Cursed with Blood. Horrifying Find on our New Land..

This is not the video I thought we'd be

making this week. Uh, so this morning we

came to our property and we found pools

of blood right by the caretaker's home.

Immediately the uh our guys from Tanner,

they were like, "This is black magic."

And also some of our friends here too.

We also had some um leaves placed in a

very particular way on our gate. And on

top of that, we've had some very

interesting encounters with a a

particular someone who I'm I'm going to

be really careful here because a lot of

people from Veno who watch our show, and

I definitely don't want to go naming

names, especially if it wasn't them. But

we have a fair idea of who did it. The

scariest part is that two of the six

horses that live here, two of the six

are missing. And I'm just really hoping

that like they haven't been stabbed.

Like I don't know, are they dead? So,

we've just been walking around the

property trying to find them and I just

Yeah, I just did. Wow.

Black magic. Okay. Before my family and

I moved to Vanuatu, I'd heard the

stories, whispers about black magic. I

figured they were just legends, but once

you're here, you realize these beliefs

are still very much alive. Locals call

it nakayamas. To many people here, it's

not folklore. It's a real force, a

hidden knowledge passed down through

generations. People believe

practitioners can cast spells using

rituals and chants performed in secret,

often at night. They can use special

plants, personal belongings like hair or

clothing. And some rituals involve

blood, whether it's animal blood, or

other symbolic offerings. It's said to

be used to strengthen a spell, or

communicate with unseen spirits. Some

believe they can cause sickness, bad

luck, or even death without ever laying

a hand on someone. Whether you believe

any of that or not almost doesn't

matter. The belief itself shapes life

here. People speak about it quietly.

Certain places have reputations and some

names are never mentioned lightly. It's

one of those things you can't fully

understand from the outside. But the

deeper you travel into Vanuatu, the more

you realize there's an unseen world

that's just as much a part of these

islands as the volcanoes and the ocean.

Join us in this episode as we confront a

difficult reality and take the steps

needed to protect our family while

juggling the chaos of building our

off-grid farm from the ground up.

We have 700 m of driveway that we have

to complete and it's a process and an

expensive process. Our 700 m driveway

will cost around $57,000

because it has to be built properly. It

needs to be strong enough to support the

heavy construction trucks that will

eventually make the journey to the very

end of our property to build our home.

We could have built the house closer to

the main road and saved ourselves a lot

of money and time. But after exploring

all 26 hectares of our land, the

decision became obvious. The only place

that truly felt right was at the very

end of the property overlooking this

incredible waterfall and with these

ocean views.

>> The incredibly sexy beast is parked up

this morning, Elena. They're bringing in

the road base this afternoon.

>> Cool.

>> But I was like,

>> am I paying when it's parked up? Well,

cuz they broke a hose.

>> Oh,

>> and uh also,

>> what happened yesterday? They

>> ran out of fuel and

>> they broke a hose and ran out of fuel,

which is just normal stuff. But I'm

like, am I paying for this? And he's

like, no, I'll check with dad, but no. I

was like, all right.

>> Um anyway, so they're bringing in the

road base this afternoon. So likely

they'll dump piles and then spread it

out with the excavator, come over, grade

it, then drop more piles down, bring it

over, grade that, then roll it, and then

there's a water truck as well in the

quote. So they're the next steps for the

road. I want to do a lot more

excavating, so I'm going to kick old

mate out of the way.

>> In our last episode, we began clearing

and leveling the road. We really wanted

to keep the momentum going as this road

was so crucial to our continuing on with

the whole project. But the next stage

could only be done on dry ground and

there was one hell of a storm brewing.

>> Okay. So, we're not running services

from the road. So, we're not running

power or water. So, then we called up

the bore water guy and he said, "That

area is a little peculiar. We want to do

a survey." He's going to say that

because he's a surveyor, so he wants

some work. So instead of bringing

someone out and paying for them to do an

entire survey, what I'm doing is I've

selected five spots around where we

might have the house, babe.

>> Cut some bamboo down, stuck it in, and

we're digging different holes to see

what's underneath. The earthquake in

2024, was it

>> was really bad here, and there was just

landslides everywhere. There was no

landslides on this property, which is

great news. has been shaken up and

withtood that. But we need to be really

careful about where we want to build the

house. We don't want to fall off the

side of a hill. So tropical rotating

storms, which is the international

nomenclature for typhoon, hurricane,

cyclone, they're really big and a

problem here, but probably worse are the

earthquakes which result in landslides.

So that's the main thing that we need to

worry about. So, we got to dig down into

the ground to find out what's actually

there.

>> Um, ideally, you want to be building

your house on bedrock or it's going to

cost more. You'll have to dig larger

foundations and go further up the hill.

So, we're we're playing a game as to how

close we can be whilst being incredibly

perfectly safe to the edge where it

drops off so that we can have a nice

view of the waterfall as well.

Our plan over the next few days was to

dig 5 to 10 holes, each a meter deep,

and find out what was really hiding

beneath the surface. Stick around to see

what we uncover.

