The danger in really getting off the beaten track is not snakes(they will run away from you), it’s actually getting lost. If you are out in Outback without enough water then you can die. But even in the bush areas near major urban areas can be fatal - if you are off major trails and become injured you may not be found. So when travelling in the Outback (right out in the back of beyond) - always, always let someone know where you are going and when you expect to arrive (even if it is the guy at the service station where you bought your fuel). If you break down, never never leave your car. The guy at the service station often talks to the next bloke up the road. If you haven’t arrived they will notify the authorities who will search for you, including by air. A vehicle is much easier to see than a person lying unconscious somewhere. Finally also always carry way more water than you think you will need.
Worked in the Kimberly for 4 years as a counsellor. Did home visits to the many remote Aboriginal communities. Most were a round trip of 200 to 400kms. Did mandatory training in 4WD, remote survival etc. Always take 10 litres of water, Satellite phone and short food supply. Always check in and out of each destination. Lived in Fitzroy Crossing. One year an English tourist, broke her leg going on a 'short walk' along the Fitzroy Gorge. Its remote - as in not much traffic. Didnt inform anyone, went missing, no water, (was up on the high escarpment) no food, couldn't move, no phone and was found dead 5 days later. She was only 5kms from camp.
Are you sure about the jay-walking bit? I thought that if there was a designated crossing you must use it; but you can cross anywhere that is more than a certain distance [20m?] from the crossing.
The Maggie’s are easy to live with if they know you. If we catch a mouse in a trap in the shed we take outside to the Maggie tree. In winter they are waiting in the morning just in case we have a snack for them. We can be very close without any danger.We don’t feed bread, I don’t think the yeast is good for them. Mice, ants, worms or bit of meat. Just not heaps of mince. We have never been swooped on by our breeding pair. I think they sometimes have a family reunion. It is not unusual to see 10 or more just hanging around during the day singing. That warble is the best bird song in the world.
@@ThatJohnstonLife If you feed them, they will be your best mate. They will fight other magpies that swoop you. They will even warble for you in the morning when you are having your cuppa on the weekend. Try to make friends with em. Even if you dont wanna be friends with them and just wanna have a walk, un-swooped. take some dog kibble with you and pay your toll when you spot them. look at them, drop the kibble and you'll be fine, make sure they see what you are doing.
They're smart little buggers, I started taking some treats on my daily walk, they eventually stopped swooping me and started landing in front of me, where's my tribute human.
@@ThatJohnstonLife They will never ever swoop you if you feed them. Just a bit of mince tossed to them in your yard and local park or along the street, and they will swoop other people, but not you. Ignore the masked lapwings (aka spur-winged plovers). They rarely contact, and their spurs are soft and rubbery anyway. They are more likely to pretend to be injured to distract you from their babies, which are hatched and raised on the ground in the most ridiculous spots.
Dam I’m 60 and Australian and have never heard of befriending them 😂😂 that works if they live near you BUT not if you’re out walking or riding. It’s actually hilarious watching someone get swooped 😁 as long as you have a good hiding spot 🤣🤣🤣
Cossie / togs / bathers / swimmers / budgie smugglers: probably the most regionally specific term in Australian slang. These days the distinction has broken down, but how you described your aquatic apparel used to be a pretty good indication of the State you grew up in.
@@ThatJohnstonLife they still missed Trunks (S.A.) the most English description there is for them. Plus Boardies (technically not Speedo) but swimming apparel. Not accent but colloquiums (or regional specific terms) is how you know where people are from in Australian! PlayerClarinet knows their stuff! Stephen M
@@lilithowl Not going to argue as it maybe WA not SA term as the the ratio of visits to both is 6:2, but the wife has heard the term also.I therefore stand corrected!
She’ll be right, sometimes followed with the retort “famous last words”. There’s also “no worries” and the rougher “no wucking forries” which can be shortened to “no wuckers”.
You would most likely be done for jaywalking if you cross against the pedestrian light or cross within 20 metres of a designated crossing (e.g. zebra crossing). So long as you are further than 20 metres from lights or other designated crossing, you won't be done for jaywalking.
In Qld the legislation specifies jaywalking as crossing the road within 50m of a designated crossing, or crossing at a controlled crossing when it’s in the don’t walk state. If you’re a decent distance from a crossing? Go for it. If you’re at the lights? Be a bit silly to jump across when it’s not green. Pretty much every Jay walking fine issued is people crossing at a traffic light against the signage, I’ve watched cops booking folk doing exactly that at the Eastern end of Queen street mall lol.
In Sydney after Australia Day (ie the end of January) when the people head back to work from the Christmas/Summer holidays, you will often see the Police at the York and Margaret Street Intersection which is around a major bus and train hub fining people for crossing against the lights to gets us back into the correct habbits after the low city traffic in the summer holidays.
Good vid again Ross. Really happy to see you and the family embracing what it is we have to offer here mate. If the maggie's know your face, which they can, they won't swoop you. It's a bit like the locals versus the tourists type of behaviour. The problem is getting them to know your face, which kind of depends upon where you live. I live on property in Dairy country and the local maggie's hang out around our place all the time, and bring their young down every year to feed on the lawn etc. and we never have a problem. We don't feed them, or really interact with them in any way, yet we've never been swooped by any of them, and we have absolutely heaps of em. We have however, had visitors turn up and cop a wing beating though, because they're not locals. 😊
There is one maggie local to us who absolutely hates my husband....every single year he gets swooped. Ive NEVER been swooped by a maggie in my entire life (Im 54) even when Im out with my hubby the maggie goes for him not me.......dont know what he did to deserve it, but oh well, she'll be right.
Feeding any wildlife is discouraged, it upsets the natural balance of things, usually for the benefit of people at the expense of the wildlife. Getting familiar with magpies helps, but, as a cyclist, I expect to be swooped several times a year, I can't get to know every magpie in the country and since they're everywhere, you can't avoid them unless you stay home for 2 months. What kills more people, especially foreigners, in the water than crocs, box jellies and sharks combined is just getting in the water - people not used to the surf drown due to rip currents dragging them out - always swim between the flags where the life savers are.
Thank you, you are the first person to actually explain why the sun is so much more dangerous in Summer in Australia. Also, the hole in the ozone layer occurred over Antarctica during the Antarctic Spring (I don’t know if it has repaired itself yet). I actually got called out by a policeman on the way to work one morning when I walked against a red light when there was absolutely no traffic on a one way Melbourne CBD laneway, which was very embarrassing accompanied by all the whistle blowing, to have to return and wait surrounded by other pedestrians until the light turned green. Certainly learned my lesson.
