American reacts to Australia's STRANGEST places

[@jennybowd2962]

Umpherston sinkhole is not in Western Australia it is in South Australia actually Mt Gambier lots of weddings held there or in attached garden

[@eshiestrik2756]

I was about to comment that ♥️

[@jennybowd2962]

@@eshiestrik2756 yes was born and raised in the Mount so know exactly where it is

[@Jutta_KG]

I am glad you clarified that as even though I have not been there I was sure it was Mt Gambier as I have a work colleague from there who has mentioned it several times.

[@chrisbennetts-cash599]

Except everyone not from south Australia thinks the state is 100 years behind the rest of us so has never heard of it 😊 I’d really like to visit now though…

[@raymondward5395]

Creepy people there, on the drugs, deviants are part of their community biggest child molesting jail there they say that pedophiles are normal people.. Mt Gambier is a shit hole

[@Dr_KAP]

Happy Arvo Ryan. What I love most about your reactions is that you actually GOOGLE stuff in the middle of the reactions. If more people did this we would spend a lot less time yelling at our screens!

[@julzhunt7790]

Hey Kappy hope your recovery is going well.

[@Dr_KAP]

@@julzhunt7790 aww thanks Julz I appreciate it XX

[@anserbauer309]

I sooooo agree! I quickly get over 'reaction channels' where the presenters are just content to remain ignorant ad infinitum. If you've 'reacted' to three different videos in a week of a street interviewer asking "which country is the Panama canal in?" and you _still don't know_ it's in f***ing Panama, I'm going to unsubscribe, rather than glass my screen with a bavarian crystal whiskey tumbler.

[@julzhunt7790]

@@Dr_KAP you’re welcome hun. Aussie Mateship is still alive and well😁❤️🇦🇺

[@Dr_KAP]

@@julzhunt7790 it really is, it’s a small little world we have here on KZbin!! ❤️ 🇦🇺

[@songriarrrrrr1830]

I love how respectful you are about Australia and how willing you are to be corrected.

[@gavinbraid242]

The Umpherston sink hole is actually in Mount Gambier, South Australia not Western Australia and is as beautiful as it looks.

[@davidwarren9204]

I've been to Wave Rock, and I can confirm that it isn't just a clever camera angle. It honest-to-goodness looks just like it looks in photos - a massive wave. It's basically a huge weirdly shaped cliff (low at front, higher land behind it), that looks just like a real breaking wave. - really awesome to see.

[@brockgangell5759]

I agree as I've been there many times as a child

[@Nkettle791]

ITS HUGE way bigger than I expected when I went

[@rebeccapryde5426]

Umpherston sinkhole is actually in South Australia in a town called Mt Gambier, which also has the famous blue lake too.

[@sharonmontgomery4408]

Australia has a number of Pink Lakes. Lake Hilliar is in WA as are many of the places mentioned here - Shark Bay, Lake Disappointment, Wittenoom, Harold Holt Base, Wave Rock, the Kalgoorlie Superpit, the Wajarri Rock art...and yet so many visitors think that Australia is just Sydney.

[@vivienneholmes7151]

Good onya

[@linmonash1244]

What's cool and also kinda weird is that lots of Aussies are learning about some of these places in their own country for the first time -from these reactor 'visits'. We have a Pink Lake? Wave Rock is made of Granite? - For some reason I always thought it was Sandstone. Now I'M going to have to Google it. 😉👍

[@zybch]

Theres an awesome series of pink lakes right in melbourne. I'd lived there for 20 years and had never heard of it.

[@lynmcgrow9246]

Yes!!!

[@whazoocafe2374]

The Sink Hole is located Mt Gambier South Australia. Not W.A

[@Therese-q5u]

Loving your reactions 😊Have you seen/reacted to Kath & Kim yet? Absolute CLASSIC Aussie humour! You’ll love i! 👌😎 Glad your enjoying Hey Hey/Red Faces!

[@utha2665]

Haha, my favourite line... Look at me, look at me, look at meeeee.

[@iamkat-agnt99-ash-kbt.59]

Yessss!

[@gregmccallum3124]

So the moral of this video is to come to Beautiful Western Australia as 8 of the 14 strangest things are here.

