It's an incredible place, Ryan. :D Don't miss it when you come. Afghan camel drivers were brought in to help open up the country. Camels could thrive and go where no other pack animal could. The famous Adelaide to Darwin train is named The Ghan after them.
And lets not forget the japanese pearlers and chinese cooks/gardeners on the pastoral stations who could grow anything anywhere so long as they had water. Edit:- Also remember how pastoral stations would only get their alcohol deliveries from the Afghans because they didn't drink alcohol, so the barrels arrived full of whiskey and not sea water as sometimes happened when "europeans" delivered them😂
Ryan just wanted to add that the wallaby you saw at Lake Argyle is a rock wallaby. There's 17 different species of rock wallabies alone in Oz. As for different species of other wallabies just forget it.
My experience of camels in Broome many amuse. We arrived too late for the last ride, so played on the beach for a while. As we were driving away, we passed the string of camels roped together in line heading for home. And the last camel in the line had a red tail light tied to its tail.
In fact in the "Wet season" our summer in southern hemisphere, the travel in much of the north is near impossible much of the time with floods, heavy 'monsoon' rain, thunder storms, and at best hot sticky humid conditions. At worst get hit by Cyclone (Hurricane for US) conditions. Really not time to be in those northern areas. June or ideally after June to visit that area of Australia. Also be prepared for long distances to travel.
Yes. People from Afghanistan riding camels went to Alice Springs and up further north. It's why there are wild camels. Also why the train from Adelaide to Darwin is called "The Ghan"
@michaelrogers2080 But factor in that much of present day Pakistan has land that was Afghan. The people who live there have always been Afghan. In fact Pakistan is an acronym. The name Pakistan was coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who in January 1933 first published it in a pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym. Rahmat Ali explained: "It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our homelands, Indian and Asian, Panjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan." He added that "Pakistan is both a Persian and Urdu word... It means the land of the Paks, the spiritually pure and clean." Etymologists note that پاک pāk, is 'pure' in Persian and Pashto and the Persian suffix ـستان -stan means 'land' or 'place of'. So Pakistan was made up in the 1930s and the "a" is for Afghan. Punjab Afghan Kashmir Indus Sindh and Baluchi*stan* So if the cameleers were from modern day Pakistan they would have been Afghan people. Also in the 1800s there was no such place as Pakistan. There were Afghan people and others living in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan. So it would have been better for you to say that they came from present day Pakistan which was at the time British India. *But* British India was attacking the Afghans and taking their land. So like I pointed out before the cameleers were Afghan even if they came from British India.
@Michael Rogers Possibly they came from the North-Western p[art of Pakistan, which seems to overlap with Afghanistan in the reckoning .of those living there. I think Adelaide had the first Mosque in Australia.
We were in the Kimberley a few weeks ago. Rode camels on Cable Beach and went to the Courthouse Markets where a lot of local artisans sell their wares. Will be going back as we didn't have enough time to see as much as we wanted, having just come from Darwin and Kakadu. You are right, it is extremely hot up there but a dry heat during the dry season, the wet season is incredibly hot and humid. Also, Broome is famous for its pearls, some of the best in the world.
We have regions in WA : Kimberley , Pilbara, Gascoyne mid west, wheatbelt, Perth, peel, great Southern , south West and the Goldfields. Kinda coz we are so big
Australia is the only place where camels roam wild. Afghans (among others) brought them over during the 1800s to serve in various capacities (expeditions, desert travel etc). For example, camels were used to transport goods into the goldfields of Western Australia, especially water, which was worth more than gold until the pipeline opened.
Australia is endlessly interesting to me. Not only since I have a couple of relatives there but as our family was supposed to move there when I was a kid. For us Finns and Swedes Australia is as exotic - and big! - as it gets. (Sorry Australians lol - I just find your whole country so fascinating in a positive way. Sydney and Melbourne look absolutely marvellous. The only negative is the distance from Europe - perhaps that is somehow problematic...)
For me Finland is as exotic as it gets, I always dreamed of coming and seeing the snow and Aurora Borealis, but I think I should go see Aurora Australis first!
I’m glad you find Australia interesting! As for the distance from Europe, it’s not really a deterrent. Australians are some of the most well travelled people & the distance is like anything else you do often…it just becomes the norm. I also think because Australia is large with a small population, we are used to long road trips & we jump on planes to far reaching states at the drop of a hat. It’s a bit like Europeans travelling within Europe but we’re doing it within Australia 😂✌🏼
Mate I really hope you get to visit our beautiful country one day. I'm sure you would have a great time and make some new friends 😊 greetings from Queensland
@@leo1933 It's not isolated. It's so close to Southeast Asia and a neighbour to New Zealand and South Pacific countries. Bali and Singapore and Malaysia are a short flight away from Darwin. Guam and Hawaii, USA are not that far.
Hi from WA, Western Australia. Just to let you know it is spelt Kimberley It really is beautiful area of WA with bright red dirt and the sky is so blue. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Oh and I’ve been on a day of the Lake Argyle region which started in Kununurra, with a bus to Lake Argyle. We then took a sea plane over the Bungle Bungles and pretty close to the Argyle diamond mine (but not directly over it for security reasons). Passed some stunning waterfalls too. When the plane landed at Lake Argyle, we took the boat tour on Lake Argyle itself. Finished off with another bus back to camp. Great day out….. with our little girl who was around 18 months old. That was back in 2000. She slept on the small sea plane 😂😂😂
The dot art Aboriginal paintings was taught to the aborigines by Geoffrey Bardon, a teacher, in 1971! The truly indigenous art is mostly hand prints on rocks.
