American Reacts to STRANGEST Places in Australia

[@AshleyJOsborne]

The strangest place in Australia is Canberra. It's a city build in a paddock full of weird power hungry animals that resembles nowhere else in the world.

[@micheledix2616]

Good one🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@julzhunt7790]

Fact 😆😂

[@smurfylee]

Haha this is true 🤣

[@davidfoord3164]

They're not animals! They're strange alien automatons, fighting their endless war between the Liberalcons and the Laborbots.

[@micheledix2616]

@@davidfoord3164 even better David👍

[@tarsha8816]

Umpherston sinkhole is actually in Mt Gambier in South Australia. But it is a beautiful sink hole that you can explore. I used to live about an 90 min away from Mt Gambier growing up (in Victoria) and we would visit the sinkhole each time we visited Ps… just thinking about it a few hours later… I think I remember during one of your recent mail time vlogs you getting a parcel from Mt Gambier which had pictures of the blue lakes and I think there was also information or a postcard on the sinkhole

[@them420bros2]

This is y I came to the comment section to find this comment lol

[@ThatguyPurps]

I was going to say wouldnt trust a thing the video claims as the sink-hole is not in WA at all haha... My family is from Mt Gambier so I know this place quite well.

[@madenabyss6981]

That confused me I'm from WA and never heard of it I knew it wasn't from here

[@brendoncrofts6714]

I grew in Portland I have always known it was in the mount

[@tarsha8816]

Brendon I also grew up in Portland and that was how I knew straight away that it was wrong

[@janelletwiner4289]

Loving your videos. Just FYI, Coober Pedy is pronounced Coober Peedy. Thank you for wanting know about the continent I am proud to call home.

[@janeenharris3074]

I was going to point that out to. Coober Pedi sounds all wrong.

[@BAAKA8]

correct bro

[@MalteseSparrow]

@@janeenharris3074 I flinched everytime it was said, I can't help it!

[@smurfylee]

Came to tell him that too lol 👍🏽

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

@@smurfylee same lol

[@jackedroo]

*****Fun Fact: Pitch Black the Movie was Filmed in Cooper Pedy...the ship they fly out on at the end of the movie is still there.

[@ironside210]

The Holt (US/AUS) Base at Exmouth is a very long wave transmitter, said to be capable of contacting submarines while submerged. More than that? Who knows? Coober Pedy is on the Stuart Hwy (Adelaide to Darwin), and a short bus ride from the popular Ghan Rail, and has an airport, so it gets plenty of tourists, and is not hard to get to, really.

[@frenchys_prospecting]

It’s actually pronounced “cobons pobinsski”

[@Darryl_Frost]

That is exactly what Exmouth is, the big antenna in the video is the VLF (very low frequency) transmitter to communicate with submerged subs, but it is also a communications (HF) station for the Navy. The other VLF transmitter for that was the 44Khz LF transmitter located in Belconnen in the ACT (since closed).

[@jameswilliamtaylor-hu9ex]

It's full name is Harold E. Holt Naval Communications Base. I'm not sure if it's still active.

[@Michael-vl7ti]

The inner shape is the VLF the outer part is infact ELF (Extremely Low Freq) at 3-9Hz , there are three, one in wales, one in maryland and one is aus, that form a triangle through the earth. Yes it still operates, its original purpose was to send the nuke launch codes at 1kBit/sec.

[@stuarthancock571]

If you ever do a road trip between Adelaide and Darwin, Coober Pedy is a standard tourist stopover on the Stuart Hwy

[@xVIPER41x]

Hi ian, love your videos. Just thought something that might be worth looking at is a tourist attraction called The Ettamogah Pub located in New South Wales. There have also been cartoon books made of this pub.

[@FlattardiansSuck]

The original im not sure about, but in Queensland there was a replica of the cartoon pub. Its gone now, some Chinese bought it and changed it apparently

[@xVIPER41x]

@@FlattardiansSuck the one im talking about is near albury close to NSW and Victoria border.

[@micheledix2616]

@@FlattardiansSuck not gone just altered and is still a restaurant at the Aussie World entertainment centre just before the exit to the Sunshine motorway to Mooloolabah/Maroochydore / Buderim

[@FlattardiansSuck]

@@xVIPER41x been ages since been there. Cheers

[@FlattardiansSuck]

@@micheledix2616 yeah, saw it months ago. Was originally in Surfers Paradise. Its a mess now.

[@micksearle6006]

Everyone seems to forget about The Ettamoga Pub Building from the comic strip that was actually built

[@julie-annwhittaker2063]

sadly the one in Queensland has been "renovated" into oblivion.

