SOLO Overnight Camp in Rain - Naturehike OPALUS 2 Tent

G'day everyone. How's everyone going? You're back with Seawest on another adventure. And something a bit different. I'm moving back into my winter style of content. I'll be dropping off the fishing. There'll still be a little bit of fishing but there'll be a lot of camping and hiking and bushcraft and stuff like that. So that leads us to where we are now. My first winter adventure camping. I've just parked the car up and I got about 1.5km walk to the campground where I'll pitch my tent which is in here and then I've got to go back to the car get some fishing rods, some food, some cooking gear and we'll come back set the tent up and I think we'll go for a bit of a tiki tour in the arvo up in the foothills which you can sort of see behind me. There's a lot going on. Anyway I'm almost at the campground so I'll check in with you there. You would have seen in some of my previous videos this is the Naturehike Opalis 2, the three season tent. It's really just a one-person tent but this will be its first proper wild test and it's not the prettiest of weathers coming. There's a bit of wind. There's a 20 knot wind during the middle of the night and there'll be a bit of rain as well so it's going to be a good test for it. And there we go the tent's up. It's a pretty quick assembly for a tunnel tent, about three and a half minutes and if I just zoom out here you can see my vestibule area here and I've got a big sleeping quarter in there as well. So if the weather turns bad I can do my cooking in here with the door open. But yeah, really awesome tent. Just get the guidelines on, do some tension and adjustments on it and it'll look a bit better. Told you this grass is going to be nice and comfy. Rightio, so here's my sleeping mat. Also another Naturehike item. This is just a single. So there we go, there's the air mattress. Just need to get the sleeping bag now, set that up, get some other stuff set up and then we'll be off for a little hike. There we go, that's the sleeping situation sorted. All right, we're on our way up onto the top of these ridges here. Just going to check out the coast, check out the view. Might put the drone up as well. Hopefully the gusts aren't too strong up there. I'm pretty confident with the little drone but yeah, not really in the mood to go losing it today. Oh man, I've done about a k so far, maybe 900 meters or something I've worked out. I'm at the top. I'm out of breath mate. I'm seriously unfit for this kind of stuff but I'm at the top of the ridge. A beautiful view of the coast, background there. I'm going to keep trekking up this way and we should be able to get down a bank and onto a bit of a beach if I've worked out my google satellite image mapping correctly. Hopefully it's not too steep. There we go. Reached a crossover point here. Now this ain't the spot we can get down but I just thought we'd stop here and show you. Holy moly, look at that. There's been a big slip here. Look at the cracks. Just have to stay back. Beautiful. Check that out. That there is a World War II bunker. Let's go check it out. Wicked. I don't know if I'm allowed but I'm definitely going to check it out. It's locked. We should jump over. Wicked. Look at this. It's all patched up. That's a shame someone's bloody graffitied it. Far out. Toilet or something. Far out. Looks like it's been re-deco'd in the 60s, 70s. Old school liner. Old school switches. But it's pretty cool. I'm going to carry on. Yep. There's a hell of a lot of hiking today. I've probably done about six k's to get here. Bloody hell, these are steep. Bloody steep. Well, down on the beach. Right on the coastline now. Trying to suss out a good little fishing spot for tomorrow. I think I've left it a bit late today. Maybe we'll get a chance off the rocks around the other side. But yeah, lots of old World War II stuff here along the coastline. Big mounds of concrete and gun mounts and things. So with that you can figure out where I am. Big cave under there. Look at that. Long big cave underneath there. I don't think we're going to get the chance to have a fish down here. Tides are a little bit off. I didn't really check the tides. It just sort of worked out from a few days ago. But that's all good. We will have a night fish off the beach near the campground. I've got enough ice to keep it chilled. So a fish for brekkie would be actually really nice. We'll see if we can achieve that. I can feel it's starting to rain now. So I'm going to head back to camp. I've got about two k's. Two k's hike to get back. But most of it's downhill unfortunately. Anyway, see you at the top of the hill for a quick breather and maybe a bit of a snack before we head back down to the camp. Almost back at camp. So that was about 4.4k. So 2.2k each way. Alright so I've decided I'm going to get dinner going because the wind's going to pick up and I'd rather get all the cooking done before there's bloody heavy winds and everything. So I've got my little table and chair set up there and get some other cooking gear out of there. I've got the gas cooker. What are we having for dinner? Sausages, onion and eggs. Pretty basic here. And I've got a beer to go with it as well. Let's get this bloody, get this onion sorted. Get in there. Even out the playing field in the pan. Okay. Boom, look at that. Alright, not quite finished yet. We need some salt and some aromat. Now one of my subscribers, Leslie, Leslie and family, they gave me this for my next cooking video. So I'm going to try it out. It's a seasoning that they use. So yeah, I'll try that out. Kind of like, looks like chicken salt. Yum. Thank you for that Leslie. That big hike, big