We went to Broome for our honeymoon 24 years ago... we chose the sunset horse ride rather than the camels (seemed more romantic). Highly recommend the North West in the dry... the weather is perfect- still remember the dragonflies over the resort pool at dusk. Worth going during the "stairway to the moon" if you can. Amazing, wish we'd gone further afield... Katherine Gorge is on my bucket list. The president? I'm guessing Nixon (jowls).
When I went on a trip to Alice Springs as a child, taking a ride on a camel was obligatory. I mainly remember having to hang on when they got up and down from the ground. But I never realised till later in life that camels were a rare thing to many people as they were just one of the animals we had here.
I’ve lived in Broome, and it’s gotta be one of the best places.I’ve also gone camping around derby and aside from having a minor boat emergency in crocodile infested waters it was a pretty good trip😅
I rode a camel at Uluru at sunrise. It was an amazing time and place to do such. The morning sun rising above The Rock made it extra special. A bucket list item for you to consider.
Ryan the Cameleer! 🤠 Take him to Broome somebody, no crocs, great photos! Then to Cooper Pedy to find opals, an Aussie trip of a lifetime, maybe he'll find enough treasure to fund a new Australian dream property! 😁👍
I've driven the Gibb River Rd. You're right, you don't want to pop a tyre there. That river crossing would be the Pentecost river, home to Saltwater Crocs.
The free hugs thing is actually quite well known here! I actually know the renown sydney "free hugs" guy that appeared on the scene a few years back. His pseudonym is "Juan mann" which I thought was pretty clever to come up with 😂 since then the social movement has grown enormously, even internationally. He's a pretty cool guy in real life :)
Ryan, do a bit of research into the Flying Doctor Service. It fills a real need in the provision of medical services living in the outback regions. Basically, the Service started after a young stockman on a cattle station had a ruptured bladder in 1917. He was taken to the settlement at Halls Creek - the postmaster there had been trained in first aid. Using the telegraph system, the postmaster was guided through an operation by a surgeon in Perth. Because of technical limitations in the system, messages had to be relayed through a dozen or so stations each way. Relaying meant not simply pressing a button, but rather taking down the message then rekeying it in to go to the next station - not simply pressing a button. Somehow, it all worked and the operation was successful. The young man survived but later died from unrelated causes. Despite the infancy of flying, someone had the idea of flying either a doctor to a patient, or vice versa. Money was raised and the service established. These days it flourishes with public and government support. You can easily work out a clip to go 10 minutes or so, and I'm sure that the Service would give you loads of information.
The treedel wireless was invented in australia tobe able to speak to the remote cattle stTions and notify the royal flying doctor service in case of emergency.
Broome is renown for a few things. The Pearling Industry. There were many Japanese Pearl Divers who perished over the years and there is a Japanese Cemetery that is worth visiting. The Staircase to The Moon when the moon shines on the Ocean. The Shell House is worth visiting. Derby has some of the biggest tides in Australia, reaching a maximum tidal range of 11.8 meters (39 foot). Talbot Falls is further north where the Horizontal Waterfalls are. Further north again is Montgomery Reef where the reef is out of the water at low tide, amazing to see. Amazing country and love it out there!
and the local youth stealing cars and committing crimes is also what it is renowned for. Nice place but the black fellas make it a shithole, just like Carnarvon
The first small group of Afghan cameleers (people who ride camels) arrived into Melbourne in June 1860, along with 24 camels. They were employed to assist the government in the opening up of the vast, arid interior of the continent. These Agfhan cameleers soon garnered a reputation as highly skilled, hard workers, and so thousands more were brought into the country over the next half century. As a result, we now have camels galore in Australia, and not a few folks of Afghani descent living in the country today. These days Australian camels are exported to the Middle East, where they are highly prized as "pure-bred".
Because of Australia's size and lack of water in the outback when they decided to connect the east coast and west coast by rail in the 1880s no cars then but only horses to transport equipment. .horses need water and no water in outback it was decided that camels was the only option. As we didn't have any camels they imported them from Afghanistan as well as the camel herders from Afghanistan. Hence why we have now camels and the hrrders are buried in that cemetery. When the rail line was finished they released all the camels and they had no natural enemies in the outback and they just thrived that is why Australia has more camels than any other country and hence why our camels are exported to the Middle East.
This almost 65 year young Aussie for well over 50 years was under the impression that the Afghan camelliears were brought to Australia to carry supplies between Adelaide & Darwin for the overland telegraph connecting the rest of Australia to the world,. Maybe my school teachers were wrong
@michaelrogers2080 So you reckon we should call the Afghan express something else? Mate you know about camels, but I don't think you are aware that it is Pakistan which is a misnomer in the way you used it. They can't have come from present-day Pakistan. That is like saying that Mother Teresa came from present day Northern Macedonia. Actually Mother Teresa was born in what is now called Northern Macedonia. But her ethnicity was Albanian. If the cameleers weren't Afghans then what were they? Indian? They can't have been Pakistani because that wasn't invented yet (circa 1800s). By the way there were Afghans in parts of British India.
@@stanleywiggins5047 That's correct Stanley, also the camel's are extremely valuable now because they are all basically wild. The Arab countries play big dollars 4 Australian camels because they are so good at racing. The camel's are also dromedaries, single hump.
My aunt (who lived in Sydney) went on a bus tour around Australia with a friend after retiring. She was afraid of flying, but when they got to the Bungle Bungles, she went on a scenic flight in one of those small planes. Apparently she accompanied her friend to the airport, with no intention of taking a flight herself ... until the pilot appeared. Her explanation: 'When I saw that the pilot was just a snip of a girl, and she wasn't afraid to fly the plane, I thought it was time I got over it!' What a stunning first flight to take!
