The kids will never forget this adventure. It will stay with them well and truely into their old age. Great to see your family enjoying themselves so much. I only wish that I had these kind of experiences when I was growing up. Still, it is so nice to see through through the eyes of others.
Marla roadhouse is actually the last stop in SA, fuels a bit cheaper there also, cracking green grass camping for the van! Love that part of the desert ❤
So common, as a family of 5 also we have gone through 2 in 4 years (such a flimsy design) and it always seems to happen remote. We carry a spare now.. more weight added 🤪
That hotel is so darn cool. The kids will NEVER forget staying there. Now that they got their own big beds, I am afraid time is ticking on your travel adventures. BUT, there is always solo once the kids fly the nest...Thanks for sharing. Well worth the price and YES, I do have the idea about sitting on the couch! Cheers
Stopped in Coober Pedy on our first 2 month tour of Oz from the Uk in2012. It has improved for tourists a lot since then. Stayed 3 nights but had to leave as flies were driving us nuts! That was in March!2012. We visited Breakaways in our hired M/Home and covered it in dust outside and in!! We were on our way down to Adelaide. On our way to Alice, had to drive thru real flooding. Girl in Alice was pleased to see so much rain and river was flowing real deep. Keep it up, love the vids.
Bringing back great memories. Stayed at Cadney, brilliant sunset, epic sunrise, trucker tucker was superb. Broke same handle, drilled & put pull cable tie, $28 east coast.
Randomly chewing gum in one of the most random places in OZ, just fitting in really 👍🏻. And the good ol’ open the broken van door with the screw driver trick! Hot tip - buy a spare one for the tool box, $35 well spent 😉
Great episode again TIAV!!! I Love watching you all. So good to see the kids having a great time. I remember well all the travels I got to do with my family and Father as we were growing up! Such good memories. Your children will really appreciate this when they are older and will love you for it no end! Safe travels from Sydney lockdown!
I loved Coober Pedy, been there twice. If you noodle the stacks at night with an ultra violet light you can find them much easier, we found heaps, mostly worthless but still good tokens for the journey...The general store has the little uv lights for a couple bucks, but be warned there's a big guy who will try and lend you one for around $80 and he says he will give the money back when you return the light , then runs of with the money, he tried it on us but we conned on to him.
Dinky Di Love the Dugout and loved hearing the reality that you just wanted to sit on couch and watch TV.. This is something I take for granted everyday, but at the same time envy what you guys are doing. The saying is the grass is not always greened on the other side of the fence
Never been to Coober Pedy but have been to White Cliffs NSW, which was AMAZING!!! Can't wait to check out Coober Pedy one day!!! The dug outs are unreal!!!! So cool on a super hot day 😍
@@TripInAVan yeh underground living is awesome! We did it in White Cliffs, make sure to add White Cliffs to your next Far West NSW trip and tell them Rings Great Adventure sent you! We made sooooo many friends with the locals when we went! Thats the first tip I can give for White Cliffs, visit the pub first and mingle
My partner and I had a similar experience in Coober. We loved our time there and loved watching yours too. We also stayed in Di's place and loved it. Honestly we would love to go there again and experience the things we didn't have time for.
Great Vid as always guys, I look forward to them all the time. We were there in Coober Pedy a couple of years ago, brought back cool memories of our trip out there with the kids in our van. Safe travels , Dinki Di Cheers
Great Ep Guys, just got back from a weekend in Warrnambool it was a beautiful day Saturday no wind, apparently the whales were good to see but didn't see any as the car park was full lol. Just mate! Bream in the mouth when the sea water met the river coffee water incoming tide but freezing asses off Sunday. Keep trackin North its freezing down here😁.
If you ever settle down and build your own house think about a mud construction. I live in a rammed earth house and in the summer when it is 40 odd degrees outside (in NSW) it is 25 inside without air conditioning. We have lived in it about 9 yers and have used the air con about 10 times only to cool off if the night has not cooled down and even then just put in on for an hour in the morning to cool the place off and then the mud walls take over with their natural properties. The temps are fairly even over the year we do have a wood fire we use in the winter ( we live 2 hours away from the snow so it does get very cold say - 8 at times) but it is very warm and cosy in then as well.
i took my family to coober pedy at easter time they had a easter parade down the main street it was so great and we also stayed underground best sleep ever. should be on all travelers bucket list love following you guys
The misso and I camped at Agnes Creek on our very first camping trip in 2017 after leaving NT making our way back home. We were in a rooftop tent on our Subaru XV. Love your work, looking forward to the next vid.
