Having been to Australia. I would have to say, if you get the chance to go, then go as it's an amazing country full of culture, stunning scenery and lovely people. I'm looking forward to seeing more of it through your fab posts x
What I'm liking most about your new videos is... all the smiles. Smiles, Smiles, Smiles and more Smiles. You are always smiling in these new videos and that is a reflection of what a great adventure you are living. I hope one day I can do a great adventure like you are doing.
As an Australian who has travelled this country extensively by 4WD, and spent a lot of it hiking, fishing and hunting, the dangers are overstated. You certainly need to be aware of your surrounds, and aware of the different dangers depending on what part of the country you're in, but it should not deter anyone from experiencing the beauty that this land has to offer. You're more at risk in the cities, and like most major cities around the world it's humans that are your biggest danger, not the animals out in the bush. Enjoy your lap and safe travels. Looking forward to seeing it all unfold
@SorelleAmore my absolute pleasure. As someone who is about to embark on their own solo lap of Australia next year, and in desperate need to re-engage with nature and to find a purpose in life again, you serve as an inspiration to others.
I have been to Australia a few times. Last in 2020 and got caught in the bush fires in Victoria and had been rescued by the great men and women from the Australian Navy. Forever thankful! But surely I will be coming back 😊 I ❤ Australia and the laid back Aussie way of life
As an Aussie - the level of danger is definitley hyped up. If you're in the cities, you're lucky to see a huntsman spider. Out in the regional areas, you just got to educate yourself on what to look out for, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as people make it out to be. Far safer here than most places in the world!
I think we have to see it in comparison. In Germany there isn't even anything to be afraid of whatsoever. The worst think that could happen is walking into a nettle with bare legs. Compared to that, having to know what to watch out for already seems like a lot of effort. 😂
@@oliviakrause3336 you dont have to worry about anything because europeans already killed anything that could ever harm a human beeing and yet the same europeans want to lecture the rest of the world on how the threat the enviroment.
@@oliviakrause3336 Ohhh, in Germany are so many Things to be afraid. Most of them had to do with Knifes; Muslim People and Public Places. In this Comparison the Wilderness of Australia is the Safer Place.
As someone who’s got a phobia of spiders, im really grateful you gave a disclaimer before showing 💛 also I have been watching your content for years and I’m so proud of you and happy I’ve tuned in and seen the journey. You inspired me to embrace my uniqueness and I hope to one day be my own boss exploring earth too 🌍🙏love from London
Do you ever bump into anyone in these beautiful locations you visit/ stay? The shots are all so amazing and the way show yourself and troopy makes it look like only you and your vehicle exist in Australia and we’re living in some dystopian world of you exploring the untouched Australia
Alright, so I’m in Tasmania, We have the Tiger Snake here. There are a few things I do as I have a dog who comes with me everywhere. I don’t tend to hike in the bush come summer. We hike more from middle August to middle Spring. The snakes are more scared of you than you are of them. Making some noise as you walk helps to scare them off. There are simple things to remember - don’t poke a stick down a hole, it could have a snake or spider. Be careful lifting logs, snakes & spiders. Certain times of the year up north stay out of the sea, the further north in the tropics the water isn’t the safest - crocs. Southern Aus is croc free, but the bigger rivers could have Bull Sharks in them. It’s talking to locals with the bigger rivers near the coast to know where is safe. The further inland up rivers you find Bull Sharks. Rock pools with warmer weather watch for Blue Ringed Octopus, I’ve never seen one, but I do look carefully before entering. Spiders give me the heebee jeebies, safe or not. Huntsmans have me running from the room 😝. Generally it’s common sense applied to our native fauna. The fauna here are on the whole not aggressive, unlike places like the USA, with bears, cougars, coyotes, wolves, or in EU where some places have bears & wolves. Most people bitten is due to stupidity or not paying attention to where you’re walking. My dog and I tend to swim more in the warmer weather. Where I am in Tassie we rarely come across sharks, water is too cool for them.
I think Australia being that dangerous says something about it being attractive not just for humans but for other life forms as well. It definitely deserves the wild competition!
The untethered soul, is 1 of my favorite books. Presently, I'm in Australia. I have been here since January....I'm from the usa. the nature in Australia taught me to lose my fears of spiders & snakes.
It truly is the best book. I think everyone needs to read it as the sole info for "how to: on life" I used to go every tuesday and thursday to meditate and see Mickey chat at temple of the universe. He's got the best energy in real life. But it always left me thinking, wow, everything "problem" or emotion makes sense now and you get that from the book too. Love this Australia content as well! I've been twice and the last time I traveled down the entire east coast. So gorgeous. Hope to go back and do the west coast one day.
Hi again Sorelle and NEILA - during my cycling treks I created some easy dishes suitable for a solo traveller with limited storage - I like to eat healthily but enjoy it as well so here’s one very easy but tasty rice dish - garlic, green capsicum, tinned tuna already with a curry flavour (laksa, Mexican etc) one cup of basmati rice (low GI and already in one serve tubs) and cook in olive oil in that order - very simple, healthy and filling - bon appetite - my mother who recently passed and not afraid of life once said to me “young one you can’t go around life - you must pass through it” - I’ve learnt that many people look in the wrong places for happiness and are never satisfied - happiness is an outcome of our journeys not a goal.
**CRACKING UP** Don't worry, I'm staying right here on the couch in Texas but I love tagging along to see where you go...and I'm glad you kept it secret, they'd just ruin it!
I visited Australia for the first time for a month at the end of last year and LOVED it! I definitely found more things that I didn't know were there to try and kill me but nothing stopped me from continuing to exploring! I'd move there tomorrow, fear of spiders or not!
