ROAM The Wild Coast, Water Crossings, Ocean Views & Offroad Fun In The Hilux!
hey guys welcome to another episode of ROAM overlanding and this one is going to be sponsored and this episode is going to be sponsored by Surfshark but i'll tell you a little bit more about them later can we just take a moment to appreciate how insanely beautiful this campsite is my name is Adrian Abrahams and this week we're going to explore the beautiful and rainy wild coast with plenty of water crossings and spectacular views all around this is sure to be an adventure okay so we are in the proper mist a little bit of rain if this is anything to kind of predict the future of what the next couple days of travel is going to be like i think it's going to be pretty wet and pretty wild especially considering the wild coast is an incredibly muddy place but that's what it's all about we are staying at a really beautiful campsite it's called the white clay resort it is right on the beach so even if it's going to be rainy it's going to be damn beautiful it's going to be my first time ever going to the wild coast so i'm keen to see what it's all about i don't know if we're going to be able to kind of enjoy it in all of its glory because we're not really going to be able to see much with all the rain but let's see how it goes i think this is going to be an authentic wild coast experience okay so we've had a bit of a rough time once we arrived at white clay the rain the wind the everything was just kind of compounding on us the stressful drive here we set up we had a beautiful dinner we had some lamb chops we made some veggies some potatoes and you know what feeling pretty good and pretty happy that we decided to stick it through and keep going with everything this awning saved our lives today it just it helped you know what besides keep us out of the rain it helped get our spirits back you know from the cold and the wind and the rain and everything so we are we're feeling all right we're not going to stay here as long as we had planned to the view and the scenery and everything is beautiful but in this weather to go on unnecessarily for too many days we'd rather move down the coast and maybe find some new places to go and stay so we may not linger around as much but we're still going to do a lot of exploring and the plans change that's how it works i'm looking forward to waking up tomorrow and heading off on our adventure through the wild coast it's been raining pretty much non-stop the whole time since actually since we were in the eastern cape highlands yesterday but it's just one of those things that just kind of soaks you out a little bit man so we're gonna see it seems like it's the same weather all the way down the coast um but it's it's not heavy rain it's just a constant light drizzle the wind is not too bad considering what we've already been through let's see how today goes let's we're gonna make a breakfast and kind of pack up our camp and everything and see where the road takes us we've got no dead set plans it's all quite open-ended and yeah let's see how it goes we're heading to a very special little spot called hole in the wall never been there before i'm excited to see what it's what it's like for myself i've seen the beautiful photos i'm not sure how it's going to look in this weather but you know we'll find out for ourselves so we actually ended up having a super short drive um we went to go visit the mini hole in the wall and then as we were driving through we saw the hole in the wall itself and we thought we'd go into there's like a little resort here and it turns out they've got like a little backpackers and it would have cost us the same amount as camping except we can get out of the rain a little bit we don't have to set up or break down our camp we've got cooking facilities here and we're running a little bit low on gas so it actually worked out pretty nicely i've got to get to work on some for editing some video stuff more because it's got some work to do we've got signal here so we're actually going to take a little bit of a break here a bit of a one day pause and just catch up on all the stuff we need to actually get done for our jobs and um what we'll do is tomorrow we'll get back on the road and keep traveling from then we're gonna head down to uh morgan's bay this campsite out there called double mouth i think we'll be recharged we'll be dried up and we'll be ready to go for the last few days of our wild coast camping trip then we can make our way through to cape town and a whole new adventure awaits there marcus what's that um some sandwiches like mince cheese butter and goodness i wanted to just take a moment to introduce today's sponsor Surfshark now i don't take these type of things lightly so i made sure to test out their offering quite a bit over the past two months and i'm really happy to have partnered with surfshark on this video essentially surfshark is a vpn service not only does that offer the ability to mimic being in another country from wherever you are online 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twice so we had noticed another way around and it looked just as spectacular as the hole in the wall it also just took me back to feeling like i was at the old man of store in scotland again on the wall it's cool but i kind of like this this is the underrated one um we had a little guide don't fall for the human guides take a take a k9 guide a lot better you just give them head rubs absolutely epic location with our spirit guide as glad to have had a walk as we were especially after being in a vehicle for six days it was an awesome change of pace and actually a perfect pit stop here the weather was looking up and we were pumped to get going and continue our adventure well that was a huge amount of fun exploring the hole in the wall i didn't expect it to be so overgrown and so wild actually i thought it would be a little bit more touristy than that but it was actually incredible now it's time to refuel get on the road and make our way through to morgan's bay the downpour over the past two days has been it's been building up to making this a very interesting drive today we've got a good um 270k drive to get to our next campsite out in morgan's bay and we are splashing through some puddles we're crossing some streams that's it's a hell of a lot of fun and you know what the scenery ain't too bad it's quite a well populated area so you know don't expect to be all out here on your own but it's still beautiful nonetheless oh dude look it's a giant rock navigate me around the rock so we don't move it and just keep it like that so that's that there's no road there we thought we were cool navigating past that little section but uh even if there was a road we'd have to cross this bloody river that's probably why you said keep left so probably left there's a gap yeah you think so and then you can cross on that side let's go and have a look let's have a walk let's see otherwise turn back so the problem