Love that you pronounce Brisbane the way we Australians do. And Brissy! Awesome! Yes we put a 'y' on everything. And most male names have 'o' at the end. Davo, Johno etc. Hope you have a wonderful trip. 😀
Nice vid Brocky. Remember it’s the land of droughts and flooding rains, generally blowing dust, never rains when you want it too, when it does it’s too bloody much. Enjoy.👍🇦🇺
Welcome to Australia. Thanks for bring some rain with ya. We live among the cane fields near Bundaberg (Aussies call it Bundy) about 300kms north of Brissy. I suppose it could be called sub tropical here I'd say only because the wet season is in the summer. I'm checking out your channel because I watch your Missus and she said you were comin over. Safe travels 👍🇭🇲
I just finished Sandi’s vlog and knew you were going to Australia and decided to see what you were up to before I see all your other video’s. I always wanted to go visit Australia until I found about all the things that can kill you. 😱Always thought it was a beautiful looking country.
So happy you made it there safe. Enjoy your time. Temps where I live are 40°c usually but you brought the rain. Number 1 tip when driving - Keep in the left lane unless overtaking, the cops will fine you for it. Number 2 - don’t hold your camera or phone, they will nail you big time for it.
Enjoyed your video, and happy to see the rain in Australia. I loved the old wool compressor on that sheep farm, which reminded me of Sandi's recent video on sheering the pregnant ewes. Sandi is the 'Mother of Invention' on your farm, as her method of stomping and jumping on top of her bagged wool to compress it, eliminates the cost of another piece of machinery. :-)
I am an Aussie living in Sydney near the blue mountains I’ve lived near Dolby and country Queenslanders are a breed all their own. Lovely lovely folk and I am glad you’re seeing it, we are flooding right now but the poem a sunburnt country is us in a nut shell. Have a great time xoxo stay safe
Welcome to Queensland. More rain forecast this week with the tropical cyclone off the coast. If the roads flooded check the flood height markers. Also it's common for roads to wash away here. Drive safe and be careful.
Glad to see you made it safe and are making your way around as planned. Wishing you all the good luck in your days ahead... I hope your trip goes just the way you want it to go and your able to see and do all that you set out to do!
It's a good thing you didn't hydroplane! It must be very interesting there. Their equipment is very nice! I love that you can see the fields for what seems to be miles.
So glad to have found your channel - I've come over from Sandi's channel. I live about 3.5 hours north of Dalby. The road from Brisbane to Toowoomba is the area called "The Salad Bowl of Queensland" as there are so many farms there. I drove a sick horse from Monto down to Oakey horse hospital and back the same day a few years ago - it was quite a trek. Vast is the best way to describe Australia. We had a friend visit from US for 12 months and he couldn't believe how much driving we had to do to go anywhere (We're 2.5 hrs from shopping centres). The black soil in Dalby area is very sticky when it's been raining.
Thank you so much for sharing this journey. Looking forward to seeing more. Was nice to see some green and rain. I hope they understand that many people from around the world are praying for them.
welcome to Aus. Yes you are in the tropics. Lucky you to get all the rain. Wait till you get to Sth Aus. Different story all together. Saltbush only where I live but better on Kangaroo island. Lol. Enjoy your short time here and keep cool. 🙂
Hi mate...🇦🇺 Welcome to Down Under, thank you for taking the time to visit our wonderful country.. Hope you can make it up to the Northern Territory, up Here we also do diverse broad acre farming.... Have a safe and enjoyable visit...
I’m so glad we get to ride along with you. I hope you are getting more footage of the people you are meeting with. The clips leave me wanting to learn more and hear everything he’s showing you.
I was brought up in OZ so really appreciated your video. Driving with a phone or driving with a camera can get you in serious trouble with the police, so watch out.
So good to hear from you Mark! Seems like you have had an extremely varied “tour” so far, anteaters to way different machinery. So interesting. Onward Mr. Mark.
Even though the country side is green now our farmers have gone through more grief than can be believed with droughts. If the areas you saw don't get follow up rains the land will turn brown again in the blink of an eye. Many country towns including in the area where you were have been trucking water into the towns because their traditional sources have dried up. Thanks for your perspective on Australia. You will probably have worked out their isn't a lot of difference between Canadian and Australian farming but we need higher average rainfalls because of our baking summers. Watching another channel in Montana they can produce with as little as 9 inches whereas here 12 inches is the minimum required for dryland cropping.
