Lost City - Free Range Sailing Ep 15

[@jakethompson7930]

Nice painting at Ubirr in Kakadu of a thylacine. It’s painted above a spot where a 10m long rock shelf has collapsed so it’s proper old. Very distinct.

[@aofrench]

First of all what you guys explore is truly amazing the way you travel and the way you interact with nature is a testament to being one with your surroundings. Truly love what you guys are doing! Because your unique in the way that you treat your surroundings. It shows the careful way in which we should explore our world but leave little to no trace of our footsteps. Good on ya!

[@FreeRangeLiving]

We really do appreciate your comment. We love the opportunities we've been granted to explore this world and hope our videos reflect this. The comments we receive such as yours assure us we are attracting the audience we hoped for. Thanks for joining our travels and we hope you continue to enjoy our channel.

[@jfc213]

i love the time for the history you take its awsome xxx nice

[@edrosenberger6947]

The Aboriginal race of people were and are amazing and deserve respect. I love learning new interesting things....thank you two for being such great teaching guides.

[@symphonyfarm2009]

Awe Man! Warm weather, no people, no hurricanes! Makes the Kimberly coast sound like a paradise!

[@FreeRangeLiving]

No hurricanes but plenty of big big cyclones in the Kimberley. We were there in the winter but in the summer she'd be a hectic place if you were caught in the wrong spot!

[@rj7411]

Thanks for giving us a glimpse of lost city. Just another spot to add to our list of must see places. Your videos are the best.

[@FreeRangeLiving]

That list must be growing quickly!

[@steviefordranger198]

Excellent once again. Thylacine painting was a standout.

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Thanks S.F.R

[@whotoinfinity]

Youz are the best! I always smile when I see a new upload of yours. Brava & Bravo!

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Thanks Gill, we hope to add to the net happiness of the world.

[@mmoore102]

Can't stop watching.

[@julioconcep2615]

Once again, thanks for your efforts not only for sharing your unique experience travelling those awesome places, but also for showing your care to preserve them and avoid any impact that can our "modern" generations can have on these living pieces of art and landscapes. Watching your videos is not only inspirational in terms of crusing lifestyle, but its also somehow like a form of "time travelling". Watching these ancient forms of art suggesting how our ancestor did live and represent their cultural inheritance in such perdurable and stylish way, also make me think about the deep meaning hidden behind those paints and culture. We the modern "western cultures" have a tendency to think that we are the apex of creation. Our modern technology and the false believe that we can force mother nature to suit all our desires. However, looking back in time for a long enough timeframe, we can't deny that there is a subtle difference between the kind of landscape that we leave for our descendants and the kind of landscape that the australian aboriginals and alike did leave for the generations to come. Watching what kind of landscapes our ancestors did leave for us in the "classic cultures" such as mesopotamians, sumerians, acadians, egiptians, greeks, etc. we can find beautifully carved stones and brick buildings ruins surrounded by actual desserts. (see Syria, Irak, Egipt, Crete and compare those landscapes with the still rich nature, flora and fauna living in the Kimberlies...) What is even more interesting is that there is some people even suggesting that some of the earliest civilizations that left their impronta in the craddle of the mainkind (middle east) could even come from Australia when the sea level was much lower than now, allowing easy transit though the northern australia and south asia. The ruins of Gebeli tepki are recognized dated from the end of the last ice age, when mainkind started to develop the agriculture some 12.000 years ago. Some people seem to find lots of similarities between the simbols, figures and artistic style in those ruins, to that of the australian aboriginals that you are so kindly sharing with us in your videos. Best regards and fair winds. Julio

[@FreeRangeLiving]

I appreciate this well thought out comment Julio. I'm not sure a lot of people stop and think that they are not looking back on history but are actually closely woven into it and all of our actions will affect the generations following us. There is a lot of mystery surrounding the people who left the very ancient art we showed and very few researchers active in the Australian field. The Lost City is relatively well known and by the extent of the foot tracks evident and helicopters dropping in, much visited by tour operators but the effect of sitting among the art in such an ancient campsite is very profound. We visited other less known places and didn't film them for the reason that they aren't in any guide books and I can tell you that the feeling is even deeper and there is an atmosphere of stillness in those places.We're happy we can share our travels with so many like minded people.

[@andrewkeir2282]

I am very pleased about this comment as I understand often cave paintings and places can have very high significance to the aboriginal people. Some could be secret mens business or secret womens business or secret for a whole more complex reasons. I found this around 45 years ago being shown around Uluru by an aboriginal guide and there were certain cases we were not permitted to see for various reasons. We were among thousands who climbed the rock oblivious that it was offensive to the aboriginal custodians to do that. I offer my apologies to them for that.

[@motoristaxp55]

Estes desenhos nas pedras são fantásticos! Nos contam história interessante. ( These designs on the rocks are fantastic! Tell us interesting history.) Congratulations to you.

[@markrobertshaw2781]

Fascinating video. Wonderfully filmed and narrated. Look forward to your ongoing story. Respect.

[@dondevine5129]

nice video, thanks

[@36hcso]

Very interesting place. Great video, thanks for sharing your travels.

