These Things in Australia are Unbelievable...

[@perryschafer5996]

Walking barefoot across a park full of bindis is a rite of passage for Aussie kids.

[@tanyiabailey4792]

see how fast and how far you can run before you have a foot full of bindis

[@phylliswaldron124]

Called wooden feet.

[@peterrobbins2862]

​@@tanyiabailey4792one step

[@AshlyWalsh]

Yes when I was a kid we would do the initiation from preschool to school by walking over a two metre wide strip of bindis Most would get about half a metre across and would be sreaming ouch with every step usually only 3-4 more jumps And then you'd sit pulling them out try to be brave, holding back the tears.

[@darthgeros5863]

just being bare feet in general is rite of passage for Aussies. Hardened and weathered toes

[@bwoolno]

The ship is a genuine photo. The Pasha Bulka drifted and was beached during big storms and seas at Nobbys Beach. My brother was an engineer on one of the tugs trying to free it

[@thatowensbloke]

My home town, I remember driving in to see it. Dominated the horizon! Local channel put out a documentary recently with a segment on that photo - including exactly where it was taken. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYG3Y6etaa5gp7Msi=CRIMqBRweUhFb9NS

[@la-go-xy]

Seaworthy ships are HUGE! You just never realize until you're close (at a canal, a tug boat...)

[@suzet8425]

Almost every Novacastrian who was living in Newcastle in 2007 has their own photo of this event. This particular image has become famous because the photographer captured the perspective so well as he had the equipment to take the photo from a distance. I have read an interview with the photographer and I'm pretty sure he took the photo from the cathedral.

[@howthecow7513]

I remember the wind being that strong id lean into it and it would hold me up

[@Zygon13]

@@howthecow7513 I had to walk back to my car in Cooks Hill holding onto polls only to find it in water over the bonnet. Got a lift to a pub where i sheltered for some hours then walked home in water over my bottom. Luckily in a flat so only lost what was in the laundry and a lot of my garage. People from all over Australia came to see the sights, have so many great photos.

[@RickyisSwan]

Formally a carpenter dealing with asbestos cement sheets for patio overhangs etc, cutting them up I would be covered in the white dust, in eyes, ears, mouth and everywhere. Aged 80 years old and never had any health issues, must be one of the lucky ones.🦘🇦🇺

[@vinsgraphics]

Dad worked in construction in WA during the late 60s, early 70s when iron ore towns were built in the Kimberley’s. He was a roofer, carrying sheets of corrugated asbestos sheets up a ladder to the roof. Did a lot of other crazy stuff, truck driver for many years, worked in gold processing with cyanide, etc. Went in 2011 at 67 from leukemia.

[@stephenbedford1395]

Australia and Antarctica were joined together some 60-70 million years ago.

[@davidbrown9015]

I saw the picture of the kids playing in the blue asbestos posted elsewhere recently. The associated article or comments claimed that both of these boys died in their mid 30s of asbestos related causes. Wittenoom was officially removed from the Western Australian maps in 2007 and legislation was introduced to forcibly remove the last three residents in 2015. This ghost town located at the mouth of the Wittenoom Gorge is the home of Australia’s greatest industrial disaster. However, being in the Hamersley Range, it can lay claim to being located in one of the most beautiful areas of the Pilbara. The warning signs are clear: ‘DANGER - Asbestos Tailings Risk Area. Inhaling Asbestos Fibres May Cause Cancer • Avoid dusty situations • DON’T let children play in the tailings.’ ☹

[@Charleybear70]

Could be that guy Ryan that reacts to Australia stuff

[@davidbrown9015]

@@Charleybear70 May have been!

[@infin8ee]

They knew that there was potential for health problems but (was it Hardies?) as usual, the locals paid the price. Kid's will be kids

[@nickislade5533]

@@infin8eehardies is also paying out for asbestos related diseases Wittenoom was owned by Australian Blue Asbestos Ltd. My uncle died from asbestosis

[@nickislade5533]

The township is cleared nothing there, even road signs no longer point to it

[@adpop750]

People that don't live near the ocean and/or harbors often have no idea how big this sea-going ships really are.