I don't know about that. Some spots in the Wimmera pulled 6 to 8 ton a hectare of barley, oats and wheat of just under ten inches rain for the entire year. Not sure exactly what they got through the growing season though. Australia is so varied with its soil types it's extremely hard to say a statement like that.
anthony van boxtel Last year was dreadful for the wimmera mallee. Driest on record. We had no rain for 4 months last year in the central goldfields. This year, the rain has been good. Go figure. 🤷🏼♀️
@@angedowney8361 2018 was a shit year that's for sure. We where even baling canola which is something I have never had to do before. 2019 was a god send for the area. I'm located near rupanyup.
@@anthonyvanboxtel558 The wheat belt was drawn up entirely on rainfall between 12 and 20". Plenty tried north of the 12" line and plenty failed. I don't think Mark has ever said what their average is in Canada so that would be interesting.
Haven't you heard the Weather Channel mantra - "Turn around. Don't drown," Too many questions about auger swing extensions, snorkels on planters. What an adventure.
The shearing barn was a great sight ... yesteryear to today. I believe that Charlie / Alvin truly appreciate the improvements. Seeing the dingo fence was something you do not see everyday. I was surprised to see the chart. Then to see the anteater hiding ... keep up the great work. I am having great time.
Great to hear you having interesting time in Australia👍just west of Miles a town call Dulacca I did harvesting few years ago, very different black soil country where I from, especially when wet. The climate up there they can grow two crops for the year but been dry for last few years. Very old shearing shed with very old wool press, we have 3 stand shearing with much newer wool press. We run 1000 poll merino Dorset sheep 20 micron wool plus good meat sheep. Hope you get see some shearing action so you can send to your wife, maybe make do some woolclassing.
Glad you made it! Looks amazing over there - praying they recover quickly from the fires - it seems a beautiful country. Thanks for sharing your trip!! Be safe
Hi mark. Good to hear you made it safe and sound. Really enjoyed the video, thanks for taking the time, and looking forward to your next one. Enjoy your trip.
Mark welcome to Oz. Cops will ping you for holding phone or camera whilst driving. You need to be hands free :) Looking forward to seeing your travels in Perth
It’s always neat to see how different areas do their agriculture we farm in upstate New York so we’re not much different than Canada as far as the weather but we have a lot of Rollinghills
Mark great video. The video of Sidney brought back memories. When I was there in the late 90's the building next to the Opera House was just being built. They had just started the foundation. Also, I walked down the steps by the cruise ship dock. Awesome, Stay safe.
Welocme to Aussie-land Mark ,....wow great to see familar country and so pleased you met my friends ST.John (Pronunced SINJO) and Edwina Kent's farming operation , north of Dalby , enjoy your trip !! :)
good job you arrived safe, we r having rain for the last 2 days with wild winds, great to see, it is going to rain for the next week. I am from Newcastle just 2 hours north of Sydney.
Hi Mark you was looking pretty rough at the start but looking like your setting in good .glad all is well looking forward to your next video be safe in your travel Mark ! Hello from Daniel from central Mississippi
Very interesting they can plant a lot of corn holy crap Sandi would run from there oh corn you look very tired like I say to Sandi you need a nap I like that Trac on that tractor I've seen them in Canada when I was snow mobiling
Queensland is a tropical climate. It actually rains a lot and floods. That's why many houses in certain areas are built elevated. It's amazing how many foreigners feed into stereotypes about countries.
Be safe and careful Mark figure it probably noon Monday there. Do you get used to driving on opposite side of the road and steering wheel opposite side. Because Canada does what we do in the States.
You’ll have a good tan soon mark...or you’ll be like a lobster. Slip slip slap mate, with the skin. Australian ant eaters are echidnas. Baby echidnas are puggles . And groups of echidnas are ‘Love Trains’ It’ll be the wet season up along the nth coast. It’s drier the further out you get. Will you be coming to Victoria? Check out the high country around Mansfield and the Murray at Mildura and Echuca if you can. Pioneer settlement at swan hill Sovereign hill at Ballarat.
