Camping under a tarp in the RAIN - Important channel update
[Rain] Hi, welcome back to another adventure. Ind's not looking very adventurous at the moment. So I've stopped to put my boots on and she's fallen asleep. It's the middle of summer in New Zealand and it's hot. It's a three-hour drive to get here so um I think ind's a bit pooped to be honest. Hey! Are you ready to go for a walk? I think she just wants to stay here. So the first part of this track crosses some farm land and that's pretty typical in New Zealand. You'll either have forestry or farmland often at the start of a track, and so we've just walked around the outside of the farmland, crossed over a river, and we're just heading up this Valley a wee way. We're heading to a clearing. I haven't
been there before but I've seen it on the topographical maps and I'm hoping, fingers crossed, it's going to make a nice camp for us. Stick around because I have some exciting news to share with you guys about the channel and want to have a bit of a chat to you about the plans that I've got for 2024. So I'm going to wake Indi up and we're going to get going to camp and once I'm set up um I'll catch up with you again. Are you trying to have a swim? I don't blame you! The tops are in cloud but the sun is out down here. So I hope this lasts a little bit longer until we get camp set up. Interestingly this bit that we're walking through here is actually
the area I thought of camping. It shows as a relatively sparse area on the topographical map and I thought we'd have a whole lot of grass but actually there's a bit of grass but it's not really what I was expecting. All right let's go a bit further and see what we can find. I'm hoping to get a little bit closer to the river so we can get some water and I also want a good view. There's no point being stuck in amongst the trees, we need a good view! [Loud roar of the river] [Light river noise] The very first thing I need to do is put on some light pants because the sandflies here are horrendous. Honestly I feel too hot to put on long trousers but sandflies are everywhere,
and they're annoying you too aren't they?! They're very annoying so I'm going to get some long trousers on and then I'm going to get camp set up. I think that we're just going to use a tarp. We're just going to sleep out in the open tonight under a tarp because this spot is just so gorgeous and I want to be able to have a view all the way out here but also the ground is stony and setting up a tent with pegs is quite challenging on stony ground, so why do it? It's summer we don't need a tent we do have a mosquito net, thank goodness! So I brought both of my tarps with me today. I wasn't sure what sort of configuration I'd
want or need and they're both pretty light so I brought them both. The Stony Creek one smells of campfire smoke, delicious! The last time I used it it was winter time. um so that's the Stony Creek Drone and this is the DD hammock super light. So I might only need one. I almost always use this one because it's a little bit more
stealth. I just don't like to stand out like a sore thumb ,and this one makes me stand out like a sore thumb! So let's start with this one and see how we go. Hello. Hello, I'm trying to decide how to put the tarp up, were you looking for a treat? I'm standing here pondering, trying to figure out what's going to be best um so I might just give Indie her treat because she's been such a good girl today she's worked so hard she's so tired it's uh it's hot hard work going camping in these conditions and she's such a trooper so would you like a treat I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean no when Indy sh it does not mean no oh you're such a good you hey you're such a good you good job thank you to everybody who has donated some money on buying me a coffee for camping treats for Indie and I and than thank you so much to those people who have donated us some money on super thanks that money from buy me a coffee and super Thanks goes towards our treats as well as our equipment and I'm going to tell you a bit about what it's bought us a little bit later on cuz it's quite significant and I'm really grateful so thank you guys you go it's yours it's yours you can have [Applause] that for [Applause] I it keep [Applause] [Applause] [Music] up what do you think Indie what do you [Applause] think is that pretty good that is pretty good okay I've come prepared with everything come prepared with everything I have got a ground sheet and I have got a nice picnic rug a picnic rug to put down it's a waterproof mat with cotton on the outside so it's really nice just nice and cozy little cozy extra so there is this and this is a ground sheet an old ground sheet from a tent that I used to own that is completely wrecked but uh the the ground sheets fine so I saved [Applause] that how embarrassing it is so dirty it is the one thing that I forgot to clean that's from the trip that Indie and I did up to the top of a mountain about two or three camps ago hang on pups hang on don't Li down just yet and there was lots of um orange clay which Indie traed in and out of the tent and onto the mat in front of the tent I meant to clean it another note to self when I get home I'll put this one down first wait wait wait wait over here thank [Applause] you there you go