Hi folks! I am an Irish man who moved to beautiful Finland in 2000. I am a marine biologist, scuba diver, and nature lover passionate about life above and below the surface. I started hiking and wild camping in 2022 and as a newbie, I have LOTS to learn! Join me on my next adventure! Moi-moi! 🇫🇮
I would buy a Durston, but same, taxes and shipping push the price/quality equation too far. Sure, I agree wholly with "buy once, cry once" philosophy of purchasing the best you can afford, but I also subscribe to "try before you buy," especially with any big expense. It would be a good thing for a rental company to do ...
@@alfredlear4141 Agreed. After trying the tent 2 or 3 times now, it's not a bad tent for the price I paid. And it is a palace in terms of size but with a total weight of 1.3kgs. is it perfect? No. But what tent is?
You two are a right bunch of coconuts. That hammock looks solid . Thanks for sharing your very cool adventure. It was good to learn a new technique with the hammock ridge line . Cant beat a good sausage roll . Thus was brilliant with your brother hekping out. Hes a good assistant camera person. What a spot
He's got his own channel and has filmed lots of nature stuff in Ireland but hasn't published anything yet. This vlog style was new to him but he took some great footage. It was easy to get edit, all the hard work had been done already.
"I love you all today, and i love you all tomorrow". Guess you grow up with that tune!! Walked up and down the North cape, and on the way back to Holland entire Finland along the Russian border. Only good weather i had those ten months....but i dont mention the horseflies and other flies. Somebody give me a mesh anorak but still....
Glad to see Andy eventually did some work in taking the gear down and being the Ferryman the next morning! 🤭 Looked like a great night away - lots of skills on show and fab food 🤩 Such a lovely spot for you both to spend a night! 😎
What fantastic wildlife sounds from the lake! You’re so lucky to have such wonderful nature escapes close to home. Nice also to be reminded of blue skies again!! 😢
@@MiriamKennedy It's a lovely spot. Pity about the noise though. I guess it's tough to find places where there is no machine noise nowadays. Hope you are doing well. ☺️
Hey. Another great vid. Im now in Helsinki. Looking to get out now that im settled. Id be genuinely interested in your underquilt. Ive looked at the amok. Impressive bit of kit. Its the airpad that puts me off.
@Sisu_80 fair point. The airpad though can also be used on the ground. I am actually selling another under quilt with this set. It's the DD Hammocks one. It's a good summer quilt. Where do you plan to camp?
Nice video. Thank you! I’m a newbie too. Have a couple of cheap hammocks and tents. Nowadays I use only Haven hammock tents, regular and XL. I’m not getting payed by Haven Tents, even though their hammock tents are my absolute favourites for sleeping outside. Kaikkea hyvää sinulle!
Nice trip Kevin, good to have somewhere like that close to home for a little getaway 👌 The Amok looks like a great piece of kit but seems to work best with its own tarp which makes the whole system very pricey. Simon, A Bloke in the Woods has a few videos using it. I still haven't managed to get out in my hammock yet 🙈
Cracking upload pal. Great tarp set up. Something ihave never done yet. Bug net would be an absolute must have for me. Hate the feckers. Enjoyed that pal. 😊
2h 50m... not bad. This bit is part of this week's trail running event, and based on your video, I think I'm going to stick to walking that nasty bit and not risk becoming a rolling stone myself.
@@CorNigrum It's deffo a place where the stones will roll away under your feet. Are you going up it or down it? Going up is slightly easier I'd imagine. Best of luck 🤞
@@craigrobertson6082 Thanks! Simple answer: it depends. Previous experience shows that conditions in the donor population should be as similar as possible to help guarantee transplanting success.
@@snowcelt I have Zostera in my aquarium and here there are at least 2 types of sea grass, one is Zostera but the other one much thinner must be another species. Is it 100% pure sea water or is it a bit brackish ? If it is brackish it could be Stukenia or Ruppia. My plants look like the thinner ones.
@@cattubuttas4749 Zostera will grow in full seawater but in this part of the Baltic Sea the water is brackish (approx. 5 ppt). Several species of Stuckenia and at least two of Ruppia also grow here, as does Zannichellia These are all much thinner-leaved than Zostera.
@@snowcelt Thank you very much ! That's exaxtly what I wanted to hear. So there are other species living in brackish water too. I didn't know that it was the Baltic sea.
If you like, I'd love to share info about my plants in my brackish aquariums. Basically the plants are the same as those in the video, plus one "GIANT STUCKENIA" which has not yet been identified. It looks 100% like an ordinary Stukenia but it is enormous in size. My plants are divided by salinity and the Ruppias species can stay in whatever salinity they want but Stukenia will reach a maximum of 20 ppt (20 grams/l).
It can be. When it's cold and your suit leaks and you are wet and cold and have to do a third dive in a day it's days like this that are good to remember.
