I was having some scrambled eggs for tea when Troy suddenly did his spectacled bat impression as a consequence of which I laughed and splurted some food on the keyboard darn it!
All I can say is THANK YOU! so much for sharing this experience of you both and sailing around Australia too. As Meg would say "how lucky are we!!" I have adopted this saying too in my life here in Canada
Yeah I reckon a bronze whaler would get the heart pumping ... Also a lot of people dont realize that a platypus is the echinda's closest relative in the animal kingdom and that echidnas and platypuses are the only animals that lay eggs.
monotremes, sub-set of mammals.....Andrew, "animals that lay eggs" is the wrong term (biology), should be "mammals that lay eggs"...just correcting for the international viewers...not taking the piss mate. Only 2 monotremes..platypus and the echidna of which there is sub-species or cousins depending on where they live in australia and I think new guinea, if I remember correctly from a school project back in the 70's.
@@pearlyshells2430 Yes, was a little surprised our normally encyclopedic Troy didn't elaborate a little more on the Echidna (great footage, perfectly paired with soundtrack)....but guess there is a thing called Google so anyone truely interested in these wonderful little monotremes they could reach out. Pretty sure Andrew meant 'mammal' (nearly got away with it). FYI there are 2 living groups/Families of monotremes (egg laying mammals) Platypus (Family Ornithorhynchidae) and Echidna (Family Tachyglossidae), of these, there are actually 2 extant genera of echidna, Australia has several sub species of Tachyglossus aculeatus ssp. and New Guinea has several species of Zaglossus sp., this genera being recently revised by Flannery & Groves in 1998.....so unfortunately would have to now consider 1970's school report referrence a little out of date ;)
@@bunyipdan and Pearl Oh well I am an engineer and sailor... not a biologist .. thanks for correcting my mistakes and providing the crew with the correct information. They are fascinating animals. My parents often had an echidna snuffling around their house and there was apparently platypus in the creek at the bottom of our hill at our old place. The creek is in the suburbs and nowhere could it be considered pristine. We often looked for them but never sighted them.
Thanks as always. I appreciate you reinvesting in your productions. These are significantly better although I must say I was perfectly happy with all the previous videos. I believe more than anything else it is your personalities that make the channel great.
Your videos have steadily improved all along and were never bad, far from it. Pascale's quite an artistic videographer and editor. You both have a flare for novel aspects and POV's. Thank you for sharing your experiences with such flare and sincerity. I'd never have seen God's creation except that you've shared it.
Your videography and editing has really improved over time guys. You really seem to be finding your own style of story telling and its very engaging :)
This was delightful from start to finish! I can still feel the endorphins pumping around by body, the best medicine out of all those I've taken today. I've put this vid into my Favorites, the first sailing vid to go there. No need to repeat my kudos on the wonderful camerawork and perfect choices of music--but there, I've said it. It's been almost 60 years since I stood at the prow of a yacht watching dolphins--thanks so much for bringing back those days!
Thanks guys, another informative video. I really liked the echidna, we love learning about your beautiful country. Thanks again from your fans here in the central Florida swamps 🐊 good on ya. Stay safe we love y'all. ⛵🐬👍🎣🐾
Was fishing off a jetty in southern Tasmania one evening when a giant ray cruised underneath me. It's wings outstretched the width of the jetty, an image still burned into my memory to this day.
I was just thinking how much your photography has improved, then Troy comes on explaining your underwater camera set up . Talk about ESP. Another beautiful vid as always
So so good. “Proper videographers” couldn’t do better. Your confident and engaging style ... at ease with your audiences, but also at ease with your environment and - delightfully - at ease with yourselves. Thank you for providing some of the best sailing footage ever. Love being one of your Patreon supporters. 🎉👍🍻⛵️💯
More than that Roy; you are one of our foundation audience members and the very first person to offer us financial support. There's a group of people traveling with us in our hearts and you're one of 'em!
Beautiful video! Lovely photography. The walk and exploring, diving and of course the Sailing! So many pretty creatures and a healthy lifestyle. Many blessings, can't wait for next week! Thank you😊 XO
I was born in gladstone grow up in Calliope now living in thailand i do miss the place a little fished a lot in the narrows and my uncle was a sailer or still is he did the brisbane to gladstone race thanks for another epic vid guys stay safe.
