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Love your vids! Kills me to imagine how much time you spend setting up a camera, walking away from it, walking back to get it, and then cutting that last bit out in the edit. Keep up the great work!

I spent over 30 years on the road. The latter 20 I had been attempting to go all natural if not all archaic. But you're right, there's some aspects you just need water and equipment for because of modern times. Ironically. A camp stove, water filtration, and frankly... Ziplocs. Those things are gold.

My grandmother taught me fly fishing. She gave me my grandfather's bamboo fly rod that he made as he had passed when I was 3. Something so simple can have a lifetime of good memories. Keep it simple.

You Scots, Welsh and Brits are so blessed to have these beautiful free open wilds in your awesome countries. Here in Germany we don´t have such areas. You don´t find a place here where you don´t find sign of civilization within a 5km radius. And even if we had them they would be over regulated so you could be thankful if you could just walk there. Thanks for your videos. They make me dream....

Stravaig. I've been feeling that urge strongly myself of late ( or whatever the Welsh equivalent is anyway). Time to book some leave from work and get out there.

Best video ever.!!! The sight of you scrambling after that wee trout was priceless!!! On a more serious note.. we cannot help but feel concern for you.. it is not good for man to be alone.. and.. Maybe it’s the haunting Lord of the Rings music.. Maybe it is the painful sight of your battered bare feet.. Or maybe the sigh as you awakened., unsure of which day it was.. These things made us cry😭 On the other hand,. Watching you frolic above and beneath the water in the lake.. made our hearts sing.. And as we too have eaten trout.. and salmon.. only a few hours after we caught them.. we can appreciate your relish in eating them., and that you thanked those fish for feeding you.. that touched our souls.. Your videos are unique.. they are one on one with life.. We love them.. and you.. so much Tom.. May you go exploring.. and frolicking in the sea.. happy as any seal could be.. May you do this forever.. We end in our thought for you in Scottish Gaelic.. Tha Thu as fhearr, Tom… Slan mo charaid..💜💙

Love it when you play Wild Mountain Thyme on your flute! One of my favorite songs, nice to hear it somewhere outside of my own playlists for a change.

Love the rendition of wild mountain thyme

I can't think of an episode that I've enjoyed more. This was Tom F.D. at his storytelling finest.

Oh, this is so beautiful. And your kit is very impressive - so much of it is historically accurate! A great video, as always!

The song that Tom plays on the flute (I think) is called “Concerning Hobbits” from Lord of The Rings. I think it’s a perfect song for the Scottish highlands. I hope some day to go their and live out my days walking under the cloudy sky on the wind of a whistle and through the smoke of a campfire. Thank you Tom for your freedom. It is a freedom that all people from all backgrounds are called by and yearn to answer through action.

Thank you for bringing us along I am currently healing up from a quadruple bypass surgery and I can’t wait to get back to the outdoors

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR ANOTHER SURVIVAL EXPEDITION! Thank you for your hard work, it pays off!

Scotland is a beautiful place to wander especially a lone trip like this one, nicely done.

very touching the way you thank the fish, and the ground you sleep on. we all need to be grateful, always.

Reminds me so much of backpacking into Desolation Valley, Cal., as a young guy. As you mentioned, after one week it gets into your bones and you don’t want to go back to the burbs. Wonderful. Thanks👍

"The bog is my oyster." This is a quote for the ages, friends. ❤

I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE! I definitely recognise that big hill, ive been there a few times, pretty sure i been to a couple of the smaller lochs you went to after too Im gonna keep eye out for you when i go wandering out the hills now

The things you allow us to witness through this video but also your channel in general, it's really something... Some parts mean beyond words. Thank you !

Man what I wouldn’t give to live like this. It’d be fun just to go out on a camping trip with this guy just talkin bout history and swapping stories and survival skills

Interesting! Stravaig. I believe Australians call it "going walkabout." If its not exactly the same, it is certainly similar.

I just learned the other day that the Scottish highlands were once part of the Appalachian mountain range.. I'm sure I've heard about this before, but knowing me, I just forgot.. But I found this exciting since most of my Scottish and Irish ancestors that came here to America in the late 17th century, actually ended up settling in the Appalachian mountains, mostly in a region that would become part of southeast KY, northeast TN and southwest VA..

That was wonderful. Serine. Calming yet energetic. Thank you for taking us along on your journey. Most enjoyable.

thank you for all the videos. theyre helping me and my family know our ancestors at long last. i appreciate that. salud from a dispersed druid in america! much respect to the video arts and ancient ways!

The landscapes are magnificent ! You must feel so free when you travel there.

A piece of woven cloth over your eyes would give you a similar effect to sunglasses. The tighter the weave the more shade (but also the brighter the conditions required to be able to see). The Inuit/Eskimo thing were usually made of bone, not wood, and were to protect against glare from the snow/ice rather than direct sunlight.

Absolutely beautiful countryside. Really fun to watch, keep this up!

Hello from Detroit Michigan brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your adventure through the moors

You’re like Scottish Survivorman. With a recorder and a stick. Great vid!

I love my walking and fly fishing in the wilds of Scotland, without being able to look forward to that I wouldn't have got through life. Really.