[@zhicw]

Nice to see some attractions in my home state of Western Australia were featured

[@sarahgreen8409]

Except they got it wrong the big sinkhole garden is in Mount gambier SA not WA

[@DementedPiXi]

Lmao, yup South Australia and it’s attractions are definitely WA! Hahahaha

[@sarahgreen8409]

@@DementedPiXi not sure what ur trying to say about WA 😂 but the Umpherston (or sunken garden) is indeed inside a sinkhole in Mount Gambier, South Australia and u can actually have a wedding there and it is beautiful, and while ur in Mount Gambier take a look at another beautiful place the Blue Lake, which is a super blue lake that sits in a volcanic crater, and for the record I don’t live anywhere near Mount Gambier I’m talking 7 or 8 hours away, there just some cool places to c

[@DementedPiXi]

@@sarahgreen8409 I live in Mount Gambier you moron. I am very aware of this.

[@carolclancy6943]

Hi Ryan. Yeah I know I'm nagging but could you please, please do a video on the Australian band Redgum and the Song 'I was only 19'. At this time with the way things are going in Europe I feel like there's a lot of young men being sent off to fight another man's war.

[@Erizedd]

Or Eric Bogle's live performance of 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda'. That always hits me hard.

[@petec672]

I agree. There is a clip on "gypsaduo" site. On that site is "I am Australian-Anzac version". Bowled me over when I recognised my Dad in a photo of Aussies moving to Greece. We seem to be involved in other peoples wars and things aren't looking good. Show a couple of these Anzac clips . Also one on the light horse in WWI if one exists. From an ex-natio.

[@traceypace2010]

This is going to date me, but i remember the first time i saw Redgum perform “i was only 19” live and it really got me as does there song “brown rice and kerosene”. I still listen to them and love their music

[@aaronmollica1587]

Hey Ryan. I'm Aussie and I love your reactions to Australia videos, so please don't stop but I think you should react to the Sydney New Years Eve fireworks! I really think you'll love them and as well as the Sydney 2000 Olympic opening. The NYE fireworks are insane.

[@markflint2629]

Yes

[@Bellas1717]

Agree

[@stephenhoward4191]

oh yes the 2000 fireworks, memories, 9pm , traffic stopped on the bridge , just me in the middle. then the midnite ones on the roof of a ferry. some loony wanted im not sure , but hey nye , dont need to arrest someone , ya he went away. life is good sometimes

[@stephaniehawkins5211]

Very happy to have shared American / Australian bases in Australia.

[@jimbo3207]

Harold Holt Naval Communication Station was named after an Australian Prime Minister who disappeared whilst swimming in 1967 thought to have downed. In Melbourne they also named a swimming pool in his memory!

[@snook1166]

The navy base is in Emouth WA , there is a section that has been turned into accomodation and you can actually stay there - I think it is some of the old officers quarters so not near anything that requires a security clearence to go into

[@ianmorris7485]

Harold Holt Base is hardly miles away from anywhere as it is just north of the town of Exmouth in Western Australia. As a side note, Exmouth is near to Cape Range National Park which features some of the best beaches in the country: check out Turquoise Bay for instance. The base is indeed just a communications base, the layout is necessitated because of the very low frequencies it transmits at, mostly to underwater submarines. As for Wittenoom, it is no longer officially listed as a town and only 2-6 people (depending on which list you believe) remain living there effectively off-grid as all services to the town site were cut when it was "killed" as a township officially. Blue asbestos is a fire retardant so was used in just about everything that could get hot, like car brakes, as a fire retardant in buildings, trains and such like. It was commonly used in asbestos fencing. It has killed many thousands of people. There are many pink lakes in Australia of which Lake Hillier is perhaps the best known, although hard to get to as it is offshore. There are easier ones to get to in Western Australia.

[@battler4739]

Agree, Very Low Frequency = Very tall antenna and arrays. It is a shared and operated AUS/ USA facility to communicate with Submarines in the Indian Ocean.

[@dave.p153]

2000 people in Exmouth is hardly a big town so I'm sure there's not going to be a lot around it

[@carmie9759]

Love your reactions Ryan and I love the T-Shirt too! It’s very ‘you’ and true to your personality. ❤

[@chich61]

Cober Pedy...pronounced coober pee-dy. There's a few pink lakes in Australia.

[@JisooTurtleRabbitt]

We have an animal called the Thylacine or the Tasmanian tiger, half of us think it's still alive, half of us think it's extinct, super interesting topic for you!