hike into set up. A big hike I've done today. Up the top of the hills there. We'll do a bit of a night fish soon I reckon. That's why I wanted to get dinner out of the way before I lost daylight. It'll give me time to clean everything up, get the gear ready so I can just walk down, hopefully on sunset or something. It's actually a bit warm at the moment too because of the rain we've had. So it's not super cold. So I've got enough gear to stay down there as long as I have enough bait. I've only got a little bit Well I apologize if it's a bit windy folks. Southerly coming right on the beach here. Dinner was beautiful. About to finish it off with a nice big beer. Asahi, dry. Not really much of a drinker these days. But um, we're a bit fizzed up. This is a pretty good occasion for a beer on the beach I reckon, don't you think? Cheers. I think we'll go get the fishing gear, come and set up down here before we lose that light. Get a few casts out before it drops. A bit of an onshore breeze which is a shame but um, yeah, just deal with it. Here we go, just got the Black Magic, Black Magic's long reach surf rig here. Pretty basic with a three ounce breakaway. Getting a bit of, a bit of squid on there. Put a whole squid on for the first one. What the hell of it. Nothing much happening, pretty quiet. I've got a few little nibbles but that's about it. No fish, that's all right, we'll try again in the morning. Jesus that's bright. Turn that down a bit. There we go, that's better. Yeah, no fish, uh, lots of little bites but uh yeah, too bloody windy now. It's up to 20 knots or something. Head back to camp, make a coffee and chill there I think. Cup of tea time. Have any coffee? There we go, that'll do. Nice hot cuppa. Set that down there so we don't have any accidents. Time for bed. I'm not going to sleep yet, it's still early. It's only like 8 30, so pretty early. I've got a book to read, got some snacks, lollies. As you can see, my sleeping bag. This is a mummy style, so it's got the zip in the center. I don't really like it but it's all good. Yeah, pretty comfy at the moment. With that said, we'll see you in the morning. Bacon and eggs, the rest of those sausages. We'll go for a bit of a fish, go for another hike up the top of the cliff tops and uh yeah, be packing everything down and heading home. Until then, have a good night and we'll see you later. And she's bracketing down. Well, that's the alarm clock going off. Bloody poo kickers. Had a bloody good sleep from about 10 till 5am and I've sort of been up on and off here and there. The wind's just picked up something chronic and there was a bit of rain as well. So yeah, better get up and check the weather conditions, establish what we're gonna do. Good morning everyone. Overall, pretty good sleep. I think I slept from about 10 ish till about 5, 5 30. Poo kickers started squawking and running around and they woke me up. But all in all, a pretty good sleep. So it's just starting to rain as you can hear. I've got some bacon, breakfast sausages, some eggs and the rest of that onion chopped up. So I'm going to get the gas cooker going. I'm going to do it in the vestibule and I'm just going to open the door up as much as I can without getting wet. I've cooked in here before so there's plenty of ventilation, plenty of air flowing through. So yeah, have some brekkie and then I think once I get the next break in the rain, I think I'll pack everything up. Get that heated up. Still going to be a yummy breakfast. Yum. All right, I reckon that's done. Oh mate, look at that. Yum. I love camping and cooking, especially with the old gas cooker. You think you're pretty limited, but you can do quite a lot with the gas cooker. Now with the inflatable mattress, I like to roll it back from the bottom and that's going to push any air out and as you go, you're just making it nice and even and it's just pushing air back up that way towards the outlet. All I do is I just fold it over into those sections like that. It folds away nice, straight into our little bag. Can be a bit tricky getting it in here sometimes, but most of the time we'll just go straight in and there we have it. Sleeping bag, sleeping pad. Well everyone, there's another adventure. Done and dusted. That's the campsite there. No trace of rubbish or that I was even there. I tell you, always must leave it. It's been an awesome 24 hours here. Hiking the foothills, camping and cooking. Unfortunately, the weather's packed in and the fishing wasn't sort of... I was hoping to do some more fishing, but yeah, that's just the way it goes. If you're interested, I'll be doing a bit of a gear review on some of the equipment I use, including this hiking pack, which is from Bushbuck. It's a 36 litre. It's got plenty of storage, plenty of pockets, awesome access on the front and rear and most importantly, super comfy. So stay tuned for a full review for this backpack. Well, that just about wraps up this trip. About 100 meters away from the car. Bit of an adventure. Solo 24 hour hiking camp. I'm not really going to call it a fishing camp because the weather turned ---- and we didn't catch anything. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this little adventure. There's plenty more of this kind of thing coming. I've got some trips planned to the Coromandel, up to the far north. That'll be a bit more wild than this. I won't be in a campground or a park. I'll just be out in the wilderness. Just me and myself and my camera and hopefully some good land-based fishing action. So with that said, see you in the next video. If you haven't subscribed, please do. Give the video a thumbs up and we'll see you in the next one. See you later.