Malcolm Douglas - Australia - The Canning Stock Route (1986)

Malcolm Douglas explores the 2,000 kilometres of this historic cattle route of WA, from Wiluna in the south to Halls Creek in the north. Highlights are the Bungle Bungle massif, the Wolf Creek meteorite crater, the old wells and a visit to the Kukadja Aboriginal people.

[@lewbear6738]

i wish these old documentaries were rerun on TV or something, there's so much valuable information and there's not many people who could enthusiastically present the beauty and wonder of the outback like Malcolm Douglas did.

[@melpeddle7243]

It doesn't sell in these modern times. Sad to say. This is boring to alot of people.

[@epicplantbattles6092]

@@melpeddle7243 speak for yourself. Russia. Belarus. Bulgaria. Italy. Mexico. All appreciate nice leather

[@peaceleader7315]

Capitalism economic modal destroy babies.. hmmmm.. when one's working hard and doesn't have time for leather.. 😵‍💫.. hmmmm kids are hard to raise and difficult to maintain the status QoS.. hmmmm.. that is why.. a low birthrate is directly connected to capitalism economic philosophy.. hmmmm 😡

[@Kurtis11266]

@@epicplantbattles6092 They're talking about the documentary not the bloody emu farm..

[@russellking9762]

Agreed…mind you Alby Mangles and Bush Tucker Man tried their best…lol

[@Lucifurion]

This dude was The Man. I watched his stuff on TV religiously when I was a kid in the 80's. Thanks for the uploads🤘

[@KingofCrusher]

I just discovered him! In the US I loved Marty Stouffer as kid in the 80's on PBS, this dude reminds me of him.

[@Hitman-ds1ei]

He was a legend and Australia barely knew it ❤

[@spaaggetii]

Umm what? This is old footage, I am 41 and remember watching him. Your comment is just out of context. Younger generations don't remember phones that you dialed around in a circle or 2-4kbps internet that squealed loudly to connect for 4 hours costing 25-30 cents (Dial-up). Australia knew him, but they are the older generation. You are talking crap, literally.

[@aussiegerrard]

He was pretty well known when I was a kid. His shows were always on TV.

[@johnners911]

My grandad came from Ireland in the 1920s as a 16 year old, to drive cattle along this route. It's great to see this film of the route. I can only imagine what an experience it must have been for a young man, many years ago.

[@benwinter2420]

They did it hard to believe after an fashion . . but I honest don't buy they pushed primitive wheel barrows with their pick & sack off weevil ridden flour over sand dunes . . gold field to gold field , over the massive expanses dry interior Oz . . Kings in grass castles Duracks WA fancy tale

[@michaell1112]

I remember watching these docos on TV as a little kid, sitting around with the family. Brings back great memories. Thanks for posting 👍

[@matthewpocock4824]

Malcolm, you're an Australian legend. Thanks for opening my eyes to the Outback and beyond. We miss you, mate.

[@lauriedixon775]

I saw the premiere of his first film "Across the Top" at the Douglas Hall Karingal High School Frankston Vic circa '67-'68 I was 5 or 6 after the film he took time to tell us more of his adventures, I remember amongst the well-worn gear he had a rucksack that had a hollow frame that could be filled with fuel for his camp stove. the Douglas Hall was named after his Dad who was the School Head Master

[@jeremysayers7654]

Cool memories that define us as Australians

[@davelareen1582]

@@jeremysayers7654 the best

[@pipfox7834]

Great details, thanks for posting!

[@yommmrr]

These videos should be shown in primary schools throughout Australia.

[@tranqu1]

I grew up watching Malcolm, brings back some memory of the family watching in the living room.

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

Today we watch from the bedroom

[@benwinter2420]

From the basement

[@matteastwood87]

I did the canning stock route in a stock 96 triton by myself when I was 19

[@stephentaege6255]

Thanks old mate for showing us City folk how to survive in our beautiful country 🤠🦘🦘🐨🐨i love ❤️ seeing beautiful jowdy i have exactly the same coloured Kelpie as jowdy i have called her dusty because of the outback and respect after the late great slim dusty 🤠🦘🦘🐨 never a day goes by im so PROUD TO BE AUSTRALIAN 🤠👍✌️🐨🐨🦘🦘RIP MALCOLM 🕯️🙏🐊🐍🐸🐑🐫🦉🦃🐡🐠 cheers Stephen from QLD ✌️👍

[@kalebarancelovic]

The fella doing the emu egg art is incredible

[@jessesands4099]

Another Brilliant. Documentary Film By The Late Malcolm Douglas 1941-2010 This Time On Trek Up The Canning Stock Route One Of The Most Remote Tracks On Earth! First Heard Of The Canning Stock Route About 1980 Harry Butler Went Up There About 10 Years Before This Film Was Made In 1976!😀🤠🧔🚘🏜️⛲🐂🐍🦎🇦🇺

[@ThatBastardSnow]

As a 16yr old I travelled the stock route, all they way up to Kununarra, with a 4×4 group. It was a great trip that I'll never forget. Such beautiful country.