Ive lived in aussie twice and I wish that I had done more exploring. I found that the snakes hid generally and the spiders I dodged. i think your decision to explore Australia is fantastic
Sorelle, your videos are of the same high quality as national geographic videos. It's great that you are applying your talents to such topics as humans and nature, humans in nature, nature in humans.
So glad to see you back home here in Australia and can’t wait to see what you do with your house. Also can’t wait to see your travels and I hope you meet up with other influencers like Max & Occy now Max is renovating his own place also 🥰
Sorelle, I have to tell you, you are hitting hard the phase of the next Sorelle!!!❤ The environment transforms you and this is visible in your face and your videos. Keep going, don't give up. I see a bright future coming up to you. Thank you for letting us witness your journey through life. ❤
Bugs, spiders as big as your hand (tarantulas), 4 inch Centipedes , Scorpions big and small, Snakes (rattle Snakes), just a few of the lovely critters that call Mexico home, as well as me. Oh I forgot, sharks, Orcas, dolphins, whales, Mountain lions, wolves, Jaguars. But its so worth it to live in a beautiful safe place. Keep exploring Sorelle.
Hi again Sorelle - for self preservation and enjoyment all you have to do is respect Mother Nature and her potential for nurturing and fury which no doubt your Icelandic treks taught you - a young British women was found deceased leaning against a great a massive gum tree in Trephina Gorge East McDonnell Ranges NT on a 40C degree Celsius day - she had no water with her but only her day backpack - Huntsmen spiders by the way will bite you if they feel threatened - I don’t think about snakes despite accidentally walking over brown one as it slept on a warm rock in the Flinders Ranges - were so lucky to have this amazing country around us.
Your photography/videography was what originally attracted me to your site several years ago and it what’s bringing me back now along with your stories. I missed a bit of Iceland but will go back and catch up.
Thank you for still being here!! I’ll go back to iceland one day and story tell better. Don’t think I fully gave that country justice, or at least right now I feel my videography leveled up a whole bunch and I’m itchy to capture iceland. So we’ll have Icelandic content one day again (possibly) 🥳
I lived in Florida, USA and we had our neighborhood alligators and various venomous snakes. I just watched where I was going and let them pass. If anything the alligators were afraid of us. We also had coyotes, bobcats, panthers and bears.
I can’t handle how amazing and inspiring your videos are ✨ living outdoors is probably the wildest thing a modern person can do and you are sharing this with us. Gooosh I love you Sorelle ❤🥹 take care of yourself
Hey Sorelle, good call on the...... not naming all of the beautiful spots.. Having spent many moons in the Oz outback, you too will become extremely friendly with all of its inhabitants, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Western Australia is still a secret destination, as far as I am concerned, its Rugged Coastline is out of this world.
6:17 the untethered soul kickstarted my own personal journey of self-discovery. it’s the book i suggest most to others, and i’ve shipped it to countless since i first read it 14 years ago. love this passage!
❤What a wonderful vlog 😊 I think it would be a smart idea to start a business for people who just wanna take a walk with you, enjoy your infectious smiles and positive outlook 👍 Also the videography is next level, you really show off the beauty of nature! The morning shots after the famous egg salad were stunning! So I’ll be here for your trip through Australia from the comfort of my home 😉
I have to take a torch if I go under the house at night as there's a resident Small-eyed snake. There's often a Golden crowned snake too. Snakes are great, think of them as an attraction (NE NSW).
Worked around Oz as an archaeologist surveying for sites and digging holes. Walking around Pt Headland (NW coast of WA on a map) on a sandy coastal flood plain covered in large spinifex grass clumps, and EVERYWHERE between the spinifex were Brown Snake tracks. Yet I never saw a snake. Excavating on the NSW south coast for a highway expansion you'd dig up Sydney Funnel Web spiders, but you don't touch them, just scoop them up in a shovel and move them away. :)
I live in Brisbane's northern Suburbs (Kallangur) and it's a rare week I don't see a snake in my yard. Mostly pythons, but a few brown snakes and green tree snakes (very hard to see).
Lived all over Australia, in the country too, up mountains, on the coast...... Been hiking, camping, mountain climbing and swimming in freshwater holes....Only seen a snake twice, crocodiles on a tour in the NT, spiders are in every country but the mystery bites are seriously a spoiler, that you have to deal with regularly. But it is so worth it. Keep on going Sorelle.
Love your basic setup and the minimalistic approach. In a world of bolt-on accessories, gvm upgrades, and 'take the f'ing kitchen sink with you' vehicle-build, content creators, keeping it simple always is best. It harks back to the glory days of vehicle exploration without all the mod cons that clutter the experience. The biggest thing I will say you are missing, that will transform your travels is a chainsaw (Sthil domestic, cheap, light). Light, warmth, and hot water! And who doesn't like sitting next to a fire at night? A visceral woman's place is barefoot around the campfire at night. Fire also keeps those vicious Australian drop bears away! 😉
I love keeping some places secret! It encourages people to get out and explore for themselves. Also pleeease use as much natural based soaps and products when you’re bathing in nature. To avoid toxins getting in streams and all the lives who depend on them 🙏🏽🌿❤️
I doubt it is any more dangerous than anywhere else you just need to take the appropriate precautions and wear suitable protection. I still would like to come to Australia for the opals and gold panning. Thanks Sorelle stay safe.
good luck with your trip. As a troopy owner I'll offer a bit of advice....cover the grille with some stainless steel flyscreen, it will stop bugs and seeds etc getting into your radiator and depending on if you have a deep cycle battery fitted, put a winch on the bull bar. It will come in very handy if you intend going on soft sanded beaches, plus the usual snatch straps and recovery gear.