Oh my god, I found them. Oh my god,

there's six.

Oh,

I just want to make sure none of them

are are hurt, like stab wounds or

something. Oh my god, they all look

okay. We'd finally found the remaining

two horses, which meant the blood used

in the black magic ritual had come from

somewhere else. Obviously, this was a

huge relief, but it didn't change the

fact that someone had tried to curse our

land or had cursed our land. Riley

doesn't believe in supernatural, but I

couldn't shake the feeling that

something wasn't right. There was a

heaviness I couldn't explain. This week,

I was determined to keep searching for

answers, and if there was any way to

undo what had been done, I was going to

find it. In the meantime, we wanted some

of our local team staying on the

property to help keep us safe, which

meant we really had to finish the

caretaker's house roof.

>> So, the boys theory, well, I really

believe what's going on here. They uh

didn't want to stay the weekend unless

they had this salt water, which washes

away the black magic. Yeah.

>> So, it's like so things don't work out

or anything that people have put on

here.

>> Yeah. Let's get that everywhere.

>> All those thoughts, get them out.

>> Yeah. So, they put some holes in these

bottles and we're just spraying them

everywhere.

Yeah. And we can go inside, too.

>> Yeah.

>> Things I did not think I'd be doing in

Venatu.

>> I think we got to do the back of the

house, too.

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Just coming up onto the property here,

I've got Liam, who's our builder from

Vaughn Construction, who you've heard us

talk a lot about, and Sirill behind me.

How are you sir?

>> Good mate.

So, what we're doing is Sirill's an

engineer and he's going to check to make

sure. Well, we're just going to check on

the location of the property where we

can put it. Mostly we're worried about

landslides. Is that right?

>> That's correct. Yeah.

>> Yeah. So, I don't know how he does it,

but he's going to uh tell us where to

build and not so close to the edge, no

doubt.

>> What are the things that we're worried

about here?

>> Worried is slippage.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. The main thing is slippage. Port

Villa or this island is really made out

of limestone and coral. Yeah.

>> But then we have areas like like here

that is not it's it's mainly sand. Sand

is not as stable and not as strong as

coral.

>> Exactly.

>> You know, so then what happens

engineering wise if you got the hill

there's a slippage factor.

>> Yeah.

>> And the slippage factor normally you go

at the bottom of your of your toe of the

hill and there's 45° angle. Everything

past that 45° is a risk factor. Now, a

spot of geoloji. Why oh why would there

be coral which obviously grows in the

ocean 200 m in the air? The story begins

only about 250 million years ago. So

this is before Vanuatu. The Australian

plate began subducting beneath the

Pacific plate along what is now the new

Hebdes trench. As one tectonic plate was

forced beneath the other, enormous

pressures deep within the Earth

generated molten hot magma, creating the

chain of volcanic islands that would

eventually become Vanuatu. Once those

volcanoes rose above the ocean surface,

warm tropical waters allowed coral reefs

to grow around their coastlines. Reef

building corals slowly deposited layer

upon layer of calcium carbonate,

building massive reef structures over

millions of years. Whilst the volcanoes

continued upward, raising the coral with

them, countless earthquakes caused

sections of the islands to be gradually

uplifted as well. Sometimes by a few

millimeters, sometimes by several meters

in a single event. Reef after reef was

lifted above sea level, while new reefs

formed around the coastlines below. As

those ancient reefs were buried and

compacted, groundwater rich in dissolved

minerals slowly cemented the coral

skeletons together. This transformed

them eventually into limestone. So,

every bucket of rock that we've been

moving is actually part of an ancient

coral reef lifted hundreds of meters

into the air by the immense forces of

colliding tectonic plates. I was both

gobsmacked and flabbergasted when I

found that out. Limestone is actually

coral and we're going to build our house

out of it.

>> And when you look at the vegetation, see

that big tree? Uh, that's an amalos.

That big tree has been there, you know,

forever and it hasn't gone there. You

see a couple of platforms. So, it seems

like this one below moved a little bit,

you know. So, closer to that tree would

be for me, you know, sort of safe.

>> Okay. What was the uh verdict with the

digging of the holes and finding coral?

>> Yeah. As we've dug down, we haven't

found any coral, but he knew that

anyway. He didn't even he didn't look in

the holes.

>> They were filled with water. I was like,

"Look what I've done here." And he's

like, "Yeah, it's all sand." My family

used to own the place.

>> Oh, really?

>> Yeah. his family. This was his family's

property.

>> Yeah. His knowledge just went way past

that of a standard engineer. Knowing how

old that tree is is Venoir too specific.

And that's the type of stuff that you

need to really nail here. I said, "What

about here?" And he said, "If it was my

house, I wouldn't go anywhere further

that way than here." So, I was like,

"Very good." And told Elena about it.

And that's what we're going to do.

