4 DAYS Camping/Fishing/4WDing in the Aussie Bush

The Australian bush is one of my favourite places to spend a weekend, whether it's the four wheel driving, going fishing, cooking on the fire or just camping in some magnificent spots. So come along with me and Sian and spend a weekend in the bush. All right, so it's another weekend and it's time for another camping adventure. I've got Sian with me and we're heading into the high country for a few days over Easter, which will be a bit of fun. So we're currently heading along the Warburton Woods Point road, heading towards Woods Point. We're meeting up with a few of my mates who have found a spot sort of near Woods Point roughly. And yeah, so we're going to have a few days to do some good camping and maybe a bit of four wheel driving, some fishing, some good cooking and all that sort of stuff. And so I figured why not bring you guys along for the journey and just see what we get up to. Just dropping down into the valley. We're on a Clark Abbott link track, which actually looks like it's been freshly graded. So the roads are really like it's good condition in terms of it's all nice and flat, but being graded and being a drop very dry at the moment, it's very like dusty and loose in that regard. So coming up, you might actually slip a bit. And once they get a bit of rain on here and all this sort of loose dirt turning into mud, I imagine a track like this would be pretty hairy. So we descended into the valley and it wasn't long until we met up with the crew. Billy's already got dinner on. Yep, we're on the cook. Steaks, chips and beans tonight. Steak, beans and chips. Not a bad little spot. Bit tight, but being an Easter weekend, there's not heaps around, so yeah, it'll do just fine. Because we rolled into camp a little late, we were a bit behind and had to get cracking on dinner and Sian was straight onto it as she always is. And she was cooking up a ripper meal for tonight. All right, first night, chicken stir fry. I reckon it'll go down a treat. That's good. It's all happening in true Easter spirit. Billy's going for the hot cross buns with chocolate eggs, with chocolate eggs inside. And I'm going for real eggs instead of chocolate ones. How was the tent? Nice and warm. Good? Yeah, I don't want to get up. Fair enough. Looks like it's going to be a nice day, I reckon. It's pretty blue. We'll have to figure out where we're going though. All right, so just packing up. We're about to sort of get going, get moving. Sian's just packing up the tent. Look at all that bedding. What's in there, Sian? Um, a sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. One blanket and two blankets. Yeah, and that all closes in the tent. And I keep my fishing rod in there too because it's one piece. So it works pretty well. It's actually a good sort of... The tent's almost like a storage pod in itself. Yeah, and it's got the topper as well. Oh yeah, and it's got the mattress topper as well. So like you can just fit so much in there. So I had a great sleep last night. But yeah, we'll keep packing up and then we'll figure out where we're going today. Everyone was super keen to make a start on the day, so we all packed up camp and I also aired down my tires in preparation for any tracks we'd come across. Yeah, they work well. So we're dropping down Brewery Creek track. We've looped up back over the edge and we're heading down towards Woods Point and then we're going to loop over towards Big River. So yeah, coming down Brewery Creek track. It's actually pretty steep. It's all been graded, so it's a little bit like sort of shaley and it's really dusty too. But yeah, we're just coming down to the bottom now. This is like the steepest bit at the bottom here. So we're just coming for a quick look in Woods Point. Gotta come and suss out. You're coming through. It's a pretty cool old little town. Lots of history. So this is the old little fuel stop. I'm sure you've all seen this before, but it is pretty cool. It's just like, look at that. Old diesel. Yeah, pretty cool. Woods Point is a nice little old town. What do you reckon? Get some fuel quickly? Quick fill up? What price have we got? Still in the cents range. Eight cents a litre. What's that? 13 cents a litre. Oh, there you go. 13.9. That one's five cents. That must have been... They still take Visa. Yeah, there you go. Another one of Woods Point's more iconic features is the commercial hotel, which we made sure to go in and have a quick look around as it's quite historic and looks pretty cool and old-fashioned on the inside. Now, if you had a bit more time up your sleeve, you can stop in here for a cannery, but for us, it was back on the road and to our next track. Looks like we've got a bit of track clearing to do. Well, obviously no one's been through here in a little bit. What do you reckon? Yeah? Is it worth moving or do you just go the other track? The whole crew's getting busy. This tree looks like a pretty fresh drop and we were a little hesitant to bother moving it because the track up ahead looks pretty undriven, but we figured many hands make light work, so we'll clear it while we're here. We've got a suspicion that this track hasn't been