[@gregoryjohn4]

Newcastle is located on Australia's east coast and is the world's biggest coal port. It is visited daily by huge bulk cargo ships to load up coal for export around the world. The East Coast of Australia can also be battered by cyclonic winds when an East Coast Low forms offshore. Such a storm formed on the holiday weekend in June 2007, sending ships offshore looking for deep water to ride out the ferocious storm. Four ships got into trouble, and one of these was the Pasha Bulker, which ended up being pushed ashore onto Nobbys Beach, just to the south of the entrance to the Port. The sight of a massive bulk carrier aground on the beach, dwarfing everything nearby, was something to behold. It became an odd tourist attraction for the next month as salvage crews tried to refloat the vessel. Miraculously, they eventually succeeded, much to the relief of everyone in the city. These storms often ended up being nicknamed locally after the ship that came to grief. That storm in 2007 quickly became known as the "Pasha Storm" and residents of Newcastle at that time all have their anecdotes about that night, where they were, the ferocity and the terrible aftermath. Tragically, there were some people who lost their lives that night, swept away by storm waters. Frogmen went to work swimming down one of the city's main streets, rescuing people from their stranded cars. Another famous East Coast Low occurred in May 1974 when the large bulk carrier the Sygna came to grief on Stockton Beach, just on the north side of the harbour entrance. That ship could not be salvaged, and its rusting remains were a constant reminder of the cyclonic "Sygna storm" that lashed Newcastle that night. Only in the last few years has that wreck finally been fully reclaimed by the sea, its rusting remains disappearing below the waves after nearly half a century. So yes, that photo of the mighty Pasha Bulker aground on Nobbys Beach was absolutely real and not photoshopped.

[@bexbee2]

Poor old Sygna is nearly no more sadly😢. I think we're mad now! What about a cool tourist attraction. Clearly people are getting hold of the photo now and putting up posts like" must be photoshopped" talk about misinformation that's finest 🙄.

[@SusanneSpence]

OMG at first I thought it was two photos

[@janwahcaban2022]

Bindi's are nature's lego!

[@mewtont3844]

Three corner jacks are way worse

[@jeannettetranter6234]

Pasha Bulker ship that run aground on Nobbys Beach Newcastle NSW is definitely real . Amazing rescue getting the crew off the ship in horrendous conditions. A day people from “ Newie” will always remember.

[@AndrewFishman]

Native Australian bees are truly stingless.

[@siryogiwan]

only some are

[@r.fairlie7186]

@@siryogiwan Yes, and I suspect that the two painful bee stings I felt a few years ago were local residents.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Ok, but where was the honeycomb? 🤯

[@Maireadmoss]

More than 1000 species. Aussiebee website

[@Antechynus]

Native bee honey eaten in excess gives really bad diarrhoea....

[@joesky011]

That "bizarre" stairway sculpture was a part of the annual Sculpture by The Sea exhibition near Bondi in Sydney.

[@mjconroy1957]

Yep! and what album is it from and by whom?

[@juliebird5307]

You haven’t lived until you’ve had a Bahn mi. It’s Vietnamese and has the best, crispiest roast pork , salad,coriander, sweet chilli sauce and if you like it spicy, chilli sauce. It’s fantastic

[@GiveMeSpaceTravel-bg8td]

I too played in asbestos tailings in Yampire Gorge in 1968. I consider myself to be lucky to still be here. Mango Smoothies are tops, especially if its with fresh mangoes. Bahn Mi is basically a Vietnamese Salad Roll. There is a big Vietnamese community in Australia and I used to grab a Bahn Mi once a week for lunch when I worked in the city.

[@2btriggerhappy2010]

From Australia. I have just completed a mass planting of Australian native plants species to encourage the attraction of native bees, for the specific reason they will outnumber the introduced European wasps... and irradiate them.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Brilliant idea, and better hives are also being created! 👍

[@littleblackcat2273]

irradiate?

[@FreyaofCerberus]

@@littleblackcat2273 I was just about to comment this. I assume he meant eradicate unless native bees have unlocked nuclear weapons....

[@Maireadmoss]

They are working with the glow in the dark fungi but just keep it to yourself.

[@Kayenne54]

@@FreyaofCerberus probably autocorrect decided on a "better" word. Or that's been my experience...lol.

[@gold4leaf]

yep the Pasher Bulka happened, it ran aground during a huge storm on Nobby's beach Newcastle ... saw it with my own eyes, and the boat was huge in the beach

[@johnoconnor7221]

The Pasha Bulka - I'm probably among the crowd there at Nobbys Beach. It was mayhem in Newcastle.

[@michaelnemeth4500]

Me too

[@bobhawke7373]

I watched it get beached.

[@bexbee2]

Yep right their with you John 😂 being i was a local hoon town lapper back in the day 😂. As soon as I heard there was a ship, I hulled ass to go & see it. It really was something else.

