Is there anything Caroline can't do? She made what looked like a 5 star meal for the whole family, from scratch, without breaking a sweat. Carol taught her well. Also, I look forward to seeing the old cabin restorations.
man, im loving the 'back home on the island' episodes. such a nice change of pace.. thanks for taking my family along on the adventure.. and thanks for being perfectly family friendly. Amen.
Caroline, I love the way you inform and teach through narration over the videos. And the videography, editing, and score always amazes me. Such a treat to watch these and vicariously enjoy life in a wilderness setting while I reside, for now, in suburbia. The educational value of these videos for when that day comes for me is as appreciated as much as the way they inspire and sooth the mind, nervous system, and spirit. 🙏🏼💕☺️
Awesome family...your children are having a great learning and beautiful memories.. Experiences.. That they can recall in their future and old age... Lot of respects to this family.. Parents... Love from India
Just found your channel last night and have already watched 4 videos. Love your sweet family and extended family. Thinking if anything bad happens in our little world, y'all will do ok. I'm inspired by your lifestyle💕
Enjoy getting to travel with you guys and now while recharging and recovering from the road. This program/channel is wonderful and I just want to say thanks for bringing us all along.
Looking forward to seeing the cold storage renovation!! Just a tip, when towing a trailer you should cris cross the chains. If trailer becomes disconnected the chains will cradle the tongue
I have always enjoyed your video series. Very beautiful representation of the wilderness and how a family lives among it. Not sure how many of these questions you get. But, have you every witness a Sasquatch on your adventures?
Hi …I live in Northern Ontario and spent over 40 yrs at our off grid cottage..I was watching you cord wood and it reminded me of the good old days and my dad always said for our winters we needed at least 8-10 cords of wood.. now that was a lot of cutting trees and splitting ( thank goodness we had a log splitter) and the big job « cording it « but we loved the winters and the ice fishing and stayed warm in our cottage. Love your videos.
Hi there. Thanks for sharing your story of living off the grid in the winter. I think we’re gonna need at least that much wood as well. Hope you have a wonderful day!
Pretty excited to see the history of the place. Just started watching your series recently, mainly the island episodes. The jeep living was awesome to watch but seeing you all on the island is entertaining. Looking forward to more!
Sometimes your videos make me quiet and peaceful! Such a great nature around and nice voices! Candada is my Lifetime dream since my father was there working on a ranch, mine and as a photograph and brought back many pictures, films and of course stories! Wish you all the best!! 💚💚
Beautiful lake and area, so peaceful. Such a great place to live, although I am sure the winters can be rough. The food looked delicious, now I am craving my favorite Jamaican BBQ.
After watching your daughter making dinner from scratch, I got out my old stained recipe card for home made apple pie and got to work. I haven't made a pie in probably 5 years ! You all inspired me.. and my boys were thrilled ! @
I'm really enjoying these Off Grid Cabin episodes. Good luck with the repair on the Mercury outboard. It's great see it can be repaired and provide another 10 years+ of service.
True about the Mercy outboard. My Dad, born in 1916 was an Air Force mechanic. He actually started with the Army Air Corps and transitioned into the US Air Force and survived WW2 in Papua New Guinea. His bird was the Pacific Prowler, look her up. Anyway, after he retired he started working on boat engines, was a Master Mechanic on Evinrude, Johnson and Mercury. He could fix any gas engine.
hello epic family, it's great to see you again, I'm happy to see that everything is going well, I see how difficult it has been to deal with the costs of today all over the world, continue in this dream of yours that I am very happy to follow via the internet. God bless you all. My wife and I live in Brazil (campinas sp)
I absolutely love this episode. Something that I have in common with Caroline when she said Ouma and Oupa. Exactly the way we say it in Afrikaans. The food at the end looked YUMMY. For $10 000 you can easily import a 40hp outboard Honda, Suzuki, yamaha or your favourite Mercury motor..👌👍💖
@@DawidNaudeIrishSettler Zij zijn naar alle waarschijnlijkheid uit Nederland geëmigreerd. De taal, Afrikaans, is een zogenaamde dochtertaal van het Nederlands, ontstaan uit 17de eeuwse Nederlandse dialecten. Zegt de naam van Riebeek jou iets?