Lots of things going on. We have dug out

the road here, which means it is sitting

low. Then, of course, it rains. It's

been raining uh nonstop for about 30

hours now. So, I've come up to have a

look at what damage the rain might have

caused to the road. You'll see here that

the rain is just flooding down the road

here. Let's go check out this road.

So that's just a low spot there. I don't

think that's too much to worry about.

The water comes out down onto the side

of the road and then it run it's running

all the way down there.

Just did the rounds and happy to report

there's nothing major going on,

especially considering the biblical

downpour that we're experiencing at the

moment. Uh things are holding up quite

well.

I just fell down the fence hole that

Elena was building.

I just fell down there.

Holy.

Just snapped my leg off.

>> I'm bogged.

>> No, you're not.

>> I can't get out.

>> No, no, no. You're not bogged. Try

again.

>> I can't get out of my little groove.

>> Just try one more time.

The mud's coming in there. See, you're

going to get so muddy.

You can't do it either. Oh my god. It

literally just doesn't turn off there.

The recent storm didn't just halt our

entire driveway project. It also sent a

huge branch the size of a tree crashing

down from our from the biggest tree on

our entire property, the banyan tree.

The way forward was blocked both

metaphorically and literally. This whole

thing here,

this entire thing has fallen down from

way up there

>> and it's dug a hole in the ground.

>> It's It's like astonishingly big. like

that. I don't know how much that might

weigh,

>> but yeah, as I come down here with this,

I'm like, this is probably a job for

that excavator.

>> Yeah, I think a chainsaw is not going to

do much. Glad we hadn't built the

treehouse in the tree yet. So, this tam

tam was spared, but this one down here

got knocked over.

>> It's pretty.

>> You can use that.

This is the most stunning wood.

>> It's absolutely gorgeous.

>> Like I don't know my timber, but like

from the looks of that looks pretty

nice.

>> I What would you guys do with it? Would

you build it? You could imagine four of

these posts on the end of a glass a

thick glass table or this here you could

turn into a beam that was part of the

house.

>> M

>> um I don't know what's some good ideas.

And then this here I thought you could

make like placemats out of.

>> Yeah,

>> Elena if I cut it.

>> I've never I have to say I've never

heard of a wood placemat but I

>> It's going to be sick. You wait till you

see it. I can't help but feel a little

bit anxious being under this tree now,

seeing as this huge part of it just

fell.

>> But it is

that big and it comes along then it

breaks into a Y. So you've got the this

upper one and this lower one and it

comes all the way along here has stabbed

into the ground and snapped it's with

such force that it snapped this. Imagine

snapping that off.

>> Yeah.

>> I can't even. And then it's dug a hole

that you'd need an excavator.

>> Yeah, dude. That that you can see the

wood in the ground. It literally goes in

deep.

>> Like what?

Look at that. And uh we also can't help

but wonder. I wonder if this was a part

of the black magic.

>> We might have to get some salt water

over here and just we might just have to

spray salt water over our whole

property.

>> We'll end up looking like Carthage

>> and nothing will grow

>> ever.

To me, this felt like a bit of a sign.

First, that this tree was far too old

and maybe important to turn into the

boy's treehouse like we've been thinking

about. And second, the fact that this

branch had knocked over one of the tam

tams. Out of all the trees on our

property, out of all the branches, that

kind of made me wonder if this had

something to do with the black magic.

Whether that was true or not, we

couldn't afford to stop right now. For

now, all we could do was keep moving

forward and continue clearing the road.

So, these last bits will come down here

with the four-wheel drive and tie a rope

around them and pull them out of the

ground.

>> So, we've stopped work with the

excavator because it's so wet.

>> Yeah, the excavator can't get down here

cuz it's too wet. And

>> we'll also have to wait till it dries up

to move these logs as well.

>> Yeah, it's going to get bogged.

>> We'll wait a day or so. This storm has

been ferocious.

>> Now, we're going to go home for a

smoothie. Let's go.

>> Check out the sap dripping, babe. Look.

You have burrs stuck to your hands

like the horses.

I can't even take my other boot off. I

don't want to touch it.

>> I got all tree sap on my arm and I I

just had to shave it off.

>> Yeah, the sap. And that was just not a

good idea at all. It really sticks to

your skin. I had to scrub my skin to get

it off.

What's that?

>> Um, C3 thing.

>> I'm already really anxious about this.

Where

>> I don't know. There's just a lot of

force, pressure, energy that's going to

go into pulling out these big logs. The

one that stabbed the ground. Are we

going to try that one?

>> Yeah.

>> Oh my gosh.

>> So, we're using our car and a rope to

pull out these logs from the fallen

branch.

>> That's not going to work.

>> I think so, too, Lenny. I think we're

going to see it. I know. It's not quite

dry enough yet in my opinion.

>> I know. I wish I saw it fall down, too.

Would have been crazy to see.

>> This is terrifying.

>> This is not terrifying. This is not that

cool.

>> I think it's just going to smash.

Oh, he's going.

>> Oh, is it going to move? Oh, it's

getting tighter.