👋👋👋Justin ,Bec, wow!!! you guys are awesome and the kids are the best !!! I really enjoy getting to see you all explore 💙I Love our IGA's as well and support them all I can !!! Love this trip, awesome as always !!!cant wait till next vid stay safe 👋👋👋
Did our door handle couple of years back... Dinkey Di... thankfully we were in Mooloolaba and picked up a newey at a Caravan Shop. Strangely, it was the inside handle that broke. Had to replace the whole mechanism... Dinkey Di... LOL
Been there, done that mate. Back in 1988! Stayed at underground backpackers hostel and mined for opal. Will always remember this p/u truck with boxes of dynamite in the back, parked at a bar, haha.
Spectacular video as usual, local knowledge is king when travelling. Love the blame game for the door, although they call it guaranteed return business. So many cool free camps in that part of the world. Flynets are a must, except when the temp gets above 40°c they seem to disappear
Currently you’re visiting all the places on my bucket list! We love your Dinky Di eps and wait in anticipation each time. Thanks to covid & work I currently live vicariously through your eps 😂
Another great video guys we went straight up the bitumen to Coober Pedy we had two days there and as it turns we were about three days ahead of you we appear in your next video getting fuel alongside of you at Eldunda we were coming out of Uluru you were going in. 👍👍👍
Coober Pedy what a place! So much more to see and do then I ever realised! I’ll definitely be staying at “Dinky Di” Dugouts. Some space ship junk just fell from the sky and landed here 🤣
@@TripInAVan 🤣🤣🤣 made me laugh, what I was picturing in my head after that was nothing compared to what you showed and I was like, wait what, that can’t be real lol. Then the correction came and made me laugh even more.
Hey family, we have just started following you guys, Binge watching hahaha' just wanted to say EXCELLENT. Keep up the good work, hopefully might bump into on the road one time. cheers guys.
The chewy was probably because of the dust, we were up there in Apr 2018 and I couldn't stay long as the dust was making me claustrophobic. We also camped under ground and the kids loved it...
loved the episode looked very cool in the underground house.. re the door latch I think you can get a aluminium style one that is a little more sturdy then the plastic one... cant remember who made them tho and also, I changed My dads one out as it broke aswell and you woulldnt believe it there is a left and right hand one... hope you got the right one, cheers for the awesome 30 minutes enjoying My morning coffee..
Good to see you support IGA... they are in practically in every town the big shops think they won't make enough money in
The kids will never forget this adventure. It will stay with them well and truely into their old age. Great to see your family enjoying themselves so much. I only wish that I had these kind of experiences when I was growing up.
Still, it is so nice to see through through the eyes of others.
I’ve lived my whole life in SA and I’ve never been to Coober pedy lol. Thanks for showing us what’s there. Australia is full of surprises
Marla roadhouse is actually the last stop in SA, fuels a bit cheaper there also, cracking green grass camping for the van! Love that part of the desert ❤
100% correct. Marla is a great stop, good fuel, good Indigenous art shop, mechanic, police, ambos/nurse & green grass camp ground with an opal pool!
Dinky Di. What a great looking place. Kids were a tad excited, so were mum and dad. Good onya's. Enjoy. Regards, Glen and Di,, Amamoor.
Lotsa fun
Jack - “mum broke the door not us” 😆 naughty bec!
So common, as a family of 5 also we have gone through 2 in 4 years (such a flimsy design) and it always seems to happen remote. We carry a spare now.. more weight added 🤪
Another fantastic video showcasing our amazing country Australia, love your work 🤙🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Glad you enjoyed it
Love watching your video s on my weekend's. Virtual adventure with my akubra and redbacks on
That hotel is so darn cool. The kids will NEVER forget staying there. Now that they got their own big beds, I am afraid time is ticking on your travel adventures. BUT, there is always solo once the kids fly the nest...Thanks for sharing. Well worth the price and YES, I do have the idea about sitting on the couch! Cheers
Stopped in Coober Pedy on our first 2 month tour of Oz from the Uk in2012. It has improved for tourists a lot since then. Stayed 3 nights but had to leave as flies were driving us nuts! That was in March!2012. We visited Breakaways in our hired M/Home and covered it in dust outside and in!! We were on our way down to Adelaide. On our way to Alice, had to drive thru real flooding. Girl in Alice was pleased to see so much rain and river was flowing real deep. Keep it up, love the vids.