Excellent video Ross - very entertaining. The additional strength in the Sun is the Earth’s elliptical orbit - we are slightly closer to the Sun during our summers. That said, I was at a BBQ today and the universal whinge was that winter can’t go fast enough…the cold and overcast weather is doing everyone’s head in.🌞😂
Nah, you have it completely wrong. The angle of the dangle is the same in the northern hemisphere as in the south (lets not factor in very long-term minor variations). It is the ozone hole that's the problem! Sure most ozone depleting chemicals have been banned and things aren't getting worse. However,,,,, those chemicals that were released haven't gone away and continue to do their thing (like for the next few thousand years). The effect of these chemicals is worse in the southern hemisphere (not just Australia) because , overall, it is colder in the south. This colder hemisphere affect is a result of there being less land in the south to absorb the sunshine and what land there is sitting at the pole where it has turned into a huge block of ice several kilometres thick. Ozone slides away from this cold spot and heads north to the relatively warmer climes Europe and America. This leaves us southerners frying in the sun. Only thing to do is wear a hat, slap on the sunscreen and sit under a tree (or in the pub) during the middle of the day.
To understand why the Sun is more intense in Australia, all you have to do is look at an atlas. All of Great Britain is north of 50°N, all of Australia (apart from Tasmania) is on the equator side of 40°S. Draw a line through Madrid, southern Italy, Greece and Ankara in Turkey and all of Australia (apart from Tasmania) is on the equator side of that line. Macquarie Island, which is a sub-Antarctic Island managed by the Australian Antarctic Division although technically part of Tasmania, is the same latitude south as Manchester in England is north. Australia is sub-tropical to tropical, Britain is temperate to sub-Arctic. That is why the Sun is stronger in Australia.
Living on Bribie Island, Queensland, originally from England,lived in NZ for ten years before moving here. The sun in NZ is worse even on a cloudy day, advise to stay out the sun is wrong, the sun is a nutrient and you need it, just don’t get burned. Getting out is essential, we did a full lap of Oz before getting a house and job… highlight was swimming with whale sharks at Ningaloo. We live with wildlife all day long , our house backs onto a state forest, never seen a snake in 3 years but have had my ears bitten twice by swooping magpies😅. Lazy language that you start to use and before you no it you’re a full blown flamin’ drongo 😅
You are right about the gum trees bursting into fire spontaneously They have a very high concentration of eucalyptus oil (funny thing that, considering they are eucalyptus trees) & in very high temperatures & during bushfires they do burst into flames. The flames travel from one tree to another from the tops, hence the term 'crown fires'. I enjoy your videos. Dennis Moore.
Magpies are lovely....and smart! Their lifespan is up to 30 years and they can recognize faces. It's easy to make friends with them. If you give them a bit of food, they will remember you for it and not attack. Just a bit of bread or a piece of beef mince and you are friends for life!
@@ThatJohnstonLife Doesn't work, you don't see or hear them coming, they'll have two or three goes at you before your hand gets anywhere near your pocket and the damage done by then.
Good luck with your move and I'm sure you'll love Brisbane. I moved to Brissy from Melbourne in July 2016 and love it. In Winter Brisbane can cold in the mornings but once the sun is out it can warm up. Usually early to mid August the days can start getting warmer.
The hotest temperature in Australia was at 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) South Australia Oodnadatta on 2 January 1960. That temperature was equaled when it hit, 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) in Western Australia at Onslow on 13 January 2022, 62 years later. The only gum trees spontaneously combust is during a bushfire. The heat of the fire vapourises the oil in the leaves of the gum tree and then it spontaneously explodes. The ozone layer is everywhere around the world BUT, over Antarctica, there is a hole that opens and closes. Except when in a pedestrian crossing, it's illegal to 'J' walk, it's also illegal to cross a road if you are with 18M of a marked crossing. That crossing sound was put there for blind people, as were a number of other features. If you want unending sites that'll blow your mind in the smallest area, go to Tasmania. If you want to see the outback, go to Oodnadatta, and fry. In the bush, any spider you see in a web, is harmless and all snakes will avoid you because you're too big to eat. If you come to Australia to find yourself, then you're too late, you're lost forever.
Some places in Australia already reach 50'C. Some websites need to update their information on spider bites and deaths in Australia since a 22-year-old Australian(Jayden Burleigh), was reportedly treated in hospital for four days after being bitten by a redback spider in 2016.
Just read up about that guy. Poor bloke. It seems they happen so infrequently they don't even bother to update their facts! Even the Australian museum still has it at 1979
@@ThatJohnstonLife The red back is the only spider I kill because of how and where they congregate, and their numbers in which they multiply. I'll remove the funnelweb and silver tail spiders. The only time I removed Huntsman's was when my youngest two were carpet crawlers themselves and the huntsman's were open to human interaction in that house. One place I lived, trapdoors lived on one side of the house. Birds would line up along the fence whenever I cut the grass to take them fleeing from the thumping vibrations of the mower.
@@peterclancy3653 The fibro house I grew up in would reach 50'C inside during summer. People would tell me to go inside where it was cooler. Umm, nope. Much hotter inside. 😂
When I first moved to Australia permanently from the UK, I lived in Karratha in the Pilbara (Culture Shock 1.01). I'd done my previous working visa year down in the southern states and met my then boyfriend, a Kiwi who got a job at Woodside. I arrived into a bone dry, oven hot 50o from a UK winter. For the entire week before I left, my house had had no water because the pipes were frozen. It was a learning experience. The tough buggers who live up there give you no sympathy so you learn to stfu and suck it up pretty damn quick. We had no air-con for the entire summer because the last renters had dismantled the unit and taken it with them and the landlord refused to buy another one. I can now tolerate hot dry days with relative ease. It's humidity that knocks me about. I couldn't live from Sydney up. Mind you, I LOVE Melbourne weather. It must be a reaction to my introduction to Australia 🤣
Sorry but you are completely wrong with your statement about Jay walking in Oz. Basically if the prescribed crossing is within 20Metres use it or you can be fined. What you described is the American Jay Walking law lobbied for by the American Auto industry in the 1920s to make pedestrians at fault in an accident that was adopted across the USA by the 1930’s, never here in Australia. Crossing a road on or near a crossing for pedestrians comes under rule number 234 (1) A pedestrian must not cross a road, or part of a road, within 20 metres of a crossing on the road, except at the crossing or another crossing. With a caveat of five separate exemptions. There are different versions of this from state to state, but that the context. The rule is an attempt to make people use the facilities provided unlike the USA which is to try an make you drive everywhere. Stephen M
@@daveamies5031 it'll always be in the CBD, I jaywalk all the time when there is no traffic or when I'm in a rush and have even crossed red lights at like 11pm with police at the lights not paying attention
You are only required to use a crossing to cross the street if it is within 20 metres of where you are. If it is further than that, you can cross where you are. Just make sure the traffic is far enough away from you before you step off the kerb.
Jaywalking is actually crossing the road at a diagonal instead of directly across. You are allowed to cross not at a designated crossing, you just need to go directly across.
@@ThatJohnstonLife In Melbourne CBD (Central Business District) at the junction of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street you will see an all-ways crossing.
Mate, hop across this ditch and try out the New Zealand sun in January. You'll be red raw in 15 minutes. I've never needed sunblock in Aussie - but in kiwiland, you genuinely can't go without it. At 30 degrees it's brutal.
