2010 Fraser Isl 7-day expedition

Fellow Aussie AI enthusiasts, Carl holland, Holger Goehr, Paulo O'leary and I recently returned from our 2nd annual yak fishing/sailing expedition along the west coast of beautiful Fraser Island. We loaded up our yaks with ultra-light camping gear, food & water fit for a week, a bunch of fishing, photography and video equipment and whatever else we needed and embarked from Hervey Bay, sailed to the Island and followed its inner coast to the north. Like last year we experienced some fabulous sailing conditions (some tough as well) and although fishing was a bit tougher than last year, we still caught some ripper fish.

No breakages on any of our kayaks (not even rudder pins) though my seat did get savaged by a dingo, trying to get to the food inside. No injuries, though if you watch through to episode 2 you'll see my nearly lose my manhood courtesy of a great big trevally, as well as a yak-side wrestling match with a shark that I almost lost. Best watched back to back, full screen.

Part 1 (days 1-4)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8k7A1daeN4[/youtube]
Part 2 (days 5-7)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7rqoeCg-_s[/youtube]

Those of you who may have watched the videos coming from our last trip would have an idea of what to expect here. More of the same, only captured on much better video equipment, and edited with much better software. Far superior end result. Enjoy

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Kayak Fishing Specialist: SLH
https://slhobie.com.au

Watching and dreaming.....

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Excellent stuff again Josh. What a trip. What have you done with your video and software upgrade ? Whatever you did it has certainly paid off. The clarity is spot on, and download speed for HD is the quickest I've seen ??

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Don't take life too seriously................it ain't permanent.

Thanks Slaughter, glad you liked it. I ditched my old cams and replaced with 2 x HD GoPro cams, as well as a higher-end Sony. Recording in 720p in MP4 format (which youtube really likes).

But even though 99.9% of the footage is true HD, I break that at points by using zoom functions within the editor (but making sure I don't go lower than standard SD by doing so). Maybe this kind of tricks youtube into thinking its not HD at all, and as such is compressed differently. I'm really not sure, but yes, the streaming speed is impressive given the actual file sizes I am uploading.

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Kayak Fishing Specialist: SLH
https://slhobie.com.au

If that's what's happening, it works brilliantly. I'm sure with many cases, YouTube viewers like myself, get p'd off with having to wait for streaming, or the stop/start/stop/start of a clip, so they cancel it and move onto another. Have you noticed though with this clip of yours, if you select HD straight up it streams in seconds where as if you select 360 it takes minutes ??

Thanks for the tip Josh. Now I just need to 'dumb it down' so that my techno head can understand the process ( may be quicker to ask my young bloke )

P.S. Do you know why my HD video comes out spot on however if I attach any stills ( .jpeg ) it comes out slightly blurred. Should I be using another file type for stills. This is a bad example because I had the wrong camera setting for HD so the video only came out as standard def but notice all the stills came out slightly blurred at about 1min 15secs into the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee2mKrZf ... r_embedded

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Don't take life too seriously................it ain't permanent.

I couldn't tell you whats going on there, but do make sure the image size is the same res as the movie output size, otherwise weird stuff is likely to happen. All media I put in my clips is edited at the same resolution, which makes for more consistent viewing.

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Kayak Fishing Specialist: SLH
https://slhobie.com.au

Thanks mate.

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Don't take life too seriously................it ain't permanent.

Great videos Yakass. You certainly produce very watchable, entertaining and enlightening footage...Pirate

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Master of the galleon 'Pirates Lot'

Those were great vidos Yakass!
Glad you're still in one piece! For a second there you were close to becoming a member of Davey Jones Locker.
I've been squidding lately and my heart gets to beating when I catch one of those little things. I could only imagine it would beat loose if I hooked on to a shark while in my AI.
Really good fun watching.
Thanks Yakass.

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Fly'n C Lion

Yep Fly'n C Lion, that was a close one with that big'ol trevally. The shark gave me curry to... more so actually, but I couldn't fit the 20 minute fight into that clip.

You do get de-sensitized to close encounters with sharks and other beasties. My adrenalin use to pump like crazy whenever I got close to a whale, now I'm as calm as a hindu cow. Sharks are always a handful though, but I just try to stay cool and it always works out.

SUrf re-entry always gets my blood pumping though and probably always will

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Kayak Fishing Specialist: SLH
https://slhobie.com.au