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Once apon a time people used to steal people’s gnomes from people’s gardens and would take the gnome on a holiday.. then send postcards from the gnome to the address it was stolen from.. often with a pick of the gnome in the famous destination..
All done in good jest.. usually the gnome is returned after the holiday.. lol..
That’s some old school Aussie culture right there..
We did the same thing. Not a Gnome but a pink cooking pot. It even had its own Facebook page showing her journey 😅😂😅
We did this back in the early eighties but we painted a suntan on the gnome before we put it back
The section about the fence reminded me of the Aussie film ‘Rabbit proof fence’ which is a film based on the experience of 3 young native Australian girls who were taken from their family (they were part of the ‘Stolen generation’) because their fathers were white so they were ‘half casts’, the Australian government at the time thought that the ‘half casts’ could be ‘interpreted’ into white society by being taken away and re-educated. The story follows the girls as they try to get back home by following the rabbit proof fence through the desert. It’s a phenomenal film that I highly, highly recommend watching for anyone who might be interested.
Yes, one of the best, yet most disturbing true stories ever. IAN...watch the movie The Rabbit-Proof Fence!
Yes that is what the movie is about, but that's not the whole story of the stolen generation and earlier stuff...
I LOVED that movie. One of the best Aussie movies ever made, and definitely worth a watch for anyone who hasn't already.
The rabbit proof fence stretches from the bottom of WA to the top of WA where as the Dingo fence went from the bottom left of SA near Yalata through to the NSW and through QLD
Definitely worth a watch.. I have referred to this movie several times on your channel Ian. It explains a lot.
I am Australian born and raised and can honestly say after all the videos you have done you know more about Australia than I ever will.
I’m English, my husband is Australian, as are our grown kids. I’m always telling my husband how he takes Australia for granted (teasing him, as he is a true blue, Holden loving Aussie) as, It is a beautiful place. It’s ferocious, and stunning, and the wildlife is beyond beautiful. I’ve been to so many countries, but Australia is by far the most amazing. I’ve been here for decades, but it still makes my mouth drop with the scenery and beautiful animals.
@@pommiebears For sure. The locals just do not appreciate what we have here. My wife keeps wanting to go to other countries, I tell her you haven't even seen 10% of Australia yet!
G'day mate, There was a funny practice where people that were going overseas on long trips would steal a ghome from a front yard. The gnome would then send letters and photos of it's travel to it's old owners, showing all the wonderful places it had been. Then one day the gnome would just reappear in the front yard.
friend took one skydiving once........bad bad Gnome landed on the hanger roof
That was in Amalie, the movie with Audrey Tatou.
Coober pedey is a cool place, when people buy a permit to dig out their house they often find enough opal to cover their costs. It's very refreshing to go from 40°c outside to 15-20°c underground.
We earnt around $26000 in about 5 mins near cobar on a big opal find.
First day of (loooooong) holidays. I encourage anyone to have a crack but don't let it bite you.
I went and had a look at the tessalated pavement again a few weeks ago while I was at the Port Arthur lavender farm. That part of Tassie is amazeballs, so glad I live here 🥰
It's one of my fav natural places! I love Tassie in general. 😊
No, Amazeballs come from Ashgrove in the North West 😂🤣😅🤣
Hear hear
@@briangill4000 I do drink Ashgrove milk, does that make us even? 😆😆
Hey Ian - fun fact when huge dessert storms roll in from the West and travel East, Canberra gets covered in red dust as does most of the Eastern seaboard. Love this Country - it is so diverse.
canberra? you should go to broken hill! dust storm capital of the universe!
Just like to point out that glow worms and fireflies are two different critters. Glow worms look a little like stationary spiders; kind of stuck to one place with weird appendages hanging down (creepy). Fire flies are insects that fly at certain times of the year and produce their light to attract mates...
Earth had life 3.5 billion years ago, a new study confirms - making a set of Australian fossils the oldest ever found. At 5,531 km, the dingo barrier fence stretches from eastern Queensland all the way to the South Australian coastline. The fence was erected in the late 1800s and early 1900s to protect cropland from rabbits. It was later modified to protect livestock, particularly sheep, from dingoes.