[@christrees664]

The ship looks big as it has run aground. Most ships you would be used to seeing are going through the water with half the ship under the water. As it ran aground you get to see what is under the water on a bulk ship. The little white lines are 1m spaced markers that indicate the depth of the ship underwater.

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

I saw the pasha on nobbys beach. It was amazing. Also that Nobbys beach pavilion is where that famous video of the old man kicking the brown snake happened.

[@6226superhurricane]

i was working in a steel plant in newcastle the night the pasha bulka ran aground. it rained that hard the drainage system was overwhelmed and the water blew the huge heavy steel floorplates off the drains and spurted out like a movie. the water was running through the steel plant like a 3 foot deep river. flooded the mill was total chaos. loved every minute of it.

[@garros]

native Aussie bees don't have stings :) It's our one animal that isn't trying to kill you, ironically

[@tealkerberus748]

Australian scorpions are also pretty minor. They do sting, and it will hurt, but they're nothing compared to scorpions in other parts of the world. I reckon they looked at our spiders and just gave up the arms race.

[@justkerry173]

There are over 2000 types of native bee, most have stings. Not generally an issue for people though.

[@aaronwebb7090]

With the ship, the reason that it's so hard to comprehend is that you normally don't see the full scale of them in photos. If you look at the bow you will see a protruding nose that extends about half way up the hull, that is normally underwater when the ship is fully ladened and just a bit out of the water when unladen. The Pasha Bulker was 738 ft long and 105 feet wide and while I couldn't find out how tall she was specifically I do know that she was a Panamax, meaning built to fit in the Panama Canal and so she would have a draft of 13-15m meaning that line where the hull paint changes from red to pink is about 13m high which suggests she is about 30-35M high or about 98-115 feet tall. While not the biggest ships floating out there, impressive to see none the less.

[@la-go-xy]

A ship diesel engine has cylinders bigger than a human!

[@HakleberryFinn]

These are some nice Informations. But: I don´t think that "small" Stripe down ther would make the difference. The Point is, you normally wouldn´t See these two things together on One Picture. Simple as that.

[@MargotHypnos]

12:13 we call them bindi prickles. we find then stuck throughout our cats fur.

[@robosock380]

I was brought up calling them Farmer's Friends. Or Burs.

[@AndyViant]

When we went into the desert March 2023 we had 6 Jerry cans of diesel for the two 4x4s, so about 140 litres reserve, plus 70 litres and 80 litres in our 2 tanks. That probably would not have made 1000 km range given our fuel consumption in the hundreds of kilometers of sand dunes, although for a good formed dirt road it would easily have done the task. I think from memory using most of the 70 litre tank got me under 300km. Was on low fuel range zone on the gauge when we got into Birdsville. Was pretty tough going out there.

[@andrewvolf2916]

Cappuccino coast happens after storms in Queensland. Couple days later it would arrive in South West Rocks.

[@williamdom3814]

I thought it was the result of the sewage outlet at Bondi beach.

[@daveg2104]

@@williamdom3814 The sewerage outlets are well out to sea - deep ocean outfalls. So there shouldn't be any more Bondi cigars. We did recently have black "tar" balls wash up on the Eastern Suburbs beaches. Turns out they were composed of stuff consistent with sewerage. Sydney Water said it was nothing to do with them.

[@steveskrobot9496]

Yes I remember that beeched container ship off Newcastle, NSW a few years ago now. Looked insane how close to shore it was, and the size of it!

[@steveskrobot9496]

Bindy's hurt when you tread on one!

[@top40researcher31]

During the 2007 Pasha Bulker storm, wind speeds reached 105 kilometers per hour (km/h) at 6:21 AM on June 8 and 124 km/h at 1:32 AM on June 9. The storm was an east coast low (ECL) that affected the east coast of Australia between Illawarra and the Hunter. The sygna Storm Early the following morning, with winds gusting at 165 km/h (89.1 kn), the captain issued orders to set sail. However, even with its engines at full-ahead Sygna was unable to make any headway and the storm turned it parallel to the beach and it ran aground. The storm that i vividly remember it was classed as a hurricane even though it was an east coast low that wern't reconised back then the night that newcastle will never forget in living memory with the sygna storm of 1974 at wind speeds at 165km that record still stands and i will never forget that night it was terrifying

[@andreamartistry]

G’day Ian, I live near Lake Cakora and I know the photographer who takes the Tree of Life photos and they are 100% legit. The branches of the tree are made visible by tea tree oil that runs into the lake from the wetlands further up stream. The mountains you see in the distance are Clarence Peak. If you’d like to see more cool things from this region. Look up the Jacaranda Festival at Grafton. I think you’d really like it. Have a wonderful day. 😊

[@headswillroll89]

Derry making it to KZbin compilations now! I think the pinnacle rocks in town are cool too.

