HERE’S A LITTLE RECIPE HOW TO DO IT DOWN UNDER...

First things first, get your Summer clothes on, because Winter down here is a toasty 28 degrees!

As you can see in the photos the weather was against us with a few buckets of rain and a couple of storms, but a weekend off is a weekend off!

INGREDIENTS:

• 4WD with a shit load of fuel

• Alcohol

• Fishing gear

• Bug spray

• Foil

• Knife

• Fire

• Water

• Vinegar

METHOD:

Step 1: Find a place to sleep. If you got a swag you got a bed, pretty much anywhere, anytime. Fixing stuff on the go is what Australia is about. We’ve got a shed to stay in a town no one knows of and its named after annoying as fuck mini sand flies called midges that will eat you alive. It’s off the highway about 30 minutes in between the middle of nowhere and bum fuck nowhere. We’re so small we don’t have a supermarket, just a few streets of houses and a beach. Check out our modified speakers for the ride, borrowed two of the speakers from the surround sound inside, happy days.

Step 2: Fill up the tank! Up here in North Queensland, nothing is close, the town just down the road is over an hours driving, there’s a little nook in North Queensland called the Whitsundays, this is where I grew up and the direction we are headed. It's about 4 hours down the road from where I live and work now.

Step 3: Have a way of getting food. Guns, knives and fishing gear should do the trick. 

There’s plenty of food to be found in these mangroves, grubs, bugs, fish, crabs and all sorts of shellfish.

This is a sea cucumber, I ate A LOT of these when I lived in China.

I’m standing on one of my favorites here, oysters! Here is where your alcohol comes in handy. These buggers are sharp! If an oyster cut becomes infected it can be life threatening giving you diseases such as sepsis. Use the alcohol to kill the bacteria in your wound. If you know a bit about Australia or you live here too, you know how many things are out there to kill you, especially around the tropical areas. For wounds by jellyfish and stinging nettle (a common vine in North Queensland rain forests) apply copious amounts of vinegar.

Step 4: Have a way of cooking your food, light a fire. If you’re on the run or the rains coming in, wrap your feed in foil and chuck it under the bonnet for a few miles that should warm it up. 

Here at the shed we’ve got a makeshift kind of barbecue made from an old table, gas bottle and some coils.

The rain set in, time for some engine cooked pie!

Step 5: Know your area. A lot of places down here don’t have reception for your phone or any other people around to help you if you get stuck. Use your 4WD to get to those spots everybody else misses out on, but know what you’re getting in to and what to pack.

Here’s some of our favorite spots we found.

Step 6: If you see someone in trouble, help a brother out. This is Kookachu the Kookaburra. We picked this little fella up on the side of the highway and spent a day fixing up his wing, nursing him back and he was good to fly out by nightfall.

Step 7: Blog it all on Steemit!

If you have any questions about the places I visit, please ask.

I love a good road trip so if you have any suggestions about what or where to visit let me know, tell me your favorite spots!

And finally, if there’s any Australian slang terms I have used that you don’t understand please post below and I will translate for you, Australia has a ridiculous amount of slang and it’s so commonly used most of the time we don’t actually realize its slang…

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