[@jasondavis3583]

Always wanted to be this guy he lived and learned an awesome life with the aboriginal people

[@Cody6918]

I went for a job with Malcom as his camera assistant, didn't get the job ,so bummed out.Such a good man.

[@RustedPlastic11111]

Who watches TV when Utube has all this gold 🎯

[@moonboy5851]

We miss you Malcolm! Good soul.

[@keitherskine8572]

Malcolm Douglas. Such an incredible adventurer, naturalist, and explorer.

[@MrCJHamill]

Definitely a true legend. I was very sad to learn of his death. His shows were exceptional!

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

Shame he passed without getting the Vaccine

[@Malc664]

@@australiaprisonisland9156 What vaccine12 to 13 tears ago?

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

@@Malc664 I was being humouress.

[@benwinter2420]

@@australiaprisonisland9156 He signed on dotted line contract Hollywood & when went off plantation . . got visited by a five man hit team & got pressed between hard places

[@Antony_Jenner]

What does it for me is that Malcolm is a legend and the music by another legend Don Burrows!

[@jakehay3074]

Lived out near the Canning for a year doing remote youth work. There's a certain sense of being alive you get on these roads.

[@epicplantbattles6092]

Malcom was truly a an outback conservationist. He educated me immensely

[@peternicholson233]

Just about the last time you couldn't be tracked.

[@royhay5741]

Beautiful what Malcolm said about thorny devils.

[@helenmonk6187]

What a legend he was I learnt so much from him about survival in the outback he's been miss so much I spent time and time as a kid watching him on TV he is so incredible we were so lucky to have him he was the very first person to teachers about survival in the outback I even had his book. He was incredible and someone who taught us what beautiful country we had.👍👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@collinmc90]

been trying to find this dude forever. Used to watch this on TV back in the day. Could never remember his name.

[@46pippi]

i think its "Malcolm Douglas"

[@rontan4566]

Awesome. I cant think of a better word for this video. Malcolm was the GOAT.

[@xpompompomx]

This is pure gold! Tnhx for posting all these video's!

[@blackcorp0001]

Essential viewing for all students and adults

[@mauriceclark4870]

People like Les Hidden and. Mr Arnold. Have learned much. From indigenous people. And have a good relation to them. !!

[@larryparis925]

Many thanks for sharing this. From San Diego, California, USA.

[@TasHikingAdventures]

hats off sir thank you

[@markwilliams3174]

Music by the great Don Burrows

[@jamesogden178]

And 50 cent

[@ianrobinson8974]

I have been blessed to have been a passenger on a trip up the Canning Stock Route some years ago...most enjoyable and historical; 'tho I would have loved to done some of the driving (thanks George!) What wasn't told in this episode was that the stock route was upgraded during WW2 to give an "escape" route to those further north; if there had been an invasion. At another time I was lucky enough to spend some time in the Bungle Bungles, the track in wasn't as bad a it was in Malcolm's day. Australia is a most beautiful country even if quite dangerous in many ways. Our Indigenous people have been here at least 50,000 years! Can any other peoples beat that?12/06/2121

[@nothinyaseehere9449]

The aborigines traveled the open there dna is still found in jungle villages in Brazil, the elders know of stories telling the path they took from here. A scientist tried to tell a village and were stunned to hear the villagers tell there story lining up with the scientists foundlings and even maps.

[@nothinyaseehere9449]

They taught the locals to carry seeds n plant them, that’s how the Brazil bean grew so far and wide they’d been “farmed” by aborigines so next time yoh see a Brazilian bean, know it’s aborigines are the reason your seeing them..

[@H3ath]

Thanks for posting these :), I'm thoroughly enjoying making my way through this excellent Malcolm Douglas content :D

[@redhammer9910]

This one's a real iconic WA doco. I noticed in all his video's he centers his detail on the region not the City. We used to be one Australia until Sydney and Melbourne started their fights. These days they want to embroil all of us in their games, no thanks. We the mob west of the Great Dividing Range are happy to stay the way we are, growing with our culture not creating it like it's a commodity.

[@jeremysayers7654]

True as brother

[@eltfell]

17:31 Tribesmen rounded up an used as guides - that's gently put considering that Cannings forced them to drink salt water in order to make them thursty and make them showing easily accessible water.

[@benos4x4adventures49]

Love you Malcom................

