Tubing Somass River From The Rifle Range / Don't Go Over Stamp Falls!!! Part One - D00k13 Digest #94
What up my Steemians, welcome to the @D00k13 Digest, in my home town of Port Alberni you will find one of the best tubing rivers in all of British Columbia and this is part one of our adventure! We left our car at Papermill Dam and headed out Beaver Creek to the rifle range, remember if you want to use their property to check in at the office. The rifle range is the safest and easiest way to access the river from below the falls, DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT go from Stamp Falls Park as you will go over the falls. Sad to say it happens at least once a year. Make certain you pack all your gear that cannot get wet in waterproof or ziploc bags, other than my GoPro we only have munchies and our vaporizers in ziploc bags. It takes about 3 1/2 - 4 hours to get all the way down so we also made certain to have plenty of sunscreen and drinks!
Starting off was pretty slow going, water was fairly cool but completely comfortable. Our first bit of rapids according to the GoPro clocked us at a top speed of 7 KM/H interesting feature of the GoPro I am enjoying using. I purchased a floating handle from Walmart for $20 just incase I happened to drop the camera I would not lose it to the depths in the current. Clearance in some areas was an issue not as bad as previous trips we have taken, later in the year it only gets worse to the point you have to carry your tube for very small stretches.
Our first swimming hole is really the only good one to stop at not in the current, the river slows right down in this spot and you can just chill in the depths floating with the edy. There is a awesome rope swing at the spot also making it a good place to stop and get a swim in before spending to much time on the water. We had a dog audience here, very timid girl, seemingly uneasy by the water but she was super friendly.
We came across an entire area of riverbed completely covered in mussels, I am not certain if you can eat freshwater mussels? I don't see why not, I will have to remember to look into that for our next trip down the river. There were so many things to record I decided to split the footage into two vlogs, keeping it short using the GoPro Quik software.
Watch out for part two where we see a ton of eagles, run into some kids at the dam and finish our tube ride with the best rapids right at the end!
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This looks fun, great film work man! I'm groovin to this music, haha well done sir!
I was bopping my head to the video also, favourite part was the double munchie clip. We didn’t intend to do it at the same time lol, sometimes things just work out!
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Nice man! Keep giving that gopro a workout!
This thing has been recording non stop for 2 weeks now, other then the odd glitch when first powering on it is unstoppable! I get around an hour a battery so basically any outing is covered start to finish. Now just need a mic, tall tripod, body harness, of course a few more memory card and I think I’m pretty well set with this piece of equipment. Can’t wait to set it up as a dash cam with the idea from you using the quick mounts.... maybe I’ll need another faceplate if the body harness does not come with one... can even use the same dash mount for mobile vlogs if I position in correctly, was a great idea!
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Keep it up man! Great stuff coming out of that thing!
Can’t stop won’t stop!
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This is soooo much fun !!!
Can’t wait for part 2🤗🤗
Thanks it was a great ride 🤙
I am working on part 2 now, hard to decide what footage to keep 😅 just so much of it!
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😂 I can imagine that when you talked about the footage.
But yes keep working I am sure not only me who wait to see.
I really enjoyed your traveling blog , as I told you the first day I knew your blog “you make us feel like we ride with you , travel together with you” which is cool.
Sometime your vdo make the day for friends here .. who know! Right!!
My husband and I really enjoy your vdo (my husband is not on steemit but he watched from my phone) .. thank you for sharing bro!!
Glad your enjoying it, to bad my vacation is about to come to an end but I do have a few more videos to edit still.
Doing this is making me think of doing a little video tour type thing around Victoria where I live, many interesting things around there aswell.
Cool that your husband enjoyed the video as well, your going to have to smooth talk him into joining us on Steemit. The more the merrier as it’s said, I am still working on getting my fiancé to wield her own account. For now I have conquered here fear of the camera at least, she was my model for the Hole In The Wall vlog 😉. One step at a time we will get our loved ones to participate in our futures on this platform, it’s the only way with this kind of investment.
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Hi good morning from America, nice to read from you mean I have more friend over there Yaye!!
Well, about your vdo, honestly, it is really inspired us because we are a young couple who love to travel, work, use energy etc, seem we r the same generation 🤗
About steemit and my husband, he like it just have to manage the schedule .. one step by the time right ?
Finally I think now we are your fan club already .. the more you post the more we enjoy bro!!
Have a wonderful day!!
TJ
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