10 things that SURPRISED me about Australia
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- I spent a month in Australia back in December, and here are a couple things that I found surprising on my trip.
It was definitely the trip of a lifetime, but as someone who comes from the UIK, there were a couple things that I found interesting and fascinating about the culture in the Down Under.
Let me know if you have visited Australia, did you find these things surprising too?
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Yes… it does get cold in Melbourne and this summer has been quite cool. But sometimes we have multiple days 40+, then drops 20C in a matter of hours.
Black Saturday was the hottest I've ever been, anywhere. It was 45° C, really dry with a strong north wind. I wasn't able to just stay home with the AC on. Every time I was exposed to that wind, it was like walking into an oven.
Had to smile as you said outback, the video showed the Blue Mountains, that is only two hours from Sydney. To get to the outback you would have travel at least a good 12hrs drive non stop to even be within ‘cooee’ of the outback. Pleased you mentioned about the lack of spiders and snakes though. 😂 every tourist seems paranoid about them. They are more afraid of you than the other way around, just let them crawl or slither away.
I'm a West Australian that's done fly-in-fly-out mining. You're not missing much as a tourist not seeing the outback, considering what it costs in travel and time to get to. Unless you're driving yourself as a backpacker with plenty of time. There's nothing in the World like the horizontal waterfalls out of Broome, and Ningaloo Reef is nearly the size of the Great Barrier Reef, but you don't need a boat, it comes right to the waters edge. And Esperance beaches are the best in the World. But all are a journey, and the horizontal waterfalls will you as much as your ticket from London.
@@tsubadaikhan6332 everything is a distance from everywhere else and therefore costs money for fuel within Australia.
Visited Broome, the west coast and Esperance last year, sailed over the Ningaloo Reef, all were amazing.
I hope the person who uploaded the video reads your comment. Australia in general with its diverse geology, flora and fauna is a pretty amazing place.
There's no official line where the outback starts , but in NSW, I'd say that the boundary was 50 or 60 km east of the Darling River
@@doubledee9675 👍or the back o’Bourke would be a good start 😊
@@blacksorrento4719 Yes, you could say that. My informal suggestion puts places like Mungo National Park and the Menindee lakes in the Outback
Mate, Melbourne weather bears no resembulance whatsoever to London, and I can personally confirm that. Grüße aus Australien.
It also gets bloody hot there 🥵
Yeah , but to be fair , it does get cool in winter and can be sort of drizzly for days on end , although despite that , sydney actually gets about double the rainfall melbourne does , but i agree , it can also get bloody warm in summer in melb , having said that , for about the last 10 or so years the weather trend in melbourne has been more along the lines of pleasant temperatures in summer , and far less heat waves than we are used too .
The last good hot summer we had i think was black saturday bush fires , with a bunch of high 30`s and 40+ celcius days all in a row , with the temp in melbourne with a north wind and nudging a balmy 47 Celsius .
Hobart is more like London. There are the odd day in summer u need a puffer but the great thing about our weather is that it changes and u get the cooler days after the hot ones. 😁
@@endless4x4I would love to move to Tasmania one day. The climate would be heaven compared to Brisbane. That's not the only reason I like Tas, of course. 🙂
Gees girl now you have told them all about how fantastic this country is, they will all want to come here (wink). I am so glad you enjoyed your stay here.
Great list! Thank you for visiting and appreciating the good things in Australia! Hope you come back and visit again.
I am a Brit who has been in WA for 50 years. Smartest move I ever made. The way things are going in the UK, there will be a queueto come and join us soon
Today it is 31c in Melbourne. Yesterday it was 21c, the day before that it was 30c, tomorrow it's going to be 37c. Not exactly like London. 😊
You are welcome back whenever you want 😊
The snakes and spiders is so over-hyped. Thank you for being honest about this!
Australia is so big that we have a wide variety of climates, not just one 😊 As for Melbourne's weather, it's notoriously changeable. In summer it can be 35 or even 40 degrees one day, with a 50% temperature drop by mid-evening. You get used to checking the forecast at least twice a day 😅
Supermarkets do sell alcohol but it is a shop next to the supermarket . You can enter it from the supermarket . Aldi sells them inside their supermarket . We do have seperate liquor stores too like Dan Murphies which has a diverse range of alcohol .
No alcohol sold in any SA supermarkets.
@@brycejames8770 I am in Sydney that is why .
@@brycejames8770 So backward down there.
Good clip. Well done. Enjoyed watching.
