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00:00A few months ago we embarked on this ambitious journey of renovating this
00:04abandoned cabin that our dad built 20 years ago. Along the way we have learnt so
00:10much and this week the place is finally, maybe, almost completely finished. Well
00:15it's mostly finished. So we're camping to celebrate. I just woke up and it's so
00:20beautiful. I love sleeping here so much. The noise of owls in the night and frogs
00:26and it's just I think the most special place in the world. The whole time I
00:30was building these windows this is what I am actually doing. Waking up in the
00:34morning and hello world. It feels like such a celebration to see this cabin which
00:40let's be honest was in a bit of a state of ruin and now after a few months of
00:45hard work it's so beautiful and I get to appreciate this while waking up in its
00:50cosy loft. Good morning Clover!
00:54Hi! I'm up here! Hello! Good morning, good morning!
01:06Do you sleep well camping boy?
01:10Clover never understands when I'm collecting sticks because he thinks that
01:13they're for playing with and he doesn't understand they're for a fire.
01:17Learning to build was never something that I planned on doing it just kind of
01:22happened. Our dad was the builder of the family and he was known through the
01:26valley for his elven skills of being able to carve a whole house from a tree with
01:31nothing but his chainsaw. After he died his tree houses and cabins that he built
01:36were left uncared for and as they became derelict the job of saving this cabin from
01:41the weather was something that just stressed us out for so long because we
01:45didn't have the skills to fix it. But even though we were too young to learn from our
01:49dad his amazing skills of building what he did teach us was how to learn anything by
01:54just pushing ourselves and working it out as we go. So over these past months that's
02:00exactly what I've done just teach myself the skills just like he did.
02:07These matches are so soggy I hope they're gonna work it's this climate has been it's been raining
02:13for months on and this is one of the only days of sunshine we've got.
02:17Oh they're moldy!
02:19Mmm they might not work.
02:25No! We used to always hide a light over here so I'm gonna check that last resort hopefully it's there.
02:31This autumn has been so wet so when we get some sun we appreciate it a lot. Of course these sunny
02:46days were the perfect excuse to camp in this special spot deep in the rainforest.
02:50It's been raining for six weeks straight so all the sticks are wet, the paper's wet, the matches
03:03were wet. This fire does not want to light. Even when it's hard the job of lighting a fire is just
03:10so satisfying. It's one of those human tasks that just feels so rooted in who we are. The simplicity
03:16of watching it catch light and then die down again. The never-ending job of feeding it logs. The subtle
03:22warmth expanding outwards and the power of our single breath on the flames. I guess that's what
03:27camping is. This reconnection to our human instincts. Living a life of simplicity and just cutting down on
03:34all the extras. Just getting back to us and nature and not much else. It's roaring now.
03:41Pine needles that have been in the dry they are the answer.
03:45This spot feels more like glamping though. We're pretty spoiled with our marble kitchen
03:49sleeping locked and one day soon we'll get the fire working to heat up a bath.
03:53The first thing in the morning is always a coffee and I'm a bit of a spoiled brat sometimes and I
03:59like my coffee with butter in it and then you whiz it and it's the best thing and when I'm camping I
04:04normally go without it but this week the sponsor of this video is Jackery and I can use power now to
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05:33Everything tastes so much better when you're camping. Every luxury is such a luxury. I've got
05:45the fire lit so before Julia wakes up I think I'm going to go pick some fruit for breakfast.
05:54These fallen trees are actually the goat tracks. Normally they taught me this path. It's a little
05:59secrets shortcut. These trees are invasive radiata pines so we're trying to eliminate them. It's a
06:07slow process and the fallen ones we don't know what to do with but I reckon the goats are onto
06:11something here. Maybe we should try to build a bridge from them or something but they're softwood so I don't know.
06:24The other thing that makes us so spoiled is that we're so close to the thousands of
06:28fruit trees and each season there's something to harvest. Mandarins are my favorite fruit I think
06:35and they're almost ready. I don't know why I just love them the most. I think because at this time of
06:39year I always just love sitting down and really slowly eating each segment of a mandarin and I do it
06:44every year. It's this little ritual I have with myself. I think that one might be ready. I'm gonna try it.
06:54I'm gonna try the first mandarin of the season. Citrus season starts when we get the first cold nights
07:00in Australia. All of a sudden the orchards are so full of fruit. This time of year has an abundance
07:07like no other. Mandarins, starfruit, kiwis, ore plums, grapefruit, jackfruit, oranges and my personal
07:15favorite the start of the avocado season. I think I often forget how lucky I am to pick fruit straight
07:21from the tree. In the supermarkets fruit are picked months before they hit the shelf. Apparently the
07:27apples that you buy from the shops are often six to twelve months old and citrus is often stored for
07:32six months before it's bought and consumed. From the moment that you pick a fruit it slowly begins to
07:38die. Slowly it starts to rot because it isn't fed the nutrition anymore. So when I pick something and
07:45then right there I'm able to bite straight into it and consume all of its nourishment, all of its nutrients
07:51and vitamins and minerals, I feel it's immense privilege because so often the fruit available
07:56has been stored for so long that it's forgotten that it was ever even grown on a tree. I think
08:02it's also a fault in the way that our society consumes. Because when we buy something we never
08:06think about it being grown, we only think about its flavor. We don't think about the energy that the
08:11tree put in or the season that it should be harvested in. We're so disconnected from our food systems
08:16that we forget what food even is.
