I've travelled the roads Malcolm took a few years back as a Satellite Remote tech. I spent 3 days in Kiwirrkurra setting up Internet connections for the teachers and nurses in the community. Met the Community Elder there who told me I was the first African man these kids have ever seen. They were pure the way they'd touch my skin and say "same color" they'd only see African people in TV the elder said. I felt privileged to be there and will always remember that trip. We then made our way further south to mining sites and eventually Port Hedland and Karatha through the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts. Amazing trip although its not for the faint hearted.
If you're relatively young, you've been inoculated with the good spirits life of the 1980's, not only the Australian bushes. Watch a video about the outbacks made today it does not have the magic and spirit found here.
Remote Aboriginal Communities Like Kiwirrkurra In The Gibson Desert Of Western Australia Have Always Fascinated Me With Aboriginal People Still Gathering Food From The Desert Like Goannas And Emus For Instance! Being So Far From Civilisation Might Seem Lonely But Maybe They Prefer It That Way!🪃🦘🦎🐍🏜🇦🇺
Watched this years and years ago, still great and I've since worked at and been to Kiwirrkurra 3 times, and Lake Mackay on route from Balgo, love that country! Malcolm Douglas, a true outback legend, RIP.
How does any person even know what "best life" is? You can only gauge experience looking back. "Best life" is another modern phrase without reality or meaning.
Love it! Thank you. My husband and I went to Australia in 1974 (emigrated). He worked at Port Stanvack outside Adelaide. We travelled after his job was finished to Ayers Rock, The Olgas and back down and around the coast and up to Brisbane where we got caught in a hurricane (I forget the same of it now), and ended up back in Sydney for several months with friends. We had to come home to Canada because of my husband's Father's health and also my Mother. Since then I have made 6 trips back for family I left there, and have travelled some of WA and up the coast to Broome and Darwin. These videos really take me back to the trip north from Adelaide to Ayers..Love from Canada!!
Every time I watch these docos about central Australia, I just think what a harsh landscape for people to survive in. To roam for miles just to find dinner, we have it so easy in the cities with all the modern conveniences and comforts. I don't think I'd last 10 minutes in that environment.
Cheers for posting this. It was mesmerizing. I really enjoyed Malcolm Douglas as a young bloke and none of that has changed. In some ways a rather sombre vid.
I found a bardi, wichetty grub, in a piece of wood near my house in the Philippines, I know what they look like as I have seen many back in Straya. Never met Malcolm, but left drums of fuel for his excursions in the Kimberley. R.I.P to a great man.
It is a desert non the less. 36 years later I still practice bush craft on the Skeleton coast of Namibia. I have hiked to the extremes. And have driven vehicles where they should not have been( probably the first time a modern vehicle has ever driven) the Namib is my home north to south. Melcom you should have met Ben Beytel. This man was at the forefront on Black Rhino( now critically endangered) conservation. When Ben passed his bull Rhino got poached in 2018. In Namibia 🇳🇦 the Black Rhino count is down to 216 animals. Shot only for Chinese Libido..,
I loved to watch him in german TV in the late 90s early 2000s. Then around 2015 he came back in my mind and I was shocked when googled about his death. My most favourite nature documentaries. Hope to visit a bit of the outback one day.
Thankyou Malcolm for bringing to us city slickers years ago the interior of Australia,years later I have worked and seen it all now,I live and work in the desert,everything is amazing were ever you go,cheers Malcolm.
At Kintore (Walungurru) during this time. 1988 - 1997. Been bogged, flat tyres, spearwood and bush food trips. Great times. Wonderful flowering plants after any rain. Did the same road trip with work mates over to the West.
This reminds me alot of Jack Thompson's Down Under Australia(?!) T.V. show that started around 1988 here via channel 10, that was a great show and this great too! It's a shame we don't have shows like these anymore or I'm just not aware of any modern variations here...
Every video produced by Mr Douglas was beyond amazing. Just taking one of his adventures would be a serious accomplishment. Aussie Aussie Aussie NE Fairbanks Alaska
Malcolm Douglas 1941-2010 Showing The Western Route From Ayers Rock And The Olgas Via The Gunbarrel Highway Built By Len Beadell 1923-1995 And His Crew Back In The 1950s! Showing The Way Of Life Of Aboriginals Of The Western Deserts Of The Northern Territory And Western Australia The Rral Outback!🤠🚘🚗🏜🐪🦘🐍🦎🇦🇺
Done the gun barrel trip once. It’s rough as guts with corrugation and even worse in some sections. Top speed 30km/h in places. 😂 We had troubles out there with the 4x4 trailer and had to drive extremely slow to a cattle station to use their welder. That was the mid 90s. A nice trip overall but you definitely need to be well prepared as what can go wrong out their will go wrong. When you think you have enough supplies, triple it.
