To answer your question : 'What if you break down?' This is why we take road trips very seriously. You make sure your car is running well, spare tires, fuel, water and food. First aide kit, map etc. You never take a road trip unprepared especially not if you are going bush.
It's not that bad. You would be surprised at how things have changed since that was the case. I spent over 8 years traveling for work contracts. I would like to suggest that people take a personal locator beacon just in case. There are plenty of brainless idiots out there with no clue.
wow, we drive Sydney-Gold Coast and back atleast twice a year to see family and we are very lucky to have dual carriageway the entire route, obviously we service the car and pack a spare tire and some snacks but never first aid kits or fuel as they are available along the majority of the route. Even maps we don’t need to worry about as you basically stay on the same road for the majority of the trip, and even then most of the road has a solid mobile connection (except the new section bypassing Grafton-you can go almost an hour with no signal! Anyone who helped build this engineering marvel linking two great Australian cities earns my respect, must be hard to build a road through such difficult terrain, while in some cases having to deal with fires and floods during construction.
@buzz that is with two drivers, when it is just one driver, which is the case for us normally, we stop for atleast an hour along the way, normally we aim for Coffs Harbour without stopping, which is where we'd get breakfast (we normally leave around 3am to avoid traffic around Newcastle) and then continue with another stop in Woodburn or Yamba (family ties to these areas) before continuing the final leg to our place in the GC Hinterland. Timing has undoubtebly improved from the days of the old Pacific Highway, back during the peak of construction work the drive could take 12 hours max.
I live in Darwin and I’d say a major reason why we are the smallest capital city in Australia is the heat. Yes, we get a lot of rain during the wet season, but it is also the hottest part of the year. The rain doesn’t always cool the temp down either. Oftentimes, after a large storm, the air becomes extremely muggy and uncomfortable. It’s not uncommon to sweat after having a cold shower. Just this past week alone, we had a large storm that flooded part of the school I work at, followed by a day of non-stop rain, then to round it all off we have had a heatwave with no rain this weekend. Not exactly the most pleasant place to live weather-wise! The cost of living is also ridiculous. But nothing beats a Darwin sunset or some of the stunning views of our national parks!
Having lived in Darwin for a short time during the Build Up and the Wet and working FIFO for many years to the NT, I think I can safely correct you on one point: "It’s not uncommon to sweat after having a cold shower." The truth is that it is not uncommon to sweat WHILST HAVING a cold shower."!!
Disgustingly humid. Didn't like Darwin at all. You can't swim because of the crocs, plus frogs and mosquitoes omg the mosquitos and frogs drove me crazy lol
Those "chimneys" are common all over AUS, and they are called trig points or trigonometry points. Usually on hills or mountains or other landmarks they were used and still are by navigators and explorers. When marked on a map the ability to sight from one trig point to another becomes simple. 3 make a triangle and then trigonometry is used to "triangulate" people. Before sat nav and grids we had trig.
Wow I always wondered what those black and white metal markers were on top of mountains, ridges and hills were for? And I was born in Oz. I thought they were for navigation of some sorts, but did not know they were called Trig points. Thanks for educating me ❤
This is amazing this video has blown my mind... I am a young aboriginal Australian and I have learnt so much about this from the culture, the agriculture and weather etc. Water is a big deal for us I remember when the darling River was dry after months almost a year they released water and it was truly a celebration of life hundreds stood at the riverbanks to watch and thousands of people streamed it was a very important moment for culture, community and land. A lot of towns still dont have clean water. I love your videos I enjoying learning about this country even tho I live here I mainly got taught about the culture side
@@ozscientiaaboriginal Australian is very different than what would usually come to mind when someone says Australian, as first of Australians are mostly white being descended from British, whereas aboriginal Australian people are not, having lived in this country for around 65 thousand years, so an aboriginal Australian is not what you would say just and Australian is, howevery they are indeed very much still Australian, if not more so.
My great great grandfather came from Plymouth England in mid 1800s. It took 6 months. He was ship's carpenter. He wanted find if Australia was suitable for his family because several of his children died in England from damp cold conditions. When the ship reached Sydney, he abscounded from the ship with the ship's tools. He went up about 300 miles north where he became a 'timber getter', where no white man had gone. He sent for his wife. 6 months for letter to arrive. It took 6 months for her and his 6 year old daughter to come to Australia and find he'd gone up to the 'Big River.' His wife joined there by catching a boat and found his tent. They with others who were timber getters, went further up north (200miles further on bullock teams) where he built a ship yard and built ocean going ship's with big sails on the banks of the Richmond River at Coraki. He sold them to the government and he'd sail them out to the ocean and down to Sydney town ( 500 miles). They were ships that would sail to England. This was just as steam ships were coming in. His ships looked like large Pirate galleons. I forget the name of them but they are in history books. He set up a small township and gave employment to young men who were trying to set up a new life in Australia. He had 9 more children. He lived there, working on ships at his dock and slip yard on the Richmond River. One day when he was 70yrs old, he fell into the river and drowned. He worked on boats all his life but didn't know how to swim! His name was William Yabsley.
Coraki & families there & the Yabsleys are well known - magnificent pioneers - in the days when enterprise was encouraged. Coraki is now being ruined by bad government decisions.
Great story. I'd like to thank my great great great great grandfather for stealing 5lbs of tapioca and coming to Australia and stirring up shit. Lol. Don't ever think that calling us convicts is an insult No we are proud.
The video mentions Esperance in Western Australia. In summer the heat can be climbing to 40c and the bitumen on the roads will be melting but when you go into the sea to cool off you can freeze your arse off. The currents bring that Antarctic cool through with a vengeance. Beautiful beaches with white sand that squeaks under your feet as you walk (just watch out for the sharks when you want to swim)
@@straatman24 Hey there. ex Espy girl here, now in Mandurah, used to work for the Esperance Express lol....still have family there (Tackle world will tell you who they are lol). I hope to be back for a holiday next Autumn, spend some time out at stokes and fanny cove. I sure do miss the place
That "White Bit" is the region of Australia's 4 large salt lakes (Lake Eyre to the North, then to the south of that is Lake Gairdner to the West, Lake Torrens in the middle and Lake Frome to the East) Most of these lakes are dry year round, except in periods of heavy rainfall in Queensland, when Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens fill up for several months (until the water evaporates). BTW Java and Sumatra are the two large islands of Indonesia to the south west, and right between them WAS the volcano of Krakatau (aka Krakatoa) that exploded in 1883
Krakatoa & daughter have rebuilt themselves - getting ready for their next effort. Have a look at it through google maps - Indonesia is a riot of volcanoes.
This is why the Australia community has such a strong bond When we get hit by al these crazy natural disaster we help each other out and lots of good things come out of a lot of theses thing like great friendships and residents more resilient and we figure out how to live with it
As an Australian whose highschool (years 7-10 in my territory) only had around 200-300 people by my guess, it is insane to think about having a school with 10,000 kids!!
suburban UK my High School was 1200 pupils in my time, no extended to 2000. In more rural settings may be lower to say 4-500 - but more often it is a case of travel further to combine catchment areas - and so get enough pupils to employ the range of specialist teachers. But that is because distances are more compact. Primaries are smaller although I have heard of a few near 1000 children, more usual is 5-600, although can still have village schools where several school years are in one class and the whole school can be under 100. The idea of 10 000 kids in a school is horrific, though as he mentioned his school after the presenter said half that population was in one town - so he may have meant 5000, still huge but not as scary.
Went to one of the largest schools in the Hunter Valley and it had just under 1k students. It usually had around 1000-1200 but for some reason our year had low enrollment which dragged it down.
Yes you're spot on Ryan a Diamond in the Rough that's why the country is so good in so many ways and away from most of the crap going on in the world and we love it
Gorgeous old sandstone pubs all over, many with cosy fires, serving great beer, sublime wines and prize-winning whiskies made in Tassie. Stunning sandstone buildings and great historical architecture everywhere, actually. Greenery, good roads, mountains, pretty creeks, good food, and an antique buyer's delight.
@@rogerramjet6429 Good place for them. Nobody liked Dee, too many smashed planes. But considering the weather, General Brassbottom might always talk in a base tone.
Hi There! A note...at the 22 minute mark it showed an American Opossum and not an Australian Possum...We are heading into the third consecutive La Niña which means a lot of east coast rain eg:- Sydney has just recorded its' highest ever annual rainfall with still 2 months + to go Cheers!
Our possums are nothing like the Opossum that is seen in the video. The brushtail possum that lives in my chimney is much, much cuter. He/she has a nose like a blob of pink bubblegum and her paws are like little tiny human hands, with pointy nails and hairy backs.
The biggest problem with the el nino/la nina situation is that rain in a drought isn't necessarily a good thing, you need a constant, steady flow of water for it to penetrate the dirt and actually help. Otherwise, your in drought, then you;re suddenly flooded. Like filling a pot of dry dirt with too much water at once. That's whats happening rn in australia during the La Nina.
Lmao lake Eyre! Pronounced as lake Air. Not Airy. It’s the largest salt lake in the country. However when flooded becomes an inland sea with many bird and fish species living in its waters. It truely is an amazing phenomenon.
I was out there in a small row boat with my family one time and we saw a monster octopus the size of a big table sitting on the bottom of the lake, it scared the heck out of me as I was thinking it was big enough to attack the boat and drag us all under. It was crystal clear water and quite deep.
@@tanyabrown9839 maybe you're remembering a lake with a similar name? It's very rare for Lake Eyre to get more than a few feet deep when it has water in it at all. And it's a very long way from any ocean (and therefore sea animals).
I’m an American expat from MD that now lives in NSW in the Blue Mountains. It is stunning here. You should come over to see the places you watched on here. The exchange rate is in your favour now. It’s been habituated fir eons. It’s all what you’re used to. It’s very very hot in the north and comfortable in the south. The coffee is top notch. Food is really good too.
