Making Birdwatching Cool Again:— Beginner Birding, UK Wildlife & Nature With Georgia Barker

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This week, Chris sits down with Georgia Barker, the voice and lens behind Nature with Georgia. From growing up on a goat farm in Essex to rafting below Victoria Falls and rediscovering the beauty of UK wildlife, Georgia’s story proves that adventure is often right outside your door.

She’s built a fast-growing community of bird lovers and everyday nature enthusiasts by sharing her honest learning journey — proof that you don’t need to be an expert to inspire others. Georgia’s mission is simple: to make birdwatching cool again and show that the wild is never far away.

What You’ll Learn

🕊️ How Georgia fell in love with birdwatching during a random day out at an RSPB reserve
 📸 Why photography helped her slow down and reconnect with nature
 🌍 What seven years of solo travel taught her about happiness and purpose
 💡 The importance of accessibility and community in conservation
 🎙️ How she’s using storytelling to change perceptions of British wildlife

Guest Bio

Georgia Barker is a wildlife photographer and creator from Essex, UK. Through her platform Nature with Georgia, she documents her journey into birdwatching and outdoor storytelling, encouraging people to reconnect with their local environment. She’s passionate about community nature walks, ethical photography, and making the outdoors welcoming for everyone.

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 📸 Instagram → @naturewithgeorgia

 🎥 YouTube → Nature With Georgia

 🌍 Website → www.naturewithgeorgia.co.uk

Resources Mentioned

• RSPB – Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Victoria Falls, Zambia & Zimbabwe

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 I remember reading this photo mean quote thing on Instagram and I read something like my, my Greatest Fear is the only thing I look forward to every year is a two week holiday. And I dunno why. I just, at the time I was sitting doing this office job and I was looking around at four one, and it really hit me because I was thinking that could potentially be the only thing that I am looking forward to every year, just going on a holiday.

And I just thought, I don't want my life to be like this. I don't wanna just have these fleeting moments where I have to escape reality in my two week holiday. Every year is the only thing that's kind of getting me through the year. And it hit me so bad that I then decided to book a one-way ticket to Australia.

Never sat in a hide before in my life. And in a hide, you are forced to slow down and pay attention. So I was looking around and noticing birds, which was kind of, it was the weirdest experience because it felt like I was noticing birds for the first time in my life. Kind of having this epiphany of was these, was these around all this time?

They're really, they're quite nice, aren't they? And then it just spiraled from there. And once I noticed it once, then I kept keeping an eye out for it and kept thinking, has this really been here all this time? Because he's are so beautiful, so diverse, and I was just captivated. And it's been a domino effect.

So I am kind of on a mission to make bird watching. Cool. So as many people as I can meet and bring together and convince people that birds are cool is my goal. So I love it. 

Welcome to the Adventure Diaries Podcast, where we share tales of adventure, connection, and exploration. From the smallest of creators to the larger than life adventurers, we hope their stories inspire you to go create your own extraordinary adventures.

And now your host, Chris Watson. Chris Watson. 

Welcome to another episode of The Adventure Diaries. Today I'm joined by Georgia Barker. Benu Online is nature with Georgia, a self-taught wildlife photographer and storyteller, and a mission to make birdwatching culligan. Now, have you ever felt that you're too late to start something, a passion project maybe?

Well, Georgia proves that with a camera curiosity and a simple bird guide in hand, it's never too late to get started from growing up in a goat farm in Essex to a one way ticket to Australia. Rafting beneath the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. Georgia is now back at home in the uk. Reconnecting and really discovering the beauty of British wildlife.

Our stories show that adventure can be simple and local and captivating and with humor and not always distant or daring. In this conversation, we talk about Georgia's travels, her passion for community, nature walks, and the rise of nature with Georgia on Instagram, including the lessons she's learned through patience, purpose, and photography.

So settle in and enjoy this fantastic conversation with Georgia Barker, AKA Nature with Georgia. Georgia. Barker, welcome to the Adventure Diaries. How are you? 

I'm good. Thank you for the welcome. 

You're very welcome. 

Thank you for having me. 

It's our pleasure, uh, and someone in the, the same time zone, which is really helpful as well.

So good. Excited for this Before we get into Georgia, so just to set the context and the frame for listeners and viewers. Nature with Georgia, your Instagram handle, bird, paparazzi, wildlife, spy, nature, nature, girl, all that great stuff. That's what we want to get into in some of the content you're creating at the minute, which is phenomenal.

So, but as we usually do in this show, just rolling it back to, to understand a little bit more about Georgia, your, your background, your influences, you know, and your, your kinda journey today. So if we bring it right back, I believe that you were brought up on a farm in Essex. 

That is correct. We had 150 goats.

So not your typical Essex upbringing. I was walking goats on leads. Yeah, it was, it was interesting. 

Yeah. And, and not to stereotype Essex, but people probably from the UK would, it's not a, it's not a conventional upbringing, is it? For someone down in that neck of the woods? 

Absolutely not. I mean, we, we can give it a little bit of a stereotype.

Tau has blessed us with that. 

Yes. 

So, yeah, not very conventional for this county, I'd say. 

Yeah. So what, growing up on, on a farm then, were you actively, were you helping out with a family? What, what was, was it a working farm or what, can you tell us a little bit more about that? 

Absolutely not. I was not helping out at all.

I'd like, I, I'm always about being transparent and I'd love to paint this picture of the, my family loved nature. They was, it was a working farm. It wasn't, so basically my father bought a plot of land. Was completely green, I think Green belt or something like that, and he was a bit of a Del Boy character, so he just wanted to build a house on this plot of land, and he found a bit of a loophole and thought, I'll get some goats.

Like I say, I would love to say it come from this love of nature, and my family always loved it, but it wasn't. My dad just kind of thought, we'll get some goats and get this ball rolling. But yeah, it was, it was a great childhood. I lived there until I was seven and running around with a goats and walking goats on leads and being surrounded by animals and being outside all the time.

It was a great childhood. I loved it, from what I can remember anyway. 

Did you have a favorite goat? Did you give them names? 

I did. I had, my two favorite goats were snow white. When Snow White died, I actually had a goat funeral on top of a hill. And then we also had Fat Boy Slim. That was like my second favorite, which is wild when I think about it because I don't think I really knew who Fat Boy Slim was as a child.

Oh shit. 

So I years old, don't dunno why I decided, put the stove at that onto a goat. But quite, 

yeah, 

quite cool. Looking back now that I had Fat Boy Slim. And so what they were the two fives? 

Yeah. What, did you have any other pets as well, like household pets or was it always two farm animals? 