you ey on that let's take your r c what the only thing is the B are going to move you aren't they [Applause] the only thing with taking her rain cat off the sandflies might annoy her let see how they go yep they are annoying her okay I'm going to go down to the river and get some water I am dying for a cup of tea I'm going to give Indy a bowl of water and make a cup of tea and then it's actually getting quite late so it's got to just be time to start thinking about dinner you got to stick you going to bring it back here I don't think this is a good place for throwing sticks what do you think it's so Rocky you can bring It come on come on hello did you bring a stick oh look at that hey you brought a stick oh that's pretty cool should I throw it should I throw it in the water what would happen ah good thing it's [Applause] summertime [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] the only thing with this kind of setup when you don't have a tent is that things get really messy really quickly especially when you've got a dog well only when you've got a dog he when you've got a dog moving in and out with dirty paws are you hungry you want some dinner oh when she jumps like that she wants dinner okay do you want some more water first going to have some water you ignoring me because you're like no I do not want water woman I want dinner okay half now half tomorrow okay so while Indie has her dinner I'm going to go and collect my drink and I think it's time for some pre dinner snacks so cheers thank you for coming on this trip with Indie and I hope you guys are enjoying yourself I promised you that I'd tell you a bit of stuff um some exciting stuff about the channel and a little bit about what we're planning for next year when I say we I mean Indy and I she doesn't contribute a huge amount to the planning but when I say we it's it's Indie and I hey when she she can come on the trip she's with me so the first bit of exciting news is that India and I are going to be doing more trips in 2024 than we did in 2023 and the reason for that is that I have decided to work on the channel full-time it's a big move and it's really exciting um I was going to say it's a hard decision but actually wasn't a hard decision wasn't a hard decision because when you do something that you're really passionate about it just feels right and I absolutely love doing this it's just so me it's always been me hello my favorite things in this [Applause] world are the natural spaces people and animals if I could boil it down like that and I just can't think of anything that I would rather be doing I'm a really creative person but I'm not like I'm not somebody who can I'm not an artist I couldn't just get out of um sketch pad and draw something but I like creating things and I absolutely love the filming and editing part of these camps but not as much as actually going out on them in the first place so it's a really wonderful combination of being able to go out and do something you really love enjoying the outdoors share it with other people because you truly love them and spend it with a little buddy like this so I um have a professional career that I'm putting on hold for a while it's um something that I've devoted my life to for the last 20 years or so and it's really rewarding and I really love it but I've realized I I feel like I feel like life has so many exciting things so many interesting Dimensions to it and I don't want to be one of those people and like each to their own but I personally couldn't do the same thing for my whole life I just think that there are so many amazing opportunities and if you have the capacity to be able to try something new why not do it so that's what I'm doing I am going to work on the channel fulltime which means that I'm going to be getting out on more trips so I'm hoping fingers crossed and I'm not promising but I'm hoping to get a trip out every week or video out every week can you hear the [Applause] rain I just have to are you hang [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] on [Applause] oh I'm so excited I love the rain I love the rain so I'm going to be hitting out on more trops and even though you probably think it always rains in New Zealand because I've always got rain in my videos it doesn't always rain in New Zealand and I may not always be able to get rain in my videos If I'm doing them every week but what I'm planning for 2024 is I'm planning to take you guys to some interesting places so far the places that I've been camping have been predominantly in an area called Canterbury and predominantly in an area called MRA and then somewhere in between the two um all of those places are in the south island of New Zealand but none of them are in the lower half of the South Island um and I haven't been all the way out to the West Coast except for once so what I want to do is take you to some more places around New Zealand because I am going to be working on the channel full-time it means I've got bigger chunks of time so before this I had to fit trips in to very specific little Windows between my job and family commitments and now I still have the family commitments but I have bigger Windows of time that I can go for on trips so I'm hoping that I can do some multi-day trips I'm hoping to take you down to areas like