I really enjoyed re-watching this clip and it was especially great to see your reactions as a citizen of outside Australia. You should come visit one day, even consider moving here with your family! It is a wonderful country to live in and has been do good to me and my family. My parents emigrated here from India in the late 1960’s, brining along two young kids and instantly, we all became Australians in our hearts and minds. A very common theme here.
As a Canadian born in a remote subarctic settlement, I felt perfectly at home in Australia (except for those damn snakes!). Canucks and Aussies share not only similar attitudes and institutions, but we share a love of Elbow Room. I remember hitchiking across the U.S. and saying to myself: "yeah, this is nice. Nice people. Love those chili dogs! But it's so CROWDED. Even Nevada seems kind of cluttered up with stuff, and Texas is just teensy weensy." But I was right at home in Australia. Both our countries love our Empty Nothingness.
I actually read that Canucks, British, New Zeland, and OZ, our countries were apart of the commonwealth and founded by the British, we all have the same laws and government system and the same outlooks, and the way our city's are set up anyone who went from 1 of those country to another would feel right at home
Java is an island in Indonesia. It's the heartland of one of the world's major cultures. You ought to read about it on Wikipedia or something. The video was talking about the population of the New York metropolitan area, which New York City (i.e the Five Boroughs) is only the central part of. It seems to me that the the video puts a lot of effort into explaining _why_ there is a desert in the middle of Australia, rather than suggesting any additional reason why we don't live in outback.
This is a verse from a famous Australian poem which just abut sums up the video I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of drought and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me!
I hate that poem, forced to learn it at school. It only describes part of Australia. I grew up with no wide horizons, or freaking ragged mountain ranges. The woman who wrote it lived in Sydney.
Ryan during that video at 15:00, that is actually a blanket of rain fall coming down. I was visiting Nth Qld years back and we went out for about 4 hours. When we were driving back to our hotel a long the same road we drove out on, it looked like someone had erected a white brick wall in the middle of the highway. They had not, it was just where the torrential rainfall began.
I love your curiosity and enthusiasm for the world outside of where you live! You truly are a delight! Keep it up and I hope and some time in the future you get to travel extensively to this wonderful planet. Blessings. 🙏🏾
When it rains it is too flat to retain the water in dams. When it doesn't rain ( common) we try to conserve the water as best we can and that is usually where the people live, near the water storages. It isn't just you Ryan, most Americans have no idea about the rest of the world. Right now we are experiencing flooding in the Murray Darling basin.
I think most people in general don't have a great idea about the world outside of their own country. Plus it's not like Australia is in the news all that much.
@@somethinglikethat2176 I get it . When I was in USA the news services were not great on international affairs. We have access to world news channels , about 4 I can think of. That and of course there are the Hollywood movies we see too.
Theres a verse in a poem My Country (Dorothy McKellar 1904) which beautifully describes Australia: "I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror- the wide brown land for me!" It is scary at times living in Australia and we are taught at a young age how to behave around snakes and spiders, plus what to do during fires and floods. Theres a term which gets used to describe an Aussie "True Blue". To be true blue you display the real aussie character - help each other in good and bad times, and work damn hard for anything you can. You never know if a drought or flood is around the corner, so do all you can know and enjoy yourself, but be ready and pitch in when times are tough. Thats how we survive. Thoughts go out to the many affected by floods along our east coast atm. Plus a good quality coffee each day helps too😉
and the population from Victoria has all of a sudden moved to NSW & Qld & it's crowded, no housing, plenty of crime & queues & the gold coast big entertainment places like Dreamworld, Warner Bros etc. have far fewer visitors - nobody has any money - the landlords have snaffled the lot. Changed politically, economically & socially - & not for the good
@@fishnchips8132 I mean thats what happens when your state goes full gestapo and starts imprisoning people in their own homes for several years. NSW wasn't great, but Victoria, it's government and police saw the situation and thought "now is my time" and put on their hugo boss uniforms.
I live on the Murray River in SA and currently we're in the biggest flood event since 1956! It's insane standing up on the sand cliffs and seeing all the water stretched out over the flood plains
The white areas in inland Australia are an area where rain water flows into the interior from the Great Dividing Range, mainly comprising what most of the time are dry salt lakes - hence the white colouration. When rainwater does flow it turns the area into a wonder of flora. Lake Eyre then becomes a mecca for water birds, animals and even fish.
Sorry sir, the water that flows into Lake Eyre & other lakes in south central Oz is from the Channell country further north & falls during the monsoons in summer. Water from the Great Divide does flow west, but only as far as down the Darling River - which meets the Murray River just east of the Victoria & South Australian border - and it then flows into South Australia & on into Lake Alexandrina & into the southern ocean. The Channell country consists of many rivers which flow south from around the Gulf of Carpentaria. There are many rivers which flow into Carpentaria of course, but all the water which reaches Eyre is from this Channell country - this water is what replenishes the Great Artesian Basin - Australia's wonderful underground water supply. You may be confusing the water which flows from the Great Divide down the Darling also replenishes the Great Artesian Basin. If it's a huge flood in the salt lakes area, it can overflow into the channels which then exit into Spencers Gulf in South Australia - past the city of Port Augusta. It's also interesting to note that the rains in New Guinea also replenish the Great Artesian Basin in Australia - and the hundreds of springs scattered across the "Top End" of Australia - the delight of locals & travellers alike.
I'm Aussie, the mountain thing is true they're so short here, I went to South America and holy moly just seeing the Andes mountains from afar blew my mind
Went to America and travelled down the San Andreas line. The mountains were so rocky, the mountains here are just thick with with bush and are more rounded.
I worked as a station hand in South Australia in 2022. It was north of the Anna Creek station mentioned in the video but 'only' about half the size. We were only about 7 people living there, but it was a pretty nice experience. Around Christmas time, we were invited to different parties taking place at the neighbouring stations. Met a dude there, who was working at Anna Creek cattle station in the past. About the meat thing: They don't slaughter the cattle themselves. They get picked up by trucks, going all the way down to a market in or near Adelaide.
My school when I was 10 years old, was just one room, in it, there was 1st grade, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, plus there were 3 students in high school doing studies via Correspondence, which I did for 2 years when I was 12 and 13 years old, there was like 30-40 students at the school in total.
7:35 facts, it's empty out there. My family and I drove across the red centre years ago from Brisbane to Busselton on the southern end of Western Australia, it took over a week to do the drive and there was a period where we didn't see humans or artificial lights for over a full day and night of travel
Also side note, if you get a chance you should look up *Heron Island* on UA-cam. There is a video by the Attenborough channel that's super good, it was where he filled his recent reef related documentary and also said it's his favourite place on the whole great barrier reef. I stayed there for a wedding a couple years back and did some diving while there, it's beyond wild the amount of fish Heron island and it's surrounding atolls have the highest biodiversity range across the entire great barrier reef system, its why the university of Queensland built a research station there. They run a small island resort during the summer months to help fund said research station
That and look up the glasshouse mountains, mainly because I climbed Mt Tibrogargan last week and it's just a cool looking giant rock in the shape of an indigenous mythical figure, Trex or gorilla head depending who you ask
You couldn't have driven over the Nullabor unless it was a _long_ time ago. I crossed it twice this year and it was full of traffic. First time in 1984 when you wouldn't see another vehicle for 2 hours. This year it was 10-15 mins max. Every motel booked solid. The trip has lost its romance and mystery. Now it's just a longer trip to the mall.
I remember my old dad (R.I.P) saying to me; when he was a kid, there was 4 million people in Australia, it’s was said back in the 1940’s that soon Australia will have a population of 10 million people & me old dad was like: “Where are they all gonna live”. Because he thought Australia was pretty full back then.
So in WA and SA and around Alice Springs, U cant walk anywear bearfoot because of how sharp and jagged the ground is. Even boots will split in two in some places and ur foot will just be impaled because people and animals never go there and wear it down. Also some farms in Au owned by 1 person r larger than all of uk itself. Also dutch DNA ancestorage was found in some aborigional villages along the coast and thats what happened to that crew. They were survivors cause they mated with the village people and left behind steel hatchets and dutch kids. Also on the east side, malasians would trade iron tools for things like gold (which aborgionals didnt want)
The remote bits can be the best bits. You can go sit on a hill in central Australia, the air is pure, you can see for miles (kilometres) and the total silence is almost spiritual.
There is no very mountain high in Australia these days, true...however the Petermann Ranges that run 320 km (200 mi) across the border between Western Australia and the southwest corner of the Northern Territory once were a lot taller than their current highest point 1,158 metres (3,799 ft). Back some 550 million years ago, geological research has broadly determined that the Petermann Ranges were equivalent in height to the Himalayas.
7:20 January this year I hit a herd of cattle on the highway driving from Perth back to Hedland (part of the road in the north they showed on that map). I'd already done about 1000km that day and I was just over 100km south of Newman when I hit the herd (that town in the East Pilbara you were wondering about). I had to drive the next 100+km at about 9-11pm with a smashed in front end and windscreen, only one headlight pointing vaguely forward, the engine complaining loudly, etc. because I knew if I stopped the car it might not start again, and since there's no phone signal out there I wouldn't be able to get any help (plus there's a 100km towing limit anyway). I just had to drive as close to civilization as I could before the engine completely died - luckily the engine seals weren't damaged too badly so the petrol still in the tank just barely got me to town despite the fuel economy being worse than halved because of the damage :) Slept outside the cop shop that night, caught a taxi to the airport the next day and hired a car to go the last 450km back home. Car was a write-off so luckily I didn't have to deal with it any more - just left it at the cop shop in Newman to be the insurance company's problem to deal with.
