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COLLAB EP18 - Cowgirl Surf Club Tropical Cowgirl Weekend · The Booth Juice Creative Podcast

• 0:12
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to Out of the Group Chat by Cowgirl Surf Club.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_03: This is where we take the conversations that usually stay in our group chat.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_03: The crazy moments, the stories, the behind the scenes of the shoots and events, and bring them out here.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_03: If you've ever wondered what actually happens behind Cowgirl Surf Club, this is it.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, let's take this out of the group chat.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it is.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Righto, so we're at Port Douglas at the moment and we have Rain with us.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Hi hi.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um crazy, we're out of the studio.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: We're like out in the open, they've got so many things.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: We've got the palm trees behind us, we're on the water, we're in North Queensland.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Temperature's a little bit warmer than the aircon studios that we're usually in.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_02: We've got the humidity, the frizzy.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_03: No sun.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're open, guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there is a reason why we're up here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just finished up our North Queensland Tropical Cowgirl weekend.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Rain, you actually own a store in town in Port Douglas called Maker, correct?
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so we have a um store we just buy from small Aussie businesses doing the right thing ethically and sustainably.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um we run workshops out the back in our studio, and we also have a podcast of our own as well.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a bit going on.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's been great like having you a part of this.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, I think when we were planning the North Queensland Tropical Cowgirl weekend, I wanted to bring the locals involved and you actually followed us.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've been following you guys like almost since you started.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: I think one video popped up in my feed and I was like, these chicks are awesome.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: So followed you ever since.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: How are we going?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: You're nailing it.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they're not as great in real life as what they are online.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, you don't like some people you do wonder, but you guys are exactly the same.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, which is so nice.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's refreshing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: But no, it was so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: We I was originally supposed to be in Brisbane this weekend, so a sneaky change for flight so that I could come on um Friday, which was so much fun.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so yeah, we ran our hat decorating workshop, which was really fun.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Worked with Willem Bear, and you guys looked like you had a great weekend.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the girls loved it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they might definitely made the most of um like creating their hats and styling them and stuff.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_02: There was some very like out there ones, which was cool.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's so good, and all the burning, they did so well at burning different like words or patterns and stuff in.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Have you got yours on the burning on it?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_03: No, that's mine.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, is this yours?
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is yours.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh sorry.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was like, the burning on it is really good.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_03: Like I'm like, surely KDU didn't do that.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_03: No, I didn't.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, she did.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_03: Oh you did that one?
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_03: I did all of them.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh I even wrote the names, like you know how you've got the burner.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I just was mucking around.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: I I got one and I was just like, cowgirl, surf club all on the brim.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oh brilliant.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then I like everyone was like, Can you do mine?
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Can you do mine?
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  SPEAKER_00: I was thinking, you trust me?
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're two surprises.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it was like a mad gap.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was like cowgirl, big gap, surf club was like really close together.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh god.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll get there.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we get there.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, bit of practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: But no, you because you lead your own workshops yourself, don't you?
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so we normally do them in the studio at Maker, but yeah, sometimes we'll depending on who it is, you know, cool people like you guys.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm happy to drive two hours to come and run one outside of the shop.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: What else do you do at the workshop?
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: We do um so my mum's an artist, so she runs like paint and sip ones.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: We call them make paint and pour.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um so yeah, you get them a moster on arrival, paint for three hours.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um we also do like a mosor, what time of the day are you doing these ones?
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: They're generally in the evening.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we have a sneaky little brunch one, but mostly in the evenings.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: We kind of do them outside of store hours, so yeah.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, we do beading workshops as well.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like um one of my local friends, Lana, she makes all the headbands, so she runs beading workshops, and we've had heaps, like we've had different guests, like I've had someone from Victoria come up and do an incense making workshop, and um we had a smoothie bowl workshop once a few years ago where the local uh they used to make the coconut bowls here, so then she brought a whatever it's called, the neutral bullet thing, and made smoothies and yeah.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: So we've I'm always we just do whatever people want, yeah.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm open to there's because we are a bit of a seasonal town, it's nice in wet season to run them.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when the locals are board, they want to do something in inside, so yeah, yeah, we just open to anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if anyone has ideas, whatever you want to do, I'll run it.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we need to expand on our workshops that the next week and next tropical cowgirl weekend.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, yeah.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: Surfboard making.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, put the surf in it a bit more, we're good.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, then we could trial them while we go horse surfing.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just dodge dodge the crocodiles, yeah, customize some wakeboards.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and you have some really cool brands in your store as well.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you got farmer.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: We well, yeah, so we don't do the clothing.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: I wish we did clothing, but um Simone at Western Road in Mossman, she does all the clothing.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we have Whitney's Prince, so if you want some artwork, come and find us.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, um who else have we got?