For the most part folks are quite quiet but there was a pair of ladies about 50m away talking loudly pretty much non-stop from afternoon til night. I mean, I could hear every word, talking about their pet dogs and how their training was going, work issues, etc. I guess they were catching up on things. They were very quiet the following morning so I guess they talked themselves out. 🤷
Looks like a really lovely island, even better when you got it to yourself 👍 Every time I watch one of your videos I vow to get out for a hammock camp, I have everything I need now, just need to pick a spot and go for it!
@@nialloutdoors It would be very interesting content. I haven't seen many Irish campers use hammocks, it's mostly tents and sometimes tarps. Spread the gospel of the hammock! 🙌 😁
Might I suggest going back to a proper rectangular tarp rather than those gull wing / designed for the hammock. Easier to make a steeper ridgeline for water runoff. Easier too to have admin space under your tarp with a nice big 10x10 tarp. Also, make sure you have some type of 'break' between the hammock attachment points and the wraps on the tree. A carabiner or even a prusik knot will stop water running down the wraps to the attachment points of the hammock.
Cheers for the suggestions. ☺️ It is a square 10' x10' DD Hammocks tarp. I had carabiners between the tree-huggers and whoopie slings. The problem was I didn't span the tarp out taut enough.
I use asta gear crescent 2 here in the dolomites since 2019. It's a great tent and it saved me a lot of times from the storm and the wind. don't know why they interrupted the production after few years, but i saw that they reintrouduced it!
@@RiccardoGiacomelWow, you're very lucky to have such a beautiful place to camp! Did yours come seam sealed? I still have to do mine. As a newb Asta Gear tent owner, it is very encouraging to hear from folks with more experience. ☺️
@snowcelt I bought it in 2019, and I don't remember if it was sealed or not. I lacked experience. But I can assure you that the tent has taken huge storms in really borderline situations and has always behaved very well. It's definitely a brand that imitates other kinds of tents, but the quality is there. Sealed or not, I never had any problems but it seems to me that it was at the time.
The slight issues you've had pitching are all down to the initial way you pegged the fly sheet out. The key is to peg the four corners really square and taught, then intermediate pegging point totally inline with the corners. Doing this the footprint groundsheet connects to the corner and the intermediate pegging points on each short end as does the inner. As for the pole height i personally wouldn't worry about a set height. If you follow my advice re the initial fly sheet pitching you just slip the poles in and extend until everything is taight. The only thing im still unsure about is which way to put the poles up, the "correct" way is spike upwards as there is an eyelet for the spike but it concerns me that the spike may in time cut through the fabric at the top. Anyway if you want to watch my video to see how i have the shape of the tent in comparison with the shape you had then look for Camping Guru UK. Love the video and what a wonderful area you have to go camping. Ill be checking out your other vids. Cheers.
I tried that. I found that with the poles at 135cm, and the inner slung low, it was difficult to get the drawstrings to reach the fly pegs. It also lifted the corners of the inner tent in a weird way, almost like it would be better to peg the corners down rather than outwards to the fly pegs. It might have been the ground as well as it was not entirely flat. Nevertheless, the inner didn't have too much sag, a problem I have seen with other Yun Chuan owners. I have some ideas how to mod the inner even more to get a taut inner tent. It's part of the fun learning to tweak and adjust the tent. 😊
@@snowcelt I saw them last week .. the hills are now off limits near me , unless chemical weapons are used . Even with insect repellent they are a complete nuisance. Im going to camp next Wednesday, that'll be the last woodland exercise until September
Thx for the review. I have 2 of the Aclima tops n would offer after washing to hang dry. One of mine shrunk in the dryer by one size. Otherwise I agree these are very useful.
Great that you're going through my older material. I'm not a very good skier but it's great exercise. Have been a few times cross-country skiing in Lapland. It's wonderful, highly recommended.
Super nice camping outing. My son and I did a similar trip this past weekend. Its amazing that our part of the Canadian Shield has such similar landscapes to that part of Finland. New sub.
Thanks for your kind words and welcome to the channel! 😊 I'd say that even though they look similar, I'd guess there are probably older and larger trees in your area.
Happy summer time .. the new ice age is upon us perhaps . Just a defined longer winter .. it seems like winter last year started in july and lasted until may of this year. . and your mortage is at the same rates as florida .. Thst knob or mound of an island is that limestone ? I often think of the great stone mounds as a giant message from the past telling the future to "work together" they are definite proof of many hands working together for a goal . In seefin , newgrange that feeling us overwhelming. Love your new flip flops snd the sun rise / set
It's all granite. Limestone is not common here. I guess Finns built mainly in wood. I also have the sense that Finns believe(d) the forest IS the holy place and therefore no need to build. There are Bronze and Iron Age cairn tombs made from rounded granite stones carried to the tops of hills and meant to be visible on the skyline in the Archipelago.
Hey Kevin man. Love the fishnets.. they should really change the name. Sounds way too sexy for my liking 😅😅 you live in one beautiful place man. Interesting results. It's mad. I always find you can hike in really cold weather with light layers. Did a challenge recently where I had just 2 light layers on, a snood, hat and gloves. As long as you keep moving. Interesting results man.