[@PaulMurrayCanberra]

"Coober Pedy is very isolated, and getting here is no easy task". I drove there. Stayed in the underground hotel. Pretty cool. Did the tour, picked over a tailings pile for opal. Back when I was there, there were some props from when they made "Pitch Black". There was a plywood shuttlecraft in one of the carparks.

[@skyemiddletonx9006]

He has owned many many other movie props, they were jsut the more obvious and easy to notice.

[@Lupi33z]

it's easy to get there, its just off the main highway

[@mikldude9376]

I remember travelling through “ Coober peedy “ 😁 as younger bloke in the early 80s while on a working holiday , driving from Melbourne via Mildura during the grape picking season, heading across to Perth and beyond and passing through the peedy on the way . Some things that stuck out in my mind even to this day was the terrain heading towards the town , it appeared to be like a moonscape dotted with piles of whiteish looking piles of rubble and no trees , another thing that was an eye opener was means of advertising the town’s business , every so often the would be an old car bonnet or old car panel propped up with some sign writing on it . When I was there as already mentioned a lot of the town was underground, but there where still some shops and services above ground just like normal . The other thing I remember is it was bloody hot . I would have loved to have bought some opels , but I was virtually on a back packers budget.

[@21_f_aus]

Being a South Aussie I haven't been to Coober Pedy, I would like to one day though...

[@mikeparkes7922]

@@21_f_aus It's worth it!

[@skyemiddletonx9006]

Oh yeah! Coober Pedy! My old hometown. Oh goodness I miss my old dugouts, but don't so much miss living in Coober Pedy. Is a Lovely place, great to see in the review mirror after a good visit. Also don't forget the opalised fossils found in C.P. And close areas.

[@jennybowd2962]

Umpherston sink-hole is right in town with a well lit timber mill right behind it so I can't see how you would do too much star gazing nice to visit just on dusk as there is lots of possums Mt Gambier is also home to The Blue Lake, Valley Lake, Cave gardens and town hall, kilbsy sink-hole, little blue lake, Mount shank,

[@bonnielee78]

I live in Mt Gambier and would love Ian to do a video checking out the beautiful wonders of this area.

[@jennybowd2962]

@@bonnielee78 I was born and raised in the Mount until about 6 year ago when I moved to gippsland

[@tabby_cat]

4:02 When I was little we stopped in the city of Kalgoorlie sometimes, either for shopping (cause of living in an even more remote area), or on our way to Perth. So I saw the Super Pit a couple of times. There was a sign at the top counting down the time until the next blast of explosives. It was also funny seeing the huge dump trucks the size of houses looking like little ants trundling up and down the sides of the mine. I've also been to Shell Beach. Best to have some kind of footwear there, cause the shells are sharp. :D

[@arjovenzia]

Dang, you know your in the sticks when Kalgoorlie is 'on your way' to anywhere. the scale of those haulpaks are redonkulous. rather impressive what humans will do for a bit of shiny...

[@neverrip7132]

I subscribed a few weeks ago and have watched so so many of your Australia videos. I'm Australian. Thanks for reminding me just out awesome Australia is. Ps, I've visited most of the places in this video :)

[@grahamejohn6847]

My aunt and uncle owned a mine in Coober Pedy when I was young and used to go there every holidays (they lived in Taree NSW) I went a dozen times and I and my cousins used to have a ball exploring and digging for opals . I realize now we were just free labor lol. But it was fun at the time

[@TitanSummers]

You should check out Lake Eyre as well. Only fills up every 4 to 10 years I Think. But the sea birds seem to know and flock there on mass to nest. Largest inland Salt lake.

[@dennisbryson9742]

I went to cooper pedy and stayed at the under ground hotel, but the coolest thing was all the cars from Mad Max Thunderdome coming to town to fill up on petrol every morning.. awesome.

[@mikeparkes7922]

It's actually Coober Pedy. Cheers.

[@brianross4057]

Back in the mid seventies a friend and our girlfriends traveled from Adelaide to Darwin and north of Coober pedy we came across two blond haired very white young Austrian ladies hitch hicking in the middle of nowhere they were given a lift by someone from Coober Pedy and dropped off at the cross roads, we gave them a lift to the next very small settlement where there was a few backpackers camped and the camp sold alcohol and put on a feed, for anyone to buy if they were hungary and it turned into a multi cultural party in the middle of nowhere, we went on our way the next morning leaving the two young ladies with the other backpackers who were from all parts of the world, very adventuress people and a memory for the rest of our lives.

[@FionaEm]

Just FYI, it's pronounced Coober 'Peedy' with a long ee, not a short e 🙂

[@MattThomson]

Fun fact, Coober Pedy (Koo Ber Pee Dee) is a translation from the indigenous Kupa Piti, which means "White man down a hole"

[@LeeLeeHere]

I used to drive up down Darwin to Alice all the time. I stopped doing the drive at night… I couldn’t take the weird lights at night. Once there were 3 lights sitting on top of each other following the car… or you would see lights in the distance and think it was an incoming car and then no cars would pass. Way way to weird.