Suburban Aus is pretty safe when it comes the more venomous creatures, but remember things like bats can carry pretty nasty diseases so best not to handle unprepared. There is one animal no newcomer is ever prepared for; native possums during mating season. They're harmless but what sounds like demons from hell having a screaming competition in the backyard has kept more than one newcomer awake with the lights on.
Magpies are sweethearts if you develop a relationship with them - feed them things like those dog food chunks and they will love you forever. Once it hits breeding season they will never attack you because they have great memories.
If you're gonna visit here, I highly recommend heading out bush, away from the towns and suburbs, and spend a few nights stargazing. The night skies here are breathtaking.
In NSW, 'jaywalking' is when you cross a road within about 20m of a designated crossing. Or... when you cross a road without taking the most direct route/line.
Eucalyptus trees don’t spontaneously combust. If you’re sitting under a Shady gumtree on a hot day, it’s not going to suddenly explode on you. However, if there’s a really hot bushfire, Gumtrees can explode then. But if you are close enough to actually see one go off, you’re either a firey or in more shit than Winnie the Pooh - or both.
I live in a lovely town called Milton (3 hours Sth of Syd).... it’s very much like Devon/ Cornwall. Rick Stein even opened his first Australian restaurant down here. It’s gorgeous!
As someone who grew up in Cornwall who moved to Australia (Canberra, please don't hate me) I wouldn't mention Rick Stein if you meet someone from Cornwall/Devon, he is (low key) not liked
@@kuhvacako hey Alex, I know what low key means 😂. We always get loads of people from Canberra flocking to Milton/Mollymook on the weekends... I lived in London for 11 years and used to go to Devon/Cornwall as often as possible, just love that area.
Magpies very rarely swoop in Tasmania. They are an incredibly smart bird and recognise faces. If you’re friendly to them by giving them some meat they will remember you and won’t swoop
i've seen people get fined crossing the lanes/little streets in Melbourne's CBD against the red pedestrian light. even if there's no traffic, wait for the green light before crossing if there's a pack of cops standing there.
Lol the magpie family at my house sit on my lap and eat from my hand even during nesting time and a couple of them even come into my workshop to see what’s going on.
Great video, did have to laugh at the magpies - being away from Australia for a few years now I forgot what we’d be coming back to! Magpies are my worst nightmare - give me a shark any day lol.
It is only jaywalking if you cross the road at a signalled intersection when there is a red light for pedestrians (i.e. the signal is showing you are not allowed to cross).
The Sun thing is also the dry air and being closer to the equator, so rays travel closer to the perpendicular through less, dryer air. In Europe the tangential entry of rays through the hazy air blocks more radiation. Plus the ellipse thing.
I live in Perth, and I jaywalk on the daily on the way to school (and so does almost everyone I know). I've done it infront of police before, and they just said to look both ways. It is a law, but it isn't really enforced.
Jaywalking is a very misunderstood law. You must walk straight across the road, NOT at an angle. You must take the shortest way to cross. You will only and very rarely be fined in NSW if there is a crossing within 100m. I have never known a single person to get fined. I'm 64. Mostly the Police only have blitzes on it right in the heart of the CBD of Sydney. People crossing, tram tracks or light rail without care. The blitzes usually happen after near miss incidents or someone being clipped by a tram etc.
When crossing a road. We were taught at an early age at school. To look right, then left then right again, to make sure it's clear , and no traffic. 2🤔. They not do in Asia, fact.
The sun is harsher because Australia is much closer to the equator (so the sun's rays are more direct) than in Europe and North Armerica - much of Australia is on the same equivalent latitude as the Sahara Desert, which makes you realise why, a) it's so dry here and b) why the sun is so strong! Also, 'jaywalking' is only illegal within 20 metres of a designated crossing - otherwise it's fine to cross a road. You can't impede traffic though (or other pedastrians), but similarly traffic has to give way to you (they just can't mow you down!).
The Johnston Family, thinking of making the move in less than a year, how much easier would you say it is to ease into a job in Australia as opposed to the UK, I'm a mechanic and want to know if it will be as intense as UK. Love your vids👍😁
Where were you considering moving to? The major cities have plenty of mechanics, but if you are good and competent you should be able to build up a clientele. Having said that, You will need to sit for and gain the MTA licence to help you gain the trust of motorists. Your quals from the UK should see you right to get this however. You can advertise on Facebook and instagram and in the local rags. Smaller cities and locals might be easier for you to start, and they will also provide you with cheaper rent or purchase options on homes. So I would look to set yourself up way WAY outside the major cities. These places (see my list of places above in my other comment) will give you a FAR better quality of life than a city can. Trust me on this. knocking off at 4 and getting the boat out to go fishing for a a few hours is much better than crawling home in the dark in bumper to bumper traffic! The wages might be slightly less, but as Ross points out so often, it's all about quality not quantity! Good luck with your move.
Every Aussie outside of Queensland cringed so hard when you said 'cossie' and 'togs'😂. It's 'bathers' or 'swimmers' most other places. Great and very accurate video though.
The Earths elliptical orbit is only 3% closer on the short side, so not the cause of the heat. It's the tilt of the Earth that gives us our hot summers.
If there is a designated crossing, you must use it to cross the road. If the crossing is controlled by lights, you can only cross when the light is green for pedestrians. If you cross when it is red, that is illegal and punishable by a fine - and that is what all the people in the video were being punished for. If there is no designated crossing , you can cross anywhere provided you look left and right. You cannot cross a freeway/tollway at any time because pedestrians are not allowed on freeways and tollways.
The Earth rotates on a tilt. The Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun during summer, and Australia's position on the planet means we get a direct hit.
Australia is further away in the elipse during Summer. That's also why our Summer is longer. I know people have said it's the other way around and the mistake got repeated.
That Johnston Family, how’s everything going. You know I’ve doing J walking in Sydney back in 1996 when I travel with other art students. We stayed over at Bondi beach,when I crossed the road two police turn up and ask me question that why I’ve crossed the road than walking to the traffic light. I explain myself saying that I’m not from around here and they say where you from I cairns Far North Queensland 🤗(Lol) so came to rescue me from police she said to them that that I didn’t know about J walking so they let of the hook. But anyway love you guys so much please pass my hello to your beautiful wife and daughter as well 👍🌈🌺🦋💖❤️😊😘🙏🏻 God Bless you all. From Edith in cairns Top North
You can cross the road at any point, it's just that you have to use the crossing if it's close by (20m i believe). You don't have to walk miles if there's no crossing lol. That's BS from America. It's rarely enforced, but probably depends which state you're in. People in Melbourne cross wherever they like and no one cares. Never seen the police actually stop anyone.