No, lots of rabbits.

So I think at one point we had 15 rabbits and then Guinea pigs. We had a cat that absolutely hated me. The cat was there before I was there, and this cat loved my mom. So when I come along, I was the competition. So the cat is wife at me, had budgies at one point as well, but yeah, no, no dog. So that's why the goats kind of acted as a dog and I put them on lead.

Is it a thou, do you come from a family of animal lovers then? Or was this all part of the. 

My mom loves animals and I think obviously having to look after the farm and kind of run the farm has made her love animals every more. But my dad, no, he's, he's not that fus. 

So, uh, so I mean, that's fantastic context, Georgia.

Thinking back then, did you have any kind of dreams or aspirations that are relative to what you're doing now? Did you ever think about a career with animals or wildlife or anything like that at all? 

No, not at all. No. I've grown up loving animals, but I wouldn't say, I'd say probably a little bit more than your average person.

But it wasn't a passion or anything like that. It obviously put a foundation into why I love it now. But yeah, I never grew up going, oh, I wanna be a vet, or I wanna work abroad helping animals or loving. Animals. I was just your average person that liked wildlife, if that makes sense. 

Yeah. What, what did you want to do?

Can you remember, did you have any dreams as a, as a little Georgia, about what you wanted to do when you were an adult? 

I don't really remember. I just remember, I think I just wanted for a vibe, just kind of run around and just ung some chaos. Oh, actually I did wanna be a dancer at one point. I loved dancing and I loved gymnastics.

So yeah, I think they were probably my goals for a while. 

Yeah. 

Yeah. I can't really, I like, I always changed my mind quite a lot, and that led into adulthood as well. I would love something the five minutes. Yeah. And then I'd love something else, but dancing and gymnastics stayed quite a while. I was doing flips about.

Yeah, I, I'm sure I read or or seen or heard something might have been one of the other podcasts or something about you potentially getting into accountancy or some sort of professional world. 

That is correct. Yeah, you're right. So when I left school, I done a journalism course. I think it was BTech. I don't even, do they even have B right now?

I dunno. Yeah. 

Yeah. 

One of B hack in journalism. After about a few months, I was like, well, why did I do this? This is a bit random, but I saw it through and at the end I was like, I really need to think about something serious now. I need to get a job. And I've strangely always loved numbers. I like analyzing things and that kind of like way of working things out through numbers.

So I thought, why don't I do accountancy? That seems like a good career. Like you could get a business from it. It's got longevity. So I studied to be a chartered accountant. I'd done that for a few years and was on my way to being chartered, and then I then decided to pack it all in and fly to the other side of the world.

But that was my plan for a while to become a chartered accountant, believe it or not. 

Yeah, and you've segued perfectly into the next kinda topic, so, so what was a catalyst for going traveling then? Was it just a fear of sitting in a an office doing an office job? 

Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head there.

It sounds really silly, but this was in the days where Instagram was quite new. Well, I mean we still have it on Instagram now, but do you know like the little memes and they have words on them, like the inspirational quotes and stuff like that. I remember reading this photo meme quote thing on Instagram, and I can't remember the exact words, but it read something like, my Greatest Fear is the only thing I look forward to every year is a two week holiday.

And I dunno why. Just at the time I was sitting doing this office job and I was looking around at four walls, and it really hit me because I was thinking that could potentially be the only thing that I'm looking forward to every year, just going on a holiday. And I just thought, I don't want my life to be like this.

I don't wanna just have. These fleeting moments where I have to escape reality in my two week holiday every year is the only thing that's getting me through the year. And it hit me so bad that I then decided to book a one-way ticket to Australia when I'm gonna go traveling. 'cause I was the least likely person to do that.

I wasn't a candidate to go backpacking. I was much more your stereotypic Essex girl. Not entirely, but there was definitely strong sprinklings there. So when I told people that they thought I was, they was like, she's never gonna last. She's gonna be back in a few months. 

What was it like when you, when you arrived in Australia, did you have a plan that, or did you adjusting it?

So I got our working holiday visa, which lasted for a year. My plan was to travel at the beginning and then work for the rest of it, which pretty much happened. So I traveled the East coast, which is the only typical British person, backpacker. I'm gonna go down the East coast. I've done that. And then I actually went to the Outback.

I lived and worked in the Outback for a couple months, which was a bizarre, crazy, professional experience. I don't think I've ever experienced anything like that in my life. And then I lived in Melbourne and I just caught the bug and then that year turned into seven years traveling and living abroad.

What was the Outback like then? What? What were you doing out there? 

I worked in this very random, like it was, it was 18 hours in from Brisbane, so 18 hours on a bus from the coast. And looking back now, God knows why. I thought it was a good idea. I went into a shop in Brisbane and. They advertised jobs, but it was jobs where you kind of got your meals paid for your accommodation pay, like all sorted in the package and you got a little bit of a wage.

And I just went, what? What you got going? And they was like, you can go out here to this place called Long Beach. So I was like, yeah, cool. Just jumped on a bus and just went out here and arrived at what can only be described, um, or actually is described on the internet as one of the roughest pubs in Queensland.

I don't think it should be going anymore. Like I think it shut down. And yeah, I was basically doing a little bit of everything, but mainly it was like work behind the bar and working. They call it a bottle way. So that's where you buy your alcohol. Like you don't buy your alcohol in the supermarket, you buy it in a bottle and they have like drive through bottle.

So I was working in the bar and in the bottle it was this experience.

Did you feel safe doing that? That sounds a bit wild. Absolutely. Well, 

I mean, I think all throughout all my traveling and all the experiences I've had, I don't have very good stranger danger now because I kind of just go, oh, like I think that probably was one of the experiences built me up now to not have good stranger danger because I kind of just, I'm very yolo.

But weirdly I did feel quite safe out there. I think I was a little bit young and naive, but I think as well, like traveling really like makes you realize that yes, that is awful, like things that happen in the world and that is awful people, but the majority in the vast majority of people are good and a lot of it is like highlight without me getting too deep about it.

But a lot of it's highlighted by the media and how things are portrayed. But yeah, I mean there were some times that I was like, this is a little bit crazy out here, but more crazy, like mind boggling rather than safety concerns. Crazy. If that makes sense. Yeah. 

Did you ever feel like documenting any of that back then?

W was being like a travel creator ever on the plans, or did you ever dabble with that at all? 

I did a little bit more towards the end of my travels, but I never, never really took it seriously. And I was always one that was very conflicted about it because I traveled to really immerse myself in it and really experience it.