Typical Australian weather (although to a more extreme extent!) massive heat, drought and fires, then it rains and floods everywhere. Dalby’s under a flood at the moment, lucky you got out when you did. Although the saying here is, “If it’s flooded, forget it” it’s a very dangerous thing to drive through out flood waters. Glad you’re ok 👌
Good on ya mate Was there in 2013 Loved it I see you saw the dish rack(opera house)and the toaster(the condominium next to the opera house) You probably won’t have time but we went to the great bearer reef off from carrains
Love that you pronounce Brisbane the way we Australians do. And Brissy! Awesome! Yes we put a 'y' on everything. And most male names have 'o' at the end. Davo, Johno etc. Hope you have a wonderful trip. 😀
Nice vid Brocky. Remember it’s the land of droughts and flooding rains, generally blowing dust, never rains when you want it too, when it does it’s too bloody much. Enjoy.👍🇦🇺
Welcome to Australia. Thanks for bring some rain with ya. We live among the cane fields near Bundaberg (Aussies call it Bundy) about 300kms north of Brissy. I suppose it could be called sub tropical here I'd say only because the wet season is in the summer. I'm checking out your channel because I watch your Missus and she said you were comin over. Safe travels 👍🇭🇲
I just finished Sandi’s vlog and knew you were going to Australia and decided to see what you were up to before I see all your other video’s. I always wanted to go visit Australia until I found about all the things that can kill you. 😱Always thought it was a beautiful looking country.
Anytime a farmer drives by a dealership it's pure instinct to pull in and drive thru the lot!
So happy you made it there safe. Enjoy your time. Temps where I live are 40°c usually but you brought the rain.
Number 1 tip when driving - Keep in the left lane unless overtaking, the cops will fine you for it.
Number 2 - don’t hold your camera or phone, they will nail you big time for it.
Enjoyed your video, and happy to see the rain in Australia. I loved the old wool compressor on that sheep farm, which reminded me of Sandi's recent video on sheering the pregnant ewes. Sandi is the 'Mother of Invention' on your farm, as her method of stomping and jumping on top of her bagged wool to compress it, eliminates the cost of another piece of machinery. :-)
Welcome to Oz. Thank you for the rain. Please note: You can be fined heavily for filming whilst driving in Australia Mark. Safe travels.
Just found this today. Really interesting. Had to laugh at the farmer that just had to stop and check out the 🚜 and combines!
I am an Aussie living in Sydney near the blue mountains I’ve lived near Dolby and country Queenslanders are a breed all their own. Lovely lovely folk and I am glad you’re seeing it, we are flooding right now but the poem a sunburnt country is us in a nut shell. Have a great time xoxo stay safe
Welcome to Queensland. More rain forecast this week with the tropical cyclone off the coast. If the roads flooded check the flood height markers. Also it's common for roads to wash away here. Drive safe and be careful.
Great video Mark! Thank you for sharing your trip with us!
Mark, So excited to tour down under with you! Keep up the good work. I enjoy being a part of your and Sandy's life.
The sheep shed looked like one we lived by in NZ. Bring back memories. Love seeing stop by at the Dealership seeing the new shiny tractors. 🚜
Now you will get Sandi worried about getting swept away in a flash flood. Praise God that you made it okay.
Thank you for saying Brisbane the right way
Glad to see you made it safe and are making your way around as planned. Wishing you all the good luck in your days ahead... I hope your trip goes just the way you want it to go and your able to see and do all that you set out to do!
It's a good thing you didn't hydroplane! It must be very interesting there. Their equipment is very nice! I love that you can see the fields for what seems to be miles.
So glad to have found your channel - I've come over from Sandi's channel. I live about 3.5 hours north of Dalby. The road from Brisbane to Toowoomba is the area called "The Salad Bowl of Queensland" as there are so many farms there. I drove a sick horse from Monto down to Oakey horse hospital and back the same day a few years ago - it was quite a trek. Vast is the best way to describe Australia. We had a friend visit from US for 12 months and he couldn't believe how much driving we had to do to go anywhere (We're 2.5 hrs from shopping centres). The black soil in Dalby area is very sticky when it's been raining.
That shearing is really cool!!!!
Good to see that you made it there Mark.👍
Thanks for sharing, safe travels.
Love it mark keep them coming
Thank you so much for sharing this journey. Looking forward to seeing more. Was nice to see some green and rain.
I hope they understand that many people from around the world are praying for them.
Thanks for the video! Good to see what they have over there! Have fun and enjoy your stay!
welcome to Aus. Yes you are in the tropics. Lucky you to get all the rain. Wait till you get to Sth Aus. Different story all together. Saltbush only where I live but better on Kangaroo island. Lol. Enjoy your short time here and keep cool. 🙂
Hi mate...🇦🇺
Welcome to Down Under, thank you for taking the time to visit our wonderful country..
Hope you can make it up to the Northern Territory, up Here we also do diverse broad acre farming....
Have a safe and enjoyable visit...