This man was the epitome of the real bushman not like today's wankers in their fully kitted city bound toss pot 4x4s, max trax and all the other useless shit fitted for show.....
Well he did the outback trip with a film crew which would have had all the perks , plenty of water and beers probably processed foods chips and beer nuts etc
@@rasso4978 I'm thinking they both came from the old country since neither Aboriginals nor Native Canadians had regular flour. I didn't see much of a difference, Bannock is just a cup of flour, a pinch of salt and spoonful of baking powder. people add all sorts of things to it, but that is the basic recipe. What is the recipe for Damper?
@@australiaprisonisland9156 it probably would have been funny over 5years ago but NA bro not any more maybe if you said something about him taking over from when the whole allies left Afghanistan with there tails between there legs like bitches ya know female muts that would have been funnier than that 💩
Not a single mention of the name Uluru. No talk of welcome to country. These were different times, before we became politically correct. Before we became overly sensitive.
Don't bother going to Ayers Rock because you are not allowed to go near it anymore. It is now a protected site for the Australian protected species and if you are not black or a white pseudo black person you are not one of them. All other Australians have now been banned from going to this and many many other places in their own country. This place is just a ROCK in the middle of nowhere.
We Whites are a small global minority after being 33% of the global population in 1900. Today we are only about 7% of the global population and soon we will be small, hated minorities in our own ancient European homelands and in the nations that we built in North America and Australia/New Zealand.
Your ignorance is astounding and, frankly, disappointing. Everyone is still able to walk around both Uluru and Kata Tjuta. Obviously members of the general public are not allowed to enter a select few sacred areas of both places. Uluru may physically just be a rock, but it is one of the most sacred places for many of the tribes of the Central Australia and has been for thousands of years. Notre-Dame is sacred and holy to many millions of Europeans, certain sections of Notre-Dame are also off limits to the general public. Please try to be a little more opened minded and considerate of others.
As incredible it is that they can live in the desert, they didnt develop much beyond stone age caveman levels, didnt farm, didnt build permanent dwellings, didnt use metals, didnt have a real language, just survived through trial and error.
I've travelled the roads Malcolm took a few years back as a Satellite Remote tech. I spent 3 days in Kiwirrkurra setting up Internet connections for the teachers and nurses in the community. Met the Community Elder there who told me I was the first African man these kids have ever seen. They were pure the way they'd touch my skin and say "same color" they'd only see African people in TV the elder said. I felt privileged to be there and will always remember that trip. We then made our way further south to mining sites and eventually Port Hedland and Karatha through the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts. Amazing trip although its not for the faint hearted.
Sounds like a great experience.
Amazing - thks for sharing!
Great story, mate. Thank you for sharing.
Amazing 👌👌👌
lots of deeply entrenched problems brewing up there
You mean Malcolm travelled through the outback without lithium batteries, upright fridge, 2000 watt inverter and a coffee machine?! I don't believe it
LOL, but true
No, that's be new age wankers that don't know how to camp
He had silver stuff on his windows. That’s pretty high tech for the day. I did wonder if he had ac in the Landy.😁
No 100k build from ARB either
It’s all staged
I’m an American and I got obsessed watching all his videos. I need to see the bush one day
Make it happen. I’m not a religious or spiritual person but you really can ‘feel’ the bush. It’s hard to explain and utterly spectacular.
@@whiteunicornDR659 I’ve made it a goal of mine to do so! You’ve got a wonderful country there man, cheers
Well get off your arse and do it. You can't see it from America
If you're relatively young, you've been inoculated with the good spirits life of the 1980's, not only the Australian bushes. Watch a video about the outbacks made today it does not have the magic and spirit found here.
Incredible documentary! Glad these are at least preserved on TH-cam, but they really are a national treasure.
Yes sadly just over 30 years on and most of the wildlife you see in this video would be hard to find if you went out there now.
Indeed! Who knows what the landscape will become in another decade.
I worked for late Malcolm Douglas in1996 to 1998 and rest in peace Malcolm Douglas mate
It would've been a privilege to work for Mal. Your a lucky guy to have known Mal. Rip Mal.
Aye, here Nathan, would like to talk to you, and you're journeyman. Take care mate. Tony.
Nathan, do you need to post this on every clip?
I understand your pride to have been with Malcom, but I don’t think people are interested in this.
I drove his land rover rooted his woman drunk his piss and never ate anything he cooked. He'd eat dog shit if he could
Yeah I worked with him too. Boy let me tell you Malcom was like the human vacuum when it came to cocaine.
