I Have Returned - First Overnight Trip of 2021 in the RAIN!

all right all right all right it's matt the old florida boy and you can see who's next to me trailblazer tim from the creative outdoorsman today we are going to go out and do our first overnight of the 2021 season it's been five months since i've been out moving out of my house and it's finally sold and done everything is set so look for some more videos from me pretty soon uh but today me and trailblazer tim are on the way to meet our friend dave the florida pirate from florida pirate adventures and we're going to see what hijinks we can get into camping overnight tonight this should be interesting stay tuned all right making one stop at the ranger station to check in and look who look who i found it's dave florida pirate florida pirate adventures he's going to follow us out there and we're going to go into some good old american hijinks tonight this ought to be good all right here we are out at the mullet camp trouble age tim and dave we've been in the midst of setting up over there uh it we're like right in the middle of rain so i think we're gonna get rain later i got my river country products trekker 1a tent again this is the second time i've used it uh it should work out pretty well so i'm gonna go set that up and i i'll give you a little preview of it when i'm done here we go we got the redneck riviera set up we got the river country products trekker 1a10 under my cheap cheap 10 by 10 tarp and we got a big front porch out here man look how much front porch area that gives me that that's like five feet of front porch out there all my stuff is over there it's not gonna get wet uh i'm praying for an arctic blast because that looks like it could be kind of warm in there tonight i don't know man i hope it cools off i think it will but it's got some side vents on the on the side the on each side so i'm going to get in there and pull them side vents out and i should be all right but i want know one thing i am damn sure gonna be dry okay i don't know whether you can see but right there you can see the water rippling there's a big manatee that is screwing around moving those bushes right over there and there's i think there's a lot of them in here this time of year because it's cool and the water is nice and warm if i could get closer to him see his back all the way out of the water right there he's just laying on the top of the water right well that's my finger right there okay he's just laying on the top of the water uh where'd she come this way we get a pretty good shot of him see him there there's his nose out of the water there's his nose out of the water again ah the life of a manatee right tim there's probably a bunch of them out here this is the paradise man i was just talking to tim and i says i wonder what this looked like 200 years ago and you know what tim said probably just like this and i think he's right so all right little wildlife flora and fauna for you our friend the manatee the gentle giant of the water is coming over to say hi to us if he gets closer i'll get a closer shot but that's about what's him about 30 40 feet yeah about 30 40 feet okay get a little higher vantage point here you can actually see his back out of the water right there he's just laying around huh the life of a manatee this is a great place i mean there's no boat no traffic no nothing i'm on top of a big bluff here this place is great the sebastian river in sebastian florida all right as you can probably hear it's raining pretty good [Applause] just got caught in the rain that's why i always carry this little half towel a little monster energy drink half towel monster energy drink if you would like to sponsor me let me know what i know that's one that's one thing oh man almost had emergency my ceiling almost caved in on me so i had to put my stick right in the middle it's still still accumulating some water up there man we got uh tim and dave um they're over there in the uh in the campsite but uh all right we figured it would rain i'm gonna have to lower down the redneck riviera straps because it's a little too high but other than that everything's okay so hopefully this rain will let up we can do some dinner there's tim and dave under that one hey guys how's it going [Laughter] man it is really raining i got soaked my tarp kind of filling up on the top every minute or so i gotta drain it off but man it is really raining check this out wow i got soaked but that's all part of the camping experience the tent's doing good i gotta tarp underneath it uh i don't think anything's going to stay really really dry but just the sides of the tent are a little wet now the 10 by 10 tarp is really saving my life right now but hopefully this will just only last a little while longer he'll let up and then we get on with the show i had to uh make a little improvised support from my roof because the water's pooling up over here and it's just high enough using my camera tripod to where when this fills up it drains off the side just like that this side i got a stick in the middle so this side it when it pulls up right over there it kind of the weight of the water just kind of shifts it to the front just a second it's going to drain off just like that that's how hard it's raining down here uh there's tim over