So for 2 months, we will honour the Australian way👉🏼You R now named Marky 👌🇨🇦😂😹
I’m so glad we get to ride along with you. I hope you are getting more footage of the people you are meeting with. The clips leave me wanting to learn more and hear everything he’s showing you.
Glad you made it there safe and sound
Welcome to Australia Thanks for bring the rain watch using you camera when driving you can be book fro it
Australia is on my bucket list to visit for 30 days. Thanks for the video. Very cool.
Glad you made it safely mate....and yes....don’t get busted using your phone while driving....and watch out for road trains and roos.....
I was brought up in OZ so really appreciated your video. Driving with a phone or driving with a camera can get you in serious trouble with the police, so watch out.
Wow! That was great thanks for taking us along with you Mark. Take care & God Bless
So good to hear from you Mark! Seems like you have had an extremely varied “tour” so far, anteaters to way different machinery. So interesting. Onward Mr. Mark.
Even though the country side is green now our farmers have gone through more grief than can be believed with droughts. If the areas you saw don't get follow up rains the land will turn brown again in the blink of an eye.
Many country towns including in the area where you were have been trucking water into the towns because their traditional sources have dried up.
Thanks for your perspective on Australia.
You will probably have worked out their isn't a lot of difference between Canadian and Australian farming but we need higher average rainfalls because of our baking summers.
Watching another channel in Montana they can produce with as little as 9 inches whereas here 12 inches is the minimum required for dryland cropping.
I don't know about that. Some spots in the Wimmera pulled 6 to 8 ton a hectare of barley, oats and wheat of just under ten inches rain for the entire year. Not sure exactly what they got through the growing season though. Australia is so varied with its soil types it's extremely hard to say a statement like that.
anthony van boxtel
Last year was dreadful for the wimmera mallee. Driest on record.
We had no rain for 4 months last year in the central goldfields.
This year, the rain has been good.
Go figure. 🤷🏼♀️
@@angedowney8361 2018 was a shit year that's for sure. We where even baling canola which is something I have never had to do before. 2019 was a god send for the area. I'm located near rupanyup.
@@anthonyvanboxtel558 The wheat belt was drawn up entirely on rainfall between 12 and 20". Plenty tried north of the 12" line and plenty failed. I don't think Mark has ever said what their average is in Canada so that would be interesting.
@@anthonyvanboxtel558 It was an average growing season rain fall.
That's funny go all that way to look at equipment LOL thanks for the video
Haven't you heard the Weather Channel mantra - "Turn around. Don't drown," Too many questions about auger swing extensions, snorkels on planters. What an adventure.
For a few decades now, the ongoing joke has been that the usual weather report in Australia is "drought ended by flooding." Glad to see the rain.
The shearing barn was a great sight ... yesteryear to today. I believe that Charlie / Alvin truly appreciate the improvements. Seeing the dingo fence was something you do not see everyday. I was surprised to see the chart. Then to see the anteater hiding ... keep up the great work. I am having great time.
Great to hear you having interesting time in Australia👍just west of Miles a town call Dulacca I did harvesting few years ago, very different black soil country where I from, especially when wet. The climate up there they can grow two crops for the year but been dry for last few years. Very old shearing shed with very old wool press, we have 3 stand shearing with much newer wool press. We run 1000 poll merino Dorset sheep 20 micron wool plus good meat sheep. Hope you get see some shearing action so you can send to your wife, maybe make do some woolclassing.
Sweet thank Sharon that be careful there
We have a saying in Oklahoma "Turn around don't drown" good saying no matter where you live. 😊💜
Mark, thank you for sharing your journey. I look forward to your future videos.
Be safe and enjoy your journey.
Love yours and Sandi videos. Hope you have a great trip from under 35 cm of snow here in New-brunswick 😜
Mark do not get swept away in Australia ! Fun video , enjoying your video tour .
Great to hear and see you are well . Will follow you all the way the next two months , You ae welcome to bring SOUTH Africa some rain
Glad you made it! Looks amazing over there - praying they recover quickly from the fires - it seems a beautiful country. Thanks for sharing your trip!! Be safe
Glad to see what you are doing. Thanks for sharing.
Hi mark. Good to hear you made it safe and sound. Really enjoyed the video, thanks for taking the time, and looking forward to your next one. Enjoy your trip.
Mark welcome to Oz.
Cops will ping you for holding phone or camera whilst driving. You need to be hands free :)
Looking forward to seeing your travels in Perth
It’s always neat to see how different areas do their agriculture we farm in upstate New York so we’re not much different than Canada as far as the weather but we have a lot of Rollinghills
Mark great video. The video of Sidney brought back memories. When I was there in the late 90's the building next to the Opera House was just being built. They had just started the foundation. Also,
I walked down the steps by the cruise ship dock.