Dear Ross...dear UK people about to suffer terribly this winter...high cost of heating...whilst you must survive the summer heat...at least you have the beaches to cool off...lol
A lot of tourists underestimate the power of our sun. There's nothing worse than leaving England at like 8c and then arrive in Australia when it's 40c+
Finally correct sort of 😂, the hole in the ozone was never over Australia ( that was a myth started by tourists that couldn't take the aussie heat ), it was over Antarctica, and its closed up now lol, and yes correct with we are closer to the sun 👌
Yes I got a ticket written out for jaywalking when on holiday in NSW in a town called Gunnedah, cop wrote out the ticket and asked me a million questions , like how long I was staying for etc, didn't give me the ticket , just told me he would keep it in the car and would throw it away once I left the town later in the week as long as either cop didn't see me associating with the girl I was walking with for the remainder of my holiday in that town , (she was a local drug dealer , stand over girl and the whole town was scared of her, but I had only met her two hours earlier and had no idea at the time) lol they never booked her just yelled out abuse at her , it didn't stop me , we just didn't see those two police again.
jaywalking mostly applies to cities/densely populated areas where field vision is limited and there is a myriad of vehicles and pedestrians about. its not jaw dropping to hear that someone got clipped by a cyclist, for example, hence the fines exist. its only considered jaywalking if the pedestrian is within 20m of a crossing/lights. so to jay walk its usually just out of laziness to walk a few meters further (there is an abundance of crossings) and impatience to wait a minute along wih everyone else. if you're fined for jaywalking its most likely they are doing a crackdown cause too many pedestrians are jaywalking or cause you've just done something stupid and nearly caused an accident.
Wrong it's not called Jay Walking in Australia, that's an American Term. It's disobeying a traffic signal. Only get fine if you are within a certain distance from a Traffic Light. If you walk in a straight line, you won't get fined and / or about over 100 metres from a traffic light.
@@noelgibson5956 I have seen 1000s of people being either fined or cautioned for disobeying traffic signals. Even if they aren't crossing at the lights but near the lights. I have seen this because I was a professional driver in Adelaide for a little while. This was to stop people from continuing to cross the lights and blocking traffic flow or getting hit. The police stand near the lights and just wait. I welcomed it at some lights as you couldn't cross in time before getting a red light again. I always walk in a straight line to avoid the fines even when no lights are present. I am the same age as you. I think you haven't seen this because you might not be where it is a problem or your area doesn't do it or you are working at the time of it happening.
@@noelgibson5956 I sent you links to look at it as it happens but I guess someone deleted them. Even a famous Cricket Commentator that visited Adelaide got a fine. Just do a search.
Not quite correct on crossing the road, true jaywalking is illegal , but you do not have to cross at a pedestrian Xing ,you must be 50 meters from a crossing and walk across at right angles. Love your clips.
Your jaywalking thing isn't entirely correct, though could vary more state to state than I know. First off jaywalking is an American term, 'Jaywalking' isn't a technical legal term, but rather is a more informal reference to pedestrians who cross the road in a manner that is not permitted by Australian regulations. The regulations are as follows: 1. You must only start crossing a road at a pedestrian light if the pedestrian light is green. 2. You are allowed to cross a road at a place where there is no crossing if the place is 20 metres or more from the nearest traffic lights or pedestrian crossing. 3. You must cross a road in the timeliest, safest route possible. 4. You must not cause a hazard or an obstruction to drivers or other pedestrians. So you really don't have walk far the find a crossing. Only 20 metres... most people are caught 'Jaywalking' in australia when starting to cross on a red light
The danger in really getting off the beaten track is not snakes(they will run away from you), it’s actually getting lost. If you are out in Outback without enough water then you can die. But even in the bush areas near major urban areas can be fatal - if you are off major trails and become injured you may not be found.
So when travelling in the Outback (right out in the back of beyond) - always, always let someone know where you are going and when you expect to arrive (even if it is the guy at the service station where you bought your fuel).
If you break down, never never leave your car. The guy at the service station often talks to the next bloke up the road. If you haven’t arrived they will notify the authorities who will search for you, including by air. A vehicle is much easier to see than a person lying unconscious somewhere.
Finally also always carry way more water than you think you will need.
Sound advice 👍
Yes, water is the most important.
Worked in the Kimberly for 4 years as a counsellor. Did home visits to the many remote Aboriginal communities. Most were a round trip of 200 to 400kms. Did mandatory training in 4WD, remote survival etc. Always take 10 litres of water, Satellite phone and short food supply. Always check in and out of each destination. Lived in Fitzroy Crossing. One year an English tourist, broke her leg going on a 'short walk' along the Fitzroy Gorge. Its remote - as in not much traffic. Didnt inform anyone, went missing, no water, (was up on the high escarpment) no food, couldn't move, no phone and was found dead 5 days later. She was only 5kms from camp.
Are you sure about the jay-walking bit? I thought that if there was a designated crossing you must use it; but you can cross anywhere that is more than a certain distance [20m?] from the crossing.
That probably makes more sense
You still have to walk straight across the road
Jaywalking is not really a crime.... I have never got arrested for jaywalking 🤦♀️
Jaywalking is a strictly US thing, not Australian.
yep, pretty sure its 30m in NSW, different states may have different distances though
The Maggie’s are easy to live with if they know you. If we catch a mouse in a trap in the shed we take outside to the Maggie tree. In winter they are waiting in the morning just in case we have a snack for them. We can be very close without any danger.We don’t feed bread, I don’t think the yeast is good for them. Mice, ants, worms or bit of meat. Just not heaps of mince. We have never been swooped on by our breeding pair. I think they sometimes have a family reunion. It is not unusual to see 10 or more just hanging around during the day singing. That warble is the best bird song in the world.
Gonna have to get used to feeding magpies
@@ThatJohnstonLife If you feed them, they will be your best mate. They will fight other magpies that swoop you. They will even warble for you in the morning when you are having your cuppa on the weekend.
Try to make friends with em.
Even if you dont wanna be friends with them and just wanna have a walk, un-swooped. take some dog kibble with you and pay your toll when you spot them. look at them, drop the kibble and you'll be fine, make sure they see what you are doing.
They're smart little buggers, I started taking some treats on my daily walk, they eventually stopped swooping me and started landing in front of me, where's my tribute human.
@@ThatJohnstonLife They will never ever swoop you if you feed them. Just a bit of mince tossed to them in your yard and local park or along the street, and they will swoop other people, but not you. Ignore the masked lapwings (aka spur-winged plovers). They rarely contact, and their spurs are soft and rubbery anyway. They are more likely to pretend to be injured to distract you from their babies, which are hatched and raised on the ground in the most ridiculous spots.
Dam I’m 60 and Australian and have never heard of befriending them 😂😂 that works if they live near you BUT not if you’re out walking or riding. It’s actually hilarious watching someone get swooped 😁 as long as you have a good hiding spot 🤣🤣🤣
Cossie / togs / bathers / swimmers / budgie smugglers: probably the most regionally specific term in Australian slang. These days the distinction has broken down, but how you described your aquatic apparel used to be a pretty good indication of the State you grew up in.
Insider info thanks
@@ThatJohnstonLife they still missed Trunks (S.A.) the most English description there is for them. Plus Boardies (technically not Speedo) but swimming apparel. Not accent but colloquiums (or regional specific terms) is how you know where people are from in Australian!
PlayerClarinet knows their stuff! Stephen M
@@nswinoz3302 I have lived my whole life in South Australia and never heard a single person call them trunks. Only bathers.