Getting tighter. Not going to work.

Oh, he's going full speed. No, wait. I

think he's going to GO BACK. NO, DAD.

OUT. Don't do it. The nut came undone.

>> Okay, they're not back on. Okay, that's

it.

>> No, wait.

There.

>> Did it move at all?

Keep going. One more.

>> Just keep going.

>> It's going to slip off now, I think.

>> Find a little bit out.

>> That was so satisfying to watch.

>> Yeah, it was like a pimple.

>> Yeah.

>> What did you find?

Oh my god, it's a big one. Ew. E.

>> Whoa.

Elena's been asking me what I've been so

busy with on the laptop lately, and I

thought that I would explain to her whil

screen recording and giving you guys a

little bit of an update. So, I have

spent massive amounts of time

researching the type of machinery that

we'll need on the farm. And lots of

people have written in uh whether it

might be a 90 horsepower tractor, an

excavator, some combination of those

things, a rotary mower. Uh, I've been

through it all, gone backwards, confused

myself, done more chat GPT researches,

got specific site advice, confused

myself again, gone back to the drawing

board, and I've landed on an excavator,

mostly because it's been a childhood

dream to own an excavator rather than a

tractor. Some of the thought process is

that that will be more necessary early

in the development of the farm and then

later on it would be more like a

tractor. And there's more to it. Please

tell me why that's wrong in the comment

section below because I know you want

to. And what would you have done? And

then there's a cost thing as well. So

the road costs 80 grand.

>> 57,000 USD. So Aussie. Yeah.

>> 80 80 grand. Yeah.

>> Yeah. It's a very expensive driveway.

and Riley loved being in that excavator

so much. So that's a 20 ton excavator

and we're looking at more of like a 13

ton which is still nice.

>> So I spent a lot of time tossing up

between a 7 ton or a 13 7 8 9 ton versus

slightly heavier. One of the reasons

that I want to go for it is because

we're buying in China in and amongst all

of the various scams that are going on

over there. We've decided to uh buy

sight unseen.

My old mate Michael from the zipline is

over there.

>> Yeah. And we probably wouldn't have

bought from China had he not been there.

He's on holiday at the moment and he's

he was in China and he was like, "Guys,

I found all these this sick machinery.

I'm going to buy one. Do you guys want

to buy one, too?" And we're like,

>> "Yep,

>> yes."

>> So, I definitely wouldn't do this unless

I or someone like a a very good friend

was over there. It's worth me paying

half the price that I would in Australia

for the same machine. It's a bit of a

gamble, but he's over there. So, it's

going to be 29,000

US

for a 13 ton excavator

>> with how many hours on it?

>> 4 3,268.

>> Yeah.

>> Unbelievable.

>> So, we're sticking that in a container

and it's coming our way soon so we can

do the rest of the property cuz Yeah. We

can't afford to hire this excavator for

the rest of eternity to finish.

>> This is Michael on day one.

>> I'm just sitting here with the

translator and the agent for the

machines. Uh we've got the got the

Caterpillar engineer that's currently

>> that's another these are the these are

the 8 ton excavators that I was first

interested in mixed in amongst the 37

ton ones that he's going to get.

>> He's getting the 37 ton. Yeah.

>> Oh my god. So, I don't know if we said

that, but the 20 ton excavator that

we've got is way too big for us. A huge

driving force for me is to have other

local farmers jealous.

>> Like turning heads.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> Have you seen that?

>> So, it's $29,000 for the actual

excavator.

Then I need some attachments. So, that's

going to be another

10 to $15,000.

I decided to go with this brand new left

and right quick swing adapter. It's a

quick hook on thing so you can quickly

change buckets and it also does this. So

that's cool.

>> That's five grand.

>> Wide mud bucket tiller teeth. I don't

even know what that is. A huge job that

I want to do is redo the entire fence

around the entire property. That's going

to be two kilometers and we want to have

a pretty bougie entrance, not over the

top. Uh but again, we want people

jealous and to be turning heads.

>> Yeah. So, quick update on that. The the

gate and the fence we already bought cuz

we wanted to just build something

temporary. We're now like, why would we

build something temporary? We're just

going to build something nicer in a few

years. So, we're just going to go all

out and build the exact beautiful front

farm gate with coral pillars either side

of it to start.

>> We want to show

>> Thank goodness I don't have to finish

what I started there. And we're also

purchasing, and all of this is not easy.

Actually, it's been fairly easy with

this company and with Michael over

there. But we're going to buy the 40ft

tall cabinet with side doors, the

container, they've written cabinet. So,

when the excavator comes, uh, and we

might have some gym equipment in there

as well. We'll ship it over to the farm

and that's where it'll it might live or

it might not, but we're gonna have a 40

foot container sitting on the farm with

a roof over the top of it that connects

to a 20ft container that will help us

when we're building. It'll be a cover

for the excavator. It'll be excellent.

Keep us out of the rain

>> while we build.

>> Yeah, exactly.