Oh man! I forgot that you guys are the coolest! Winter is setting in to VT. Putting the produce from the garden up. And the boat is coming out of the water! I ll tune it!!
Saw an Echidna in Trafalgar, a country town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Used to see wallabies, koalas and wombats on a regular basis. Sadly not always alive. Once had to chase a big koala off the road as he was walking along the edge of it. With a bit of encouragement, he scuttled into the bush. You have a new fan. My cat General Fluffy Pants jumped onto my lap during the diving section and was utterly riveted. Will definitely show him more of your videos in the future.
Great episode a bit of everything. The narrows are a bit dodgy, at least they would be for me. Thanks for the dolphin footage & rays. The prickly critter was interesting.
@@FreeRangeLiving Arrgh!! Keep thee eye on the mighty blue matey...fer ya never be knowin when ya mite see the Mighty Luhta the Finn flag be a flyin towards ye...keep a peg leg on the deck and a stink eye on the seas....for he be a floatin 60 feet of beauty and great bounty .. sure ta grab a young lassie's heart...Arrgh!!
Yes! You have definitely more stable footage with cam mounted to a handlebar. I like it when filming with an SLR (above water). Although I haven’t done any underwater footage myself so far, I really think a handlebar is making it much more professional. Regardless of camera type.
Very relaxed and playful Troy this episode!, good to see you both enjoying life to the fullest. Shame no mantas.....maybe have to nip out to Lady Elliot Island?..... thanks for sharing
I drove my fairly new at the time Landcruiser Troopcarrier to that crossing at low tide. Put my front wheels in the mud at the bottom of the ramp and decided to turn round and go home. Was working up Gladstone at the time. Didn't want to lose the truck in bottomless mud. Didn't have a winch with me either so self rescue wasn't a possibility. Have been wanting to get over onto Curtis Island since forever. ;)
Awesome video guys. Underwater video has been on point for a while now, well done. I agree with you about the way the GB reef is managed. Even with all the bleaching etc the underwater life is far more abundant than in the Solomons, PNG or Raja Ampat where the corals are great but hardly any fish are to be found.
Is "green on green" a thing in Australia, like passing on the "wrong" side? One option for passing each other if the other boat has less draft (i.e. cat with lifted boards), pretty common in commercial traffic on rivers. But needs to be negotiated via radio most of the times.
Just finished binge watching all your episodes over the last few weeks. Awesome channel that is a bit different to a lot of the other sailing channels (more relevant to being in Aus & awesome to see it done on a smaller boat). I've been racing most of my life but when my girls are little bit older I definatly want to do a bit of cruising. Craving the adventure big time. Once you have completed the lap any plans to go further afield? maybe the south Pacific?
Another good video. Just one suggestion... I't may have interested your audience to mention how the Echidna and the Platypus are both egg laying mammals. (Monotremes). I always found that interesting. Thanks.
Just love your stuff guys.... The dolphins are to die for, just soooo nice.. What model is your new camera ????? and something I have been meaning to ask for ages, what is your battery capacity that you use along your journey ??
Did you all know in the usa Soni has a camera school that they invite people who use their cameras on social media. They just had one this summer contact them and see if you all have one in your area. I do believe they pay all expenses. :)) peace
Dolphins with vertical tail are not that fun to play with 😉 We have talked about how your underwater photos has been so much better. Great stuff. Fair winds ,,,/),,,,
Echidna's are the bull dozers of the bush. More noticeable at night they make a lot of noise cruising around and it's difficult believing it's from such a small animal. When threatened they have no flight response and don't immediately curl up in a ball but using their incredibly strong legs and claws they grip the ground and are extremely difficult to pick up. If you hit one in a car you may as well throw the tyre away as the broken off quills over time work their way through the rubber causing multiple punctures.