[@Binaural_Zen]

Thylacine was native to Western Australia too.

[@PaulA-bv1rt]

The lake waters on Fraser Island (the largest sand island in the world) take over 100 years to filter into creeks and empty in the sea.

[@westaussie965]

1:50 I'm from WA and have NEVER heard about that! wait.......that's why I have never heard about it...its in SA!

[@durv13]

yes ryan . rain water is better than tap water . theres no metals or fluoride or chlorine . and the small amount of contaminants in it are harmless . and can be removed by simple filtration .

[@grandmothergoose]

Except that most rain water collected comes from people's rooftops, and birds poop on roof tops, which means most household collected rainwater contains potentially harmful bacteria and viruses, which filtration won't remove. In a fresh water lake or river, animals drink, pee, poop, and sometimes die and decay in it, and it can contain metals and other pollutants from the ground around it, including pollution run off from nearby areas, again, not the best water to be drinking without treating it properly first. And there very well can be metals and other pollutants in rain water straight from the sky. In some parts of the world where air pollution is very high, the pollutants make the rain water rather acidic and in some cases even mildly toxic. I'd rather take my chances with proven to be safe very low levels of fluoride and chlorine than the unknown potential pollutants in untreated water of any kind.

[@anserbauer309]

Absolutely. It also has a slightly lower pH than most tap water and less calcium too..... so less lime-scale in your pipes and appliances.

[@durv13]

@@anserbauer309 yep usually around 6 which is safe .

[@anserbauer309]

@@durv13 I've only had rainwater most of my life and really struggle with the stench and taste of some city/town water. Even showering is not as nice in hard, alkaline, chlorinated water.

[@durv13]

@@anserbauer309 100% agree . i leave my drinking water for 2 days before i drink it , cant stand the chemical taste . and i never noticed it in my showers here in nsw . but when i went to QLD i could definitely smell it . and it made me itchy .

[@leandabee]

Fitzroy Island, just off the coast of Cairns, has a beach mainly consisting of broken coral. When you walk on it, it sounds like wind chimes, so beautiful 😍. I do love how you go to google for extra info 🤗👍. Hope Bubba is doing well 🤗

[@cbjones2212]

About the limestone under Shell Beach. Shells are calcium carbonate and that particular limestone is purely the shells crushed under the accumulation of their own weight. Most beach sand is made up of quartz and silica from eroded rock and crushed shell only makes up a small proportion of sand.

[@laurensutherlandisradical3419]

Used to go down Umpherston sinkhole to feed the possums 😊

[@carmelmcshanag8144]

The narrator is a bit lame but good for some laughs! Did he say "Alex Springs"? Not only do we have Lake Disappointment, we also have Mount Disappointment. Explorers clearly had high expectations! 🤣In Tasmania there is a town called "Nowhere Else" . There is also a cave called “Well It Wasn’t There Last Year Cave" ... I think it's in South Australia. 🤣 Love the shirt too!

[@MrGeneralScar]

Wave Rock... I have been there several times. Its a little over 4 hours (maybe 4.5 hours depending on how you drive) out of Perth. Its just down the road from my mother's place (she lives about 120KM away from the rock... so yea just down the road in Aussie country speak). The wave portion on the rock formation is actually quite small, but it is 5.2 meters to the top of the wave and about 50-60 metres long and about 22 meters to the top of the rock formation, when the wind blows, if you listen carefully it actually sounds like you are at the beach at night, it sounds like waves crashing in the distance. There is a water catchment dam in the rock formation that supplies surrounding towns. About 1KM away from the wave rock portion is the other end of the formation called Hippo's Yawn, which is a granite rock formation that looks like a hippo yawning. 17KM down the road from Wave Rock is where you will find another granite rock formation called The Humps, this is where Mulka's Cave is, and you can walk the Humps as well was Wave Rock. The Humps however have a GPS elevation of about 82 meters (I compared my GPS height at the carpark for the Humps to my GPS height at the top of the formation), on a good day in late Spring (Late Sept through late October mostly), you can see 360 degrees in every direction for many kilometers and see the various crop types and colours of crops. There are little orange and black lizzards at both Wave Rock and The Humps, they are seen easier at The Humps as less people go there. They are about 10CM long and will run away from people if they get too close. Very hard to see as they are basically the same colour as the rock face itself. Good place to go if you ever find yourself in Perth, Australia and dont mind taking a short drive. :) The guy is also a bit wrong on how far out it is. Maybe as the crow flies its 300KM, but its more like 330-350KM out by Road, depends on the exact route you take though, below is about the quickest and most direct route. You travel from Perth, South South East via Brookton (~135KM from Perth CBD), then on to Corrigin (89KM from Brookton), then to Kondinin (about 45KM from Corrigin), then on to Hyden (65KM from Kondinin), and from there its about 5-6KM east of Hyden main town.