Lloolll this video was epic 😂😂. You grow accustomed to it I guess. But like you, i still squirk and scream when the cocharoaches are around...either crawling or flying. The flying ones are bloody horrible 😂. Other than that, when I'm walking deep in the bush or on a hike, I tend to drag a light stick behind my to ward off snakes 😁
Girl i resonate so much with everything you just said hahaha I´ve been living in Byron Bay for the past 2 years and living with mice in the closet, hearing snakes moving on the roof of the house, checking inside your shoes for spiders, hearing cockroaches in the house at night even if you keep it clean... it becomes a part of your normal day, with time and acceptance of the land you are in. At the end of the day, i am grateful to be able to experience a place on earth that hasn´t been as touched by humans as many others and still lets nature take up as much space as she desires. Im not sure for how much longer the Australian Government will be so friendly with the animals and wild nature here. So im gonna enjoy being one of the few who has gotten the opportunity to experience a more raw unfiltered wild Earth - Australia.
Surf looks amazing.....watching you on a board is poetry in motion (Thank you) As for visiting australia....its on my bucket list while I take in the Australia open....Grand slam in Aussie land! Warmest of regards....Pain is the voice of Freedom....Carpe Diem!! 1000 islands Canada
I think Australian locals are good at being prepared. As you mention you adapt if you've been here a while. The biggest oversight many travelers commit in Australia is lack of preparation. I've witnesses individuals arriving wanting to do the Overland Track in Cradle Mountain with nothing but plastic shopping bags for a 2 day walk, only to be refused entry. I've also done tails in summer when there's snakes (I ran some of the overland track listening to Beyoncé so fun! I felt like I was making enough noise to deter snakes but we saw some. Possibly don't run the trails in summer? Snakes like to hide behind logs. Please do a video of Tasmania it's always left out - it's soooo special and my home state. I can give you some pointers. :)
Oh YES!!! I would ABSOLUTELY visit Australia after watching your video Sorelle!!! Are you kidding?!!? It looks TOTALLY GORGEOUS!!!!! Snakes and spiders don’t scare me- I respect them! A Washingtonian looking to escape a cold wet winter with a warm tropical Australian summer!!! 🎉😎✌️
I’m always out in nature here in oz deep in the rainforest in creeks and animals, bugs, leeches, ticks, spiders are all apart of the nature and natural experience. there not out to hurt you. A mutual respect is all that is needed and giving them some space. Australia is beautiful and it’s rare to come across deathly animals unless you put yourself in the places they are like croc infested rivers ect.
I have been living in Innisfail, north Queensland for the past couple of months - and apparently there are crocodiles everywhere around here 🤔 BUT also INCREDIBLE waterfalls, rainforests, ancient birds like the cassowary (who are also dangerous haha), gorgeous beaches: the opportunities for exploration are endless 😍
Your comments that you always have your guard up and live in a state of borderline anxiety really summed up living anywhere in Australia outside of the cities and towns. In other countries people look out for large predatory animals. The difference here is that our dangerous creatures like to surprise you by turning up in unexpected places, often in your house. Here, the smaller the creature the bigger the danger. Even some of our birds are raucous and aggressive. I've had to fight a Currawong for the pegs on the clothesline because he took a fancy to them. I walk out the front door and get threatened by Curlews. I've been chased in my loungeroom by a Huntsman as big as a dinner plate and woken in the night by thousands of baby Huntsman spiders that had hatched. I've been attacked by a Coastal Taipan ( lucky it missed), uncovered Red Bellies in the wood heap, opened the grill on the stove one morning to find a large Carpet Python curled up in it, and twice had snakes slide across my foot while I stood admiring the scenery or sat on the front step. Australia is challenging to live in. The funniest encounter I've ever had in the bush was at night, while we were hunting. Our mate was in front of me and he suddenly stopped and fell backwards. It was like he'd hit an invisible barrier. It was actually a massive spider web and the spider was HUGE! But is Australia a stunningly beautiful, diverse land? Absolutely!
Thank you Sorelle. The Untethered Soul changed my life years ago. Somewhere between Canada and Mexico I gave it away. It´s time to buy another copy. We have spiders and scorpions here. I was bitten by a half dead black widow who had crawled into my folded up jeans. Lesson learned. Always shake and inspect before you put anything on. Thankfully I am fine. It hurt for a bit. I got some antivenom and now the scar is almost gone. I love all creatures and respect them. Question: I love your bathing suit. Would you share where you got it? I need a new one for our adventures all over this magnificent country which, according to most people, is also dangerous. It is positively and magnificently fascinating and glorious! Here´s to exploring...living in the moment. Much love to you!
Visited Australia last year and the only wild animals we encountered were at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. 😅 We had been warned about spiders and jellyfish 🪼 so we were vigilant and stayed out of the ocean. 🌊 Great trip! Highly recommend to everyone.
Having lived in an Australian Bush property, I can tell you lots of animals can kill, but you'd really need to piss them off 🙂 I've danced with one of the most beautiful snakes in the world - the Red Belly Black. Well, I was picking up fallen gum tree sticks - until one of them wasn't 🙂 It's a large Red Belly which normally suns in about this spots most days, I normally keep my distance and say hello - but this days it shot between feet and I jumped higher than I've done in a long long time - I guess neither of us were ready to be too familiar. Then there's the large Goanna that came up my front stairs and clawed at the front door .... he was just having a snoop. The trick is - don't feed the animals.
Nice vid Sorelle. Dont forget about drop bears being dangerous 😱 How good is the eastern seaboard with all the positive ions crashing in from the waves. Sent you FB pm
As an Aussie who's lived overseas for many years, I've come to realise that you learn from a young age which are just annoying and which will put you in hospital. Avoid the hospital ones, take salt to rainforests (for leaches), take vinegar to the northern beaches (jellyfish), don't swim in some places, and take bottles of water everywhere there's no tap. A first aid kit and knowledge goes a long way too.