Just seeing this for the first time! My Partner Al and I are travelling The Kimberly WA this June 24. I can't wait, we just got our Hema 4X4 Offroad GPS Navigation unit, wasn't cheap but we can use it for all of our trips around Australia. I have seen lots of Australia, but the Kimberly has always been a dream. Purnululu National Park especially, with the Bungle Bungle Ranges and Broome with the Japanese Pearl Diving history, Arnhem Land and heaps of other possible options . Maybe I should post some of the trip 😀
To answer your question, the Bungle Bungle ranges are the remains of an incredibly ancient coral reef structure from just after the Cambrian if I recall correctly. You can still see the fossils of many kinds of marine life in those rocks. Sort of like the Great Barrier Reef if it was exposed to the air for a few hundred million years.
I did the Melbourne to Darwin, via the Ghan (train), October last year. !8 days in total. Next year 2024, Melbourne to Perth via the Indian Pacific (train). Then Outback Spirit (bus) Perth to Broome, 14days, then Outback Spirit again Broom to Broome through the Kimberly,16 days. Then flying home to Melbourne.
yeah in central oz , a camel farm , a servo and the best burgers i've ever tasted , a giant bun toasted real butter, a meat patty ,topped with cheese, a camel burger delish so lean, yum.
Afghan migrant cameleers were common in North Western Australia. They supplied isolated towns and stations. with supplies bought from Broome and Port Hedland
When the early British explorers imported (domesticated) camels (mainly from British-occupied Afghanistan) in the late 19th century, they also imported their human handlers - the Afghan cameleers.
I was born in the Kimberleys bro, little bush town called Derby, its a mad joint... this video is ok but barely scratched the surface of the scope of the region.I feel blessed to come from there I must say...
The Australian camel introduced into Australia over 150 years ago took supplies through central Australia before road transport. These animal are now exported to Saudi Arabia. They are the only disease free camel left in the world.
Originally (and actually) called the Kimberley Plateau, a highland region with a series of mountain ranges in the far north of Western Australia. These days, most people forget the word ‘plateau’ (as well as the second E in the word ‘Kimberley’).
The rock looked like Richard Nixon. Afghan men and their camels opened up so much of Australia. They used to even carry mail. So they have historically been here almost as long as white men. The "Ghan" is a tourist train that crosses Australia north to south, between Adelaide and Darwin, and it was originally called the "Afghan Express", because it travelled the route the cameleers (yes, that is a person who works with camels) used to take. Obviously, "Ghan" came from the word "Afghan". The bats were flying foxes. They sleep during the day. They are very cute and sweet natured and vegetarians, and absolutely nothing to be feared.
Camels were imported from Afghanistan and their keepers (cameleers) came with them. They stayed and eventually died from natural old age in the desert areas. There are a few Afghans living in different parts of Australia but it is not a large percentage of them. Camels were brought in because they needed very little to work long hours in the desert and they needed to open trade routes between areas across the outback and cities. They needed cameleers to keep them because the locals didn't know anything about camels.
@deesmart1122 Many of decendents dropped Singh from surnames.When my late mother turned 16..The local travelling Afghan stayed on their property.He unwound his headpiece and gave my mum some of the material for her birthday gift.This was in nth Victoria
The Kimberley is a beautiful part of Australia. Although you don't have to go all the way there to ride camels. Coffs Harbour has it's very own Camel rides.
back in the mid 70's me n my ex travelled all these places . it was somewhat different then. had to know how to repair your car. carry spares, parts , tyres and fuel. one time we did not see another car or person for 4 days. even today the outback is no place for dumb tourists or inexperienced ppl. no cell phone coverage most places , few fuel stops, deadly snakes, searing heat. a simple cut can turn very nasty overnite
Stayed some very isolated places as a teenager when my parents travelled from Mount Isa to Darwin in the 1970's. I can still remember the old hand pump petrol bowsers in a couple of places besides other things. At that time Barry Caves road stop was notorious for being a total rip-off. We avoided it and went to Borroloola first. Then west from there. Mind you we had a light truck and about 500 litres of Diesel fuel on board. A caravan , and boat towed behind. ( Had to fish at Borroloola :) )
@@geradkavanagh8240 nah they must of given them a few cartons of emu export coz they filmed a coupla episodes up there ..few flagons and some wini reds ..bargain 😁
Never been there. It's expensive to get there from Sydney. A bus is the cheapest way to get there. Probably a tent might be an idea as accommodation is expensive, is with most things around Broome. I'll get there one day once I do my sums.
Kimberley is divided into east and west… either east or west Kimberley would swallow Texas plus…west Kimberley is me… it is magical all over the Kimberley’s … as for the camel rides on cable beach….hmmm… volunteered with St John’s ambulance for a number of years… one of the call outs I hated was tourists on camels 🐪… when you are approximately two meters off the ground and the camel bucks it can send you up another meter or so before falling to the ground and damp sand on an incoming tide creates issues for getting to and from the casualty… beware on camel rides, always have good travel insurance… tyranny of distance is a curse and magical all at once…
Those bats are all over Australia. They a fruit bats and every night they go out to their favourite spot to feed. Even in the suburbs you get them in your back yards. My old place every night I had a big one come and eat the fruits. They are harmless and you can even handle them if they are used to humans. They are great bats besides the bat poo that as it eats into the paint on your car if not cleaner off in time due to the acid that in the berries or fruit.