[@LTM]

The prickle is called burr medic. Dreadful in a pets hair. Bindii is worse to get in your foot though, not quite as bad as a double gee prickle!

[@bok1080]

Medic burr, just an inconvenience, Bindii, a bit spikey, double gee, more spikey but no danger in thongs or better, but have encountered one called a 'five star', on the plant it grows as a 5 pointed star, but when it dries it splits apart (down each of those points) to form 5 segments each with 2 half points from the star, and a 3rd point from the center of the star, and these stand up like a caltrop and WILL go through thongs (and motorbike tires) OUCH!

[@Michelle-s4z]

​@@bok1080The 5 star sounds appalling. I was terrorised by the double gees as a child.

[@Justforvisit]

3:50 About how to determine the age of old things: One of the most convenient ways would be the radiocarbon method, every element in the universe has a unique stable rate at which their nuclear structure falls apart over time and by looking at how much the nuclear structure has disintegrated over time you can make a pretty good assumption how old something is.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

It may possibly have once been a little green man! 😂

[@Maireadmoss]

Carbon dating for organic matter. Uranium -Lead dating has a maximum age of 4.5 billion years. Older than that, don't know the method.

[@stevennott6139]

12:20,there not bindies,there just annoying burs that get stuck to everything, they do not hurt to step on,bindies have a spike about 5mm long,and are moderately annoying, try a 3 corner jack they have spikes 10mm long and when stepped on go al the way to the bone and sometimes snap off,they definitely hurt

[@DannyDierickx]

The "cappuchino" sea foam is actually a natural event. We have this very regularly in Belgium, and i'd assume other coastal regions too. Here's some info : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_foam

[@David-k3r6c]

The "Bindie" prickle is bad, but the "Innocent weed" and the "Three Corner Jack", both in South Aust, are far worse.

[@Zygon13]

What about the cat head?

[@stevennott6139]

I'm in broken hill, and the corner jacks make bindies look like soft little flowers

[@leahhaines5713]

Three corner jacks are evil, they hurt like hell and definitely have nothing on prickles

[@tomthebadasscat]

Had some roo sausages last week and they're excellent. The Pasha Bulka was real and saw it IRL was a massive ship and couldn't believe they were able for to tow it back out to sea.

[@maryannwhitlock8429]

The photo of the Pasha Bulka is genuine.... I was living in the area at the time of the massive storm....the winds were like a freight train going past my house.... I thought the house was going to collapse... The ship was a big spectacle for weeks until they managed to refloat it....

[@MargotHypnos]

4:44 its called a dendritic watershed

[@jesamindee6783]

I'll leave you with an Aussie greeting....avagoodweekend and don't forget the Aeroguard!

[@mike_onevia6465]

donfaggotthebushmansm8

[@carolineb3527]

Haha! That took me back 40 years, when I landed in Oz. We weren't allowed to get off the plane for a while, then two burly men got on. They walked down the aisles, each with two giant aerosol containers - one in each hand - spraying the passengers as they went. Then, still coughing and spluttering, we had to get off the plane and walk across sponge mats soaked in chemicals. And then I was greeted by my friends who promptly sprayed me all over with Aeroguard. This is how the land of more poisonous creatures than the rest of the world put together welcomes innocent visitors from the UK where pretty much the only thing that will hurt you is a stinging plant! 😁

[@lynnm6413]

@@carolineb3527 yeah…imagine nowadays, the first asthmatic would pass out from the pure stress and sue the airline

[@sandgroperwookiee65]

​@@carolineb3527 Yeah & I got got by one of those b@st@rds when in East Sussex in '90..so I don't feel so bad for you!🤣😁😉

[@Bellas1717]

@@carolineb3527 The bugs, some of them mere pests in the other parts of the world, would devastate our flora and fauna: mad cow, rabies, chikungunya, Zika virus, anthrax, Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), African swine fever (ASF) and Lumpy skin disease (LSD), crayfish plague, myrtle red rust strains... Sad that we didn't do that to early Brits who brought animals that became feral pests: rabbits, foxes, camels; and plants that became noxious weeds: prickly pear cactus, lantana, privet

[@gamingtonight1526]

The tree in the lake just shows how the world is made of fractals! Just zoom in on a leaf or something, and you'll see!