[@1S1KStealth]

Yep those dang Min Min lights. Spooky as all hell when they just disappear

[@karenstrong8887]

When we lived in the SA desert we weren’t that far from Coober Pedy. We were only 20 minutes from Andamooka, another Opal town. They only had a couple of underground homes that I knew about. When our children visited they thought it was fun to pick up opals on the ground, little one’s. Many people built their mines straight down into the ground and just kept adding ladders. There was no way I was going into those little holes and climbing down those not safe ladders but my husband did. I was glad he came back. I loved the characters that lived there and where else in the Desert could I buy lobster caught that morning and flown in or fresh fruit and vegetables each Thursday. The salt lakes were never ending nearby, they were dry most of the time and just sparkled into the distance.the landscape didn’t look real. I think Andamooka should be on that list and I loved that place.

[@Darryl_Frost]

Harrold Holt, or "North West Cape" is a Navy Low Frequency communications station, used to communicating with subs, and also a HF radio communications station. (ex Navy Comm's tech).

[@julzhunt7790]

We have a lot of awesome things to see here in WA. It’s just spread out a bit 😁👍🏼The Super Pit in Kalgoorlie is huge. Proud to see a lot of these things are in WA.❤️🇦🇺

[@simonscott1121]

I actually went to Wittenoom in the late 80s. At that time there was still a handful of people living there, and the bar was open. They arent joking when they say that they put asbestos in *everything*. The kerbs of the road were so old they were crumbling, and when I kicked one asbestos dust flew everywhere. Also went swimming in the nearby gorge (of sorts), where you could dive down and pick up handfuls of asbestos tailings from the bottom.

[@zeropoint546]

Jesus bro, think I'll give that place a miss.

[@Underratedcuttlefish]

I remember seeing an article in the paper as a kid with an old photo of kids using asbestos bags in a sack race at a town picnic day. It then went through and told the age of each persons when they died due to asbestos related cancer. I don't think any of the kids in the picture made it to 40.

[@v8holdenute]

there is a doco on that place on youtube only 1 guy still lives there

[@Gazza300]

@@v8holdenute Yeah he chased us out when we started taking photos of the church and the remaining houses.

[@musicalaviator]

The Wittenoom asbestos mine was operated by Gina Rinehart's dad

[@danpreusker7272]

Just so you know the umpherston sink-hole is not located in Western Australia, it is located in a city called Mt Gambier in south australia

[@runawaylady1833]

Ok, at the risk of sounding crazy..., I was absolutely blown away by the geometric patterns at that naval base!! It has absolutely cemented my views on Exmouth since I spent time there. There is something going on there. Something secret and mind blowing. It is a stunning place for sure, but I saw and experienced some eerie stuff while i was there.

[@arjovenzia]

Yeah, its a Very Low Frequency radio communications base, built for communicating mainly with submarines whilst underwater. the ability for radio waves to penetrate different materials depends on the length of the wave, and water is very very hard to get through. mobile phone waves are about 10cm, but dont go through solid things very well, FM radio is about 1m, and has pretty good penetration. Old CB radios are about 10m, and waves longer than that can actually reflect of the ionosphere and bounce around the entire planet in the right conditions. but still do not penetrate water well. keep in mind that the wavelength is a physical property, and an antenna must be made to physically match the wave (although there are many tricks to shrink the size, its still based on a physical size). so a mobile phone antenna is smaller than a boombox antenna which is smaller than a CB radio antenna. in order to penetrate underwater (say, to your nuclear submarine, who you would like to keep hidden), you have to go to crazy long wavelengths. 10s of Kilometres. and so you need great big whopper antennas in order to transmit. huge stations such as that. the geometric shape is pure engineering, they just need to hang SO much wire in the air. Its also not very efficient, so the output power is massive, at one stage the most powerful transmitter in the southern hemisphere. the up side of all this, is that it can be received practically anywhere on the planet. not much data, I think 300bps, but enough. During the Cold War, its main job was to transmit "Hey, America here, we're fine, dont nuke the Russians". if that wasn't received, whelp. WW3 was here and the sneaky Nuke subs would start lacing up their gloves. So yes, quite secret and a peak of a technology. Its one of the few (US) VLF bases outside of the US. important in keeping WW3 as a vague MAD threat, and not an actual nuclear holocaust. PS, have a great story about this site. the US staff were rostered on 6 month tours, but the local Aussies were... locals. lived n worked there. this one guy had a pet Thorny Devil lizard, who'd sit on his shoulder or cling to his shirt, usually down the pub after a shift. if you dont know them, have a quick google, cool, crazylookin little lizards. anyway, close to the end of the US swing, he'd let drop that his little girl was about to lay Eggs. exporting Aussie wildlife is pretty illegal, but this guy would, for the almighty United States Dollar, sell a few eggs, to be hatched stateside. he gave detailed instructions on how to transport, incubate and hatch these little critters, He was the lizard Guy, knew his stuff, right? what he was selling however, were Double Gee's, the Evil Seed of a horrible plant. also known as a Caltrop, they have 3x 1cm long spikes, and like a caltrop, one is always pointing up. will punch through shoe soles and tyres. very stabby. stand on one barefoot, its not just a prickle. its a bleeder. this wiseguy was selling an evil plant seed as lizard eggs for $100s of USD in the 70's. and ran the scam for years, every 6 months. the locals knew it, but it was just to damn good of a joke to sell him out.