in the over in the camp hut and uh the water's coming up to the tent uh it's coming pretty close uh hopefully this is waterproof on the bottom i don't i don't feel any water in it so river country products trekker 1a this is your test uh we'll see if this baby's waterproof or not okay it's finally letting up man my fatal error in setting up the tarp was on the sticks on each side i tied them too high so the tarp was going like this and it allowed the water to pool in the middle of the tarp like this uh if i would have tied it just one foot lower all of the water would have ran off and i wouldn't have had any problem but i still don't have any problem it's been so dry around here because it had it it hasn't rained in like three or four months and uh the water is just it's just all soaking right in so it's pretty much stopped i'm gonna get out and see if uh i can help trouble with tim get a fire going it sounds like it's still raining because i'm under the trees so everything stayed dry uh river country products the floor is all dry everything else it's on a tarp but up we'll see how it works now of course the sun's coming out ten minutes after it was just deluging you remember the redneck riviera when this was up well that wasn't so good of an idea in the rain so in retrospect i should have been set up like this all the time but it really didn't you know i was under there and i was able to tip the water off of the top of the tarp so the tent really did not get wet i mean just a little bit of water around the sides uh and a little bit of water around the bottom the inside the inside is totally dry um the inside of the tarp is totally dry but uh i just learned a lot about tarp set up and rain uh and the only way you learn this stuff is by doing so hopefully we can find some dry wood we get a fire going and we could cook a little dinner because i'm getting hungry here is a good indication in florida palm leaves palm prawn leaves burn wet or dry after that rain we just had 15 minutes to go now we're getting our fire back going so palmettos burn wet or dry okay i figured that it was time for some little um before dinner or derbies so i'm gonna get my one of my favorite snacks some armor vienna sausages okay as it starts to rain lightly again so we're gonna get some armored vienna sausages and we're gonna spice it up with some mcdonald's spicy buffalo sauce so this ought to be good okay when you know it i got ready to do my vienna sausages and it started raining so now i'm back up under the tarp but who cares we are going to get these wonderful viennese [Music] should we drink the juice all right let's do it doesn't matter i sweated a lot earlier so i figured that's replacing some of the salt actually i'm getting used to that it's not bad now we're gonna put some mcdonald's spicy buffalo sauce in these if i could get it open and trailblazer tim had some spare spicy buffalo sauce this stuff is probably so old and it's not gonna open we're gonna put this oh oh man this looks terrible oh this looks terrible spicy buffalo sauce now you gotta tap it on the ground get that spicy buffalo down there wow trouble tim's right here off camera laughing at me man let's place buffalo sauce look no man you missed it i drank the juice oh all right let's see how these are they won't come out oh i got one oh oh look at that dude huh wow that's got a kick man oh that's got a kick to it oh here's the second one look at all that spicy buffalo sauce on there oh my god that's good i'm really hungry man mcdonald's spicy buffalo sauce pretty spicy ah all right sounds like the rain's letting up so i'm gonna sit here and finish my vienna sausages which is a wonderful camp snack i'm gonna sit here and finish these then as soon as this rain lets up looks like it's setting up we're gonna go out and i'm gonna cook a little a little dinner up and i think i hope you're gonna like it good morning that was a kind of a rough night about 2 30 this morning there was some serious stuff on the radar serious rain had to get up and take the rain fly down you know kind of starting to pack up the tent maybe get a little bit of coffee and do some breakfast but uh it it wasn't always cracked up to be it was rained really hard yesterday as you saw so well we're gonna see if we can maybe get a little breakfast and get out of here all right we decided to get our ass packed up and get out of here because there's some serious rain coming day's breaking down this stuff over there drill blazer tim is back there organizing the last of our other stuff and we're gonna get cleaned up and get out of here even though our rain like a mother we still had a fairly decent time i guess uh i guess but we don't care for rains we don't care about no stinking rain okay so this first campout adventure of 2021 probably not the last it might be the last but uh i gotta do a couple of things with my gear like the trekker 1810 is pretty good uh it's a little small though i need a new air mattress you know a couple little tweak things to go on so you'll see those in some later videos so good to be back with you once again this is matthew floorboy and i will see you on the trail

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Length: 15min 27sec (927 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 08 2021