a wagon!
Look at that.
Just like a little covered wagon. Yeah.
Well, let's start planting things then.
Well, I'm seeing fish underneath the boat here.
Right at the bottom.
Got the little twinkle lure on.
They're not participating.
They do not wanna feed me.
One of the things I've learned
is it does take a lot more Patience than I'd calculated.
I will admit that, no, I'm not the best at that task.
You know, thinking maybe I...
Better put a little stink on there because...
Yeah, I could use a little piece of the squid.
It's a little harder to catch bottom fish these days
because they have been fished so hard around here. However,
I know a few tricks to try to level up the game there.
So, I got some squid leftover
from when I was Halibut fishing earlier,
and see if we can't put a little enticement
on the end of that Jay hook.
Well, I'm marking fish underneath the boat.
They're not cooperating. They're just not feeding right now,
so that's the only thing it could be
'cause they're there. And I've never seen a...
Black bomber when it was hungry
that wouldn't eat a little twinkly lure.
This is...
Disheartening.
Sam's always been a little more excitable than I.
I'm rather stoic on occasion,
and he can get a burr in his bonnet pretty easy.
See? There's another one!
Little.
Came right up to the surface. My lure is only like six inches
underneath the water.
Somebody's gotta be down there and hungry.
I know I'm hungry up here.
Takes a little yin and Yang usually to get the job done,
so if we were all of the same mind,
we'd all come to the same conclusion.
You.
I got this bastard.
- You got one? - Yeah.
Good.
Land that bastard.
Almost done with this project.
The last step here is to get this hose bar here installed,
and so I feel that's gonna be fairly straight forward
as far as getting her done.
Damn.
Basically, what we're gonna do
is stick a hose Barb on the bottom of the last barrel,
and that way, everything will flow to that.
And then from there, I'm just gonna run a hose
into my pump to my house, and it'll flow into my sink
and we can have water for our dishes
in the middle of the night
when we need to get a glass of water.
We won't have to use an old camping bucket
like we've been lately.
Well, alright. Everything looks pretty good to go there.
Nice and tight.
Sweet! So,
this top barrel is full, so all I gotta do
is siphon a little bit of water outta here
like I'm siphoning fuel in high school.
Normally, that tasted bad if it was fuel. Look at that. Ooh.
The siphon works by basically two fluids
being of unequal level. The higher level
will always wanna flow down to the lower level,
and so by stepping these barrels and up and down,
that'll give me that upper level of one barrel
to wanna flow into the next and so on.
Boom!
Plenty of water coming off the roof that we just put on.
The gutters seem to be working good.
We got water in this barrel, this barrel, and this one.
If we everything is working according to plan...
If...
Look at that.
Wham bam, baby!
It looks like a plan done well.
We just got one thing left to do, hooking it up to the house.
Let's see, make sure everything's nice and tight.
Bam! Look at that.
And just like that, we're brushing our teeth
with fresh water.
Harvesting a natural resource, we like that.
So yeah, this is awesome.
What about that one?
Yeah, that one would probably
- come right down here. - That way?
It's up to you.
We can all keep shopping. There's lots of them.
Any fear we have,
if you just acknowledge it and just keep going,
it's okay to be freaking afraid
and just go for it.
You have what you need and trust yourself,
trust your instinct.
Alright, yeah. Let's do it.
Don't wanna think about it too much.
I probably learned a lot about fear
from working at a 911 center.
You get exposed to a lot of fearful situation
and a lot of panicked people.
Okay! Alright! I can do this!
Fear is just fear.
It's something that our minds make up.
I'm only as scared as I let myself be.
I do have some control over it,
and I am nothing if not persistent.
I might run straight back.
That's fine. I'll get out of the way. Okay.
It's going!
Look at that. Woo!
I did it!
Good job! That was perfect!
That was awesome.
- Okay, it's not scary. - I can do it. I can do it.
- Yep, it's not scary. - You can do it.
I did it.