[@runawaylady1833]

@@arjovenzia Thank you.

[@Itachun]

I live in Coober Pedy. Moved here from QLD. It was a very long drive. Adelaide itself is a 9 hour drive from here. The heat is challenge. Living underground helps alot. It is very isolated though. Recently rain cut us off from everything and they needed to 'fly' supplies in.

[@mikldude9376]

I was wondering how you peeps where getting on living underground with all the wet weather , How does that all work ? Do you all get flooded out ? or are you on a higher elevation ?

[@reefsurfing3273]

G,day Ian another great video 👏 Hey can you please do a video on what Australians call and Americans call trucks, trailer's, caravans, tractors, semi trailers etc as they are way different in both countries and find quite funny 👍🇦🇺

[@rareaussie6960]

There is one place that hardly ever gets mentioned people just don’t know about is hanging rock they say people have gone it to the rock and never been seen again 🇦🇺👍🇦🇺

[@pameladietz1548]

I wondered when this would come up

[@jamiechippett1566]

Would be cool to see Ian do an episode on this topic.good one!👍

[@user_angelmum]

Isn't that a movie based on a book ?

[@jamiechippett1566]

@@user_angelmum yes and the place is real.book and movie based on so called myth.conjecture wether real events happened.mayby a nephelim gateway.who knows!

[@rainbow95175]

@@user_angelmum It's a real place, but the story in the book is complete fiction.

[@samdekker90]

I used to work near Wittenoom when I first moved to Aus, doing construction on a new rail line for Solomon mine. I'd never heard of it before our bus from Newman drove through it and we saw the signs on the road that said something like "keep windows up and aircon off," "airborne blue asbestos can cause disease." I think only a couple of people live there now, but in a self-sufficient way as the town was pretty much wiped off the map by the government. These days it's nothing more than a small grid of streets and a few run down business buildings and houses. Crazy story though.

[@Ausecko1]

pretty sure the last people were removed a few years ago, the town itself has had all mention of it removed from modern maps so that curious people don't try to visit. I went in the late 90s and the only buildings left were the tourist shack and the house its managers lived in.

[@samdekker90]

@@Ausecko1 I saw a KZbin video where a man lives there to run a weather station for BOM. And general rumours of "only a couple of people left." But they're just rumours. Yeah, just that shack but a few houses still stand from what I remember.

[@Teagirl009]

I'd never heard of this place before. Nor of blue asbestos. Wow!

[@thatfelladownunder9396]

Midnight Oil sang about it. Check out Blue Sky Mine.

[@arjovenzia]

@Aussie Pom Processed Asbestos or natural asbestos arnt really a worry, its pretty stable. its when its broken up into fibres that it can really mess you up (20 years later). so demolition (of old buildings, it has some excellent properties), mining and manufacture is pretty bad. But I think Wittenoom really took it next level. It was their thing. Your example of the footy oval being made of tailings. yeah, would have been a pretty great material for that. I think their regional show competition was pretty interesting. instead of sheepdog trials or logchop, they competed in filling, carrying n stacking raw asbestos sacks. a fair competition of strength, speed and accuracy. and clouds of asbestos for everyone! strange how the town died out.

[@dougmcewan1825]

Not too far out from Coober Pedy is the Painted Desert and is worth a look.

[@PBMS123]

Queensland is pronounced like two words QUEENS-LAND (not queensLund/queensL'nd) Think Like Disneyland, QueensLAND

[@JB-vd8bi]

Yup you've got to get louder/more emphasis on the land bit lol

[@nathanspeed9683]

The sinkholes shown at #14 the photos used are the sinkholes in Mount Gambier, in South Australia’s south east, not Western Australia.

[@joannemurdock7899]

Yes the first one ! The sunken green! I saw on television! 🥰

[@toddavis8151]

Coober Pedy is actually just off the Stuart Highway which run through the centre from Adelaide to Darwin.