Wow ! Thanks for sharing your wonderful lives with us all . I wondered when your videos popped up on utube where your cabin was Canada 🇨🇦 you are all so blessed and definitely not lazy ! And very smart 👌 your cabin and all your methods for survival are encouraging. God bless you all with a safe fun summer .
Good documentary! Better than discovery Chanel on the point of living life in Ontario. In 1995 to 1996 That was awesome in my young life. I canoed around thousands of islands near Kingston. I went Quvec two times during summer and winter.
I love to watch your up coming video truely mind blowing no words to express my feeling . Fantastic cooking 👌. Roti when fried by oil in India we call it paratha. Have a wonderful time, be happy God bless you 🙏❤️😊.
Really great seeing the family get togethers. Haven't seen those in a long long time myself. That dinner is one that me and an ExGf used to cook together. Her bacon wrapped asparagus was amazing with brown sugar and soy sauce marinade it was cooked in. Great video. Not sure I could leave the island for as long as you do. I'd have to do it on shorter bursts and come back at least every 2 months for a month. It's a lot of work but with more time there it would be the perfect reset for another adventure. That area your island is in is a perfect place to spend a lifetime photographing nature and landscapes. Really an amazing place. Some of the things I know about Georgian bay came from a friend's family. The great grandfather originally bought 5 Islands up there. Then sold off 3 while building their cabin on one. He brought his family there for the summer to live from the U.S. He sold the 4th island and just kept the one. His son started taking his family up there every summer to live. He was a professor with a wife and 5 kids. They spent the whole summer on the island pretty self-sufficient every year for about 30 years. Kids obviously left for college and their life but still vacation there. They brought in frozen foods and dry goods and propane tanks and would have a restock once over the summer. They eventually built 3 cabins on the island with the central cabin, the one for cooking and large gatherings, as its largest. They still own it. Not all the family goes there but a few do. One of the sons married a girl from one of the other islands so he goes to their island now. It's obviously all been upgraded as the old Ham Radio was their only contact to call for help or supplies in the old days. Now they have phone service. They're friends with others on other islands and when there they always plan dinners at other owners' islands. It's a really nice community. By the way, I haven't seen a 19-year-old girl that could cook dinner in about 15 years. Bravo and Kudo's to her for being real.
As a fellow dual citizen congratulations on getting all that paperwork caught up and handled in a short amount of time. So rad that (minus luxuries like gas, water and internet) you are sticking to honor the surrounding and being a self sufficient as possible. Can't wait to watch the cold house transformations.
Always Wonderful to re-connect with family. It looks like your grandparents have a beautiful home & have created a great extended family! God Bless & Safe Travels !
Dear EFRT, Stunning place and you guys always do such a great job at highlighting the places & activities that brings us into the experience. Caroline, I love your commentary. Blessings, Hermie
This family is incredible! Your content is interesting fun i enjoy learning some history! Canada is so gorgeous its great to see when you put the drone up!! Thank you for sharing your healthy lifestyle and choices sooo refreshing!!!
Every time I am up that way, I never see wild life, other than squirrels. I am told you gotta go to the dump to see the bears. I was starting to think t was all a myth, but there you have it, right on video. I am so jealous. We were up in Bobcaygeon this weekend, and again saw nothing.... law of averages says eventually we will see something. As always, great video.
Are you guy’s shutting down, we live in Australia and we love your journey and your family. My husband is Dutch as well, the Verrydt family. My husband has heard of your name. Would like to hear from you. Thanks Vivienne & John Verrydt
beauty, looking forward to the cold storage restoration. thanks for sharing, Bob , ,,, PS. lots of great bird sounds in the back ground of your video's. :0)
Great episode. I feel like I spent the last week with you in only 30 minutes. Looking forward to next week's episode for sure. The cabin series is one I look forward to always!