Would love to visit Australia but when I do I want to last 2-3 months to justify the long and extensive journey. As a digital nomad this is possible, just has not happened yet. But I can’t wait, Australia is an incredible country. 😊
yes we definitely become accustom to Australia's nature that's for sure. I live up in the mountains of NSW you know where that Banana is lol. 4x4 check, trail bike check. I'm always out and about and talking to the locals, country towns are my Norm. Your content is really good and thanks for sharing 🙂Your adventures here will be great to follow. There are wild dogs around too though they tend to rack off when they are surprised or you come across any. They hate sharp smacking wacking or clap sounds, like most dogs do.
Come on.. if we go to these wild territory, we gotta adapt and respect. It will take a lot of time to really learn to live in these kind of places but if you did it, you can do anything 😁. Sadly many of us who mostly lived in city can't seem to adjust very well in wild.. takes a lot of time to adjust and learn. Hope you safe journey 😅
4 important things in life - Health, Freedom, Family and Integrity. To be successful surround yourself with successful people. Be kind to all you meet, smile at the world and take care :-)
Those things wouldn't scare me to come to Australia;) ❤ actually all that sounds like the nature there is healthy and there's prosperity and it's protected so it means the country has things in place and good vibes
very brave going solo , i hope you have done some first aid training and bought a kit plus the snake bite kit . , just learn to use your eyes and ears , dont panic . lots of fun to be had , did you get some recovery gear and a uhf ?
I spent one year in Australia and I got stung by a bluebottle jellyfish (that was scary, but obviously not deadly. Didnt call an ambo because didnt have a travel insurande, lol... But I survived so All good...) Then I almost stumbled over a brown snake once, but I didnt, so that was fine too. I remember someone getting severely bitten by some spider at a bush party though... And I saw a taipan snake once and a redback spider once (but nothing happened) So yeah of course it has dangers (but many tropical places are like that, not just Australia! People seem to forget that...) And... It depends, danger.... people have a bit skewed sense of what danger really means, in my opinion. The most dangerous thing on earth are ticks, I got ill with Lyme disease from a tickbite in Sweden (which is otherwise deemed as a "safe" country regaring wildlife) 18 years ago. Still super sick. So, most of the world is dangerous in that sense. I freak out more by ticks than I would do by spiders and snakes I think. Hope to become a resident and land owner in Australia one day. Down Under caught my heart. Its been 15 years now, it's about time to go back soon. 💖
Strangely... I'm kinda less scared to be in Australia, exploring and risking to come across Nature than being in a big city, exploring and risking to come across human. At worse in Australia me or the snake, the spider or else we're just trying to survive. In city I could be the one trying to survive and the other not. Great video has always ! Could ear your voice for hours ! kiss
I would love to live in Australia one day! But the arachnophobia in me says NO! The arachnophobia in me also refuses to allow me to accept any spider that big as being friendly lol 🥲
In Australia the humans and the animals are all just living their own lives but we just happen to cross paths sometimes. It’s how’s one approaches this encounter to weather things become dangerous or not! Just don’t be scared but be aware and give right of way to the venomous ones ✌️
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So...will you visit Australia after this video, or will you not??? :)
I will definitely NOT :D Much more drawn to and intrigued by Iceland!
yes. absolutely!
Having been to Australia. I would have to say, if you get the chance to go, then go as it's an amazing country full of culture, stunning scenery and lovely people. I'm looking forward to seeing more of it through your fab posts x
I'm already planning to 😊, I have some friends in the Melbourne area but Australia is so big I want to see other parts .
Low maybe 🤔
Also very beautiful it looks but a bit scary
What I'm liking most about your new videos is... all the smiles. Smiles, Smiles, Smiles and more Smiles. You are always smiling in these new videos and that is a reflection of what a great adventure you are living. I hope one day I can do a great adventure like you are doing.
Dang. This is the best feedback ever. I’m so thankful for it. I am so grateful and content now. I love it!
Same ^^
As an Australian who has travelled this country extensively by 4WD, and spent a lot of it hiking, fishing and hunting, the dangers are overstated. You certainly need to be aware of your surrounds, and aware of the different dangers depending on what part of the country you're in, but it should not deter anyone from experiencing the beauty that this land has to offer. You're more at risk in the cities, and like most major cities around the world it's humans that are your biggest danger, not the animals out in the bush.
Enjoy your lap and safe travels. Looking forward to seeing it all unfold
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 thanks for chiming in!!
@SorelleAmore my absolute pleasure.
As someone who is about to embark on their own solo lap of Australia next year, and in desperate need to re-engage with nature and to find a purpose in life again, you serve as an inspiration to others.
I have been to Australia a few times. Last in 2020 and got caught in the bush fires in Victoria and had been rescued by the great men and women from the Australian Navy. Forever thankful! But surely I will be coming back 😊 I ❤ Australia and the laid back Aussie way of life
Thank you for not sharing the location! ❤❤❤ keeping sacred spaces sacred!
As an Aussie - the level of danger is definitley hyped up. If you're in the cities, you're lucky to see a huntsman spider. Out in the regional areas, you just got to educate yourself on what to look out for, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as people make it out to be. Far safer here than most places in the world!
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I think we have to see it in comparison. In Germany there isn't even anything to be afraid of whatsoever. The worst think that could happen is walking into a nettle with bare legs. Compared to that, having to know what to watch out for already seems like a lot of effort. 😂
@@oliviakrause3336 you dont have to worry about anything because europeans already killed anything that could ever harm a human beeing and yet the same europeans want to lecture the rest of the world on how the threat the enviroment.
Yeah except the vast majority of Australia is the regional areas, which is also what people come to see
@@oliviakrause3336 Ohhh, in Germany are so many Things to be afraid. Most of them had to do with Knifes; Muslim People and Public Places.
In this Comparison the Wilderness of Australia is the Safer Place.
I LOVE THIS NEW FORMAT!