[@PoshLifeforME]

Happy arvo' mate, "Norman Gunston interviews Sally Struthers" if you get the chance..

[@bethdoublekickchick8007]

I'm so proud to say that I went to Wave Rock as a child and I climbed all over it! We took a ton of photos and I remember, even as a child, I felt such an amazing energy from this unnaturally natural place Annnd I've also been to the big open pit gold mine Annnd the pink lake! Annnd Shell Beach! Annnd I've seen some amazing rock art in the Northern Territory! Starting to feel quite lucky whilst watching this list 🦘🇦🇺🦘

[@amygone2pot]

Good to see you have your PO Box up at last. Now you can try some Vegemite and other Australian treats. The strangest thing about this vid is the vid itself 😀

[@Globeglider]

This makes up for last tourist trap video. Note: to potential visitors. It would take a year of driving to see all these sites. I've seen most of them. I travelled the continent in a Holden HQ panel van some thirty years ago. It's the best way to see oz.

[@panelvanman7671]

i agree 😅

[@becp488]

I dunno about that. Have you seen the price of Holden HQ's these days? ;P

[@Globeglider]

@@becp488 haha, yep, wish I still had mine now.

[@Crosleyq]

A good song to tell the story of blue asbestos is "Blue Sky Mine" by Midnight Oil. Its quite sad.

[@TheJaniebabe]

Ahhhhhh... never knew that, thank you

[@joquail000]

Here’s a link to the video, it’s a bit cringe since it was made in the late 1980’s?? But a very sad story, my uncle died from mesothelioma (asbestosis). The mining companies knew of the risk years before making it public to the employees 😢 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZfVoqBsYrF2p9U

[@leandabee]

Yes, great song!! Funny, I've been binge listening to Midnight Oil for last few weeks 😁👌

[@discrete1163]

Ryan if you want to see another side of Australians.. react to 'housos' lol..

[@sarahgreen8409]

That does not represent all Australia, it’s a dumb comedy show, if it represents u, go back to ur trailer park, watch it and lose some more brain cells, the rest of us are fine without it thanks

[@gaiasisters]

YES, would also love to see Fat Pizza too, an ep with Toula in it

[@martinkuliza]

it'd be good for him to see HOUSO'S VS AUTHORITY

[@NickKerr-e7v]

14:27 inner Aussie almost got out 😅

[@shez5964]

Regarding the pink lake. The one featured is in Western Australia but in the state of Victoria on the other side of the continent Lake Tyrell is also a Pink lake and in recent years prior to Covid travelling restrictions was becoming very popular with international travellers and photographers particularly the Japenese.

[@gregneil612]

Hi Ryan Wave Rock was once used as. Water catchment system. The small wall around the top was built and supplied the water for the area. In the 90s there was a surfboard mounted for tourist photos.

[@jayweb51]

South Australia has a unique lake which is pink on one side and blue on the other side, called Lake MacDonnell.

[@martinkuliza]

It'd be funny if they had a McDonald's across the road LOL

[@kristinahebdon686]

I went to South Australia’s own wave rock called Pildappa Rock on the beautiful Eyre Peninsula last February. It’s a bit of a trek to get to but it is very impressive!

[@emmalloyd4973]

The dreaming or the dream time is, in its most basic form, the Australian indigenous peoples story for the formation of the world and significant cultural features.

[@grandmothergoose]

The purpose of a hexagon is to have 6 equal sides, which makes intellectually devoid humans make up all sorts of conspiratorial reasons why it exists and what it means. It's well known what makes Hillier Lake pink - the microorganisms that live in it. It's not the only pink lake in Australia, just the most well-known. Rain and clouds don't filter pollutants, they collect them and drop them to the ground in the form of acid rain, which is much less of a problem for Australia than most other places, except when our skies are full of bushfire smoke.