[@johnderatt3168]

Yes Coober Pedy isn't hard to get to. Andamooka would be a more remote access opal field. Never been to Lightning ridge, but I believe it is also remote.

[@bok1080]

Wave rock is not all that 'unique' in Western Australia, I have visited a few (and have a lot more on the list to visit yet), Wave Rock is the best known, but there are quite a few more dotted across the WA Wheat-belt areas, some 'known' to the outside world and many not. Also the 'pink lake' item actually showed 3 different 'pink lakes' from WA, the first at 8:58 was of Pink Lake near the Esperance townsite (600km [370mi] ESE of Perth WA), then at 9:01 Lake Hillier, which is on Middle Island about 120km [75mi] East of Esperance, and at 9:39 of Hutt Lagoon near Gregory, ~960km [600mi] North West of Esperance

[@reneesavin2033]

Coober pedy is one of my favourite holiday destinations. So unique. Stayed there 5 times so far 😉

[@noelrossbridge2514]

#12 is a U.S military submarine communications antenna array. The U.S military has several installations here vital to U.S security, like early launch warning facility, satellite communications for military and NASA...... When the U.S talks about their closest allie, they never mention Australia because we're THE most important one. P.S We've also got all the stuff that used to be at area 51 because outback Australia is just massive and if you make one mistake out there, you're gone, literally.

[@pameladietz1548]

Umpherston Sinkhole is in my hometown. Not Western Australia but South Australia. Mount Gambier has some beautiful natural features

[@ant4812]

There are a couple of weird places in North Queensland. White Mountains national park, where the Flinders highway passes through it, is a creepy place. I wouldn't want to try camping overnight there. It's supposedly inhabited by the "Yowie", which is somewhat like an Australian version of your "Sasquatch". I've heard some crazy stories from some truckies who laid up there overnight - like being woken up in the middle of the night by something big rocking the cab of the truck. The local Aboriginals also say it's an evil place. Only ever been there during the day. I got the feeling I was being watched. Very creepy place. I'm glad you mentioned Black Mountain, I've been there too and yeah, it looks like a big pile of basalt boulders stacked up by a giant. When the wind blows it moans & howls through the rocks. At some point in the past people have attempted to cross though it from one side to the other and were never seen again. The feel of the place reminded me of White Mountains, I actually couldn't wait to get out of there. Definitely worth a look though, a geological puzzle.

[@tamaravanhees1749]

1. Sinks in Mount Gambier (South Australia) as well, been there tonnes of times. Also in Mount Gambier is the Blue Lake. 2. Cooper Pedy is Pronounced COOPER PEE-DEE 3. There is pink lakes all over South Australia due to high salt levels. Port Augusta & Lake Alexandrina are also pink.

[@JaneDoe-se8ku]

Us Aussies love nothing better then a good road trip. The drive from Northern Victoria to Alice Springs was one of my favourites. Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock, the Olga's & Kings Canyon were all must see areas on the way.

[@chrismoore8813]

Absolutely love the content you make mate, lots of respect from an indigenous Australian down under, will be a fan always....it's pronounced like coup-er pea-dee keep the awesome work

[@pineapplesideways3820]

There a wave rock in south Australia

[@leandabee]

Wow, I never knew about the sink hole one. How stunning!!😲. I think it's in Victoria, a mountain called Mt Disappointment, because once you got to the top, the view was disappointing 😅😅.

[@mikeparkes7922]

Umpherston sinkhole is actually in Mt Gambier, South Australia.

[@markpaterson6024]

Yep not too far from me actually 👍🏼 I love the humour of our road names, not far from me we have “Wait-a-While Road” it’s twisty dirt road that runs along a ridge line surrounded by trees, which you often find across the road after heavy winds.

[@johnyoung1128]

It was called Mt Disappointment by explorers who climbed it expecting views of Port Phillip Bay but the view was blocked by trees. The sink hole is close to Victoria but is in Mt Gambier South Australia.

[@KweenBee37]

Hi Ian, check out Hanging Rock in Victoria. Eerie place with a supernatural reputation because of a novel called Picnic at Hanging Rock, written by author Joan Lindsay. One of my favourite places.

[@borismcfinnigan3430]

We have some very very strange spots here mate. I remember vaguely in 1998 we were actually towing our racecar up to the first race at Hidden Valley in Darwin from Brisbane, somewhere near where you leave the Barkly highway and run on the Stuart Highway there is service station/roadhouse and at the roadhouse there is a wall that must be 10 metres long and 9 feet high, that is absolutely covered in A4 sheets of paper with images of missing persons from that area, i remember my Dad was asking one of the roadhouse staff about the sheer number of missing people and i remember her saying that not far from there just a few months before or similar, that some guy had left his house on a quad bike to collect mail or something from the front fence line, told his wife he would be back shortly and he was never seen again, he literally wasnt even leaving his property and he disappeared forever..... There is a 50 or 100km long stretch on a highway called the Flinders Highway in the north west of my home state (Queensland) where something like 20 people have vanished without a trace since the late 70s...The whole middle of this country gives me the creeps and i dont scare easily.