See Australia has a lot of towns spaced out so there's a lot of servos, but the only part that is difficult to avoid is the reception in you're stuck in the middle anywhere. Also, in my town is near the border of QLD and NSW, we have about a population of 1,566. Since in the bush we don't get much rain, we get 6 months' worth of fires each year. And yes, us Aussies do like being lowkey, well I think I'm speaking for all Aussies. Btw just discovered your channel and I'm enjoying this Australia vids, it's nice to hear more about my home country. Keep up the amazing work.❤❤❤
We’re the city of churches, oh and sorry for leaving my balls in Rundle Mall, my back was hurting so thought I’d leave them there for a while, I’ll just go and collect them now 🤣
I left Tasmania too - many decades ago. After extensively travelling the big wide brown land, Tasmania was too small for me. Spent decades in Melbourne, now I am sea-tree changing in the mid north coast of NSW.
My parents and my 2 older brothers migrated to Australia from Germany in 1962 on a supported migration program and came via ship, took 6 weeks. My father was a plumber so he had a skill that was needed however he actually chose Australia because he was sick of freezing winters and chose Australia for the warm climate. One of my teenagers loves watching your videos with me and I told them about your merchandise and they suggested you should do a Happy Arvo t-shirt. We love how you say that at start of every video, maybe we could get that trending over here with some t-shirts.
Brilliant idea Jutta Gibson. Your teenager is onto something here. I'd wear one too 😁there you go Ryan food for thought. Oh what about a confusing t-shirt. A pic of a large emu head with EMOO 😂 but Happy Arvo is a winner !
@@louisekindred0059 Love the idea of the “emoo” t-shirt but maybe it should have a picture of an electric battery and a cow, with the text being “Emoo?”, with a picture of an emu on the back of the shirt.
"Why does no-one live up near the top"... Simples, the heat and humidity mate. Bloody awful humidity. Also crocodiles, those things give me the heaby jeabys And also also, those drying rivers on the east coast have just had 3 years of drenchings. Very unusual but the east coast went from scorched earth (fires) to 3 years of floods, insane!!
Really great I learned so much. Thank you 🎉 My grandma lived in a street that I called: “The street with no husbands” They fought in ww1 and didn’t come back.
An entire street with widows and fatherless children... If that isn't telling of the devastation wars can have on local communities, I don't know what is!
@@Kari.F. Australia's population soared between word wars one and two. But we lost more soldiers in WW1,so the proportion not returning was much higher. It truly devastated communities, so few young men remained. Many of those who did return had missing limbs, or were permanently incapacitated by gas or PTSD. Terrible era.
As someone who lives in Darwin, in the north of Australia not many people live her because of lesser job opportunities, the next biggest town/city is around 30 hours drive away (3 hours flying) so business supports mainly the local system rather than trading between cities. But also the weather, dry season weather is nice lows of 16 degrees Celsius and highs of 28-32 with low humidity, and a perment cloud free blue sky. The intermediate season 'build up' when we don't get rain but the humidity rises 70-100% and temperatures stay above 28 overnight and get to 33-38 during the day. It's a sweaty place to be, any time outside and your already dripping. The wet season is similar in temperature however the rain drops the temperature to around 26-28 during the day. We are the lightning capital of the world, and the monsoonal rains sound like small hail pounding the roof. I love the storms, an attraction to living wild. There is so much to aus, but also so much of nothing in between.
The white bit on the map is the Munga-Thirri National Park (Used to be called the Simpson Desert). Munga-Thirri is the Aboriginal name for Big Sandhill, which is a very apt name!
I live in a regional town in Queensland along the coastline called Bundaberg and the population is around 100,000 people, Brisbane is 372 kilometers or a 4 hour drive from here.
5:02 a lot of those smaller towns in the outback is mainly mining. There are FIFO workers (Fly in, Fly Out) or people just tend to move there as they're working in the mines. For that area being in West Australia, that state is our dominant exporter for iron ore so there's many mines out in that state inland that just solely have small towns there that solely are just miners or other professions that serve the miners and their families. 8:32 that area is mainly lakes and salt flats.
I live in the outback, where it can be so silent you can hear your heartbeat. The sheer emptiness of the land can be pretty unnerving to some. And yeah, there are heaps of stories about people becoming stranded out there with their broken down car for weeks... and dying.
Happy arvo Ryan. You are quickly becoming one of my favourite American reactors to Australian content. As an Aussie I have learned so much about my own country from American reactors lol
I grew up in the East Pilbara in the desert and watched the temperature climb to 52 degrees outside. I worked in the only hardware store within a 250km range with no aircon or insulation (just a tin shed) reaching up to 60 degrees inside. Sometimes you'd go years without seeing it rain. We had do drive a 5 hour round trip just to be able to go to kfc. Ive even done the drive from Kununurra (and even from further up north in Darwin) all the way down to Esperance. I can confirm that the outback is almost otherworldly and the small amount of people who inhabit it are some of the most interesting people to talk to.
OK, look, I did environmental science (Botany and ecology mainly). This narrator enormously understates the impact of Australia not being iced over during the ice ages. The lack of phosphorous impacts EVERYTHING, including the oceans creating a biological paucity incomparable with any other continent. Still, at least he mentioned it. Most don't.
I've travelled around AUSTRalia by car and also bought a bus later on and when you're "outback"... EVERYBODY will check on you, wave to you, and stop if they think you need help or assistance. It's INCREDIBLE how absolutely welcoming and safe you feel travelling around and was NOTHING like I'd expected first time around. The next three travels we dispelled with a large amount of "stuff" because we simple didn't need it. I even rode 80kms into a town in the middle of nowhere on a bicycle because we'd broken down in a gorge. I was back at the bus in a matter of hours and to help pay for the help, we offered our skills as puppeteers to the town school to teach the children how to make puppets and put on a show. They were sooooo happy because they can't get people to come out and do this and in fact, one of our travels was funded almost entirely by offering our skills to the locals in return for accomodation and sometimes food. It's amazing how lovely the outback folk are. A little secret for those who don't know, but TWO Places that are well worth the visit and you don't hear much of is where seven rivers come together and you look down on it from a mountain in WYNDHAM (top north of WA) and HAMMERSLEY GORGE (top north of WA) which was like being on another planet... Mars to be exact. Weird vegetation and everything covered in Red Dust. You must do these two as they sum up Australia like nowhere else. LOVE IS ALL. xx
Ironically while normally dry, we've had 3 years of la nina. So the entire Murray darling basin to west of the dividing range is flooding. Plus those white bits that are normally dry salt lakes are now full of water.
The colours of that map are generally true to life for a satellite photo of Australia. The white areas you noticed are probably from the light coloured sand of the desert there plus some of the salt lakes prevalent in that region. The green areas are where there is actually growing vegetation, and the red areas are where the deserts and semi-deserts are. You will always know when you are in an Australian desert as the ground is generally not white or yellow like most other deserts but a natural deep rich red colour, not the artificially coloured deserts of Hollywood's westerns. One can almost always tell if someone has been living in the Australian Outback, their white or light coloured clothing now has a distinctive pink or reddish hue to it, and it is impossible to remove it by any amount of washing or other means. If you didn't want other people to know that you recently spent time in the Outback then burn all your present clothes and buy a whole new wardrobe.
The "White Patches" in the middle are the dead desert areas - the massive Simpson Desert, and the salt lakes of Kati Thanda (Eyre), Torrens, and Frome. Temps get up to 50'C (about 122'F) with less than 3 inches of rainfall a year. So really dry and dead!
I live in Perth Australia and was a great history lesson for me and put a lot into perspective but to see the world growth around and our growth we are populated in areas in suburbia but have so much land around and we are chilled and relaxed people and like to have fun but we do work hard but just living life around and being nice to everyone is who most of us are, I agree we are lucky and our kids are lucky to have such a great place to live, thank you for sharing, learnt a lot too of my own country 👍 so funny what you grow up with you just see but nice to see the bigger picture
that white part in the middle is Lake Eyre, an extremely large salt lake with an area of 9,500km squared (3667 square miles), it looks absolutely stunning when it gets water in it, which is about every couple of years
Great podcast!!! I was born here, parents immigrated out from Scotland in the early 60’s. I visit family in the UK, but I am glad they chose to move here. Growing up with the beach a few km’s from home, the weather is awesome.
Hi there, and thanks for a most interesting channel! We love to watch your reactions to those things we tend take for granted - helps us to reevaluate and appreciate our country and culture. My husband is fourth generation aussy with English and Indian ancestry, while I immigrated from Iceland in my late teens. This is an amazing place to live! Now, just a tiny comment (hope you don’t mind…) ‘Arvo’ is pronounced ‘awo’ - remember our ‘economic’ ways with the language - we skip the ‘r’! 😂 Congrats on your little fella! ❤
‘Why does no one live up the top?’ Short answer: because it’s bloody hot up there, there’s more crocodiles than people and cyclones are super common...
My Chinese parents came over from Hong Kong with me when I was a toddler back in 1969. My Dad's family (parents and siblings) were all in Australia already. The family has grown in number. I have so many relatives now, many of them mixed, including my children. I love big families. Family includes people who have married into the family and also close family friends. We don't just differentiate by blood.
The Chinese are a success story in Australia. They copped hostility decades ago but persevered. They started businesses that grew and grew. They were industrious, honest and good neighbours. Their kids did well in school. My parents, both born before the depression, grew up with the racist attitudes typical of the era. Words like "wog", "wop", "chink" and "boong" were spoken casually around the dinner table. Neither warmed to arrivals from the Mediterranean, but slowly, grudgingly learned to concede that the Chinese were pretty good neighbours.
@@SatieSatie When were you born and did you grow up in Australia? There's rednecks in my country town who object to Asian people owning businesses or middle eastern workers being in the next town's abattoir. Always will be, but there's fewer of them over the years, they're less vocal and when they say ignorant shit, more people tell them to STFU. Even their neighbours, friends and kids. To me, things are better.
