we need to figure out somewhere to go so what were you saying before, what were
you thinking? Well we talked about Banff, it's beautiful place but I live near
there go there every weekend, you've been there a million times as well.
Banff is RINSED! What about Squamish? Squamish is
awesome we looked at a couple of really unique and amazing places but I think
the forest fire smoke is still gonna be too thick there we're not gonna get much.
you're right, what about .................Cape Scott?
We're goin!
so we just got all the food that we need for our trip up to Cape Scott we've got our fuel and we're off I guess we're
gonna stop for a bite and how many hours we have a bit of a drive. it's like a
5-hour Drive then a 1 hr hike but before we get going I've just got to go
to the Barbers and get a hair cut. you're kidding oh you see there's no way
there's no way we're doing! I've got to get me barnet cropped! Your what?
it I'm gonna get it sorted but we could be out in the middle of the forest and
what if I meet the woman of my dreams you can't have done this yesterday? I could've..
so we're doing that first? yeah barnet cropped then hit the road jack. Wow
oh but first I'm a bit Hank Marvin so let's go get some Tim Hortons. Can you speak
English man I can't understand. It is bloody English proper, English man, cockney rhyming slang
get get your sh*t together. I can't understand what you're saying
OK, so we're about to enjoy a great Canadian tradition which is Tim Hortons
but I actually like these disgusting sandwiches but the coffee is terrible
not very good. Bagel belt please
whole-grain something whatever you have one hash brown one of those sausage
cheese croissants.
you know the where is it I'm trying to find out on your menu do
can you hear me now
you got cut off
I just got cut off by Tim Hortons
she can't understand your accent either. I speak proper English
unacceptable yeah thank you cheers bye okay let's gag down this garbage
you don't like it do you? it's just awful you know after I've drunk it my teeth
feel like they've got coating of fur. They feel like suede
I reckon the only reason Brent was so whiny about my barber's appointment with Jimmy is cuz he's got no hair.
BATTY SLAP!
we finally hit the open road which i think is the best feeling
in the world I'd rather be road tripping than lining up in airports the weather
was perfect and with some good tunes on the miles were just flying by racking up
the miles meant it was time to fill up that fuel tank once again. I spend so
much time and money at the pump I am seriously considering a Tesla. Brent
headed into the star to grab some low grade rocket fuel for us to drink. I don't
mind admitting I'm not too posh to drink gas station coffee
we scrape the splattered bugs off the windscreen and then topped up the old
screen wash as I knew we'd be on a dusty dirt road in just a few hours. And with that
done we were back on the road
how's your gas station coffee? it tastes like they're testing you to see if
you're paying attention. Cackle... it's pretty innit? But it's not as bad as Subway
that's true actually and I can't really describe the taste of subway coffee but
it's it's special in it's own way. It tastes like dishwater that's been wrung out of
a soggy dish soggy brown and then filtered through half of a coffee and
then served up tepid it's not even hot tepid there you go
we're on the home stretch on this dirt road here we are almost there
15k with and we're there. So when we get to San Josef Bay Car Park, what is your guess as to
exactly how many cars will already be there the car park? Well it's Wednesday right
yeah it's pretty remote here it is summer time two to four I'll say four oh
right I'm saying Ten or more. Ten or more so over ten, you win? Under ten I win?
yeah let's do that. Ok so loser has to carry the food bag in okay? OK deal.
oh I think you might be carrying that food bag my ole fruit.
Evil laughter. oh there's a lot of vehicls here. that's like 25 cars that's more than four I
guess yeah yeah sucks to be you. Oh man.
ok so Brent lost the bet. he's carrying the food bag.
We're at the San Jo Bay trail ahead one hour hike and then we hit the beach. Shall we do it? oh let's
get on it. Let's avvit.
ooh that looks like the beach to me. soil turns into sand and the ocean fills the view.
Look at Brent prancing around like a young Julie Andrews. The West Coast
always makes me feel like I just got home
after picking a nice spot we didn't waste any time setting up camp with less
than two hours to go before sunset that bloody air mattress is the bane of
my life it's like sleeping on a two inch waterbed that kicks you off if you
sneeze
so we're over at the sea stacks at San Josef Bay . This is why we've driven five
hours and hiked for an hour and got all of our camping gear ready we're camping
just at the other end of the beach ten minutes hike from these beautiful epic
world class stacks and there's the Sun setting over there we're getting some
gorgeous glow in the clouds what I'm doing with this shot is I'm focusing on
that island that you can hopefully see in the background I'm shooting at f/11
and of course it's quite high dynamic range so I'm bracketing quite a lot to
make sure that I can blend those exposures and get lots of dynamic range
Brents up there shooting a ridiculous panorama as he always does so I have no
idea what that's going to turn out like but they're usually pretty sweet and
It's gonna be awesome
we're gonna look at that lovely pink cloud there I hope that shows up on the
GoPro so we're gonna finish shooting sunset and then we're gonna get some
food and then come back at night hopefully for a bit of Milky Way action
in the background and some light painting of these rocks
so it's day two we got some pretty good shots this morning we've pretty much
just shot around the clock. We did sunset we did Milky Way and Astro and
then this morning we did sunrise so as usual I got my eleven minutes of
sleep and I just feel completely terrible and I do have a face like a
collapsed lung. Brent on the other hand somehow manages to get hours of sleep
and he's as fresh as a daisy. look at him doing his bloody morning routine
workout while I can barely function. so my plan today is to just sun bathe
like a beached whale and kill time until sunset and we'll do it all over again
oooh that is strong. Strong yeah kind of like your fragrance right now.