[@brettjames5265]

Stairway to heaven is a installation for Sculptures by the sea. Which happens once a year for 2 weeks.

[@rossrichards912]

that prickle thing is a Noorgoora bur, stand on them you'll know about it, they get stuck in your socks and on clothing when bush walking/hiking

[@billdaniel8310]

That stairway was an accident waiting to happen, I'm glad it's now gone.

[@lynnm6413]

It was roped off for a reason….Bondi Beach has an annual sculpture walk, starting/ending at Bondi, and going to Tamarama and Bronte When I visited in 2011, they had all kinds of them displayed around the drop and along the path….I took soooo many pictures, and there were huge crowds because it was too cold for Australian sentiments and no one was swimming…lol

[@oliveks82]

3:40 for some reason this meteorite creeps me out. the fact that its older than thievery planet I'm living on... I can barely wrap my mind around that fact. Jesus if it hadn't crash landed on earth maybe it would still be floating around in space up until our star exploded

[@anth5189]

At one stage they were joined. Gondwana.

[@Maireadmoss]

The combined landmass was called Gondwana. From memory India was part of it too.

[@221BBakerStreet]

Those "Spikey things on the ground" are called "Bindi eyes" or just "Bindies" for short. Or if you're a kid, just "prickles". They were really common in some species of grass, particularly Buffalo Grass, but I think they were able to breed them out, 'cause I haven't come across one in decades. But Bindi is the name of Steve Irwin's daughter. Named after a prickle. 😂😂😂

[@gregoryparnell2775]

If you are missing the Bindi's You can walk around my yard bare footed.

[@debbiebriscoe293]

@@gregoryparnell2775it took me 2 years to dig all the bindi’s out of my backyard & all I was using was a old kitchen fork best gardening tool ever. I still have some coming back up at the side of the house.

[@lynndally9160]

Feel free to come walk in my Bindi patches anytime you like 🤣

[@221BBakerStreet]

@@gregoryparnell2775 Yeah, nah... that's a pass.

[@grannym2880]

Lol, yeah came to say I'm forever on Bindi watch in my back yard. We've had rain & storms for the last week or so and everything's gone nuts out there.

[@mikeythehat6693]

The "spikey thing that hurts like Lego times infinity" is not even the worst "spikey thing" that you could come across. Google yourself the "Three Cornered Jack" that secretes itself all over the place in South Australia, those puppies will pierce shoe leather and car tyres, (well, maybe not car tyres, but we had an ongoing war with them as kids riding our bikes) if you step on one of those you're gonna know about it.

[@bobhawke7373]

I watched the pasha bulka fight the surf for two hours before it ran aground. When it ran aground it was facing out to sea, Then the huge storm waves that day spun it around about 130 degrees to end up facing the beach

[@pamelaallan5055]

Pasha Bulka weekend was crazy! That’s exactly how it looked coming towards it, it didn’t look real but it sure was! It stayed on the shore for a while too before they were able to tow it away. I got stuck in Newcastle that weekend as the roads between home and Newcastle were so flooded.

[@evilsaddist666]

I was at that beach when the Pasha Bulka hit, was one of the most amazing things I had ever seen. As a local we were more concerned that the ship would leak oil on our beach and ruin the reef it ran aground on. The ship took a chunk from the reef when it was removed .

[@redhammer9910]

The brown discolouration in the water is called tannin. It originates from natural Bushland and discolours most Australian river systems peaking in late winter.

[@AndyViant]

Stingless bees bite instead of sting. They do technically have stingers, but they can't really use them. but they evolved stronger mandibles to deliver a fairly aggressive bite. Think like an aggressive ant bite or a horsefly bite. But no allergic venom reactions, just varying degrees of painful bites. The downside is of course they can bite MULTIPLE times unlike a stinger. Many of the native honeybees are pretty placid though, you have to be doing a lot to get bitten.

[@ello_verity7667]

Does putting your freshly laundered clothes on count as ‘a lot’? Because that’s my usual crime when I get bitten 😂

[@suearnold7279]

The native bees are tiny and that was definitely to their advantage when the Hunter Valley had its infestation of the verroa mite. All honey bees were exterminated in an effort to control it, but the native bees were too small for the mite to survive on them.

[@perryschafer5996]

Those stingless native bees are called sugarbag bees as is the honey they produce.