If you want a laugh Look up the song There was a redback on the toilet seat, When I was there last night I didn't see him in the dark but boy I felt his bite.
i live in south australia and our river murray is currently going through a record breaking flood, one of plenty of floods in the last century, so droughts happen so far inland and don’t last long
Fun fact about the vergulde, chances are the survivors integrated with an indigenous tribe, as there was a tribe in WA that when the brittish found them had fairer skin and blonde hair.
I live in Adelaide, South Australia and I only had 400 people at the public high school I went to, couldn't imagine having 10,000. I knew almost everyone in the same year as me. Also, most Aussies don't have big backyards, and most who do have developed them or plan to.
I knew everyone in my year pretty well I don’t know how you could go without knowing everyone in your year pretty well I had about 45 people in my year
The Murray river still has big floods. It's not dry too often. Fun fact, They used to use Bullock drays to drag the Murray's Paddle steamers over the dry parts of the river more than 100 years ago
The white bit you are referring to is Lake Eyre and surrounding area. It is a dried up lake most of the time, but every few years it fills up when there are floods.
It's not that it's cold over in the West, it's that the cold air from the Antarctic stops rain clouds from forming on any kind of regular basis. And basically, El Nino = drought, La Nina = floods. We're going through our third La Nina right now along the East.
@@davidlee-michaels9430 Third in three years, which is very unusual. Half the east coast is currently experiencing record-breaking floods from yesterday's rain on top of wetter conditions than usual.
La Niña is a weather oscillation that lasts approx 7yrs then flips to El nino for about 7yrs. The imbeciles on the news and in opinion pieces on the net are calling individual storms La Nina’s. Similar to the British news making their weather maps red for the two hot days. Anything to sensationalise what is regular weather. They can then claim a new record due to climate change. We are currently 3yrs into La Niña. Only 4 to go then yippee more drought.
Climate change isn't the problem with the Murray Darling rivers, it's the siphoning off of water for mega farm's, a lot that are owned by the Chinese, and for drinking water that is sold overseas. And I personally wouldn't like to see our population grow more than it is.
I spent 3 years living in the Shire of Laverton in Western Australia, in the township of Laverton. Laverton has an average population of around 800-900 people. To get to the closest chain supermarkets (Coles & Woolies) you need to drive 4 hours to Kalgoorlie. I loved living there. Laverton has a fantastic community and wonderful people. And yes, I stayed until the end Ryan 😅
I'm living in Kal now; its hard to imagine a more isolated place until you think about people having to drive 4-5 hours here just for a simple shopping trip. It'd definitely a hard, harsh land around here, but beautiful too, and it breeds some very interesting locals.
@@SH-qs7ee I usually ended up staying overnite in Kal when I did the grocery run. A chance to get things done like, a haircut, go to dentist, take pets to the vet, catch a movie, get takeaway and get a Bunnings snag 🤣 I do miss the drive between LA and Kal. Stunning scenery. I never got tired of it.
I live in Perth now but grew up 1600km north of there inland in the Pilbara region. The "bush", proper outback. My graduating class was 20 people. The closest McDonald's was a 12/15 hour drive away
@@zombiemeg You joke, but the town I'm in has 3 pubs on one intersection, plus another 41 scattered throughout. We cut down; used to be 79 pubs. Oh, and a Goldmine; the big one you can see from space.
Now that the borders are reopening, you and your family should come visit :) I recommend November, as it's neither too hot or too cold (and yes, it does get cold here). The south west of Western Australia is beautiful in spring, and Tasmania is picture perfect. The Blue Mountains in New South Wales are also stunning.
Newman is a mining town. Isolated and literally in the middle of nowhere it is still an important place for travellers to stop and get fuel and supplies and is usually the last major stop before heading west to Karajini.
@13.37 I live "up at the top"! It's mild winters and great lifestyle have made a lot of people move here in recent years. I live in Far North Queensland, at a place called Cairns. It's a very popular tourist destination, with amazing beaches, the great barrier reef, world heritage rainforests and so many other great things. Sir David Attenborough (the nature documentary guy) has this to say about it. He’s often asked by children to name his favourite place on earth, he responded, “I have no hesitation in answering that question. My favourite place is North Queensland. It has for a naturalist everything. It has an amazing rainforest which is quite unlike any other rainforest in the world.” “Not only does it have that, but down on the coast, it has the Great Barrier Reef,” he continued. “On top of that, there’s terrific wine and food, so that’s the place for me.” It truly is heaven on Earth.
Really good video Ryan, thanks for sharing it. Two things though: 1. The interior of Australia is BEAUTIFUL, deep iron red, with a haunting atmosphere. There is a growing appreciation here of the Indigenous Australians, recently referred to as First Nation's People, and there ancient culture spread across the continent. 2. Tasmania is AWESOME, and seems to generally be ignored in discussion of Australia. In many ways it's flora is more like NZ., it is mountainous and more ancient in vegetation.
To answer your question : 'What if you break down?' This is why we take road trips very seriously. You make sure your car is running well, spare tires, fuel, water and food. First aide kit, map etc. You never take a road trip unprepared especially not if you are going bush.
It's not that bad.
You would be surprised at how things have changed since that was the case.
I spent over 8 years traveling for work contracts.
I would like to suggest that people take a personal locator beacon just in case.
There are plenty of brainless idiots out there with no clue.
also let people know where you are
Always pull over and see if a person needs a hand
wow, we drive Sydney-Gold Coast and back atleast twice a year to see family and we are very lucky to have dual carriageway the entire route, obviously we service the car and pack a spare tire and some snacks but never first aid kits or fuel as they are available along the majority of the route. Even maps we don’t need to worry about as you basically stay on the same road for the majority of the trip, and even then most of the road has a solid mobile connection (except the new section bypassing Grafton-you can go almost an hour with no signal! Anyone who helped build this engineering marvel linking two great Australian cities earns my respect, must be hard to build a road through such difficult terrain, while in some cases having to deal with fires and floods during construction.
@buzz that is with two drivers, when it is just one driver, which is the case for us normally, we stop for atleast an hour along the way, normally we aim for Coffs Harbour without stopping, which is where we'd get breakfast (we normally leave around 3am to avoid traffic around Newcastle) and then continue with another stop in Woodburn or Yamba (family ties to these areas) before continuing the final leg to our place in the GC Hinterland. Timing has undoubtebly improved from the days of the old Pacific Highway, back during the peak of construction work the drive could take 12 hours max.
I live in Darwin and I’d say a major reason why we are the smallest capital city in Australia is the heat. Yes, we get a lot of rain during the wet season, but it is also the hottest part of the year. The rain doesn’t always cool the temp down either. Oftentimes, after a large storm, the air becomes extremely muggy and uncomfortable. It’s not uncommon to sweat after having a cold shower. Just this past week alone, we had a large storm that flooded part of the school I work at, followed by a day of non-stop rain, then to round it all off we have had a heatwave with no rain this weekend. Not exactly the most pleasant place to live weather-wise! The cost of living is also ridiculous. But nothing beats a Darwin sunset or some of the stunning views of our national parks!
Having lived in Darwin for a short time during the Build Up and the Wet and working FIFO for many years to the NT, I think I can safely correct you on one point: "It’s not uncommon to sweat after having a cold shower." The truth is that it is not uncommon to sweat WHILST HAVING a cold shower."!!
Disgustingly humid. Didn't like Darwin at all. You can't swim because of the crocs, plus frogs and mosquitoes omg the mosquitos and frogs drove me crazy lol
I imagine Florida would be similar to Darwin
@@CovidConQuitTheCensorship I nearly died from the Darwin heat! ‘‘Twas like an oven
@@Janis.7- I've lived in hotter climates but it's the humidity that makes it unbearable, and with no relief, can't swim in the waterways lol
Those "chimneys" are common all over AUS, and they are called trig points or trigonometry points. Usually on hills or mountains or other landmarks they were used and still are by navigators and explorers. When marked on a map the ability to sight from one trig point to another becomes simple. 3 make a triangle and then trigonometry is used to "triangulate" people. Before sat nav and grids we had trig.
Uk has Trig points too, but don't stand out so much and generally noticed by hill climbers
No no no... they're beacons. An alarm system for the Kingdom of Gondor. Don't these Aussie schools teach you anything?
They're called Cairns, not to be confused with the muggy shit hole of a city
They are survey points
Wow I always wondered what those black and white metal markers were on top of mountains, ridges and hills were for? And I was born in Oz. I thought they were for navigation of some sorts, but did not know they were called Trig points. Thanks for educating me ❤
This is amazing this video has blown my mind... I am a young aboriginal Australian and I have learnt so much about this from the culture, the agriculture and weather etc. Water is a big deal for us I remember when the darling River was dry after months almost a year they released water and it was truly a celebration of life hundreds stood at the riverbanks to watch and thousands of people streamed it was a very important moment for culture, community and land. A lot of towns still dont have clean water. I love your videos I enjoying learning about this country even tho I live here I mainly got taught about the culture side
That’s great man, cants say anything like that’s happened to me thought I am in SA
Why not simply say australian
@@ozscientiaaboriginal Australian is very different than what would usually come to mind when someone says Australian, as first of Australians are mostly white being descended from British, whereas aboriginal Australian people are not, having lived in this country for around 65 thousand years, so an aboriginal Australian is not what you would say just and Australian is, howevery they are indeed very much still Australian, if not more so.
@@EpicQibliFan 🤣
Good on you mate. Luv ya.
