The following are some short videos I've made concerning one or other of my interests - these links will open a new YouTube window in your browser.

I love the cold, crisp mornings in the bush - 13/Aug/2012
A cold, early morning in camp

Having an e-mail facility when out bush is very useful - 14/Aug/2012
E-mail over HF radio

Gold prospecting - 14/Aug/2012
Gold prospecting 1
Gold prospecting 2

The Beautiful Buchan River - 26/Feb/2013
The Buchan River in East Gippsland
My camp on the Buchan River

Clear Creek and wild dogs - Buckland Valley - 14/Dec/2014
Clear Creek

Antenna Testing - 11/Sept/2012
2m antenna gain test

A good bushman knows how hot his quiche is - 3/Mar/2015
Heating quiche in the bush

No noise is good noise - people living in cities often experience noise of S7 or more especially on the 80m and 40m bands, this is not natural noise but noise generated by (badly) man-made electronic equipment. True HF conditions are as I demonstrate on the video and will make city dwellers green with envy - 10/Feb/16
RF noise, or lack thereof, in the bush

A few days of remote camping in far east Gippsland, south east Australia - 11/Feb/2016
The beautiful Australian High Country

Killer cows of the High Country! - 12/Feb/2016
How I bravely fought off the killer cows!

Gold prospecting in central Victoria - 15/Aug/16
Kooyoora State Park

Bogged - 5/Oct/2016
Following weeks of torrential rain, and with well worn road tyres, in a moment of brilliance, I decided  to head bush into the Golden Triangle of Victoria. I've been to this location five or six times previously and it's easy country hardly 4WD at all and I was confident I knew what I was doing and where I was going.
Bogged!

Broken Bucket campsite in western Victoria - 23/May/2016
Broken Bucket

The Murrayville Track - 24/May/2016
Murrayville Track

Secret campsite on the Murray River in western Victoria - 24/May/2016
Murray River camp

The Murray River in flood and has it marooned me? - 29/Oct/2016
Murray in flood

Pioneer Cemetery - 6/July/2014
My books tell me the Amphitheatre - Mountain Hut area of Victoria was first prospected in 1853 so this cemetery, presumably, is subsequent to then. Each time I camp in these forests and visit this cemetery I am confronted by the harshness of daily life people endured compared with the softness and comfort we take for granted, indeed demand, today. These were determined and tough people and they opened up and developed the Australia we now enjoy. I look at the graves of the children, the twins and their mother, the men who dug mine shafts in rock hard ground in 40C and sometimes I shed a tear for them.
A forgotten cemetery in the bush

Limestone Creek in beautiful east Gippsland - 22/Dec/2016
Limestone Creek camp

Heavy weather - 24/Dec/2016
Thunderstorms and fires

The attraction of the bush, for me - 23/Dec/2016
Why I go into the bush

Sunset over the Murray River - 3/Nov/2017
Murray River sunset

The moon from far east Gippsland - 21/Dec/2017 - the longest day of the year
The moon

How I do camp lighting and shower - Murray River, NW Victoria - 27/April/2018
Camp lighting and shower

River Redgum trees on the Murray in NW Victoria - 27/April/2018
River Redgums

I spent a few days camped near Waller's Hut on the Wentworth River in a remote and difficult to access spot in east Gippsland - 6/April/2018
Camped on the Wentworth

Driving the tracks near the Wentworth River - Storer Track and Gidley Track - 7/April/2018
Gidley Track 1
Gidley Track 2


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