Watch: The Florence Fam Enjoy Frontlit Fijian Funnels

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote,” said the infamous Captain Ahab. “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts”.

Though they hold a similar philosophy, John John Florence is a lot easier to understand than Herman Melville’s peg-legged protagonist.

If we’re to continue the metaphor, John’s white whale takes the form of the innumerable visions he collects along his sailing quest.

“Just thinking about the way the three of us were raised, the experiences we’ve had and all the places we’ve gotten to go, it’s something I want my son to be able to experience, and maybe he can learn something from it too,” John says in the video above.

Episode five of the Vela series finds the brothers, Lauryn, and Darwin set up somewhere in Fijian waters. The ideology of the trip is reflected in the video’s surfing-to-family-time ratio. It tilts toward the latter as they take in sublime tropical locales.

There are humorous and revealing reflections on the Florence’s original spark for exploration, sibling tantrums, and the bond children have that transcends languages. All very sweet, wholesome and grounded. But damn, I wouldn’t mind the brothers sharing a few more clips of that right during golden hour.