Bringing back great memories. Stayed at Cadney, brilliant sunset, epic sunrise, trucker tucker was superb. Broke same handle, drilled & put pull cable tie, $28 east coast.
Ha, yeah I ended up drilling and putting some fishing wire trace through it 😂😂
Randomly chewing gum in one of the most random places in OZ, just fitting in really 👍🏻. And the good ol’ open the broken van door with the screw driver trick! Hot tip - buy a spare one for the tool box, $35 well spent 😉
gotta spare one stashed away right now!! 😂😂
Gr8 adventure
Dinky Di ‘s house looks awesome!
Thankyou, loved it underground 🤙
Haha , even tho travelling is awesome , luv the way everybody is over the moon about having simple things like lounges and roomy showers .
It’s the simple things in life 😂😂
cool vid, brings back memorys, gotta check it out again, times are changing,
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the dinky di dugout Guys. Another great video. Happy travels!
Thanks mate
As usual another magic vid...you guys always manage to include all the spots worth a visit...Cheers.
Thanks mate
Never disappointing your videos are always full of info fun and knowledgeable thanks for sharing stay safe next time.❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍
So nice of you
Great episode again TIAV!!! I Love watching you all. So good to see the kids having a great time. I remember well all the travels I got to do with my family and Father as we were growing up! Such good memories. Your children will really appreciate this when they are older and will love you for it no end! Safe travels from Sydney lockdown!
Thankyou mate
The kids reaction to the underground dugout is priceless. Dinky Di
Loved it 🤙
I loved Coober Pedy, been there twice. If you noodle the stacks at night with an ultra violet light you can find them much easier, we found heaps, mostly worthless but still good tokens for the journey...The general store has the little uv lights for a couple bucks, but be warned there's a big guy who will try and lend you one for around $80 and he says he will give the money back when you return the light , then runs of with the money, he tried it on us but we conned on to him.
Great memories, and loved Dinky Di
Thank you 😊
Dinki Di accommodation looked awesome guys!
Was soooo fun
Another Epic adventure. That Dugout is bloody awesome. The kids excitement is priceless. Keep the videos comming.
Happy Adventures
My favourite place in Australia 🧡
Just got home from nightshift and a notification on a New vid, yew! What a good morning so far.
Dinky DI
Hahaha snap
Thanks guys, another great travel log, thank you. Stay safe.
Dinky Di, you guys are legends and an inspiration to pack up and travel Australia.
Thankyou
Wow that's pretty cool.
Nice work 👍.
Can't wait to go there
Thanks mate
One way to beat lockdown is to watch you guys!!!
Dinky Di
We stayed there too. Great views
TIAV and coffee on a Sunday morning, too good 🤙🏼 Dinky Di
Cheers champion
Great video the shot of all you guys sitting on the boat at the breakaways is the best shot I have ever seen !! You guys are living the dreams !!
Oh thankyou
Can't wait tobsee kings canyon, one of my faves! Watching the dingos trot through camp on dusk is amazing
Omg we stayed there for 3days it was the best...white cliffs is amazing if you ever get out that way
A Dinky Di Aussie family staying in a Dinky Di Australian underground facility. Awesome once again!
Dinky Di
Love the Dugout and loved hearing the reality that you just wanted to sit on couch and watch TV.. This is something I take for granted everyday, but at the same time envy what you guys are doing. The saying is the grass is not always greened on the other side of the fence
The couch is one thing we miss!!
Lol only your children would run around and super excited about a bath tub, Lol love your videos guys
So true!
Never been to Coober Pedy but have been to White Cliffs NSW, which was AMAZING!!! Can't wait to check out Coober Pedy one day!!! The dug outs are unreal!!!! So cool on a super hot day 😍
Oh you need to stay underground. We had so much fun
@@TripInAVan yeh underground living is awesome! We did it in White Cliffs, make sure to add White Cliffs to your next Far West NSW trip and tell them Rings Great Adventure sent you! We made sooooo many friends with the locals when we went! Thats the first tip I can give for White Cliffs, visit the pub first and mingle
My partner and I had a similar experience in Coober. We loved our time there and loved watching yours too. We also stayed in Di's place and loved it. Honestly we would love to go there again and experience the things we didn't have time for.