08:34The privilege of eating your own meal that's picked straight from the tree is like nothing else in the
08:38world. They're so fresh. It's just every single bite is the freshest bite you've ever tasted.
08:54We spent so much of our childhood here it's hard to not get sentimental.
08:58The amount of summers that we lived in this loft with no concerns except for where we'd build our next
09:03tree house or what trick we'd learn off the rope swing. Camping here always feels like a little
09:09taste of that childhood freedom. Just forgetting about the world around us for a second and relaxing.
09:17Hello, I have fruit! Oh my goodness! I come with gifts! You're just coming over the logs like a goat.
09:23Yeah, they taught me the best shortcut. It actually cuts down the trip so much.
09:33We're just feeling so proud. Every element of this place is filled with so many stories.
09:46We probably spent about $100 in total doing the whole cabin up. The marble was free, the floorboards
09:52in the kitchen were free, the sink was second hand, the windows were free. But not just about it being
09:58really cheap. This place is filled with materials that honour the quirky, beautiful, natural place
10:03that it is. And nothing used here is unnatural. It will all eventually by a degree. Although I'm sure
10:10that we'll just keep recycling all of the signs and marbles and floorboards forever. We're always
10:15finding purpose in the broken, finding beauty in the forgotten, and finding joy in the act of restoring.
10:39The treat of a fresh breakfast is pretty special when you're camping. After months of building and a lot
10:45of hard work, getting covered in mud, or things just knocking up, or carrying marble that's too heavy,
10:51or just all the intensity of learning a new skill, it feels good to relax. But also, maybe it's just us,
10:58but we never really feel like relaxing. After finishing this massive project, we should probably just lay
11:04back for a while and chill out. But really, I'm just feeling more inspired. Avocados!
11:10What's next? With all of these new skills, I feel like I can create anything. I want to build a tree
11:24house. I want to fix the tree house that I already tried to build a few years ago. I want to learn
11:28cob building. I want to learn to work with bamboo. I want to learn to lead light. I want to learn so
11:33many things. This time of year, the cooler nights come, and it means that all of the fruit ripens so
11:39beautifully. And I think it's my favorite time of year for that, because we just have so many fruit
11:44everywhere. Even here, I want to get a pizza oven. I want to fix the bath. I want to get the hot water
11:50system wrapping. But I think it's sitting back for a while that lets you gain this inspiration.
11:56So for now, we're just making breakfast and learning to relax.
12:00Sourdough avocados? Yep.
12:04I think that's hot enough.
12:05It's definitely not hot enough, but everything's always just a little slow when you're camping,
12:29and that's okay. Clover loves camping the most, I think. Don't you? Can you? Yeah.
12:39The world kind of teaches you that learning stops after school. Like when you're a kid,
12:43you take in all of this information, but when the classes stop, you're full of knowledge and
12:48then you stop learning. It's so not true, and you can learn from anything, and you can keep learning
12:54forever. Learning is such an addictive thing. Once you realize that you can just do anything,
13:00step by step, then this whole world opens up. Learning to learn is the most important lesson
13:06of them all, and this journey of building has opened so much up to us. It's made us realize that any scary,
13:14unachievable thing is just a few steps away from being easy. It's the one utensil we have.
13:24Clover will be happy.
13:27I'll get salt.
13:36Oh, yum!
13:37Almost everything is from the farm. Eggs, avocado, mandarins, starfruits, kiwis. Oh my gosh.
13:48Not the salt. I'm gonna work on that one.
13:51I'm gonna work on that one.
13:55Maybe I'm going to cook it a slow.
14:08Hello, magnolia. Hello, no fruit from you. You know what? You can have some fruit,
14:12but don't jump on the table. Don't jump on the table! There you go. One kiwi fruit to keep you quiet.
14:20The problem is that this is in the goat paddock, so we can't really stop them from coming when we let
14:26them out, so magnolias are always just gonna eat all the fruit that we have.
14:33You can keep going. You want more. Anastasia is so amazing. I can't believe she just decided she was
14:39going to fix this place up and just started coming down here, teaching herself all these ridiculous,
14:44amazing new skills, and then she built this. It's incredible! It feels like, again, like it was when
14:52we were kids, this magical fairyland place. You know, you've got the water down there glistening up into
14:58the roof. You've got the cute loft with the little window that's not rotting anymore. Magnolia loves it.
15:09You love fruit. That's fire. Be careful with fire.
15:11We're feeling just so proud of finishing this build. I can't believe it's actually done,
15:23but also as we sit here, Julia has pointed out a few things that I never finished, like the door
15:30handle over there, or just a lot. I never cleaned. 90% Anastasia. I always do 90%, but I guess we'll get
15:38into that. Yeah. Maggie, don't eat that. I want to do the hot water system. That's a good idea.
15:43So we can have hot baths. Yeah, okay, that's the next job. That's the next job. Maybe, um, make it so the
15:49the bathroom isn't on a lean like this. That's a fair point. There's a lot wrong with this place,
15:56but there's a lot right with it. Yeah, it's so beautiful. Feels like my kids again. It does.
16:08Come on. Come on.
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16:35thanks to you, as we're able to get our friend a tree lopper to cut them down, and the natives are
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