I am an old lady living in Canada. Watching you and listening to your philosophy on life is very inspiring for all of us. I so wish I could wield a stick as impressively as you! Keep doing what you do!

Looks like the perfect hike/camping with just you and nature. I've never seen so much land with no trees. This just might be my favorite adventure/survival video. Well done Dozi! Thank you very much for sharing.

What balm to one's soul watching this! Tom, I would truly have loved to trek alongside you.

I love it when take a long adventure with all of Ur gear. 👍👍

Not just another Survival video because you always find ways to keep them fresh and interesting. Thx for sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍

lovely to see so much land where you can actually just walk across it! No fences or highways or much of anything to break it up

What a great way to sum up your job! Dressing up in a big boanket, and swinging a stick around!

Always a pleasure watching your videos. I'll be going on a hiking and backpacking vacation in Skye this August and I just can't wait to get there. Though I'll be taking modern equipment, I find your approach to equipment and the simplicity of your setup inspiring. Last year, I got into bushcrafting, and I find the concept of being in nature and living with and off nature with just the most necessary items incredibly satisfying and fulfilling. In fact, thanks to your videos, I've tried to find something suitable for a kilt to try out hiking in one and using it as my blanket/shelter. Still no luck, but maybe I'll find something while I'm in Scotland.

Здравствуйте! Вдруг ночью пойдёт дождь, а у вас крыши нет, и всё будет мокрое..У вас природа красивая...

Wow!! What could be more satisfying than fresh caught fish on the bank of a shimmering pocket Lach amidst miles of sweet adventure wanderings. Your videos inspire me to much Tom!

Take only memories, leave only footsteps.

That looked like so much fun! I'm interested to know how much your pack weighed.

Your videos with the quiet music are sensational. I like your touch with the land and lakes. Many thx, makes my morning watching this.

Man the land looks gorgeous

A very cozy little video, and I suddenly understand why some of my Romani foremothers went for some hardy Scottish lads.

Thank you for doing this and sharing the experience with us.

Amazing video as always! I'm surprised, having worn great kilts before, that over-heating wasn't a significant issue that you faced considering how constantly bright and sunny the weather seemed to be for you.

Shades you can make with straw or grass stems tucked into a headband so that a little light can get between the stems. Being made of vertical stems, it'll probably be especially good at filtering out the horizontally polarized light of low sun reflecting off water. It was great to see the trip and the equipment, and I was interested to learn there's a Scottish word for just rambling for the sake of it. But now I think about it, the English "rambling" carries something of that connotation too, doesn't it? (And then I looked up the etymology of the word "rambling". The apparently related Middle Dutch word had something to do with "the night wanderings of the amorous cat"! I laughed.)

I'd love to see the look on someones face if they stumbled on you in the wild! 😊 Another beautiful video, thank you.

I love the word, and the concept of "straviag."

Tom, this was an incredible journey to go on with you! The scenery was breathtaking and so very peaceful!! I definitely can see myself becoming a bog dwelling golem if I was out there!!!! Keep up the great work my friend!!

Great adventure man, thank you for bringing me along. I appreciate it.

Lovely video, Tom! I began fly fishing last year, and I really enjoy it. For more of a "cane pole" experience, try a Tenkara rod. So much fun in creeks and rivers!

Love your videos, your channel and all your teachings. Great work! ❤

By the way, I really liked your video about the wooden candles and the wrought iron fish oil lamps. I'm going to try and reproduce that lamp design with coke cans or something similar. Wish me luck 🤣 I don't have a forge, and I really want to use material more readily available around the house

To see man in harmony with nature is an absolute pleasure, thank you 🙏 This is the first video i've seen of your's so please forgive any ignorance i may be showing but for many years i have often wondered how historically people dealt with midges, was it smoke, fire, nets and a clay pipe or was one's auric field different? I think we attract midges to us depending on frequency, any thoughts on this one anyone?

Tip. Try a biggish bushy black Zulu on the bob, about a size 12. (bob's the top dropper.) Dibble it through the surface just before lifting off for a fresh cast. (Can produce slashing strikes fit to stop your heart) Anything with claret predominantly in its make up, especially a Claret Bumble - and something different - maybe flashy - on the point. If you can handle more than two droppers and so show more flies on the leash then there's more of a chance they'll see something that pleases. I've sometimes ended up with a cast of five claret bumbles and done great execution. If I'd to feed myself on fish with no backup it'd be a blend of overnight "earth-flies" - and daytime rod-fished Claret Bumbles, modestly tied with less hackle than the shop versions carry. If you can take only one line, make it a good quality floater. (Nice tackle on that escaping troot, by the way!) Start keeping most of a cast length back from the edge, keep your footfalls as light as possible. And a worm used overnight will sometimes produce a breakfast trout - or a perch? - (that you need tell nobody about the manner of its demise). For the latter, no rod is needed and yes I know that's a horrendously ungentlemanly suggestion. But d'you think that Rob Roy troubled himself with something as needless as a rod?😂 Since you're essentially playing at being a RobRoy stravaiger! If you're beside one of the big deep glaciated lochs, you might find yourself catching charr into the gloaming. They often come more readily at day's end to something a bit flashy. If only I could get my time again, I'd be out on the moors too - and beside lochs that never see a rod from one year to the next. (If you're already enough of a fisher to know all that stuff then forgive a pensioner's presumption!) May yer line be tight when needful, and yer drawers - never anything but dry, dry, dry! Since wet or even dampened ones are misery, misery, misery!