[@matthewbrown6163]

Malcolm did all his filming, editing & producing. He started with film cameras & then moved to video tape. As for the amount of fuel he carried, he always had a trailer with Jerry Cans of fuel & water. My old Pajero had long range tanks fitted but not that much - about 160L.

[@davidmckay1772]

I struggle to believe he had 600L on board!

[@callan_blount]

There must be another vehicle we don't see

[@matthewbrown6163]

@@callan_blount Most likely as if you notice he always had a dozen jerry cans on his trailer. But mind you 1 x litre of fuel = 1 kg of weight. So he was well prepared ............ however you never can tell with Murphy's Law when you least expect it.

[@TheBillaro]

@@callan_blount probably

[@pipfox7834]

@@davidmckay1772 in the trailer, not in his vehicle.

[@JohnSmith-pn1vv]

Music is great as well as everything else.

[@nathanroberts355]

Rest in peace mate Malcolm Douglas you are a legend

[@websmash9527]

Before them all there was M,D this man showed me parts of our great country, and he knows what he's talking about. Good on ya mal.

[@TheBillaro]

Malcolm is so chill in the face of death. 😮

[@michaelscurr9046]

Wow I’d forgot about Malcolm I loved him when I was a kid what an adventure

[@craigbosel7887]

excellent and very informative, many thanks

[@2006Mercury]

Just found out about this gentleman last month and I have been enjoying all of This footage it truly is amazing what The native people and this gentleman have accomplished

[@ModeDorian]

Amazing!

[@stephansteohanlarsen7457]

Emus are unique in that their feathers have two quills with one stalk 🌍

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

15:46 I think it’s very sweet of him to emphasise how important it is to leave those beautiful little Thorny Devils in the desert where they belong. He’s right, they only eat ants and the average person has zero hope of keeping them alive in captivity. Even advanced hobbyists would struggle. It’s a very sad thing to have an animal literally starve to death on your watch, even if it is ‘just’ a lizard.

[@larryparis925]

Well said.

[@John-ju9dt]

Damn that intro music slaps sounds kind of Zappa esque 👍

[@jessesands4099]

Durban Springs 11.28 Is Where The Late Harry Butler Went Looking For A Night Parrot In 1976!🙂🧔🚘🏜️⛲🐦🇦🇺

[@bertsrig6153]

Yeah, I used to love watching his shows too.👍

[@jessesands4099]

I Meant Durba Springs Not Durban Sorry!🤠⛲🏜️

[@chrisblester37]

Did he find the parrot

[@stevecashcard]

@@chrisblester37 no

[@jessesands4099]

@@chrisblester37 No But A Dead One Was Found Near Boulia Western Queensland In 1990 About 14 Years Later!🙂🐦🏜️

[@Sam_Green____4114]

l saw alcoholic chickens once in a pub in England !! If you sat in the Beer garden the hens would jump up on your table and peck you until you let them drink out of your Beer glass !! They wouldn't take no for an answer . After the hens had drunk as much as they wanted they would run around in circles when they were actually trying to run in a straight line !! It was quite funny to watch! It was the Red Lion in Brenzett , Kent ,England !

[@Rob-fc9wg]

Chooks love getting drunk! There's nothing funnier than a drunk chook. Give the flock a can of beer in a dog bowl (gone within minutes mind you) and sit back and watch the show.

[@michaeltobin2014]

Wonder if Michael Tobin was an ancestor?

[@tonyfranks9551]

Excellent.

[@iloveaustralia5907]

Really interesting

[@XtrovertedHermit]

i google mapped the canning and it took me to a small track just like we saw in this doco.

[@jessesands4099]

Just Purchased The Book "Across The Gibson" 1978 About 2 Or 3 Adelaide Adventurers Journeying Through The Gibson Desert Not A Bad Book A Little Bit Dated Though!🤠🤠🚘🏜️🐪🐍🦎📘🇦🇺

[@chaysokhieng]

Good video

[@user-teabager]

At first I was pissed off that the family wasn’t making the money of this film but it keeps Legend going hay 🍻

[@dao3740]

Most interesting …. thank you.

[@Chewbroccolii]

I have not watched this since I was a kid haha

[@greendeane1]

He died by being crushed by a vehicle door against a tree at his home/business.

[@academyofnaturaljustice8939]

Many tracks and roads were originally Aboriginal tracks.

[@bennyc409]

Malcolm was lucky to get out of Wolf Creek alive...

[@Bustups]

This guy is legend hope to start doing some travels my self soon explore ⛺️ 🎣

[@leonbudd912]

Well he was dead right about the bungles, man it gets packed in there now.

[@SealAngel]

That's the Canning Highway near Applecross.