[@kayacampbell197]

Pasha bulka storm was crazy. Flooding, trees down and power out for a lot of us around newcastle lower hunter and lake macquarie area. Ships waiting to come into port were told to go further out to sea.. this one didnt go far enough..

[@gezzac100]

I used to live in the Pilbara region of WA, iron ore country, and I can recall seeing the bulk carriers entering Port Hedland. If you were on one of the streets facing the harbour, Wilson, Anderson or Richardson Street, the empty bulk carriers entering the harbour werre huge, like a multiple level building rising above the land.

[@davecannabis]

i have a hive of stingless bees Tetragonula Carbonaria, im about to split it into 2 hives and harvest some honey

[@michaelmurphy4360]

It's been awhile I hope you and your lovely family are doing well with respect from Sydney New South Wales Australia, Brighton-Le-Sands

[@Arnaud58]

@09:17 Netherlands, May 2020. This "sea foam" is caused by algae. Five (experienced) surfers lost their lives in the surf in front of Scheveningen because the foam layer was meters high in places. Breathing was impossible there.👴😢😱

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Yes, I assumed it would be difficult to breathe in!

[@amandacoyne1663]

Where I grew up in Queensland Australia we called them Rollie Bures. The frothing at the beach is sea-foam caused by storm sergers basically it is sand and water and also happens in Queensland especially around Cyclone season.

[@AndrewFishman]

Why is that ship so big? Because it rode a wave in and was grounded on the sand, so was exposed well below the usual water line. You can see the part of the ship usually hidden by water.

[@Gordon_L]

It was empty when it ran aground.

[@la-go-xy]

Look at the "nose" below the bow: depending on how loaded the vessel is, the "nose" is supposed to be almost or completely under the surface.

[@grannyof12kids]

Not photoshopped it grounded during a storm, I LIVED THERE, the building is Fort Scratchley on top of the cliff above..It was an East coast low, we had to get our kids rescued from the movies as there was flooding.. I'll never forget

[@jamesf333]

Oh, no my friend. I have lived around the Newcastle area for years, and my wife and I took the kids in to see the Pasha up on the beach. We were watching choppers fly supplies over to it in high winds. Was impressive

[@colkellahan6676]

I'm a pestman and Australian native bee's dont have stingers and they are quarter the size of regular bee's, they are awesome to have in your garden, if you find a small hollowed out log not to big place it in your garden and hopefully they will make a hive.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Bahn mi, Vietnamese meat roll usually about 8 inches long

[@karenlittle8041]

Super yum too!

[@virtueofhate1778]

Meat roll? Banh mi is bread in Vietnamese.

[@RealHooksy]

@@virtueofhate1778it’s the generic name used for a Vietnamese style roll, usually filled with cold meat and salad ingredients. They are very popular where I live with many Vietnamese people living here. Taste great & usually a cheap meal.

[@virtueofhate1778]

@@RealHooksy Ok but what is a roll? Isn't it just a sandwitch?

[@RealHooksy]

@@virtueofhate1778 no, a roll is bread made to a size where you can eat it without cutting it, typically. IE: a bread roll. A larger version is called a loaf. The Vietnamese make bread rolls in the French baguette style, but shorter and fatter, influenced by their French colonists I believe. Then they put cold meat and veggies in them, and we call those Bahn Mi in Australia. We call a sandwich two pieces of sliced bread with stuff in the middle, but I guess any 2 piece of bread with stuff in the middle could be called a sandwich. That’s just how we roll 😎

[@Justforvisit]

6:17 Nope, that photo is indeed real, it's just an amazingly good "trick" with perspectives.

[@JankoHovora]

Just been to Australia two weeks ago and worst thing are flies. In cities it was ok, but once you step outside into the wild - every 5 second there is a fly to bite your face.

[@janemcdonald5372]

During that massive storm the crew were winched to safety from the ship by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. It was an amazing and incredibly brave feat to get them all off. This is actual footage of the rescue and you can see how marginal the conditions were: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXa2eWaZgt6ZZtU

[@RobNMelbourne]

The ship grounded on the beach at 6:35 is NOT photoshopped. As you found out, the coal carrier 'Pasha Bulker' grounded during a storm on Nobbys Beach, Newcastle NSW on June 8, 2007. The Pasha Bulker is huge as it carries coal exports from Australia to China. The picture was taken by local photographer Murray McKean. Check out Murray McKean Photography.