@@lilithowl Not going to argue as it maybe WA not SA term as the the ratio of visits to both is 6:2, but the wife has heard the term also.I therefore stand corrected!
@@ThatJohnstonLife In Qld they were always togs.
She’ll be right, sometimes followed with the retort “famous last words”.
There’s also “no worries” and the rougher “no wucking forries” which can be shortened to “no wuckers”.
You would most likely be done for jaywalking if you cross against the pedestrian light or cross within 20 metres of a designated crossing (e.g. zebra crossing). So long as you are further than 20 metres from lights or other designated crossing, you won't be done for jaywalking.
Thanks for the clarification Kevin
@@ThatJohnstonLife Ditto
In Qld the legislation specifies jaywalking as crossing the road within 50m of a designated crossing, or crossing at a controlled crossing when it’s in the don’t walk state.
If you’re a decent distance from a crossing? Go for it. If you’re at the lights? Be a bit silly to jump across when it’s not green.
Pretty much every Jay walking fine issued is people crossing at a traffic light against the signage, I’ve watched cops booking folk doing exactly that at the Eastern end of Queen street mall lol.
@@Mrsquiggley Fair enough if it's red
In Sydney after Australia Day (ie the end of January) when the people head back to work from the Christmas/Summer holidays, you will often see the Police at the York and Margaret Street Intersection which is around a major bus and train hub fining people for crossing against the lights to gets us back into the correct habbits after the low city traffic in the summer holidays.
Good vid again Ross. Really happy to see you and the family embracing what it is we have to offer here mate. If the maggie's know your face, which they can, they won't swoop you. It's a bit like the locals versus the tourists type of behaviour. The problem is getting them to know your face, which kind of depends upon where you live. I live on property in Dairy country and the local maggie's hang out around our place all the time, and bring their young down every year to feed on the lawn etc. and we never have a problem. We don't feed them, or really interact with them in any way, yet we've never been swooped by any of them, and we have absolutely heaps of em. We have however, had visitors turn up and cop a wing beating though, because they're not locals. 😊
I've not been swooped yet, so maybe they no my face too?
There is one maggie local to us who absolutely hates my husband....every single year he gets swooped. Ive NEVER been swooped by a maggie in my entire life (Im 54) even when Im out with my hubby the maggie goes for him not me.......dont know what he did to deserve it, but oh well, she'll be right.
@@ThatJohnstonLife If you feed them it can help. MEAT only. Any leftovers from last nights dinner they will happily consume!
@@ThatJohnstonLife I used to be a postie, and one trick I learnt was I'd put my sunnies on top of my head facing the back. It worked.
Feeding any wildlife is discouraged, it upsets the natural balance of things, usually for the benefit of people at the expense of the wildlife. Getting familiar with magpies helps, but, as a cyclist, I expect to be swooped several times a year, I can't get to know every magpie in the country and since they're everywhere, you can't avoid them unless you stay home for 2 months. What kills more people, especially foreigners, in the water than crocs, box jellies and sharks combined is just getting in the water - people not used to the surf drown due to rip currents dragging them out - always swim between the flags where the life savers are.
Thank you, you are the first person to actually explain why the sun is so much more dangerous in Summer in Australia. Also, the hole in the ozone layer occurred over Antarctica during the Antarctic Spring (I don’t know if it has repaired itself yet). I actually got called out by a policeman on the way to work one morning when I walked against a red light when there was absolutely no traffic on a one way Melbourne CBD laneway, which was very embarrassing accompanied by all the whistle blowing, to have to return and wait surrounded by other pedestrians until the light turned green. Certainly learned my lesson.
You learnt the lesson that there are too many cops with nothing better to do in Melbourne
Excellent video Ross - very entertaining. The additional strength in the Sun is the Earth’s elliptical orbit - we are slightly closer to the Sun during our summers. That said, I was at a BBQ today and the universal whinge was that winter can’t go fast enough…the cold and overcast weather is doing everyone’s head in.🌞😂
Everyone longs for the sun, even if she can be cruel
Nah, you have it completely wrong. The angle of the dangle is the same in the northern hemisphere as in the south (lets not factor in very long-term minor variations). It is the ozone hole that's the problem! Sure most ozone depleting chemicals have been banned and things aren't getting worse. However,,,,, those chemicals that were released haven't gone away and continue to do their thing (like for the next few thousand years). The effect of these chemicals is worse in the southern hemisphere (not just Australia) because , overall, it is colder in the south. This colder hemisphere affect is a result of there being less land in the south to absorb the sunshine and what land there is sitting at the pole where it has turned into a huge block of ice several kilometres thick. Ozone slides away from this cold spot and heads north to the relatively warmer climes Europe and America.
This leaves us southerners frying in the sun. Only thing to do is wear a hat, slap on the sunscreen and sit under a tree (or in the pub) during the middle of the day.
To understand why the Sun is more intense in Australia, all you have to do is look at an atlas. All of Great Britain is north of 50°N, all of Australia (apart from Tasmania) is on the equator side of 40°S. Draw a line through Madrid, southern Italy, Greece and Ankara in Turkey and all of Australia (apart from Tasmania) is on the equator side of that line. Macquarie Island, which is a sub-Antarctic Island managed by the Australian Antarctic Division although technically part of Tasmania, is the same latitude south as Manchester in England is north. Australia is sub-tropical to tropical, Britain is temperate to sub-Arctic. That is why the Sun is stronger in Australia.
Living on Bribie Island, Queensland, originally from England,lived in NZ for ten years before moving here. The sun in NZ is worse even on a cloudy day, advise to stay out the sun is wrong, the sun is a nutrient and you need it, just don’t get burned. Getting out is essential, we did a full lap of Oz before getting a house and job… highlight was swimming with whale sharks at Ningaloo. We live with wildlife all day long , our house backs onto a state forest, never seen a snake in 3 years but have had my ears bitten twice by swooping magpies😅. Lazy language that you start to use and before you no it you’re a full blown flamin’ drongo 😅
Lazy language lol
You are right about the gum trees bursting into fire spontaneously They have a very high concentration of eucalyptus oil (funny thing that, considering they are eucalyptus trees) & in very high temperatures & during bushfires they do burst into flames. The flames travel from one tree to another from the tops, hence the term 'crown fires'. I enjoy your videos. Dennis Moore.
Cheers Dennis. In a weird curious way, I'd like to see it happen
That smoky blue atmosphere around Blue Mountains is what gives them that blue air
@@ThatJohnstonLife There are some species of trees that won't germinate unless there's a fire
Magpies are lovely....and smart! Their lifespan is up to 30 years and they can recognize faces. It's easy to make friends with them. If you give them a bit of food, they will remember you for it and not attack. Just a bit of bread or a piece of beef mince and you are friends for life!
*casually gets some beef mince from pocket next time it looks like a magpie is going to swoop
@@ThatJohnstonLife please don’t feed them mince it’s bad for them and can deform their beaks. Stick to bread.
