mate, you are a Prospector, adventurer, historian, detective and story teller. Way more than a simple bushwalker. 👍

For those wondering the book I referenced is ‘Pioneers of Tasmania’s West Coast’ by C.J Binks. Great book, Thanks for watching!

@TasmanianDevil3

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4WFxpegfs6vp7g.html Sums it up perfectly

@robspunk

2 жыл бұрын

Mate one day soon there will be a Tassie tiger moment. Where it's all gone and it's too late.

Another perfect production with a good message, those words of a prospector can’t ring more true

@Daniel-vx6uj

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no looks like sum one broke your record. Better get busy you got sum competition now. 🤣🤣🤣👍👍🍻✌

@gorillagoldhunters

Жыл бұрын

@@Daniel-vx6uj and here we are a year later!! Levi!!! 91 grams! 3 days;p lol

What can I say?…. Just thought your videos couldn’t get better Rob. I REALLY enjoyed the beautiful scenery as always but I especially loved and truly appreciated the words of wisdom regarding the senseless destruction of our pristine Tasmanian environment. We are so blessed to have this ancient wonderland and I hope everyone sees your video and takes up the fight with the powers to be to save it before it’s too late!! Once it’s gone it’s just another Tassie Tiger…. By the way Rob did I mention that I love that shiny gold stuff too 😁 Keep up the great work!!

Thankyou for speaking for the forest. There is no recovery from clear felling and burning. The native ecosysyem is gone for centuries, if not forever. Countless rare plants, fungi, soil fauna, often still unidentified are lost, along with all the animals which depend on them. Tasmanias natural heritage is so unique, a tiny remnant of great Gondwanan forests, an Antarctic- like fragment, as it was 30, 000 years ago. It is irreplaceable.

@tomast000

11 ай бұрын

Does the objection to burning off include indigenous burning?

I'm on a number of bushwalking forums, though you certainly do have some "superior" types in the Tasmanian ones. Gives me headache from eyerolling! Its devastating to see the destruction the your state govt is perpetuating on the forests. Paved paradise indeed. Great video, congrats on the shiny haul.

@richardbrown9344

2 жыл бұрын

They arent a govt they are a crime syndicate who will oneday be held to account..

Feeling the pain Rob, saw the area you were referring to, re forestry sadly they only care about money, so sad for all Tasmanians. I had major brain surgery in the 19/01/2022 it's going to take me a bit to recover, I hope to get back amongst the beautiful forests it's heartbreaking to think I won't get the chance ever again in some areas. Thanks for sharing between you and Levi you have helped me stay alive for the last year or so, your videos give me something to look forward too, gives me future goals to aim for..Thanks big fella..

@HRRRRRDRRRRR

Жыл бұрын

New Forests don't even have a wikipedia page, what are you Tasmanian's doing?

Another beautiful creation mate! Respect for calling out the needless destruction, your art and subtlety. If only enough people could really experience such pristine environments, preservation would be a priority. The trip is a pretty perfect example of how minimal impact resource extraction can still be highly profitable, in more ways than just financial. The same for the logging, imagine how few high-value trees removed with minimum impact sold into high-value markets would replace the income of an entire hectare of Eucalyptus. I think there would be plenty of young people crying out for the opportunity to work in such environments, in a truly sustainable fashion, just imagine the mental health benefits 👍👍👍

Almost had to activate the epirb to avoid having to walk out of there with such heavy pockets 🤣🤣🤣 well done prospector Rob 👍🏾

Another nice one mate, for me your videos inspire, show the stunning wilderness of Tassie and history of those long gone. Don't change anything Rob, you provide people like me with far more than words could ever describe. Stay safe mate 👍👍

The prospector is the adventurer who lives and works in hope. Another outstanding video. Your heart is not truly full until you camp by a stream the sound of the water the smell of the bush the tiny taste of freedom of a past not quite forgotten. The destruction is sick what takes years to grow destroyed in seconds . Keep up the good work my brother.

U must be a jack of all trades. Cuz your one hell of a creator as well your the only one on here that I can literally feel the passion and love you have. And way to use the haters for the fuel to keep that passion alive.👍👍🤘🍻✌

That's a great 👍 find of gold mate!.. But many thanks for showing us the beauty of Tasmania and highlighting the destruction on the rainforest. It's very important that people like yourself show the world 🌍 what's going out there. Keep the great work up mate!..😊

Awesome vid Rob. Also really appreciated the rant, its refreshing to hear someone talking sense about our forests.

Great work! Looks like Levi got some serious competition.

Another fantastic production, and more importantly a very message that should be listened to rob, great work you rock.