And if sometimes I found that you could be going to a place like just to get the shot, just to get this. So yeah, I kind of was always like a little bit interesting photography and had social media, but never really took it to a business level and kind of wanted to take it to being a content creator.

Yeah, it's, it's, yeah, it would've made some funny, funny YouTube videos for sure. In the upper, yeah. 

So what took you, you know, seven years is a long time. Yeah. Were you just kind of trying to find a degree of purpose or what were you, what made you stop traveling and return home? 

Yeah, so I think it was a mixture of things.

I've really caught the bug and loved experienced different cultures and having all these different experiences and it is very addictive travel. Once you kind of live in one place, you wanna then experience another working holiday visa and experience something else. And there probably was some mental health issues going on there as well.

Not gonna deny that I probably was running away from a few things. And yeah, what made me return at the last place I actually lived was Canada and I lived there for two years and I kind of noticed a few little traits towards the end of that seven year period there. I didn't quite like in myself because.

You are moving on so frequently everything is temporary, which is sometimes great 'cause you only learn emotions are temporary. Like if you're gonna be sad, you are not gonna be sad forever. If you're gonna be happy, you're not gonna be happy forever. So that is a good thing. But the dark side and the negative of think being temporary, you start to treat your life like it's temporary and people like they're temporary and everything.

Like it's temporary. So you don't really like invest in things properly and you don't really see longevity in anything. So I kind of wanted a bit more of a base and have that feeling of being a little bit more fixed. So that's why I decided it's time to go back to the uk. This is, this has run its course in a way, and traveling needs to look a little bit more differently for me now rather than just like jumping from country to country.

That's a very honest answer. Thanks for that. And, you know, how was your relationship with your family and friends then for being away for so long? Did, did you have bridges to, to kinda fix her or whatever when you came back, or was, was that what's pulling you back or was it just that you were feeling that you were fleeting too much on an internal point of view, 

yes.

I, my mom, I'm her only child, so I did feel quite bad for out because her only child had decided to up and leave. My mom was very supportive though, bless her. And we kept in contact, which is very easy in the modern age, FaceTime and phone calls. So yeah, that was easy. And with my friends, I was really lucky as well.

Like we caught kept in contact and throughout the seven years there was like periods like between working holiday visas that I would be home for like a month or two. So it wasn't a period of seven years where I just like didn't see anyone. Yeah. But I found it relatively easy, I suppose. It was never a massive thing where I lost touch of people at home.

But I think it is something where you have to put in that conscious effort to make sure that you are rema. Like maintaining in relationship. 

Yeah. Yeah. What was, what were some of your favorite places? Because I think, I know you went to Africa as well, didn't you? And you'd done a lot of ARI and stuff like that.

And considering what you're doing now that you know, how do you look back on that and would you do it again? 

Yeah, Africa is so frustrating because I look back then, because I'd done six weeks, I traveled from Cape Town all the way up to Nairobi, so I went through seven countries, something around that amount.

I, so only photos I was taking were from an iPhone, so I don't have any. Very good wildlife villages, but the experience was still so amazing. Eastern Africa, South Africa was some of my best travel memories. I went to Victoria Falls, so it's on the boulder of Zambia, errs Zimbabwe, if I remember correctly.

And that has gotta be one of my best travel memories. The health and safety was nil and we went rafting. We went whitewater rafting. I think that was my first time. Yes, it was my first time. And they literally threw on these life jackets, like life vests that I'm pretty sure that they got from the Titanic.

They looked like they'd been fished from the depths of the ocean. And we was like, here you go. Put them on. And we rafted down the river. And it was so much fun. So much fun. And yeah, we done devil's pool, which is mm-hmm on the edge of the waterfall. That, and again, the health and safety is nuts. Like all you've got is this guy just on the edge of this waterfall, just, just holding your arm.

There's no ropes, snow, strings, nothing. And I remember me and my friend done it 'cause she traveled Africa with me some for some parts and she was hung over and there's like, you have to swim to get to that part of Devil's Pool. And she was hung over and feeling a bit weak. And I could see like the river pulling her.

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It was Niles. 

Yeah, I mean that just the thought of that I, I haven't been there, but I've seen that before and I've seen it in loads of travel documentaries and it, it just, it kind of, it gives me the fear 

giver 

that, because it just, yeah, it just, so, but I think the, the river rafting sounds, sounds fantastic.

Actually. It's, that's kind of right up my alley. In fact, you went to Botswana as well, didn't you? 

Yes. Yeah, I went to Botswana. Yeah. 

How was, how was that as an experience? 

I'll be honest, because I done like six weeks in seven countries. The whole thing was kind of a blur, so it was kind of hard to like differentiate because that's a hard one.

Can I remember Botswana being good 'cause God as well, now you're talking, I think it was about seven years ago I went, um, if you, if you asked me to name what was my favorite reserve or park, I would not have any idea. 

Do you get any ideas about going back now, considering what you're doing now? Because the bird leaf and stuff in Botswana is phenomenal.

I would love to go back, um, and experience it. 'cause at the time I really enjoyed it, but it was more a traveling adventure, adrenaline driven trip. Whereas now I'd be staring at the birds and one in field, the wildlife and take five. So hopefully one day in the near future be back in Africa, one of the maiden countries to experience bird life.

Yeah. Al uh, just one thing I did want to ask is I did, I did hear that you speak about this before about your happiness project. You, for a short period of time, you were capturing people's views on happiness. I think that's, uh, that's, that's wonderful. Who was, how wa how was that and do you still have that book today?

I still have that book and I occasionally get it out to read through what people had wrote, and it's such a nice thing to have from my traveling. So. I started a, about a year or two into traveling and because there was a lot going on with the reasons why I was traveling and like I say, there was probably a few mental health issues.

Like I was quite thinking about what is the definition of happiness, and I thought, you know what? I'm gonna see what other people think about this. During, I remember I was in Fiji and I backpacking on the islands and I, I think I started it there and I started asking people that this it, well, it was a really good icebreaker as well.

I really recommend it for anyone that's traveling now, because a lot of my travels were so low sometimes just going up to people being like, hi, well, you've been my friend. Just feels a bit awkward. So having that tangible item that you can give someone and have that icebreaker and starting point makes the relationship start off quite interesting.

But yeah, I wish I'd have done it more. I only kept up with it for part of my travels, but I would've loved to have done it throughout because I've had so many different perspectives. Yeah. But even what I've got is nice. 

Yeah. Do you have the contact details for the people that actually recorded their happiness quotes?

No. I literally just have the name and what wrote Yeah. 

