4 Days Rafting a Remote River - Living Basic in Wild Weather

You know what time it is. It's pack rafting time boys and girls. You know right mate. Let's get it done. Oh mate you're lost already. G'day. So we're out here for a three maybe a four day pack rafting trip. It all just really depends on how long this guy takes to get ready. I've been ready for about 48 hours now so we'll see what happens but pretty keen to get out there on the water and give this guy hell. The lads want a piece of this. I've got one for each of ya. I wouldn't either. Here we go. Let's get in mate. Oh feels good to be back. Back on the open seas. Hopefully getting some scenery not just up my up my jock shots. Onlyfans link in the description below. So we don't know if we're going to be out here two nights or three nights yet. We're just going to play it by ear. See how we go. See how much we're enjoying it and how fast we're going I guess. Not very fast though as we've seen. Some more some more much-needed bush therapy. Just really looking forward to being out on the water again and just floating through some really pretty bits of Australia's bush. So I've just got to our very first little rapid section. So we're just going to give it a little recon because it's been a little while. Smart. Brains overgrown sometimes. How you feeling about it? Yeah? Yeah tough guy? All right man of action. Man of action. I'm going to hit it. Alert alert. Alert alert. Bad boy coming through. 50 cent. Get rich or die trying. Oh that was actually so much fun. Big dogs up. Big dogs up. All right here he comes. Get it done. Oh perfect. Oh textbook. He bloody nailed that line. He nailed it. Ah shame on me. Come on then. I love this country. Big rock. I think I've cooked it. Did. 10 out of 10. Cooked it. Straight over jagged boulder into nut sack. Oh another one. How do I dodge it? Go that way. Quick. Scotty. You and Laura. You and Laura got a baby on the way don't ya? We do mate. And uh do you want to tell them the big surprise? I'm gonna name it Matthew. Get it here first. It's like a grass. It's the same kind of leaves and stuff but yeah it's just kind of like this. I never realized there's like different ones. Yeah. Just like you. Just getting a good shot. Get rekt. Come on then. Hey bark it. So it's just ticked over four o'clock now. Scotty's picked out a point on the map that we potentially will camp at. I'm hoping to get there by five o'clock. He's a bit tired from um getting eight and a half hours sleep last night so you know it's understandable. Land ahoy. Bloody hell mate. He didn't make it. He never made it. What's this whole carcass on? It's got a little face on the front. Look at that. Creepy. Crack on. Don't end up like that guy. All right so we've just pulled up and we've got this little area here. It's not amazing but it's actually there's a pretty little river coming in from over here. A stream. I'll go bags. I'll go bags the best spot. Home sweet home. All right pretty knackered boys and girls so uh for the setup I'm just going to do one of these ones. Just like that. Took me about three seconds. Walkabout swag. I just got a summer weight sleeping bag and pretty much it. Pillow. And a terrible room mate. Is that right mate? I didn't bring anything. Oh that smells and sounds so good. Let's cook. Not a bad little spot hey mate. Sit by the fire. Our own little private beach. Got some sweet and sour pork and just some rice to go with it. Ready. Just stoke that up for us. All right guys. Well. Well. As you know. See you sometime in the future. Absolutely wrecked. I'm gonna finish this and go to bed and I'll see you in the morning. Night guys. It's a shame though just as the firelight got real nice. That's how it goes though sometimes. See ya. Morning. Just woke up. It's just about to hit 8am and what we hopped into bed about 8.30, quarter to nine. So I'm gonna be feeling much better today. Just started to sprinkle actually. I might go back to bed though. Scotty's just realized that we're pretty much dressed exactly the same. Max is copying me. Yeah. I mean same jacket obviously but we're both rocking black shorts and then even our t-shirts are pretty much exactly the same color. I've nearly reached final form. Got another snag didn't he. So he's gone out in the raft to salvage the wreck. Make a coffee and make some oats. So let's do it. Hair on point. Fleek. All right let's go. Nice Scotty. Life. Look at life. What is this hairy contraption? That's actually um that's Max's mustache breeding ground. Precarious work. Beautiful area. Look how pretty it is. Wow. Here you go mate. Made you a coffee. Nah just kidding. I got a I got an important question for you. Oh god. How much fish could a fisherman fish if a fisherman could fish fish? Emphasis on if and could. Are you having a go