My great great grandfather came from Plymouth England in mid 1800s. It took 6 months. He was ship's carpenter. He wanted find if Australia was suitable for his family because several of his children died in England from damp cold conditions. When the ship reached Sydney, he abscounded from the ship with the ship's tools. He went up about 300 miles north where he became a 'timber getter', where no white man had gone. He sent for his wife. 6 months for letter to arrive. It took 6 months for her and his 6 year old daughter to come to Australia and find he'd gone up to the 'Big River.' His wife joined there by catching a boat and found his tent. They with others who were timber getters, went further up north (200miles further on bullock teams) where he built a ship yard and built ocean going ship's with big sails on the banks of the Richmond River at Coraki. He sold them to the government and he'd sail them out to the ocean and down to Sydney town ( 500 miles). They were ships that would sail to England. This was just as steam ships were coming in. His ships looked like large Pirate galleons. I forget the name of them but they are in history books. He set up a small township and gave employment to young men who were trying to set up a new life in Australia. He had 9 more children. He lived there, working on ships at his dock and slip yard on the Richmond River. One day when he was 70yrs old, he fell into the river and drowned. He worked on boats all his life but didn't know how to swim! His name was William Yabsley.
That's some awesome detailed family. Love it!
Coraki & families there & the Yabsleys are well known - magnificent pioneers - in the days when enterprise was encouraged. Coraki is now being ruined by bad government decisions.
Great story. I'd like to thank my great great great great grandfather for stealing 5lbs of tapioca and coming to Australia and stirring up shit. Lol. Don't ever think that calling us convicts is an insult
No we are proud.
No way did he have so many kids to one wife..
So stealing the ship's tools, which prob cost others peop's lives makes him some type of hero? Makes him SELFISH and a coward
The video mentions Esperance in Western Australia. In summer the heat can be climbing to 40c and the bitumen on the roads will be melting but when you go into the sea to cool off you can freeze your arse off. The currents bring that Antarctic cool through with a vengeance. Beautiful beaches with white sand that squeaks under your feet as you walk (just watch out for the sharks when you want to swim)
I live there. Haha 👌 the fishing is outstanding. Bit windy tho. 🤷🏼♂️
@@straatman24 crazy that two people from esperance watched this video and maybe more when it only has 37k views lol. Hi from Sydney :)
@@shadoww7301 Hi from Melbourne :)
@@chrissametrinequartz9389 Hi from perth :D
@@straatman24 Hey there. ex Espy girl here, now in Mandurah, used to work for the Esperance Express lol....still have family there (Tackle world will tell you who they are lol). I hope to be back for a holiday next Autumn, spend some time out at stokes and fanny cove. I sure do miss the place
I found this interesting and I live in Australia. Learnt more watching this then all my years in geography class 😅
Same😀
Me too
Same!
Same
dont insult the hsie teachers
That "White Bit" is the region of Australia's 4 large salt lakes (Lake Eyre to the North, then to the south of that is Lake Gairdner to the West, Lake Torrens in the middle and Lake Frome to the East)
Most of these lakes are dry year round, except in periods of heavy rainfall in Queensland, when Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens fill up for several months (until the water evaporates).
BTW Java and Sumatra are the two large islands of Indonesia to the south west, and right between them WAS the volcano of Krakatau (aka Krakatoa) that exploded in 1883
It's like a huge coffee. Flat and white.
Krakatoa & daughter have rebuilt themselves - getting ready for their next effort. Have a look at it through google maps - Indonesia is a riot of volcanoes.
And the reason he hasn't heard of Java is probably because Americans are only taught about America. Mostly.
That white bit is where the British nuclear tested without our consent. Fallout.
@@johannavanklaveren66the nuclear tests were in Maralinga, a long way from Lake Eyre.
This is why the Australia community has such a strong bond
When we get hit by al these crazy natural disaster we help each other out and lots of good things come out of a lot of theses thing like great friendships and residents more resilient and we figure out how to live with it
It is quite amazing to see how we all come each others aid during desperate times like those. Truely amazing
That is called community, it happens all over the world, certainly not just an Australian phenomenon.
As an Australian whose highschool (years 7-10 in my territory) only had around 200-300 people by my guess, it is insane to think about having a school with 10,000 kids!!
My childs high school has 118 kids :D
suburban UK my High School was 1200 pupils in my time, no extended to 2000. In more rural settings may be lower to say 4-500 - but more often it is a case of travel further to combine catchment areas - and so get enough pupils to employ the range of specialist teachers. But that is because distances are more compact.
Primaries are smaller although I have heard of a few near 1000 children, more usual is 5-600, although can still have village schools where several school years are in one class and the whole school can be under 100.
The idea of 10 000 kids in a school is horrific, though as he mentioned his school after the presenter said half that population was in one town - so he may have meant 5000, still huge but not as scary.
My current school which goes from R to year 9 has around 70ish people and my town has around 1 thousand or less people.
Canberrans represent!
Went to one of the largest schools in the Hunter Valley and it had just under 1k students. It usually had around 1000-1200 but for some reason our year had low enrollment which dragged it down.
Yes you're spot on Ryan a Diamond in the Rough that's why the country is so good in so many ways and away from most of the crap going on in the world and we love it
You"re not wrong about Tasmania being a paradise. It is incredible to drive. There's a postcard scene at every turn in the road. So atunning.
Have been to Tasmania twice, favourite state in the country.
My ex lives there which is great because it's about the furthest from me.
Gorgeous old sandstone pubs all over, many with cosy fires, serving great beer, sublime wines and prize-winning whiskies made in Tassie. Stunning sandstone buildings and great historical architecture everywhere, actually. Greenery, good roads, mountains, pretty creeks, good food, and an antique buyer's delight.
@@rogerramjet6429 Good place for them. Nobody liked Dee, too many smashed planes. But considering the weather, General Brassbottom might always talk in a base tone.
Looks nice but it's cold. That rules me out.
Hi There! A note...at the 22 minute mark it showed an American Opossum and not an Australian Possum...We are heading into the third consecutive La Niña which means a lot of east coast rain eg:- Sydney has just recorded its' highest ever annual rainfall with still 2 months + to go Cheers!
Albion Park passed its highest ever in April
Yeah I laughed when I saw that ugly possum... not ours 🤣🇦🇺
Our possums are nothing like the Opossum that is seen in the video. The brushtail possum that lives in my chimney is much, much cuter. He/she has a nose like a blob of pink bubblegum and her paws are like little tiny human hands, with pointy nails and hairy backs.
Your son trying to do pushups at 2 months bro?
What a legend. Litterally about to physically eclipse half the modern population
The biggest problem with the el nino/la nina situation is that rain in a drought isn't necessarily a good thing, you need a constant, steady flow of water for it to penetrate the dirt and actually help. Otherwise, your in drought, then you;re suddenly flooded. Like filling a pot of dry dirt with too much water at once. That's whats happening rn in australia during the La Nina.
Lmao lake Eyre! Pronounced as lake Air. Not Airy. It’s the largest salt lake in the country. However when flooded becomes an inland sea with many bird and fish species living in its waters. It truely is an amazing phenomenon.
I was out there in a small row boat with my family one time and we saw a monster octopus the size of a big table sitting on the bottom of the lake, it scared the heck out of me as I was thinking it was big enough to attack the boat and drag us all under. It was crystal clear water and quite deep.
Wow 😮
@@tanyabrown9839 BS
@@maxiculture I know this sounds crazy but i think it was that place, I was a child at the time. This lake gets up to 6m deep so deep.
@@tanyabrown9839 maybe you're remembering a lake with a similar name? It's very rare for Lake Eyre to get more than a few feet deep when it has water in it at all. And it's a very long way from any ocean (and therefore sea animals).
As a 70 yo Aussie, I did know this. I found it one of the best docos on Australia and hope you feel you gained more knowledge
You think that was a documentary?
The middle of this country is the most beautiful and special place to visit. I live rural but the dead heart is not dead. It's beautiful
Agree! The shade of red to gold are breathtaking
And bitterly cold in the winter! I had never been that cold in Australia. 😂
I’m an American expat from MD that now lives in NSW in the Blue Mountains. It is stunning here. You should come over to see the places you watched on here. The exchange rate is in your favour now. It’s been habituated fir eons. It’s all what you’re used to. It’s very very hot in the north and comfortable in the south. The coffee is top notch. Food is really good too.
You live where I grew up. I'm in Kingsgrove now, but I miss the mountains! From Faulconbridge originally.
You mean immigrant.
I really enjoyed re-watching this clip and it was especially great to see your reactions as a citizen of outside Australia. You should come visit one day, even consider moving here with your family! It is a wonderful country to live in and has been do good to me and my family. My parents emigrated here from India in the late 1960’s, brining along two young kids and instantly, we all became Australians in our hearts and minds. A very common theme here.
As a Canadian born in a remote subarctic settlement, I felt perfectly at home in Australia (except for those damn snakes!). Canucks and Aussies share not only similar attitudes and institutions, but we share a love of Elbow Room. I remember hitchiking across the U.S. and saying to myself: "yeah, this is nice. Nice people. Love those chili dogs! But it's so CROWDED. Even Nevada seems kind of cluttered up with stuff, and Texas is just teensy weensy." But I was right at home in Australia. Both our countries love our Empty Nothingness.
Empty nothingness is the best thing ever :)
I concur!! 👏👏❤️😂
Bloody oath mate 😉 no more room for immigrants we're full 😉😉
@@fukkar4545 roflmao
I actually read that Canucks, British, New Zeland, and OZ, our countries were apart of the commonwealth and founded by the British, we all have the same laws and government system and the same outlooks, and the way our city's are set up anyone who went from 1 of those country to another would feel right at home
Java is an island in Indonesia. It's the heartland of one of the world's major cultures. You ought to read about it on Wikipedia or something.
The video was talking about the population of the New York metropolitan area, which New York City (i.e the Five Boroughs) is only the central part of.
It seems to me that the the video puts a lot of effort into explaining _why_ there is a desert in the middle of Australia, rather than suggesting any additional reason why we don't live in outback.
This is a verse from a famous Australian poem which just abut sums up the video
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
Dorothea McKellar. Learned her poem in primary school
She covers it all......
I hate that poem, forced to learn it at school.
It only describes part of Australia.