>> Say that again. I was just telling Lenny

that he used to when he or probably like

last year he tried to convince me that

from the ages of 1 to two he was blind

because

he has no memories of he has no memories

from that age. So he was trying to say

to me, "Mama, no, I was blind." And I

was like, "Bob, you weren't blind. Like

you just don't remember cuz your brain

was

>> This is such a Lenny thing as well."

>> And he was like he was like, "No, mama.

Trust me, I couldn't see anything." And

I was like, "Well, I saw you, Bob. You

were like a baby like picking up stuff

with your hands and looking at them and

he just didn't want to didn't want to

have it.

>> What do you want to say to that dude?

>> Were you blind still or you realize now?

>> Do you still think that you were blind?

>> Really?

All right, it's like 5:30 a.m., so

excuse my extremely puffy eyes, but I

just wanted to share this with you

before I forget the details. Last night

was so freaking strange, you guys. Like,

I went to bed at 8:30 and I woke up at

8, sorry, I woke up at 11:22 p.m., which

is so rare for me. Like I've been

usually sleeping straight through the

night here on land on the boat. It's a

different story. I'm up all the time.

But um woke up at 11:22 with this really

like a sinking gut feeling like like I

am being watched. And you know that

feeling you get when you're a little kid

when you're scared? It was like that

full on. My whole body was I was

terrified. The house was pitch black. So

I just stood in my hallway and I looked

into the kitchen and the lounge room and

I just stood there for maybe like 15

seconds just just observing. I'm like,

is there movement? Do I see someone in

here? I didn't. So, I went back to bed

and I locked my door. And then I started

thinking like, I'm I'm still being

watched. And I I heard a noise in the

kitchen. It was like a plate being put

down, just like a And I'm like like both

my cats are outside. There's no nothing

in the house. I'm like, maybe maybe

Riley's awake. So, I got up again.

Riley's not awake. He's in bed. And I'm

laying there again. I can still hear

noises. And yeah, I have this this awful

feeling that yeah, I just don't get

these days at my age. And then I started

thinking about black magic for the first

time that night. I was like, "Oh my

gosh, what if it's what if it's this?"

Because they can use black magic to get

through locked doors. And

and I'm like, "Oh my gosh." And I really

don't like that.

I hope there's nothing nothing here.

Like this house was so peaceful. Anyway,

I'm I'm going to do some more

investigating because I think I really

need to take this like super seriously

and

protect ourselves.

So Riley just woke up and I'm going to

tell him for the first time I woke up at

11:20.

I don't know. Is that significant to

you?

>> Would be.

>> Here we go. See,

>> I'm sorry you felt that way. I don't

think anyone was here.

>> Yeah, maybe no one we could see anyway.

>> Sounds like maybe the cat.

>> No, they were outside. I locked him out.

>> Maybe one of the big geckos.

>> The big gecko dropped a plate.

>> Someone out there believed me.

>> Did you hear anyone? Did you hear anyone

saying,

>> "No, they weren't doing that."

Oh, no. I didn't like the thought that

whatever had happened on the land might

have followed us home, but I was doing

my best to stay positive. It actually

helped that Riley didn't believe any of

it. His skepticism kept me from

disappearing too far down the rabbit

hole. Still, by this point, I felt like

I needed answers and some help. That

would become my secret mission for the

days ahead.

>> Don't be mean to anyone. Have fun.

>> Every single morning when my alarm goes

off at 5:30, I'm like, "This is so

cruel. No one should ever have to wake

up to an alarm." And then when I'm out

the house at this time of morning, I'm

just so grateful that I did that. Like,

it's so nice to be up at this hour.

>> I'm so cold.

>> You're cold, baby. Yeah.

>> Yeah, you are a bit cold.

>> After dropping the kids off at school

that morning, I messaged a friend I'd

met here. I remember she'd once shared a

little bit about her experience with

black magic, and now I wanted to hear

the whole story.

>> Can you tell me a bit about black magic

in Vanuatu? Yeah, I think it's a

cultural thing. Um, and not just in

Vanuatu. Actually, it's in the Pacific

and it's it depends on the land. Black

magic could be done traditionally at the

moment in town. It's used for really bad

purposes and that involves sort of going

to someone's property or doing damage to

it or if you basically want something to

an extreme uh then you use black magic.

>> Yeah. Like if you want a house or a

person or

>> Yes. I had someone who came into my

personal life and tried to take

advantage of certain things and yeah and

that was scary. It was more like someone

was watching me the whole time.

>> What did you do to protect yourself

>> as as as everything as as possible? I

think one of the most traditional one is

to have salt water. Um go get fresh salt

water and not just salt water with salt

on it. This is one of the easiest ways

to sort of handle that. You can also

have prayer over it. That's the

traditional belief on on that and the

Christian belief around that. But then

as every other like local problems, you

basically go and find someone who's

who's lived it. Um, and they are

traditional men out there who are

willing and able to to help um, in that

case and can come in and remove certain

things and objects that bring that

certain individual, whoever that wants

to come in and sort of ruin things for

you with black magic.