Quite a, I mean, quite a, 'cause I think your definition of that might change over time. And, and I, I, it's a question I was going to ask you, you later, because, you know, it looks like you're finding a, a lot of purpose in what you're doing at the minute, and, you know, if you asked Georgia seven years ago when she was traveling, what happened, I suppose compared to today, I, I'm pretty sure that you would've very different answers to, to that something you should start up again.

I think that would be a fantastic project. 

Yeah, I think it would be lovely to do because like you say as well, even to do like a comparison down the line, like people's views on things change so much with the more you experience in life. So that would be super interesting as well to see how it's changed.

Yeah, indeed. Wanna get into the photography and all the, the good stuff nature with Georgia and all these birds. I've got some, and I've done some research on a couple of your favorite birds today. Some facts as well, which, which actually I, I need to fact check this later actually, but, we'll, we'll come back to that in a minute 'cause I couldn't believe what I read when, when I've done this.

But anyway, when did you first pick up a camera a, a proper camera? 

It's a bit of a complicated one. So I had a Fuji film camera when I moved to Canada, so that was 2020, but I didn't know how to use it. I was absolutely give clueless, so. I just had it more to like get a better photo than my phone. And like I've always enjoyed photography, but never really taken it seriously.

So I had that and then it, I used it a bit every now and then when I went hiking. And then last, the beginning of last year, I decided, right, I really enjoyed photography. I wanna take it more seriously. Let's get a proper camera. I say obviously the Fuji was a proper camera, but let's get a professional one where I can really learn how to use a camera.

So I've got my Sony a seven four at the beginning of last year, and then I've just been kind of learning by YouTube, by failing by Daniel Lance. So yeah, I would say through my life I've always been interested in it, but not interested enough. Just there's always been that kind of residual thing at the back of my brain.

But properly, I'd say the beginning of last year. 

Really that's, I mean, I, I, that's staggering and I mean that in the nicest possible way because some of your content's phenomenal and, and obviously the, you know, the view accounts. If, if we were to, to put a kinda a label against it, you know, that speaks for itself.

You know, some of your content's phenomenal. Did you not go to like photography lessons or get a mentor or anything? No, 

no. I've never taken a call, so I've never gotten a in store. I've never, yeah, pretty much, I'd say 80% of my learning is just by playing with the camera. I'm not very good at watching two tutorials.

I'm a very hands on person when I'm learning. So yeah, unless I really can't work something out, then I go to a tutorial. But most of the time I'm just, yeah, I'm just mucking it up and then just trying to problem solve myself. 

It's funny you say, because I, so I bought a Cannon DSLR camera sitting about somewhere, uh, like four years ago, the same go, taking photos, hiking and videos and stuff way before I started the Adventure Diaries.

And I bought the camera to do, to do exactly the same thing, but I just don't know where to start with it half the time. And I take it every so often. We, when we go out in an adventure or take some photos and I've got so much content sitting on my, my desk, but I just get swamped with the settings and I, I, you know, I just, and I don't even know it came with a lens, but I don't know what lens they buy if I wanted to take better photos and stuff.

But it's been on the to-do list for so long to try and get a bit of, a bit of help with that. So how did you know what type of camera to pick up and what type of lens to pick up to fill my bird? Was it trial and error? 

So my, my boyfriend, he had a Sony a seven three, so it just made sense. So I just, I went up to him, I said, well, I'm gonna get a Sony a seven four.

So I didn't do any research, nothing. I just went because I used his camera. For like a few months just on and off, like picking it up. I thought, well, I quite like that, so I'll get myself. So yeah, no research and then settings and stuff like that. Again, just kind of trial and error. And then I literally just typed into Google what lens do I need for wildlife?

And we were like, right, I need that one. I'll go for that one. And as you can tell, excellent. I'm not very a techn, like technicalities are not my speciality at all, which probably, I don't know, maybe it won't surprise people, but I do get quiet. A lot of people come at me with technical questions and I'm like, I'm really something.

I don't dunno what you're going on about because I, my brain just isn't wired like that. Like the technical details don't bother me. I'm just more a person that I just go and work it out. And then if it, if it's a vibe, it's a vibe, not, then I'll work out. I'm, yeah, around it. 

And it's amazing, Jordan, and that that's kinda what I kind of wanted to surface in this, that, that, you know, if you get a creative mind and a, and an an eye for something, that the way that you've positioned that and, and the content that people should go and, you know, absolutely check out is, is very captivating.

It really is. And to think that you're still on the start of this journey, it's, you know, what that will look like in 3, 4, 5 years times. It's, it's, it's exciting, right? So why birds? They're the fastest moving things to capture when you're learning. Why make it hard for yourself? 

Thought I'd give myself a challenge, Chris.

I'd be like, why are you, I wanna stop that, but I wanna enjoy. No, it was very random. So I've been indifferent to birds my whole life. I had never been one of them people to look and go, oh my God, that's a great tip. That's a, a golden oracle. Like I've never known what birds are. And last year I went to an RSPB reserve and I as well, I've been donating to RSPB for two years.

Didn't even fully understand what it was. I was just like, oh, I like nature. This sounds nice. Let's help the birds. And it's helped some reserves. So I staying out in from two years, didn't even vote for a reserve, didn't even know what they really were. And then one day, uh, me and my boyfriend, we was a bit bored and I was like, oh, why don't we check one of these out?

And it was RSPB found me, which is just outside of Cambridge. And I went to this reserve and I was like, oh my God, places like this exist in England. This is gorgeous. What's going on here? And walked around it and sat in the hide. Never sat in a hide before in my life. And in a hide you are forced to slow down and pay attention.

So I was looking around and. Noticing birds, which was kind of, it was the weirdest experience because it felt like I was noticing birds for the first time in my life and kind of having this epiphany of, was these around all this time? They're really, they're quite nice. Are they? And then it just spiraled from there.

And once I noticed it once, then I kept keeping an eye out for it and kept thinking, has this really been here all this time? Because these are so beautiful, so diverse. And I was just captivated. And it's been a domino effect. So yeah, it's a bit of, a bit of a random one. 

Yeah. And, and we do have a, I mean, I'm not a, uh, I mean, I'm a wildlife fan fanatic to an extent.

Not so much. But I mean, I, I, yeah, but I, I mean, I, I, I do love wild, but it was one of the first things that actually got me into nature in wildlife when I was very young, when my uncle used to take is, you know, he'd like birds nesting in, in his garden. And it's one of my earliest memories and where we live now.