I grew up with no wide horizons, or freaking ragged mountain ranges.
The woman who wrote it lived in Sydney.
Ryan during that video at 15:00, that is actually a blanket of rain fall coming down. I was visiting Nth Qld years back and we went out for about 4 hours. When we were driving back to our hotel a long the same road we drove out on, it looked like someone had erected a white brick wall in the middle of the highway. They had not, it was just where the torrential rainfall began.
I love your curiosity and enthusiasm for the world outside of where you live!
You truly are a delight!
Keep it up and I hope and some time in the future you get to travel extensively to this wonderful planet.
Blessings. 🙏🏾
I face palmed at the mispronunciation of Pilbara 😂
Really interesting video - learning lots about my own native country, thanks Ryan 🙂
I think we all did that and I'm going it's the pill bur ra, why is it so hard for people to say?!
Me too. How can Ryan learn pronunciation. HA HA
Try Pilbra
@@pamelalording691 I say it like that. Maybe the younger generation use more syllables? I’m an old fart. 😝🤣
Australian pronunciations can be kind of odd so not surprised he gets a few wrong.
When it rains it is too flat to retain the water in dams. When it doesn't rain ( common) we try to conserve the water as best we can and that is usually where the people live, near the water storages. It isn't just you Ryan, most Americans have no idea about the rest of the world. Right now we are experiencing flooding in the Murray Darling basin.
I think most people in general don't have a great idea about the world outside of their own country. Plus it's not like Australia is in the news all that much.
@@somethinglikethat2176 I get it . When I was in USA the news services were not great on international affairs. We have access to world news channels , about 4 I can think of. That and of course there are the Hollywood movies we see too.
Theres a verse in a poem My Country (Dorothy McKellar 1904) which beautifully describes Australia: "I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror- the wide brown land for me!"
It is scary at times living in Australia and we are taught at a young age how to behave around snakes and spiders, plus what to do during fires and floods. Theres a term which gets used to describe an Aussie "True Blue". To be true blue you display the real aussie character - help each other in good and bad times, and work damn hard for anything you can. You never know if a drought or flood is around the corner, so do all you can know and enjoy yourself, but be ready and pitch in when times are tough. Thats how we survive. Thoughts go out to the many affected by floods along our east coast atm. Plus a good quality coffee each day helps too😉
Yes im so thankful we aren't too populated. It's one of the things I love about living here.
and the population from Victoria has all of a sudden moved to NSW & Qld & it's crowded, no housing, plenty of crime & queues & the gold coast big entertainment places like Dreamworld, Warner Bros etc. have far fewer visitors - nobody has any money - the landlords have snaffled the lot. Changed politically, economically & socially - & not for the good
@@fishnchips8132 I mean thats what happens when your state goes full gestapo and starts imprisoning people in their own homes for several years. NSW wasn't great, but Victoria, it's government and police saw the situation and thought "now is my time" and put on their hugo boss uniforms.
I live on the Murray River in SA and currently we're in the biggest flood event since 1956! It's insane standing up on the sand cliffs and seeing all the water stretched out over the flood plains
Ryan, Don't worry about it, we are in the middle of a huge rain dump at the moment, our local rivers are way overflowing lol
I was going to say that as well...Dartmouth Dam is overflowing, and that hasn't happened for a long time..
Meanwhile the Mississippi is being compared to a creek, kind of ironic
All bloody year,we will probably have drought next year
@@elegantlyevil In the Eastern states, not the rest of the vast country
Weather manipulation will do that to ya :)
Adelaide 30c and beautifully sunny today
The white areas in inland Australia are an area where rain water flows into the interior from the Great Dividing Range, mainly comprising what most of the time are dry salt lakes - hence the white colouration. When rainwater does flow it turns the area into a wonder of flora. Lake Eyre then becomes a mecca for water birds, animals and even fish.
It’s currently like that now
Sorry sir, the water that flows into Lake Eyre & other lakes in south central Oz is from the Channell country further north & falls during the monsoons in summer. Water from the Great Divide does flow west, but only as far as down the Darling River - which meets the Murray River just east of the Victoria & South Australian border - and it then flows into South Australia & on into Lake Alexandrina & into the southern ocean.
The Channell country consists of many rivers which flow south from around the Gulf of Carpentaria. There are many rivers which flow into Carpentaria of course, but all the water which reaches Eyre is from this Channell country - this water is what replenishes the Great Artesian Basin - Australia's wonderful underground water supply. You may be confusing the water which flows from the Great Divide down the Darling also replenishes the Great Artesian Basin.
If it's a huge flood in the salt lakes area, it can overflow into the channels which then exit into Spencers Gulf in South Australia - past the city of Port Augusta.
It's also interesting to note that the rains in New Guinea also replenish the Great Artesian Basin in Australia - and the hundreds of springs scattered across the "Top End" of Australia - the delight of locals & travellers alike.
I'm Aussie, the mountain thing is true they're so short here, I went to South America and holy moly just seeing the Andes mountains from afar blew my mind
Went to America and travelled down the San Andreas line. The mountains were so rocky, the mountains here are just thick with with bush and are more rounded.
Well what would you expect, when the Andes are the second highest range on the planet, only lower than the Himalayas.
Our family, including our eight-year-old, climbed Australia's highest mountain in an afternoon. Of course we used the ski lift for most of the way.
I worked as a station hand in South Australia in 2022. It was north of the Anna Creek station mentioned in the video but 'only' about half the size. We were only about 7 people living there, but it was a pretty nice experience.
Around Christmas time, we were invited to different parties taking place at the neighbouring stations. Met a dude there, who was working at Anna Creek cattle station in the past.
About the meat thing:
They don't slaughter the cattle themselves. They get picked up by trucks, going all the way down to a market in or near Adelaide.
My school when I was 10 years old, was just one room, in it, there was 1st grade, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, plus there were 3 students in high school doing studies via Correspondence, which I did for 2 years when I was 12 and 13 years old, there was like 30-40 students at the school in total.
7:35 facts, it's empty out there.
My family and I drove across the red centre years ago from Brisbane to Busselton on the southern end of Western Australia, it took over a week to do the drive and there was a period where we didn't see humans or artificial lights for over a full day and night of travel
Also side note, if you get a chance you should look up *Heron Island* on UA-cam.
There is a video by the Attenborough channel that's super good, it was where he filled his recent reef related documentary and also said it's his favourite place on the whole great barrier reef.
I stayed there for a wedding a couple years back and did some diving while there, it's beyond wild the amount of fish
Heron island and it's surrounding atolls have the highest biodiversity range across the entire great barrier reef system, its why the university of Queensland built a research station there. They run a small island resort during the summer months to help fund said research station
That and look up the glasshouse mountains, mainly because I climbed Mt Tibrogargan last week and it's just a cool looking giant rock in the shape of an indigenous mythical figure, Trex or gorilla head depending who you ask
You couldn't have driven over the Nullabor unless it was a _long_ time ago. I crossed it twice this year and it was full of traffic. First time in 1984 when you wouldn't see another vehicle for 2 hours. This year it was 10-15 mins max. Every motel booked solid. The trip has lost its romance and mystery. Now it's just a longer trip to the mall.
@@nevillewran4083 They did say years ago.
@@chucky6367 True, they did. But there are other crossings thru the outback, east to west. And full day and night of travel? Not the Nullabor.
Loving the series Ryan, keep this up and we’ll have to adopt you soon as a token Aussie..
"token" has a negative connotation... let's say we'll make Ryan our American Aussie mascot!
"honorary aussie" would be better wording at the end there
I remember my old dad (R.I.P) saying to me; when he was a kid, there was 4 million people in Australia, it’s was said back in the 1940’s that soon Australia will have a population of 10 million people & me old dad was like: “Where are they all gonna live”. Because he thought Australia was pretty full back then.
well, they do love the saying "fuk off, we're full" to immigrants and POC.
It is full.
@@cyc00000 no it ain't 🤦♂️
@@Tera-plex they carry on like it's full
@@cyc00000 doesn’t mean it’s full…
So in WA and SA and around Alice Springs, U cant walk anywear bearfoot because of how sharp and jagged the ground is. Even boots will split in two in some places and ur foot will just be impaled because people and animals never go there and wear it down. Also some farms in Au owned by 1 person r larger than all of uk itself. Also dutch DNA ancestorage was found in some aborigional villages along the coast and thats what happened to that crew. They were survivors cause they mated with the village people and left behind steel hatchets and dutch kids. Also on the east side, malasians would trade iron tools for things like gold (which aborgionals didnt want)
The Top End (those two peninsulas) isn't completely uninhabited. It has a pretty large population of saltwater crocodiles
The remote bits can be the best bits. You can go sit on a hill in central Australia, the air is pure, you can see for miles (kilometres) and the total silence is almost spiritual.
Tasmania is a paradise, temperate rain forests, they generate all their electricity from hydro and sell extra to the mainland.
Yes, it’s beautiful down here
Mostly but not entirely hydro
And COLD......
There is no very mountain high in Australia these days, true...however the Petermann Ranges that run 320 km (200 mi) across the border between Western Australia and the southwest corner of the Northern Territory once were a lot taller than their current highest point 1,158 metres (3,799 ft).
Back some 550 million years ago, geological research has broadly determined that the Petermann Ranges were equivalent in height to the Himalayas.
7:20 January this year I hit a herd of cattle on the highway driving from Perth back to Hedland (part of the road in the north they showed on that map). I'd already done about 1000km that day and I was just over 100km south of Newman when I hit the herd (that town in the East Pilbara you were wondering about). I had to drive the next 100+km at about 9-11pm with a smashed in front end and windscreen, only one headlight pointing vaguely forward, the engine complaining loudly, etc. because I knew if I stopped the car it might not start again, and since there's no phone signal out there I wouldn't be able to get any help (plus there's a 100km towing limit anyway). I just had to drive as close to civilization as I could before the engine completely died - luckily the engine seals weren't damaged too badly so the petrol still in the tank just barely got me to town despite the fuel economy being worse than halved because of the damage :) Slept outside the cop shop that night, caught a taxi to the airport the next day and hired a car to go the last 450km back home. Car was a write-off so luckily I didn't have to deal with it any more - just left it at the cop shop in Newman to be the insurance company's problem to deal with.