@@ThatJohnstonLife Don't think it works during swooping season
@@ThatJohnstonLife Doesn't work, you don't see or hear them coming, they'll have two or three goes at you before your hand gets anywhere near your pocket and the damage done by then.
We’ll be relocating to Brisbane at the end of January and your videos have been super helpful. Thanks for the great work!
Sounds like I need to move by end of January :P
Good luck with your move and I'm sure you'll love Brisbane. I moved to Brissy from Melbourne in July 2016 and love it. In Winter Brisbane can cold in the mornings but once the sun is out it can warm up. Usually early to mid August the days can start getting warmer.
The hotest temperature in Australia was at 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) South Australia Oodnadatta on 2 January 1960.
That temperature was equaled when it hit, 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) in Western Australia at Onslow on 13 January 2022, 62 years later.
The only gum trees spontaneously combust is during a bushfire. The heat of the fire vapourises the oil in the leaves of the gum tree and then it spontaneously explodes.
The ozone layer is everywhere around the world BUT, over Antarctica, there is a hole that opens and closes.
Except when in a pedestrian crossing, it's illegal to 'J' walk, it's also illegal to cross a road if you are with 18M of a marked crossing.
That crossing sound was put there for blind people, as were a number of other features.
If you want unending sites that'll blow your mind in the smallest area, go to Tasmania. If you want to see the outback, go to Oodnadatta, and fry.
In the bush, any spider you see in a web, is harmless and all snakes will avoid you because you're too big to eat.
If you come to Australia to find yourself, then you're too late, you're lost forever.
Some places in Australia already reach 50'C.
Some websites need to update their information on spider bites and deaths in Australia since a 22-year-old Australian(Jayden Burleigh), was reportedly treated in hospital for four days after being bitten by a redback spider in 2016.
Just read up about that guy. Poor bloke. It seems they happen so infrequently they don't even bother to update their facts! Even the Australian museum still has it at 1979
@@ThatJohnstonLife The red back is the only spider I kill because of how and where they congregate, and their numbers in which they multiply. I'll remove the funnelweb and silver tail spiders.
The only time I removed Huntsman's was when my youngest two were carpet crawlers themselves and the huntsman's were open to human interaction in that house.
One place I lived, trapdoors lived on one side of the house. Birds would line up along the fence whenever I cut the grass to take them fleeing from the thumping vibrations of the mower.
I was gold mining in Marble Bar in the 1980s we often had summer temperatures up to 50 degrees C ( thermometer only marked to 50)
@@peterclancy3653 The fibro house I grew up in would reach 50'C inside during summer. People would tell me to go inside where it was cooler. Umm, nope. Much hotter inside. 😂
When I first moved to Australia permanently from the UK, I lived in Karratha in the Pilbara (Culture Shock 1.01). I'd done my previous working visa year down in the southern states and met my then boyfriend, a Kiwi who got a job at Woodside. I arrived into a bone dry, oven hot 50o from a UK winter. For the entire week before I left, my house had had no water because the pipes were frozen. It was a learning experience. The tough buggers who live up there give you no sympathy so you learn to stfu and suck it up pretty damn quick.
We had no air-con for the entire summer because the last renters had dismantled the unit and taken it with them and the landlord refused to buy another one.
I can now tolerate hot dry days with relative ease.
It's humidity that knocks me about. I couldn't live from Sydney up.
Mind you, I LOVE Melbourne weather. It must be a reaction to my introduction to Australia 🤣
Great vid as always.. next one I would like to see is one on Aussie sports!
I'll add it to the list
Sorry but you are completely wrong with your statement about Jay walking in Oz. Basically if the prescribed crossing is within 20Metres use it or you can be fined.
What you described is the American Jay Walking law lobbied for by the American Auto industry in the 1920s to make pedestrians at fault in an accident that was adopted across the USA by the 1930’s, never here in Australia.
Crossing a road on or near a crossing for pedestrians comes under rule number 234
(1) A pedestrian must not cross a road, or part of a road, within 20 metres of a crossing on the road, except at the crossing or another crossing. With a caveat of five separate exemptions. There are different versions of this from state to state, but that the context. The rule is an attempt to make people use the facilities provided unlike the USA which is to try an make you drive everywhere. Stephen M
I thought that was just a law that wasn't really enforced. In my 60 years I've j walked a lot
Thanks Stephen, you've cured my jaywalking anxiety
@@vivianhull3317 Well i've seen it enforced both in Sydney and Brisbane (usually in the CBD)
@@daveamies5031 it'll always be in the CBD, I jaywalk all the time when there is no traffic or when I'm in a rush and have even crossed red lights at like 11pm with police at the lights not paying attention
You are only required to use a crossing to cross the street if it is within 20 metres of where you are. If it is further than that, you can cross where you are. Just make sure the traffic is far enough away from you before you step off the kerb.
Enjoyed this one , for sure. Lots of fun content. Hope to see you next week.
Thanks Kathleen. See you then
Jaywalking is actually crossing the road at a diagonal instead of directly across. You are allowed to cross not at a designated crossing, you just need to go directly across.
Have you seen those hectic crossings in Japan where the go across? I thought I had seen some here 🤔
Some crossing here also allow you to cross diagonally.
J walking is when you cross the road when the dont walk sign is red.
@@ThatJohnstonLife In Melbourne CBD (Central Business District) at the junction of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street you will see an all-ways crossing.
Mate, hop across this ditch and try out the New Zealand sun in January. You'll be red raw in 15 minutes. I've never needed sunblock in Aussie - but in kiwiland, you genuinely can't go without it. At 30 degrees it's brutal.
Weirdly tempted
Suburban Aus is pretty safe when it comes the more venomous creatures, but remember things like bats can carry pretty nasty diseases so best not to handle unprepared.
There is one animal no newcomer is ever prepared for; native possums during mating season. They're harmless but what sounds like demons from hell having a screaming competition in the backyard has kept more than one newcomer awake with the lights on.
Magpies are sweethearts if you develop a relationship with them - feed them things like those dog food chunks and they will love you forever. Once it hits breeding season they will never attack you because they have great memories.
If you're gonna visit here, I highly recommend heading out bush, away from the towns and suburbs, and spend a few nights stargazing. The night skies here are breathtaking.
Great vid. Very funny but also factual - we get so tired of that old trope, dangerous wildlife! Hope you're enjoying Brissy (add a Y)
In NSW, 'jaywalking' is when you cross a road within about 20m of a designated crossing. Or... when you cross a road without taking the most direct route/line.
I can easily say this the best channel about Australia
Thanks Anas. Really appreciate the comment
Magpies only seem to have an issue with strangers. I am often weeding the garden to turn around and find a local magpie beside me.
It's hotter here mainly because of the tilt of the Earth during the summer Australia gets more direct sunlight
Eucalyptus trees don’t spontaneously combust. If you’re sitting under a Shady gumtree on a hot day, it’s not going to suddenly explode on you. However, if there’s a really hot bushfire, Gumtrees can explode then. But if you are close enough to actually see one go off, you’re either a firey or in more shit than Winnie the Pooh - or both.