Awesome, Stay safe.
Welocme to Aussie-land Mark ,....wow great to see familar country and so pleased you met my friends ST.John (Pronunced SINJO) and Edwina Kent's farming operation , north of Dalby , enjoy your trip !! :)
Mark thank for the update!! enjoyed what i saw looks like a diffrent time and place thanks !!!
Glad to see you made it in one piece . That is definitely wide open space reminds me a lot of Texas . Thanks for the video .
Reminds me of Eastern North Dakota. So flat you can see forever and coated with rich dark soil.
Glad you made it to Sidney. Be safe Mark.
Great Vlog Mark. Glad you made it ok
Great video Mark
typical, they have a drought for 3 years , and when you visit it rains,,,, mind you they need it, very interesting video,,,
Glad you made it safe !
Thanks for bring the rain we need it LOL
Nice video Mark, can you bring some of that rain to NZ? Although our Aussie cuzzies (cousins) do need it more than us!!
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing - looking forward to more videos.
Great video keep them coming great job
Have fun here in Australia!!!!
So many questions already. lol Thanks. Looking forward to more vids.
The vast land also looks like my BEAUTIFUL state of Kansas, brother. 😁
Following with interest Mark.
LOL...Melatonin and my neck pillow and earplugs were my best friends on my trip to AU in 2012 :-)
Thanks for doing the temp conversions. i dont have the time to sit down and do it
When you did that road shot I thought....hmmm that looks like Iowa to me! Lol excited to travel along with you in Aussie!
Watch the flood waters and stay safe.
good job you arrived safe, we r having rain for the last 2 days with wild winds, great to see, it is going to rain for the next week. I am from Newcastle just 2 hours north of Sydney.
Thanks for the tour !
Hi Mark you was looking pretty rough at the start but looking like your setting in good .glad all is well looking forward to your next video be safe in your travel Mark !
Hello from Daniel from central Mississippi
Glad you got there ok. Different from the area you know for sure. Be safe and post when you can.
So glad u made it safely, hope u enjoy your time in Australia xx
Yeah have fun
Hi mark made it safe good
Very interesting they can plant a lot of corn holy crap Sandi would run from there oh corn you look very tired like I say to Sandi you need a nap I like that Trac on that tractor I've seen them in Canada when I was snow mobiling
Queensland is a tropical climate. It actually rains a lot and floods. That's why many houses in certain areas are built elevated. It's amazing how many foreigners feed into stereotypes about countries.
Awesome Video!!! 👌🐑👍
Be safe and careful Mark figure it probably noon Monday there. Do you get used to driving on opposite side of the road and steering wheel opposite side. Because Canada does what we do in the States.
Stay safe and watch out for that Aussie beer
Welcome to Aus!
Mark you enjoy your time down under
Watching with interest! Thwarted farmer in Atlanta, Georgia.
Welcome to our country mate.
10:14 I think that is an Echidna...enjoy your stay in Aussie...
yeah, i laughed at that. then again, i suppose Mark isn't wrong.
You’ll have a good tan soon mark...or you’ll be like a lobster.
Slip slip slap mate, with the skin.
Australian ant eaters are echidnas.
Baby echidnas are puggles .
And groups of echidnas are ‘Love Trains’
It’ll be the wet season up along the nth coast.
It’s drier the further out you get.
Will you be coming to Victoria?
Check out the high country around Mansfield and the Murray at Mildura and Echuca if you can.
Pioneer settlement at swan hill
Sovereign hill at Ballarat.
Typical Australian weather (although to a more extreme extent!) massive heat, drought and fires, then it rains and floods everywhere. Dalby’s under a flood at the moment, lucky you got out when you did. Although the saying here is, “If it’s flooded, forget it” it’s a very dangerous thing to drive through out flood waters. Glad you’re ok 👌
Welcome to Brisbane!
BE SAFE ON YOUR TRAVELS!!!
Cold beer is just what you needed so guess u just have to keep it in your backpack so you can get plenty of sleep
Good on ya mate
Was there in 2013
Loved it
I see you saw the dish rack(opera house)and the toaster(the condominium next to the opera house)
You probably won’t have time but we went to the great bearer reef off from carrains
Pity you didn’t get to see some droughtmaster or Brahman cattle in Qld, they’re pretty interesting.
Don't balk but hemorrhoid cream works wonders for eye bags. Just don't get it in your eyes. LOL