We live, there's a lot of farm yards just on the back of the house and we have pheasants on a daily basis at this time of year just trotting by and they just look so regal and we have like, there's a lot of birds are praying and stuff like that fly around and yeah. So something like for so long and it wasn't until I started, you know, the podcast and then starting to take more notice 'cause birds were just never really in my, my psyche.

Yeah. 

At all. And, and it's, it's fascinating to hear you talking about that. But the more, 'cause I'm trying to immerse my little girl into to that as well and just standing at the back of the garden at this time that the farm, they have sowed all the, the seeds at the minute so the wheat and the grass is starting to grow and all the birds are in there.

So there's a cacophony of all sorts of things in the morning. It's, it is when you slow down and start noticing, it's amazing what's actually on your doorstep. And I think I've heard you say before about, you know, you don't need to travel too far off lands to get that, you know, really wild experience. So It is, it is phenomenal 

and it's so nice that you are now imparting that onto your little girl because.

Then she is now gonna grow up with hopefully like an appreciation for it. Yeah. And it's so nice when you see like the younger generation getting involved because I had literally could not have cared less when I was younger and I wish someone would've done the same to me. So it's nice when you hear stories like that 'cause it's, we would need people to care about these things and the more you get people doing it when they're younger, they grow up and it instilled in them this appreciation for nature.

Yeah, exactly. I mean I've taken my little girl and we've done a couple of like nature challenges for the past couple years and I've given her the camera actually to go around them. We've like, you know, spot the first five plants are of different colors and things like that and she actually takes better photos than me.

Yeah. For this cannon, which is, which is staggering. So the birds, I think I heard you say that you're more fascinated with, is it owls, kingfishers, and fat? Check my notes Puffins. Is that right? 

Yeah, I love owls. They're my number one. They're, they just fascinate me. I love owls, kingfishers. You've gotta love a king.

And yeah, puffins, I mean, they're just, they're just little clowns, aren't they? They're stunning. And I do love birds with prey. I feel like that is stereotypical and people are like, oh, birds of prey. But yeah, love a bird of prey. I mean, I just, yeah, I mean, I love all birds. I'm a big pigeon lover as well.

Like I love doves and pigeons because I feel like they're so underrated. 

Yeah, I did. I've seen that. You posted something recently about, I think, was it advice on turtle doves or something? So is that your next project or you trying to capture some UK turtle doves? 

Yes. Found a spot thanks to the peoples of Instagram.

So that, that is very exciting. But I'm kind of wanna do, I mean, not that anyone wants this, but I'm giving the people what they need, not what they want. Like a guide to dove some pigeons. So everyone I think just assumes and looks and goes off a pigeon, which I was definitely guilty of in the past. And I kind of wanna show people the differences because I kind of need it.

Well, I'm learning. So sometimes I look you like pigeon and you're like, no, actually college de you. So that's my other, a little project I've got in mind to do all the differences of 

Yeah, 

it's not just a pigeon. There's a few different varieties 

if you want to see some Right. Funky pigeons, some right hard pigeons.

Company Glasgow and go to George Square that you know the some right there. 

So 

great terrors 

that, that I love Glasgow. Glasgow is one of my favorite places in the world. Next time up, I will make sure I appreciate the pigeons and see what's happening. 

Yeah. I used to stay not too far from that, and we had a loft and they used to rest in the top of the loft and the sites that we used to see, 'cause we had to, we had to open it and chew them all out a lot because they used to make an absolute mess in there and the rats would come up to try and eat them.

And it was, yeah, it wasn't the best, best experiences. The whole party. Yeah. Yeah. See, so I don't know too much about birding as a, as a hobby or a as a sport, what, you know, whatever it's classified. What is it like now that you're starting to get into that scene? Are people very protective over their spots or their hides when you know, if you want to go and.

Capture a specific bird, is it quite hard to, to get recommendations or whatever? How, how does that, that world work? 

Not really. I have been really overwhelmed by how welcoming the community of birds watching is when you go into a reserve. People are so friendly and eager to help and eager to chat, which I don't think I found in many hobbies where people just openly want to talk to strangers and are genuinely excited about like what you've seen, what they've seen.

So that's really nice. Um, in regards to locations, it's a difficult one because people do protect locations, but for the right reasons, because you do get, obviously some people in the world that are looking to catch birds or maybe not do some nice things to birds and are maybe so ethical with getting close to them.

So it's a balance. If people know you and they know what kind of person you are, or it's just like a public spot, a reserve, then people will tell you locations. If it's something, say like a long aired l which can have complications to revealing the location, generally that's not gonna be revealed by anyone.

But yeah, it's not gonna be built revealed for the right reasons. Not to just be like gatekeeping and myself, like I don't, unless it's in a reserve or like a very public area, I wouldn't put on my social media like a geo tag of the location. I would keep it hidden. And then once I've trusted someone or people I know, then I'd be like, oh yes, I saw it here.

It's a delicate balance, I think. 

Fantastic. It's, it's very responsible as well. So what, what's some of your, the best shots and photos and videos that you've taken then what, what's, what are you most proud of? 

It's a difficult one 'cause I was actually having this discussion the other day and there's probably only about five shots.

Uh, in everything. I definitely under 10. Yeah, between five and 10 shots that I could probably say. I absolutely love that. There's nothing that I would change, but yeah. But a lot of my owl shots I'm really proud of 'cause they've took a lot of resilience time and patience and sitting out in the cold sitting for many hours.

Yeah. A lot of my bar now shots I love my puffin shots I love. But 

yeah, 

I think 'cause I am quite a perfectionist, even months down the line in a healthy way, I can look at the shot and go, yeah, I wish I'd have done this different. I wish I'd have done that. But yeah, it's a balance. 

Yeah. All shorts are are fantastic.

You kind of touched on it there a little bit. How is it coming into a new hobby like this and finding that, spending hours upon hours in the hide, waiting for something do, have you ever switched off and missed a shot or 

lots of times? I've missed God, I reckon I've missed thousands of shots. Thousands. I miss so many shots.

I think that's part of the allure of it. It's one of the only things in life, um, today's society and how we live life today. Everything is so instant. A success is guaranteed in a lot of things, lot. So it's nice to have something where you're not guaranteed success and it's not instant. It really builds patience and when you do get something, you're really grateful for it.

That's why I like it. I like missing shots. I like screwing it up. I like having to wait. 

Yeah, 

because you don't really have to do that with many things anymore. 

It's such a delicate balance in it, trying to experience the moment. Not live it like through the lens. You know, I've spoken to many wildlife photographers and videographers and you know, they also talk about that as well.