If you are still wanting to check out more of Australia, there is The Daintree Rainforest, Kakadu, The Bungle Bungles, The Pinnacles, Katherine Gorge, The Olgas, Blue Mountains, and too much to mention in Tassie. That's just some of what you haven't covered yet.
The biggest mystery about that huge geoglyph is that Aussies managed stay f'in quiet about it! Seriously, how did any of that team not blab about it in a pub, let alone all of them?
Honestly Ian, you'll never regret moving your family to Australia.
@@michaelarmannsson5559 you obviously have no comprehension what a tyrannical dictatorship is!!🤬
@@michaelarmannsson5559 you saying stupid crap like that is a complete slap in the face to the poor people who have lived under and lost entire families to actual tyrants and dictators. If you think we are as bad off as countries like…
Afghanistan
Cambodia
China
Congo
Libya
STH Sudan
Syria
Uganda
Vietnam
North Korea
Yemen and numerous other countries you need your head looking at. I’m sick of people saying it when they have no clue what it’s actually like!! If you don’t like living here then bugger off and go live somewhere else. 🙄🙄🤦🏼♀️
I'm lucky to have visited many of these places. I had wedding photos taken at Gnomesville, and we had wedding guests bring a signed gnome each to leave at Gnomesville in honour of the day. Unfortunately, the area flooded some years ago and a lot of them were damaged or washed away (although we found our roughened up bride and groom gnomes and reunited them). We often take visitors there and have left many gnomes. The origin is pretty accurate, as more and more gnomes were left by people. Unfortunately, the place is often vandalised and the surrounding land is privately owned with people often trespassing, which is bad for the owners and unsuspecting visitors (getting yelled at) alike. It's worth a visit if you like quirky things and the Ferguson Valley is beautiful.
I've been travelling around the country in my motorhome for six years and the Horizontal Falls is my favourite place (so far!) A bit pricey but worth every cent. Best to see them when the moon is near full or new, which is when the massive tidal surges happen (tour company doesn't even run tours during neap tides as the tidal movements are much smaller). Being on a boat powering against the current surging through the gaps reminded me of standing next to Niagara Falls (on the Canadian side) - you could really feel the power of the water as it plunged over the Falls.
In Australia we have mysterious disappearances of hundreds of garden gnomes, some go on holiday and return, but most are never seen again. That is until now, thanks to this video we can see they have all fled to Gnomesville to create a city for themselves 🤣🤣🇦🇺.
I have been to Paronella Park. It is amazing what he did in the time and he even had hydro electricity. It features in the movie "Sniper". They try to make out it is South American jungle but the "QR" on the side of the train for Queensland Railway kind of gives it away. Still a good movie. All the fountains are gravity fed from the river so they run 24/7 for free.
Rowan, I remember watching that movie and seeing the Kuranda railway tourist train and laughed my head off. Way funny!
I'm with you Rowan, it's probably one of my all time favourite places I have been. The gardens, the hydro, just everything is so beautiful and the work that was originally put into it was quite epic for it's time.
The Marree Man was made by soldiers working at the nuclear test area in South Australia in the late 50s to early 60s. Go the Army Engineers.
Have you got evidence of that?
I used to live near gnomesville, so many international tourists buy gnomes to leave there, they often get washed away during winter but they now have a committee that looks after the area, it is a fun day out though
Marree Man was carved with heavy machinery using GPS around 1998 (when it was first 'discovered'). There was conspiracy of secrecy by many locals as to who did it, but it certainly wasn't tribal aborigines. There is a youtube clip on it, "MobiDOCS: Marree Man." The Egyptian heiroglyphs are also fake. It is even easy to see how sharp the carved lines are in the soft rock. If there was any age to them they would have shown much more weathering.
@Aussiebloke0001 too bad there is lichen growing inside the carvings that can be accurately dated much further back than ww1.
It also contains a glyph found only once in Egypt and that wasn’t discovered until the 90s.
@Aussiebloke0001 So you’re trying to tell me the Egyptians never carved a random dick into some rock on the other side of the world?
Unbelievable.
For more information, check out episode 39 of the "Weird Crap In Australia" podcast. For more on the Gosford Glyphs, episode 56.
