Florida Everglades. A Canoe Adventure.
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Foreman and Wilms undertake a mighty expedition on the Wilderness Waterway in a canoe. Ahead of them is 99 miles of tangled swamps full of alligators, nasty bugs, and little dry land. Adverse weather conditions add to the challenge to make for an epic adventure in the Florida Everglades.
Wow! What an adventure! Since I never plan to do anything like that, I sure appreciate you taking us along for the wild ride. Your videography is awesome, too!
Watson Place along with camping on the beach were my favorite places when I did the trip in 77 as a boy. No GPS or cell phones, just a map and compass.
I absolutely love the warning about bird watching.
Holy shit this is an EXCELLENT documentary
Wow this is literally the best video about the everglades on youtube. Thank you for this, im about to binge all of your vids so hard
Glad you like the film. We hope we've done some justice to such a great place.
I feel so bad for how much trash and trashy people you encountered. Please come to North West Wisconsin. I’d love to show you the Namekagon River. Thanks for sharing
No back woods trip is complete until camping next to Joe Dirt's family 🤣😅
Sir and Madam, I admire you both completely for this magnificent video and for your difficult expedition via canoe. However, I will have to admit, this would never be my preferred vacation spot. May all your adventures be safe.
Thanks Kevin. Glad you liked the adventure.
What a special place. I have not done the "south east passage" but have fished out of Flamingo and around Everglades City so I have a clue what you guys did. Thanks for taking us along! Enjoyed every minute. Well done. Can't wait to go back this December.
Excellent video! I live near the Everglades and have ventured in the swamps, lakes, rivers, and mangroves before, and yet I learned a few new things from your video.
Glad you liked it Rafael, we did hope to do your backyard the justice it deserves. Amazing place, your a fortunate fellow.
Thanks, I really enjoyed watching. Appreciate how much work you put into the production. Looking forward to the next installment.
+Mark Harvey thanks mark. Hoping the next film should be out in 2 weeks. Who's that old chap on your profile pic. A jack Russell?
+Foreman and Wilms Adventures Old mate is celebrating his 15th birthday this week, but still loves to try and chase the Cockies away from his biscuit bowl......when he can be bothered to get out of bed and go outside. Any hints as to where "we" are off to next, have just spent two hours overlanding through Sydney traffic, and could really do with another "trip away" courtesy of you guys. But for now, tonight's big decision, a Margeret River Chardonay, or a Hunter Valley Verdelho to go with our Thai takeaway. But then again, after the day I've had a cask of goon will probably do the trick.
+Mark Harvey some of that goon is really good though not in the 4 litre boxes. A little harder to gauge the quantity consumed unlike the bottle. It's usually a stumble to the floor that alerts one to overconsumption . The Pilbara is our next destination. I'm currently building an old fuel bowser to stick outside a 3D model of a roadhouse that might get about 3 sec in the film. The film is in the advanced stages and could be ready in a week. Enjoy the wine and give the hound a scratch.
Wat een leuke video en wat een prachtig gebied met zoveel schitterende wilde dieren. Dank u wel.
If this guy is from Northern Australia I'm sure he feels right at home
I Love the Everglades, what a beautiful place! Nice video, I’ve been there dozens of time and I learned a lot from you guys!
this is really well done. Thank you, i wish you guys got more recognition!
Awesome ... great humor !
FANTASTIC I'm sorry it took this long for you guys to pop up on my feed
Really enjoyed that, i'm a fellow Landrover nut and your adventures are excellent. Keep safe both of you from another Aussie.
Another F&W gem. A top expedition guys.
Very enjoyable! Thanks for your efforts and I'll check out your other videos! Best/Roy
love it!!!!.. glad you guys did it so I don't have too!! thanks.
Great video! You two are my new heroes.
Cheers Michael. Did you notice my stuff up spelling of Miami! I wish I could say it was on purpose.
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures Yes I did! Hence my Mai-Tai-ami post below. The city needs a tripthong anyway :-)
Very underrated video with respect to views, wealth of info. Thanks for the inspiration, details and information. Subscribed and will follow your other trips.
Thanks Vivek. Glad you enjoyed the Everglades. It’s a great place.
I really liked your video! The quality of this production is as good as anything I've ever seen on UA-cam. Nicely done!
Thanks. High praise indeed.
This is sooooo well done!, Thank you so much.
So some friends of mine recommended your video. The Buckleys. Very impressed. They rescued me one time four years ago. I stay on a smaller houseboat a little farther from the Gulf than the Swamp Lily anchorage. So sad to see them leave after 40 years or so. Good news is that they are at my house this winter paddling the Lagoon and a few local lakes. I can't believe how many people you encountered. I go two weeks without seeing another boat most times. I'm going to watch it again!