We've run 25 hp 2-stroke Mercury boat motors for almost 30 years on our 15' War Eagle duck boat. We're in a similar situation though - our latest one is starting to have issues and the main problem is that parts are not widely available for them if it is anything more than a carb issue, etc. It's a shame because they've been fantastic motors (we've worn out 3 on our 93 model boat!) and we'll miss them when we inevitably make the jump to something different - most likely a Yamaha or Tohatsu 30 hp 4-stroke. I grew up with that boat and the sound and smell of a Merc 2-stroke is a memory I will always cherish. Good luck with yours - hopefully it's something that can easily be repaired!
I now have dual citizenship. Canadian by birth then married a n.y. and moved became an American then my husband sadly got cancer and now I'm widowed. Moved to Florida. Hey I called my grandparents oma and opa. Now that takes me back.
These videos at your island inspire me with ideas for our land in the UP. Our next big step is getting a small tractor up there to speed up trail maintenance.
It's after midnight here in NZ and now I want a steak
Is there anything Caroline can't do? She made what looked like a 5 star meal for the whole family, from scratch, without breaking a sweat. Carol taught her well.
Also, I look forward to seeing the old cabin restorations.
man, im loving the 'back home on the island' episodes. such a nice change of pace.. thanks for taking my family along on the adventure.. and thanks for being perfectly family friendly. Amen.
Caroline, I love the way you inform and teach through narration over the videos. And the videography, editing, and score always amazes me. Such a treat to watch these and vicariously enjoy life in a wilderness setting while I reside, for now, in suburbia. The educational value of these videos for when that day comes for me is as appreciated as much as the way they inspire and sooth the mind, nervous system, and spirit. 🙏🏼💕☺️
Awesome family...your children are having a great learning and beautiful memories.. Experiences.. That they can recall in their future and old age... Lot of respects to this family.. Parents...
Love from India
The dogs are checking each other out too!
Grandma is so stylish
Watched this with 2 of my kids before bedtime, they love your family and think it was really sweet that you prepared that meal!
Thanks for watching. Hugs to the kids from all of us. Have a wonderful day!
Just found your channel last night and have already watched 4 videos. Love your sweet family and extended family. Thinking if anything bad happens in our little world, y'all will do ok. I'm inspired by your lifestyle💕
What a wonderful meal!!!!! I would love to cook with a view like that out my kitchen window!
You’re living the dream!
Enjoy getting to travel with you guys and now while recharging and recovering from the road. This program/channel is wonderful and I just want to say thanks for bringing us all along.
The Canadian country is absolutely beautiful and the family structure is wonderful! I love your channel
Looking forward to seeing the cold storage renovation!! Just a tip, when towing a trailer you should cris cross the chains. If trailer becomes disconnected the chains will cradle the tongue
Great tip for towing. Thanks and have a wonderful day!
In some states like Texas that is the law!!
@@redrubi3942 yes, I believe in almost all states if not all states require it.
Excellent, professional production!
I have always enjoyed your video series. Very beautiful representation of the wilderness and how a family lives among it. Not sure how many of these questions you get. But, have you every witness a Sasquatch on your adventures?
In all our travels in the wilderness the Sasquatch has eluded us. Have a wonderful day!
Thank you so much for sharing your life with us through your awesome videos! Will continue to watch whether you are on the road or at the cabin!
Thank you for watching, we are so glad you are enjoying the cabin life videos. Have a wonderful Sunday!
Yummy food!!! Your whole family is learning so many life skills in this lifestyle. Kudos!!! 🤗❤️🎶🌟👏👏👏🇨🇦
Hi …I live in Northern Ontario and spent over 40 yrs at our off grid cottage..I was watching you cord wood and it reminded me of the good old days and my dad always said for our winters we needed at least 8-10 cords of wood.. now that was a lot of cutting trees and splitting ( thank goodness we had a log splitter) and the big job « cording it « but we loved the winters and the ice fishing and stayed warm in our cottage. Love your videos.
Hi there. Thanks for sharing your story of living off the grid in the winter. I think we’re gonna need at least that much wood as well. Hope you have a wonderful day!