So, it was decided. Unfortunately, the

witch Dr. Daisy had worked with wasn't

on the island right now, so I'd have to

start from scratch. Over the next few

days, I planned to search high and low,

asking everyone I knew if they could put

me in touch with someone who might be

able to help.

>> All right, grumpy bum. What's up? You

got to tell people the the bad that goes

with the good. So, let's let's get real

here.

>> I was saying to who asked me yesterday,

"Oh, this young couple that we met who

are so lovely." Uh, and after we like

had coffee with them, I was like, "Wow,

my cup is full again." And I thought I'd

be okay with like not many friends here,

but uh it's catching up with me and I

just feel like I need a girl date. I

need a wine date. I need coffee. I need

to laugh with girls. This island is

really lacking young chicks that I want

to hang out with and I'm just getting

grumpy about it. Like I'm literally so

so

>> Shout out to the uh the people that you

are actually mates with.

>> Yeah. Yeah. No, like there are a few but

just not enough and everyone's busy so

you don't get to see them very often and

I don't know. I just want one little

gang here.

>> What does a goat cost?

>> What does a goat cost? I would imagine

probably like a hundred bucks.

>> 100 bucks for a goat

>> maybe.

>> So we're at the livestock center. They

said they don't have any for sale at the

moment, but they're breeding them. Uh,

and they're in the office now calling up

some farmers to see if they've got any

we can buy. And then we'll go drive and

pick some up hopefully.

>> Hell

then. Or this one here. Belium one. Good

fella. Famous blonde pig. Mama pig. We

got belly.

>> We got belly.

>> Big belly.

>> When we came here, they're like no goats

for sale. Here's the name of a farmer.

Try and call him. We tried to call him.

Uh, that didn't work. Then they tried to

call him. That didn't work. And I was

like, "Look, are you sure we can't just

buy one of these guys?

>> Are there any you want to get rid of?"

>> And they're like, "Well,

there's a big one with a beer, but you

don't want it."

And we're like, "Yeah, we do. Give us

give us the old Billy Goat." And they're

like, "Okay." Um, so we're just

organizing them right now.

>> Is it not this one?

>> No, it's another one. It's the one

laying down in the pen.

>> Say hello to the very first farm animal

on the Lvagabond nearly farm. Our newest

crew member had one important job,

helping us keep the shrubs under

control. Judging by the state of him,

I'm fairly sure he predates electricity

and possibly the wheel. We named him

Cedric, which means kindly, which is

interesting because his favorite hobbies

right now seem to be headbutting and

shoving people out of the way. Little

did this goat know that he was about to

inherit 26 hectares of lush overgrown

paradise. He'd have plenty to keep him

busy.

>> So, this is the funniest thing I've ever

seen.

>> Cedric.

>> Cedric. And we're going to get a female.

Maybe you guys can have some babies for

us.

>> Well, let's tie him up where there's

long grass,

>> which is kind of everywhere. But yeah, I

just think we'd probably keep him closer

to the front of the property. Meet

Cedric, everyone. He's our first

official farm pet.

>> And you know what we can call the next

one?

>> What? Baldrick.

>> No, it's going to be a girl.

>> Cedric and Baldrick.

>> We found this beautiful tree and a

clearing that we've stuck Cedric and

he's going to have a friend soon. So,

today I need to

>> Cedric looks super happy. He's like, "Oh

my gosh, I haven't seen these plants in

ages." We need to get him a shelter

today and maybe a different rope cuz

this one's probably a bit too thick. A

nice collar would be good.

>> Um, so that it doesn't dig into his

neck, but I don't think he's gonna

>> It's pretty loose. Like that's the

beauty of those horns. It just doesn't

come like a rope can't come off. You

look pretty happy to me.

>> Still in my gym clothes. That was a bad

move.

So, we've finally had a couple of days

of dry weather, and I'm going up and

down this road here to check how boggy

it still is because we need it to be dry

before we drop the road base on. This

road is really the thing that's holding

us back. We

>> from the house build.

>> Yeah. From from everything. Um, we're

really waiting on this. So, we're

waiting on good weather. I think if we

can have a bit of luck over the next few

days, we should be able to drop the road

base down, which will be absolutely

amazing. Our cars won't be utterly,

utterly destroyed and filthy at the end

of every single day.

You should first admit that we've been

having a little bit of an argument.

>> We've just been having an argument

because I bought a goat and I was like

to Rally, if we don't buy goats now,

we're never going to buy them. Uh, and I

didn't realize that goats actually drink

five to 10 lers of water per day. And on

our land, we don't have running water

yet. Of course, we have the waterfall,

but like no system to nourish this

little Cedric. I thought we could get

this sorted in a day, the shelter and

the water solution, but that's not going

to happen. So, now we just realized that

we're going to have to bring Cedric to

our house.