[@maddyspinks]

I live a couple hours away from Frazer island and have been to lake McKenzie and the pics of it really don’t do it justice. It is absolutely stunning in person and the sand is so fine you can clean your jewellery with it.

[@markherron8030]

Fraser

[@maddyspinks]

@@markherron8030 I’m dyslexic and have a very hard time spelling, if auto correct says I’m good to go then that’s the best I can do. Thank you ever so much for pointing out how incompetent I am, truly.

[@markherron8030]

@@maddyspinks You have chosen to interpret my ‘correction’ as some sort of ‘attack.’ I am sorry for any offence taken as it was not intended. I agree with you that it is absolutely stunning!

[@SuperCraigjack]

If you want your tshirt to truly represent Australia the human figure needs to be being swooped by a magpie

[@verabezz4116]

Always enjoying your videos and comments. FYI, at #7 I noticed the word 'Parramatta River' which is a river that runs west of Sydney Harbour. There are 3 other shipwrecks in the area which is called 'Homebush Bay' just near the Sydney Olympic Park. I might go check it out as I never knew about this either - Thanks again Ryan

[@barbararees604]

The hexagon is supposed to be the strongest structure you can build, using the least amount of material - according to bees. The octagon however, is used in rituals to contact otherworldly entities.

[@raymondbabb1970]

Umpherston cave is in Mount Gambier, South Australia.

[@Aussie565]

And yes I’ve been there Very beautiful

[@lynfreeman2383]

Ryan, check out the Australian silo art trail, if you haven’t seen it already. There are incredible murals painted on the sides of huge grain silos . Amazing how they have created them with local characters, birds, etc They are real Australia writ large!

[@azanterose6526]

Cooper Pedy & Andamooka are both good places to visit to & try opal mining. Cooper Pedy is pronounce couper pee dee. I'm glad they included something from South Australia, it doesn't get forgotten about sometimes.

[@becp488]

It's actually Coober Pedy, with a B. I had to command look it up because I always thought it was 'Cooper' as well. Feels like a Mandela effect kind of situation.

[@richardnaylon3675]

How you doing mate? I'm actually from Coober Pedy and yes most of us have underground homes. Its not a strange place to say but the locals are very friendly. If you are considering a visit I suggest you try our local pizzas it was voted Australia's best.

[@fender282]

Seeing as most of this is Western Australia check out horizontal falls..awesome

[@cariaus3758]

Loving the T shirt, maybe you should include it in some merch for your channel.

[@mathewaitken938]

I’ve been to shell beach. When I was a kid I stayed in Denham and ate at a restaurant that was completely made out of shell blocks. Just up the road from Monkey Mia where we swam with dolphins. Beautiful place.

[@SH-qs7ee]

5:33 Pretty sure I can see my house in that photo. G'day from Kalgoorlie, love your videos; and awesome to see my home town get a mention.

[@kachdragonfly]

Yep. 1:51 Umpherston sinkhole is in Mount Gambier, in SOUTH Australia, not Western Australia. There are a few sinkholes there.

[@xenamerry]

Lake McKenzie is a 'perched' lake, which means it contains only rainwater, no groundwater, is not fed by streams and does not flow to the ocean. The sand and organic matter at the base of the lake form an impervious layer, preventing rainwater from draining away. The sand here is pure, white silica and is not only beautiful to look at but feels beautifully soft to walk on. The sand acts as a filter, giving the water its clarity and helping to make the water so pure it can support very little life.

[@sallyariad4623]

We have many weird place names in Aus. After you visit Lake Disappointment, you can visit Mount Misery, Cape Tribulation, and Mount Despair. Then make a quick trip to Desolation and Lost Hope. Sounds like an enticing itinerary for a tour. We also have towns called Banana and Orange...

[@heartflame503]

The hexagon shape is for communicating with submarines it uses very low frequencies that can penetrate the water and it uses a lot of power as well. It can also communicate through space to satellites.. however because its very low frequency it can't send a lot of data only very slow messages .. slow as morse code .. and simple commands. it also only sends cant really receive.. so it sends comands like Hey sub we need to talk.. and the sub surfaces to "talk"

[@petersmith4943]

The “Wangjina” cave paintings go back up to 40,000 years… but most recent ones are at least 300 years old.