What a wonderful family you have and a place so scenic. I could only dream in our country Malaysia.
thanks for taking my family along on the adventure...your children are having a great learning and beautiful memories.. Experiences..
Y’all are an amazing family. Very resourceful. Wish my family was as loving as yours
Great video as always. That old Merc will last forever. Food looked amazing.
Hey from Trinidad cool to see you recreate our Authentic west Indian cuisine 🇹🇹👍🏻🙂
Love seeing you guys work together!!! A strong family makes everything in life better.
Pretty excited to see the history of the place. Just started watching your series recently, mainly the island episodes. The jeep living was awesome to watch but seeing you all on the island is entertaining. Looking forward to more!
I don't think that flip flops are working shoes and no safety glasses but up to you JS God bless from Canada eh
Your Oma and Opa are Wunderbar!! She looks like she was a movie star! Wow! what a feast! Impressive culinary skill!
Sometimes your videos make me quiet and peaceful! Such a great nature around and nice voices! Candada is my Lifetime dream since my father was there working on a ranch, mine and as a photograph and brought back many pictures, films and of course stories! Wish you all the best!! 💚💚
I just found your channel and I am loving watching it. Thank You.
Awesome. Glad you enjoy it!
Beautiful lake and area, so peaceful. Such a great place to live, although I am sure the winters can be rough. The food looked delicious, now I am craving my favorite Jamaican BBQ.
After watching your daughter making dinner from scratch, I got out my old stained recipe card for home made apple pie and got to work. I haven't made a pie in probably 5 years ! You all inspired me.. and my boys were thrilled ! @
That’s awesome! 🥧 Sounds delicious. Have a wonderful day!
I'm really enjoying these Off Grid Cabin episodes. Good luck with the repair on the Mercury outboard. It's great see it can be repaired and provide another 10 years+ of service.
True about the Mercy outboard. My Dad, born in 1916 was an Air Force mechanic. He actually started with the Army Air Corps and transitioned into the US Air Force and survived WW2 in Papua New Guinea. His bird was the Pacific Prowler, look her up. Anyway, after he retired he started working on boat engines, was a Master Mechanic on Evinrude, Johnson and Mercury. He could fix any gas engine.
You have a beautiful home on the island love your video series new to this channel thank you
Yes HAPPY BIRTHDAY OMA
hello epic family, it's great to see you again, I'm happy to see that everything is going well, I see how difficult it has been to deal with the costs of today all over the world, continue in this dream of yours that I am very happy to follow via the internet.
God bless you all. My wife and I live in Brazil (campinas sp)
Finally 4K! Yes! Thank you!
Just found the channel, I'm really liking it!
Your weekly episodes have become my families Sunday tradition to watch. Thank you for sharing and the work you put into each episode!
I just found this....so enjoyable. Such hard workers. Mom you never stop AWESOME. Thank you for these videos.
Beautiful place to live. Paradise
THANKYOU for all the explanations you do. When those of us from “down under” watch, it is both educational and most enjoyable. Gillian. Nelson. NZ
It the first time I’ve seen your videos. I loved it and will be adding you to my favourites list. I loved to beauty all around you. So beautiful.
Una fantástica experiencia. Nos veremos pronto.
There goes Dinner when you placed the 1st Catch Back. Too Small. Hope the next one is Dinner . 😊
I absolutely love this episode. Something that I have in common with Caroline when she said Ouma and Oupa. Exactly the way we say it in Afrikaans. The food at the end looked YUMMY. For $10 000 you can easily import a 40hp outboard Honda, Suzuki, yamaha or your favourite Mercury motor..👌👍💖
Ja boet, ek stem 100% saam ou maat!
@@hermiesmit1 I heard that as well Ouma and Oupa. Please confirm is Ouma and Oupa from South Africa. I love this channel.
Opa & oma uit Nederland
@@ishasteller amper dieselfde. Pragtige tale Afrikaans en Dutch. Please correct me if I'm wrong...🤠🇿🇦
@@DawidNaudeIrishSettler Zij zijn naar alle waarschijnlijkheid uit Nederland geëmigreerd.