Great vlog guys Keep them coming as I love to see what you guys see out there . Sure wish I could be part of it but my poorly tikka says thats a bad idea Many fanx n fair winds . See captain hasn't found a barber yet ,lol :-D
Green starboard entering port. (Better to think of it as running with the flood tide because we have them in reef passes etc. too. ) We are IALA A. You're describing IALA B buoyage.
nice being polite to a cat, but since they draw far les than you, should it not have been the other way around? pls keep the lovely videos a comming :-)
does it matter what colour your wet suit is when swimming with sharks? I see you both wear black suits, was this a chance decision or recommended by other divers.
do you guys except donations in XRP?? Also if you post your videos on cinnamon video as ppl watch your amazing adventures they make micro payments to you as they watch, the same goes for bittorrent when it launches they pay in tron. if you link coil to your website when ppl visit they can make micro payments to you if they also have coil
@@FreeRangeLiving ok well coil can link to your website and ppl use it to make micro payments to you in XRP as they view your content instead of having a monthly subscription or patron and they don't take a cut either, micro payments can be like a penny or dime a minute
What do yachties say the life span of their computers, cameras etc are on average and how awesome are the dolphins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had noticed that Troy and forgot to mention it. My eyes are just the opposite. I can read fine but need glasses for distance. They do seem to be changing recently and I rarely wear my glasses around the house. Cheers!
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I was having some scrambled eggs for tea when Troy suddenly did his spectacled bat impression as a consequence of which I laughed and splurted some food on the keyboard darn it!
All I can say is THANK YOU! so much for sharing this experience of you both and sailing around Australia too. As Meg would say "how lucky are we!!" I have adopted this saying too in my life here in Canada
Yeah I reckon a bronze whaler would get the heart pumping ... Also a lot of people dont realize that a platypus is the echinda's closest relative in the animal kingdom and that echidnas and platypuses are the only animals that lay eggs.
That shot we got of the echidnas head and bill makes that relationship more apparent.
@@FreeRangeLiving Absolutely , very good point .. I really hand't seen that before.
monotremes, sub-set of mammals.....Andrew, "animals that lay eggs" is the wrong term (biology), should be "mammals that lay eggs"...just correcting for the international viewers...not taking the piss mate. Only 2 monotremes..platypus and the echidna of which there is sub-species or cousins depending on where they live in australia and I think new guinea, if I remember correctly from a school project back in the 70's.
@@pearlyshells2430 Yes, was a little surprised our normally encyclopedic Troy didn't elaborate a little more on the Echidna (great footage, perfectly paired with soundtrack)....but guess there is a thing called Google so anyone truely interested in these wonderful little monotremes they could reach out. Pretty sure Andrew meant 'mammal' (nearly got away with it).
FYI there are 2 living groups/Families of monotremes (egg laying mammals) Platypus (Family Ornithorhynchidae) and Echidna (Family Tachyglossidae), of these, there are actually 2 extant genera of echidna, Australia has several sub species of Tachyglossus aculeatus ssp. and New Guinea has several species of Zaglossus sp., this genera being recently revised by Flannery & Groves in 1998.....so unfortunately would have to now consider 1970's school report referrence a little out of date ;)
@@bunyipdan and Pearl Oh well I am an engineer and sailor... not a biologist .. thanks for correcting my mistakes and providing the crew with the correct information. They are fascinating animals. My parents often had an echidna snuffling around their house and there was apparently platypus in the creek at the bottom of our hill at our old place. The creek is in the suburbs and nowhere could it be considered pristine. We often looked for them but never sighted them.
Thanks as always. I appreciate you reinvesting in your productions. These are significantly better although I must say I was perfectly happy with all the previous videos. I believe more than anything else it is your personalities that make the channel great.
Of course it is!
Your videos have steadily improved all along and were never bad, far from it. Pascale's quite an artistic videographer and editor. You both have a flare for novel aspects and POV's. Thank you for sharing your experiences with such flare and sincerity. I'd never have seen God's creation except that you've shared it.
Being a diver myself I found your dive & sail adventures very relaxing and interesting. Hope to become a patron one day. Best regards👌
Your videography and editing has really improved over time guys. You really seem to be finding your own style of story telling and its very engaging :)
I might not get to see the good bits of Australia like this so thank you for making these videos.
Magical moments underwater you guys...!!!!