[@tcmay5517]

best time to go to wave rock is when its raining turns into a waterfall and the colours are amazing

[@michealbohmer2871]

Uluru (Ayres Rock) is mostly under the ground. It continues for approximately 6km (almost 4 miles).

[@travelsolo2677]

Australia has many pink lakes, this one is the most famous as it is big

[@melsalteraustralia]

Hey Ryan. As everyone has mentioned already the sink hole is in South Australia, where I live, several hour drive for me but I went last year, its sooo cool.....

[@heartflame503]

the ship HMAS Karangi is in Sydney .. besides a nice park Bicentenial Park .. lots of photos have been taken .. you can see a bird hide close by where you can see some nice bird life !

[@martinkuliza]

Karangi isn't near Bicentennial park it's near Rhodes, it's in the Parramatta River so if you were to go to Ryder Blvd and look out across the river toward parra you'd be looking in the correct direction Nowhere near Bicentennial Park so toward Parra perhaps the Homebush, Lidcombe area

[@gabrielle8965]

It was well known since 1947 about the dangers of asbestos leading to mesothelioma……my kids father died from it this year, a horrible painful death. Look up “Blue Sky Mine’ by Midnight Oil…

[@joquail000]

Yay PO Box and “not” Merch!! I love the t’shirt, I was admiring it during the video, I’d love to buy one 👍🏼

[@allanhindmarch7323]

I'm in Perth and been to wave rock. It's pretty cool. Awesome view from the top too.

[@westaussiebrumby5425]

6:30 There are still 3 people in Wittnoon, It is mainly cleaned up, however, still too dangerous to go through, I always go around and take the Newman road if going inland.

[@FionaEm]

The narrator sounds a bit drunk in places 🤔☺️ As for Uluru, it's even more amazing close up, with craters, crevices and even a waterfall (yeah, a waterfall in the desert!) Climbing was banned altogether a few years back. The narrator got a couple of names wrong. Coober "Pedy" is pronounced "peedy". "Fraser" Island is pronounced the way it's spelled, not "Frasier".

[@zombiemeg]

I think the narrator was American. His “Aussie” accent sounded very suspicious and he pronounced many places incorrectly.

[@FionaEm]

@@zombiemeg I don't think he was pretending to be Australian (?) but he still sounded a bit pie-eyed, lol.

[@shell__5893]

Wittenoom is a absolutely stunning place to visit! sits on the outside of Karijini National Park, which is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited!

[@scottmcphee2076]

I've been to Wave Rock during a vacation/holiday to Perth. I can confirm what others have said here. At Wave Rock some of the foreign tourists had their pictures taken and did surfing poses.

[@terrymcgrath4364]

Ryan if your looking for another strange Australian thing you should look up The Marree Man

[@davejensen7922]

The Riptides did a song called Wave Rock back in the late seventies it’s a cool tune

[@mathewaitken938]

Mate, you should a video on Tassie. Love your reactions.😅

[@Plantman2013]

Hey Ryan, just received this video 'Every Bricklayer Ever' Garn vlogger. Cheers

[@godamid4889]

Uluru is the remnants of a folded mass of land - back in the day, it was a sea bed and then it was folded by tectonic forces, which is why it has those vertical lines - they are layers that once were horizontal. The shirt is funny mate, I like it.

[@justinfitzpatrick191]

I've been living in Perth for 23 years and I haven't been to any of these places, I really must get out there and see more of my adopted country.

[@silenttitan416]

The hexagon thing is not just comms. It's one of hundreds all around the world, they are all on lay line intersection points.

[@becp488]

I never knew about that sink hole garden. I need to go there now.

[@garryellis3085]

The Wanjina alien rock art from the Kimberley (northern WA) is approx 5,000 years old.

[@kazwilson425]

#7 is close to where I work. Its really rather pretty with all the mangrove trees growing out of the ship. Its a favourite for photographers to get to.

[@georgemoore7186]

We have a lot of great sites in Australia, trouble is they are all a million miles apart, if you are on Holidays you have to pick ONE and leave it at that, Trying to visit the Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock and the Pink lake all in one Holiday would be impossible, even if you had your own Private Jet you still wouldn't be able to stay long enough to enjoy it, It is BY FAR the greatest country on Earth in which to live your life!