Greetings Eric, Make sure to send our regards and well wishes to the Buckleys for us. We're quite fond of those two. The footage of Donna wallowing about with half a ton of rotten meat in an alligator infested lagoon was priceless. Evil Kanevil never pulled off a stunt so dangerous. The Everglades is one of the best trips around, glad you enjoyed the film.
awesome canoe trip would love to travel through the everglades whether hiking the Florida Trail there or canoeing through it!
lol glad you got ur hats
The best yet guys...love it!!!
+hawks667 cheers hawks667!
Bird watching is highly addictive but also a bit of a bugger when you are sight impaired. I am having a great time catching up with all your videos :)
Being sight impaired is a great boon to birdwatching as you have a valid excuse for mis identification. Do do’s, military parrots and teradaclys or whatever those flying dinosaurs are called are all possible. Glad your liking the films, the Everglades is a bit of a favourite of mine.
Glad you enjoyed it! I took a canoe and camped in Flamingo and it was incredible! First time seeing stars and I live 90 mins away from all of this in Miami
Great video! So glad I found this!! Good job guys!!!
Cheers Michael. Our videos are a bit hard to find. Have trouble myself sometimes.
Another great video guys!
+Malibu Muzza thanks Muzza!
Really good video. Wish I was there
awesome Thank you safe travels
Wow, great video!
Love your work.
+james greenough Jimmy! Good to hear from you. Are you still cruising the good life as senior customs officer protecting the borders of our great nation.
+Foreman and Wilms Adventures . Indeed the borders are still safe. Will the the blue t-shirt be coming back? Try and stay safe that looked a bit hairy.
+james greenough I'm not sure when i'll be getting back over to the great southern land. I'm still in the immigration process and can't travel outside the states. Better say hello to all the comrades. Is Big Matty and Black Pat still kicking along?
Wonderful!
An Aussie in crocodile territory ?😂 He's right at home
Nice video. Based on some of your neighbors at campsites I'm thinking Watson may have had the right idea.
Crikey that was brutal but had us both laughing. We’ll keep that between us.
Hi guys been a while since the last vid great to see u guys back. what an interesting little adventure this was i must say. I once kayaked with my little jack Russell down a river here in Victoria for 25 km and sections of the river ended up been ankle deep boy it was hard work dragging that kayak through the river bed, so i certainly can imagine how exhausted u guys would have been after this little expedition down the everglades. As always enjoyable learning about different cultures and the different types of landscapes that are beyond our shores here in Aussie, ime sure Gavin yourself and wilms will take us on some great adventures in wilms home country. " I must say i will miss the defender when you guys go of shore lol" as always thanks again for the wonderful vids, take care and safe travels.
+craig thulborn greetings Craig. It has been a while, these films take a long time to produce. One day when I'm rich I'll employ a team. As for the canoe trip Wilms did most of the work. I sat back and failed to catch fish. Do you still have your jack Russell. I'm a big fan of the fox terrier which are peas in a pod to the jacks. Same same but different. I'd like to have a dog but they're hard to have if one is a wanderer.
+Foreman and Wilms Adventures Thanks again for replying Gavin. I cant stress enough on how u guys do such a wonderful job on gathering all your footage and then finding the time to be able to produce and upload all your vids in the time frames you guys have to work with. Well done and as always full appreciation from down this way guys. I still have my little jack Russell and he is 8 years old and he still provides me with a lot of laughs when i take him for walks in the bush. I understand it would be hard for u guys to have a little dog as u guys adventure a lot, including National parks . My Granddad used to have three little foxes or fox terriers when i was a youngster and i can remember them becoming fiesty little buggers if i got to close to my grand dad, those little fangs used to stare at me as i walked closer and cloaser to him "LoL", very loyal to my grand dad though i must say. I checked out your Face book page the other day and well done to that too guys, i managed to wack a few comment among your clips. if u get a chance click on my profile and u will see my little dog in one of my clips on my wall where my wife and i are sanding my old floor. None of the clip was edited so its a bit rough in parts whilst talking. Thanks again guys and well done, bye for now
Wonderful!!
G'day Gavin and Summer.
Lovely to see you guys back again and ever so working on your wonderful video presentations.
You're nearly getting close to the David Attenborough standard, but your films are still a quite pleasure to watch. :P
So they have salvation Jane over there too, especially at 10:06 where Summer is doing some of her part of the talking.
It would be good to find a TD5 defender over there as well, of which you could, but it would be quite rare, as the local inhabitants of the USA usually prefer to have the big Dodge Rams and the F350's as big as they can get.
They wouldn't be able to survive otherwise.
Still love the Aussie perspective on things Gav, as it sure does explain everything to anybody in very clear and simple terms very effectively that anyone can understand.
By the way, ear plugs are certainly greatly desired for sleeping when camping in unfortunate homo sapien environments, especially with the noise that they seem to generate from there unnatural tools and drastically exhibited biological sounds.