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um Pony Rider, there's a few like heaps of big, awesome Australian brands.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing yeah, Pony Rider helped us out.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: They put some goodie bags, put some bags in our goodie bags for this for the girls.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, farmer, like we got the caps and some shorts, and yeah.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh Will and Bear.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I normally have my cow girl, I always do that.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, Will and Bear, when I opened my store almost six years ago, I emailed them a photo of my opening because I had followed them same way you guys for years, and I said, I know that you're not taking stockers, but I'm 19, I just opened a store.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Do you think that we could stock them?
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: And they said yes, and I just like danced around the store for like hours because I was so excited.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: And we've yeah, we've stocked them ever since.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: They've like been our best seller, and we have like 20 different styles, and yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: So we love the hats.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: We love we have like rodeo season inland, um, so the Atherton Tablands and all of that area.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: We have like a rodeo season up here, so a lot of people come and buy, yeah, the different hats and stuff.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: So as well as the tropical, you also get like the horsey side of it, which is nice.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: No, that's so cool.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then what do you guys like do up here in like the this?
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like it's going into the season, we're about to go into winter, which is just magic.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's blue sky every day.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: The temperature's like, I don't know, sits are like 25, like it's just magic.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: There's no humidity, you can swim in the ocean.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: So mainly like for us, I guess for me, like we just always out in the boat, we're either camping.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: We have this is Rex Mill Park, so this most people this will be filled every afternoon with picnic rugs and hammocks, and um the backpackers like to do fire twirling and shows, and they put the tightropes between the palm trees, and yeah, I think most people up really lead like an active lifestyle, so it's just everything outdoors, yeah.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: So when you say you can swim in the ocean in winter, yeah, the crocodiles like crocodiles are a different story.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_03: Cocodon is too cold scared of the cold water.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_03: Where do they go?
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Cocodones are um they're actually not seasonal, they're all year round, unfortunately.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but if you swim like in the beach in the flags, you'll be fine.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: The like people they have the drones up every day checking to make sure that there's nothing there, you'll be you'll be fine.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we were hoping to see one, but we didn't manage to this time.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: Well, if you go, there's different little boat cruises out of the inlet too.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: So um Lady Douglas is a really good one to do.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: They go right up the inlet and you're guaranteed to see a crocodile in there.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, no, you can swim in the beach, like the stingers go away, so as soon as the temperature drops, um our waters are cooler and jellyfish aren't so prevalent.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but then as soon as it gets hotter, then they make their way closer in to shore.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: So nice.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: Apart from like the crux and everything else up here, it's actually beautiful territory.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, like it's stunning, and I think like we working with Cape Trib horse um ride tours, like we like thought it aligned so well with just like the tropical beaches, riding a horse on the beach.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: I thought it worked so well with what we're doing with retreats.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Jackie and Julian are just like the coolest people, they are so kind and just like willing to do whatever you throw at them.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they're so sweet, they like got up married up there and everything, and they live this beautiful life up there.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're so lovely, yeah.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_02: They're so accommodating and can't do enough for you.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: So it's such a cool experience, and it's I think it's nice when people come from the city or you know, down south and see these small businesses who are just like, yep, whatever you need, you know, it's very one-on-one, good service, you know, that sort of stuff as well.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_01: And it's we always joke it's on island time up here, we're all like so laid back, like we're just you know, don't you don't have to be anywhere on time because everything's five minutes late.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: That suits us, yeah.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: We don't need to move here, yeah.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_03: But it's like try an hour, like especially.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: And like you don't pay for parking up here, like every we really are like, I don't know, stepping back in time a little bit up here, I guess.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's like a rule you're not supposed to like build buildings up taller than a palm tree and stuff like that, and yeah.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, Jackie even on the weekend, like when she was like, Oh, it just came like all the girls are doing, I think it was the cow the cowboy hat styling on the Saturday because we had the horse riding on the Friday.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: The girls rocked up at 12, had the horse riding, and then we had like a bit of a dinner, and then Saturday we did the cowboy hat styling, and then she brought Hank down.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then Nikia hopped on Hank and was just cruising around the table while the girls are getting their hats done, right?