@@fugawiaus Lichens grow at an average rate of 1mm a year. There would be variability - type, suitability of location etc. There are 3,000 known species of lichen in Australia, about 1,000 of which are endemic. Rex Gilroy (known for being the Yowie man in past decades) is into talking up weird ideas - it's his business model, and maybe he even believes some of it.
@@daveg2104 not from Rex gilroy, from an Egyptologist and expert in Egyptian hyroglyphics.
On the gnomes, for fun in the 1990's teenagers would take gnomes and 'displace' them. Legend has it that a gnome was taken from a garden by an Aussie backpacker who traveled thru Europe and would send photos and post cards to the address of the stolen gnome saying he was having an awsome time with his mates. The owner of the gnome would recieve photos of him in Amsterdam England Spain, and was returned with a sorry letter for kidnapping him!
I've been to Wave Rock a number of times camping back in the 80's when I was a kid. It's an amazing rock formation which is so out of the way that many people wouldn't have any reason to be going that way. One thing to note is depending on time of the year the flies can be thick, it wasn't uncommon to be wearing a white t-shirt that would be black with flies.
Same here Lord, our family used to camp out there in the early 80's, it was one of our favourite spots.
The most incredible place in Australia. Is Canberra. Where a group of mindless people gather and make a mess of everything. And the amazing thing is there paid to do it.
Lol...good one David
🤣🤣👍🇦🇺
When my dad had to work in Innisfail for a day trip, he would drop us kids off at Paranella park, back then it was free. It was actually the world's first hydroelectric plant, he was a very clever man, but the bricks he used were very porous and had to be whitewashed every year, but after the caretaker who lived there passed away, sadly, the place fell in disrepair and you can't climb around it like we used to. I feel so blessed to have experienced it, which fuelled my love of castles.
I've heard that scrapings from those carved rocks, have proved the hieroglyphs are authentic and there's indigenous stories that match up with the stories in the hieroglyphs. 🤷♀️ There's a tonne of different mysterious sights around Australia, much of which has been hushed up. When I was in high school, I signed up to go on an archaeological dig of a hill called the pyramid, South of Cairns NQ. A woman archaeologist had found ancient pottery near the base, but the whole thing was cancelled, with little to no explanation as to why. Very disappointing! There's also a sight near a place called Mullumbimby in NSW, that they call Australia's stone henge, so you might wanna explore any information you can get on those sights.
Great comment thank you
@@IWrocker You're most welcome, I love watching your videos and have learned quite a lot that I didn't even know about. So many different avenues to explore, enjoy your journey, even though it's just a couch trip for now. 💖🐊🦘
The sad thing about the tessellated pavement in Tasmania is that in the colonial days some of the convicts sent to Australia from England would suicide by leaping off the cliff down onto them. Their lives were a hell on earth due to harsh treatment and conditions.
Do a search on Egyptians in Queensland. There are rune stones and slip ways for ship around Carmilia. The better relics are said to be at Shoal Water Bay that is a Military training ground so no access. It is said they came here for copper, tin and gold.
I've been to Paronella Park (number 13) as a kid. I remember all the waterfalls. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. But I remember a long wooden bridge going over the waterfall that you could walk across. Also it was hit with a cyclone in 2011 Which damaged the park.
Bridge is still there.
lol that narrator butchered every single town name hahaha so funny it cracked me up so much, you thought Canberra was bad, some that you had no idea how bad it was lmao
Honestly how do they mispronounce Brisbane into Briz bain ? Dont they know how to Google ?
The one that is always weird to me is in my school day im 55 now, we were taught that we in Australia were the only content that had no dinosaurs. Well as time goes by the more we learn
Been to the tessellated path in Tassie and the shell beach in West Aus. I also loved the pinnacles in the west too. The country has so much to offer and you will need more than a month to see just a small percentage of it. This was a great video great discovery Ian
as a kid i dreamed of skate boarding wave rock, when i got there it was far rougher than it look's.
my brother used to work a section of the dingo fence, he had to repare it when the wild camels would just push through it!.
I love watching your channel. I'm learning more about my own country and seeing places that I love.
Seeing this video made me think of opalised fossils which from what I have seen have only been discovered in Australia and they can look amazing.