I really thought they would like take

care of themselves a little bit more,

but this is this is us learning. That's

probably the first goat you've actually

know. I've seen you pick up goats

another time, but yeah, this is us

learning and uh it's tragic and and

inconvenient and pretty funny

afterwards. But yeah, anyway, so now

we're going to try and find a shelter

for Cedric for our yard. and we're going

to take care of him in our yard until we

can build a proper tin roof shelter for

him and another goat on our property.

The boys are going to be stoked we've

got a goat

>> lady and D.

>> Yeah, they're going to love it.

>> So, I'm just going to call our landlord

and see if it's okay if we bring a goat

around to the house.

>> Elliot's pretty chill. He is

>> stretching the friendship though.

>> Yeah, it is really.

>> We bought a guy,

>> but um we were hoping to get like a

shelter and a water solution sorted for

it up on our property um in a day and

that's not looking like it's going to

happen. So, um we were just calling to

see if it might be okay we bring a goat

to the house, but like maybe we could

tie him in the driveway.

>> Yeah, good to eat.

>> Yeah. Are you sure?

>> Thanks, Elliot.

>> It's fine.

>> Sweet. Well, we're going to

>> dying.

>> The the goat. Yes. Cedric.

>> CEDRIC.

>> Oh my god. So, if you see a goat in the

driveway, that's ours. Okay. So, we

bought some really cheap pallets. They

only cost us $5 each. We bought five of

them. We're going to build him a little

shelter. And in the meantime, we're also

just like researching what kind of water

tank we need. And yeah, I had no idea

goats drank so much water. He's going to

be fine here until we get set up on our

property.

>> Here's a good little test for us. It

just started raining. Let's see if

Cedric's going to be dry in here. I

think I'd be pretty happy with this.

>> I slept in worse. Yeah,

>> but I can't help thinking he's going to

be disappointed.

>> A We're going to give him so much love.

>> When you feed a horse always in your

head, hands down.

>> He's just looking like

Don't stand back in the horse or they'll

kick you to your death and you'll fall.

>> Yes. Never stand behind a horse

>> or you go to hospital or surgery.

>> Mhm.

>> Cuz I picked nothing.

>> Mhm. out.

>> Okay, boys. Do you guys want to come

meet Cedric? Dad's got him. Look,

there's Cedric.

>> Cedric.

Cedric.

>> Cedric.

>> He'll buck you. Be careful, boy. The

horses are like, "What is that goat?"

The horses are all following. Look at

them looking at it. Is this normal? Why

are the horses so curious? Are we in

danger right now? We don't even know.

>> I hope not.

>> Oh my god. Oh my god.

>> Oh. Oh. Okay. Something happened.

>> Cedric just bunted in with the horn.

>> Oh my gosh. Okay, we got to go now.

Horses.

>> You're the star of the show. Cedric

>> your weird eyes. He laugh. They don't

want to move. They just want to be as

close to the car as Cedric.

>> We're trying to lure them over to the

other side with Cedric. Come on.

Cedric's over here.

>> Okay. Bye.

Oh my gosh, that one.

>> What's that, Lenny?

>> She's going the other way around.

>> There's a cat. The cat is checking us

out.

>> If you want, mate, that can be your home

in there. Can you sit in there? Is that

a good spot?

>> You like that?

>> Yeah. He likes it.

>> Okay.

>> It's the first time the kids have had

knits. It's been really fun. So, we're

doing a bit of knit knit treatment and

then uh Riley also has knits, but um

we're going to get the burrs out first.

>> And I smell like a goat.

>> And he smells like a 10 10,000y old

goat.

>> Oh, man. All

right, we're going to go check on uh on

Cedric. Where is he?

>> There.

>> Oh my god. There.

Is he just going to stand there all

night? Come on, Cedric. Back the way you

came, buddy. Come on, Cedric. Go to your

bed. All right.

>> To sleep now, Cedric.

>> All right, mate.

>> Oh, bless.

>> Good night.

During the design process and the

architectural phase that we're in at the

moment, some of the things that Elena

and I are beginning to think about are

the materials that we use for building

the house. Being on an island in the

middle of the Pacific makes importing

stuff difficult and expensive. We're in

love with stone, which is heavy. You can

get locally sourced coral. Coral is

young limestone. As coral gets older and

older and older, it turns into

limestone. Triple check me there.

Limestone is beautiful. Coral looks

good, but it can get black and moldy and

and all that sort of stuff. There's a

house just around the corner here that

we're going to go and check out that has

cut coral. And then we'll be able to see

if we can save ourselves a fortune in

transporting say like a stone facade

from overseas. Of course, locally

sourced materials are better, but we

also we don't want to compromise on

exactly what we want to build. We want

to do it right. We want to do it once

and we want to be totally in love with

the house that we build. So, just

weighing all of that up at the moment.

You can see some coral here and it looks

absolutely beautiful, right? Especially

with this stuff growing into it. Like to

me, that's just absolutely gorgeous. But

that might not look good inside. So,

we're just trying to figure all of that

out now. But yeah, let's go check out

this cut coral now.