South west of Melbourne it the Southern antarctic ocean. If the weather comes from that direction it will be cold. To the north west is a 2k klm desert. Weather from that direction will be hot.
North west
A great video. Thankyou so much. Very well balanced. Thankyou for dispelling the myth that snake and spider are rimming the city streets. Iam 68 and have only seen one snake in the wild and that was near Noosa in Queensland.
Thanks for doing this video, and I'm so glad you had a good trip here. Most of us are pretty proud of our land and I'm glad you had such a good time. We're not perfect - no one is - but on the whole Australia's a pretty good place to live. Thank you for coming, thank you for making the video, and I hope you get to come back again. Soon.
I've seen plenty of brown snakes at Byron!
@@michaelrogers2080 More than I can remember over the years. Most commonly they sun themselves in the hot sand on the pathways through the dunes to the beach.
Thank you for your very positive assessment.
Peak summer is February, the hottest month, just so you know. Glad you liked your time.
The Blue Mountains are nowhere near the outback! You need to go out around Bourke to get to the edge of the outback.
The rest of it seemed OK, though, but snakes are not really that common in cities.
As a Melburnian I agree winters are cold.
And summers are hot.
And spring is not so hot, and Autumn is not so cold.
Excellent video. Come back again, consider a longer working holiday, you will have a great time and be most welcome.
3:00 "peak summer" in Melbourne is February.
There's a very good reason Australians are up and about early, and that reason is birds. Pretty much wherever you live here, you will hear birds at first light. Be it magpies, cockatoos, crows, or some variety of parrot. It's common for people to wake to the sound (din) of birds first thing in the morning.
In outer suburbs near bushland in summer snakes do appear in the garden. Redbacks very common under old cars that have been left for parts.
I'm a Queenslander who has lived in Melbourne for decades and December is just the beginning of summer. I may need a thick coat right up to Xmas. It doesn't get really hot until Jan or Feb.
Because Aus is so huge, there is a great difference in climates - Melbourne is like a temperate European climate, Sydney is a bit warmer, Brisbane is sub-tropical and Cairns is hot and humid tropical. The 2032 Summer Olympics are being held in Brisbane in July 2032 which is the middle of our winter but the weather will be like the UK in summer ... probably mid 20s C during the day.
Perth is a mild 40 c
Everything is labelled to show how much is Australian content for several reasons one of which is knowing the quality and another is to support the local industry/farming/etc..
It's also food labelling laws, same with the bit that says 85% Australian or whatever. People demanded it.
I've seen 4 snakes in my back yard (brisbane) in the last couple of weeks
what type of job do you have because for me you're an absolute standout [best refined ,personal presentation i've seen on youtube ,somebody has spent a heap of money on your tuition [elocution lessons] or you're a one off ] with your beautiful sounding speaking voice and lovely articulation [so clear ] plus ,the camera just loves you.
the reason i mention this is sometimes people aren't aware of their gifting because they think everybody can do what they do .
all the best to you.
We encourage outsiders to fear the wildlife, although you have no cause to be afraid in everyday life. It's too make sure you don't get too big for yourself as soon as you hop off the 'plane. One thing you missed: the abundant bird life. It lifts my spirits to hear the call of magpies, to see the colours of the rainbow lorikeet. Hope you had a good holiday. Cheers from Bundalaguah Bruce.
So pleased you found us to be 'civilized'.....
Great video! I'm not in Sydney, so no Sydney funnelwebs to worry about. But the other day I found a spider on the wall in the house as big as my hand stretched as open as it can go. No worries. Here's a secret. All spiders love nets. Even ones that don't make webs will go to a net. I have a thing that I think was meant to be a butterfly net or some such, so I put the lip against the wall below the spider and touched the wall above, and sure enough he scurried into the net. Ran outside and let him go before he could climb out.
As for snakes, feed your local birds and they will tell you when a snake is around. Get 'in' with your local noisy miners, butcherbirds and magpies and they'll gladly try to protect you from baddies.
Sydney gets cold enough in winter that you can spend 10 minutes scraping ice of your car!
Talked with two Scottish people who moved to Coober Pedy. They moved out to Australia and met in the South Australian Police
When are you emigrating?? Melbourne does have some cold days - it also has some 40+ ones each year.. It is much more variable than Sydney, because it is so much further south. (865km by road, about 500 miles) Consider that Sydney to Perth is about London to Tel Aviv and you can start to understand the vastness of this continent and why the climate is so variable top to bottom (which is about the same) and east to west. By the way tomorrows forecast is about 35degrees C.