[@KweenBee37]

Here are some more weird places: Kata Tjuta was also known as Mt Olga. The Bungle Bungles. The Pinnacles. Port Arthur. Devils Marbles. Wolfe Creek crater. The Horizontal Waterfalls. Squeaky Beach.

[@kovacevd]

There is one German guy living in that asbestos town. He checks the temperature and wind everyday and reports it to the BOM

[@laurenmillard7764]

Lake McKenzie is a beautiful lake. We holiday there every year and in 3 weeks time, I’ll be there. If you ever make it to Australia, I highly recommend Fraser Island. It’s now called by its aboriginal name K’gari pronounced "gurri”

[@danielkelly8870]

Cooper Pedy hahahaha never heard it said like that before!! Because you're awesome and so bloody good at pronouncing words how we actually say them, it's Cooper Pee-dee 😉 Cheers for the awesome Video 🍻

[@mikeparkes7922]

It's actually Coober Pedy...

[@danielkelly8870]

@@mikeparkes7922 Bah! hahaha you are absolutely correct! I read your comment and thought you were trying to correct the pronunciation of Pedy, but then I read my comment and realized I had replaced the b in Coober with a p... TWICE hahaha, cheers Mike 🍻

[@mikeparkes7922]

@@danielkelly8870 No problems, mate. Cheers.

[@mikeparkes7922]

@@danielkelly8870 (I used to say it wrong as "Cooper Pedy" for almost 20 years, despite the fact that I had actually gone there!).

[@helmuthschultes9243]

Coober Pedy is right on the Sturt Highway, so traveling from Adelaide to Darwin via Alice Springs you are going past Coober Pedy. Almost all travellers, except transport trucks, all make an overnight stop there. Some trickers also stop. It is also one of few fuel stops, which are typically every 400km.

[@stephenbrown5921]

Umpherson sink-hole is in Mt Gambier, south Australia, not Western Australia. Cooober peeedy is a stones throw off the main north south hiway linking Adelaide Alice Springs and Darwin. It's main industry is really tourism nowadays. There are actually a number of pink lakes in Australia, from near Horsham Victoria thru south Australia to Western Australia

[@bonnielee78]

Thanks Stephen :) I came to the comment section today for two reasons. 1. the pronunciation of Coober Pedy (Cooober Peeedy); and 2. fix mistake about Umpherston sink-hole (as a person who lives in Mt Gambier). IWrocker, I would love you to do a video looking into the amazing wonders of Mount Gambier :)

[@julie-annwhittaker2063]

K'gari or Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world. It is about 123km long and only 22km at its widest point. But it has over 100 lakes. Lake Mackenzie is the most famous but there are others just as beautiful. Its neighbouring islands Stradbroke and Moreton are the second and third largest sand islands in the world, respectively. All are breathtakingly beautiful sanctuaries of peace and natural treasures. I think it is actually impossible to take a bad photo on any of these islands. I am so grateful to call this part of the world home, just a short ferry ride to such wonders.

[@republicofcasuals]

I was waiting for them to mention the Black Mountain (Kalkajaka) National Park or also known as (The Place of the Spear) or (The Mountain of Death). It's a area covered in black rocks that Aboriginal people believed evil spirits dwelt in the abysses between the rocks and fear the area!

[@katherineschmidt2075]

I'm an Aussie and this was a great accurate video.

[@SueNicholls-95]

Coober Pedy is a great place to visit. They have underground back packers, a really nice hotel, underground buildings, including a church. It's like a moonscape driving into Coober Pedy. Most people visit when they're driving from Darwin/Alice Springs to Adelaide along the Stuart Highway, a great drive ❤

[@artistjoh]

Pronunciation of Coober Pedy You say Pedy as if it rhymes with heady. In fact it has a pee sound so it rhymes with seedy or greedy.

[@MamaRed86]

Ha! First place is my home town, people also occasionally have weddings in the sink hole and though I haven't been there for awhile there was a family of possums that were pretty friendly with people living in there as well as a massive wild bee hive under a section of the top edge. Its also not the only sink hole in the town, there's one pretty much behind the city hall that's surrounded by a garden, its nowhere near as big though.

[@briangill4000]

Those wanjina rock art look like the ones near Gibb River. He didn't Mention the Bradshaw paintings which are unique and along side. Wanjinas are found in quite a few other places.