See Australia has a lot of towns spaced out so there's a lot of servos, but the only part that is difficult to avoid is the reception in you're stuck in the middle anywhere. Also, in my town is near the border of QLD and NSW, we have about a population of 1,566. Since in the bush we don't get much rain, we get 6 months' worth of fires each year. And yes, us Aussies do like being lowkey, well I think I'm speaking for all Aussies. Btw just discovered your channel and I'm enjoying this Australia vids, it's nice to hear more about my home country. Keep up the amazing work.❤❤❤
some cities are called "Queen Cities" but Adelaide S.A. has Balls
We’re the city of churches, oh and sorry for leaving my balls in Rundle Mall, my back was hurting so thought I’d leave them there for a while, I’ll just go and collect them now 🤣
Big, shiny balls at that!! 🤣
Love how they completely leave Tasmania out of it, there is people living down here to you know
And Hobart is our second oldest city, so there must be people there lol
Just the one family....... ;)
I left Tasmania too - many decades ago. After extensively travelling the big wide brown land, Tasmania was too small for me. Spent decades in Melbourne, now I am sea-tree changing in the mid north coast of NSW.
LOL it's funny how Tasmania always gets left out of things.
@@traditimeour haha yeah I went to a place up in the high country called Black Bob's Rivulet...my God, like a scene straight out of Deliverance
My parents and my 2 older brothers migrated to Australia from Germany in 1962 on a supported migration program and came via ship, took 6 weeks. My father was a plumber so he had a skill that was needed however he actually chose Australia because he was sick of freezing winters and chose Australia for the warm climate.
One of my teenagers loves watching your videos with me and I told them about your merchandise and they suggested you should do a Happy Arvo t-shirt. We love how you say that at start of every video, maybe we could get that trending over here with some t-shirts.
I agree. I’d wear a Happy Arvo t shirt, but can it have a V neck?
@@brenreeves9496 great suggestion
Brilliant idea Jutta Gibson. Your teenager is onto something here. I'd wear one too 😁there you go Ryan food for thought. Oh what about a confusing t-shirt. A pic of a large emu head with EMOO 😂 but Happy Arvo is a winner !
@@louisekindred0059 Love the idea of the “emoo” t-shirt but maybe it should have a picture of an electric battery and a cow, with the text being “Emoo?”, with a picture of an emu on the back of the shirt.
@@DeepThought9999 sounding good ..I actually thought of a cow with the
" moo" reference funny enough!
"Why does no-one live up near the top"... Simples, the heat and humidity mate. Bloody awful humidity.
Also crocodiles, those things give me the heaby jeabys
And also also, those drying rivers on the east coast have just had 3 years of drenchings.
Very unusual but the east coast went from scorched earth (fires) to 3 years of floods, insane!!
The bloke who did the video you're watching, forgot Hobart - in Tasmania (that little island :) ) when naming the major cities.
Ryan I love that you look up things or towns, learning on the job - well done
I love the look on your face when you make a realisation
Really great I learned so much. Thank you 🎉
My grandma lived in a street that I called: “The street with no husbands”
They fought in ww1 and didn’t come back.
An entire street with widows and fatherless children... If that isn't telling of the devastation wars can have on local communities, I don't know what is!
@@Kari.F. Australia's population soared between word wars one and two. But we lost more soldiers in WW1,so the proportion not returning was much higher. It truly devastated communities, so few young men remained. Many of those who did return had missing limbs, or were permanently incapacitated by gas or PTSD. Terrible era.
As someone who lives in Darwin, in the north of Australia not many people live her because of lesser job opportunities, the next biggest town/city is around 30 hours drive away (3 hours flying) so business supports mainly the local system rather than trading between cities. But also the weather, dry season weather is nice lows of 16 degrees Celsius and highs of 28-32 with low humidity, and a perment cloud free blue sky. The intermediate season 'build up' when we don't get rain but the humidity rises 70-100% and temperatures stay above 28 overnight and get to 33-38 during the day. It's a sweaty place to be, any time outside and your already dripping. The wet season is similar in temperature however the rain drops the temperature to around 26-28 during the day. We are the lightning capital of the world, and the monsoonal rains sound like small hail pounding the roof. I love the storms, an attraction to living wild.
There is so much to aus, but also so much of nothing in between.
The white bit on the map is the Munga-Thirri National Park (Used to be called the Simpson Desert). Munga-Thirri is the Aboriginal name for Big Sandhill, which is a very apt name!
I’m Aussie and I love watching these
I'm aussie too and I love watching you watching these..lol 👀 😍
I have an seduction to food. Is that aussie or American?
I just love Ryan. He's so enthusiastic about Australia!
Tasmania is a Paradise ...I lived in Launceston...TASMANIA IS A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT...please talk about Tassie sometimes...it's so underrated
I was born south of Launceston and I too lived there for a time in my early 20s. Hobart too, and the West Coast.
yeah tasmania is underrated im not from there but i have always wanted to go there
Its a sh.t hole!
@@aflaz171 why are you saying that?
South Aussie here who absolutely loves Tassie ❤
I live in a regional town in Queensland along the coastline called Bundaberg and the population is around 100,000 people, Brisbane is 372 kilometers or a 4 hour drive from here.
5:02 a lot of those smaller towns in the outback is mainly mining. There are FIFO workers (Fly in, Fly Out) or people just tend to move there as they're working in the mines. For that area being in West Australia, that state is our dominant exporter for iron ore so there's many mines out in that state inland that just solely have small towns there that solely are just miners or other professions that serve the miners and their families.
8:32 that area is mainly lakes and salt flats.
I live in the outback, where it can be so silent you can hear your heartbeat. The sheer emptiness of the land can be pretty unnerving to some. And yeah, there are heaps of stories about people becoming stranded out there with their broken down car for weeks... and dying.
The town of Newman is the main town associated with BHP's Mt Whaleback mine, one of the largest iron ore mines in the world.
Happy arvo Ryan. You are quickly becoming one of my favourite American reactors to Australian content. As an Aussie I have learned so much about my own country from American reactors lol
I was going to say the same thing.... l learnt stuff about our beautiful country l didn't know, and I'm glad I did...
I grew up in the East Pilbara in the desert and watched the temperature climb to 52 degrees outside. I worked in the only hardware store within a 250km range with no aircon or insulation (just a tin shed) reaching up to 60 degrees inside. Sometimes you'd go years without seeing it rain. We had do drive a 5 hour round trip just to be able to go to kfc. Ive even done the drive from Kununurra (and even from further up north in Darwin) all the way down to Esperance. I can confirm that the outback is almost otherworldly and the small amount of people who inhabit it are some of the most interesting people to talk to.
OK, look, I did environmental science (Botany and ecology mainly). This narrator enormously understates the impact of Australia not being iced over during the ice ages. The lack of phosphorous impacts EVERYTHING, including the oceans creating a biological paucity incomparable with any other continent. Still, at least he mentioned it. Most don't.
I've travelled around AUSTRalia by car and also bought a bus later on and when you're "outback"... EVERYBODY will check on you, wave to you, and stop if they think you need help or assistance. It's INCREDIBLE how absolutely welcoming and safe you feel travelling around and was NOTHING like I'd expected first time around. The next three travels we dispelled with a large amount of "stuff" because we simple didn't need it. I even rode 80kms into a town in the middle of nowhere on a bicycle because we'd broken down in a gorge. I was back at the bus in a matter of hours and to help pay for the help, we offered our skills as puppeteers to the town school to teach the children how to make puppets and put on a show. They were sooooo happy because they can't get people to come out and do this and in fact, one of our travels was funded almost entirely by offering our skills to the locals in return for accomodation and sometimes food. It's amazing how lovely the outback folk are.
A little secret for those who don't know, but TWO Places that are well worth the visit and you don't hear much of is where seven rivers come together and you look down on it from a mountain in WYNDHAM (top north of WA) and HAMMERSLEY GORGE (top north of WA) which was like being on another planet... Mars to be exact. Weird vegetation and everything covered in Red Dust. You must do these two as they sum up Australia like nowhere else. LOVE IS ALL. xx
Ironically while normally dry, we've had 3 years of la nina. So the entire Murray darling basin to west of the dividing range is flooding. Plus those white bits that are normally dry salt lakes are now full of water.
I’m Australian. And that was so educational. Thank you so much ❤️
The colours of that map are generally true to life for a satellite photo of Australia. The white areas you noticed are probably from the light coloured sand of the desert there plus some of the salt lakes prevalent in that region. The green areas are where there is actually growing vegetation, and the red areas are where the deserts and semi-deserts are. You will always know when you are in an Australian desert as the ground is generally not white or yellow like most other deserts but a natural deep rich red colour, not the artificially coloured deserts of Hollywood's westerns. One can almost always tell if someone has been living in the Australian Outback, their white or light coloured clothing now has a distinctive pink or reddish hue to it, and it is impossible to remove it by any amount of washing or other means. If you didn't want other people to know that you recently spent time in the Outback then burn all your present clothes and buy a whole new wardrobe.
thats why i love Australia's deserts, its like the Wild West that never got famous, that deep red colour can't be found anywhere else
The "White Patches" in the middle are the dead desert areas - the massive Simpson Desert, and the salt lakes of Kati Thanda (Eyre), Torrens, and Frome. Temps get up to 50'C (about 122'F) with less than 3 inches of rainfall a year. So really dry and dead!