[@crashq8784]

The sinkhole is in Mt Gambier, South Australia. Brilliant place to visit. Mt Gambier is a dormant volcano and the crater is filled with a lake that turns a magnificent blue at certain times of year. Worth a visit if you ever travel here.

[@AlahnaAnset]

I grew up in Hyden Western Australia.....home of wave rock I actually did a tv ad for Cadbury chocolate when I was a kid there........gets a lot of tourists out there just to take pictures of the wave.

[@pameladietz1548]

I live in Mount Gambler South Australia where Umpherston Sink hole is located. The walls of the sinkhole has many little crevices and at night time little Ringtail Possums come out to be fed by visitors. Our possums are marsupials that have pouches for babies. Cute. The area is volcanic and features many sink holes and caves. Quite beautiful. You should check out our Blue Lake. It is iconic, quite beautiful and there should be info about it on th ne, maybe KZbin

[@hazza7757]

Rainbow beach in Queensland is really cool, right next to Fraser Island mentioned in the video, which is completely made of sand. Tangalooma wrecks as well.

[@rover790]

Tangalooma wrecks are on Moreton Island south of Caloundra. Rainbow Beach is on the mainland north of Caloundra and close to the bottom of Fraser Island

[@hazza7757]

@@rover790 oh yeah i know, probably not the greatest grammar

[@SharonSmithAus]

Uluru is called a land iceberg as most of it is under the ground. 348 m is above the ground but 24000m or 24km is underground.

[@peterclancy3653]

Wave rock has a small concrete barrier that follows a contour near the top of the rock to catch water for local water supply

[@dudz1871]

Lake disappointment is awesome the Calvert ranges near there is one of my favourite place Ive camped...

[@jakemaxwell3709]

Ive actually been to the hmas karangi shipreck not on it but on the land right next to it in homebush bay on a school excursion earlier this year

[@annab5961]

I’ve been to the sink hole in Mt Gambier SA it has a beautiful garden in it like that one shown

[@gregorturner9421]

harold e holt comms center is/was a ultra low frequency antenna array designed to send signals to submarines underwater. the wavelength needed is so huge that each antenna has to be like a kilometer long. I know this because i was a radio operator on submarines. its been all but decommissioned because satcoms are now preferred as means of comms.

[@IdonthaveatwittersoFoff.]

Mate, I’ve lived in a few states here in Aus but you teach even me a few things with your vids 👍😁🇦🇺

[@helmuthschultes9243]

Hex pattern is a 'secret' US radio centre for naval and especially submarine communications. About 1 mega watt transmitter complex.

[@plightbody]

Harold holt base is a submarine communication base that utilities ultra low frequency radio communication to connect subs in all of the Pacific and Indian oceans

[@emilyarlington7586]

I just tried to buy one of your t-shirts but when I went to checkout, it wouldn't let me change the country from USA to Australia

[@pugman99]

Happy Arvo Ryan, a few corrections... yes, sadly, all rainwater is polluted; since the advent of chemicals used in farming etc, many chemicals evaporate with H2O, proving this happened when they have found DDT in Antarctica, it has never been used there. Also, Cooper Pedy is pronounced Cooper Pee Dee... not 'peddy'. Been there ...for one night! Sky looks great, but don't wander around at night, so many drilling holes you can literally disappear, takes a long time to find you... there are signs! The pink lake... one scratch and all that salt is gonna hurt you! I've never heard of anyone swimming in it... and that is the only attraction there! Better to go see the adorable quokkas! seee yaah!

[@stockrok_3202]

For number 12, I remember I randomly found it in google earth, one day I was just looking around and I zoomed in and found it, no one I knew had ever seen it and I live in Western Australia

[@lindajohnson9282]

Australia wasn’t always as arid as it is now. Wave Rock was worn down and smoothed out by fluvial action, i.e. moving water. There is so much about Australia that most people understand… we’re just a lil ol’ colonial outpost, where kangaroos and emus run rampant everywhere you look 😉

[@silenttitan416]

Well we did have MASSIVE inland seas back then, woulda been so much greener. Way less land, but more greenery

[@anthonypirera7598]

Thanks for that video I enjoyed seeing the strange things around Australia

[@nataliegrant3215]

Wave Rock is a weird but cool spot. Makes a good echo 👌