This was delightful from start to finish! I can still feel the endorphins pumping around by body, the best medicine out of all those I've taken today.
I've put this vid into my Favorites, the first sailing vid to go there.
No need to repeat my kudos on the wonderful camerawork and perfect choices of music--but there, I've said it. It's been almost 60 years since I stood at the prow of a yacht watching dolphins--thanks so much for bringing back those days!
Thanks guys, another informative video. I really liked the echidna, we
love learning about your beautiful
country. Thanks again from your fans here in the central Florida swamps 🐊 good on ya. Stay safe
we love y'all. ⛵🐬👍🎣🐾
Just love watching you two..... Thanks for all you do for us. Have Fun, Weav
Sure looks fun
Keppel water is normally clear. Fitzroy River is pretty special with its own turtle and dolphin. Nice Yeppoon shirt.
I think I remember you telling us about the Fitzroy bum-breathing turtle.
Was fishing off a jetty in southern Tasmania one evening when a giant ray cruised underneath me. It's wings outstretched the width of the jetty, an image still burned into my memory to this day.
I was just thinking how much your photography has improved, then Troy comes on explaining your underwater camera set up . Talk about ESP. Another beautiful vid as always
So so good. “Proper videographers” couldn’t do better. Your confident and engaging style ... at ease with your audiences, but also at ease with your environment and - delightfully - at ease with yourselves. Thank you for providing some of the best sailing footage ever. Love being one of your Patreon supporters. 🎉👍🍻⛵️💯
More than that Roy; you are one of our foundation audience members and the very first person to offer us financial support. There's a group of people traveling with us in our hearts and you're one of 'em!
heya swimming with dolfins that must be cool
The new intro rocks
Love the new intro and really enjoy the videos.... keep up the good work!!
the dolphins were amazing.
Great content.
Thank you 🙏.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Big smiles! Thanks
Beautiful video! Lovely photography. The walk and exploring, diving and of course the Sailing!
So many pretty creatures and a healthy lifestyle.
Many blessings, can't wait for next week! Thank you😊
XO
Your production quality is improving leaps and bounds! Great job, guys :) Beautiful video.
Shout out to videographer friend Sam! Indeed...underwater footage is spectacular!
The underwater footage is great keep up the good work. u.s.a
I was born in gladstone grow up in Calliope now living in thailand i do miss the place a little fished a lot in the narrows and my uncle was a sailer or still is he did the brisbane to gladstone race thanks for another epic vid guys stay safe.
Never tire of watching your excellent productions, I learn something in each one, such as what a `mossy coil' looks like.
Your vids are becoming some of the best on the tube. Keep up the good work.
Some great under water shots.
Brilliant, fun, and beautiful!
Yes I agree your video skills are on point. Love the underwater shots......have a great weekend
Oh man! I forgot that you guys are the coolest! Winter is setting in to VT. Putting the produce from the garden up. And the boat is coming out of the water! I ll tune it!!
Another fantastic video. Thank you.
Saw an Echidna in Trafalgar, a country town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Used to see wallabies, koalas and wombats on a regular basis. Sadly not always alive. Once had to chase a big koala off the road as he was walking along the edge of it. With a bit of encouragement, he scuttled into the bush.
You have a new fan. My cat General Fluffy Pants jumped onto my lap during the diving section and was utterly riveted. Will definitely show him more of your videos in the future.
Looks like beautiful weather to fly a kite.
Great video! I mean this with all due respect to you both... Pascale is exquisitely beautiful.
Nice video.
nice video thanks
Great episode guys. The videography skills have really come on in the last few months.
Thanks. Great video.
Just fabulous once again !! And, yes, we have noticed the better smoothness of the underwater filming !!!! :-) :-) :-)
Yet another sensational video. Love them!!
Great episode a bit of everything. The narrows are a bit dodgy, at least they would be for me. Thanks for the dolphin footage & rays. The prickly critter was interesting.
WoW!! you guys just keep getting better and better,,,,exactly why I became a patreon....:-)
Where be the piratical talk matey? We thank ye fer yer dubloons all's the same!