You can tell this documentary is over 30 years old, but it's still so informative. Unfortunately, there's not a lot like this on TV these days.
Ain't that the truth. Real programs with real people, not actors.
All this stuff about so called "diversity" in media, yet they're not diverse enough to show anything like this
Not sure why this masterpiece of real Australian heritage has only 75k views..
Because the hippies are at the beach or in the bar. Only real people are here
Only the "real" persons are watching TH-cam rather than being outside...
There are depictions of animals being killed?
That's you point of view of course. A blow-in in a 4WD is a long way from the heritage that opened up the inland.
Low IQ comment. @@boymeetsbush8232
Please preserve these videos!!
Keep forwarding it on, press the like button,,,you get it right,,,subscribe 😂😂
Remote Aboriginal Communities Like Kiwirrkurra In The Gibson Desert Of Western Australia Have Always Fascinated Me With Aboriginal People Still Gathering Food From The Desert Like Goannas And Emus For Instance! Being So Far From Civilisation Might Seem Lonely But Maybe They Prefer It That Way!🪃🦘🦎🐍🏜🇦🇺
Every Saturday afternoon i sat down with my old Kelpie and watched Malcolm Douglas. RIP Malcolm but you'll live on for ever.
Watched this years and years ago, still great and I've since worked at and been to Kiwirrkurra 3 times, and Lake Mackay on route from Balgo, love that country! Malcolm Douglas, a true outback legend, RIP.
I hope that their big brother is still out there living his best life.
How does any person even know what "best life" is? You can only gauge experience looking back. "Best life" is another modern phrase without reality or meaning.
Never tire of watching these fascinating films.
Went to a tourist shop the other day and most of the Aboriginal art there is made in Indonesia, the rest of the trinkets are Chinese.
Love it! Thank you. My husband and I went to Australia in 1974 (emigrated). He worked at Port Stanvack outside Adelaide. We
travelled after his job was finished to Ayers Rock, The Olgas and back down and around the coast and up to Brisbane where we
got caught in a hurricane (I forget the same of it now), and ended up back in Sydney for several months with friends. We had to come home
to Canada because of my husband's Father's health and also my Mother. Since then I have made 6 trips back for family I left there, and have
travelled some of WA and up the coast to Broome and Darwin.
These videos really take me back to the trip north from Adelaide to Ayers..Love from Canada!!
Fabulous documentaries that fortunately have been preserved and made available on You tube.
this guy calms me dawn somehow....
Every time I watch these docos about central Australia, I just think what a harsh landscape for people to survive in. To roam for miles just to find dinner, we have it so easy in the cities with all the modern conveniences and comforts. I don't think I'd last 10 minutes in that environment.
How bloody good is the bloke.
Cheers for posting this. It was mesmerizing. I really enjoyed Malcolm Douglas as a young bloke and none of that has changed. In some ways a rather sombre vid.
He lives on.
We can all contribute to keeping these traditions alive! Appreciating these films a great starting point
Thanks for these, many good memories watching this.
I found a bardi, wichetty grub, in a piece of wood near my house
in the Philippines, I know what they look like as I have seen
many back in Straya.
Never met Malcolm, but left drums of fuel for his excursions
in the Kimberley. R.I.P to a great man.
It is a desert non the less. 36 years later I still practice bush craft on the Skeleton coast of Namibia. I have hiked to the extremes. And have driven vehicles where they should not have been( probably the first time a modern vehicle has ever driven) the Namib is my home north to south. Melcom you should have met Ben Beytel. This man was at the forefront on Black Rhino( now critically endangered) conservation. When Ben passed his bull Rhino got poached in 2018. In Namibia 🇳🇦 the Black Rhino count is down to 216 animals. Shot only for Chinese Libido..,
Love Namibia. Love the Skeleton Coast. From W.Australia.
Lizard bro. Live on it
Absolutely criminal what they use them for. People's greed has no bounds.
Used to watch these as a kid and teenager. Great shows when Australia still had an identity. RIP Malcom
RIP the real deal. A kind knowledgeable and respectful fellow.
Watching in 2023 . Amazing people surviving incredibly hard land
I loved to watch him in german TV in the late 90s early 2000s. Then around 2015 he came back in my mind and I was shocked when googled about his death. My most favourite nature documentaries. Hope to visit a bit of the outback one day.
Thankyou Malcolm for bringing to us city slickers years ago the interior of Australia,years later I have worked and seen it all now,I live and work in the desert,everything is amazing were ever you go,cheers Malcolm.
You realise people lived out there before he ever pulled on boots?