driven in a while and I reckon when we go further up, there's going to be more trees down. It does look like it's been driven, but Rema wants to get the saw out, so we'll chop it down. We'll clear it anyway. Track is cleared. Let's keep moving. As we expected, we did run into a couple more obstacles, but these could be navigated fairly easily. One part of our country is just squeezing between. We're just stopping to get some nice dry timber and one of the things, I don't know if you guys noticed, but I've got a jerry holder now on the back, so that's just from AP Boxes, same guy as the canopy, but it's like perfect when you don't have a jerry in it for putting wood in, so Sian's demonstrating. Look at that. Perfect little wood storage. Like just enough to get a few little dry bits and they're, you know, good for kindling and stuff like that, or if you just had a real small fire, it's just ideal. Give it a test, Billy. It is perfect, look at that. Look at that. No, don't even need a strap on that, it's not going anywhere. It's not going nowhere. Perfect. Got the axe working. Poulter's car's designated firewood truck. All right, well, we've just found a little spot down on the big river, I think. A little spot on the big river. Yeah, we can definitely make this work. Yeah, okay, that's good. Wow, look at this, hey? Oh, we'll get another car in there if we're more strategic, definitely. Well, it's not the flattest spot on earth, but we've decided to make it work, so we've got the car set up. Mine's just like propped up on a log and Sian's making up some lines. Oh, now all the dust is just going to turn to mud on the cars. All right, now we're covered. Yeah, yeah. All right, fishing time. What happened? All right, so Billy and I, we're in the big river and we're going to try and catch a trout. It looks pretty good, we saw one like rise when we just came down here, so hopes are high. Just throwing around, just got the spin rods, throwing around a few minnows. Billy's got a nymph. Yeah, we'll see what we can come up with. A little fresh inflow just coming from in the hills pretty much. Awesome. Billy just got a follow, so we'll keep on keeping on. I reckon we should be able to pick up a few. Yeah, I'm just trying to find a bit shallower so I get a bit higher, like look into the water a bit better. Oh, no, that's a stick. Oh, yep, got one. Hit the hindsight button. No, not at all. Oh, he's not huge. Probably keep him, mate. You reckon? Yeah. Well, what should we do, Bill? Well, if we get a few. All right, there you go, little brown trout. Oh, there we go, first trout and we're going to keep him. We're going to try and get a few for dinner, so he should probably be. Oh, nice Bill. Nice, Billy. Nice, nice, nice. Another brown. Another brown. Are you holding on to him or letting him go? Oh, yep. Oh, he just shut off. For anyone that's curious, this is not a trout rod. This is way too big, but I just bring it everywhere because it does everything. It's a three to six kilo rod. Ideally, you want like a one to three and this is a 3000 size reel. You probably need like a one or 2000 size reel, but I am going to use an eight pound line, which even that, some might say is a stretch for trout, eight pound line. This is like the ultimate do everything kit. Just wherever you go, it'll catch something. But yeah, I just catch trout on it anyway, so there you go. It's a very cheap combo too. I reckon all this would cost like a hundred bucks. Oh, nice. Another one, Bill. Don't lose him. A double look. Billy's landed a nice trout. That's definitely the best one, I reckon. Yeah, good work. Well, just cleaning up and ended up with five trout. I only caught one. Billy caught four, four. Yeah. So, oh, well that's definitely enough for dinner, which Sean was counting on me to catch some trout. So Billy's put provided. All right. We'll tell her that I caught him. It's all right. Yeah. I'll give you that one. Get that one caught. Yeah. How many? Five. Bought home five, caught like eight or so. Yeah. Oh, you idiot. You got to go down and clean that. Well, there's the final haul. Five lovely trout, successful fishing mission. Whack these in the fridge. I reckon we might even have them tonight while they're fresh. So get them in the fridge for the minute anyway, and then, yeah, but I reckon it's time for a beer. All right. It's time for dinner. We've decided on fish. So prepping the trout, bit of lemon, salt, pepper, pretty simple. Wrap it in some foil and we'll stick it on the coals. We've got a few trout to do. I'm curious to see how they turn out. Sean's making up some potatoes for chips. So we repeated the process for the remaining trout with salt, pepper, and lemon. And then Sean also prepped up a little salad as well as our chips. And then we're ready to put it all on the flames. And isn't a campfire just the best cooking tool? Whether you're roasting, frying, baking, you name it, a fire is going to get it done for you. All right. Fish is on. Trout is out and it looks good. All right. So we'll have to do the taste test now. What you should be able to do if you pick the flesh off this side and you'll be able to peel the spine bone out and then it'll just be