Currently Melbourne is having 38 - 40 degrees days and hot north winds. March is the best time to go to Mellbourne
We have like 2 or 3 days of that. Most of Feb is fairly mild.
For a couple of days. Now I’m wearing my winter dressing gown and Ugg boots
It has been years since I have seen a snake. I did see a couple of spiders recently but they were garden spiders. So nothing to worry about. Don't forget you can drive all day and not reach your destination. But someone will say it's just up the road aways.
Thank you.
Hope u had a great time here ... 😂 i particularly hope u enjoyed Sydney 😂
Australia is a great place ❤
Summer can often get off to a slow start in Melbourne. January and February are hotter there. Sydney had a hot December this year. On the other hand February in Sydney is very humid, often wet.
Come to the bush where I am. You could see up to 6 snakes or more each day.
If you want to see fantastic beaches head to Esperance Western Australia.
I’m surprised about the lack of spiders. They’re everywhere. Maybe they are less common in tourist accomodation. Snakes are uncommon in towns and cities.
Happier cos they're polite, polite cos they're happier.
The lack of spiders and snakes - me thinks you are getting Australia mixed up with the Amazon. Nice to hear you mention as well that a lot of places are quite civilized. (Only thing you need to tell your friends is that Australia is brilliant. PS: I was born in London but have lived here for 50 years)
Australia is the best country in the world
Have I seen this vodcast before?
Oh well for all those who have not seen all the others. Here it is again, from someone else.
Canberra gets quite a few brown snakes in the warmer months
Peak summer is February not December
I live in a country area of South Australia (not the Outback) and snakes are a problem - you don't go wading through grass without extreme care!
Sydney is metropolitan - no snakes of course except in zoos. And our politicians are loathsome snakes.
The Northern Territory sells alcohol in many grocery stores because booze is the staple part of the diet. However the NT has a public-service mentality (public servants are there to loaf all day and retire on a fat pension, they are NOT there to serve anyone!). I spent about 40 years in the NT.
welcome to australia
December is not peak summer in Melbourne! Regular days in the high thirties in late January and February with overnight lows of 20 plus. Every state has different laws around alcohol sales and consumption, although most are similar.
The.spiders.and..snakes..are..in.canberra
I’ve seen 2 snakes in 78 years!
You didn’t see any spiders, but you probably saw spider webs everywhere you went. The spiders were there, you just didn’t see them. 😊
Melbourne weather is NOTHING LIKE LONDON weather…😂😂😂..when you hang around expat hostels of course you are going to see pommies.
I live in Sydney, 75km from the city centre. And my back garden is infested with koalas
Not infested - rather, heavily populated by koalas
There's utubes warning to never come here (Australia) too !!! I love the cold, warm jackets are heaven, I get frost where I am. Love it, !
OMG the snakes and spiders
Sorry peak summer is not December, Can be cool in December. Try February for peak summer, and March is the best for weather in the southern areas , not too hot and rarely cold
Well, I've lived in Australia for sixty years and I will admit to seeing one snake when I first arrived from London.
worldwide species are dying at a rapid pace not surprising she hasn't seen any
How could you leave?!
Come to Adelaide's northern suburbs...plenty of British migrants. But first, visit Adelaide, the city with the real festival, the Adelaide Festival of Arts. Oh and the Fringe either side of the festival.
We used to have the best F1, but sadly that went to Melbourne. But we do have the best street V8 race. So on your next trip, visit South Australia.
Australia has thousands of miles of beaches, mostly better than those in Sydney. Our drinking laws are not necessarily stricter, just different.
Me and Uncle Ivan or Uncle Mick could take you to some nice tourist attractions. 😂
I think' you toured the fringes of the East coast of Australia and missed the incredible diversity of a nation the size of the continental United States, a nation with 65 - 75,000 years of continuous Indigenous occupation, the longest consistent occupation of any country on the planet.
Three maybe four climates, temperate, mediterranean, sub tropical and tropical.
The beautiful country beyond the Great Deviding Range just to the west of that comparatively narrow stretch of Eastern seaboard you saw, the immense and very diverse outback of South Australia, Far western NSW , Western Queensland and the Northern Territory with its dry heart and monsoonal tropical northern coast.
You also missed out the immense state of Western Australia, larger than the American states of Alaska and Texas combined, the turrqoise water and beaches stretching for ever, some of the best surfing on the planet, the huge forests of massive Karri trees, in the south, pink lakes, swimming with dolphins at Monkey Mia, the giant relatively untouched tropical Kimberlys to the far north west, the huge gold super pit in Kalgoolie eastern West Australia,
The Stoney desert, the Great Sandy Desert, the 400 klm 1100 diurnal sand dune Simpson Desert, the largest stock route in the world, the Canning at 1700 klm's long.