To answer your question about bugs at Coober Pedy, the last time I stayed at an underground Motel there was a massive centipede about a foot long in the bathroom. The only other time I have seen another was the day a slightly smaller one turned up in MY bathroom here in Alice!
There is another fence called the Rabbit Proof Fence that runs North to South in Western Australia. It comprised 3 fences totalling just over 3000Kms which form a barrier to rabbits.
I live 30 minutes away from gnomesville. Awesome to see something local in one of your videos 😊. The South West region has a lot of interesting things to look at. No red rock though 😂
I have been to Wave Rock,it’s really amazing,a short walk down from there is Hippo’s Yawn,another natural rock formation which does look exactly like a Hippo yawning!
That was really interesting. Most of them I knew about but I did learn a few things. Like the horizontal waterfalls, Shell beach and the abandoned Spanish castle!
most rock formations are made from the ancient, prehistoric ocean that covered Australia, unlike Uluru, which was formed under the pressure of an ancient mountain, these rocks you see across much of the country form by the ocean forces, the softer sediments and rocks erode leaving behind the stronger iron clad rocks balancing as if they were put there by a mythical creature. Another great formation is Cathedral rocks, there are many but Tasmania has the best ones.
The isolated land mass is interesting. Lord Howe Island would have once been apart of Australia and New Zealand before they broke apart. Most likely an old lava tube?
You can see the same thing from Mount Warning at Byron Bay. Story has it.. when you look at the bay.. there is a rock island in the middle that was also an ex lava tube.
It also makes sense because Northern NSW looks like NZ>
Ive always found this interesting.
I've only been to Paronella Park (the castle), the Wave Rock, Dingo Fence, and Coober Pedy - looks like I'll have to add a few things onto my bucket list. Most of the items on this list are amazing, but I wouldn't call them 'recently discovered'... most of them have been known for a long long time. Paronella Park is particularly beautiful at night, as they have amazing lights set up throughout the gardens. The Wave Rock is quite impressive in person, but we did the climb up and on the way down I thought I was going to fall off the edge - the trail was a bit dodgy. There's actually a smaller wave rock which is part of Uluru as well. You can visit the Dingo Fence just outside of Coober Pedy, and go through the Breakaways on the way - they are beautiful natural formations of all different colours. Coober Pedy is so unique, I highly recommend visiting if you can.
Paronella Park was awesome!
The boat that you saw in the horizontal waterfalls was a jet boat. And the tidal current is so strong that thing would have been going nearly all out to make it through. Its a great tour experience. Wave rock, been a few times. Magical place and very photogenic. I do have a photo of me pretending to surf it, but i was 2 at the time and rather lacking in clothes.
I've been to Coober Pedy, we stayed there 2 nights while on a trip through the Simpson Desert. It was amazing how much cooler it was underground and I think I remember going on a tour through some of the old mines maybe. It was amazing, definitely worth a look at.
id love to go there must be a fascinating place to visit
I have both ridden the Wave and climbed to the top ( really great views of the surrounding area ) there is also another feature little further around the corner from the wave, it's called Hippos Yawn and you can stand inside and it looks as though you are standing inside a Hippos open mouth. Keep up the good work love the channel
45 to 50 years ago there was a show called nature walkabout. One episode covered wave rock. I was so impressed by the episode that I never forgot the wave. But sadly I have never been there.
Feel really blessed to have visited almost all of these places. Not things you typically see in the Aussie marketing campaigns but each so uniquely beautiful. Shell Beach is crunchy and spikey to walk on - shoes all the way to the water!! It's unbelievable even when you are in the middle of it just how far it stretches in either direction. Really enjoyed this vid!
I don't think you could live long enough to do everything in Australia, so much to see and experience.
Congratulations, you've just seen more of Australia than 80% of Aussies ever will. Cheers 🍻
There was recently a record broken at Broome, WA... they had over 500mm (19.6 inch) of rain in 48 hours.
Done the drive from Alice to Darwin with everything in between 10 years ago.. so good to get out and see this country.
Ironic, Coober Pedy "The hottest, driest place..." was and still may be flood bound by near record rain. The Air Force had to fly in basic food supplies.
The Polynesian (including the Maori) traveled the world before many westerners did. Maori traveled to the Land of Ice, Antarctica way before the white man.