at my fishing skills? Is that what you're trying to say? Like that one? I've just come up to scare all the fish away. Ruined the serenity. Yeah. Mother nature baby. Come and get some. Torpedo. The Matsey torpedo. It's actually beautiful here. Cold dip and a hot coffee. Are you dead? Oh my goodness. I know. I'm actually pretty good. Imagine footage of me just trying to like. Okay it's just about to hit 10 30. We've got about 15 k's or so to cover today. Pull down the tarp. Get packed up. All right we're all packed up. We're about to hit the water again. Obviously leave no trace. Leave no trace. Leave no rubbish. Nothing. Let's hit the water. It's the flow of life right there isn't it? Pretty much. It doesn't matter what you're up to. It just keeps on moving. You can try to fight it or you can ride it. I choose to ride. Yuck. Sometimes you get caught in that flow and it takes you places. Know what I mean? You get caught up in that and you're under a good thing and you're sailing. Sometimes you're trying to go that way and that water's just like a wall of negativity and pressures just pushing against you and it's a battle. It's not to say it's not doable. It's just going to be a lot harder than for those going this way. It's the flow of life right there. It's the flow of life. People often often ask me. Matsey why are you um why are you putting sunscreen on when it's like so overcast and it's raining mate? You're not gonna get burnt. Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. Basic. Let the river take you. Let the river do with you what it will. Time to go over on tip up. Backwards no fear. It's gonna be another good day. This river wasn't already easy enough to paddle. With the water levels this bit of rain is gonna make it even easier. That was a bit a bit violent that one. I've seen some big metal box on the up here. Let's go check it out. It's a rock. It's a rusty colored rock never mind. Where's Rob Parsons or Levi when you need him boys? I'm under gold. Is it sprinkled in here? This gold lighted. I mean this rock's lighted with gold. You can see it glistening there. More around here. We're rich. It's lit all over this place. I'm taking this rock home. Oh he's lost the paddle. I'm the best. I made it. I'm the best. I just washed right up on it. It's right here. Emergency. Emergency. You're welcome mate. That was gnarly. Yeah that was a gnarly one. We've just pulled over to let some water out but just something to point out like Scotty's got his camera in that dry bag there which is generally what I have uh where I have mine when I bring it but he's got like five six grand worth. I've got a very expensive camera with a very expensive lens in there. Yep. With plus my phone and then in this bag I've got my drone. Oh yeah of course. Just dunked straight underwater. So yeah it's more than just uh risking risking life and limb out here. It's risking all your all the tech gear you got to carry out here to do this stuff. Little caterpillar along for the ride. Anyway we're gonna have some lunch. I'm just rocking a muesli slice with apricot yogurt followed up by a protein chocolate brownie. It's raining. It's raining. It is raining. Not even bothered. Yeah right so we're about to step off again and um blue sky isn't it? Sun's out. Rain's gone. Blue sky. Just blue sky everywhere. Bright sun. Makes sense. Anyway let's go mate. This sun is so nice. Looks like a completely different world now with the sun out and the blue sky. Unbelievable. Ah mood's up. Feeling warmed up. Feeling good. Let's go. Yeah that's done boys and girls. We've just pulled up on this really nice big flat area. The hills you can see like quite far back from where the river is. Just just checking it out. Bit of a suss. Yeah look at all that flat area there you can camp on. Oh yeah that's where I left that. That's where I left my shopping board. Such a beautiful spot. We're just saying it just has such a zen like feeling to it. It's hard to explain. I think I think being away from the rapids just how peaceful it is definitely adds to it but what a spot. A little bit over halfway now to where we want to camp tonight which is about 15 kilometers away from our first camp. It's sad that this one didn't line up with it because that would have been awesome but it's always good to remember these spots as well. Gold. Gold all through here. Very pretty. Very pretty. Okay so we got a pretty specky camp site for tonight. Nice view down that way. The mountains. A couple boulders. Scotty might try his luck on with some fishing. Beautiful big sandy bank for us to camp on. So I'll probably set up I'm thinking I'll set up along these trees somewhere so I get a good view either way. All right um so far so good. That's Scotty's shelter but you know stay paced. It might move any second now. Don't