At Kintore (Walungurru) during this time. 1988 - 1997. Been bogged, flat tyres, spearwood and bush food trips. Great times. Wonderful flowering plants after any rain. Did the same road trip with work mates over to the West.
Wow, it must have been really something to be out there back then. I got to Kintore in 2008. Got in by plane.
A nursing colleague of mine worked @ Kintore pre 2000, her name was Evelyn.
Thanks for the upload! There is so much bush knowledge condensed into this relatively short video.
This is just beautiful!! Absolutely incredible. It makes me feel absolutely useless. Rightfully so.
Back in those days you had Mal or the Leyland brothers - used to love watching Mal on a Sunday night.
This reminds me alot of Jack Thompson's Down Under Australia(?!) T.V. show that started around 1988 here via channel 10, that was a great show and this great too! It's a shame we don't have shows like these anymore or I'm just not aware of any modern variations here...
This was all filmed in a studio in Melbourne. Looks pretty real.
This is a national treasure!
I enjoy these as a kid, great tv…i wonder what Malcolm would think of this voice referendum?.
I just love the music intro. every time I hear it I smile big. Great memories
Every video produced by Mr Douglas was beyond amazing. Just taking one of his adventures would be a serious accomplishment. Aussie Aussie Aussie
NE Fairbanks Alaska
This man is living or shall I say been living out my dream!!
This whole video is in itself a time capsule. I remember 1989 very well.
Thank You for sharing
Wonderful documentary about the rich and diverse land & wildlife in Australia and the lifestyle of the Indigenous people. Everyone should watch this.
The Western Desert , Tanami Desert, Gibson Desert and Pilbara tribes lived out there for thousands of years bare foot and naked .
Here in Western Canada, I've learned to listen to the indigenous people.
Their old knowledge as great value.
What a legend this guy is !!
Amazing video!
Malcolm Douglas 1941-2010 Showing The Western Route From Ayers Rock And The Olgas Via The Gunbarrel Highway Built By Len Beadell 1923-1995 And His Crew Back In The 1950s! Showing The Way Of Life Of Aboriginals Of The Western Deserts Of The Northern Territory And Western Australia The Rral Outback!🤠🚘🚗🏜🐪🦘🐍🦎🇦🇺
Done the gun barrel trip once. It’s rough as guts with corrugation and even worse in some sections. Top speed 30km/h in places. 😂
We had troubles out there with the 4x4 trailer and had to drive extremely slow to a cattle station to use their welder.
That was the mid 90s. A nice trip overall but you definitely need to be well prepared as what can go wrong out their will go wrong. When you think you have enough supplies, triple it.
How did he make the trip without all the wank factor gear to get you there and a Patriot camper to boot, amazing 🤣
He didn't, it's impossible.
@@redtobertshateshandles is it? how is that?
@@redtobertshateshandles you're a waynkerr obviously.
Well is he alive still? No. Rest my case.
The local bloke rockin' the suit and red bandana fashion sense would still be cool today
I’m sure his spirit walk s with the old people out in the deserts
AWESOME DOC...
Wow I remember watching this as a kid
Amazing
So that's where the neighbour's cat went.
I did this trip in 1989.
Love the T shirt “what dingo “ - possibly regarding Azaria Chamberlain?
Awesome video, awesome country, awesome people!! thank you.
TV and grog was the fall of the neiborhood for these beautiful aboriginal people.
And the white's of Australia
And white fellas
this is epic !
Malcolm was the Best 👍
“Malcolm spots what appears to be a good jerrycan”
That valiant would be worth 10k.
Then it would’ve been worth $10
That cars probably still sitting there to this day
Was thinking how straight the panels were
Great man peoples man
No Kings gear ? How did he make it?
LOL! Fucking Kings canopies.....because no one knows knots anymore
That's WHY he made it !
@@jimmyriddle5246 ...👍😂
Here we are 30 odd somethin years later.. still not using burning
This man was the epitome of the real bushman not like today's wankers in their fully kitted city bound toss pot 4x4s, max trax and all the other useless shit fitted for show.....
Love it
I'm too afraid to head out there, seems too harsh and dangerous. Zero water if you don't know exactly where to dig and it's so deep.
Amazing how aires rock ( oloroo) sorry. Has changed so much and the road west, wow🇦🇺👍🏽
Ayers Rock / Uluru.
Well he did the outback trip with a film crew which would have had all the perks , plenty of water and beers probably processed foods chips and beer nuts etc
24:04 that's one tough man if he can handle spinefex like that. 😁
03:50 that sign is probably still there, unchanged. Thanks for posting.