[@FreeRangeLiving]

You're welcome David

[@countrycoopers]

Doing Free Range Sailing Binge style! Really enjoying your adventure so far. Waiting for another opportunity to watch another couple episodes is similar to hanging out for your favourite TV series show. If I had connections with The Discovery Channel, I would sign you guys up for multiple series TV deal. in a heart beat! Can't wait to watch what is coming in next episodes!!!

[@scottblackwell5789]

I really love those coveralls on Pascal...they are so cute.

[@Richdudevids]

i love your show your home land is so cool and that it is the place of the most of the oldest of man kind thanks for shareing

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Thanks Richard, glad you can join us.

[@saknut]

The rock art is fascinating. Makes ya wonder what life was like for the ancients.

[@levelzero1264]

Love the mini adventures. Pascal : "mmmmm" your always so happy and smiling oh and you love to fish (so jealous mate). Great job editing and camera points. Always feel I'm right there with ya!

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Thanks L.Z. Pascale has been hell on the local fish of Groote Eylandt lately as well as turning them into delicacies. Stay tuned next year and thanks for coming along with us on the trip.

[@arthurpryor773]

glad to see you wearing foot wear......and a great video..from texas.

[@FreeRangeLiving]

We knew you would be pleased Arthur.

[@edwardkucera9129]

I've made a great discovery! Free range sailing. Love the tag along on your adventures. Enjoy the beautiful natural veiws . Please watch the sun please. You guys seemed a little burned on your shoulders. Sun screen!!!! That's the dad in me talking. Safe sailing!

[@texling93]

Thanks that was amazing! Great job on the video. Stay safe!

[@MajTom-wd2yt]

We are love'n these adventures. Great work, AAA+

[@OrvilleHarmison]

Fascinating .... thank you .

[@alinthekeys]

Another video well done. Thanks!

[@arthur4818]

Excellent, you guys are the best !!!

[@davidwhite8168]

I love tagging along with you on your adventures!

[@theislandpackrat]

Love it, another cool place!

[@maniyan_wanagi]

Cool Thylacine!!!!!!

[@sailingsvphantom9086]

Nice. Enjoying your vids..

[@krjgkwon]

I have not been to Australia, but after i saw this video , this video make me want to go there and take a yacht. I think you couple are living happily

[@WAtermitec]

Another great vid guys. Love the info.

[@DavidPerez-bg7vb]

Kool video and interesting art

[@np939427a]

Sweet location, Have you tasted Cod cheeks done in a light batter very tasty, That cave art blow me away!

[@FreeRangeLiving]

We love the cheeks but haven't had them in a while. I must get back to salvaging them

[@johnnicolson467]

Love your videos, makes me want to see more.

[@SailingInconceivable]

Wallabies and Bradshaws - An entirely different word. Thanks, again, for a wonderful vid. ~Hans, NYC. PS: Wind opposing tide... such a bumpy ride!

[@FreeRangeLiving]

It's a unique part of the world and we're happy we can show it to you Hans.When the tides are 5-10m the wind against tide can be murder

[@perrysims3320]

"A bit of a scree slope"? Mate? You are the master of nomenclature. Is this a failure on my part to translate from the Aussie? In my mountains, 'scree" is something to keep out of the top of your boots while doing two steps up and one back.

[@notredame089]

They would have to be the best Bradshaws my wife and I have ever seen good stuff

[@uraqtee]

Very interesting

[@urabus7875]

nice

[@Xorply]

A lot of what us Canadians hear about Australia is all the dangerous critters there. Aside from crocodiles, what are you looking out for when you're hiking and what precautions do you take?

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Most people in Australia are killed by their own stupidity so that's one to watch for. Dangerous animals can be avoided with a careful attitude but dehydration and self inflicted injury are the biggest dangers.

[@Xorply]

So Darwin Awards are freely available is what you're saying? ;-)

[@zerofox7347]

Hey guys, I was wondering if you intend on cruising to other countries once you have circumnavigated Australia?

[@trevorrogers339]

With knowledge comes responsibility. Think about the longer term preservation of these sacred spots that are very precious to some of us and not your short term notoriety. Some sites need to remain hard to find. Safe sailing for the future. Tucanu

[@FreeRangeLiving]

I couldn't agree more. The only places we filmed and presented are covered in guides to the area and are known by local operators. Places that are not widely known and told us in confidence are not shared. Art work containing contemporary sacred figures is likewise omitted. We felt we could name the Lost City given there's a comprehensive description of it's location, a meter wide track leading to it, extensive foot tracks throughout and helicopters landing there occasionally. In the video, we also advise people to seek out the K.C.C.Y.C for information and to talk to their local members as well as supporting them financially as opposed to asking for money for ourselves. I look at the comments from the viewers here and see without exception sensitive people grateful for the only chance they will have of seeing this place. Our vlog doesn't compare to the advertising budget of local tour operators and the numbers of visitors in their charge so that is where pressure needs to be applied with regards ethics and responsibility.I reckon I have done a few things in my life that might be considered notorious but I can't see this sailing channel making the cut. Fair winds Tucanu

[@BernieYohan]

Very cool

[@bundyroyal]

Tassie Tiger may instead may be a Tiger Quoll? Loving all your adventures. :)

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Later research we did at the Darwin State Library supports the idea it may have been the Tassie tiger by the shape and style of the painting. Are Tiger Quolls an older form of Quoll or still present?