And it must be such a, and now as I am creating content to an extent in a much lesser scale, is, is it's one of those kinda struggles at times. It's like, you know, do you try and get the perfect shot or do you step away and just, you know, experience the moment. So how, how do you find, how do you find that yourself, Georgia?

It's a balance. I think reminding yourself to actually enjoy the moment and not enjoy the whole situation. Just looking behind the screen. So I'm gonna, I think, 'cause this is going low on battery, I'm just gonna move it to the charger if, is that okay? Uh, 

yeah, that's okay. Yeah, yeah. Go for it. 

Sorry about that.

I dunno what's, 'cause it keeps saying to 

bring 

That's okay. I 

thought it was my wifi that was starting to, 

no, I think it's that, it's, 

yeah. I thought it was my wifi that was about to talk. I 

think it's that. 'cause it keeps going, reconnecting. Sorry, I'm just gonna have to what? Tease about this. I'm just gonna have to move that up.

One second. Okay. That should be better now. Hopefully. Is it still reconnecting Fiona? 

Yeah. I, I think, no, it's, it's connected. Yeah. I think it's, I think it's good to know. You still there? 

Yeah, I'm still here. 

Yeah. I think it's just the video catching up. So maybe back to the birds and the species then. Are you finding that you're having to go on a, a learning curve or kinda, excuse the phrase, but down the rabbit hole, trying to discover more birds and learn more about them?

How, how are you dealing with the kinda learning sc curve in the immersion in the birding world? 

It's, it's been interesting. I think because I do social media and obviously I've put things out there online, it does come with the assumption that I know a lot more than what I actually do. So sometimes people will ask me things and I'm like, I don't actually know because this is quite a relatively new hobby for me and I've very limited knowledge of some things that I probably should know a little bit more.

But I've immersed myself so much into it that I think I've learned quite a lot in a small space of time. But I've still got so, so much to learn. Like my opinion about things can change drastically within a few weeks 'cause I am immersing myself so much into it and trying to take so much and as well, 'cause I do do social media.

I wanna be like responsible when I'm putting information out there. And it's difficult when I'm kind of a beginner, so to say too. But it's just that I'm just holding myself accountable. I do. 

I think that's what's compelling about what you're actually doing though, that you're not proclaiming to be the expert in it and that you're documenting the journey, which I think is what really resonates with people, certainly from, from a personal perspective.

So I think there's a lot of value in that that not proclaiming and not being stuck up or pretentious about it. I think that really, that that really comes through in the work that you're doing. 

Oh, that's good. I'm glad. But I always try and be transparent with everything that I do just because I would never want to advise someone wrong and yeah, I mean, what's the point of lying?

People are gonna find out anyway further down the line that if that, if you've lied, it's gonna come out. So yeah. I like to just be as transparent with people with Puff or even if it makes me look like a bit of a fool, I'm like, well, at least I'm being honest about 

Yeah, so wouldn't that actually, I kind of touched on it earlier, Georgia, I've, 'cause I've printed this out 'cause I would never remember this, but I was.

I was looking, I was looking at some stats about like ows and puffins and kingfishers and I don't know if you know this or not, but this was new news to me. So, and I will fact check this before it goes live just in case this is nonsense, but apparently taught I can't pronou equally thick accents. So I struggle saying ow will as well.

Is it Tony or Tony? Tony. Tony. They don't go twit. Yeah, they don't go twit tou, which everyone thinks they do. Apparently it's the female that makes the twit and the male makes the tu. It's a like a duet for them to communicate to each other. I almost thought it was a single bird, but apparently if you hear a twit, it's two different birds, a male and a female.

And Tony's you hear a lot like I always 

and hope so that 

assumed, 

I mean, we can be open and honest, so we're back after a short commercial slash technical break. And so technology, it's a wonderful thing when it works, sometimes it doesn't. So. Hopefully this comes out in the edit and it, it looks smooth, but we had some technical problems, so we'll pick back up.

So I think we were talking about your, to speed with all the birds and, and you know, being asked technical questions and all the facts and stuff. And I think what I was saying is, you know, what I think is compelling for me about your journey is that you're not professing to be that expert and all these birds.

You know, you're learning as you go. And I think that passion in that is, is really coming through. But are you planning to try and pick up the Book of Birds of UK Wildlife and trying to chase these down or understand them or what, what, where does that sit with you? 

One of the things I actually love to do, which is so random, is I have an RSP bin, British Birds Wildlife Guide, and sometimes I just sit there.

I say sometimes, a lot of time I just sit there flicking through the bird and trying to learn the birds in it. So I'm like, okay, like this is a Reed Bunting. This is how in the UK this is what like they, but their special markings are. So I'm, yeah, when I've got some spare time, I sit there just looking for it because I'm a big believer the more you expose yourself to something, it does, your brain's like a sponge.

So it does soak in adventurey. So I really would love to learn more about verticals. That's one of the thing things that I find so impressive, I can do it. With very, very minimal calls. I can be like, okay, that's a robin, but I still need Merlin or someone else to back me up. But I love when someone goes, yeah, that's that.

This is that. So I wanna be one of them people one day and I wouldn't love to have a proper wealth of knowledge, but I'm not quite there yet. But I'll get them one day I'm determined. 

Ah, fantastic. So are you meeting up with other birders, if that's the term, are you going on, because I'm sure I've seen you going on like a group type event or something like that.

What with another wildlife photographer? So what, what are you doing to immerse yourself into the, into the world of birding? 

So I have a really good friend that I actually met at a Nature Reserve last year, so I often go out with him doing photography. He's done it his whole life and he's an absolute van, our expert.

He knows he's Barneys, so he's a great, he's a great birding friend to have an all round brand. And yeah, I've met people through going to Nature Reserves and I've actually run two free Nature walks, um, as a result of my social media, which I absolutely loved doing. And a lot of my goals is to be more involved in community events and creating community events and bringing people together so it can be like the love and the war and the wonder can be shared together.

So I'm kind of on a mission to make birdwatching call, so as many people as I can meet and bring together and convince people that birds are cool is my goal. So I love it. 

Yeah. Fantastic. Is, is that all down in the check? My geography now southeast of England? 

Yeah, in Essex, Essex area. So the meetups have been London and a lot of people that I've met are kind of around them surrounding areas, Hartford cheer, that kind of way.

But yeah, Essex big up. 

Yeah. Excellent. Are there a lot of nature reserves down there, Georgia, or, or is this just out into the, the, the mirrors and the weld? 

Do you know what? I've discovered this nature's everywhere. Oh. I went and thought that, oh, you've got borrow up some really obscure place in the UK to find a lot of wildlife.