Please keep showing us around, because it's lovely to explore Australia through your eyes ✨
Yipeee!! I’m so glad to hear you’re loving it! I’m loving making these 🥳🥳🥳
Living in Australia, you learn to adapt to all the dangers. Such a beautiful country though, definitely visit!!! 🦘🐨🌏
As someone who’s got a phobia of spiders, im really grateful you gave a disclaimer before showing 💛 also I have been watching your content for years and I’m so proud of you and happy I’ve tuned in and seen the journey. You inspired me to embrace my uniqueness and I hope to one day be my own boss exploring earth too 🌍🙏love from London
Hi everyone :) going on my first campervan trip tomorrow. keep your fingers cross for me.
Best luck! Go live your dream! Stay safe!🤞🏼
Do you ever bump into anyone in these beautiful locations you visit/ stay?
The shots are all so amazing and the way show yourself and troopy makes it look like only you and your vehicle exist in Australia and we’re living in some dystopian world of you exploring the untouched Australia
Hahahaha. So much land and so few people leaves space for many solo encounters I’ve discovered 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Alright, so I’m in Tasmania, We have the Tiger Snake here. There are a few things I do as I have a dog who comes with me everywhere. I don’t tend to hike in the bush come summer. We hike more from middle August to middle Spring. The snakes are more scared of you than you are of them. Making some noise as you walk helps to scare them off. There are simple things to remember - don’t poke a stick down a hole, it could have a snake or spider. Be careful lifting logs, snakes & spiders. Certain times of the year up north stay out of the sea, the further north in the tropics the water isn’t the safest - crocs. Southern Aus is croc free, but the bigger rivers could have Bull Sharks in them. It’s talking to locals with the bigger rivers near the coast to know where is safe. The further inland up rivers you find Bull Sharks.
Rock pools with warmer weather watch for Blue Ringed Octopus, I’ve never seen one, but I do look carefully before entering. Spiders give me the heebee jeebies, safe or not. Huntsmans have me running from the room 😝.
Generally it’s common sense applied to our native fauna. The fauna here are on the whole not aggressive, unlike places like the USA, with bears, cougars, coyotes, wolves, or in EU where some places have bears & wolves. Most people bitten is due to stupidity or not paying attention to where you’re walking.
My dog and I tend to swim more in the warmer weather. Where I am in Tassie we rarely come across sharks, water is too cool for them.
I think Australia being that dangerous says something about it being attractive not just for humans but for other life forms as well. It definitely deserves the wild competition!
Good point
The untethered soul,
is 1 of my favorite books.
Presently, I'm in Australia.
I have been here since January....I'm from the usa.
the nature in Australia taught me to lose my fears of spiders & snakes.
Heck yes!!
It truly is the best book. I think everyone needs to read it as the sole info for "how to: on life" I used to go every tuesday and thursday to meditate and see Mickey chat at temple of the universe. He's got the best energy in real life. But it always left me thinking, wow, everything "problem" or emotion makes sense now and you get that from the book too. Love this Australia content as well! I've been twice and the last time I traveled down the entire east coast. So gorgeous. Hope to go back and do the west coast one day.
Hi again Sorelle and NEILA - during my cycling treks I created some easy dishes suitable for a solo traveller with limited storage - I like to eat healthily but enjoy it as well so here’s one very easy but tasty rice dish - garlic, green capsicum, tinned tuna already with a curry flavour (laksa, Mexican etc) one cup of basmati rice (low GI and already in one serve tubs) and cook in olive oil in that order - very simple, healthy and filling - bon appetite - my mother who recently passed and not afraid of life once said to me “young one you can’t go around life - you must pass through it” - I’ve learnt that many people look in the wrong places for happiness and are never satisfied - happiness is an outcome of our journeys not a goal.
**CRACKING UP** Don't worry, I'm staying right here on the couch in Texas but I love tagging along to see where you go...and I'm glad you kept it secret, they'd just ruin it!
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It is so similar to living here in the Arizona Sonoran Desert. Everything is deadly, prickly, and poisonous...BUT we LOVE it!!
I visited Australia for the first time for a month at the end of last year and LOVED it! I definitely found more things that I didn't know were there to try and kill me but nothing stopped me from continuing to exploring! I'd move there tomorrow, fear of spiders or not!
Ive lived in aussie twice and I wish that I had done more exploring. I found that the snakes hid generally and the spiders I dodged. i think your decision to explore Australia is fantastic
Cannot wait!!!
Sorelle, your videos are of the same high quality as national geographic videos. It's great that you are applying your talents to such topics as humans and nature, humans in nature, nature in humans.
Wooow! This is insane feedback! Thank you! I’m really enjoying leveling up my camera work lately! So I’m glad you noticed 🥹🥹🥹🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
@@SorelleAmore You are very welcome! And thank you for your videos!
I agree 😊, and the nature is amazing 🤩
So glad to see you back home here in Australia and can’t wait to see what you do with your house. Also can’t wait to see your travels and I hope you meet up with other influencers like Max & Occy now Max is renovating his own place also 🥰
The forest and the fog around it look amazing.
Sorelle, I have to tell you, you are hitting hard the phase of the next Sorelle!!!❤ The environment transforms you and this is visible in your face and your videos. Keep going, don't give up. I see a bright future coming up to you. Thank you for letting us witness your journey through life. ❤
I’m pretty excited for this chapter. So glad to see you noticed the changes in my videos tooo! Makes me happy. Thank you for being here 🥳🥳🥳
Bugs, spiders as big as your hand (tarantulas), 4 inch Centipedes , Scorpions big and small, Snakes (rattle Snakes), just a few of the lovely critters that call Mexico home, as well as me. Oh I forgot, sharks, Orcas, dolphins, whales, Mountain lions, wolves, Jaguars. But its so worth it to live in a beautiful safe place. Keep exploring Sorelle.