know. It's a thumbnail game isn't it? I've just got this bad boy going on here. That's home for the night. Nice bit of shelter when the rain comes down tonight. Look at the look at the front porch. Look at the view from the front porch. Yeah refreshed. The colors around camp right now are just stunning. Gonna be a real nice evening You wouldn't read about it. We've got gale force winds. Just got the fire going. Huge crack of thunder comes out. That looks sick. Mate. The weather lords have not shined down upon us have they? We had about 10 minutes of a beautiful afternoon and then rest is history. Yeah. That looks pretty pretty cool out there though. Wow. Oh it's life isn't it? Might be might be cooking up under our shelters and not over the fire. Yeah. Not a bad little hidey spot hey to wait it out. Blue sky over there. Rain here. What's happening with that? Nothing left to do now but have some din dins. Don't look too bad hey? It's tasty mate. What are you doing mate? That's mine. I've come to get my dinner. Another good sleep. Let's get it. That's very warm. Might leave that for a minute I think. Well it looks like we're potentially going to have a blue sky day because this is all like low laying cloud fog mist whatever you want to call it at the moment but you can see a pale blue through it so I believe once this all clears up be a nice blue sky day. Scotty's just having a fish. I don't know why he bothers sometimes. You're witnessing the first touch and the grace of the sun peeking over the mountain. Well it could be hot out on the water today but um we're about fish while you packraft eh? See what luck we have. So this big ridgeline you can see in front of us is actually where we've hiked down before to do one of our other packrafting trips on this river but we're gonna cruise on past this for a little while yet find another campground to spend the final night and then we'll have an easy paddle a real short paddle tomorrow and a bit of a hike out of here. Yeah it's cool to be back. I did bring some line and some lures but to be honest I knew that I wanted to just relax whenever I could on this trip so having Scotty pull over to have a cast it's just given me this awesome time to literally sit here like this and just stare at the mountains and the ridgelines and watch the birds and stuff. I've been so busy lately so it's really nice just to have moments like this. Perfect. Okay he just had a bass go for the lure from underneath a rock and it was literally sitting right underneath him so we could be on. Oh did he come off? Oh he's on. That is a decent size bass mate. Nice. Well done mate. Finally got one. You did it. It's a beautiful looking bass. Great work. We got there in the end mate. You did. Cool. Classic summer's day in Australia hey. We'll see what this has in store for us. I feel like it might be passing. Like I was saying to Scotty it's such a typical, a typical Aussie summer day and now we've got the storm coming it's even more so. I just remember as a kid growing up in Sydney the amount of times I just remember hailstorms and going out into the yard afterwards and for some reason collecting hailstones in a bucket. A classic summer day in Australia. Awesome. The river's just turned into a bit of a wind tunnel and the rain's starting to fall. Mate we've had it all out here. We've had it all. Not complaining it's been amazing. Sun's out, guns out again. What's going on? Sandstone. Sandstone there mate. What sort of sandstone configuration? Conglomerate sandstone. Conglomerate. Wow. How's it feel mate? Beautiful. It's a thing of beauty mate. He's in his element. I am more of a Hawkesbury sandstone enthusiast but conglomerate's still pretty good. This is it. Is it though? Uh is it? Oh maybe not. I feel like this is where I took a drink last time. Grabbed my feet outside and I just got bounced straight out the back of it. Scotty's not sure so I'm probably wrong. Here be dragons. I'd be lying if I wasn't a little bit nervous. Did it just start raining? Look at this thing. I hope Putin didn't press the bloody button on it before we've been out here. I'm about to hit it no pack because that's what I'd do. He's gonna come and pack down there, hit it and then I'll pick it up. Mission impossible style. We've lost the paddle again. Oh there it is. The paddle's over here. Fail fast, learn quick. Andy got a little beat up. Packer up and the paddle came free out of that little uh washing machine there and I managed to recover that. Now I've just got to get back over to get my pack from the other side. Serious note. Never doing that one again. That that's that's some stuff that's some stuff you don't tell your mum about. They call you the mad dog for a reason man. Mad dog Madsy. Mad dog Madsy. Scotty showed me the footage. It looks exactly