I live in a lovely town called Milton (3 hours Sth of Syd).... it’s very much like Devon/ Cornwall. Rick Stein even opened his first Australian restaurant down here. It’s gorgeous!
As someone who grew up in Cornwall who moved to Australia (Canberra, please don't hate me) I wouldn't mention Rick Stein if you meet someone from Cornwall/Devon, he is (low key) not liked
@@kuhvacako hey Alex, I know what low key means 😂. We always get loads of people from Canberra flocking to Milton/Mollymook on the weekends... I lived in London for 11 years and used to go to Devon/Cornwall as often as possible, just love that area.
Will try to get down there one day Eva
Magpies very rarely swoop in Tasmania. They are an incredibly smart bird and recognise faces. If you’re friendly to them by giving them some meat they will remember you and won’t swoop
“The sun on steroids” 😂😂😂 accurate 😂
There's no sun like an Aussie sun (I'm fully aware it's the same sun)
i've seen people get fined crossing the lanes/little streets in Melbourne's CBD against the red pedestrian light. even if there's no traffic, wait for the green light before crossing if there's a pack of cops standing there.
General rule, don't do naughty things if the police are there
@@ThatJohnstonLife and yet many people will break it regularly 🤣
Lol the magpie family at my house sit on my lap and eat from my hand even during nesting time and a couple of them even come into my workshop to see what’s going on.
Basement Jaxx were the first to sample the crossing sound.
Great video, did have to laugh at the magpies - being away from Australia for a few years now I forgot what we’d be coming back to! Magpies are my worst nightmare - give me a shark any day lol.
Would you rather a magpie swimming in water, or a flying shark?
@@ThatJohnstonLife massive dilemma - might take my chances with a swimming magpie, at least you won’t hear the swooping sound
It is only jaywalking if you cross the road at a signalled intersection when there is a red light for pedestrians (i.e. the signal is showing you are not allowed to cross).
That beard Ross is getting legendary. Proper Aussie.
Cheers bud!!
In Queensland you can cross wherever you want as long as it's not within 20m of a marked crossing.
The Sun thing is also the dry air and being closer to the equator, so rays travel closer to the perpendicular through less, dryer air. In Europe the tangential entry of rays through the hazy air blocks more radiation. Plus the ellipse thing.
So much science in just one comment. Thanks 😊
Nah, read above. Your wrong.
Great video! Love watching them! 😊
Thanks Kelly
Just cross the road Rosco 🙌
Lol 😆
Nice one Rosso.
I live in Perth, and I jaywalk on the daily on the way to school (and so does almost everyone I know). I've done it infront of police before, and they just said to look both ways. It is a law, but it isn't really enforced.
good to know police don't care in WA
Jaywalking is a very misunderstood law. You must walk straight across the road, NOT at an angle. You must take the shortest way to cross. You will only and very rarely be fined in NSW if there is a crossing within 100m. I have never known a single person to get fined. I'm 64.
Mostly the Police only have blitzes on it right in the heart of the CBD of Sydney.
People crossing, tram tracks or light rail without care. The blitzes usually happen after near miss incidents or someone being clipped by a tram etc.
@@SharonSmithAus I understand what jaywalking is, and I do it almost every day.
Rosco You forgot the DUNNIE!
When crossing a road. We were taught at an early age at school. To look right, then left then right again, to make sure it's clear , and no traffic. 2🤔. They not do in Asia, fact.
The sun is harsher because Australia is much closer to the equator (so the sun's rays are more direct) than in Europe and North Armerica - much of Australia is on the same equivalent latitude as the Sahara Desert, which makes you realise why, a) it's so dry here and b) why the sun is so strong! Also, 'jaywalking' is only illegal within 20 metres of a designated crossing - otherwise it's fine to cross a road. You can't impede traffic though (or other pedastrians), but similarly traffic has to give way to you (they just can't mow you down!).
would a 30% raise be sufficient when calculating wage differences from MTL to SYD?
Depends what you want to spend it on
Tasmanian magpie's are friendly... they don't swoop here. I only discovered recently to be wary of them recently when on the "mainland"
Everything is friendly in Tasmania
@@ThatJohnstonLife as long as you don't go to Salamanca on a Saturday night 😆
The Johnston Family, thinking of making the move in less than a year, how much easier would you say it is to ease into a job in Australia as opposed to the UK, I'm a mechanic and want to know if it will be as intense as UK. Love your vids👍😁
For my profession, about the same, however I know they're are major shortages in loads of places who are screaming out for workers at the moment
Where were you considering moving to? The major cities have plenty of mechanics, but if you are good and competent you should be able to build up a clientele. Having said that, You will need to sit for and gain the MTA licence to help you gain the trust of motorists. Your quals from the UK should see you right to get this however. You can advertise on Facebook and instagram and in the local rags. Smaller cities and locals might be easier for you to start, and they will also provide you with cheaper rent or purchase options on homes. So I would look to set yourself up way WAY outside the major cities. These places (see my list of places above in my other comment) will give you a FAR better quality of life than a city can. Trust me on this. knocking off at 4 and getting the boat out to go fishing for a a few hours is much better than crawling home in the dark in bumper to bumper traffic! The wages might be slightly less, but as Ross points out so often, it's all about quality not quantity!
Good luck with your move.
In Milton, where I live in NSW, our area needs some mechanics! It’s beautiful here too!
My mechanic when I lived in Canberra was always looking for staff.
@@evaadams8298 near Mollymock? love that area! Basically Cornwall in Austrlia!
Every Aussie outside of Queensland cringed so hard when you said 'cossie' and 'togs'😂. It's 'bathers' or 'swimmers' most other places. Great and very accurate video though.
With the people getting fined for jaywalking, I don't see it with jaywalking unless there is traffic, it would likely be crossing at a red signal
You got me with the sun, Australians sun is unreal
It's almost like it's a different sun 😆
I don't think jay walking is a thing outside major city centres.
I'm 66 and never heard about it.
Ozone hole is almost closed or closed now.
You only get the fine if you jaywalk within 20meters of a crossing or set of traffic lights (in QLD at least). Outside of that, its perfectly legal.
I believe if you are more than 20m from a crosswalk you can cross anywhere, i've never heard of anyone actually getting done for this
You're right, but then it wouldn't scare off weirdos from wanting to live here
The Earths elliptical orbit is only 3% closer on the short side, so not the cause of the heat. It's the tilt of the Earth that gives us our hot summers.
We say rego at least every year! Its quicker to text.
😆 🤣
You mentioned that people panic unnecessarily about our animals, but you forgot to warn them about the Dropbears!!!!
So tiresome FFS the mention you made.
Great video mate!
If there is a designated crossing, you must use it to cross the road. If the crossing is controlled by lights, you can only cross when the light is green for pedestrians. If you cross when it is red, that is illegal and punishable by a fine - and that is what all the people in the video were being punished for. If there is no designated crossing , you can cross anywhere provided you look left and right. You cannot cross a freeway/tollway at any time because pedestrians are not allowed on freeways and tollways.