Another great vid Rob 👍👏 nice haul of the 'gold stuff' 👌 Makes me very sad 😭 to see our beautiful forests being destroyed

G'day Rob that was a great haul of gold you got there mate, my wife says you always pick the perfect sound tracks. As I've been visiting Tassie for over 30 years my heart breaks at the carnage done by Sustainable timber Tasmania.😢

Many thanks Rob for the video you are so much more than just a bushwalker, thank you for showing me the forests which I can no longer enter and experience, we lose so much in the long for the short term gain that STT get, please continue educating the people as to what is happening. What a beautiful camp site you had there and shortly it will be gone.

Rob I thoughtly enjoy this video 👌. Your adventure, your cinematography and your message regarding the plight of our beautiful Bush in Tassie was fantastic. Oh and the music was perfect. Well done. 😁👍👏

Your videos get better every time! Thank you for highlighting the destruction of the logging, conservation of our forests is so important. Best music score 👍🏻 I enjoy following your adventures every time 😊

Unbelievable mate we need people like you to document the destruction senseless destruction loving your work😢😢

@Rob.Parsons

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, ill try!

Thank you for your adventures Mate. Awesome 👍

So, Rob, the big question is - Does the site still exist or has it been totally devastated? I hear where you coming from mate. A couple of years back, there was some clear felling of some old growth forest on the Cradle Mountain Road proposed. Despite the protests, signed partitions and signed letters from land owners in the area, it still went ahead. When we have such a small percentage of old growth forests left on our planet, you really have to wonder………. Oh, and a good haul there mate.

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

I have been back and only the top of the plateau is cleared. they left the sides where it is too steep and the creek where I live.

The predicament we find ourselves in today with sea-rise, coral bleaching, sedimentation silting and choking rivers, sediment-suspension affecting reefs and disappearances of our native animals are the cause of man, centuries of environmental adjustments for personal expectations of comfort & wealth. 'Adjust to the Environment.... Do Not Adjust the Environment' "The Environment Belongs to the World and Future Generations, saying Sorry Will Be To late" Thanks Again Rob👍

Awesome job. You just keep raising the bar with your productions.

Thanks Rob,,, your vids are the best by a mile,,, love the simplicity, the humility,,, and the lack of care for your hair. ( unlike some others we won,t mention ) :-)

Another great film, thanks rob

i love the way you present your videos, great work

That was awesome to watch Rob. I muchly enjoyed it. Kicker effort in the creek too🤙👌👍

Epic video Rob, we have an amazing backyard to explore that's for sure. Nice sentiments too, ditto on that one mate 👍🏻

hey mate, good work! watched a few of your videos and love seeing our states wild side. As a lad that grew up and lives in New Norfolk I'm very familiar with the logging industry and best mates with a fella from one the renowned logging families in Tasmania. I'm always intrigued at the antics and comments from activists against logging and forestry as all I've ever personally seen is sustainable logging of mostly pine but also hardwood plantations that were planted 30 years prior to being harvested. I've not known or heard of any old growth being cleared or planned to be harvested, and all the footage you see in the media from activists is of mostly pine plantation operations which makes them look very stupid.... Now I'm open minded on the topic, but no one has ever been able to show me actual footage/proof of any old growth harvesting or clearing. Id be interested in learning more about the conservationists side of things but I need solid proof before I can believe anything they say. I think that's why most of the general population don't believe a word the likes of the greens etc. say as they are generally hypocritical. If anyone can enlighten me I'm happy to listen but don't just come with theory's, there needs to be solid proof

@nickb1557

2 жыл бұрын

@ tasmech. Your closed minded. How much proof do you need? Go for a drive before you dispute the destruction of Tasmanian native Forrest's. Your mates family has: had state laws changed to remove free speech about Forestry Tasmanian and protest will have you arrested on the spot. (Unfortunately we beat you Canada) have pushed independent forest workers out of the forests, even a Bullock team doing sustainable and traditional selective logging, adding to state unemployment. As well as burning all the left over old growth timber making sure no independent family run mill can find, use, buy any old growth timber. Then selling them fire wood grade timber so they have no choice but to close. Your mates break the environmental logging laws eg. Logging next to creeks and rivers. Cable log. Assault to protesters, forest enthusiasts, or even any car with a sticker indicating some love of the forest. Even guns have been used by your mates. Forests get locked up, which is against the agreement, public get to see the bush using the roads Forestry Tasmania makes as their payment for the wood harvested. The tourist attractions known about are a lot less than Forestry Tasmania knows about. The public have been kept in the dark about these places, so they can continue destruction with no photos of what has been done. No way to argue for them to stop because of... Even look on Google maps and you can see the destruction. The hybrid gum tree that is planted everywhere results in poison in the creeks and rivers! 80 species or so of crayfish in Tasmania, problem is with the poisons affecting reproduction with all offspring now one sex. What's your deal when their gone? "Well there was no real photos?" Don't be an ostrich mate!