how it felt. I felt like my body got contorted into a tube and I just got you know those like in the movies where you see like letters and stuff being put in a little tube That is the best way to explain it. I'm I'm done. Let's find camp. Live fast die hard. Sun sharing what a place for one. Maybe I did perish and this is heaven. It was my dying wish that Scotty be with me. See the grass trees up there and they want you in an office mate. They want to see you in an office. They want you in an office mate but look at this. It's out here. They got you caged up behind those glass windows. Metaverse. Those people are in the matrix not us mate. Not us. Surreal. So we're thinking about maybe trying to set up camp on one of these little beaches in the gorge. This one here. There are still goats around. Kicking down a few little rocks a bit earlier on so we don't know. We don't know if it's too risky. We're going to suss it out. We won't do it if it is. I mean we could yeah we could make it work. This could be camp and it looks pretty beautiful. There's a couple reservations. Very damp. Waterfall there. That's a waterfall. We have seen a couple of like little rocks along the way dropping down from goats but it's not so steep here. There's there's also a couple little terraces that the rocks would land on. But mate pretty bloody epic. I don't think he's keen. Yeah I haven't I haven't I don't feel completely convinced. Which sitting you know sitting on the couch looking at this footage right now you're like why aren't you camping there you moron? Or why aren't you pumped? Because it is pretty bloody specky. But nah we're yeah we're gonna camp here. We're gonna camp here. We chose to stay and fight. I take back everything I said. I have no reservations about camping here. Look at that. We're on brother. Just scared all the best way. So Scotty actually managed to jump on the inreach and get a forecast for tonight because that's really what we were most concerned about. How much rain we might get in the middle of the night having that potential waterfall behind us. But uh we got the all clear. No rain tonight. Apparently. Apparently. Apparently. It's looking like a storm tomorrow night though. So yeah it has actually cleared up above us a bit and it's moved on. So that's camp. Isn't it mate? It's tough out here. Could do worse. So a lot of you would have noticed um if you've been watching the channel for a little while uh fresh hat. Don't really know how I feel about it just yet. Gotta wear it in you know what I mean? But. But. This location. This location you know what? Calls for the OG. Couldn't be out here without this little guy could I? Wouldn't be right. I think it's it's nearly time isn't it? Nearly. Well guys it's been a few days on the water obviously. Pretty knackered. Nearly died today. We're in an incredible spot. It's obviously so bloody beautiful and as much as I want to share every second of it with you guys. I really just want to zen out and enjoy the place hey? I think you can understand that. So I think Scotty and I are going to cook up a feed. Do a bit of fishing and soak up the atmosphere before we go to bed. Cheers guys. See you in the morning. Mattsy out. Crummy view hey? Crummy view. Scotty did a rock fall on you mate? It very well could be. Hands looking pretty swolled up. Look at that. Bloody hell mate. Going for a cast mate. Oh yeah. Last copy for the trip. Let's hope we don't get stranded or I might not survive. I feel like I should have something philosophical and wise to share with everyone right now but not really. It's just a pure zen moment. The place just sort of slows you down and shuts you up. I joked about the metaverse yesterday or the day before. Come out here boys. Just come out here. Make yourself a cuppa. Have a cold swim. I'm not actually having a crack at anybody but I do find the metaverse stuff all a bit strange. Anyway. Anyway. I won't worry myself with that right now will I? Cheers mate. Cheers. To the best place on planet earth. Probably. All right guys we're pretty much packed up now. Unfortunately we do have to leave this beautiful place. We're going to jump back in the raft. We've only got about two or three k's to go so let's hit the water. We're going to go walk in and check out this waterfall. Unbelievable. Let's go mate. Let's go explore. What is this magic? Enchanted forest up in there. No way. Oh my lord. We really have died and gone to heaven. Look at this. Look at this epic swimming hole amongst these shea oaks shaded with this giant waterfall behind us. What? Mother nature baby. Come get some. Well guys I can't think of a better way to end this video. We're gonna go jump under this waterfall. It's been an amazing trip. Thank you for watching. What a place. We've done it again. Unbelievable. Come on.