Hi again Sorelle - for self preservation and enjoyment all you have to do is respect Mother Nature and her potential for nurturing and fury which no doubt your Icelandic treks taught you - a young British women was found deceased leaning against a great a massive gum tree in Trephina Gorge East McDonnell Ranges NT on a 40C degree Celsius day - she had no water with her but only her day backpack - Huntsmen spiders by the way will bite you if they feel threatened - I don’t think about snakes despite accidentally walking over brown one as it slept on a warm rock in the Flinders Ranges - were so lucky to have this amazing country around us.
Your photography/videography was what originally attracted me to your site several years ago and it what’s bringing me back now along with your stories. I missed a bit of Iceland but will go back and catch up.
Thank you for still being here!! I’ll go back to iceland one day and story tell better. Don’t think I fully gave that country justice, or at least right now I feel my videography leveled up a whole bunch and I’m itchy to capture iceland. So we’ll have Icelandic content one day again (possibly) 🥳
I lived in Florida, USA and we had our neighborhood alligators and various venomous snakes. I just watched where I was going and let them pass. If anything the alligators were afraid of us. We also had coyotes, bobcats, panthers and bears.
What's the fun in life without a little danger ?!??
Not to mention Sharks off the coast, stunned iguanas following out of trees, and the most dangerous creature... the snowbird.
I can’t handle how amazing and inspiring your videos are ✨ living outdoors is probably the wildest thing a modern person can do and you are sharing this with us. Gooosh I love you Sorelle ❤🥹 take care of yourself
Knowing how and where all the animals live is key to living with them ,awareness at all times comes natural after a while
Loooove the cinematography! Great job ❤
Hey sorelle keep going around aus love your videos. 👍
thank you for sharing your world and creativity with us
Hey Sorelle, good call on the...... not naming all of the beautiful spots.. Having spent many moons in the Oz outback, you too will become extremely friendly with all of its inhabitants, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Western Australia is still a secret destination, as far as I am concerned, its Rugged Coastline is out of this world.
6:17 the untethered soul kickstarted my own personal journey of self-discovery. it’s the book i suggest most to others, and i’ve shipped it to countless since i first read it 14 years ago.
love this passage!
SOOOOO good!!!! Love this passage!
Welcome back everyone 🙏🏾
❤What a wonderful vlog 😊 I think it would be a smart idea to start a business for people who just wanna take a walk with you, enjoy your infectious smiles and positive outlook 👍 Also the videography is next level, you really show off the beauty of nature! The morning shots after the famous egg salad were stunning! So I’ll be here for your trip through Australia from the comfort of my home 😉
I have to take a torch if I go under the house at night as there's a resident Small-eyed snake. There's often a Golden crowned snake too.
Snakes are great, think of them as an attraction (NE NSW).
Thank you so much for sharing this! A dream of mine someday which will probably never happen…really appreciate sharing this adventure with us!
Thanks for watching! 🥳🥳
Worked around Oz as an archaeologist surveying for sites and digging holes. Walking around Pt Headland (NW coast of WA on a map) on a sandy coastal flood plain covered in large spinifex grass clumps, and EVERYWHERE between the spinifex were Brown Snake tracks. Yet I never saw a snake.
Excavating on the NSW south coast for a highway expansion you'd dig up Sydney Funnel Web spiders, but you don't touch them, just scoop them up in a shovel and move them away. :)
I live in Brisbane's northern Suburbs (Kallangur) and it's a rare week I don't see a snake in my yard. Mostly pythons, but a few brown snakes and green tree snakes (very hard to see).
Wow I love your videos watching all the way from South Africa..
Yeeeehaaa!!! This is dope!
@@SorelleAmore I believe you wich I can do such stuff...
thank you for sharing your world and creativity with us, Sorelle.
you inspire me to do the same.
Love your videos, it just makes me want to experience another adventure! Can I ask you, what kind of camera are you using? Love it!
Loving these new videos, your campervan adventures have always made some of my fav videos ❤
😂😂😂 I don’t know if you convinced me to not be afraid of all the dangers of Australia, but that being said, I would so love to visit someday!
Respect, for not outing your wonderful locations……….🙏 the locals and those that do know will appreciate you for it 👍
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I live in Australia and it is the most beautiful place to live. Come to Sunshine Coast Qld, you’ll love it!!!
Which specific model of Land Cruiser do you have? And, is it a hybrid? Thank you.
Lived all over Australia, in the country too, up mountains, on the coast...... Been hiking, camping, mountain climbing and swimming in freshwater holes....Only seen a snake twice, crocodiles on a tour in the NT, spiders are in every country but the mystery bites are seriously a spoiler, that you have to deal with regularly. But it is so worth it. Keep on going Sorelle.
Love your basic setup and the minimalistic approach. In a world of bolt-on accessories, gvm upgrades, and 'take the f'ing kitchen sink with you' vehicle-build, content creators, keeping it simple always is best. It harks back to the glory days of vehicle exploration without all the mod cons that clutter the experience. The biggest thing I will say you are missing, that will transform your travels is a chainsaw (Sthil domestic, cheap, light). Light, warmth, and hot water! And who doesn't like sitting next to a fire at night? A visceral woman's place is barefoot around the campfire at night. Fire also keeps those vicious Australian drop bears away! 😉
Australia is an amazing place to explore
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❤thank you. Appreciate your videos.
I love keeping some places secret! It encourages people to get out and explore for themselves. Also pleeease use as much natural based soaps and products when you’re bathing in nature. To avoid toxins getting in streams and all the lives who depend on them 🙏🏽🌿❤️
Oh I absolutely doooo!!! El natural 🥳🥳🥳
I doubt it is any more dangerous than anywhere else you just need to take the appropriate precautions and wear suitable protection. I still would like to come to Australia for the opals and gold panning. Thanks Sorelle stay safe.