De taal, Afrikaans, is een zogenaamde dochtertaal van het Nederlands, ontstaan uit 17de eeuwse Nederlandse dialecten.
Zegt de naam van Riebeek jou iets?
That food looked so good! Great episode as always. Glad I was able to watch it before service. You all are an inspiration!
God bless!
Beautiful video! You are my favorite family.
Thanks Marco. Hugs from our family to you and yours.
Beautiful video 👍❤️🌞👍
Wow ! Thanks for sharing your wonderful lives with us all . I wondered when your videos popped up on utube where your cabin was Canada 🇨🇦 you are all so blessed and definitely not lazy ! And very smart 👌 your cabin and all your methods for survival are encouraging. God bless you all with a safe fun summer .
Thank you 🙏🏻
Good documentary! Better than discovery Chanel on the point of living life in Ontario. In 1995 to 1996 That was awesome in my young life. I canoed around thousands of islands near Kingston. I went Quvec two times during summer and winter.
Good family man ☺️☺️☺️ salute to u sir ☺️☺️
It’s the first time I’ve seen your video. I enjoyed the video and the beauty all around you. I’m definitely adding you to my favourite
That's what I call living. Aaahhhhh
Love watching your videos 📹 awesome ❤🤗😎😎👍👍🙏🙏😇
such a beautiful video.....the cabin, everything looks so peaceful. Thank you
Can't wait for winter to see all of your prep put into use...
Waooooo what a beautiful family 👪 ❤ much love from East Africa Tanzania
I love to watch your up coming video truely mind blowing no words to express my feeling . Fantastic cooking 👌. Roti when fried by oil in India we call it paratha. Have a wonderful time, be happy God bless you 🙏❤️😊.
Thank you!
26:40
WOW!!
Looks Very Good 👍
You did a wonderful job with narration, and I can certainly tell that a lot of time and effort went into it ! Thank you
Just love this I took the plunge over 5 years ago
Really great seeing the family get togethers. Haven't seen those in a long long time myself. That dinner is one that me and an ExGf used to cook together. Her bacon wrapped asparagus was amazing with brown sugar and soy sauce marinade it was cooked in.
Great video. Not sure I could leave the island for as long as you do. I'd have to do it on shorter bursts and come back at least every 2 months for a month. It's a lot of work but with more time there it would be the perfect reset for another adventure. That area your island is in is a perfect place to spend a lifetime photographing nature and landscapes. Really an amazing place.
Some of the things I know about Georgian bay came from a friend's family. The great grandfather originally bought 5 Islands up there. Then sold off 3 while building their cabin on one. He brought his family there for the summer to live from the U.S. He sold the 4th island and just kept the one. His son started taking his family up there every summer to live. He was a professor with a wife and 5 kids. They spent the whole summer on the island pretty self-sufficient every year for about 30 years. Kids obviously left for college and their life but still vacation there. They brought in frozen foods and dry goods and propane tanks and would have a restock once over the summer. They eventually built 3 cabins on the island with the central cabin, the one for cooking and large gatherings, as its largest. They still own it. Not all the family goes there but a few do. One of the sons married a girl from one of the other islands so he goes to their island now. It's obviously all been upgraded as the old Ham Radio was their only contact to call for help or supplies in the old days. Now they have phone service. They're friends with others on other islands and when there they always plan dinners at other owners' islands. It's a really nice community.
By the way, I haven't seen a 19-year-old girl that could cook dinner in about 15 years. Bravo and Kudo's to her for being real.
Yes, it sure is a beautiful spot. We’re glad you enjoyed the video. Hope you have a wonderful day!
i love ur family❤️ God bless u more❤️❤️
i enjoy ur videos, from Philippines❤️
Love the cabin series! 👏👏❤
As a fellow dual citizen congratulations on getting all that paperwork caught up and handled in a short amount of time. So rad that (minus luxuries like gas, water and internet) you are sticking to honor the surrounding and being a self sufficient as possible. Can't wait to watch the cold house transformations.
Always Wonderful to re-connect with family. It looks like your grandparents have a beautiful home & have created a great extended family! God Bless & Safe Travels !
