Ray Mears Goes Walkabout - Your Views
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Just for you Spamel, don't say i never do anything for you!
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'Home Recorded From VHS'!!! That's called theft. I can't believe he's got the gall to do this or have I got totally the wrong end of the stick here?
Someone must have got the soundtrack fella leathered, i've never heard such a diverse soundtrack to a Ray Mears prog. Stevie Wonder, Blur, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix and The Monkees. A bit bizarre but did'nt detract from the programme content. Excellent, thouroughly enjoyable!
I HATE the blurry, arty F*rty, pointless editing.
Les was great, honest and open.
The content was great, if light on bushy bits - but is that the aim of the series?
Les was great, honest and open.
The content was great, if light on bushy bits - but is that the aim of the series?
Try and find a programme without all that arty f4rty stuff. I just hope they don't have the shot when the camera goes around him in a circle, I think I'll switch off then.
Is this not the second series?
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Part two was excellent, even better than part one.
It was great to see Bush Tucker Man again - what a team.
Someone ought to whip the video editor though (methinks he'd been eating some strange bush tucker when he was working - but more likely he'd been at the BBC's favourite white powder).
It was great to see Bush Tucker Man again - what a team.
Someone ought to whip the video editor though (methinks he'd been eating some strange bush tucker when he was working - but more likely he'd been at the BBC's favourite white powder
).
That's the problem with producers and directors.
Having worked with a few of them, it seems they all have dreams of being artists and they have to do something fancy to prove it to each other.
At least they're not making too much of a Grylls up of it. :bluThinki
Having worked with a few of them, it seems they all have dreams of being artists and they have to do something fancy to prove it to each other.
At least they're not making too much of a Grylls up of it. :bluThinki
This has to be the best program that I have seen for a long time. Les Hiddins (Bush Tucker Man) and Ray Mears in one episode.
Les and his Bush Tucker Man series was what first got me interested in experimenting with different things (Bushcraft).
It was quite obvious to me that this was Rays tribute to a man that that he admired.
I did not like the multi screen effect!
I wonder who chose the music? I must admit I liked the 60`s choice!
Les and his Bush Tucker Man series was what first got me interested in experimenting with different things (Bushcraft).
It was quite obvious to me that this was Rays tribute to a man that that he admired.
I did not like the multi screen effect!
I wonder who chose the music? I must admit I liked the 60`s choice!
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This sounds great, but I haven't seen the series advertised on our local TV programming. Doesn't surprise me, free-to-air is appalling now cable/satellite has taken over! Any one in Oz seen the show?
A couple of comments, just from what people have said in this thread, many of the early explorers here went through hell to get where and as far as they did. One guy called Carnegie details some horrendous stuff in his journal. To find water he often followed certain types of birds, grain feeding finches for instance, but when that failed he captured Aboriginals. Tied them up, fed them salty beef until they were mad with thirst then released them and followed to secret waterholes. Not very PC!! Another book worth reading is botanist Carron's journal, who went with Kennedy on his last (ie.fatal) expedition.
In the area I grew up, in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, there were gnamma holes. Naturally occurring depressions or wells in rock outcrops, that were covered with a stone lid by Aboriginals to hide them, prevent evaporation and to keep game from falling in. We never drank from them, but knew where a few were and that they held water. If someone came and removed the lid there often were dead roos inside.
In high school we learned survival stuff about water mostly, making solar stills, using roots to drain, or where to dig. Stay with vehicle in the bush etc, not much about cold and shelter like UK, Europe and US.
Anyway this programme sounds worth chasing up, as do enjoy a bit of history too.
Cheers,
A couple of comments, just from what people have said in this thread, many of the early explorers here went through hell to get where and as far as they did. One guy called Carnegie details some horrendous stuff in his journal. To find water he often followed certain types of birds, grain feeding finches for instance, but when that failed he captured Aboriginals. Tied them up, fed them salty beef until they were mad with thirst then released them and followed to secret waterholes. Not very PC!! Another book worth reading is botanist Carron's journal, who went with Kennedy on his last (ie.fatal) expedition.
In the area I grew up, in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, there were gnamma holes. Naturally occurring depressions or wells in rock outcrops, that were covered with a stone lid by Aboriginals to hide them, prevent evaporation and to keep game from falling in. We never drank from them, but knew where a few were and that they held water. If someone came and removed the lid there often were dead roos inside.
In high school we learned survival stuff about water mostly, making solar stills, using roots to drain, or where to dig. Stay with vehicle in the bush etc, not much about cold and shelter like UK, Europe and US.
Anyway this programme sounds worth chasing up, as do enjoy a bit of history too.
Cheers,
Enjoyed this episode lots but they can drop the annoying multi screen shots for me 
Not everyone has got a 42" TV screen, - at one point I could hardly see what was going on because the image was so tiny
Not everyone has got a 42" TV screen, - at one point I could hardly see what was going on because the image was so tiny
No mate, you have not. I just thought that it's interesting that this is actually listed under 'Ray Mears' on e-Bay and in the description it says that Ray Mears does not appear in it. It's a tenuous link to try and move on some pirated DVD's of one bloke under anothers name and all because there was a programme on featuring both. Dodgy to say the least.
Got to agree with the general theme that the program was superb. I enjoyed it more than the first one purely because of the content.
But that multishot carp setting his swag up
very annoying
But that multishot carp setting his swag up
very annoying 
Matches can get wet, lighters can run out of fuel. If you were travelling from one side of Oz to the other you would need a hell of a lot of lighters and matches.
Fire by friction pretty much always requires a blade - blades can break or be dulled, and it also uses a fair bit of energy - no point wasting calories on doing it if there is an alternative.
The parabolic mirror has no moving parts, nothing to run out and nothing to break that would stop it working - its made from metal, not glass.
Therefore, as long as you have the sun (which isn't going anywhere for a while) and kangarsoos that eat solids (again, fairly common), then you have fire.
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But that multishot carp setting his swag up
TBH, who cares, i dont, i think the series so far has been great and the "arty fa***y stuff" doesn't really bother me one iota, the guy takes the initiative to try something a bit different with the presentation and gets slated for it, the series is about expanding your horizons and knowledge of the world, if you dont like the way RM has presented it and you really find it that annoying, then to me it's quite simple - dont watch it, im sure RM won't mind losing a dozen or so viewers.
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