fish on the other side. Pretty good. What do you think? Yeah, it's yum. Didn't have to buy anything. You got to pick through a few bones, but it's still good. So with our stomachs filled from a successful catch and cook, we sat around the campfire for the rest of the night, ready for another day tomorrow. All right. So this morning I'm having a shower because I got a new tool. You might've seen something like this. It's like, you can get them online. They're like pretty much a weed sprayer, but for water and showering. This one's from Audi. So like Audi special buys and they were like cheap as like 40 bucks. But I've seen other ones similar online for like 200. So I came to try it out. I've just filled it with water and I've put one billy worth of hot water. You're not meant to put too hot water in it. And yeah, I'm feeling filthy. So we're going to see how it works as a camp shower. It's five liters and we'll see if it does. Yeah, if it's enough. So you got to pump it and then get my soap. Here we go. Oh yeah, it's not too bad. It kind of works. It's not freezing cold either, which is good. Definitely works. I reckon you can put like two billies in there and it'd be like warm. Hold my head please. I mean, if you had it like stuck up on like a thing that holds it and you can hold the trigger on, it'd work pretty well. Oh yeah, there you go. That works pretty well. So the thing is obviously, because it's like a big container, it takes up a bit of room in the car. But if you've got a spot to keep it then. But nah, I would say success. And I didn't run out of water. How much have I got left? Oh, there's probably still half right there. Well, there you go. Feeling nice and refreshed, which is a pretty big bonus when you're in the bush. So yeah, camp shower works a treat. All right, so breakfast this morning. We've got the Nutribullet, a bit of banana, some frozen berries, protein powder, a bit of kiwi fruit, some milk and we'll buzz her up. All right, let's see how we did. Oh yeah, it looks mixed. Pretty good. All right, we're all packed up. Ute is loaded. Got a bit of timber on the back. All campsites packed and we're going to keep moving on. From here on out, it's just going to be me, Sian, Billy and Mia. I've got to go home. It's Monday. We're going to stay out for another couple of nights. So yeah, I think we're going to head towards Mount Terrible, maybe cross back over towards the Goulburn and yeah, Billy's fighting off wasps. But yeah, all right, let's get on the road. All right, so we've just come straight out of camp and we're jumping straight onto the Camberville Logging Road. This is going to start taking us back up towards Mount Terrible via Hicker Hut as well, Ryan's Spur Hut. Just having a quick look at Ryan's Spur Hut. Ryan's Spur Hut. I don't know, that's pretty wishful thinking. Definitely had its fair share of vandalism. I wouldn't really go out of your way to come and find this hut to be honest. It's not that special. Got to pick a bonus line if you come across it just to shake things up a bit. Not that it's hard, but a bit of fun. Just coming along the Mount Terrible track and it's actually quite a good little like sort of ridgeline track. There's quite a few spots along it where you can pull up and camp on like the peaks of the ridge. And not to mention, Mount Terrible also gets snow in winter and it's open all year round. So yeah, it's a good one to come up and see some snow because it's at about 1300 metres, Mount Terrible. Perfect day, probably worried we're going to get a bit of rain. The forecast for this weekend was looking like we're going to get maybe, you know, 10mm or so today and now it's zero. So they've just completely changed the forecast, which is awesome for us because we don't have to worry about rain. And here we are at the Mount Terrible hut and there's no one here as well. Not all to ourselves. Bloody ripper. I know, it's normally chockers, isn't it? Pretty good spot for some lunch, I'd say. Got a couple of nice little park benches and not to mention the hut and then a great view. Yeah, it's a cool little hut. It's been rebuilt. Yeah, this one's pretty nice. A little fire. All right, I reckon it's time to fix ourselves some lunch, Sian. We're doing sandwiches. Mount Terrible is an awesome place to go for a day trip. You can get up and down within a few hours and people often like to take their small all-wheel drives up here as it is accessible. So I highly recommend coming up here. Now, I was flying the drone around up here for a little bit, but as you'll soon see, the locals didn't quite approve of me flying it. The little drone had copped a strike from the resident Wedgetail and just when I thought I was on the clear, I knew he wasn't done. So as not to disrupt the locals anymore, I quickly brought it back in. Wow, after that drone attack, I need a bloody some food. All right, well, lunch is complete. A few other people have pulled up, so it's not as quiet up here anymore. So we're just going to gather, do a bit of a round table and discuss where we want to camp. We think we're leaning towards the Goulburn, which we'll just drop down the other side of Mount Terrible here. From there, we