Forced to Drink Brackish Water, Camping

[@tessa4883]

Fascinating and helpful video. I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks!

[@thaifhai]

been watching you for years. great to see you still out there! thanks for sharing

[@Bushchannel]

We’re glad to have you at Bush Channel.

[@MosquitoFood]

You guys are awesome. Great trip summary.

[@kkooloo5781]

I Really like you and Christianas Traveling style Keep up the Fitness with rambling across the wilderness.Best wishes to you both from Northern England👍🇬🇧

[@dougdunsmore6361]

love the fishing line tip. thanks mate

[@Bushchannel]

Doug Dunsmore thanks. We thought of that idea on-site, there were a ton of ants getting in to the rubbish bag with it hanging from a gear rope. With the fishing line, the ants gradually managed to escape and climb out, but it was too much effort and they never returned after that :) A longer fishing line would probably make it impossible.

[@alantaylor6691]

I use simple portable water filters like Sawyer Minis and Hydroblu to filter fresh river water, but as someone with minimal versatile water filtering experience I'm sometimes impressed with the kind of water some hikers make work. Case in point, I don't know if you know the American KZbin channel Homemade Wanderlust, but the girl in that is a tru-hiker and she vlogs her tru-hikes. On one of her tru-hikes her and a bunch of other tru-hikers were holed up at a campsite that had some structure. Under the structure was this big deep pit with water in it, the water was out of reach so they had to drop containers down on ropes to get it. Anyway this is completely stagnant water sitting in a concrete hole, so there's not even any porous seepage going underground. Absolutely filthy, and to top it off it had a dead animal in it, a large dead animal, I think it was a large deer or something. Horse, deer, something like that. This water was RANCID in the worst possible way. Anyway that wasn't a problem for these tru-hikers, they let their containers down, collected the water, and filtered the shit and got their drinking and cooking water. I suppose spending a lot of time on the trail you learn to do a lot with water. Salt water is another matter of course, but anything "fresh" seems to be useable no matter the lethal condition it's in. And as tru-hikers they weren't carrying larger filter systems, just stuff like Sawyer Minis. I can't remember exactly how the filtered this "water" but I assume they used a few methods on the same water, cloth, boiling, Minis, and put the water through those methods a couple of times probably. I'll have to try to find that video again, it was on the Appalatian Trail.

[@Bushchannel]

Thanks for the story !

[@bugikraxn]

Hi, nice Costa Areal and you are a really good team in the camp ;-) ATB Franz bugikraxn

[@philbox4566]

Spent 3 days walking around the lakes on the northern part of Fraser Island. Was during the end of a drought and all the lakes had a very strong taste of sulphur. We were farting sulphur after a while. Still an absolutely astonishing walk though. Gobsmackingly beautiful.

[@Bushchannel]

Phil Box happy camping !

[@richschwartz8004]

Just wondering if you guys are freeze drying your own food now? There are a few filters on the market that will make brackish water more palatable but the last time I checked they were on the pricey side. If you plan on doing more adventures where that's the only water source it would be worthwhile checking out especially if you could get one of them for a sponsor for the channel. Beautiful place. God bless and stay safe.

[@Bushchannel]

Hey Rich. I don’t believe freeze drying of food is something that many people DIY, it requires more specialised equipment (different to dehydrated food), we buy it from a supplier. As for removing salt with a backpackers filter, that is unlikely. I’ve seen a portable pump filter once that removes salt (a desalinator) but it’s extremely slow and quite heavy, you’d be lucky to get one litre per hour of continuous pumping. That pump operated desalinator I saw was from the life rafts of Navy ships.

[@ventura1893]

Good that you found water/ rolling boil for 2 minutes kills all pathogens doesn't kill smell , taste colour

[@quinnwarman5139]

Wot type are the headlamps you use thanks

[@Bushchannel]

Hey mate. We’re using the tiny Ledlenser P3R. That’s a small rechargeable torch with a battery size similar to a AAA. We have them rigged up with a DIY headstrap. So it’s basically a DIY headlamp setup

[@alantaylor6691]

I use a Fenix HL30, 300 lumens. It's really good, better battery life than the others in that size range, not expensive, and the best part it has multiple lumens settings for the main light, which are 300 lumen, 130 lumen, 70 lumen, 30 lumen, and 4 lumen. Not many of them have all those inbetween ones. Also I personally am glad for the power of the 300 lumen setting, I know many other hikers use lights a lot smaller, but sometimes I want to see well in case of snakes etc, especially when it's no moon and you're in a dark forest tunnel which is most of my night hikes. I probably wouldn't go bigger than 300 though as then it's getting too heavy to be lightweight. When I first got it I thought it was going to be too heavy on my forehead, and when I first put it on my forehead I thought it felt like a stone. But it only took one minute and that feeling went and has never returned, I never notice it. It also has red light settings and all that too. If you're in the NSW area I can suggest a good retailer, they were excellent, they are a specialist light/lamp kind of shop and had very good service, they deal in a lot of Fenix and I can see why.

[@markharwood]

When was this trip? How long before the fire?

[@Bushchannel]

Mark Harwood yes as you know, the Nadgee was devastated and the whole area is a blackened moonscape now. Our video was filmed mid last year. Hope the hut survived.

[@handyparts]

Are you home or still out camping ?

[@Bushchannel]

This video was filmed last year.

[@Tunnelrat6666]

35-deg heat around Mallacoota = Summer Open fire in summer NOT GOOD. I hope you put a lot more water on that fire than you showed.