I hope you get to work in the recipe book.That steak dinner look very yummmmmyThank you for sharing the island episodes.
Dear EFRT, Stunning place and you guys always do such a great job at highlighting the places & activities that brings us into the experience. Caroline, I love your commentary.
Blessings, Hermie
Family that’s what’s it’s all about epic family reunion
This family is incredible!
Your content is interesting fun i enjoy learning some history! Canada is so gorgeous its great to see when you put the drone up!!
Thank you for sharing your healthy lifestyle and choices sooo refreshing!!!
HEY! Good morning and thumbs UP to you guys!
Impressive live style too good
Enjoyed this video... nice that you have a chef in your family!! Lando is so happy there
Very beautiful and nice place
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Hello, I’m a new subscriber from Georgia US.
Welcome and thank you for subscribing!!
You have a beautiful family.
Can't wait to see more what you have done to the cabin .
Very beautiful representation of the wilderness
So love these cabin episodes. Magic in the quotidian.
I'm falling in love with Island life , can't wait for the next video !
You are calling your grandparents ouma and oupa....that is my language in afrikaans !! 😄 greetings from South Africa !!
Also the terms used by my stepson as he was born in Germany. Greetings from the UK!!
Every time I am up that way, I never see wild life, other than squirrels. I am told you gotta go to the dump to see the bears. I was starting to think t was all a myth, but there you have it, right on video. I am so jealous. We were up in Bobcaygeon this weekend, and again saw nothing.... law of averages says eventually we will see something. As always, great video.
This is my favorite episode. Your cinematography and soundtrack choices are perfect!
Great job! Very entertaining, great film work, and story telling!!
Thank you
I remember from your previos episode that you are planning to visit the Phillipines i'm very glad to meet the whole family someday, please advise when
Are you guy’s shutting down, we live in Australia and we love your journey and your family. My husband is Dutch as well, the Verrydt family. My husband has heard of your name. Would like to hear from you. Thanks Vivienne & John Verrydt
We hope to continue on our journey for many more years. We have family in South Australia near Adelaide. Thank you for watching. Have a wonderful day!
@@EFRT Thank you for coming back to us. Because when your kids left for Norway we thought that was the final episode. Vivienne. Take care
Living the dream. What a setting.
Oh my another great meal outdoors and at the cabin!
beauty, looking forward to the cold storage restoration. thanks for sharing, Bob , ,,, PS. lots of great bird sounds in the back ground of your video's. :0)
Great episode. I feel like I spent the last week with you in only 30 minutes. Looking forward to next week's episode for sure. The cabin series is one I look forward to always!
Love this!!!
We've run 25 hp 2-stroke Mercury boat motors for almost 30 years on our 15' War Eagle duck boat. We're in a similar situation though - our latest one is starting to have issues and the main problem is that parts are not widely available for them if it is anything more than a carb issue, etc. It's a shame because they've been fantastic motors (we've worn out 3 on our 93 model boat!) and we'll miss them when we inevitably make the jump to something different - most likely a Yamaha or Tohatsu 30 hp 4-stroke. I grew up with that boat and the sound and smell of a Merc 2-stroke is a memory I will always cherish. Good luck with yours - hopefully it's something that can easily be repaired!
Buitiful episode thank-you 😊
Beautiful!
Beautiful vid. Delicious food. Great canoe adventures. Excellent!. Loved it! 🌸🌺🌷🌹💐🦋
I now have dual citizenship. Canadian by birth then married a n.y. and moved became an American then my husband sadly got cancer and now I'm widowed. Moved to Florida. Hey I called my grandparents oma and opa. Now that takes me back.
Happy birthday grandma oma🤓😎
These videos at your island inspire me with ideas for our land in the UP. Our next big step is getting a small tractor up there to speed up trail maintenance.
Looking forward to that rebuild..
Thanks for another great episode. Amazing how your videos continue to entertain and just get better and better. Good to catch up again. 👍😻
Always travel with care waiting to watch more trail adventure/episodes
Love the salt and pepper grinder improvisation!