[@gemmamcgregor4096]

I live in the goldfeilds where the superpit is . I lived in Kalgoorlie for 4 years before moving 50 kms away . The blasting of the superpit took a little getting used to . We have both earthquakes and blasts so sometimes it was seriously like " was that a blast or an earthquake " .

[@blakeedmonds9887]

This was realeased at 3:00pm today how good

[@tiaelina1090]

There is a similar garden in Mt Gambier, it is an extinct volcano, it is stunningly beautiful.

[@AndrewJens]

There are three series of the show _Bush Tucker Man._ Not sure how you could get your hands on them, but I know that you would love every single minute of them.

[@sbiggs10]

the umpherston sinkhole is in south Australia not Wa as mentioned also coober pedy is pronunciation as koo·buh.pee·dee kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6StZp2gaq-ZZtk

[@marthacoomber3188]

Whycliff Well is just a road house Ian. Uluru has a wave type rock also. There are a few. That one is just the biggest. Many aliens visit the desert. Dehydration shrinks your brain and that can really &7+) you right up. People have just parked their car and walked off into the sand dunes never to be seen again. Aboriginal art is always misinterpreted. It holds knowledge which is power in any culture. No one gives their power away. There is a painting near me interpreted as an alien by some. I know the grandson of the artist, and it actually represents something quite mundane but instructive. You could do a phd on Australian culture!😎👍❤️

[@bradcarby3765]

An Aussie would never make a video about this shit because we simply don't care. Today I saw a fox chasing a rabbit (I think I fucked up his meal time by scaring the rabbit), I avoided a snake on the highway. Its the way it is, its not medieval to us, its just today.

[@dougcox3990]

Do not stay at Wycliffe Well. It's a crappy fuel stop with a run down motel attached. Stayed there a year ago. TV didn't work, shower didn't work, air-con didn't work.

[@darneyoung537]

Daylesford Victoria , their is an extinct Volcano , and to get to the picnic area you drive down into the centre . But you don’t realise until you look up , then you can tell your inside a volcano

[@joannemurdock7899]

The third one looks fascinating Ian!

[@markwick11]

yo dude, have a look at the marree man it's australia's only geoglyph but not many of us know about it. it's fucking MASSIVE btw. the Australian Aboriginals sure have some secrets. the Super pit is also the biggest gold mine in the world. the town sometimes has earthquakes but its just from the mind and them blowing a new layer into it. dont forget about all the piss in the lake :P also fun fact about aboriginal paintings they are all painted from a top down pov. like they were looking down from above. each tribe has there own songs and the songs translate into maps of their land, so if you sing all the songs you will sing a song of the land. literally. how cool is that!

[@teresaclark3291]

Lightening Ridge has Opals..

[@zwieseler]

Incorrect to say no one is living near Harold Holt Base. It is just outside the town of Exmouth, a popular holiday spot for West Aussies because of fishing, diving, speccie country, swimming with Whale Sharks. Coral Bay is also not far away.

[@paulsutton2645]

Harold Holt base is in Exmouth, and while remote there is definatly people living close, in the town of - wait for it Exmouth.

[@KevinHandes]

Ayers Rock, now called Uluru pronounced like Airs Rock, Coober Pedy pronounced Coober Peedy and we live on rainwater out here. Just have tank water connected to the house via an electric pump which means if the electricity goes out - no water from the house taps. Cuppas taste heaps better with rainwater and feels different on our hair when we shower.

[@waza987]

If you are going between Adelaide and Alice Springs/Uluru the Cooper Pedy is pretty much on the way, so they do get a decent amount of tourists. Unless you are flying in it usually is on the way.

[@joandsarah77]

The best way to get to Coober Pedy is drive from Adelaide and break it up. There are some things to stop and see like some art work and a pink lake but yes a long dedicated drive. You would want to be prepaid.

[@madenabyss6981]

2 people still live in Wittenoom and tourists still manage to find the town even though the government wants it wiped of the maps

[@JoTheSnoop]

Recent comments on KZbin videos about Wittenoom have said they had moved out.

[@miniveedub]

I’ve been to the sink hole, Wave Rock, the Super Pit, Lake Hillier, and Shell Beach. I’ve been to the two other pink lakes in WA as well which are in Esperance. There’s a pink lake in SA and one in Victoria as well. Mt. Gambier, SA where the sink hole is also has Blue Lake which is a spectacular shade of blue. I’m surprised he didn’t include the Pinnacles in WA, Mt. Wingen in NSW a.k.a. Burning Mountain or the horizontal waterfall in WA.