@honeybower

Жыл бұрын

Seriously Liam666? Open your eyes!

Great vid mate.You did the hard yards and got the rewards.Same sort of thing over here with the forestry although not so much with the native bush.Pine forests everwhere and after harvest slash left to clog up gullies until the next big downpour and then washouts everywhere.Anywhere close to the coast has resulted in sediment draining into the water and smothering all the shellfish and silting up the shallows.Criminal Keep up the exploring

Holy moly the amount of gold you found and the size of the pieces was amazing! Awesome video as always 🙌

You made me love Tasmania more ❤ Good luck with prospecting and thank you for sharing your travels and journeys💕

Thanks for the video Rob. I think your film making and sound track skills are fantastic. Big thumbs up.

Mate, as a new resident of Tasmania, I have been so inspired by your very professional videos. The quality, the music, the editing, the prospecting, the appreciation for our beautiful bushland...everything is done to absolute perfection! I would love to tag along on some of your adventures and just learn from the master!

Awesome vid mate, everything you release is gold!

Yep, I've got a place up in NW Tassie and it's clear-felled on three sides of the property, with a river on the other. To make paper from the most beautiful cool-temperate rainforest in the world.

Beautiful video Rob. It’s great to see you shining a light on what’s happening to our beautiful forests✌️🌱

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Scotty!

Awesome! Love it but the logging makes my heart hurt sooo much. Brilliant video and message. Love your work. 💗

I love Catching up on Your Journeys Rob...They take me to a Good Place...Tasmanian Wilderness ❤

Another brilliant video Rob, keep the entertainment coming.

Nice cache Rob. Crikey…. You’re gonna need a bigger opening in your snuff bottle nozzle if you keep this up!

What a great production. Well done for raising the awareness of the dreaded ‘sustainable timber Tasmania’ Let the gold keep coming. Cheers Matt

Haters will always hate, Rob. Keep doing what yer doing. Myself ...among a lot of others enjoy yer content. 👍🏻

Nice goin mate, good gold, good scenery.....while it lasts. Well done young fella

Exquisite adventure that rewarded your effort without harming anything, a meditation in work!

Well done Rob, good onya!

dont ever apologize, i love your videos

Really enjoyed this Vid man. Thanks for doing it.

Excellent man culling the land and destroying the habitat is so wrong ,keep up the great flicks thanks

Your words in this production were amazing mate.

Thanks Rob. Another great video 👍👏

Hell yes love the videos Bloke makes me want to be there myself and finish my roadtrip

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

Get about the state mate, its beautiful.

@adrianthered9876

2 жыл бұрын

I will mate for sure I just finished a round Oz roadtrip only place I have left to do now is Tassie hopefully the end of the year

Amazing video Rob, beautiful area too, such a special place! I feel your pain, had a fire destroy a creek i loved to prospect a couple years ago, will be decades before it regrows and we can get back in there

@WestCoastGoldProspecting

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what he got 😂

Level up bro!! Both on vid and the shiny stuff. Some very nice honey holes you found there. Thinking it's your shout! 🍻 Keep up the good work!! 🤿🤿

Awesome bud cool footage an adventure

unreal video mate! top quality content! it is crazy what forestry Tas gets away with :( :( that gold is unreal!

Did Gold panning, in camping ground New Zealand, top of South Island years ago!! Literally got gold fever!! Broke my back LOL! But alot of fun! Thankyou for sharing...sad about the ripping down and raping of trees.

Another great video, l agree it's legalised vandalism that forestry is doing to the old growth forests in Tassie, I thought forestry are the custodians of old growth forests. I love the sound track to your videos, Smith &Thell are now on my play list. Keep up the good work.

From US here, my dad signed a 25 year contract with Forest Service... 1 year before he took his last great adventure, they came in and Clear cut part of the forest I gtew up playing in. When I saw it I sat and wept for hours. I could feel her pain, literally! It isnt just Tasmania it all over the world. Mother earth will retaliate, and many humans will perish...its Karma for greed.

just found your channel and i am so interested. from the spectacular scenery to the very informative narrative. keep up the good work

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear Steve!

Awesome video Rob keep doing you !!!

Oooh yes just got phone reception again and a new Rob vid gonna sit back and enjoy this

Great vid as always cheers Rod

Great video, and thanks for including a conservation message about the forests. Agree with you that it’s a lack of widespread understanding - not a lack of love for nature - that allows this nature destruction to occur.

@Rob.Parsons

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that mate. I think I need to do a dedicated forest video

@gusgoswell6884

Жыл бұрын

@@Rob.Parsons please do! That would be great. I love learning about the plants and wildlife you see on your adventures and hearing your thoughts on the conservation of those special places

Great stuff the nature video and sniping are amazing

Absolutely awesome video !!