This is amazing, I'm learning about Australia from you and Rob Reacts from the UK, you are both amazing families and people in general. I'm soo incredibly scared of aeroplanes and I'm 51, I'm never going to see any of these places unless I become very rich.
Sorry, he kept annoying me saying Coober Peddy. It's pronounced Coober Peedy. It is also the opal capital of the world
I used to live about 5 kms or 3 miles from the shipwreaks, no toxic chems from them they are now just relics of the past. the biggest contaminator of the water ways was Union Carbide, when it closed all the soil had to be treated for PCBs. i'm glad i don't live in Sydney any more.
Hi Ian, Great Vid I learned a couple of things I didn't know about like the pyramid sticking out of the ocean really cool, The castle you liked 13 is known as Paronella Park it's just south west of Innisfail in Nth Qld I use to work there back in the 1970's it is very popular with tourist and locals it's pretty awesome that he built it by hand amazing place and well worth a visit, Cheers (:
My kids mum was from a small town about 16km away from wave rock. We've been there several times. It's an awesome sight to stand both at the base of it and at the top. At the top you can see almost forever because the landscape is so flat. Is very cool!
Western Australia has so many awesome things. Horizontal Falls, Wave Rock, The Super Pit at Kalgoorlie and the Lake Argile Diamond Mind
Gnomesville was started with a gnome leaning on a shovel watching road workers has they constructed a roundabout following a bus crash gnomesville was damaged by floods several years back but alot of the gnomes that were damaged were fixed or replaced
A group of Uni Students studying History & Ancient Egypt specifically, came out in the 90's admitting to making the Glyph's around 1960. They never thought anyone would find them, let alone think they were real. Shame though, it would be awesome to have a new chapter in Australian & Egyptian culture. One interesting point though, is only Native Australians & Early Dynastic Egypt both had Boomerangs. Could well be nothing more than convergent evolution, but it's interesting to ponder.....
Hi Ian, I heard a theory that the Maree man was created by persons from a close military base. Allegedly using a 4wd, gps tracking and dragging a land clearing device behind them.
Those Aussie hieroglyphs look like either an Art school project or a high school prank
In Coober Pedy it's too hot for creepy crawlies, that is the reason for the underground housing. If your house isn't big enough, you just dig another room.
Recent news of the possibility of cloning a known close Cousin of the Tasmanian Tiger is exciting. The last known one died in the 1920's in Tasmanian Zoo. They were predators of sheep so farmers shot them to protect their livestock.
I'd have to read more about the petroglyphs. Even back in the 1990's at university we were looking at suggestive evidence ancient man 3000 to 15,000 were doing a lot more Atlantic crossings than we thought they were. Ground penetrating radar has also been uncovering massive amounts of ancient sites in South America and SE Asia. I wouldn't 100% rule out Egyptians in Australia, but at the moment I would put it at 99% against, and I'm willing to shift with actual evidence.
There is a wonderful, quite newly discovered huge 9000 year old cliff painting in South America that was preserved covered in soil part of its life.
@ 21:26 That is David who appeared on 2006 big brother!
Gotta say, I've never heard of the Marree man. Looks like he's in channel country, so the cynic in me thinks that if this was truly an ancient drawing, it would have been washed away during the rains 000s of years ago.
I've been to Lord Howe Island, which is 800km ESE of Brisbane. The view of the pyramid island from there is pretty dramatic. Both islands are part of an extinct volcano. Stunning scenery.
Marree Man is not 'ancient'. it was created with bulldozers and GPS.
@@kruleworld Which is why I said I was cynical about it 🙄
Alice Springs artist Bardius Goldberg supposedly told a friend that he created it. We may never know for sure. Definitely not ancient, although 1998 can seem a bit like ancient times in retrospect. Sadly, too many people think it is an ancient indigenous work, but it has nothing to do with them, apart from the inspiration.
Went to Wave Rock, Western Australia in 1973 on the return trip from Perth to Brisbane Queensland when it was younger, it is very impressive. By the way, the nearby town of Hyden, WA had the best Meat Pies in the entire known universe..... My grandmother used to ride those dinosaurs to school.