[@jameswitt605]

The sinkholes are in South Australia in a town called Mount Gambier, been to wave rock twice, but the last time was the day the space shuttle blew up, The Harold Holt base is near Exmouth in WA and is used to communicate with ships and subs for both USA and Oz. The super pit is in Kalgoorlie, WA and is quite a site to see which I did often as I worked for a company with a lab there. Wittenoom is off limits now, but I went once many years ago before it was fully closed down. Ayers rock is also quite a site to see, spent a day there on my round Oz trip in 2002. Also spent a day at Coober Pedy, very interesting place. That pink lake is different to the original famous one, which unfortunately has turned more grey now, but we actually have a few of these pink lakes in WA. Shell beach is a nice site to see also, and in the nearby town of Denham you can see things built out of blocks made from the shells.

[@johnwade7842]

I remember driving a few days from Adelaide to visit it as a kid, to go to coberpeedy

[@catatafish100]

was swimming in Lake Mckenzie a few days ago! stunning and creepy once you get out past the shallow water

[@dianeoriander8276]

Cooberpedie has a huge number of tourists Aussies and international especially people travelling from Adelaide to Darwin

[@FlattardiansSuck]

Ffs everyone... Coober Pedy pronunciation HAS BEEN CORRECTED 1000 TIMES ALREADY.

[@micheledix2616]

Just making sure Ian knows😁😁😁

[@christiegreen-williams3490]

There’s a small town in North West Queensland call Mary Kathleen which is where a uranium mine was before uranium mining was stopping in Australia. It’s a creepy and interesting place to go to

[@bushidowarrior4917]

Cooler Pedy is pronounced “Coober Peedy”.. Thanks for the upload…

[@daveamies5031]

I have a mate who worked at the super pit in his younger years, he tells me where his house was is now about a km in the air (might be exaggerating a little, not sure how deep it is), but the house is gone and a lot of the ground below it.

[@barbararees604]

I'm pretty sure that wave rock is a remnant of lava tubes, looks just like the lava tubes on the Atherton tablelands. Minus the top and side, which probably collapsed during the flow.

[@bok1080]

Totally different formation to the Lava tubes (there is no 'other side', or indication of there ever being one), nor places where lava flowed to or from, also the lava tubes are in Basalt, the waves are in Granite), the wave formation is on the 'edge' of individual rock 'lumps', the current theory is that it is an erosion/chemical reaction with the water flowing off of the side of the rock meeting with the surrounding soil and softening the rock so that it wears away over time forming the wave.

[@leeannewitenko3950]

I was so happy to see Coober Pedy on the list..I lived there for 22yrs and paused the vid cos I could see my dugout I used to live in. The most beautiful dessert landscape ever and has been used for alot of movies...Mad Max, Pitch Black and the new Mortal Kombat. Im missing it so bad now after watching this.

[@littlecatfeet9064]

Lake McKenzie is spectacular. One for your Queensland bucket list.

[@jemxs]

Coober Pedy is not the only opal town, White Cliffs, Lightning Ridge are also similar towns.

[@barney992]

was going to say the sinkhole is on east side of Mt Gambier . in a park , good lunch stop place or just tourism. The Pedy in Cooper Pedy is pronounced like " reedy " .

[@mikldude9376]

A bit of trivia , that bloody big pebble Ayer’s rock , apparently two thirds of it is underground , also so I’m told there is an even bigger rock over in WA (Western Australia ) , but iirc its not nearly as awesome looking as Ayer’s rock , if I’m not mistaken a lot of it is buried underground.

[@julzhunt7790]

Mt Augustus.

[@mikldude9376]

@@julzhunt7790 Thank you !

[@RSLpunk]

That sinkhole garden first shown in the video is in S.A not in W.A. Julian O’Shea did a really great video on it a couple of months ago, it’s worth checking out Mr. Rocker 👍👍

[@tileux]

I’m a west Australian and I was trying to figure out why I’d never heard of it.

[@308V8HZ]

It's actually pronounced as Coober Peedy . And Ayers Rock is a monolith , if you look closer it's turned on its side .

[@Jeni10]

Alex Springs? Give that guy a Gibbs Slap!

[@Firebird894]

Look up Kapunda in South Australia one of our haunted towns along with Picton. I used to live near Picton and can confirm many spooky things do happen there!!!

[@rowanbrecknell4021]

I think they should bung the Baron Falls in. It is iconic and has legends surrounding it. I just can't find any info on the net about the legends I have been told over the years.

[@tfrowlett8752]

The Perth Mint also holds the worlds largest soils gold coin, at 1 metric tonne. The next largest is in Canada and is only 100kg.

[@tfrowlett8752]

Witenoom also mined blue asbestos, it’s still abandoned

[@TCM215]

America snd Australia are truly big and little brother. Look at all the joint US/AUS owned military bases.

[@Goatcha_M]

Rather than conspiracy theories about Military bases or old shipwrecks, there are plenty of genuine strange places. Devil's Marbles, Organ Pipes National Park, tree-walk in W.A amongst giant trees, one so large it has a road through it's still living trunk.