[@tyforsyth7546]

@@FreeRangeLiving tiger quoll is a tasmanian slang term for spotted tailed quoll. They're covered in spots, not stripes. I believe they were called tiger quoll because of their behaviour, not their looks. That painting looks much more thylacine than quoll.

[@russellesimonetta3835]

I,d be looking for gold!! It,s a remarkable land!

[@cigarmann]

Your anchorages are absolutely stunning, I would love to sail your country......but your laws on bringing in pets precludes that.

[@countrycoopers]

18:15 I wonder like Pascal, could the drawings be the same artist, but just done at different times. Perhaps volume two, sometime later?

[@trumpetmano]

While googling your location, I came across a town called Kalumburu. What the heck is out there??? Still can't for the life of me figure out why folks want to live in such desolate places... Googled, but Couldn't find Freshwater Bay where you were having your fine meal of Fried Oysters...

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Kalumburu is an Aboriginal community so they like plenty of unspoiled bush around them. Try Vansittart Bay. Freshwater Bay is in the north western side.

[@Stranger7_7]

How are you guys able to walk barefoot without injury there? There are lots of horrible venomous creatures, aren't there? Thank you anyway for your amazing adventure videos! Great job!

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Our walking barefoot might prove otherwise though I would recommend new comers to wear good boots.

[@andrewkeir2282]

You are so privileged in seeing the ancient rock art. Do you know how old it is?

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Pascale did a short episode about what we've learned about Kimberley rock art. Check it out.

[@FreeRangeLiving]

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[@Quarry4x4]

She is always a shoe in when it comes to puns.

[@sailingsvteakkeyrandyfryli8206]

Please tell us your guess of the age of the art ...so cool...S/V Teak Key

[@FreeRangeLiving]

The estimates go back at least 40,000 years for some of it but the l shifts in human habitation over thousands of years there caused by changes in sea level have created different 'styles' to be present. We did some research in Darwin after the trip and will put together a short clip on it soon. Stay tuned.

[@baseballDUDE32]

Could you use a spray bottle full of water and spray some water on the cave walls?

[@markrickel1632]

THEDUDE! You wouldn’t want to spray the cave paintings with anything. They have lasted this long because they are out of the weather. Leave only footsteps.

[@mikedean8061]

At 19:38, the rock behind her looks like a fish head/fish. I see an eye, nose, and mouth. Funny what one sees in rock formations...:)

[@nicjacobson8477]

Hi guy are you still thinking of coming to see Tasmania

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Yes. But will be in a 18 months time!

[@nicjacobson8477]

Great look forward to it

[@sailingsomewhere7280]

Love your material! Thank you! Our megafauna extinction likely not anothropogenic despite the coincidence in timing. No evidence (yet?) for butchering, hunting etc.

[@FreeRangeLiving]

The best argument I have seen is the change wrought by regular fires on the continent but you are right- correlation isn't causation. The climate back then was in a state of dramatic flux and large parts of the country dried out becoming arid which had an enormous impact.

[@doncairns9275]

Quite right about correlation and causation - however, the sheer amount of fauna extinction linked (by timing) to human expansion is pretty damning when viewed on a global scale. It needn't have involved any massacres; just an unwitting change in the rate of reproduction over a few generations would have been enough, and it would probably have been so slow that those responsible wouldn't have been aware of any causal link to their actions.

[@doncairns9275]

BTW; totally addicted to your adventures. The best of luck to you both.

[@fitzyholden1036]

Many fossils have been found in southern, mainland Australia of both Thylacine's and Tassie Devil's. Most carbon dated to just over 3000 years ago. Whatever happened it wiped both species out on the mainland around the same time. Aboriginal's have been here a hell of a lot longer than that so I doubt they were responsible. Especially given that their population was so small before white settlement. I think the estimate is around 300,000 to 700,000 aboriginals for the entire continent before we came along.

[@tyforsyth7546]

It's believed the dingo arrived around 4000 years ago, so that may be the answer.

[@frankd2301]

I’ve got a theory why the paintings are so tall and thin. Look at your shadow when the sun is low. Perhaps they thought shadows were magic or significant in some way. What do you 🤔?

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Very interesting theory - I like it, sounds very plausible, unfortunately we'll probably never know...

[@kevinwhittier2626]

With to extra long arms and long skinny legs and the egg shaped heads, perhaps the drawings depict people from another place and time???

[@yepme6484]

19:38 freeze. the video and look at the animals face in the rock.

[@charliefisk5293]

Yer a cat

[@chrisreynolds7164]

No pictures of ladies sitting round making dot paintings....hmmm,is,nt that strange?.....lol

[@JonMadsen70]

:)

[@fatherthomas1575]

Y'all surly talk a might peculiar,, ima jus sayin ... ain't tryin to rule yer feathers none.

[@FreeRangeLiving]

Probably yer right. No offence took.