fiordland um if you know anything about New Zealand um you'll know that the fieldand National Park is a really um famous popular area for tourists I can't take Indie down there but if I'm going to do some trips on my own you guys might like to come down to podland with me across to the West Coast um down to Central Taro so let's go and have some fun we're going to explore New Zealand a little bit more in 2024 what do you say Indie you like that idea you like that idea hello she likes any anything if it means hanging out with me I can tell though if she's enjoying camps or if she's not enjoying them she always I've said this before she always loves the walk in and the walk out but only some camps does she actually enjoy this part she really likes to be comfortable so I just need to watch that she's always enjoying herself because I don't want to drve take her along on things like she's she's so loyal she will come with me she she will walk over hot coals for me and I don't want her to do that I mean that's obviously being figurative so I just want to make sure that I'm only taking her on the kinds of trips that she enjoys so sometimes I'll leave her at home I'm really Keen to do some more winter camping I touched on a little bit this year but this is only the second winter that I have been winter camping prior to that I just thought camping was something that you could only do in the summer or just slightly either side of it and I have discovered summer camping I don't want to say it's hideous but I don't like getting sweaty I don't like the blazing sun one of the reasons that I come out camping in the rain because I don't like walking through the blazing sun getting really hot and sweety um and so actually winter camping is now my favorite camping and I'd really like to do some some more really cold winter camping I think CH in with me in the middle of winter and I might change my mind I've got a camera light and I've turned it on because it's actually quite late but it doesn't make all that much difference I choose not to have heaps of lighting like I could get big flood lights and just illuminate this whole place but I don't want to sit in the wild hello in the wild enjoying nature with big flood lights all over me and that's not how it actually is so I actually choose Hello darling hello I actually choose to let you guys experience what it's really like with me so if the if it seems a bit dim it's a little hard to see me that's because it's a little bit dim and hard to see out here and I want you to experience it like I experience it for right I've got salmon for dinner tonight and I've actually got this really nice um lime lime uh lime lime lime lime yes lime and coriander rice I'm just trying to decide if I'm actually going to cook the rice because I'm not that hungry the cup of tea the biscuits the drink the spicy peas it all adds up so rather than open the packet of rice I think I'm just going to cook up the salmon that's what I'm going to do is a big one really big one nearly B time I need to wash my dishes and enjoy some lemon cello maybe have a bit more of a chat to these guys and then it's going to be time for bed getting late isn't it 8:00 rain is absolutely beautiful absolutely beautiful honestly in heaven this is just amazing hello oh that's clever that's clever now what are you going to do do you want to go home or do you want want to go to beef is it beef time is it beef time IND such a creature of habit she loves bed time don't [Applause] [Applause] you a [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] this is one of my favorite times of the day just for Nightfall times like this I honestly wish you were here just can't explain how amazing I can hear the birds is there getting ready to roost for the night you he the river in the background the rain on the TP big pops of rain coming off the trees and the rain is it's hitting the leaves which is a different sound and then the lights rain hting the Rocks I can hear the drops of rain in ind's Bowl every now and then a little snore from over here so ind's got the right idea she's gone to bed already I'm really enjoying this lemon cello it's really delicious so I'm just going to have a little bit more of that I'm going to get washed up brush my teeth and then I'm going to put this mosquito knat around us so that we don't get bitten in the night before I go to bed though I just want to say a huge thank you I know I said Thank you earlier on to um people who have donated some money through super thanks and buy me a coffee um in relation to buying treats for Indie and I camping Treats but there are some incredibly generous people and when I say generous I mean like I'm not talking about like dollar figures I'm just talking about the fact that anybody who gives me anything only they know their own means and it means a lot to me me doesn't matter how much it is but it really means a lot to me in making YouTube my primary job I now have a lot of pressure on me to um for it to be able to bring in an income and I can't do that without the help of you guys you might have noticed in my last three videos that the audio quality was terrible and if you didn't notice then I'm going to Pat myself on the back and say that that's because each of those videos took me three times as long to edit than