ha, it's been a couple days out here. So got his morning workout and I've had a very strenuous
sunbathing session we've got to kill a bit of time before sunset so do you
fancy going to the edge of the beach see what's around that corner? yeah yesterday
the tide was too high and it's super low at the moment keen to see what's around
the corner let's do it let's get over there let's go explore after arguing
over who got first dibs on this tree swing I just let Brent have it while I
went to plant some forest fertilizer. Gavin's off having a dump somewhere he
didn't bring the bear spray with him so if we hear a growl and a scream we know
he got caught with his pants down but in the meantime somebody left this awesome
swing here on this remote beach how good is this it's important to remember that
your photography trips should be fun don't forget to take some time out and
be a big kid every now and then but this? Oh this is just sickening, that that's
quite enough of that we we've run out a drinking water so one of us had to run
back to the car to get the emergency supply and one of us have to stay here
and look after all the gear. I think you can guess which one is going
back to the car right now. he was not too impressed about going back to that car I
figured it would take a good hour before he'd be back so it's kind of scary how
fast he was Oh Brent you back with the water ha ha good man
yeah now you can do the dishes. yeah, alright I guess yeah.
after the day's shenanigans it was definitely time to head back to those
sea stacks and figure out our compositions for the next sunset I like
to study a shooting location by walking around and checking every possible angle
so that I'm prepared so day two and it's the second sunset at this same spot on
San Joseph Bay shooting these sea stacks so with this shot what I've done is a
focus on that tree line that you can see in the distance I've got my aperture of
f11 and I'm auto exposure bracketing because these clouds are
moving really really fast usually I prefer to bracket manually cuz I just
like to have control over every single exposure that I have and I don't want
10,000 images piling up on my memory cards and hard drives but when the
clouds are moving that fast you really don't have that time to manually adjust
in between each exposure so auto exposure bracketing it is and it's just
a case of waiting for the the light to kick off right now we've got some
gorgeous clouds coming in they're coming really fast the Sun setting over there
in the West so we're now just sitting here waiting for this this color to just
light up the entire sky with these stacks in the foreground bish bosh bash
jobs a a good'un
okay so we've finished our second sunset shoe on our second night at San Josef Bay
in cape scott and i think we've got some pretty good shots. think so I think
so yeah we never know til you get back to the lab but we're pretty happy with
what we've got absolutely knackered Oh time for bed man time for a glass of
wine and then hit the hay yeah vino and then back into our very
fragrant tent good night no I did manage to snag just
one more Milky Way image but before I knew it, it was time to get up and shoot and shoot sun rise.
Memory Full.... that's a good problem to have.
Now I'd noticed that somebody had lit a beach fire just on the other
side of those sea stacks there and this was the moment that had been waiting
patiently for the campfire smoke really helped to isolate the sea stacks so that
they stood out against what would otherwise be a complicated background
and really loved the way the Morning Sun just lit everything from the side all in
all this was the perfect way to finish a perfect trip goodbye San Joe Bay.
I've said it before and I'll say again the journey here was just as good as the
final destination you know sometimes photography really is
the best excuse to get out and enjoy nature and if you can be bothered to
rough it for a couple of nights the good memories will last forever long after
you've forgotten about the ants in your pants or even that bear that stared at
you the whole time you were planting bush nuggets. it's also the best way to make
you thankful for the creature comforts and luxuries that you enjoy like being
able to get back into a comfortable vehicle after two days of roughing it on the beach.
back at the car awesome. You got the car keys?
Thought you had the car keys?
hahahah, I got the car keys!
just after that we picked up a couple of hitchhikers on the way home and that was
an interesting conversation which I'll show you in a second now if you enjoy
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OK. back to the video. so we picked up a couple of hitchhikers on the way
back down to Nanaimo and I can tell you right now that the fragrance in here
Is off the charts. you boys were tree planting yeah for a couple months
or something yeah like two months I'm not blaming you guys, we are we
are part of the stench yeah it's just communal
this is like a cocktail of man stench
when I said 'medium' that was entirely sugar coated. We smell terrible. before we pick them up we actually roll
down the window and Gavin ask them how much do they stink. How bad do you smell?
I was lying.
the roles had been reversed and I'd been sat there, I would have said wonderful
I'm delicious
Apple pie