@@FreeRangeLiving Arrgh!! Keep thee eye on the mighty blue matey...fer ya never be knowin when ya mite see the Mighty Luhta the Finn flag be a flyin towards ye...keep a peg leg on the deck and a stink eye on the seas....for he be a floatin 60 feet of beauty and great bounty .. sure ta grab a young lassie's heart...Arrgh!!
Great video, as usual. Loved the music bed.
I love the improvement of your video and editing techniques! Especially marrying the video to music, and the more advanced stop-start-slowmo edit. 👍
Yes! You have definitely more stable footage with cam mounted to a handlebar. I like it when filming with an SLR (above water). Although I haven’t done any underwater footage myself so far, I really think a handlebar is making it much more professional. Regardless of camera type.
Very relaxed and playful Troy this episode!, good to see you both enjoying life to the fullest. Shame no mantas.....maybe have to nip out to Lady Elliot Island?..... thanks for sharing
You guys are blessed!!! Keep Sailing!
I drove my fairly new at the time Landcruiser Troopcarrier to that crossing at low tide. Put my front wheels in the mud at the bottom of the ramp and decided to turn round and go home. Was working up Gladstone at the time. Didn't want to lose the truck in bottomless mud. Didn't have a winch with me either so self rescue wasn't a possibility. Have been wanting to get over onto Curtis Island since forever. ;)
Awesome video guys. Underwater video has been on point for a while now, well done. I agree with you about the way the GB reef is managed. Even with all the bleaching etc the underwater life is far more abundant than in the Solomons, PNG or Raja Ampat where the corals are great but hardly any fish are to be found.
Greetings from Germany.
Is "green on green" a thing in Australia, like passing on the "wrong" side? One option for passing each other if the other boat has less draft (i.e. cat with lifted boards), pretty common in commercial traffic on rivers. But needs to be negotiated via radio most of the times.
Like, Like, New opening is great. Keep up the great work.
Beautiful area (s) :)
Hey just watched the news about the shark attacks in Queensland to the 2 British, be careful diving 👍
They were surfing. Diving is less risky just because of the eye contact. It makes a big difference.
Nice video
Nice vid guys.
I have the 11 meter cat, now I need a travelling companion who is gifted in the art of videography!
That's the hard part!
Just enjoy the sailing, no need to film everything, plenty of good content on UA-cam already from these guys and couple of others.
Thanks for the great vid. Watch out for Mr Sandpaper Pascy. cheers.
Awesome intro !!!!!
still loving your videos guys but a bit more fishing scenes would be good !~keep up the awesome work!
Just finished binge watching all your episodes over the last few weeks. Awesome channel that is a bit different to a lot of the other sailing channels (more relevant to being in Aus & awesome to see it done on a smaller boat). I've been racing most of my life but when my girls are little bit older I definatly want to do a bit of cruising. Craving the adventure big time. Once you have completed the lap any plans to go further afield? maybe the south Pacific?
Yes, but Oz comes first. I know they may not be your cup of tea, but we answer a lot of questions in the two FAQ videos and the last live chat.
Another good video. Just one suggestion... I't may have interested your audience to mention how the Echidna and the Platypus are both egg laying mammals. (Monotremes). I always found that interesting. Thanks.
Q: What does an echidna do?
A: Anything it wants to. I'm not gonna grab it and try to make it do something else.
Just love your stuff guys.... The dolphins are to die for, just soooo nice.. What model is your new camera ????? and something I have been meaning to ask for ages, what is your battery capacity that you use along your journey ??
400 a/h
AHH. Perfect.
What type of shark was that? I've never seen one that. Here we see Bulls, Blacktips, Grey Reef sharks, with the occasional Hammerhead. Thanks.
I think it was a mature Grey Reefy who had the dark v on his caudal fin fade. Pascy saw it, I only got the video footage like you.
Did you all know in the usa Soni has a camera school that they invite people who use their cameras on social media. They just had one this summer contact them and see if you all have one in your area. I do believe they pay all expenses. :)) peace
The cat in the shallows channel probably had a smaller draft than you? What is your draft?
Dolphins with vertical tail are not that fun to play with 😉
We have talked about how your underwater photos has been
so much better. Great stuff.