Alice Springs southern Northern territory, Broken Hill, Silver city far western NSW.
What about the great island of Tasmania, our smallest state roughly the size of Scotland?
Beautiful mountains, rugged wilderness, great food and the MOFO festival again roughly the size of Scotland.
If beaches are your thing forget the city beaches of Sydney, Melbourne, maybe the Gold Coast and Sunshine coast of Queensland however quite touristy, not anywhere as bad a Honolulu or Cote D'Azur though, the coastline of much of the state of Victoria, NSW and Western Australia have beaches that stretch as far as the eye can seen, you can drive along them, pick a place, camp, surf, fish with few other people around, not lined up like sardines at Bondi, Coogee, Maroubra or Manly in Sydney.
Nice try, but remember Australia is 32 times larger than the UK with 27 million people vs 67 million and UK will fit into the state of Queensland 7 times, state of Western Australia 10 times and thats only 2 states out of 7 states and 2 territory's.
You have seen a sliver of Australia and missed IMHO the best it has to offer, please feel free to return and checkout the rest, one problem however, so many English go back to the UK and wonder what the hell they're living there for and wish to return.
But as we say in Queensland ....Aaah fine one day, beautiful the next!
D'on't forget you Mac and umbrella on your return to London, or Manchester, Liverpool, ..........etc
Lack of snakes and spiders ? They are there and can see you but they are more scared of you so unless you stumble upon them they will give you a miss
Peak summer is more like feb, December this year was unusually cool for the whole east coast. Cafe culture and no tipping make a huge difference to service jobs. I’ll also echo that colonialism was terrible for Australian First Nations. If the sun is up at 4 am and it’s going to be 40c at midday getting up early works. It’s a shame you didn actually see the outback, I was a tour guide for a decade and I wish more people saw it for real
You must have walked around with your eyes closed. There are spiders everywhere, especially in the cities but few are dangerous. I like to see many spiders around my place - less flies and mosquitoes as long as there are enough spiders.
Quite civilised? Thankyou 😂
Melbourne is very hot in summer
Lol Sydney has shit beaches compared to WA and north QLD
Lamo@ smiley and happyer don't fall for it. That's what they do here to screw you over.
Melbourne is on the same latitude south of the equator as Manchester is North or the equator hence the similarly in weather.
You'd better check your globe again Even Hobart is closer to the equator than Manchester
It wasn't the Australians that treated the aboriginal badly it was the British.
Garbage
That is just not correct. Look at the History of treatment in particular in WA and Queensland in the 20th century post independance
How convenient! When it's good we did it, when it's bad, they did it.
We still are not treating the Aborigines well, so "it was the British" has worn off a long time ago.
Also other aboriginal tribes
The Aboriginals treat themselves badly. I’ve lived in an Indigenous community and it’s scary to say the least.
Maybe if you did a little more research about Australia before you came here many of these things would not have been a surprise to you
Soooo...you didn't really visit Australia. You just went to capital cities....which look like every other capital city in the world. Oh, By the way. London doesn't have beaches!
Australia is more than Sydney. Melbourne and overdeveloped tourist destinations.
Australians have not miss treated the Aboriginals, that was the British and the catholic church. I grew up with Aboriginal children I played with them and went to school with them, and their parents were friends with my parents. Mr K was a elder of the local tribe and Mrs K fed me when I was at their house. Why are we blamed for what foreign people did two hundred years ago because we are of European decent.
It was not long ago it was well into the 70s do you even know our history in Australia??
Australia has states which have different laws on stuff like alcohol laws.
So don't generalise from one state.
The aborigine homage is not widespread .hostels are like unis-very woke culture
Not true and you know it. Acknowledgement of Country is everywhere.
Unfortunately
@@peterbreis5407
As the recent "Voice" referendum indicated a strong majority are opposed to special rights and privilege for Aborigines.
Lefties who like this stuff are not the majority
Blah blah blah blah
@@rajivmurkejee7498 The referendum was not about acknowledgement of country. But I get your hostility. Nice!