We need to learn more about the massive culture differences between different traditional owners of this country
They didn't own anything. They were nomads.
#MalcomDouglas Hello from #PrincessTahiti #QLD #Australia
Australia is NOT the only country in the world with herds of wild camels. Namibia, in southern Africa, also has them.
But they don't have wild emu, kangaroo, lizards etc
@@CrazyWhiteVanDriver what's that got to do with it?
@@BodywiseMustard it's got everything to do with it.
It does.
Yep.
Are they native or feral?
@@Rob-fc9wg feral
Ayres Rock, Frazer Island Always has been for hundreds of years and always will be
did he ever find out what happened to the missing animal life?
a wealth of knowledge Malcom had, but what a Feral man
feral? how so?
Found a city slicker
In Australia it is called "Damper", in Canada, it is called "Bannock"! It is a bit strange to see the same basic bread used worlds apart.
Well, Damper is slightly different to Bannock, which is native to the British isles.
@@rasso4978 I'm thinking they both came from the old country since neither Aboriginals nor Native Canadians had regular flour. I didn't see much of a difference, Bannock is just a cup of flour, a pinch of salt and spoonful of baking powder. people add all sorts of things to it, but that is the basic recipe. What is the recipe for Damper?
Same recipe.😊
@@suecollins8199 Camp bread! A good meal with a minimum of ingredients. If you're eating Bannock or Damper you're a happy camper.
Crazy in 1989 there was no internet and PDH was the latest technology.
So sad to see a significant cultural group lost out of the desert 😢
Russel Coight would be proud.
That guy is an ideeot
I also chuckle thinking about bush tucker man finding a big mac in a tree
gotta love biting down on sand for breakfast
So aborigines invented the Aussie thongs. A simple addition to our everyday life that we should not live without.
At 20:13 one of the Aborigines had a "Night Dingo" shirt...awesome
Crazy bit of aus history how much fuel is he carrying tho.
I wonder if the brother was ever found again
He went to join ISIS
@@australiaprisonisland9156 yeah just like you’re mum bruh shared around put on the block for all the boys
@@australiaprisonisland9156 it probably would have been funny over 5years ago but NA bro not any more maybe if you said something about him taking over from when the whole allies left Afghanistan with there tails between there legs like bitches ya know female muts that would have been funnier than that 💩
@@looking8030 Just like you are mum struggling with the Queens English.
@@australiaprisonisland9156 argggggghhhhhh ummmmmmmmm na boy you got you’re facts completely wrong darling Hahhahh that actually made me laugh
Not a single mention of the name Uluru. No talk of welcome to country. These were different times, before we became politically correct. Before we became overly sensitive.
is it possible to upload it in german too :) ?
One of 15entrances to inner Earth
25:42 what ya mates say to you after you’ve had one too many 🍻
Befoe them all there was MD.
Don't bother going to Ayers Rock because you are not allowed to go near it anymore. It is now a protected site for the Australian protected species and if you are not black or a white pseudo black person you are not one of them. All other Australians have now been banned from going to this and many many other places in their own country. This place is just a ROCK in the middle of nowhere.
We Whites are a small global minority after being 33% of the global population in 1900. Today we are only about 7% of the global population and soon we will be small, hated minorities in our own ancient European homelands and in the nations that we built in North America and Australia/New Zealand.
Your ignorance is astounding and, frankly, disappointing. Everyone is still able to walk around both Uluru and Kata Tjuta. Obviously members of the general public are not allowed to enter a select few sacred areas of both places. Uluru may physically just be a rock, but it is one of the most sacred places for many of the tribes of the Central Australia and has been for thousands of years. Notre-Dame is sacred and holy to many millions of Europeans, certain sections of Notre-Dame are also off limits to the general public. Please try to be a little more opened minded and considerate of others.
If you want to go into the outback take a land rover,if you want to get back out take a toyota.
And yet people would rather carry a $500,000 dollar mortgage than live in the outback where one is free and snakes, lizards and grubs are a plenty.
Your mothers basement isn’t in the outback
@@bh5817 Russian basement
Too many people, 8 billion can not everything like rats and spread illness
Eat
As incredible it is that they can live in the desert, they didnt develop much beyond stone age caveman levels, didnt farm, didnt build permanent dwellings, didnt use metals, didnt have a real language, just survived through trial and error.
Ayers Rock 💪
A true Australian who was at the right place at the right time. This could never happen in todays anti-Australia age sadly
Hope that felt clever.
Those red bandanas have a meaning, they are the aboriginal police.
32:18 imagine if you have flat tyres out of nowhere in outback ? That's like a death sentence
You know how to fix them or dont go out there