can find a camp. Hopefully being the Monday, there's a few less people around, so we should be able to find a spot, but we'll see what happens. So we dropped down the other side of Mount Terrible towards the Goulburn River. All right, so we found a little camp on the Goulburn River, a pretty good like waterfront little spot. Yeah, and we just sort of, we'll stick a drive in, so we figured, you know, it's right off the side of the main road, but so be it. We just wanted to pull up camp and chill out. So yeah, we'll get the camp set up. Go fishing. Well, yeah, we might do some fishing. We'll see how me and Bill feel. Might be able to get a little bit of fishing in. And this is exactly why sometimes I like to just jump into camp early, just so you can sit and hang out by the fire and enjoy the remaining sunlight of the day. What's for dinner tonight, Sian? We're having a good old Aussie classic spag bowl. Spag bowl. Well, not really spag, because it's not spaghetti, but you get what I mean. Pasta bowl. Hands on the go, getting it heated up. What do you reckon, Billy? I reckon I'm gonna have another bit. Doing it in a saucepan is kind of rogue, but. Nah, it's the perfect pasta making thing. Think about that. So Sian got me this little thing for Chris, was it Christmas or my birthday? Birthday. It's like a little LED thing, but it's got LED strip lighting and it rolls up into this little capsule. And I've just gone and run it around the perimeter of the awning and we're going to see what it looks like. It's actually a good little like mood lighting. It's just nice and soft. Oh, damn. Look at that. That's pretty mad, don't you reckon? Yeah. Look at that. That's sick. It is the actual perfect length. You wouldn't read about it. It is the perfect length. All right. Bolognese sauce is good. Got some bread on the go. Pasta is cooked. Al dente. We're ready to eat, finally. So we both loaded up on bolognese and then just hung around the campfire for the night. All right. It's another wonderful morning. Had another good night's sleep. Bit of a sleep in this morning. I was a bit tired. So we're just going to get packed up. We're not really sure 100% what's on the agenda for today. I don't think we're going too far. I'm probably not going to do anything too crazy. Maybe just look for another nice camp and yeah, we'll just see sort of where we end up. But anyway, we'll start packing up. And after packing up and jumping back on the road, it wasn't long until me and Billy just had to stop to wet a line. We've just left camp about what, like 10 minutes ago? Yeah. And we're already stopping for a fish because these two just can't help themselves apparently. So let's see what they're sussing out. Every bend we go around, they're like, oh, look at that water. It looks so good. I'm like, it's just water. We're looking for fishing spots. You can't tell we're very excited. Oh, don't worry. I told them. We're going to catch some big fish. We're going to catch hopefully the biggest fishing. Oh yeah. I reckon with the lure that I chose for Liam, you might actually catch a big one. Now for me, a lot of the time fishing isn't just about actually catching. That's usually a bonus. I just enjoy flicking rod around in the water with the potential possibility of landing a fish. And very predictably after not catching anything, we moved on towards our next camp on the Jamison River. Well, we're just in search of a camp and we've come across Granny's Flat, which is on the Jamison River. Just one of the spots we thought we'd suss out. There's already a few people here, but a lot of them look like they're packing up. Literally just took the words out of my mouth, Bill. Yeah. I reckon a lot of them are getting set to go. Just dropping down to the next site, which is the gallows. There might not be as much room here, so we'll see if there's already someone here or not. A couple of cars. All right. Wow. We found a little spot and it's on the river. It's not that far from... There's other camps nearby, but you know what? So be it. Yeah. Just having to find a spot at this point, just hang out. So yeah, we've got a little spot on the river. Trying to get rid of all this wood. So dusty. Oh, it digs me up. Surf street. Now this probably wouldn't be my most ideal spot, but as it was our last night, I wasn't too fussed on driving far away to find a secluded site, so we stuck with this one and it did just fine for the night. All right. Well, we're getting out quick this morning. Ended up having a fair few people roll in, so we're pretty packed in, but that's what you get at busy campsites. So anyway, we're packed up and we're heading out and today's our last day anyway, so we're going to head back out through Jamieson and Mansfield and yeah, but another Easter weekend trip come to an end. Good one just to catch up with mates and have a bit of a chill out, relax, nothing too intense, not too much driving or anything like that. So that's always good. Well, that's a wrap on our weekend in the bush. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Leave a like if you did and let us know where you'd like to see us go next. Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one.