I'm glad I did it, I faced my fear,
and then now, suddenly, it's like it's gone. I'm okay.
Shall I limb it?
Yeah, if you want to.
Might wanna take a breather for a minute.
I feel like Veronica definitely has what it takes
to survive out here. I feel like
she has the attitude to go out there
and can continue knocking trees down.
She's gonna keep persevering, and I'm looking forward
to seeing how far she's gonna go.
- We good? - That's good.
This experience going out with the ladies
and getting firewood was just awesome.
I can't really describe it.
It was one of these things I've wanted to do for so long,
and to actually go out there and do that
and feel just the power of women out here
because I know that all of us have it in us,
and it just... it was just a lot of pride I felt.
- There we go. - Come on.
Now, we just get down there for the tide,
get this loaded real quick.
- We'll be good. - Yeah.
He's a fighter.
I'll get this up, see if I can give you a hand.
- I'm just gonna flip my board here. - Okay.
- Nice big fat one. - There we go!
There we are. There we go! Finally!
- Took all day. - Dear lord!
There was a point there where I thought it's like...
This whole thing has been a waste of time.
Which, sometimes fishing is a waste of time.
So, if you have enough Patience
to fish through the tide change,
your odds will improve greatly of catching a fish.
Got one.
- It's a nice one, too. - Damn it.
Man, I must be running the wrong kind of bait
'cause I'm pulling up snake eyes on both running web
and jigging, man. I don't know what the hell is going on.
Hey, what do we got here?
Come on over.
It's really tasty.
I ate a piece of that stuff just a little bit ago.
It almost looked like a bomber.
- She was flying up there. - Damn it.
He's hooked in the Gill.
- Good. - Yeah, he's not getting off.
- Not losing him. - I'm really looking forward to sometime
during the fishing season ending up with a batch
of smoked sockeye,
but these black rock fish looks good for now.
Well, shall we head back to the cleaning table,
put a knife to these things and call her a day?
I think so.
What the hell? I guess I'm saving all my luck
for later in the season. That's what I'm going with.
That's my story. I'm sticking with it.
You know, for my first actual big project,
- this went pretty well. - Think so.
We got a garden, babe.
I'm looking forward to eating
the lettuce and the broccoli.
I love Greens, and I love broccoli,
so I'm excited about those.
I'm gonna get some more.
This is a huge project for us, being able
to actually accomplish this
and start growing vegetables in our own house.
Amazing. I like it. It's our first garden.
- Yeah. - Great success.
Cool.
See if this works.
The way that we got this barrel system set up,
I think we'll be able to add more barrels as I want to.
The more I find on the beach or the more I come across them,
I can be able to add more water capacity as I go.
So, I'm not just limited to what I have right now.
A big part of living out here is being independent,
and having our own water source
so we don't have to leave the float to go get water
is gonna be one more step to being
totally independent out here,
and that's awesome to us. We like that.
- Ooh, wee! - Look at that.
Yeah. Nice.
Fresh fish.
I live in a nice little micro-community
where if you're luck doesn't turn and somebody else's does,
they don't mind passing the plate.
It's a different perspective than most people have
on the planet these days.
It smells damn good though.
We actually still give a damn about each other,
and it shows in the way we live
and in the way we harvest and share food,
labor, the whole lot.
It's a beautiful little corner of the world.
It's a rough life, Sammy.
I don't know how we deal with it.
- Well, somebody's gotta live it. - Right?
You don't usually find
a group of women willing to do this, to go out there
and do hard stuff,
but I think you gotta be kind of a tough character
to live out here,
and the women out here just do it all.
Yeah, if you're willing to take a full load,
- let's fill you up first. - Okay.
Then, we can do kris next,
- and I don't have any big preference. - Okay.
I think all that hard work, it's finally done.
I mean, I feel good about it.
I think we need to do this every year.
Every necessary skill I learned,
every necessary skill that I need to live out here,
it just cements me more.
I'm definitely a permanent resident of port protection.
This is my home.
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