with language barriers is that when people are waving vigorously at you you don't know if they are actually waving at you or if they're trying to tell you something then when you find somebody you can't really communicate with them properly you know they can't tell you exactly what's going on so we got to the end of this road it's completely washed away the only advice we got from one of the guys is keep right and we've turned around and we're going to see if maybe there's another way across the river i hope so otherwise we're turning back are you going to go for a walk down the river onto the rocks there and across yeah okay but then we have to walk it yeah are you capturing me putting on your flip-flops yeah i am dude i'm never gonna hear the end of this embracing my true german heritage when you don't cut your feet open you'll be thankful dude 100. so outside line yeah i think that's best that side okay so we're going to tackle this um we've walked in thai route we've consulted with some of the locals and stuff as well just to get a better understanding of the right path to take i don't recommend doing this kind of stuff we're going to take it we're going to do it nice and slow and controlled and we're going to try and push through this it's going to be very interesting it's a lot of fun but this is quite dangerous and there's been a lot of rain in the area lately and the water is quite deep but i've watched marcus as he's kind of walked through the whole stream and i'm happy with the heights where the water is sitting so let's do it now this moment was quite surreal for me but it also really reinforced something important to me life happens when you do stuff and the adventure begins when things don't go according to plan i'd always dreamed of taking my over landing rig across a river while children hung off the rock sliders and there i was doing just that and i couldn't have planned for anything like this to have happened yet here we are and this to me was what i always imagined exploring the wild coast to be like and this really is a story that i'll hold close to my heart for years to come so that i mean epic epic epic epic we found a way through the river interacted with some of the locals that helped us guide us through there very very awesome and now the journey continues okay so we've come along another water crossing uh marcus is gonna walk it see what it's like uh first and then if it's shallow enough we go through but i really hope we can go through because it's quite a long way back by now if you get stuck i can winch you out keep going it keeps going deeper dude no just keep going that's what i want to see i want to see that so there's no point in hiding where that is because we need to know where that is oh don't we have some beautiful weather now uh we are almost at morgan's bay we're going to the double mouth campsite we've got a little dirt road drive through alongside kai mouth and to morgan's bay stoked let's get there i had no idea what to expect heading to morgan bay and i randomly stumbled upon the double mouth campsite during my research of the area and i'd seen a couple pictures but nothing could really prepare me for what we were about to experience and quite honestly this campsite had surprised me more than any other on this trip and would far exceed my expectations the drive-in was absolutely magical the golden sunlight and the crisp blue ocean in the distance even the whales greeting us as we stop arrived that spot that was supposed to be mine you just pop straight on it but i told you to stop but it's a perfect spot yeah there's your spot right there dude oh in the mud yeah i'll suggest parallel like this and then the car will be uh nicely parked tenth bright area and a covered guard if i need to raise the back i can can we just take a moment to appreciate how insanely beautiful this campsite is just look over there marcus i am super happy that we actually ended up making it through to the double mouth campsite out in morgan's bay it is stunning really is the weather's cleared up beautifully for us um i think we did the absolute perfect thing by just taking it easy yesterday booking it in the backpackers and just waiting out the storm catching up on some admin and things like that and recharging ourselves because this is perfect this is a such a beautiful spot there's actually this nice little walk down from the campsite and it looks like you can walk all the way around to another beach all the way over there this is epic it's time to crack a few beers sit at the campfire and chill out for the evening we've actually been traveling quite a lot we've done a we've done a lot it's difficult to kind of comprehend all of it in one go but i mean from being on the top of the mountain in the wind which was like 100 k's an hour or something stupid like that to being in the rain for two days and now that we've been blessed with this beautiful weather it's amazing it's really really amazing the wild coast the eastern cape in general has just been beautiful and its variety of everything around here the most epic mountain scenery the most epic coastal scenery it's been fantastic to explore and i know we've only seen a little bit of it but what we have seen has been mightily impressive and i can't wait to come back here one day but i hope you guys enjoyed this little travel series because next up we're going to be heading through to the western cape i'm going to be spending some time in and around cape town with some of my other overlanding buddies and hopefully making some content with them and then after that it's the long way home so this is all assuming everything goes well with the covet 19 news and all that in South Africa and that our president doesn't lock us down again but you know what if all go goes according to plan i think it's going to be a beautiful trip and i can't wait to get some solo traveling it's been really nice traveling with Marcus and i think it's a good way to kick off the trip but i think now that i'm learning more about my vehicle setup and all of that it'll be really nice to do some beautiful solo stuff in the western cape and the northern cape but anyways guys thank you so much for tuning in to the travel series and uh yeah i'll see you again next week cheers thank you for tuning in i just wanted to give a massive shout out to my incredible patrons for supporting me over these really difficult times without their support these shows would not be possible on the next episode of Roam Overlanding i meet up with a bunch of overlanders in the western cape and we head out for an adventurous weekend and put the hilux to the test out in the dunes my vehicle setup is a collaboration between all of my product partners to find out more about the equipment in this video head to the links in the description below hey Marcus yeah what are you doing i don't actually mind turning around no means no Marcus no what are you doing
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