Amazing amazing sights\! Oi btw … Only learnt very recently through someones UA-cam Vid (wasn’t you was it?) that CAMELS in the MIDDLE EAST(or somewhere like that) are ALL SUPPLIED by AUSTRALIA. Weird eh!
Those were Fruit Bats, we in Australia call them Flying Foxes because of the shape of the face and colouration. If you have ever seen a red fox, imagine them with wings and that's basically what they look like. Have a good one mate. By the way, The rock Look-A-Like is President Nixon.
Afghanis came to australia for the gold rush and brung camels with them to explore the centre of australia , that’s why there’s wild camels in the middle of aus , if they died on their travels the camels were left to fend for themselves
8:39 That is a boab tree. It featured prominently in the movie AUSTRALIA (2008) with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. A beautiful song accompanies the scenes from the film and it is called BY THE BOAB TREE. Your wife would really like it as it is a very romantic song. ua-cam.com/video/oohsewd5nx8/v-deo.html If you have issues getting it, change your VPN to Australia.
That was a good intro to The Kimberly. I think that fish was the famous Barramundi. Good fishing up there. That Afghan Cameleers Grave was a bit 'bereft' - neglected! Shameful really! Surely we could do something a bit better than this to honour these brave early pioneers. Maybe someone could do a research project and find some names and dates and get it done properly??? Yes- big BIG Beautiful Country up there. Well worth a visit.
There are a lot of descendants of the cameleers who married locals, I saw a programme about them recently. I think they are trying to record more of their history.
No available early transport so camels and cameleers were imported from Pakistan/Afghanistan to provide transport of large commodities across the desert areas When motors arrived camels were often set loose there being no further use for them Signs of those times are the thriving date palms mosques and that excess wild camels are exported to Arabic nations being mainly disease free and having different blood line away from inbreeding
Ryan, a major HINT, as I've heard you say it a few times before so you don't know: The British English word "Aboriginal" is an ADJECTIVE, not a noun, and needs a noun to follow it, like Aboriginal children, art, cultures, spirituality or whatever. It's also an old SLUR when it or the first two syllables of it is used derogatively. The British used it around the world for convenience for any First Nations groups they discovered when they couldn't be bothered learning what they called themselves together or as individuals - too hard! All our people have their own names for their nations just as your First People do. Call the mainlanders "ABORIGINAL PEOPLE" with a capital A instead as a whole. They aren't too fond of that or "Indigenous people" with a capital I (since all nationalities are given capital letters), but they've mostly become used to it. "First Nations people" is probably most acceptable to them, since we have TWO separate original inhabitants, the Aboriginal people and in the far north-east islands and in Queensland, the Torres Strait Islander people.
I'm guessing the rock either looks like Obama (its clearly darker than WASPy Mt Rushmore) or I can also see Bill Clinton with his ankles up around his ears and an intern down towards the bottom. Anyone else seeing either of these at 9:37?
It's an incredible place, Ryan. :D Don't miss it when you come. Afghan camel drivers were brought in to help open up the country. Camels could thrive and go where no other pack animal could. The famous Adelaide to Darwin train is named The Ghan after them.
And lets not forget the japanese pearlers and chinese cooks/gardeners on the pastoral stations who could grow anything anywhere so long as they had water.
Edit:- Also remember how pastoral stations would only get their alcohol deliveries from the Afghans because they didn't drink alcohol, so the barrels arrived full of whiskey and not sea water as sometimes happened when "europeans" delivered them😂
Ryan just wanted to add that the wallaby you saw at Lake Argyle is a rock wallaby. There's 17 different species of rock wallabies alone in Oz. As for different species of other wallabies just forget it.
My experience of camels in Broome many amuse. We arrived too late for the last ride, so played on the beach for a while. As we were driving away, we passed the string of camels roped together in line heading for home. And the last camel in the line had a red tail light tied to its tail.
I thought the rock looked like Richard Nixon.
The Kimberley can be very hot. Best time to visit is in the winter which is also the dry season.
Yep I thought it looked like him too 😂
In fact in the "Wet season" our summer in southern hemisphere, the travel in much of the north is near impossible much of the time with floods, heavy 'monsoon' rain, thunder storms, and at best hot sticky humid conditions. At worst get hit by Cyclone (Hurricane for US) conditions. Really not time to be in those northern areas. June or ideally after June to visit that area of Australia. Also be prepared for long distances to travel.
That meat you were asking about looks like fish.... probably barramundi. Bloody beautiful fish to eat at that!
Yes. People from Afghanistan riding camels went to Alice Springs and up further north. It's why there are wild camels. Also why the train from Adelaide to Darwin is called "The Ghan"
So - there have been Muslim Australians for as long as there has been European settlement (well, earlier if you count 😅Macassan trepang fishers)
@michaelrogers2080 But factor in that much of present day Pakistan has land that was Afghan. The people who live there have always been Afghan.
In fact Pakistan is an acronym.
The name Pakistan was coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who in January 1933 first published it in a pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym. Rahmat Ali explained: "It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our homelands, Indian and Asian, Panjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan." He added that "Pakistan is both a Persian and Urdu word... It means the land of the Paks, the spiritually pure and clean." Etymologists note that پاک pāk, is 'pure' in Persian and Pashto and the Persian suffix ـستان -stan means 'land' or 'place of'.
So Pakistan was made up in the 1930s and the "a" is for Afghan.
Punjab
Afghan
Kashmir
Indus
Sindh
and Baluchi*stan*
So if the cameleers were from modern day Pakistan they would have been Afghan people.
Also in the 1800s there was no such place as Pakistan. There were Afghan people and others living in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan.