This video got my attention straight away love your work
Maree man was created with bull dozers and gps
Lots of the media principle of "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story". In this stuff.
Ive been to the devils marbles years ago, its a very spooky place and has an uneasy feeling about it.
You can add this to Australia too. It's totally something you would think what hey how is this Australian related?
It's about how an Aussie Engineer in Victoria designed and built a mini with tracks to be used in the Australian base in Antarctica.
But wait there's more references that is related to this guy and also Australia. There's Volkswagen Australia sent the beetle down to Antarctica and also reference to the world's 1st jet powered truck that was another thing us aussies came up with. There's also some other things Australian mentioned too in this little jem of a video.
I only just came across this guy's channel and this guy has really done his research on all his videos and is well put together. Just blown away with the content he has that not many people know about or in existence. Well worth checking all this out.
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Aussie gnomes are probably Australia's most deadly critter.
I have a book somewhere In my junk all about the strange things involving Australia. The first one, about the Aboriginal carved into the land, was done with tractors and such, according to It. I don't know for sure, but remember reading that. It also talked about pyramids being found, and destroyed, one near Gympie In Queensland. Also found were chariot wheels and other Egyptian artifacts.
Also the Gympie monkey statue some Gympie farmer found it while plowing up his field. Its a bit worn out but it really does look a bit like a monkey
Have you reacted to Lord Howe Island yet? In my opinion it is the most beautiful island in Aus even though other islands have better sandy beaches. I just like the shape of it and the rocks. It was featured in that movie The Shallows but in the movie they said it was a secret place in Mexico.
One of my favourite places to visit.
Lord Howe Island really is beautiful.
My family was from originally from the US and my father was recruited in the 1970's to come over to teacher special education here. After a few years he bought a combi van camper and we spent 6 month travelling all over Australia. We had a blow up Christmas tree and my mother gave my sister and I blow up pressents to use at the beach or in the pool if the parks we stopped at had one. We had no airconditioning and my mother would buy ice and put it in the esky and we would suck on it and rub it all over ourselves. But it was the best time ever and people were so nice to us.
Hieroglyphs 100% real as they been translated since the 80s.
First though was just random but only recently there was 3 symbols only just added to the "Egyptian hieroglyphics dictionary" saying that these 3 symbols weren't recorded in the 80s.
Dinosaur fossils and skeletons are so common in outback Qld, most farmers don’t report them unless they are spectacular. If they report all of them, their land is taken over while the excavation happens, reducing the usability of their land - so they don’t report.
I've been to Wave Rock many times, particularly growing up many years ago. The who;e area has many wonders including Bates Cave and Hippos Yawn which really does look like an open hippopotamus mouth. Ahhh memories.
The photo of The Devils Marbles is obviously after a spot of rare rain. That could have been dead as for 8 months but then, an sudden outburst of rain and life just springs from nowhere in hours.
With the shells from shark bay, they used to mine it and make bricks out of it in the local town. There is an entire old pub in town made out of the shells that is soo awesome!
You’re also not allowed to technically take the shells anymore
Ian ,whenever you come over to Australia ,
You need to experience the isolation of the outback .
15. They found survey pegs at the site of the Marree Man suggesting that a team made the markings using modern GPS and bulldozers.
14. They've been shown to be fake... They're nothing but gibberish.
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The castle is a good spot to go visit. They are heavily involved in the history of it. Well worth a look 👀
Wouldn't be surprised if first gnome was to mark a road to go on.
Very common in Australia to put a novelty somewhere along road to mark for relatives visiting or a party.
Gnomesville is on a intersection
Beaches made of shells or mostly of shells sounds fun and interesting until you walk on them
Yes, I have been to Wave Rock as a kid (I live in Perth) and sadly, I thought it was cool for about 10 minutes and then got bored. It is amazing but there isn't a lot else around. Best seen when doing a wildflower tour in our Spring, so you can have a 20 min visit and then move on ;)
Yeah the Egyptian hieroglyphics are real. Early Egyptian pharoahs came here and learnt from an Aboriginal tribe on the east coast of Australia. The aboriginal tribe has very distinct Egyptian features to this day. Tall, broad shoulders, a range of hair and green eye colours other tribes don't possess. Very attractive people and they had some knowledge in the past that they would pass on to each new pharoah. The hieroglyphics are also an older precursor version of Egyptian hieroglyphics compared to the newer iteration that's more decorative and detailed people famously recognise. I think that's about all that is known about it.