[@websmash9527]

Before them all there was M.D,

[@TheBillaro]

You and I "SNAKE!!! RUN!!!!". Malcom "ooooo lets go play"

[@MartinBayley-fk8lj]

Australia: “It’s July, the middle of winter.” Everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere: ?

[@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674]

Depresses..RIP MALCOLM 😢😢

[@gunterbecker8528]

May you RIP old friend 😊

[@thormidthagahast8914]

Do they make the coconut mog cousin babies at the emu farm too?

[@michaelbutler1557]

Great Australian film.

[@tf4824]

Love it 😀 but I'm surprised the landy made it 😅

[@penagepenage9180]

Shows how little you know about them then. Same spec as the ADF landies

[@richardirmler435]

Comments will be turned off for this video soon.

[@mungoman9253]

Still the greatest

[@RustedPlastic11111]

Eum oil, and balm awesome stuff for muscle pain, the best stuff.

[@dennyshawyer1993]

I sucked those flowers wen i was a kid we have them in bloom in my backyard lol

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

What about an inland Taipan. I always put my hand down those holes without a worry.

[@pipfox7834]

What s fibber!

[@willcusack1648]

What language do those indigenous people speak?? 36:17

[@anEyePhil]

There are around 240 First Australian different language groups.

[@shoominati23]

I've seen Alcoholic Crows, down the Queen's Head every Friday night without fail.. I wish you could get any Bird that you liked for $400 these days! 🤣

[@pcmasterwraith7676]

why is the water sweet?

[@georgehare2915]

no mention? of te pesky bull dust, it was a right pain to get rid of from our mitsubishi being canadian track was no bothet other than the johny jump ups

[@jayburrough4308]

he says everything tastes sweet LoL 😂

[@dontrump4697]

Why don't those giant birds at 3:00 just fly away???

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

Oh the monitor lizard. So tasty. Nevermind drive through.

[@mwilliams9011]

Emu leather, like the bird itself, didn't really take off

[@matteastwood87]

Well 37, the natives looking for bush chook

[@captaintoyota3171]

Funny that "07" on that tombstone needs a 19 before it now cause no one would know 1907 or 2007

[@Killereggman]

Malcom Douglas you legend! Steve Erwin was killed by a stingray, you were killed under your car I hope to meet you all and Les Higgins in the afterlife

[@kennethprocak5176]

I love all the younger butt hurts can’t handle seeing a Land Rover. I’ll tell you they were the vehicles of choice for years, I’d still take a 25 yr old land rover before anything else. I weep l didn’t keep my last one.

[@Rob-fc9wg]

Yep, and more often than not when the original old Larry engine died a Holden red motor was thrown in, and she'd go for another 100,000 miles (160,000 kilometrics for all you youngins) no probs. Also, I would like to congratulate you on your good taste in old, oily and smelly vehicles.

[@fraudieYT]

loved seeing the LR, and that was a top notch one for the time, he had good kit

[@DD-ld1xq]

Kiwis thought it was an annual event.

[@chriskennedy7534]

2023 vote for ? Research led me here. Ah, the good old days, when a white fella could learn from a black fella, without a politician or spoilt rich individual trying to impose their narrative. Thanks Mal 👍

[@johnsykes9623]

Exclent. Sorry Malcolm didn't do more of the narration rather than the BBC voice over. Would also benefit from some aboriginal sounds and dreamtime storytelling

[@chrisblester37]

This is 1986 and these people don't speak any English. Shows how remote they are .in 2021 are there still people like this is there any unregistered people left in Australia. I haven't been there since 2000 and then it was still quite backwards in the small towns .

[@justdoesntaddup8620]

Apparently it was around 1975 that the last indigenous tribe was found in Western Australia that had never been in communication with the new blow ins from Europe.

[@moonboy5851]

@@justdoesntaddup8620 could be some more out there, you never know.

[@morkusmorkus6040]

@@moonboy5851 yeah, nah.

[@davidwolff8903]

It was believed that the lost mob walked in to Warburton unable to survive any longer as song lines were lost over the past few generations after European inhabitance.

[@pipfox7834]

@davidwolff8903 worked with a nurse in Alice Springs in 1996 who had been posted to a remote clinic where that family group walked to. The dad had broken arm or leg (can't remember which) and they put a splint on, that little group walked right back out to the desert again, she said.

[@mmmbass6068]

Looks like Mal’s doing a line off the back of a gecko

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

Thorny devils taste good brother

[@user-jr1bl6tc3k]

Rip mal taken by a rogue landcruiser

[@kumbackquatsta]

malc was one of the few better white fellas

[@SMHman666]

He was a good bloke like most of us whites are. Not good to stereotype but it depends on what gets put into your head.