And even I go on my lunch break and just walk down a road that is off of a high street to somewhere that you wouldn't assume a lot of nature be. And I'm like, everywhere. There's some sparrows making a nest up there. See some nice butterflies. So again, I think it plays into the fact that of what we've kind of touched on, you don't really have to go far.

It's everywhere. It, it's hiding on, it's not even hiding, it's just you're not taking notice of it under your nose. But obviously there are some lovely nature reserves around the whole of the uk and there is some nice ones around Essex and this kind of area. But one of my absolute dream locations, which is where you are from, is Scotland.

I absolutely love Scotland and yeah, we've got some, we've got some stunning places in the uk. I'm a big, I big girl was the uk and I used to think it was terrible. They'd be like, what's here? Nothing. And now I'm like, everything's there. 

Yeah. I, I, yeah, I couldn't agree, but I'm exactly the same, you know, whether it's a hike or a paddle or something, it's just rediscovering the love for, for the uk and particularly something that the northwest of Scotland, it's, it's, it does have a lot to, a lot to offer.

Like you said, taking that time to, to slow, slow down. And I know puffins are a particular favorite of yours. I mean, are just, they're just beautiful creatures and, and we've got lots of them. They're decline to, to an extent, but we've got lots of 'em all over in the, the West coast, Scotland, but they, yeah.

That's fantastic. Spots throughout the uk. Is that the plan, Georgia, longer term? Are you wanting to do more, can you want to, do you want to do this full time and run some events and stuff? What's your future looking like? 

Long term? Part of my plan is definitely more community driven events and experiences.

So I would love to one day to be able to offer an experience that caters to every person and every budget. So I wanna have free events all the way up into trips abroad. Everything in between. But one thing I always wanna remain is making nature accessible to as many people as possible. I see a lot of people offered tools that are the vast grand amounts of money, which is absolutely fine.

And there is obviously a clientele for that. And I'm definitely not discriminating against anyone spending their hard earned money to go and enjoy an incredible wildlife experience. But I think it's sometimes a shame for people that don't have 10 grand, 15 grand to go on these trips. And I've done safari backpacking style camping, like the experience that I was telling you about earlier throughout Eastern Africa and South Africa, that was 90% of it was camping.

I was staying in a tent. So I kind of wanna promote more experiences like that. Store people that wouldn't necessarily think to go and do experiences and make it a bit of an adventure. So yeah, that's the long term goal, to do more community stuff. And then I'm kind of like a river, just kind of think I'm flowing a bit that place.

So I'm I, I'm kind of flexible, like when opportunities come or something that I think that might be a good idea. And let's give it a go. Let's try it. 

Would you like to work with the R-S-P-C-R-R-S-P-B in an official term? Have they approached you yet? 

No, I have not been approached. But yeah, I'd love to contribute or work with the RSPB.

I'd love to work with charities and stuff along those lines. And an absolute dream would to be say on something like Spring Watch or the B bbc. Yes. 

Wow. Yeah. 

I'd absolutely love that. But yeah, we, we keep our fingers crossed. 

Yeah. Well, I, I mean, readying 

of Vanessa accent. 

Yeah. I mean, you're, you're on the upward trends.

That's, I mean, yeah, just keep verbalizing it and, and working, keep doing what you're doing and I'm sure those doors will, will open. I mean, you touched on something there that's, I think it's quite important as well about making this accessible. And sometimes there is a market for these 10, 15, 20 K excursions that people go on, but not everyone can, but what's I've been finding out through doing this show is that sometimes they are resold packages a lot of the time.

And if you find out who the local guides are and, and connect with local communities, you can do a much more accessible, immersive, and cost-effective adventures. Yeah. Whether that's birding, safaris and such like that. So, so, yeah. I wish you, I wish you luck with that. It sounds, uh, it sounds fantastic. Do you think this is your purpose?

Is this your calling? Do you think? 

That's a deep question, isn't it? Yeah, that's, I dunno, ly I'm not too sure if I've been put on this beautiful planet earth to rave about birds. I'm happy with it. 

Yeah, it's, 

that's cool with me. But yeah, I don't think I have been this passionate about anything probably in my life.

Like I, like we was discussing earlier, a lot of the things, especially during like my teenage years and my twenties, I was very driven for five minutes about it and then I'd forget about it. Whereas this is the only thing I've ever done where I'm still crazy obsessed with it a year later. I dunno if that doesn't sound like a lot of time, but for someone that between hobbies like.

You wouldn't believe. I know this is something that I can see himself doing for a long time and I've always loved nature and I'm a big, big, yeah. Fan, fan, girl, mother as, yeah. And I think it just kind of like ties in. So yeah. I love the bird. 

I think your boyfriend's into it as well, isn't he? I think he's kind, is he a photographer?

And you, you kinda go and shoot together and stuff. I, I think I heard you say so that must be, must be comforting. I mean, if you can share that type of, uh, passion as well, that must be a big plus point. 

Yeah. So he, he does photography. He's more adventure outdoors and he did originally do street photography, which he strayed, strayed a little bit more away.

But I'm very lucky because I don't think there would be many partners out there. 'cause when he met me, I wasn't into about watching. So I don't remember many partners out there that would want to go and sit in a hide with you for hours upon end. So yeah, I've definitely got lucky there. And it's nice that like, even though he doesn't do wildlife photography, he didn't have the big lens or anything like that, he still really enjoys it.

So it's nice, it's a nice activity that we can enjoy together. And when I see an obscure bird or I get really excited about seeing something, he gets excited for me. So it's, it's, 

yeah. That's excellent. That's, you know, if you encourage that passion, that's, that's what it's all about, that's fantastic. So that you're not that kinda seen as that weirdo that nobody can understand.

You know, when you, you pick up a new passion. So that's, that's fantastic. Spring watch aside, what's your future ambitions in terms of big projects, any big ideas or big projects in the works? I 

have a million ideas at all times. I've always got so many things that I wanna do, but at the moment, I'd probably say my biggest project is YouTube.

I'm wanting to do a lot more documentary style format videos, so that's what I'm kind of working on at the moment. But it is difficult because I still do work a regular nine to five customer service full-time job. So trying to navigate how to fit it all in is quite, yes, is quite hard. But I mean, it's a good hard, it's a hard that I wanna do, but at the moment I'm definitely wanting to work on my more documentary style longer.

Excellent. But that's what I, I really love doing. 