It’s so fun
My aunty owns an opal mine and shop up in Lightning Ridge. She let us noodle in her piles as kids, and I found a $400 opal. :)
What a cool find. So excited i bet!!
Lying in bed watching the episode with the misso! Top notch! Dinki Di!!!
Thanks mate
Great Vid as always guys, I look forward to them all the time. We were there in Coober Pedy a couple of years ago, brought back cool memories of our trip out there with the kids in our van. Safe travels , Dinki Di
Cheers
Thankyou
Charlie is growing so fast.
Sooooo fast
Great experience for the kids! 👍👍
we are about to embark on a Lap with our kids, i am glad i found you guys. thanks for the vids. Coober pedy is one of our bucket lists too
Great Ep Guys, just got back from a weekend in Warrnambool it was a beautiful day Saturday no wind, apparently the whales were good to see but didn't see any as the car park was full lol. Just mate! Bream in the mouth when the sea water met the river coffee water incoming tide but freezing asses off Sunday. Keep trackin North its freezing down here😁.
So cold down there
That place was AWEEEEESSSSOOMMMEEE the dugout makes planning to come to Aussie just to do that
I used to work about 100 kms south of Coober Pedy and would have to say it’s probably one of the best outback towns in Australia?😮
Ripper spot for sure
IGA in Coober was a great shop! Got the best T Bone there ide had in 20 yrs! How bad are the flies!!! Aaarrrggghhh! 🍺🍺
They had a great butcher in there🤙
@@TripInAVan He sure was! Cut the steak when we were there!
Nothing like spending the evening on my birthday, watching an epic episode 🤘🍻🥳🇺🇲
Thanks champion, happy bday!!
Just enjoyable and easy to watch. Thankyou
Cheers mate🤙🍺
Cooper Pedy looks great! Loved Dinky Di's underground house 😁
If you ever settle down and build your own house think about a mud construction. I live in a rammed earth house and in the summer when it is 40 odd degrees outside (in NSW) it is 25 inside without air conditioning. We have lived in it about 9 yers and have used the air con about 10 times only to cool off if the night has not cooled down and even then just put in on for an hour in the morning to cool the place off and then the mud walls take over with their natural properties. The temps are fairly even over the year we do have a wood fire we use in the winter ( we live 2 hours away from the snow so it does get very cold say - 8 at times) but it is very warm and cosy in then as well.
Oh wow, that sounds unreal
Yeh same just got back from nighshift and BOOOM here it is Yay
CHEERS
i took my family to coober pedy at easter time they had a easter parade down the main street it was so great and we also stayed underground best sleep ever. should be on all travelers bucket list love following you guys
Good times hey 🤙
The misso and I camped at Agnes Creek on our very first camping trip in 2017 after leaving NT making our way back home. We were in a rooftop tent on our Subaru XV. Love your work, looking forward to the next vid.
Good spot hey. Cheers
@@TripInAVan 👍
Lovin' the Inland adventure... Those bloody fly's 'Boo Yah'
Dinky di. Great video once again. Merriinie loop has shocking corrugations Lots to see. The great desert park is really good to.
Thanks a ton
Thanks mate. Love you all
👋👋👋Justin ,Bec, wow!!! you guys are awesome and the kids are the best !!! I really enjoy getting to see you all explore 💙I Love our IGA's as well and support them all I can !!! Love this trip, awesome as always !!!cant wait till next vid stay safe 👋👋👋
Thank you! You too!
that dugout is next level!👍👍
So nice hey!!
Absolutely amazing!
Did our door handle couple of years back... Dinkey Di... thankfully we were in Mooloolaba and picked up a newey at a Caravan Shop. Strangely, it was the inside handle that broke. Had to replace the whole mechanism... Dinkey Di... LOL
Yeah they are a bugger hey. You have to split the whole door handle in half
We always stay at Cadney Homestead on our way north. It has the best Roast Beef and old one arm bandit Pokies for a laugh
yum!! love roast rolls
another fabulous Vid. Cant wait to get out of this lockdown and get really Dinky Di and visit Coober Pedy. thanks again
Thankyou
One of your best, good stuff guys
Thanks mate
Dinky Di.