So it would have been better for you to say that they came from present day Pakistan which was at the time British India. *But* British India was attacking the Afghans and taking their land. So like I pointed out before the cameleers were Afghan even if they came from British India.
@Michael Rogers Possibly they came from the North-Western p[art of Pakistan, which seems to overlap with Afghanistan in the reckoning .of those living there.
I think Adelaide had the first Mosque in Australia.
My uncle terry worked with the camel's on the beach in broom. 🚶🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫
Yes
A major tourist attaction the guide missed was the must see 'Horizontal Waterfall'
“Sky puppies” Fruit bats are adorable!
That rock formation was a dead ringer for Richard Nixon. I can't believe they went to Windham and didn't show The Grotto. Mind-blowing lapse.
That has hardly scratched the surface of the regions attractions. There is sooo much more....
We were in the Kimberley a few weeks ago. Rode camels on Cable Beach and went to the Courthouse Markets where a lot of local artisans sell their wares. Will be going back as we didn't have enough time to see as much as we wanted, having just come from Darwin and Kakadu. You are right, it is extremely hot up there but a dry heat during the dry season, the wet season is incredibly hot and humid. Also, Broome is famous for its pearls, some of the best in the world.
We have regions in WA : Kimberley , Pilbara, Gascoyne mid west, wheatbelt, Perth, peel, great Southern , south West and the Goldfields. Kinda coz we are so big
Australia is the only place where camels roam wild. Afghans (among others) brought them over during the 1800s to serve in various capacities (expeditions, desert travel etc). For example, camels were used to transport goods into the goldfields of Western Australia, especially water, which was worth more than gold until the pipeline opened.
@Michael Rogers I stand updated.
Australia is endlessly interesting to me. Not only since I have a couple of relatives there but as our family was supposed to move there when I was a kid. For us Finns and Swedes Australia is as exotic - and big! - as it gets. (Sorry Australians lol - I just find your whole country so fascinating in a positive way. Sydney and Melbourne look absolutely marvellous. The only negative is the distance from Europe - perhaps that is somehow problematic...)
For me Finland is as exotic as it gets, I always dreamed of coming and seeing the snow and Aurora Borealis, but I think I should go see Aurora Australis first!
I’m glad you find Australia interesting! As for the distance from Europe, it’s not really a deterrent. Australians are some of the most well travelled people & the distance is like anything else you do often…it just becomes the norm. I also think because Australia is large with a small population, we are used to long road trips & we jump on planes to far reaching states at the drop of a hat. It’s a bit like Europeans travelling within Europe but we’re doing it within Australia 😂✌🏼
Mate I really hope you get to visit our beautiful country one day. I'm sure you would have a great time and make some new friends 😊 greetings from Queensland
If it's any help to you, Australia is drifting closer to Europe at a few centimetres per year.
@@leo1933 It's not isolated. It's so close to Southeast Asia and a neighbour to New Zealand and South Pacific countries. Bali and Singapore and Malaysia are a short flight away from Darwin. Guam and Hawaii, USA are not that far.
Hi from WA, Western Australia. Just to let you know it is spelt Kimberley
It really is beautiful area of WA with bright red dirt and the sky is so blue.
🎉🎉🎉🎉
Oh and I’ve been on a day of the Lake Argyle region which started in Kununurra, with a bus to Lake Argyle. We then took a sea plane over the Bungle Bungles and pretty close to the Argyle diamond mine (but not directly over it for security reasons). Passed some stunning waterfalls too. When the plane landed at Lake Argyle, we took the boat tour on Lake Argyle itself. Finished off with another bus back to camp. Great day out….. with our little girl who was around 18 months old. That was back in 2000. She slept on the small sea plane 😂😂😂
You got hot and bloody 🔥🥵 hot
The best part of the Kimberley is the coast and rivers
which that video showed virtually none of.
@@xaj1543 yes that too. Our back yard, that is the whole State has a lot to offer, it’s just that it is so spread out.
wow that rock that looked like Nixon was amazing
Love it when you feature places I've had the pleasure to travel to 🤘
The anointing as you say is cleansing your spirit.
Used to live in the Kimberley now I love live in NSW
The dot art Aboriginal paintings was taught to the aborigines by Geoffrey Bardon, a teacher, in 1971! The truly indigenous art is mostly hand prints on rocks.
We went to Broome for our honeymoon 24 years ago... we chose the sunset horse ride rather than the camels (seemed more romantic). Highly recommend the North West in the dry... the weather is perfect- still remember the dragonflies over the resort pool at dusk. Worth going during the "stairway to the moon" if you can. Amazing, wish we'd gone further afield... Katherine Gorge is on my bucket list. The president? I'm guessing Nixon (jowls).
rock look alike - Nixon, white flesh on BBQ was Barramundi- saltwater fish, best fish filets. would be off a 1 metre plus barrra
When I went on a trip to Alice Springs as a child, taking a ride on a camel was obligatory. I mainly remember having to hang on when they got up and down from the ground. But I never realised till later in life that camels were a rare thing to many people as they were just one of the animals we had here.
I’ve lived in Broome, and it’s gotta be one of the best places.I’ve also gone camping around derby and aside from having a minor boat emergency in crocodile infested waters it was a pretty good trip😅
I rode a camel at Uluru at sunrise. It was an amazing time and place to do such. The morning sun rising above The Rock made it extra special. A bucket list item for you to consider.
Ryan the Cameleer! 🤠 Take him to Broome somebody, no crocs, great photos! Then to Cooper Pedy to find opals, an Aussie trip of a lifetime, maybe he'll find enough treasure to fund a new Australian dream property! 😁👍
I've driven the Gibb River Rd. You're right, you don't want to pop a tyre there. That river crossing would be the Pentecost river, home to Saltwater Crocs.