Sounds like a good book,I can relate to the short paragraph you read👍
good luck with your trip. As a troopy owner I'll offer a bit of advice....cover the grille with some stainless steel flyscreen, it will stop bugs and seeds etc getting into your radiator and depending on if you have a deep cycle battery fitted, put a winch on the bull bar. It will come in very handy if you intend going on soft sanded beaches, plus the usual snatch straps and recovery gear.
Love it. Thank you!
very interesting and inspiring videos about nature
Lloolll this video was epic 😂😂. You grow accustomed to it I guess. But like you, i still squirk and scream when the cocharoaches are around...either crawling or flying. The flying ones are bloody horrible 😂. Other than that, when I'm walking deep in the bush or on a hike, I tend to drag a light stick behind my to ward off snakes 😁
Girl i resonate so much with everything you just said hahaha I´ve been living in Byron Bay for the past 2 years and living with mice in the closet, hearing snakes moving on the roof of the house, checking inside your shoes for spiders, hearing cockroaches in the house at night even if you keep it clean... it becomes a part of your normal day, with time and acceptance of the land you are in. At the end of the day, i am grateful to be able to experience a place on earth that hasn´t been as touched by humans as many others and still lets nature take up as much space as she desires. Im not sure for how much longer the Australian Government will be so friendly with the animals and wild nature here. So im gonna enjoy being one of the few who has gotten the opportunity to experience a more raw unfiltered wild Earth - Australia.
Surf looks amazing.....watching you on a board is poetry in motion (Thank you) As for visiting australia....its on my bucket list while I take in the Australia open....Grand slam in Aussie land! Warmest of regards....Pain is the voice of Freedom....Carpe Diem!! 1000 islands Canada
Hi! Greetings from Poland! ❤
Greetings from spidery Australia :)
@@SorelleAmore Привет из России, где правительство опасней, чем животные :)
I think Australian locals are good at being prepared. As you mention you adapt if you've been here a while. The biggest oversight many travelers commit in Australia is lack of preparation. I've witnesses individuals arriving wanting to do the Overland Track in Cradle Mountain with nothing but plastic shopping bags for a 2 day walk, only to be refused entry.
I've also done tails in summer when there's snakes (I ran some of the overland track listening to Beyoncé so fun! I felt like I was making enough noise to deter snakes but we saw some. Possibly don't run the trails in summer? Snakes like to hide behind logs.
Please do a video of Tasmania it's always left out - it's soooo special and my home state. I can give you some pointers. :)
Oh YES!!! I would ABSOLUTELY visit Australia after watching your video Sorelle!!! Are you kidding?!!? It looks TOTALLY GORGEOUS!!!!! Snakes and spiders don’t scare me- I respect them! A Washingtonian looking to escape a cold wet winter with a warm tropical Australian summer!!! 🎉😎✌️
to beautifull.....to far....thank you for sharing your experiences...
I’m always out in nature here in oz deep in the rainforest in creeks and animals, bugs, leeches, ticks, spiders are all apart of the nature and natural experience. there not out to hurt you. A mutual respect is all that is needed and giving them some space. Australia is beautiful and it’s rare to come across deathly animals unless you put yourself in the places they are like croc infested rivers ect.
I have been living in Innisfail, north Queensland for the past couple of months - and apparently there are crocodiles everywhere around here 🤔 BUT also INCREDIBLE waterfalls, rainforests, ancient birds like the cassowary (who are also dangerous haha), gorgeous beaches: the opportunities for exploration are endless 😍
It’s dangerous everywhere. Enjoy the world because it’s beautiful and you’ll discover so much.
Aaaaamen
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Wow, makes me want to visit Australia right now :)) stunning and beautiful
Oh my gosh I freaking LOVE that book!!!!!!
Your comments that you always have your guard up and live in a state of borderline anxiety really summed up living anywhere in Australia outside of the cities and towns. In other countries people look out for large predatory animals. The difference here is that our dangerous creatures like to surprise you by turning up in unexpected places, often in your house. Here, the smaller the creature the bigger the danger. Even some of our birds are raucous and aggressive. I've had to fight a Currawong for the pegs on the clothesline because he took a fancy to them. I walk out the front door and get threatened by Curlews. I've been chased in my loungeroom by a Huntsman as big as a dinner plate and woken in the night by thousands of baby Huntsman spiders that had hatched. I've been attacked by a Coastal Taipan ( lucky it missed), uncovered Red Bellies in the wood heap, opened the grill on the stove one morning to find a large Carpet Python curled up in it, and twice had snakes slide across my foot while I stood admiring the scenery or sat on the front step. Australia is challenging to live in. The funniest encounter I've ever had in the bush was at night, while we were hunting. Our mate was in front of me and he suddenly stopped and fell backwards. It was like he'd hit an invisible barrier. It was actually a massive spider web and the spider was HUGE! But is Australia a stunningly beautiful, diverse land? Absolutely!
Thank you Sorelle. The Untethered Soul changed my life years ago. Somewhere between Canada and Mexico I gave it away. It´s time to buy another copy. We have spiders and scorpions here. I was bitten by a half dead black widow who had crawled into my folded up jeans. Lesson learned. Always shake and inspect before you put anything on. Thankfully I am fine. It hurt for a bit. I got some antivenom and now the scar is almost gone. I love all creatures and respect them. Question: I love your bathing suit. Would you share where you got it? I need a new one for our adventures all over this magnificent country which, according to most people, is also dangerous. It is positively and magnificently fascinating and glorious! Here´s to exploring...living in the moment. Much love to you!
Visited Australia last year and the only wild animals we encountered were at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. 😅 We had been warned about spiders and jellyfish 🪼 so we were vigilant and stayed out of the ocean. 🌊
Great trip! Highly recommend to everyone.