You are so lucky to be able to do that in your state. In Qld, almost all land is private or national park. No fossicking or camping. Also, I wouldnt be game to leave my vehicle like that. Around here it would be gone or stripped when you returned.

G’day mate I’m just sitting here watching your video for the first time and it is absolutely awesome I love what you’re doing Tassie looks like a good place for prospecting I’m in Victoria we’ve got some good stuff here to

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much mate welcome!

Inspired by you again Rob, hanging out for the rivers to warm up here in Vic High Country.

Thankyou for another beautiful yet, Unusually horrifying video. You're dead set a legend Rob!

Fantastic, good on you.

What a great adventure it’s a shame that the forest department is coming in and clear cutting…. like you said all the beautiful old tres and foliage….. I’m not a prospector, but wow, you got a great three day haul there ….beautiful gold…… thank you for doing what you’re doing. I love tagging along for your adventures..>Wayne

Id take some bushwalking advice from you any day cob, you're a beast!

@Rob.Parsons

Жыл бұрын

hehe thanks mate!

I am a newbie to Tasmania. I love it. But. I agree. I cannot understand the forestry policies that destroy such beauty and develop mono cultures. Jobs is a lame argument. Nature and tourism is forever, poor forestry is a limp sugar hit. Love your work 😎

I have just watched this trek, not sure why I missed it, but agree with all you said re our old forest. As usual, wonderful stuff, you are way past just a bushwalker, lol. Agree with Propector, historian, fact finder and relate your stories so naturally, such a priviledge to view your channel for sure..

Love your videos Rob, to think I use to rip on all Tasmanians when I should have been green with envy

That's one heck of a trip we'll done my man

bloody awesome edit curly ol montgomery wrote so true of the hardships triumphs and tribulations of our lifestyle 130 years ago it still rings true as ever nice shiny to cobba goodonya cheers

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

Aint nothing changed but the size of the nuggets. haha, one day we'll find the mcginty. Cheers Curly

Great video.Very upsetting about the forest being torn down.Australia has almost no habitat protection and the government rejects time and time again anything to change that.

Of all the KZread videos & channels I believe yours is the best. 👍🤗 I am slowly watching every video you have made. I watched to one where you found the old timers grave last night. One man down but you both made it. 👍 Amazing content, nothing more to say.⛏️🇦🇺😊🙋

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Matty that mean a lot to me mate!

Great video! Those bloody bulldozers are going to wreck Tasmania’s forests, it’s so sad.

Love the video mate and the message too, what an apt choice of songs with big yellow taxi !!............ But after watching this, I think you have a problem....... you need to get a snuffer bottle with a bigger nozzle !! Great bloody problem to have aye 😂😂 And one last thing mate. A weigh in is NEVER pointless.... would've loved to have seen the end total 😍 All good though...... please keep the magic coming 🙂

You are the modern version of Philosopher Smith - keep up the great work!

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate that

loving your videos mate ❤

No way i didn't know you had sassafras there I live in West Virginia USA and there is a pile of sassafras trees here. That's awesome.

you called em out , now you know why there after you , stay strong rob , you got my vote 👍

Enjoyed that mate nice one🤙

Crazy beautiful place to be reset to dirt,I'm not fond of the idea either,and the gold find that is so cool

Heck yea man. Rob your buddy Levi gonna wish he had went. Good luck on the next one.

@Rob.Parsons

Жыл бұрын

I've taken him in a few times now. happy campers.

Damn right you're a prospector, mate. And a good one! 😀

It's not " final"it's fire, not "riva" it's river... lol . Great vid Rob. Keep em coming

How shit that they are gonna destroy that area! The problem with the world are the humans that want to ruin everything natural, on a plus mate that is some sweet gold, great effort legend 🤙🏻

G'day from vic. they need to respect where they are logging from and replant the same species. and only hit the area that have been logged before. All the best Mate.

Fantastic again Rob. Makes me angry with forestry and ruining the pristine bushland.

There you go Levi. You need to lift your game mate. Rob is finding all the big stuff.

@Rob.Parsons

2 жыл бұрын

haha not too loudly you'll upset him.

Great video As usual Rob. You are right, they shouldn’t have the right to clear fell old growth forests and they actually don’t have the right. But money speaks louder than common sense. My dad told me 60 years ago, that I would be able to follow him in the timber industry because it was unsustainable, although not the exact would he used. It is time we’re moved to a future of synthetic product to build our houses and furniture, which we will have to do sometime, so why not now. But the way, those quartz views looked enticing. You certainly put a mile on my face with all that gold and I am very pleased for you. Well done.

Amazing vid