You'd have to change your pants as well as your tyre.
The free hugs thing is actually quite well known here! I actually know the renown sydney "free hugs" guy that appeared on the scene a few years back. His pseudonym is "Juan mann" which I thought was pretty clever to come up with 😂 since then the social movement has grown enormously, even internationally. He's a pretty cool guy in real life :)
Ryan, do a bit of research into the Flying Doctor Service. It fills a real need in the provision of medical services living in the outback regions. Basically, the Service started after a young stockman on a cattle station had a ruptured bladder in 1917. He was taken to the settlement at Halls Creek - the postmaster there had been trained in first aid. Using the telegraph system, the postmaster was guided through an operation by a surgeon in Perth. Because of technical limitations in the system, messages had to be relayed through a dozen or so stations each way. Relaying meant not simply pressing a button, but rather taking down the message then rekeying it in to go to the next station - not simply pressing a button. Somehow, it all worked and the operation was successful. The young man survived but later died from unrelated causes. Despite the infancy of flying, someone had the idea of flying either a doctor to a patient, or vice versa. Money was raised and the service established. These days it flourishes with public and government support. You can easily work out a clip to go 10 minutes or so, and I'm sure that the Service would give you loads of information.
The treedel wireless was invented in australia tobe able to speak to the remote cattle stTions and notify the royal flying doctor service in case of emergency.
Even I ,,,as an Aussie recognised the nixon resemblance 🤣🤣🤣
Broome is renown for a few things. The Pearling Industry. There were many Japanese Pearl Divers who perished over the years and there is a Japanese Cemetery that is worth visiting. The Staircase to The Moon when the moon shines on the Ocean. The Shell House is worth visiting. Derby has some of the biggest tides in Australia, reaching a maximum tidal range of 11.8 meters (39 foot). Talbot Falls is further north where the Horizontal Waterfalls are. Further north again is Montgomery Reef where the reef is out of the water at low tide, amazing to see. Amazing country and love it out there!
and the local youth stealing cars and committing crimes is also what it is renowned for. Nice place but the black fellas make it a shithole, just like Carnarvon
Afghans went out to find water sources in remote areas. They planted palm trees when they found a source , also how we ended up with so many camels .
The first small group of Afghan cameleers (people who ride camels) arrived into Melbourne in June 1860, along with 24 camels. They were employed to assist the government in the opening up of the vast, arid interior of the continent. These Agfhan cameleers soon garnered a reputation as highly skilled, hard workers, and so thousands more were brought into the country over the next half century. As a result, we now have camels galore in Australia, and not a few folks of Afghani descent living in the country today. These days Australian camels are exported to the Middle East, where they are highly prized as "pure-bred".
Because of Australia's size and lack of water in the outback when they decided to connect the east coast and west coast by rail in the 1880s no cars then but only horses to transport equipment. .horses need water and no water in outback it was decided that camels was the only option. As we didn't have any camels they imported them from Afghanistan as well as the camel herders from Afghanistan. Hence why we have now camels and the hrrders are buried in that cemetery. When the rail line was finished they released all the camels and they had no natural enemies in the outback and they just thrived that is why Australia has more camels than any other country and hence why our camels are exported to the Middle East.
This almost 65 year young Aussie for well over 50 years was under the impression that the Afghan camelliears were brought to Australia to carry supplies between Adelaide & Darwin for the overland telegraph connecting the rest of Australia to the world,.
Maybe my school teachers were wrong
@michaelrogers2080 So you reckon we should call the Afghan express something else?
Mate you know about camels, but I don't think you are aware that it is Pakistan which is a misnomer in the way you used it. They can't have come from present-day Pakistan. That is like saying that Mother Teresa came from present day Northern Macedonia. Actually Mother Teresa was born in what is now called Northern Macedonia. But her ethnicity was Albanian.
If the cameleers weren't Afghans then what were they? Indian? They can't have been Pakistani because that wasn't invented yet (circa 1800s).
By the way there were Afghans in parts of British India.
Some camels are farmed for their meat.
@@stanleywiggins5047 That's correct Stanley, also the camel's are extremely valuable now because they are all basically wild. The Arab countries play big dollars 4 Australian camels because they are so good at racing. The camel's are also dromedaries, single hump.
My aunt (who lived in Sydney) went on a bus tour around Australia with a friend after retiring. She was afraid of flying, but when they got to the Bungle Bungles, she went on a scenic flight in one of those small planes. Apparently she accompanied her friend to the airport, with no intention of taking a flight herself ... until the pilot appeared. Her explanation: 'When I saw that the pilot was just a snip of a girl, and she wasn't afraid to fly the plane, I thought it was time I got over it!' What a stunning first flight to take!
The film Australia with Nicolas Kidman was filmed at El Questro Station.
Just seeing this for the first time! My Partner Al and I are travelling The Kimberly WA this June 24. I can't wait, we just got our Hema 4X4 Offroad GPS Navigation unit, wasn't cheap but we can use it for all of our trips around Australia. I have seen lots of Australia, but the Kimberly has always been a dream. Purnululu National Park especially, with the Bungle Bungle Ranges and Broome with the Japanese Pearl Diving history, Arnhem Land and heaps of other possible options . Maybe I should post some of the trip 😀
To answer your question, the Bungle Bungle ranges are the remains of an incredibly ancient coral reef structure from just after the Cambrian if I recall correctly. You can still see the fossils of many kinds of marine life in those rocks. Sort of like the Great Barrier Reef if it was exposed to the air for a few hundred million years.