[@jonsant7232]

I drove up to Newcastle to see the Pasha on Nobbys beach it was incredible and the noise as the waves against it crashed against it was incredibly loud

[@lorrainenovelle-ph1ke]

I have driven across the Nullarbor 3 times. It is magnificent the first time, but ea h journey surprised me, with something new. 9n the 3rd crossing, I had an incident, I forgot to use cruise control. There was no traffic, everything was flat, and only small bushes, so no judging of speed. I looked at speedometer, I was doing 175kms per hour, and it felt smooth, but then slowed down and used cruise control.

[@MrBrenos]

If we could ever, somehow witness Sperm whales taking on giant squid. It would blow up the internet. They are the real giants of the earth and we don’t know a lot about their interactions, except they are brutal. That’s 1km under the ocean which is to far down and no light

[@kevintrodd3732]

Those K-roo kanga bangas are great. They also make a really good kangaroo burger Patty and the thin sliced sandwich steak is also great too, and tender👍I do get at least one of those weekly. And unfortunately the photo of the blue asbestos was taken before everyone found out how bad it was. Virtually every house has this on their front garden for aesthetics. I learnt allot about this when I was studying OHS&W. So sad…

[@cathybaldry7822]

I like the marinated in herbs kanga steaks. Really good for if you are low in iron but one does need to cook them all the way through or they are literally like hard Jelly that you will never get through

[@lynettegraves6261]

@@cathybaldry7822I chop the steaks up and make a stew with them. Very low and slow. It’s a great tasting meat! For a first timer, I’d highly recommend the minute steaks (thin ones).

[@Danger_Mouse_00]

Yes they are good kanga bangas. Seen two Brits cook them up and they liked them and it was their 1st time trying roo meat.

[@siryogiwan]

it's weird, I love roo, enjoy the snags, but not as much as straight meat and for some reason, minced roo doesn't taste good to me

[@lynnm6413]

I just loved the roo steaks, grilled and with this amazing plum-chili sauce so much, even the obvious distaste of my Australian couchsurfing couple wasn‘t enough to stop me enjoying that. Before any of you start it all up again: Yes, they are really cute, so are cows and sheep and deer and rabbits…and we eat them. Yes, they are your National animal…should have chosen the dream snake if you didn‘t want it to be eaten…like the Scottish have the unicorn…no danger there! If Australians would eat more Kangaroos and less cattle, the ground wouldn‘t be torn up, the methane from the cattle would‘t harm the ozone layer and it wouldn‘t affect the indigenous plants so much, not having to introduce foreign grass species Rant over! To all the tourists….it‘s delicious, you need to try that!

[@raystani8680]

I live in Newcastle where this happened. The photo is legit.

[@Flirkann]

Gives you an indication of the power of the storms when the water-line (brown band in the middle) is so far out from being pushed ashore

[@23rdsphotographyandaerials93]

The lens used in the Pasha Bulka photo adds to the weird perspective.

[@corex72]

That ship photo was in newcastle now australia. The ship is called the pasha bulker.

[@ianresc3615]

I like the lake that looks like Australia, because just like any other map it's missing Tasmania :D

[@Newylife]

Novocastrian here. The Pasha Bulka did indeed wash up on the shores of Nobby's beach. I have a photo of my then 4yo and I in front of it, from the ground, not on a hill like this photo was taken from. It was one of the worst storms we've had, and for all novocastrians old enough to remember, is one we'll never forget. I'll post the pic on insta for those who still think it's fake

[@bradleyholdom9677]

I remember going down with my dad to see the Pasha Bulka after those 2007 storms absolutely smashed the Hunter Valley. Was just 2 weeks straight of the heaviest rain ive ever seen, up until April 2015 anyway.

[@savvyshiela]

The stairs come from sculptures in the park near Bondi it is a yearly event. Yes we are a big continent. We have amazing inland river waterways and it is a mangrove area.

[@bexbee2]

Also, right to left of the light house and YES THE HUMONGOUS SHIPS sail into Port & still look like this.... just to the left of lighthouse 😂. Happy to send you plenty of pics & vids of the MASSIVE SHIPS as ive been walking along the break walls 😝. Yep beach froth is gross... and happens quite regularly. Think i have a vid at night of the beach foam.

[@lexsaunders1742]

Stairs are not there anymore. I was in a 15ft boat fishing with some mates south west Victoria when a great white shark swam past that was longer than the boat. Aussie bees don’t have stingers.

[@clabood]

Pasha Bulka is real. Everyone remembers where they were during that storm. We were driving up the east coast to Brisbane. It looked like we were driving into the apocalypse. I have never seen the sky so dark.

