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Tout le monde semblait globalement heureux. Je ne me suis jamais senti en danger ou importun. Everyone seemed generally happy. I never felt unsafe or unwelcome.

Thanks for your comment, I'm glad it brought back nice memories. I was thinking the other day about the trips we used to take from Logan (south of Brisbane) to Bribie Island to visit my Nan & Pop in the 80s. Wish I'd captured more memories back then - I do have a snippet of video when I visited from Europe (living in Finland at the time) in 1999 ... kangaroos on the Bribie golf course.

You're very much welcome!

OK, OK... avec le recul, j'aurais dû d'abord inclure une vidéo des cascades! OK, OK ... in hindsight, I should've included some video of the waterfalls first!

Thanks Joel. A beautiful island and wonderful people. /Brett

BTW Joel, I appreciate you taking the time to make a comment - this is my 2nd channel so I've not checked it lately (I mainly do retro-computer-nerd stuff) and as of 20-Apr-2024: 3885 views 58 likes (100% ... phew) 6 comments ... 🥹 So, I appreciate you taking the time to give some feedback 👍

Similar to Australia, they have phased out (I assume) plastic/paper shopping bags at the checkout ... so you need to bring your own (if buying more than a few items). I don't remember seeing the Carina Express having some you could buy if you forgot (I could be wrong) - the Carrefour supermarkets certainly do have re-usable ones you can buy and, I think, make neat "souvenirs" that you can re-use back home as some have Tahitian themes and/or French on them. /Brett

@@Brfff thanks for the quick reply. They phased out plastic bags in Hawaii and some states in the US. I will have to remember that when I shop in Tahiti one day. How much does a reusable bag go for on average at Carrefour or anywhere else in Tahiti?

Should clarify before some smartarse does ... "phased out FREE shopping bags" ... you can still get them in Australia and at the Carrefour in Tahiti, but you have to pay for them, hence the incentive to bring-your-own & re-use them.

@@bjpeterdelacruz7091 oooh, it's been a year ... can't remember ... I'm thinking maybe ₣300 (about US$2.70) ... but I could be wrong. They have different types in Carrefour. I've got one in my car (I'm away from home at the moment) ... I'll post a photo a bit later.

Thanks for taking the time to give some feedback, appreciate it. I am actually using a GoPro suction cup mount on my roof ... but, I've got the GoPro set to have a wider field of view to try to capture more of the sides. The downside is that it captures more of the sky than desirable. If I had it pointing any further down then it'd capture a lot of my bonnet bobbing in and out of view. I have thought about maybe mounting it on my bonnet - might give that a try on the local roads (worried the engine heat might make the suction fail ... ?). Small example of the bonnet being captured here: ua-cam.com/video/QTDRD5kQaUA/v-deo.htmlsi=GZIB4dSxn6dxOXgr&t=4383

@@BrfffTravels Bonnet would be way way too low. Yes, appreciate the challenges.

What do you mean.

WTF?

C'est un beau pays plein de gens formidables! It’s a beautiful country full of wonderful people!

Ahhh, sorry. I'm still quite shy about filming in public so I try to be discrete ... people look at you and wonder why you're filming a boring supermarket. I will try to do better!

That's exactly what I was aiming for ;)

Thanks for the advice! I was actually coming from Port Macquarie (the day before), or more directly Albury that morning. I'm driving down again to Melbourne tomorrow, via Albury again. I'll see if I can try your route out - I've been wanting to capture some of the Westgate Bridge, and the roadworks. /Brett {Edited: wrote "actually" too many times}

@@BrfffTravels The Western Ring Road is toll free and takes another 10 to 15 minutes to get to the CBD. I hope that it is a sunny day so everything will look good ! You get a better view of the Bay from the outward bound side leaving the CBD. You can do a long U-turn going over the Westgate Bridge, looping under, and going back again on the other side.

@@barnowl. thanks again! I'll be down there for about two weeks so hopefully should have some good weather.

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I wish 😕

Wdym? He followed the traffic laws completely?

Except you wouldn't be liable. That yellow led sign isn't a Uniform Traffic Control Device. If those red lights were on, then he would be liable. But they weren't. This tunnel had no actual legal signage directing drivers to stop.

No worries ... I wish I had a 4K GoPro back in the 90s to capture the drive down from Logan/Brisbane to the GC ... an incredible difference to today. Just trying to capture something to compare with in a few decades when the roadworks are a dim memory. /Brett

Great video thanks Your correct about the road works I don’t think I’ve ever drivin on the same piece of M1 / pacific Hwy bitumen ever Also interesting to see where the exits are NOW haven’t been up to our holiday units at Broad Beach since we were locked out QLD Going up again in July

Like people wearing masks to buy ciggys

A ten foot high "STOP" sign would make me want to stop! What a stuff up.

Ah so is this how stop signage works?

@@tedsmith6137 While, yes, the sign should not have said stop, that sign is not a statutory stop sign. For it to be one of those it'd need to be a red octagon. Or those traffic lights would have to be red.

@@alexd.1091 Yes. That sign was not a statutory stop sign. Here, you'd only stop at red octagonal stop signs, and red traffic lights.

​@@user-no9js5sk5c I am not wrong. On the road, only Uniform Traffic Control Devices carry a legislative power to direct road users to do something. I.e., simply seeing the word "stop" written does not mean you must stop by law. If you saw a red octagonal sign with a white outline and white capital letters reading "STOP" then you must stop. The point I'm making is there are certain signs and lights used to direct drivers. Some are statutory, meaning it is an offence to disregard them. And some are only advisory. Where it it's merely a suggestion and it's up to the driver to decide. The orange led light board is advisory only. This tunnel is fitted with red traffic lights and a statutory sign that says "stop here on red signal." If the tunnel wanted you to stop, those lights would be red.