Yeah, excellent. And surely that will be quite educational as well. So yeah, I mean, trying to do all of this content creation and creativity with a day job is tasking. I know only too well, 

as you probably know. Yeah. 

It's crazy. But it's, it is good to have a, a creative outlet.

So I wish you, I wish, I wish you luck with that. So I think, we'll, we on, I can't believe how long we've been on for already, you know, technical break, break asides, if you're okay with it, I think we'd probably move into the closing traditions. Georgia. 

Go for it. Yeah. Ready 

Of which, of which there are three.

So paid forward suggestion for a worthy, uh, cause, a charity or a project, anything that means that might mean or have some importance to you. And then secondly, a call to adventure. And then we'll close out with a quick fire round of questions for a little bit of a, eh, on a fun note. So starting with the pay it forward, what would you give as a pay forward recommendation, Georgia?

I mean, I've spoke about it a few times, but obviously the RS PB I recommend. Everyone donating and doing as much as they can, like with like visiting Nature Reserves, or even just doing a one-off donation. I'll tell you what though, it's kind of like a selfish one because that membership pays its well worth in gold because obviously you get all these features for it.

So if you, if you wanna get free car parking and access, its nature reserves, it's worth it. So, yeah, it's a good one. But yeah, I would definitely say they do some amazing projects, some amazing work, and raising awareness. So RSPB, get on it guys. 

Excellent, excellent. I wholeheartedly agree with that.

Excellent. That's been the theme of today. Uh, uh, secondly, call to adventure. So something to get people inspired, not just listen, put them their headphones, what, you know, give some people, give people some ideas to do something, whether it's this weekend or further afield. So what would your call to adventure be, Georgia.

Mine would be strip it back, make it simple. So there is so much nature, birds, wildlife, all around you. So a lot of people say to me, how do I start? You can simply start by going to your local park or going to an area around you and just sitting down and paying attention. And I've done this so many times throughout the area that I live and discovered so many things that I didn't even know was there.

Parks, birds. So I would say get yourself out, even if it's just before work. Caught after work. Doesn't need to be a weekend, doesn't need to take up a lot of your time and just explore your local area. If you've got a pair of binoculars, great, but if you haven't, don't worry. Just use your ears and just use your sight.

So string it that make it simple. Go out, slow down, pay attention, and enjoy yourself. 

Yeah. Excellent. That, that's a fantastic I, 'cause we're recording now and it's in springtime and the, the, the, the way, you know, nature's coming, coming alive at the minute. It's fantastic. That is really fantastic. Excellent.

So final closing out tradition as quickfire round. So 10 questions, just answer as you see fit. You can pass if you, but let's see. So question number one, Georgia Barker. If you could be any bird for a day, what would it be and why? 

Oh, I would be a Tawny owl and I would be a, 'cause they're so cute and they make them the funniest noises.

I'd be squeeing all night. I'd be like, ah, waking up all the farmers. 

Excellent. What's your craziest nature slash travel slash adventure experience? So across any of those topics, what's your craziest experience? 

Probably doing that whitewater rafting in Victoria Falls, like around that area. And also skydiving and bungee jumping in New Zealand.

Wow. Wow. Uh, excellent. Number three. Do you have a hidden talent beyond photography? Of course. 

For all a hidden talent. I mean, I don't think it's very hidden, but I, I, I can talk a lot. 

You should start your own podcast, wildlife Podcast. 

Get it yapping. 

Excellent. Number four. What's your favorite movie? 

A Dark Knight with Heath Ledger.

That is, yeah, absolutely. Mys Kiss. Copy that movie. 

Yeah. Yeah. Actually dressed up as him at the time for that. 

Oh. 

Got a lot of, uh, of abuse. 

Did you? 

Randomly? Yeah, because I think he'd, when that came out, he, he'd just passed and Yeah. People thought it was about scr. 

Yeah. 

Anyway, that's, yeah, that just popped into my head anyway.

Uh, item five. What's your favorite book? Between the RSPB list of birds. 

I think everyone should read the book Sapiens. So it's a brief history about humankind and I learned so much from that. And I think it's really, it's a really important read. 

Yeah. Excellent. Recommendation number six. What is the last music gig that you went to?

Oh my God, I haven't been to one in ages. I can't think of his name. He won X Factor. He James. James Arthur. That's it. Someone gave me, oh, 

James Arthur. 

Yeah. Someone gave me for James Arthur and I went, I went to that concept by myself. We've got the of finding anyone to come with me, and I thought, do you know what?

And I dance. I was like, Woohoo. So yeah. James Arthur randomly. 

Yeah. I had his name for a while though. Is he still going? How long ago was that? It must have been years ago. 

No, it was last year. Yeah. 

Oh, was it? All right. Christ. Sorry. James Arthur. 

He's still going here. He's still going. We still crack the.

Number seven, if you could snap your fingers and be anywhere doing anything, what would it be?

I would be in New Zealand on an adventure. On a road trip. Excellent. And I love that place. 

Number eight, what scares you? 

What scares me? Living an unfulfilled life. 

Excellent. 

And spiders. 

Yeah. Excellent. Number nine. If you could relive any moment in your life, what would it be and why? 

Do you know what I'm gonna be?

Controversial answer is I wouldn't relive any moment because I think it wouldn't make the moments as special. I think the fact that you can only live in one makes it special. 

Excellent. Excellent. And then finally, number 10. What is the best advice you've ever received? 

Just my mom. Just like she always goes, yeah, go on, do it.

Do it. You don't like night, just do it. I think just being like, just to say as simple as that, Don over, just do it. Go on, do it. Yeah. 

Yeah. 

So we call nothing Pete, just do it. 

Excellent. Simple but effective. That's fantastic. And that's us. That's us. We have navigated the globe. The globe even. Uh, and we've, uh, stepped through your journey so that, uh, this has been phenomenal, you know, technical, uh, issues aside Georgia, it's been wonderful to chat to you all about your new found passion and your fantastic storytelling on Instagram, traditional closing out.

Where can people find out more about Georgia Barker? 

So if you wanna know more about a crazy bad lady, you can go on Instagram, nature with Georgia and YouTube, which will be built up more and more, which is exactly the same name, nature with Georgia. 

Excellent. And you've got a website as well, haven't you?

Nature. 

I have a website with Georgia. I have a website as well, which is also nature with Georgia. 

With Georgia. Excellent. So quite simple nature with Georgia. Yeah, and I thoroughly recommend it. Anyone watching listening goes and checks that out. We'll have it all listed, uh, in the show notes below, and with that we'll bring it to a close.

Thank you, Georgia. 

No, thank you so much. That was so much fun. 

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