[@94hayster]

I'm not sure if the stairway sculpture is still in NZ but it was in the Christchurch botanical gardens, in a pond.

[@Thomamps]

The ship beached off Newcastle is smaller than the one that removed the bridge in Baltimore.

[@brettcourtenay569]

As the previous commenter mentioned...those spiky things on the Ground are called Bindis which is short for Bindi Eyes. They come in all sizes and spike numbers and they hurt like hell!

[@waynebuckland7879]

The size of the ship is unusual because most of what's normally under the water, is now visible. The pointy part of the bow is normally under the water.

[@vhwft]

0:52 that’s the dedicated opt out staircase. Makes it easier to find them after the fact.

[@WaxedMerkin]

Australian native bees are interesting, come as small as 2mm or for those playing in American 5/64

[@GazNeon]

The photo of the one way road outside the school. Those spikes in the road are called Gator Teeth or Sharks Teeth which is why the road sign shows the car getting eaten.

[@davefenton102]

On the topic of continental drift and earth changing. The north-western part of Tasmania is thought to have been created a long long long time ago from sediments eroded from the Grand Canyon and Antarctica

[@julesmarwell8023]

it;s 21.00 hours here in Melbourne. SUNNY AND MILD. 70 DEGREES F. Stormy up the nsw qld coast though

[@Mark-from-Melbourne]

It's currently 11am in Melbourne on Sunday 17th November and the temperature peaked between 2 and 3 AM at just over 30oC today!

[@AJHyland63]

I went there with a couple of friends and have a picture from the cliffs south of the beach ( right hand side of the picture) with that classic “pushing back the Leaning Tower of Pizza” type of my friend pushing the Pasha Buller back into the sea. That particular bindi isn’t so bad, but the ones in the outback (also known as the Devils Head locally in Mountain Isa) are shaped like the old Calatrope horse defences with 4 spikes in a tetrahedron formation where 1 spike ( 1/4” or 6mm long) is always facing up are the worst that I’ve encountered here.

[@justkateyo7841]

We have multiple ships that size pass our beaches everyday, they're coal ships. I was 19 when the pasha bulka washed ashore, it was during a freak storm which caused me to become stranded at one of the pubs and my only way home was to walk through flood waters - definitely not recommended 😂

[@bexbee2]

That's the Pasha bulka where i live, They lost control of in a major storm & it ended up on our Major Newcastle Beach (NSW). I drove home from Sydney in that storm. They're large trees and bushes in the middle of our freeways between Newcastle and Sydney. Tumbleweeds. I got home that were cars parked all over the roads but nobody insight it looked like a ghost town or something apocalyptic. Powers was out all over Newcastle. Eventually when I got to work I was told to go home, but while I was charging my phone my boss told me there was a ship on the beach so I went into inspect! Not Photoshopped I have a photo of it from one of my first camera phones😂. What the photo doesn't show you, is all the fridges (it was transporting) that were washing up on the beach for months later out of the shipping containers it lost 😂.

[@Senkoau]

The picture of Australia and Antarctica reminds of Terry Pratchetts diskworld where Australia was the counterweight continent.

[@bodybalanceU2]

the picture with the tanker in the background is at nobbys beach in Newcastle - all the big tankers go to Newcastle

[@laurencejames7948]

banh mi is a famous Vietnamese roll. Crispy outside and soft bread inside and fresh ingredients in the filling usually pork, Coriander (Cilantro), mint and grated carrot. Vietnam was a French colony for many years and the Vietnamese really learned some great culinary skills from the French. Also I work in the State Government Geological Survey lab in Perth Western Australia and have held a portion of the latest meteorite discovered in the Murchison region of WA. The first was found in the 1930s and is in the WA museum. The second was discovered in the same area by a prospector recently and was partially cut up for research and a segment given to the prospector who found it. It is older than the earth and weighs a huge amount. Very very heavy. The one in the Video is called the Murchison Meteorite but is actually in Victoria and no connection to the Murchison region of WA.

[@TheOnlyGazzLam]

16:10 "It's got this bite out of the middle" I'm curious, did you actually know that area is called The "Great Australian Bight" ?

[@michaelfink64]

We call those spiky things bindii.

[@rotisseriepancake]

Of course there are criminals in Australia, Australia was quite literally built by convicts mostly, in the beginning 🤣

[@jeffree9015]

That isn't a large ship, relatively. There are bulk carriers 5 times larger.