Exploring the Tablelands' Dark History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Got a real quick one for you guys this week!
We've been blessed with a couple of rare dry days in the midst of the wet season and it's BEAUTIFUL outside, so we thought we better take the opportunity to get out on the bikes!
In this video we make our way to a lesser known site of historic significance on the Tablelands and take you guys along for the ride.
It appears the Patreon credits have not made it into this video - Sorry!
Big thanks to Jess, Linda, Liz, Logan & John.
Filmed on Djirbalngan Country
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Sorry guys, I forgot to include the Patreon credits in this video! 🤦♂
HUGE thanks to Jess, Linda, Liz, Logan & John!
Won't happen again!
We live just down underneath Bones Knob. That steep climb up Bulankoff Road is our Main access. Love the videos
Oh wow! What a lovely spot to live!
Thanks so much. We've been exploring much of the Tablelands - will need to get more videos made!
Cheers!
Bonnie, I feel that same sadness 😢
Wow...never knew that story but not surprised as most of these murders were swept under the carpet. Great history lesson albeit sad!
Hey guy's, Great to see you having a break in the weather enough to get out on the bikes ( Their looking slightly lighter than earlier days 😉) The weather here on the Gold Coast has been near perfect the last week apart from the wind which is pretty much a constant this time of year. But I've found that if I head out before sunrise and head in the direction the wind will be coming from when it gets up, I get a nice cool ride early, and a cracking tailwind to get me home.
( I know it's cheating 😀)
Colonization has so many dark tales, not only in this country, but right around the world.
Thankfully some of us have grown.
Hope you are doing well, and great to see a new video 👍
P.S. Yes Dave I know you are a Hendo, I remember in one of the early videos you mentioned it.
Where you called Hendo ? or do they not use nick names like that in the mother country ?
My parents where both from England, I think my Dad was from around the Chatham or possibly Kent area ( North London ?) and was in the royal Navy. But I think his family was originally from Newcastle way.
You're not wrong about the light bikes! I loaded mine up a couple of days ago for a bit of a shakedown ride and it felt soooooooooo heavy! 😅
That's a good technique for getting rides in. I used to always ride really early, but my new job up here is in a brewery and it's sort of messed with my routine a bit!
Back home they tended to call me "Hendy" rather than "Hendo." My uncle gets "Hendaz."
Funny that you say your father's family is from Newcastle because I'm from not far from there. It's a pretty common Northeast English name!
Cheers!
TPS: Sorry, D&B, I meant to mention the audio earlier. Are you using a new camera? The reason I ask is that I noticed the sound coming through is just TERRIFIC now! It's coming through loud and clear - and in stereo! Sounded great with my headphones on.
Awesome news!
Is it the on-bike audio that has improved?
I recently got a windscreen for the GoPro that I use on the bike and was able to turn off the awful wind-reduction that it does in-camera. I wish I'd gotten one earlier!
@@VeloObscura Yes, on-bike. When you were walking the bike up a hill, with commentary, I could hear what I presume was Bonnie's shoes on the grass/gravel in the right ear! Love that kind of thing!
Wonderful!
The GoPro audio has been a bit of a nightmare to deal with and I really wish I'd figured this solution out earlier!
Thanks a ton for letting me know!
We're always learning! 😅
Very sad history. The squatters obviously haven't wanted reports of it to get out. Terrible things happened back when.....
Pretty terrible. It seems the whole area up here had its fair share of atrocities. I even saw an article about a whole river being poisoned to wipe out the Indigenous settlement downstream. Awful.
It's more recent history as a WW2 radar station is quite interesting. That's what the buildings at the top originally were, but have since been converted into a dwelling. I only found that out after the fact.
The massacre story seems unlikely. I don't mean to say killings didn't happen all over the Tablelands. The early settler colonial period involved considerable killing of Aboriginal people, but this was almost always finding 'camps' and shooting them up. There is a probably true local story of a prisoner being handcuffed to a tree for a later pickup that never eventuated, but mostly if handcuffs were bothered with, the prisoner went before the courts. The cliff story probably comes from an earlier famous event involving Inspector Johnstone (for whom the Johnstone River was named) at the Leap, near Mackay where an Aboriginal women jumped to her death to evade Native Police (it is said the daughter she carried with her over the fall survived).