Oh yes, I imagine it has! Hopefully this is a little snapshot of how it was ... if I remember it was 25 Krooni for a pint of beer. Always enjoyed visiting Tallinn. /Brett

Ahhh, good point. It could be due to the lack of fresh water maybe? I don't think there is much rainfall and you probably don't want to run straight sea water through your turbines. Whereas Iceland has an abundance of fresh water (I would guess)!

@@BrfffTravels Should be a closed loop system, and at those temps molten salt would be an option.

I visited Estonia about a dozen times and Latvia once. Unfortunately never made it as far as Lithuania. But, highly recommended ... always enjoyed visiting there. /Brett

Thanks, glad it was of some use to somebody ;). I've had this video as "unlisted" rather than "public" on my channel until the other day. One simple souvenir, not sure if I mentioned it, are the re-usable shopping bags - some nice Tahitian imagery, and something different to the ones here in Australia, and my son uses their "petit" one for his library books ... and Subway foot-long subs ;) /Brett

Why thanks! Met in 1998, married in 2000 (last century & millennium!) ... which makes it easy (for me) to remember how many years we've been married! /Brett

They just have winter tyres with studs I believe - never saw any chains on cars in Finland. I set the iMovie stabilisation at 33% ... I tried to cut the video to sections where the stabilisation was needed (i.e. cut out when I turned the camera around to myself), but that just resulted in a zoomed-in video. I wish I'd documented more of my life in Finland when I had the camera, but you had to deliberately carry the video camera around with you, rather than just having a phone you could capture things on. Oh well.

@@BrfffTravels Colorado has "Chain Laws" where you have to use chains on the passes or go home. In the Springs (Colorado Springs), I never took the bus, but I can't imagine the city risking it with each passenger one accident away from a nice payday. :) Chains were such a PITA that you had to be pretty desperate before you would use them. You would freeze your tookus off putting them on, and then they would tend to beat the crap out of your car while you drove. In Black Forest, ~2300 meters, and with much more snow, you usually could do just fine with studded snow tires. Not sure if studded snow tires are still in use in Colorado - there was a lot of complaining about the damage that they did to the road. I never thought that it was all that bad. These days front wheel drive with intentionally low air pressure in your front tires will generally get you anywhere you need to go. But be sure to replace the fuse for the lighter with an automotive circuit breaker. I have the same regrets of not taking enough pictures.

Sir, if it's in Australia then it's a "ute" and not a "pickup". And I'm embarrassed I didn't notice it ... I would've lingered on it longer. {insert rant about the Americans shutting down the Australian car manufacturing industry and our superior utes} ;) www.ridgebackbodies.com.au/did-australia-invent-the-ute/

@@BrfffTravels Actually I knew that, but it looked like it was imported from the US. But then again, it's hard to tell from this angle. From the ass-end, everything looks like a 1940 Chevy pickup. :) But I worked with a guy who had the Holden version of what we called the Pontiac G8. He loved it. I think that his was badged as a Holden. And as somebody who worked for GM, I blame Rick Wagoner. He was as useless as tits on a boar hog.

Oh, and to answer the Ridgeback question, no they didn't, the Germans did in 1896. :)

To be honest, I think you are correct - it looks more like a US "pickup" than an Aussie "ute" from that era ... ours were smooth from the tray to the cab (I think ... ?!), whereas the cab & tray in that one are separate ... ?? I'm proud to say that the Pontic G8 is actually an Aussie-built Holden imported to the US! It was actually partially the fault of an earlier government ... they pretty much dared the companies to leave (no more subsidies), so they said "fine, we'll leave then" ...

Actually, not sure about the fishing! For the actual duration, it depends also on time between the photos ... maybe 5s per frame ... so 1s of timelapse might be 2min of real time ... so maybe 1½hr in total ... at the start my wife & kids start walking off to the end, so that'd probably be the max. time I was allowed ;)

iirc that area is a protected marine park

@@WacKEDmaN Ah, I knew something was up. Thanks!

Actually, I've got footage of my student exchange to Shizuoka 静岡 back in 1989/1990 ... including when we met the mayor. We weren't expecting there to be TV cameras so got a little shocked on entering the room ... where I proceeded to introduce myself ... ぼくのブレットです ... "This is my Brett" ... cringe. Obviously I meant to say ... ぼくの名前はブレットです ... "My name is Brett" ... but had a totally brain freeze. I don't really take myself seriously so I might clip that one day so we can all have a good laugh at my cringey stuff-up. During the same trip we were asked to sing some songs ... unfortunately we were given Austrian songs, rather than Australian ... good times!

Thanks! The ongoing Warringah Freeway upgrade means the Bridge area is looking a bit different to this snapshot from 2014 ;) caportal.com.au/rms/wfu

Oh, and of course, there was no M11 Northconnex interchange on the M2 back then

@@BrfffTravels no !! So much easier now when you travel north . I remember back in 1997 I was one of the first cars on the M2

@@GlenAnderson71 oh yes! I remember the loooooong queues of cars on the M2 waiting to get on to Pennant Hills Rd! I wish I had some footage of the old toll booths ... "You mean there was a barrier in the middle of the motorway and you had to stop and give someone money? I don't believe you grandad!" 🥴

We were travelling from Finland to Australia ... very long & exhausting ... and flights still had a smoking section back then ... which didn't make much difference when you were the last non-smoking row before the smoking rows started 🤢

I really miss living in Helsinki - the Finns are some of the best people/friends you can ever meet/make ... wish it wasn't so far away 😞