Still love the wonderful attention to detail of the flora and fauna, and the explanation that goes with each shot.
Just another thing, you sure seem to be losing a fair bit of weight Gav, hopefully you are keeping alright.
Looks like Summer needs to feed you up a bit more.
Well, once again, a very enjoyable presentation done by you both, and still would like to keep seeing more.
Concerning Christ's return Gav, it is good that you acknowledged that, as you may not have much time left, especially when big old Russia makes her move upon the Middle East, attracting fear and concern from the West with regards to business and trade.
But that can discussed another time.
Travel safe.
Cheers all the way from Townsville, QLD.
Matt
+Matthew Hawkins greetings there matt and thanks for the comments. They do indeed have Patersons curse/ Salvation Jane here but the plant you would have seen I think looks like it might be in the pea family. I have not yet id'd it as yet. Summer and myself actually discussed potential problems with that shot due to those flowers and sharp eyes viewers like yourself. We actually shot that post production back in California so we were worried someone might notice but we used a shallow depth of field to blur out as much as we could. My weight does fluctuate a bit these days depending on how many m&m's ive been eating. A wonderful addiction. Your right about the defenders, we have a disco 2 over here that broke down on our first test adventure so we know it's the real deal. We're working on episode 4 now and it's getting close to done. Thanks for encouragement. Cheers and take care for now.
Hey Y'all ,Great Video!! I am the person in the wooden kayak at about4:15. My friends Mike and Lee shared a camp with you. we hope all is well with you.
Captain Obvious!! We remember the 3 of you fondly. All is well with us and likewise hope all is well with you. Glad you saw the film.
Awesome trip, I like the hardcore fingerless paddling gloves.
This is Mike I believe. How's the dark continent treating you? It is an awesome place with no end of challenges for both body and soul. Cheers for the comments, apologies for the late reply and stay safe. Cheers.
Nice Job!
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Wonderful video! I live in SW Florida. I've camped at Flamingo a few times. Beautiful! I've just started planning to paddle the Everglades Wilderness Waterway. Thank you for sharing your experience! It sounds like the easiest way to do it is to rent either a canoe or kayak at Everglades City and get a ride back home. 👍
The camping site he refers to as Watson's has a lot of people already camped there, which has a good point, and some bad points. First a crowd might make it less likely to have an alligator or python coming in, and since a lot of people have been there is probably smells like it to animals which would cause them to not view it as a hunting area. However, that many people camped there would also be crowded, and like he said, beer cans everywhere noting the rest of the campers may all be there to party. It would be nice if you could book it, and try to do so with others that you know, and that are like you are. We would not be going to drink and party, and would want Christians there, which were not in our little space.
Now you are in my area...fished the Ten Thousand Island portion of the Glades numerous times with my Dad and brother. Suprised it took so long to run into the "no see ums", they can sure ruin your day. My apologies for the jackasses that you encountered at the campsites.
Hey there Greg. The jackasses were not floridians so no taint on your lot. That was my second trip to Florida and I must say I'm quite fond of the place. The Everglades is truely great. I hope all is well for you there I been hearing it's quite windy of late.
Some of the narration sounds as if Paul Joseph Watson was narrating it.
Awesome video and commentary! New subscriber added. You guys had a great knowledge about the Everglades. Last year, my friend and I did a 5-day and about the 60-mile loop on the Wilderness Waterway. We took the inland route from Flamingo to Graveyard Creek and back to Flamingo paddling along the Cape Sable. The trip was full of difficulties and challenges, but overall, it was an amazing and unforgettable experience for me. However, my friend said that he would never go back. There was a day when we were stuck against the very strong tide and gusty winds. We couldn't make to our Chickee before dark. We were left with no choice but to paddle in the complete dark (no moon) with just charts and compass. Luckily, we made to our campsite.
I still have the dream to paddle the entire course, but there is no one to go with me. I might do it SOLO!!!
Greetings Fahad. We did encounter a few folk paddling solo on the wilderness waterway though it's always helpful having a second hand and someone else to work out problems with. Those winds are quite the challenge and I hope you manage to do the full trip. Thanks for the comments. Cheers.
Thanks! looking forward to seeing more adventures :]
the green anole is a native!!
Great video but that wasn't a snapping turtle, it was a Florida softshell.
A Florida softshell! Good to know, as a nature enthusiast I welcome the corrections. Learning is greatly accelerated by listening to folk who know more than I do. Cheers.
Well done video, but I officially have no desire to paddle the everglades now.
Looser
Jeff 🤣 I would rather be a loser than a troll.
Me either.
Another great film. So grateful for you guys sharing these. Are you guys heading out to Overland Expo West near Flagstaff this year? 20-21May. You guys will fit in nicely.