I live in Perth Australia and was a great history lesson for me and put a lot into perspective but to see the world growth around and our growth we are populated in areas in suburbia but have so much land around and we are chilled and relaxed people and like to have fun but we do work hard but just living life around and being nice to everyone is who most of us are, I agree we are lucky and our kids are lucky to have such a great place to live, thank you for sharing, learnt a lot too of my own country 👍 so funny what you grow up with you just see but nice to see the bigger picture
Interesting that you watch this when today there is flooding in Victoria - we are currently in a La nina weather that brings floods
Victoria and northern Tasmania under flood.
I was literally about to say that as well.
As an Australian I don’t find you ignorant. You are choosing to be curious and learn. That’s endearing
I was born in Darwin it is beautiful. Australia and the people are just amazing. You come to Australia and don't want to leave.
I live just next door , about 4000km away... awesome place to be !
@@bloozee NZ? Good place too I hear
@@audreydoyle5268 probably closer to me than Darwin also!
@@bloozee ahaha, probably. I do happen to live on one of the NSW coasts
Apart from the high crime rate.
that white part in the middle is Lake Eyre, an extremely large salt lake with an area of 9,500km squared (3667 square miles), it looks absolutely stunning when it gets water in it, which is about every couple of years
Surprisingly, I lasted the whole length of this one, too, and I'm an Aussie 🤣 Well done, Ryan 👏🤯🤯🤯
Great podcast!!! I was born here, parents immigrated out from Scotland in the early 60’s. I visit family in the UK, but I am glad they chose to move here. Growing up with the beach a few km’s from home, the weather is awesome.
Snap! 🤣 my parents immigrated from Scotland same time & I was born in Qld & I am Fiona too! 5 mins to the beach from home. 😊
Hi there, and thanks for a most interesting channel! We love to watch your reactions to those things we tend take for granted - helps us to reevaluate and appreciate our country and culture. My husband is fourth generation aussy with English and Indian ancestry, while I immigrated from Iceland in my late teens. This is an amazing place to live!
Now, just a tiny comment (hope you don’t mind…) ‘Arvo’ is pronounced ‘awo’ - remember our ‘economic’ ways with the language - we skip the ‘r’! 😂
Congrats on your little fella! ❤
‘Why does no one live up the top?’ Short answer: because it’s bloody hot up there, there’s more crocodiles than people and cyclones are super common...
I stayed the whole time and had a grateful cry at the end for our Country
That animal walking in the creek was not even an Australian animal ,It was an American Opossum
You really should check out a video on the States of Australia. I lIve in South Australia, its slightly bigger than Texas.
SA is about 45% bigger than Texas USA (not to be confused with a small town in Queensland)
My Chinese parents came over from Hong Kong with me when I was a toddler back in 1969. My Dad's family (parents and siblings) were all in Australia already. The family has grown in number. I have so many relatives now, many of them mixed, including my children. I love big families. Family includes people who have married into the family and also close family friends. We don't just differentiate by blood.
The Chinese are a success story in Australia. They copped hostility decades ago but persevered. They started businesses that grew and grew.
They were industrious, honest and good neighbours. Their kids did well in school.
My parents, both born before the depression, grew up with the racist attitudes typical of the era. Words like "wog", "wop", "chink" and "boong" were spoken casually around the dinner table.
Neither warmed to arrivals from the Mediterranean, but slowly, grudgingly learned to concede that the Chinese were pretty good neighbours.
@@nevillewran4083The typical racist attitude from the "past" you described is still going very strong today.
@@SatieSatie In my experience, it's diminished.
@@nevillewran4083 In my experience as an Asian, I very much disagree.
@@SatieSatie When were you born and did you grow up in Australia?
There's rednecks in my country town who object to Asian people owning businesses or middle eastern workers being in the next town's abattoir.
Always will be, but there's fewer of them over the years, they're less vocal and when they say ignorant shit, more people tell them to STFU. Even their neighbours, friends and kids. To me, things are better.
They think of metropolitan regions, not cities. New York metropolitan region contains cities like New Ark, New Jersey. Java is an island in Indonesia.
If you want a laugh
Look up the song
There was a redback on the toilet seat,
When I was there last night
I didn't see him in the dark but boy
I felt his bite.
i live in south australia and our river murray is currently going through a record breaking flood, one of plenty of floods in the last century, so droughts happen so far inland and don’t last long
If you think droughts happen 'so far inland and don't last long', I expect you haven't lasted very long yourself...
Fun fact about the vergulde, chances are the survivors integrated with an indigenous tribe, as there was a tribe in WA that when the brittish found them had fairer skin and blonde hair.
I live in Adelaide, South Australia and I only had 400 people at the public high school I went to, couldn't imagine having 10,000. I knew almost everyone in the same year as me.
Also, most Aussies don't have big backyards, and most who do have developed them or plan to.
Nah, still a shitload of big backyards around. Only those facing financial problems do battle-axe jobs.
@@nevillewran4083 agreed
I knew everyone in my year pretty well I don’t know how you could go without knowing everyone in your year pretty well I had about 45 people in my year
@@grayjupiter8652 About 90 in my year in high school. I never did put all names to all faces. A few could. Now I couldn't remember 20.
@@nevillewran4083 wow 90 people how did you have 90 people if you only had 400 people in your school
The Murray river still has big floods. It's not dry too often. Fun fact, They used to use Bullock drays to drag the Murray's Paddle steamers over the dry parts of the river more than 100 years ago
The white bit you are referring to is Lake Eyre and surrounding area. It is a dried up lake most of the time, but every few years it fills up when there are floods.
It's not that it's cold over in the West, it's that the cold air from the Antarctic stops rain clouds from forming on any kind of regular basis.
And basically, El Nino = drought, La Nina = floods. We're going through our third La Nina right now along the East.
Third since when? we've experienced La Nina since La Nina existed.
@@davidlee-michaels9430 Third in three years, which is very unusual. Half the east coast is currently experiencing record-breaking floods from yesterday's rain on top of wetter conditions than usual.
thrid la nina in a row*
La Niña is a weather oscillation that lasts approx 7yrs then flips to El nino for about 7yrs.
The imbeciles on the news and in opinion pieces on the net are calling individual storms La Nina’s. Similar to the British news making their weather maps red for the two hot days. Anything to sensationalise what is regular weather. They can then claim a new record due to climate change.
We are currently 3yrs into La Niña. Only 4 to go then yippee more drought.
Climate change isn't the problem with the Murray Darling rivers, it's the siphoning off of water for mega farm's, a lot that are owned by the Chinese, and for drinking water that is sold overseas. And I personally wouldn't like to see our population grow more than it is.
the cotton farms take the most of all, before them, the rivers were ok year round.
Also the 9 hottest years have been since 2005 as stated in the video. Climate change has certainly been part of the problem
I spent 3 years living in the Shire of Laverton in Western Australia, in the township of Laverton. Laverton has an average population of around 800-900 people. To get to the closest chain supermarkets (Coles & Woolies) you need to drive 4 hours to Kalgoorlie. I loved living there. Laverton has a fantastic community and wonderful people. And yes, I stayed until the end Ryan 😅
I'm living in Kal now; its hard to imagine a more isolated place until you think about people having to drive 4-5 hours here just for a simple shopping trip. It'd definitely a hard, harsh land around here, but beautiful too, and it breeds some very interesting locals.
@@SH-qs7ee I usually ended up staying overnite in Kal when I did the grocery run. A chance to get things done like, a haircut, go to dentist, take pets to the vet, catch a movie, get takeaway and get a Bunnings snag 🤣 I do miss the drive between LA and Kal. Stunning scenery. I never got tired of it.
hahahaha I hung around until the end, Ryan, loved the outro! good vid, cheers mate!
I live in Perth now but grew up 1600km north of there inland in the Pilbara region. The "bush", proper outback. My graduating class was 20 people. The closest McDonald's was a 12/15 hour drive away
This is interesting since how much heavy rain we've had this year
Most of those outback towns are just an iron ore mine, a pub , a servo and a cop shop.
Don’t you mean at least 4 pubs, one on every corner! 😂
@@zombiemeg You joke, but the town I'm in has 3 pubs on one intersection, plus another 41 scattered throughout. We cut down; used to be 79 pubs. Oh, and a Goldmine; the big one you can see from space.
@@SH-qs7ee 😂
Now that the borders are reopening, you and your family should come visit :) I recommend November, as it's neither too hot or too cold (and yes, it does get cold here). The south west of Western Australia is beautiful in spring, and Tasmania is picture perfect. The Blue Mountains in New South Wales are also stunning.
Newman is a mining town. Isolated and literally in the middle of nowhere it is still an important place for travellers to stop and get fuel and supplies and is usually the last major stop before heading west to Karajini.
@13.37 I live "up at the top"! It's mild winters and great lifestyle have made a lot of people move here in recent years. I live in Far North Queensland, at a place called Cairns. It's a very popular tourist destination, with amazing beaches, the great barrier reef, world heritage rainforests and so many other great things.
Sir David Attenborough (the nature documentary guy) has this to say about it.
He’s often asked by children to name his favourite place on earth, he responded, “I have no hesitation in answering that question. My favourite place is North Queensland. It has for a naturalist everything. It has an amazing rainforest which is quite unlike any other rainforest in the world.”
“Not only does it have that, but down on the coast, it has the Great Barrier Reef,” he continued. “On top of that, there’s terrific wine and food, so that’s the place for me.”
It truly is heaven on Earth.
Really good video Ryan, thanks for sharing it. Two things though: 1. The interior of Australia is BEAUTIFUL, deep iron red, with a haunting atmosphere. There is a growing appreciation here of the Indigenous Australians, recently referred to as First Nation's People, and there ancient culture spread across the continent. 2. Tasmania is AWESOME, and seems to generally be ignored in discussion of Australia. In many ways it's flora is more like NZ., it is mountainous and more ancient in vegetation.
Yes - Tassie !