The Earth rotates on a tilt. The Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun during summer, and Australia's position on the planet means we get a direct hit.
hey I like that action figure! Where did get it? I want to buy one. That is from the game PUBG right
PUBG pop vinyl figure
Thongs are not a recent naming. I grew up in the Northern Rivers of NSW in the 1950s (yes an old bastard) and they were called thongs then.
Australia is further away in the elipse during Summer. That's also why our Summer is longer. I know people have said it's the other way around and the mistake got repeated.
That Johnston Family, how’s everything going. You know I’ve doing J walking in Sydney back in 1996 when I travel with other art students. We stayed over at Bondi beach,when I crossed the road two police turn up and ask me question that why I’ve crossed the road than walking to the traffic light. I explain myself saying that I’m not from around here and they say where you from I cairns Far North Queensland 🤗(Lol) so came to rescue me from police she said to them that that I didn’t know about J walking so they let of the hook. But anyway love you guys so much please pass my hello to your beautiful wife and daughter as well 👍🌈🌺🦋💖❤️😊😘🙏🏻 God Bless you all. From Edith in cairns Top North
Edith, you're the first person I know to be let off. Congratulations!
"flip flops are and called thongs...hahaha" legend.
I love wearing my thongs
I only got 95% on my Citizenship test as I got the question wrong on Australia's official language - apparently it doesn't have one!
Garbage, thats not why you failed. The official language of Auatralia is ENGLISH.
You can cross the road at any point, it's just that you have to use the crossing if it's close by (20m i believe). You don't have to walk miles if there's no crossing lol. That's BS from America.
It's rarely enforced, but probably depends which state you're in. People in Melbourne cross wherever they like and no one cares. Never seen the police actually stop anyone.
Dear Ross...dear UK people about to suffer terribly this winter...high cost of heating...whilst you must survive the summer heat...at least you have the beaches to cool off...lol
I don't want to think what my energy bill would be in th UK
A lot of tourists underestimate the power of our sun. There's nothing worse than leaving England at like 8c and then arrive in Australia when it's 40c+
Glad to see there you get the scientific basis to confirm what we already knew, as to the intensity of the sun in the southern hemisphere...
I have a friend that got fined for jaywalking in Brisbane city....Roma St from memory, across the road from the cop shop😆
Best place to do it!
What's with jay-driving🚴♀️?
No probs with J walking except when you forget the 11th commandment. "thou shall not get caught"
Insurance won't cover you if you weren't crossing the road at a crossings.. understood.
Finally correct sort of 😂, the hole in the ozone was never over Australia ( that was a myth started by tourists that couldn't take the aussie heat ), it was over Antarctica, and its closed up now lol, and yes correct with we are closer to the sun 👌
bloody tourists
Did you know Australian workers take an average of 1 week leave per year.
Yes I got a ticket written out for jaywalking when on holiday in NSW in a town called Gunnedah, cop wrote out the ticket and asked me a million questions , like how long I was staying for etc, didn't give me the ticket , just told me he would keep it in the car and would throw it away once I left the town later in the week as long as either cop didn't see me associating with the girl I was walking with for the remainder of my holiday in that town , (she was a local drug dealer , stand over girl and the whole town was scared of her, but I had only met her two hours earlier and had no idea at the time) lol they never booked her just yelled out abuse at her , it didn't stop me , we just didn't see those two police again.
jaywalking mostly applies to cities/densely populated areas where field vision is limited and there is a myriad of vehicles and pedestrians about. its not jaw dropping to hear that someone got clipped by a cyclist, for example, hence the fines exist. its only considered jaywalking if the pedestrian is within 20m of a crossing/lights. so to jay walk its usually just out of laziness to walk a few meters further (there is an abundance of crossings) and impatience to wait a minute along wih everyone else. if you're fined for jaywalking its most likely they are doing a crackdown cause too many pedestrians are jaywalking or cause you've just done something stupid and nearly caused an accident.
FYI we do say ambo if an we see an ambulance or something like that
Wrong it's not called Jay Walking in Australia, that's an American Term. It's disobeying a traffic signal. Only get fine if you are within a certain distance from a Traffic Light. If you walk in a straight line, you won't get fined and / or about over 100 metres from a traffic light.
Never in my life have I received a fine for walking anywhere. I've lived in Australia all my 54 years 🤔
@@noelgibson5956 I have seen 1000s of people being either fined or cautioned for disobeying traffic signals. Even if they aren't crossing at the lights but near the lights. I have seen this because I was a professional driver in Adelaide for a little while. This was to stop people from continuing to cross the lights and blocking traffic flow or getting hit. The police stand near the lights and just wait. I welcomed it at some lights as you couldn't cross in time before getting a red light again. I always walk in a straight line to avoid the fines even when no lights are present. I am the same age as you. I think you haven't seen this because you might not be where it is a problem or your area doesn't do it or you are working at the time of it happening.
@@noelgibson5956 I sent you links to look at it as it happens but I guess someone deleted them. Even a famous Cricket Commentator that visited Adelaide got a fine. Just do a search.
Magpies only swoop if they don't recognise you. I never had a problem to date and I am 54 years old.
hardly ever cross at a crossing. never been fined in my 50 years.
I think we do have hotter summers because of the orbit and the ozone layer is thinner.
Magpies do not swoop in Tasmania...
In Tassie you only have to worry about the masked lapwings (plovers)
Like the shot of Redcliffe
good eye
Not quite correct on crossing the road, true jaywalking is illegal , but you do not have to cross at a pedestrian Xing ,you must be 50 meters from a crossing and walk across at right angles. Love your clips.
I do hope to return to Sydney at some point.
52 c temp at my town in summer.
Sweaty
@@ThatJohnstonLife
Deadly Opal gem fields ..even my dingo cross Alsatian is smart enough to hibernate under the air-conditioning.
Take care !
Your jaywalking thing isn't entirely correct, though could vary more state to state than I know. First off jaywalking is an American term, 'Jaywalking' isn't a technical legal term, but rather is a more informal reference to pedestrians who cross the road in a manner that is not permitted by Australian regulations.
The regulations are as follows:
1. You must only start crossing a road at a pedestrian light if the pedestrian light is green.
2. You are allowed to cross a road at a place where there is no crossing if the place is 20 metres or more from the nearest traffic lights or pedestrian crossing.
3. You must cross a road in the timeliest, safest route possible.
4. You must not cause a hazard or an obstruction to drivers or other pedestrians.
So you really don't have walk far the find a crossing. Only 20 metres... most people are caught 'Jaywalking' in australia when starting to cross on a red light
You also missed how many different way there are by state, to describe Speedo’s at least 7! S.A. Is the most English one?
And the sun in Tasmania is a whole other level, only takes mere minutes to burn
It's so hot it's 'Drier than a Pommies' towel'.
Jaywalking is crossing the road diagonally in a dangerous area, not crossing the road generally lol
Mate a great video lol
Cheers Robert
You make me laugh!!! .....cool!
Cheers Keith