>> Gosh, I would have had a haircut.

>> Hey, you look great, mate.

>> You look great. So, 14 years ago, you

built the house.

>> Yeah, we built the house uh about 14 15

years ago and decided because we had a

lot of coral up here. I went through a

quick uh building course on the web as

to how to do a what's called a slip form

stone house. So basically the

construction is concrete and steel in

the middle and uh the cut coral.

>> Yeah.

>> And on the outside. So you cut all these

corners. Another way to do it is you you

build a concrete block house. You just

stick the

>> stick the coral on. But you're not going

to get corners like that if you do that.

>> I love it.

>> Yes.

>> Absolutely love it.

>> It's local source material. It's

amazing. Standing there, we both agreed

that cut coral could absolutely work in

place of expensive imported stone. We

just need to design the house with

fairly generous roof overhangs to

protect it from constant rain. If it's

exposed for too long and you don't take

care of it, the coral can discolor like

this over time.

>> I was just saying that's good research

and potentially a massive win for us. We

need to check with the builder because

I'm sure he'll say cutting mind coral

into blocks is going to be much more

complicated than other ways of doing

stuff. But we're just going to have

feature walls with that. Right, Elena?

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. And half

>> is gorgeous.

>> So now we got to find that kind of coral

on our land. And so far we've dug a

bunch of holes one meter deep and we

have not found it. But yeah, we really

want to mine for it on our property so

that we don't have to be throwing it

into trucks and carting it up to our

hill. Yeah, it' be amazing if we could

find that on the property.

Not only is her libido so much better,

but she feels that she has my life is so

so random. Just been listening to a

podcast on uh woman's sexual health and

now I'm about to go pick up a witch

doctor and take him to the property. So

Riley has no idea that I'm doing this

right now. Black magic is one of those

things, right? I feel like if you

believe in it, you are like at risk for

things happening to you. But if you just

you turn a blind eye, you just you don't

want to believe it, then you're probably

safe. So Riley's safe. I'm just scared

for my safety and maybe the kids cuz

they're getting a little bit weird, too.

I've been talking to them about aliens

and ghosts and stuff. Not too badly. I

definitely haven't told them about the

black magic situation. But anyway, uh

I'm not taking any risks. I've been

asking around town for the last week if

anyone knows a witch doctor and I

finally found one. I'm about to go pick

him up in his village and see what he

has to say and if he's able to provide

any protection for us or reverse what's

happened up on the property.

Yeah. So, the blood was like all here.

All here. It's washed away now cuz of

the rain. So, this is my friend Alfred

who we just met today

>> and he's been so lovely and he's helping

me protect the property. He's got a bag

of goodies here. His magic bag of

goodies.

>> So, what are we doing first?

>> Okay. What happens that we'll do the

fencing first.

>> Okay.

>> Yeah. Just fence the yard in case of any

>> black magic or what? You can look at it.

It's here.

>> Oh, yeah.

>> Yep. First, apparently we were creating

a form of protection along the front

boundary of the property. He explained

that according to his beliefs, it would

help prevent anyone from crossing onto

the land with black magic. I felt

incredibly lucky to have found this man,

Alfred. I was already starting to feel

better. I only filmed a few moments of

the cleansing he was doing here, and

only with his permission.

>> What is this?

>> Okay, this one we use for sealing the

house.

>> Okay.

any dangerous like namas or whoever

wants to come in the door can't enter

the door.

>> Okay.

>> Yeah. It's very very very strong

medicine.

>> Okay. But you can feel something was

here.

>> Yep.

>> Yeah.

>> So after we putting this thing you can

see.

>> Mhm.

>> Sometimes.

>> Yeah.

>> Well, thank you.

>> Whoever will come, you can see it.

>> Okay.

>> Yeah. Your feeling will come the time.

>> Okay.

>> Yeah. What's some common reasons people

use black magic? Like to get something.

>> Sometimes they get jealousy.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah, that's the common reason.

>> Jealousy.

>> I've just gotten home after dropping off

Alfred. That was amazing. I'm whispering

because uh Riley still doesn't know what

just happened. He's probably going to

find out about this when I um when we

see the video. But anyway, Alfred was a

legend. He was so knowledgeable. We

actually spoke for like an hour. We had

a coffee before we went up to the

property. And um yeah, he does lots of

work around Vanuatu. Also for people in

New Zealand uh when there's black magic

involved. So yeah, it was so amazing

hearing all of his stories and like just

what he does. I mean that's just a

different world for me. I feel a lot

better being at the property now. I mean

even if it's just like placebo effect or

whatever, I feel good. So and that's the

point right now. I feel like I'm safe.

So I'm going to be safe. There you go.

Well, that was a week we definitely

won't be forgetting. Thanks so much for

coming along with us. We're actually

going to see you guys next Monday. We've

got two more videos this month. We're

going to be continuing building our

future on what we hope is now a safe,

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