my other videos and that was because I had to take an external audio source and Link it to every single clip it U was it drove me nuts the reason I had to do that was because the audio port on my camera stopped working and when I Googled it sure enough it just seems to be that that particular making model tends to have that problem after a while the audio qu just stops working it's really really sensitive and that means that my external microphone wouldn't work so it's a complicated thing but anyway the videos have taken me three times as long to edit with the money from Super thanks and buy me a coffee with the generosity of you guys I have been able to buy a new camera I couldn't get the last one um replaced under warranty because there long since it passed its warranty I bought it secondhand um too expensive to get fixed we had to send it overseas hundreds and hundreds of dollars just not worth it so I have a new camera thank you so much to those generous people um I'm actually going to put a list up here somewhere I'm just going to name a few people because um I think you guys need special thanks so thank you so very much to those people who have been supporting me not everybody can support me financially some of you watch the odd Ed I know I've talked about this before that really helps I do earn a bit of money from the ads that are played um not a whole lot not nearly as much as everybody thinks enough to cover the cost of the fuel or in my case the electricity for getting to and from camp and have to buy the food a couple of treats but not a lot um but I get more money through the ads if you guys watch the odd ad so thank you so much to those people who do that I don't expect you to do it all the time thank you so much for liking the video for sharing the video with others and just for watching um if you watch it the whole way through awesome thank you so much that just helps YouTube to know that my content is worth sharing with other people and that means I get more exposure that means I earn more I can make her loving I can put food on the table for my family so thank you and up I'm waffling it's slon cello right B time for for should go get some water [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] are you is it bre this time oh yes all this time is took the water out have water first the water no not in this street okay all righty 's going to have her breakfast and I'm going to get set up for the mine first things first I need a cup of coffee and uh Qui this time ind's off exploring somewhere Indie I think if she's going to go exploring I need to put a coat on her it's down there Indy Indy I can see her down there so my concern is even though this is part of the track there's quite a lot of deer sign around and I saw quite a few Footprints of other dogs so I think there are likely to be Hunters around possibly hello come over here let me just put this on you oh yes you can go right through camp sure be my guest oh it's raining do you need your rain coat love ooh cuz you're all wet aren't you what did I do with your raincoat here it is I understand she's a dog and I can't expect her to act like a human but oh my gosh she is such a grub she just walks all over everything with dirty pores brings all her Charming beautiful lovely mess all right up up again that's it so this way you are not going to look like an animal that should be shot pups plus you'll stay dryer all right up you go now you can go back and have some fun if you want as long as you're not eating anything all right excuse me you want to come lie down in my spot in my spot you're fine no actually you got your butt right by my banana right come over here it's better it's better so coffee time fantastic time of the morning I have to say coffee time is a good time now I switched to my wireless microphone cuz I realized the the river is probably noisier than I realized for you guys so sorry if you've been contending with that background noise all this time think I might just make one very strong coffee here we go gosh I was warm last night so warm too warm I need to remember to bring a lighter sleeping bag in the summertime time my sleeping bag's just a little bit too cold for the middle of winter and just a lot too hot for the middle of summer although it's probably not helped by the fact that I was using my sleeping bag liner which is not a silk one which would be really good good for summertime it's like a heavy duty one that's designed for winter oh the thing is you make do don't you I mean I don't have five different sleeping bag liners and five different sleeping bags and 10 different tents I got to make do with what I've got oh but at some stage I'd like to get myself a silk sleeping bag liner they're nice and light and they're good for the summer time when you might want to un your bag but you just want something over you I think I need to come and put the umbrella on the camera I'm very precious about my new camera and it is drizzling so Indie and I slept well I would say she probably slept better than I did she always does it was just really really loud the rain wasn't it the rain really picked up after bedtime and it poured and poured and poured and it wasn't so much the sound of the rain it was the dripping so at various points around the top and the trees