Speaking of out-of-place camels, I once went on a small camel ride at Queen Victoria Market, in inner Melbourne. Was quite an experience
I did the Melbourne to Darwin, via the Ghan (train), October last year. !8 days in total. Next year 2024, Melbourne to Perth via the Indian Pacific (train). Then Outback Spirit (bus) Perth to Broome, 14days, then Outback Spirit again Broom to Broome through the Kimberly,16 days. Then flying home to Melbourne.
At a school fair in Perth there were camel rides. My 87 year old mother in law was the oldest kid riding 😊
yeah in central oz , a camel farm , a servo and the best burgers i've ever tasted , a giant bun toasted real butter, a meat patty ,topped with cheese, a camel burger delish so lean, yum.
Afghan migrant cameleers were common in North Western Australia. They supplied isolated towns and stations. with supplies bought from Broome and Port Hedland
When the early British explorers imported (domesticated) camels (mainly from British-occupied Afghanistan) in the late 19th century, they also imported their human handlers - the Afghan cameleers.
I was born in the Kimberleys bro, little bush town called Derby, its a mad joint... this video is ok but barely scratched the surface of the scope of the region.I feel blessed to come from there I must say...
The Australian camel introduced into Australia over 150 years ago took supplies through central Australia before road transport. These animal are now exported to Saudi Arabia. They are the only disease free camel left in the world.
Wyndham in the North to Esperance in the south, both in WA. Would be at least a 37 hour NON-STOP drive!
Richard Nixon is the president on the rock
I was thinking along the lines of Trump aka Dick Head 😂
There’s camel rides on Stockton beach , 2 hours north of Sydney as well
South?
@@toddavis8151 haha oh yeah let me change that lol it’s south of me lol
Just been out here. Kuri Bay was great. Temp gets up to 40deg C with 90% humidity. Also Ningaloo Reef was really good.
Camels in Australia are highly sought after by the middle east as they're best of breed and very healthy.
they are pests, mate goes out shooting them, apparently meat is good
Originally (and actually) called the Kimberley Plateau, a highland region with a series of mountain ranges in the far north of Western Australia. These days, most people forget the word ‘plateau’ (as well as the second E in the word ‘Kimberley’).
The sand in the outback is red because it has high amounts of iron in it.
Sideways glance that Nixon, took awhile to pick up but spot on😂😂😂
The rock looked like Richard Nixon. Afghan men and their camels opened up so much of Australia. They used to even carry mail. So they have historically been here almost as long as white men. The "Ghan" is a tourist train that crosses Australia north to south, between Adelaide and Darwin, and it was originally called the "Afghan Express", because it travelled the route the cameleers (yes, that is a person who works with camels) used to take. Obviously, "Ghan" came from the word "Afghan". The bats were flying foxes. They sleep during the day. They are very cute and sweet natured and vegetarians, and absolutely nothing to be feared.
The Kimberley Mountain Ranges and surrounding areas.
Just noticed @Aaron Carr comment of Happy Arvo has "translate to English" written under it. Apparently Google thinks it means Happy Value 😂😂😂
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Love this place it’s amazing 🤩 WA is the best 😁 IMO Gods amazing creation
Camels were imported from Afghanistan and their keepers (cameleers) came with them. They stayed and eventually died from natural old age in the desert areas. There are a few Afghans living in different parts of Australia but it is not a large percentage of them. Camels were brought in because they needed very little to work long hours in the desert and they needed to open trade routes between areas across the outback and cities. They needed cameleers to keep them because the locals didn't know anything about camels.
their decendents live here.
@@pietrobroughan960 Correct. That is what I said, "a few Afghans, just not a large percentage".
@deesmart1122 Many of decendents dropped Singh from surnames.When my late mother turned 16..The local travelling Afghan stayed on their property.He unwound his headpiece and gave my mum some of the material for her birthday gift.This was in nth Victoria
The Kimberley is a beautiful part of Australia. Although you don't have to go all the way there to ride camels. Coffs Harbour has it's very own Camel rides.
Look at the Horizontal falls in the Kimberley.
The rock looked like Tricky Dicky, Richard Nixon.
Free hugs have been happening all over the world..
back in the mid 70's me n my ex travelled all these places . it was somewhat different then. had to know how to repair your car. carry spares, parts , tyres and fuel. one time we did not see another car or person for 4 days. even today the outback is no place for dumb tourists or inexperienced ppl. no cell phone coverage most places , few fuel stops, deadly snakes, searing heat. a simple cut can turn very nasty overnite
Stayed some very isolated places as a teenager when my parents travelled from Mount Isa to Darwin in the 1970's. I can still remember the old hand pump petrol bowsers in a couple of places besides other things. At that time Barry Caves road stop was notorious for being a total rip-off. We avoided it and went to Borroloola first. Then west from there. Mind you we had a light truck and about 500 litres of Diesel fuel on board. A caravan , and boat towed behind. ( Had to fish at Borroloola :) )
You didn't bump into Mike and Mal out there ? 🤣
@@ACDZ123 They would have been speared by the Doomagee or Borroloola guys. They really didn't like them.
@@geradkavanagh8240 nah they must of given them a few cartons of emu export coz they filmed a coupla episodes up there ..few flagons and some wini reds ..bargain 😁
@@ACDZ123 the old warm wife bashers, anyone drink that shit these days?
I live in Broome
Hahahaha, I wasn't thinking he meant an actual president carved into the rock cliff, I was thinking he meant Mount Rushmore. Who knows?