Where is that black skirt with the side slit from? I need ✨
Having lived in an Australian Bush property, I can tell you lots of animals can kill, but you'd really need to piss them off 🙂
I've danced with one of the most beautiful snakes in the world - the Red Belly Black. Well, I was picking up fallen gum tree sticks - until one of them wasn't 🙂
It's a large Red Belly which normally suns in about this spots most days, I normally keep my distance and say hello - but this days it shot between feet and I jumped higher than I've done in a long long time - I guess neither of us were ready to be too familiar.
Then there's the large Goanna that came up my front stairs and clawed at the front door .... he was just having a snoop.
The trick is - don't feed the animals.
I love those comments but yeah Aussie is wild, but balanced at the same time Australia is Australia is a five of life
Awesome!☀
Nice vid Sorelle.
Dont forget about drop bears being dangerous 😱
How good is the eastern seaboard with all the positive ions crashing in from the waves.
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As an Aussie who's lived overseas for many years, I've come to realise that you learn from a young age which are just annoying and which will put you in hospital. Avoid the hospital ones, take salt to rainforests (for leaches), take vinegar to the northern beaches (jellyfish), don't swim in some places, and take bottles of water everywhere there's no tap. A first aid kit and knowledge goes a long way too.
Would love to visit Australia but when I do I want to last 2-3 months to justify the long and extensive journey. As a digital nomad this is possible, just has not happened yet. But I can’t wait, Australia is an incredible country. 😊
yes we definitely become accustom to Australia's nature that's for sure. I live up in the mountains of NSW you know where that Banana is lol. 4x4 check, trail bike check. I'm always out and about and talking to the locals, country towns are my Norm. Your content is really good and thanks for sharing 🙂Your adventures here will be great to follow. There are wild dogs around too though they tend to rack off when they are surprised or you come across any. They hate sharp smacking wacking or clap sounds, like most dogs do.
You're amazing ! Love from India !
Come on.. if we go to these wild territory, we gotta adapt and respect.
It will take a lot of time to really learn to live in these kind of places but if you did it, you can do anything 😁.
Sadly many of us who mostly lived in city can't seem to adjust very well in wild.. takes a lot of time to adjust and learn. Hope you safe journey 😅
Love your videos! What do you use to film?
A camera 🥳🥳🥳
Just playing ;) haha. Sony a7s4, 24-70 and 16-35mm g master lenses and PolarPro filters :)
Thank you for the spider warning :)
I live in a tiny country town in Australia and the amount of snakes I have seen is terrifying. I lost a cat from a bite, saved a second cat.
A friend of mine just moved to Australia so yeeeesssss 🎉😍
My daughter had spiders in the fridge! What’s with that? I found only one in Exmouth and it was in an outdoor bathroom 😅 enjoy ❤
4 important things in life - Health, Freedom, Family and Integrity.
To be successful surround yourself with successful people. Be kind to all you meet, smile at the world and take care :-)
Those things wouldn't scare me to come to Australia;) ❤ actually all that sounds like the nature there is healthy and there's prosperity and it's protected so it means the country has things in place and good vibes
such coincidence: i bought "the untethered soul" just yesterday. 😊
Epic read!
I wanted to stay blissfully ignorant to this part of Australia! 😂
I’ll have to enjoy it vicariously! Look forward to more!
very brave going solo , i hope you have done some first aid training and bought a kit plus the snake bite kit . , just learn to use your eyes and ears , dont panic . lots of fun to be had , did you get some recovery gear and a uhf ?
Nope. Just nope.
But I'll binge on your videos cause it really is very pretty. 🙃
Glad to see you happy. 🫶🏼
I spent one year in Australia and I got stung by a bluebottle jellyfish (that was scary, but obviously not deadly. Didnt call an ambo because didnt have a travel insurande, lol... But I survived so All good...) Then I almost stumbled over a brown snake once, but I didnt, so that was fine too. I remember someone getting severely bitten by some spider at a bush party though... And I saw a taipan snake once and a redback spider once (but nothing happened) So yeah of course it has dangers (but many tropical places are like that, not just Australia! People seem to forget that...) And... It depends, danger.... people have a bit skewed sense of what danger really means, in my opinion. The most dangerous thing on earth are ticks, I got ill with Lyme disease from a tickbite in Sweden (which is otherwise deemed as a "safe" country regaring wildlife) 18 years ago. Still super sick. So, most of the world is dangerous in that sense. I freak out more by ticks than I would do by spiders and snakes I think. Hope to become a resident and land owner in Australia one day. Down Under caught my heart. Its been 15 years now, it's about time to go back soon. 💖
Which state are you currently exploring and which ones do you plan on visiting?
Love from Melbourne!
Bear Grylls taught us: on an Australian river, first throw a Stone in, if nothing snaps it, you can go in.
Strangely... I'm kinda less scared to be in Australia, exploring and risking to come across Nature than being in a big city, exploring and risking to come across human. At worse in Australia me or the snake, the spider or else we're just trying to survive. In city I could be the one trying to survive and the other not. Great video has always ! Could ear your voice for hours ! kiss
I hear you! I will take the wildlife any day! 🥳🥳🥳
U forgot to mention the Drop Bears ;)
As an Australian, the most ‘dangerous’ wild animal encounter I’ve had was when a possum ran through the back door and into the bathroom!
I would love to live in Australia one day! But the arachnophobia in me says NO! The arachnophobia in me also refuses to allow me to accept any spider that big as being friendly lol 🥲
In Australia the humans and the animals are all just living their own lives but we just happen to cross paths sometimes. It’s how’s one approaches this encounter to weather things become dangerous or not! Just don’t be scared but be aware and give right of way to the venomous ones ✌️