SHEPPARTON’S Steve ‘Trelly’ Threlfall is a guy who knows the positive power of being out in the bush.
As the owner of Trelly’s Outdoors, he’s been in the business of kitting people out for their outdoor adventures for 35 years.
He takes a philosophical view on what it means to get out into the bush, too.
“I had an old mate who came into the store just recently. He’d been going through a rough time, was under a lot of stress,” Steve said.
“He told me that getting out fishing was the only time he truly managed to ‘switch off’. He said it was fishing that helped him cope with tough times. He’d be so engaged with fishing he said he’d even forget his partner’s name.”
Steve has been preaching the benefits to anyone’s mental wellbeing of getting out into the great outdoors for years.
“The wellbeing around fishing and how it can aid in the process of mending problems – life problems – really is profound. Fishing is just a really, really powerful thing,” he said.
More than ever in history, more of us are living in cities and losing, generation at a time, the connection with land, and it’s to our loss. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Trelly is passionate about making it easier for people to get out, cast in a line, and set up camp.
It’s a great Australian tradition worth encouraging.