Great vid, loved the Concerning Hobbits tune there at the end.

Truly wonderful video. Enjoyed every second! From the comfort of my couch, ofcourse… Well done for keeping the courage and resilience of your ancestors alive!

I you search up "shearing moccasins" you should find readily available shoes of a similar design to the traditional highlander shoes. Shearing moccasins are worn by sheep shearers in order to allow them to move across the boards they work on.

Fun fact: the Jacobites were not just Scot’s but also French and even Lancastrian with one of the biggest Jacobite regiments being the Manchester regiment.

Excellent video, I do like how you honour the trout. Re sun shades, use charcoal under your eyes to stop the glare. Great kit too.

I just subscribed for one reason, a KZfaqr that fished, all my outdoor, van life, adventure channel's always by great fishing spots , and not a fishing pole anywhere. .. great video will be watching the past videos to catch up..

The brown trout looks awesome. Nice pack also. ❤ the video.

Another outstanding video. Would be good to see you take a group of people on a trek, why wearing traditional clothing and equipment. Then their view of how hard it was lol

2 questions my friend. 1. Do you ever see anyone else out there? 2. Do you know of any Irish fellas doing similar content? Cheers. You have increased my growing passion for hiking and putting good use to my ever growing collection of sticks.

you can light a small fire for cooking during bushfire season you just gotta put it in a pit, in Australia in scouts they taught us that,

16:20 Yeah, I got those Gollum vibes there =) Great video, as always!

Never heard of 3 flies on one line. Dad taught me when I was young. Va, USA, we have plenty of trout streams and rivers, he'll, and lakes. Thank you for the lesson my friend. I'll have to try that. God bless us all.

As you started out barefoot, I instantly got hobbit vibes! I wonder if Tolkien saw someone similar and got the idea for hobbits 😊

I've been with you for a few years now. I'm currently a caretaker for an elderly couple who are well travelled and they tell me that of all the places they've been, the Scottish highlands are the most beautiful.

👍👍👍 .. Super! The terrain reminds me so much of that surrounding my coastal home town of Kleinmond in the Western Cape, South Africa. We call the vegetation there 'Fynbos' .. same family as your Heather. The region is classified as a 'Floral Kingdom' with over 4000 (under correction) variants of Fynbos. A nice watch .. thanks for sharing. Take care ..

I Adore this rabbit hole. 😊

Hello from Minnesota...my distant relatives were from Jura, so I feel a kind of connection to you! Great videos, and ciao!

Got around watching this finally. I love it.

Awesome video. Very interesting and entertaining. I appreciate all the hard work you put into it. Thank you.

Hello. Cool and funny guy. You have a cool trip and the nature is beautiful

Fantastic trek! I'm always inspired by your videos. It brought me great amusement to see you had built modified Roy-Croft like the oneI've been using. The only difference is I made mine with a net instead of a hazel shelf. You do the Highlanders proud.

The tune at the end gave me goosebumps (huge lotr fan )

I think that these wandering videos are Great! Do more, Cheers!

Just found this, it’s a bracingly honest change from the usual fare, thank ye

Nature calls to me as well... I hope to have time for a little hike in the next months!

Cracking content

Even if you weren't restricted with fire bans and fishing method, having a water filter is a must on any trip. Boiling water works, but it tastes flat, and takes time one might have an urgent need for clean water or a fire source.

Sweat, moss, and grilled fish sounds heavenly.

What an adventure Tom, another amazing vid.

Hey Tom, Mike from Oregon, U.S. here. Been a while, my friend, but so glad you’re still at it! Thanks for sharing your journey :)

Thank you, I really needed the serenity of one of your videos today 👍😆

"Wild Mountain Thyme": I recognize the song from my old days at the Ren Faire.

If my local nature was anything like that I'd be out every day. Love the open views and the "barren" terrain and clear lakes. Reminds me of Lapland, when you get high enough.

Needed this video in my life. May the way of flow guide you my friend.

I've heard tales of ancient sun shades made of a slit cut into a leather blindfold

Another amazing fandabi dozi film!

Great video mate Glad to see you are enjoying everything about the experience And looks like I need to get myself a shirt

I'm new un your channel, is awosome just what i needed lately, adventures, learning, guide Spirit. ✌️ Congratulations! Send love from México!

Just found this in the algorithm so youtube must like it too. Awesome video and great footage, looks like a wonderful get away! Thank for sharing, would love to see more videos like this and hope to get back into the wilderness myself soon! :)

Morning y tarde,siempre añorando mi Escocia amada❤❤❤❤

Looks like an amazing time!

Love the content and the effort you put into showing us this lifestyle. I also appreciate the LOTR on flute there at the end 😂.