were kind of going DP DP DP DP DP DP and it was actually that that was keeping me awake and my brain was also making up stories about the sounds I was hearing because I only had that really thin mesh between me in the world I was imagining a possum coming right up to my face cuz it was right there against the mesh to be honest though I don't even see any possum traps out here I don't think there as much of a problem as they are in some areas they'll be around uh I think I need to make my milk first so I've got wheat bcks for breakfast sliced banana pomegranate that should be tasty e M we're in the clouds the cloud just rolling down here through the belly it is a gray and Misty and Moody morning [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] so I'm going to finish my breakfast and then going to get packed up and I'll catch up with you again once I'm all packed up ready to go might be a bit of a wet pack up I think so it's nice to have the top over the top of me because I can just get everything SED and I don't have the confines of a tent either what are you heading out there for what's the story Morning Glory oh did you did you hear me say that we we're going to go not yet I've got to finish my breakfast don't knock over my coffee right come lay down yeah she heard me say that we're going to go she just wants to go home oh dear yeah it's not it's not that she hates being out here it's just she likes to go she likes to do she likes to be like what's the next thing how long am I going to have to lie around here for before we do something interesting we're just soaking up the serenity [Applause] e what the time has finally come the time has finally come you have to hop off your mat yes yes you do yes you do oh hi lazy you love pickup time don't you watching me work hard come on girl up thank you no more L lounging around Camp it is time to go you want to go home what a wet messy camp pretty much typical for my camps you could see as I was putting stuff away everything is wet everything is dirty and Sandy so as soon as I get home everything will be going on the line some things are going to get hosed off some things will be washed everything will go on the line the work does not stop when I get home the work starts but it's all worth it it is absolutely all worth it okay let me just wrestle with this mat and then I can chat to you oh hang on it would help if I actually under the valve can I get it in the bag yes I predict that I can rather than try and push it in try and rotate the bag as you rotate it it slides in right there we go now if you're wondering why I've got such a big pack for what was actually quite a lightweight Camp it's because I actually brought in with me a massive tent massive like it could fit four people why did I bring that in well because it's my winter hot tent and I've only used it once and I want to use it a few times especially in rain and wind so that I can be confident before winter comes around that I actually think it's a good enough ttin to take into some uh gnarlier conditions but in the end I didn't put it up obviously a I didn't have a big enough space and B it would have required me to Pig it in and it's just really hard work trying to pig into sand and rock I've done that a few times and it's not that fun and actually when I got to this location I realized that it lended itself to a tarp camp and wasn't it fantastic it was fantastic because it was warm and I had this beautiful space to be in why Co yourself up in a tent when it's warm um if you can sit out and enjoy the whole environment and it was perfect so I'm carrying back out that heavy tent oh well never mind you have to adapt hello yes you're always having to adapt when you're out while camping it's better not to have one set way that you think everything should go because that's when you get into trouble you need to be able to adapt your plans for the conditions um and for what's going on so um that's what we did hey and okay you guys the birds are out you hear them chirping the sun is starting to come out there is Blue Sky up above the day is improving weatherwise and we are on our way so thank you for coming with us thank you so much for watching this video if you are still Indy off you don't need to sit on me if you are still watching thank you and um thank thank you so much for watching for liking the video and for subscribing um thank you so much for your generous support and all the ways that you do support us if you would like to show a little bit of generosity to us um and support Adventure OT you can do that through the YouTube super thanks or probably even better buy me a coffee because they don't take a generous cut all right off your perch girl time to go off your perch IND andoa on the walk out it's so beautiful with the rain on all the vegetation and the sun just peeking through the trees so we're going to say goodbye to you now but I'm just going to show you a montage of some of the beautiful scenes as I'm walking in out on this walk thanks for coming you guys so nice to have you along for the trip and I hope that you enjoyed getting away getting out of Nature and having a bit of time out I look forward to seeing you on the next one until then goodbye from me and goodbye from Indi
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