Were the indigenous people treated terribly? Probably, but I wouldn't know as I wasn't alive to witness it and have no personal knowledge. There are stories of the "stolen generation" that we have all been told, where indigenous kids were cruely separated from their families. But this was not unique to the indigenous population. In fact, many more non-indigenous people were "stolen" from their families than indigenous. It started with the transportation of political prisoners, debt defaulters, petty offenders and homeless kids in the early years of the Australian colonies. People transported to the other side of the world to act as slave labour, never to see their families back home again. These poor souls greatly outnumbered robbers and murderers, for whom the gallows was the most likely punishment, not transportation. This didn't stop when transportation ended in the mid 19th Century. Even as late as the mid 20th Century, kids were being separated from their families and relocated to Australia, to orphanages and missions, by the thousands. All so that the British might populate the continent in order to lay claim to it and it riches.
There are many millions of Australians today with these barely known stories in their families, and this dark history is not acknowledged. So the theft and mistreatment of mostly young souls was in no way limited to the indigenous people. In spite of this, these people became proudly and uniquely Australian, and both black and white have together built a great nation. A nation built on the most cruel and ruthless of foundations by the British, one with many flaws, but also one built on an unbreakable strength of character, human spirit and the most remarkable of achievements in the face of unimaginable adversity. People who embodied the essence of this incredible land. This is the story of Australia that is hidden and barely whispered. The story of suffering by both black AND white, and the sheer will to survive and thrive at the other end of the Earth. Unless you are born on this land, you would not understand it.
Blah blah blah😂😂😂
@@billmago7991 if you think that people taken from their land and their families to be incarcerated and enslaved is funny, seek help.
@@gregoryjohn4 absolutely they've been treated terribly, you just don't learn it in school. Starting with british invasion and genocide right up to today, they are treated like strangers in their own country.
@hereandthere6001 yes, that is probably true, and I never denied it. My point was that they weren't the only ones. There were also many white people treated terribly, in the hundreds of thousands. Yet these displaced and abused people and their descendants are being tarred with the brush of guilt and shame for no other reason than that they are white. If we are to recognise the injustices done to the indigenous, then we should recognise the injustices also done to others. Otherwise it is just reverse racism and an inaccurate and distorted picture of history. White people are not the problem. The problem is the ruling elite who devised and implemented these terrible, human rights abuses for their own benefit and at the expense of ordinary souls, both black and white.
Not sure what you have been smoking gregoryjohn4 but that is some of the most fanciful load of apologist racist clap trap that I have heard of in a long while.
This person is delusional SYDNEY funnel web just because you don’t see snakes and spiders doesn’t mean they haven’t got out of your way
Oh yeah. Imagine if the Dutch or the Spanish or the French or the Portuguese had colonised Australia. Just look at the mess these countries left behind them.
and let's not forget the british. First concentration camps were british. Learn your history!
@@hereandthere6001 Yeah,? My history shows that it was the Americans in the early 1800's that drove Indians,into areas of starvation. Truth hurts.
@@peregrinemccauley5010 yeah? oh dear hit a nerve? i thought so. Lets not forget the british genocide of our indigenous people! have a look british history steeped in bloodshed. no more rule brittania 😭
@@hereandthere6001 As I've just said, listen, the whole World is steeped in bloodshed and takeovers. It's horrible,
@inemccauley5010 that's right! delete my comment to change the narrative!
As an Aussie I appreciate your feedback, however please don't get to wrapped up in the black armband view of our so called indigenous history.
The facts beligh the self appointed experts and we have a lucrative indigenous sociopolitical industry based around supposition, rumour and fiction.
Great place to visit, but be careful when you travel there ( racial tension, and if you are not caucasian … superiority complex is rampant )
BS!
I'm fed up with your music.
That was good, so well done. Meanwhile, the Blue Mountains are not the outback! One point: The Indigenous people who've been here at least 65,000 years are not "Aboriginals". That word isn't appreciated at all. It's also an ADJECTIVE, and the British applied it generally to any Indigenous people they encountered all over the world. If discussing all such peoples everywhere on the mainland and some of its islands they are at the very least "Aboriginal people", as the adjective needs a noun, though they prefer to be called by their nation's names everywhere. There are also Torres Strait Islanders in the far north of the country, though many live on the mainland in Queensland. They are not biologically Aboriginal people, though many have intermarried, but Melanesian people with their own languages and cultures, more like Papua New Guineans and western Pacific Islanders. Your best bet these days is to call all of our Indigenous people "FIRST PEOPLES", as it's internationally used now and carries no British colonial implications.
Aboriginals do not own Australia. They were the first inhabitants but they too came from somewhere else. The British settled Australia and our indigenous have benefited greatly from British sett.
that's debatable. ask them