Another unknown and proven fact is Captain Cook sailed up the Molongolo River, put down anchor in Lake Burley Griffin and then discovered Canberra.
It's great how you pulled him up on the pronunciation of Canberra
It was done with a bulldozer. My brother got shipwrecked in Princess Charlotte Bay in Australia. While waiting for parts for his Trawler he did some exploring. He found a Wharfe with holes for a crane & drag marks. behind on the cliff face were Egyptian Hieroglyphs. He took photos & showed them to JCU. They told him to get lost If they investigated them they would have to change Australian History & they weren't going to do that.
I stayed at wave rock for a few days and took lotsof photos. Macro shots up close look like pastel paintings.
Really enjoyed this one, thanks.
Wave rock is good fun, been a few times, but I advise going on a cultural tour as there are some really cool sites around that area and there is nothing better than learning about them while listening to Dreamtime stories!
If you go to Gnomesville, you are supposed to take a gnome to place there. It's often REALLY busy. A few years ago there was a flood, loads of gnomes were lost... but I think people started taking more gnomes after, so it's still pretty big!
Maree Man was made in June 1998, there are Landsat images from late May 1998 which showed it wasn’t there, then was by mid June 1998.
most likely made by Australian Army Engineers with access to differential GPS and construction plant.
yep def a cool video ! a couple of things i didnt know about too as an auusie . cheers mate !
Been to balls pyramid, caught 6 yellow tail kingfish over 15 kg, two wahoo, and had a mako shark swim in our bow wave at 30 odd knots, lord Howe is epic
G'day Ian, in the outback, contract grader drivers will be on one road for up to two weeks, it's very lonely and borring, l believe as do many of us that it was an outback grader driver who made the Marred Man with help of a GPS, at the time it was all people in the outback could talk about, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
100% it's very recent. Same as the hieroglyphs 05:18 "I drew a dick on it" and before that was handout for weed for the bong. From ponderosa park onwards reality is introduced.
Umm, it may or may not have been the Army.
The Royal Australian Engineers were in the area of its creation.
The RAE are known for being somewhat less disciplined than the rest of the Army and have the machines, tools and skills to do such a job overnight.
I won't repeat what inside information I may or may not have been told whilst I was in the Army in a plant troop (heavy earth moving equipment operators), but I will say you should investigate THAT specific possibility.
@@35manning G'day Emily, l served in the Australian Army for 18 years 1 RAR, if the Army was involved it wouldn't still be mistory. As Officers and NCO would know and l couldn't see them keeping a secret for that long or saying ok to the use of resources, but who knows, l am back running our farm in Northwest NSW and have flown our plane many times to Marree,William creek and Oonadatta, and over Marree man at 500 feet, and l can't really workout who made it, thanks for you theory, cheers, Neil.
@@norsehall309 maybe RAE knows how to keep a secret better then RAR...
And my last officer knew f'all about anything. We had to teach him EVERY THING and he was constantly relying on us to stay informed.
I'll never say it was 100% the Army and if the authorities ask me, I can't remember what I heard or from whom.
But don't dismiss the idea because your unit couldn't hold a secret.
@@35manning g'day Emily, l don't think we will ever know who made it, l,m a friend of the brothers that own William Creek and theY run air tours and they would like it to be a mistory for ever, tourist just love it and want to see it, at the moment the outback is flooded and so are we, when it's safe to fly over that area (can't land for fuel at the moment) it will be great to see Lake Ayre with water and the whole areas with flowers and grass, so out of season, by for now, keep safe, Neil.
Way too many that I did not know about. So many to add to my bucket list. Top is The Kimberleys for this very reason. To be able to see the ocean enter canyons like this is on another level.
I live right near that castle in the jungle (paronalla Park) beautiful place the current owners are very friendly and know the history of the family that built it. Unfortunately some of it is dangerous and crumbling down so you are restricted to where you can go. If you ever visit the beautiful place that is far north Queensland paronalla Park is a must see. Night tours are great too you see fireflies and microbats is wonderful.