Fair winds ,,,/),,,,
Echidna's are the bull dozers of the bush. More noticeable at night they make a lot of noise cruising around and it's difficult believing it's from such a small animal. When threatened they have no flight response and don't immediately curl up in a ball but using their incredibly strong legs and claws they grip the ground and are extremely difficult to pick up. If you hit one in a car you may as well throw the tyre away as the broken off quills over time work their way through the rubber causing multiple punctures.
Is Australia red right return like North America or green on right returning to port like Europe?
May I ask what your draft is? Cheers Gray Logan river Gold Coast Queensland Australia
Nice.. 😍😙🌟⛵💑🎊💐
Great vlog guys
Keep them coming as I love to see what you guys see out there . Sure wish I could be part of it but my poorly tikka says thats a bad idea
Many fanx n fair winds .
See captain hasn't found a barber yet ,lol
:-D
What model Sony is that? Does it shoot stills as well as video? I know very little about modern cameras, My last camera was a Cannon AE-1.
RX100IV
2:37 My, what dangerous predators you have in your country : )
@PJ Southpaw 'militant rouge bunyips' ?.....no such thing PJ.....the're all quiet and reclusive (very camera shy) more like that echidna ;)
It's the drop bears you need to worry about
@ 20:28 "but with the waiiiiljiii around" ?????
Whaler
you 2 make it to Tassie yet?
Bit early yet
are you guys ( in oz) green to port entering a harbour?
Green starboard entering port. (Better to think of it as running with the flood tide because we have them in reef passes etc. too. ) We are IALA A. You're describing IALA B buoyage.
The Echidna (spelling?) looks more like Sonic the Hedgehog than any hedgehog I've ever seen. Was there any evidence of ring gathering?
👍🦑
nice being polite to a cat, but since they draw far les than you, should it not have been the other way around?
pls keep the lovely videos a comming :-)
Our obligation was to stay on the starboard side of the channel and it was the shallower side
Surely that big cat has left draft than Marool, let them take the shallow water.
not really. A lot of cats that size have the same draught as us.
I think with danger boards up one meter
Boats passing in a channel are supposed to go "port to port" is another reason the guys correctly went to their starboard side.
I've got to build you a beer fridge.
😍😍🤘🤘
does it matter what colour your wet suit is when swimming with sharks? I see you both wear black suits, was this a chance decision or recommended by other divers.
🌈❤️💪😎
Can you hunt the goats?
what model is your sony camera troy am after a new camera that can do videos
RX100IV. I think the latest ones have a microphone jack as well.
😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
do you guys except donations in XRP?? Also if you post your videos on cinnamon video as ppl watch your amazing adventures they make micro payments to you as they watch, the same goes for bittorrent when it launches they pay in tron. if you link coil to your website when ppl visit they can make micro payments to you if they also have coil
That question makes me think we need to do a lot more research! I don't even kno
@@FreeRangeLiving ok well coil can link to your website and ppl use it to make micro payments to you in XRP as they view your content instead of having a monthly subscription or patron and they don't take a cut either, micro payments can be like a penny or dime a minute
@@secondstartotheright we'll have a look at XRP and Cinnamon. This is all new info to us- thanks
I'll ship you my cat to test the swinging cat theory, ;)
What do yachties say the life span of their computers, cameras etc are on average and how awesome are the dolphins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would say it varies by the yachty and wether they take stuff swimming etc.
video... Do you guy follow Matti haapoja
I have a question for you , like me you wear glasses how do you get on when diving, you can,nt wear a mask with them on?
Seawater has a magnifying effect and there are prescription masks available too.
I only need them to read. My vision is fine otherwise. Tim is right, prescription masks, even bi-focal are available for a reasonable sum.
Thanks for the info.
I had noticed that Troy and forgot to mention it. My eyes are just the opposite. I can read fine but need glasses for distance. They do seem to be changing recently and I rarely wear my glasses around the house. Cheers!
or Peter Mckinnon?
We have seen a few vids of his and think he's quite talented and a creative thinker but we don't regularly follow any particular vlogger.
Pascale keeps getting prettier
She just past the "Gorgeous" gate and is heading for a "Stunner" rating! But don't tell her, he he he.