+evilunclestu Greetings there Evil Uncle. We actually didn't know this expo was on. We must be cheap fakers. Any overlander worth their weight in salt should have known that. I don't think we will make it though discussions have been held on the topic. Thanks for mentioning it as it will be something to consider for later as these events are usually quite good.
Cheap fakers? Hardly! You guys are the real deal. There are two Overland Expo's every year. An East and a West. You'll fit right in for certain.
Who spelled Miami wrong at 0:49 ?
Excellent spot. That would have been me. Guilty as charged.
I saw that maiami. lol
ARGH. The Everglades is NOT a "swamp". It's is a very wide, very slow moving river.
Your an idiot
I'm sorry you guys had to experience that all Americans do not conduct themselves that way
I did a day kayak from Flamingo last month. Very interested in a backcountry canoe like this. What month were you there?
Greetings Eric, I think we were in the Everglades around February or March, somewhere in that window. It's a great trip.
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures Ok thanks. So even in winter there is a buggy-ness to the nights.
Also, another take from you wonderful video.. nature=cool, people=bad
Big Matty is a married man these days and still fighting the good fight. Pat is still with us however he is no longer making the streets safe.
I think you were too accommodating for the Willy Willy group. Fires there are illegal, and your "group" had as much right to be there as the other one. They were already taking up more than half the site, despite it being approved for only 2 groups, with a max of 10 people total. Watson's Place is allowed 3 groups, but still only 10 people. Maybe this has been more strictly enforced since you were there.
Pilgrims ! ! !
Amazing Video! How do you guys get the shots of both of you in the canoe?!?
Greetings Mickey, we use the chikkees, shallow gravel bars and clamps clinging to tree branches. Any little trick to get the shots as it’s a tough place to make a film.
Why is beer an essential?
Probably to numb you from all the mosquito bites.
Great show, awesome production value, how did you get such good audio!!
Greetings there. I am compelled to answer your question about the audio with honesty. 'We didn't', there was too much wind on many occasions so a lot of the original audio was rubbish. Two of our cameras had external mics and we did have a rode shotgun mic and a portable sound recorder to capture as much Everglades nature ambience as we could when the wind was down. On the windy days we used our own recorded sounds of paddles, breaking twigs , splashing water ect and spliced all of them together to create the final result. So we had quite a mix of real stuff and fake.
Epic Production!!! Excellent Adventure!!! Amazing
I'll happily cut my way through overgrown mosquito infested waterways but assholes in motor boats can really ruin a trip.
From which company did you rent your canoe for the 1 way trip? Also, is there shuttle service to take you back to your car at the launch point?
Greetings Jeff. The Ivy House in Everglades City handles both gear rental and shuttles. There may be others but these guys did a good job. They seemed a little pricey but not outrageously so meaning we do recommend them. With the shuttle you could choose which end to start from. You book your campsites in advance at the ranger station so it’s a good idea to have a plan before you go. A good tent is highly advised as the no seeums are aggressive. It’s an amazing trip. Give yourself plenty of time to enjoy it and be safe.
Can you please advice a reliable gps based on your experience
Greetings Vivek, I was using a hand held Garmin gps, An 'Etrex 30' ( though any of them are good) and the Garmin topo maps for USA south east. With a few spare batteries of course. Wilms had downloaded an app called 'Gaya' though I think that might have evolved into something else now. It allowed her to download maps before heading out and worked like a gps however smartphone batteries don't last as long as a dedicated handheld gps. A conventional paper map in a waterproof bag with a compass should be along for the ride.
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures thanks for answering, appreciate it. Hope you guys are safe.
Hello, where did you get your maps for the garmin from? Are there good open source maps?
Greetings Philo. I downloaded the Garmin maps from their website, the 24k south east map. Obviously it includes Florida but several other of the states surrounding it. They are expensive but very handy for a place like Everglades. I found a free map but it was not very good. It’s very easy to get lost out there so I’d recommend a good gps map. Wilms also used an app called Gaia which I believe might be a subscription based app. It was very good but I like the reliability and ruggedness of a gps in the wilds over an iPhone. So in summary I found no free maps that I’d trust and the expensive Garmin map was well worthwhile. Hope this helps.
Hello, thank you very much for your information. I'm also using a garmin etrex (30x), which seems to be a very good choice! I think I'll also go for the garmin 24k south east map. Besides, there is still "open sea map" which also works on the etrex, but is not so detailed. Did you ever have problems with sharks, alligators/crocs, or snakes on your trip? Did you have a satellite phone in stock in case of bad accidents? Last question: I'd like to do an everglades trip in March 2019 and would like to talk to someone who is everglades experienced. Any guesses? Kind regards
Maiami?? 😂😂
Guilty as charged I'm afraid.
Mai-Tai-ami