7:22 The meat was probably Barrumundi fish.
Aust, Aust, Aust, you know which side your bread is buttered.
The under side
hey ryan check an oz movie tracks. you will learn about camels and the outback. you will love it explains how camels came here !
Which President was carved into the rock, all I saw was a resemblance to a camel jutting out of the rock 😂😂😂🇦🇺🐨🐨🇦🇺❤️
Tricky Dicky
First camel ride was at a school fete when I was probably 5. They stand up back legs first, you think you are going to fall off.
Never been there. It's expensive to get there from Sydney. A bus is the cheapest way to get there. Probably a tent might be an idea as accommodation is expensive, is with most things around Broome. I'll get there one day once I do my sums.
Yeah, I'd expect a bus ride from hell too. It would take 3-4 days to get there at least. Or try to think of ways to make bus rides more interesting
Do a Coober Pedy video! Happy Arvo.
Cape York 4wd track reaction would be good. Some are almost death defying, crazy stuff there. Most northern tip of the eastern coast of Queensland
I love that region
You should look for videos on the Cape York Peninsula trips?
Kimberley is divided into east and west… either east or west Kimberley would swallow Texas plus…west Kimberley is me… it is magical all over the Kimberley’s … as for the camel rides on cable beach….hmmm… volunteered with St John’s ambulance for a number of years… one of the call outs I hated was tourists on camels 🐪… when you are approximately two meters off the ground and the camel bucks it can send you up another meter or so before falling to the ground and damp sand on an incoming tide creates issues for getting to and from the casualty… beware on camel rides, always have good travel insurance… tyranny of distance is a curse and magical all at once…
Those bats are all over Australia. They a fruit bats and every night they go out to their favourite spot to feed. Even in the suburbs you get them in your back yards. My old place every night I had a big one come and eat the fruits. They are harmless and you can even handle them if they are used to humans. They are great bats besides the bat poo that as it eats into the paint on your car if not cleaner off in time due to the acid that in the berries or fruit.
We used to get them in Sydney, 20 minutes from the Opera House.
Amazing amazing sights\! Oi btw … Only learnt very recently through someones UA-cam Vid (wasn’t you was it?) that CAMELS in the MIDDLE EAST(or somewhere like that) are ALL SUPPLIED by AUSTRALIA. Weird eh!
Flying foxes…nothing to be scared of!
Our camels - and their drivers - were imported from the Middle East.
Those were Fruit Bats, we in Australia call them Flying Foxes because of the shape of the face and colouration. If you have ever seen a red fox, imagine them with wings and that's basically what they look like. Have a good one mate. By the way, The rock Look-A-Like is President Nixon.
It’s called ‘ Welcome to country’
Australia has more camels than anywhere in the world, we are actually a major exporter of camels to Egypt and the Middle East.
Happy Arvo
Afghanis came to australia for the gold rush and brung camels with them to explore the centre of australia , that’s why there’s wild camels in the middle of aus , if they died on their travels the camels were left to fend for themselves
Ryan reD the book by the bush tucker man and a good read is kings in grass castles
I think the 'presidential lookalike' is supposed to be Washington, but I can't be sure lol
8:39 That is a boab tree. It featured prominently in the movie AUSTRALIA (2008) with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. A beautiful song accompanies the scenes from the film and it is called BY THE BOAB TREE. Your wife would really like it as it is a very romantic song. ua-cam.com/video/oohsewd5nx8/v-deo.html If you have issues getting it, change your VPN to Australia.
That was a good intro to The Kimberly. I think that fish was the famous Barramundi. Good fishing up there.
That Afghan Cameleers Grave was a bit 'bereft' - neglected! Shameful really!
Surely we could do something a bit better than this to honour these brave early pioneers. Maybe someone could do a research project and find some names and dates and get it done properly???
Yes- big BIG Beautiful Country up there. Well worth a visit.
There are a lot of descendants of the cameleers who married locals, I saw a programme about them recently. I think they are trying to record more of their history.
We have so many camels here, we sell them to Arab Nations. We also sell them sand.
Ryan what sort of work do you do?
the Kimberly is defo woop woop , beyond the black stump
No available early transport so camels and cameleers were imported from Pakistan/Afghanistan to provide transport of large commodities across the desert areas When motors arrived camels were often set loose there being no further use for them Signs of those times are the thriving date palms mosques and that excess wild camels are exported to Arabic nations being mainly disease free and having different blood line away from inbreeding
We actually sell camels to the middle east
Ryan, a major HINT, as I've heard you say it a few times before so you don't know: The British English word "Aboriginal" is an ADJECTIVE, not a noun, and needs a noun to follow it, like Aboriginal children, art, cultures, spirituality or whatever. It's also an old SLUR when it or the first two syllables of it is used derogatively. The British used it around the world for convenience for any First Nations groups they discovered when they couldn't be bothered learning what they called themselves together or as individuals - too hard! All our people have their own names for their nations just as your First People do. Call the mainlanders "ABORIGINAL PEOPLE" with a capital A instead as a whole. They aren't too fond of that or "Indigenous people" with a capital I (since all nationalities are given capital letters), but they've mostly become used to it. "First Nations people" is probably most acceptable to them, since we have TWO separate original inhabitants, the Aboriginal people and in the far north-east islands and in Queensland, the Torres Strait Islander people.
That meat was fish 😂
I'm guessing the rock either looks like Obama (its clearly darker than WASPy Mt Rushmore) or I can also see Bill Clinton with his ankles up around his ears and an intern down towards the bottom. Anyone else seeing either of these at 9:37?
Richard nixon i would say , due to the nose