Another great vid guys, always hanging out for new eps each fortnight
Thankyou mate
The thing I really enjoyed there was the tour of "Fay's House" and the story about this women she was unbelievable
Been there, done that mate. Back in 1988! Stayed at underground backpackers hostel and mined for opal. Will always remember this p/u truck with boxes of dynamite in the back, parked at a bar, haha.
😂😂the Wild West
Another great episode. Dinky di’s look awesome. We leave the devil’s marbles for the Alice today. Good one to have a look at on your travels.
Have fun!
Spectacular video as usual, local knowledge is king when travelling. Love the blame game for the door, although they call it guaranteed return business. So many cool free camps in that part of the world. Flynets are a must, except when the temp gets above 40°c they seem to disappear
True😂
Those bloody handles..ha! Been through a few ourselves.. great vids thanks guys 😍
Dinky Di
Our van arrives next week. Keen as to start exploring. Thanks for the inspiration legends
Thanks mate, safe travels
Currently you’re visiting all the places on my bucket list! We love your Dinky Di eps and wait in anticipation each time. Thanks to covid & work I currently live vicariously through your eps 😂
Glad you like them! Cheers guys
Another great video guys !! The underground rooms were amazing, now on the wife's bucket list !!
A must!!
What a ripper place, definitely gonna check that out.
Enjoying your videos.
Will have to learn to fly my new drone while not looking like I am as you do. 👍🏻
DINKY DI !!
hows the kids lol oomggg theres a washing machine in here !!!! haha
Sooooo excited!! 😂
Love the morning episode guys. Great editing on this one. Drone shots were amazing
Thanks heaps mate
I glued a strip of metal along under the door handle to give it some strength. Shape and bend to fit :)
What a good idea
Another great video guys we went straight up the bitumen to Coober Pedy we had two days there and as it turns we were about three days ahead of you we appear in your next video getting fuel alongside of you at Eldunda we were coming out of Uluru you were going in. 👍👍👍
Just love following you guys, great tips all the way. Cheers Judy
Mum did not us, haha, now that's Dinky Di....... Great stuff guys.
😂😂
Coober Pedy what a place! So much more to see and do then I ever realised! I’ll definitely be staying at “Dinky Di” Dugouts.
Some space ship junk just fell from the sky and landed here 🤣
Not quite factual 😂😂
@@TripInAVan 🤣🤣🤣 made me laugh, what I was picturing in my head after that was nothing compared to what you showed and I was like, wait what, that can’t be real lol. Then the correction came and made me laugh even more.
Gotta be Dinky Di one of the best stopovers yet, Kids we’re wrapt l bet
They were stoked
Ah..loved that episode. So different. Hope the door handle fixed by now! Looking forward to the next episode as I reckon it’ll be a great one!
All fixed hey 😎
Keep up with good footage like you're show cheers
Thanks mate
Dinky Di. Another great episode.
Well done guys!
Loved traveling the outback of Australia. Done the same track you just covered.
Hey family, we have just started following you guys, Binge watching hahaha' just wanted to say EXCELLENT. Keep up the good work, hopefully might bump into on the road one time. cheers guys.
DINKI DI It’s a wild place, stayed in a B&B a few years back and loved it. The landscape first thing in the morning looks like Mars, so cool…
Amazing
Love how the kids are so excited. 🤣🤣
Dinky Di 👍
Great episode, loved seeing what Coober Pedy has to offer. The underground house at Di’s in now on our list!
‘Dinki Di’
Cheers
Good stuff.
Dinki Di!
Bloody brilliant, 💕 love your whole family,
Cheers, we appreciate the support
That is such an amazing way to stay and live wow so gorgeous
So fun
Omg, what an amazing place to stay, Dinky Di!
So nice
The chewy was probably because of the dust, we were up there in Apr 2018 and I couldn't stay long as the dust was making me claustrophobic. We also camped under ground and the kids loved it...
Underground was sooo fun
loved the episode looked very cool in the underground house.. re the door latch I think you can get a aluminium style one that is a little more sturdy then the plastic one... cant remember who made them tho and also, I changed My dads one out as it broke aswell and you woulldnt believe it there is a left and right hand one... hope you got the right one, cheers for the awesome 30 minutes enjoying My morning coffee..
Thanks mate, I’m gonna research the alloy one 🤙