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: Trying to eat everything.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that looked like so much fun.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then we went down the beach and then even Ali got to go for a ride.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_03: Didn't die.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_03: Not normally, right?
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm not a horse person at all.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna try and change that.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_03: I'll just walk around the back of a horse, but I give it like a 50 meter ride.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna make the same, I have major respect for horses.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Throw me out of a plane, but like on a horse, I'm like, okay, hold on.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: That was cool, hey.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like the girls look at their photo with them.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, they just that's what I mean.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: They just added random things in there that like what wasn't expected or asked of them, they'll just say, You want this, or like we can do this.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I think a lot of people think that up here we get cyclones and all that sort of stuff, and every you know, every time they report on the news, oh you know, cyclones ripping through, half the time it doesn't even hit us, and it's stunning up here, as you guys can see.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like, even driving two hours north to get to Cape Trib, a lot of people still think the roads are wrecked, you can't get up there.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I took my Swift up there, guys.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm telling you, if you want to go up to Cape Tribulation, Dane Tree Rainforest, like it's so easy, everything's beautiful, they've restored everything.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: You're thinking the same thing that I'm thinking about going to the lion stand.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you can talk about it.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: Except get a four-wheel drive if you're gonna go to the lion's den.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I don't know why we're allowed to talk about this.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like I mean, the locals did it, they're the ones the locals told them that they'd go on on the track, and then these I mean, you tell a story because you probably tell it better than me, but well, yeah, so there were girls on the retreat, and we were we needed to go to Lion's Den for an event.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, two hour drive, four-wheel drive track, steep hills like water crossings, yeah, water crossings, and we've got the highlights, obviously, so easy.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_03: We got there in an hour and twenty.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hour and twenty PB.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_03: If you can beat it, let us know.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_03: Drop it in the comments.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_03: But anyway, so there were these other girls on the retreat, and they obviously hired a car to drive from Cairns, and then so they were like, Oh, you didn't tell us that it was four-wheel drive only to get to the lions, then we're like, Oh, like, yeah, like, and then you can try and go.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_03: They did.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_03: They took them Mazda and they got through, they got through, so they went through the water crossing.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, don't recommend that track going not four-wheel drive, but you can do it.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, obviously, I mean I think they rolled back down the hill and had to get the water.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, on the way home, it was raining a little bit, so don't up the steep hills.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, maybe don't, but yeah, the point is if you really wanted to, you probably could.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, yeah, so it's not as wrecked as everyone thinks it is, you know, on the media.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think a lot of people just think we just get like flooded and then everything's wrecked, and then you can never come again.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: But it's obviously not the case.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like that at all.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I thought it was super, super good.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, then yeah.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: We went to yeah, so when we got to Lion Stand on Saturday night, like that I was thinking in my head, I'm thinking, oh, it's a you know, be a quiet old town, you know, like pub goes off.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I was like, oh, is this like a I mean we had Traveller had an event on there that night, yeah, and it was just by chance that we were up here and then Matt from Explore Life was doing a YouTube channel um filming up the top of the tip, and it just saw a line that we're all gonna catch up at the lion's den on a Saturday night and do like a you know beer on tap thing, and and um I was like, Oh, is it because everyone's here for the event?
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, No, we thought there'd be more people, this is kind of normal, and I was like, What?
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, the lion's den goes off, like yeah.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: If yeah, if anyone's thinking of coming north, like yeah, I think everyone just thinks we're just such such quiet little sleepy towns that have no nothing going on, but there is so much going on, like all year round too, even in wet season there's stuff on as well.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: So is it worth the trip?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, very much.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like we're about to we're about to come into Carnival in two weeks, which is kind of like the opening of the season up here, so it's like you traditionally it was like a week-long thing of different activities, it's shortened to like a long weekend now.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: But we have a street parade, the street gets closed off, we have like um the whole sideshow alley and the rides and everything.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: There's like a burlesque tent that gets set up for a month, like there's a long lunch down here, there's like a fancy lunch that you pay a few hundred bucks to spend the day down here.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: There's a beach day, you got like kites and you know, people jumping out of planes onto the beach, and like there's it's there's so many things on, and carnival is just such a beautiful weekend to come up as well.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then that'll be that's kind of like kicks off our season into winter.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, so you have to come back up, yeah.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: Well we are yeah, we are so in August.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's good.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: So then first weekend of August is our next retreat, so we'll be back up.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's like what eight weeks from now?
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, we'll be back.