The long road of the Nullarbor! 14 hours into Madness!!
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- Crossing the Nullarbor I just really wanted to capture my experience and put it on youtube. It was 14 hours a very long drive but a fun one.
Starting in Ceduna and ending in Esperance.
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Ha! Heading there over the weekend to start the madness! Great video
Ahhhhhhhhhh ... lol jk. That’s exciting.. it was such a memorable drive for us... :) thanks for the comment. If you make a video be sure to let me know
the 'Nullarbor Walkers'.
Great footage, in 1979 I was backpacking (from UK) and did Perth to Sydney on a Greyhound bus......4 days non stop. I swore that as long as my backside pointed down I would never do it again. No technology those days to record what you did and I'm very grateful to be able to see all the things I missed. In those four days I fell in love with Australia and I still live here in love with Gods country :)
aw thanks Barbara. I couldn't imagine what it would be like in 1979. more madness I would guess! thanks so much for sharing your experience :)
I did the Perth to Sydney trip with my parents when I was 3 back in in 1970. Back when 600km of it was dirt
Hi Babara I wish I was there to experience it with you. Never been to Australia before. Can you meet me there in December I plan to go there
A fantastic video, you two. Yes, a long drive but you made what could be a boring video, interesting and fun. Thank You for sharing.
thanks for the kind words Clark!! I really appreciate it :) everyone told us/warned us about this road, but we look back on it like it was a real fun adventure
The thing with the Nullarbor and the Ceduna SA to Norseman WA drive through the Eyre highway, is that no video can capture the feeling of utter inner peace and magic that a night of camping by the cliffs brings you. Truly the most magical place I’ve ever been to in my life, and the highlight of my very recent trip to Australia. Watching this video tearing up with nostalgia.
Great video you made
, it is a good drive across Australia , and the nullabor
I think it's even better if you can do it slow ,
I sat on 80 kph in an old rattly military 4wd many years ago 😁,
Stayed in rest areas mostly ,
as a city dweller it is not often you can wake up and hear absolutely dead silence apart from a vehicle breaking the silence every now and again.
I remember getting to a servo at one stage just as they where shutting up shop , I had to sleep in the car next to the Bowser 😆.
Night driving you see vehicle lights coming at you and dip your high beams, wait and wait and wait , 10 minutes later that vehicle finally gets to you 😀.
Every one should do the nullabor at least once , it is a good drive .
All the best to you peeps.
ya i agree.. if we werent in such a hurry to get to the other side i would have liked to stay... also because we didnt know much about the nullabor and everyone was "warning" us about it we were reluctant to stay ... now that i know more i would do it differently ... sounds like you had an awesome trip!
@@DannyBlack thanks mate , yes it was good .
On these trips when you first start out , some of us tend too take way too much stuff :) , and maybe spend too much on preparation , i did anyway , but it is all a learning experience , and you meet some great people out on the road , after a long break im going bush at easter , who knows i might end up on the nullabor again :) .
Good chatting with you mate , all the best .
Woah, stunning drone footage again. Those cliffs are epic!!! Worth the drive just for that view I reckon. And I was surprised to see that much shrub out there at 5:35.. beautiful! Looks so cool from the air.
As an Australian, love it!
great video. I cycled this a couple of months back... watching this makes me wonder how D:
That’s amazing! A couple other people in the comments said the same thing. I applaud you good sir!!! What an epic thing you did !!
awesome video man I drive that road 2 times a week every week driving road trains from Perth to Adelaide and use my GoPro to film also
it's flat eh.
Ever see any weird shit?
Very late to the party here, but I'm planning a road trip to Australia when things go back to normal... How long would I need to drive this road from Norseman to Port Augusta?
@@dkix89 about 18 hours if the only stops you make are for refuelling. If you stop to eat or or do some sight seeing it will take longer.
This is a drive I have made many times. Thank you for bringing back so many great memories.
Ah glad it brought back memories! It was actually a big highlight of our travels around Australia .. glad you had a great time too
Now I really wanna see a documentary on how these roads were built...
Great video. I work at Madura Pass on the Nullarbor. You video is an awesome example on how beautiful it is. Thank you :)
oh ya? how is it working out there? do you work in a road house or doing something else... everyone warned us about the Nullarbor but I thought I was one of my favorite parts of Australia
That's beautiful, definitely going on my bucket list.
Dry Content it's actually a lot more fun of a drive than people say!!
This road makes highway 50 'the loneliest road in America' look like child's play 😄
I worked on the road construction crew as a grader driver in the mid seventies , It took me two years to find out what the steering wheel was for ?
Thanks you for sharing love love love the whales at the whale centre.
Wow! Interesting! 😀👌
ive dont this trip from melb to perth in 35hours. I agree the nulla is a good drive, best to do the nullaboar plain over a few days as you drove past countless massive caves, underground lakes, awesome fishing spots, camp sites. etc.
Thanks for the tip!! Ya as we were driving there were so many places to stop and explore, had we known this before we would have planned it out longer. We just always heard from everyone that this road was dangerous and to get it over with quickly. But that might have been more true 30 years ago
When I was in the Army A soldier from Perth opted to drive his Ford Capri from there to Bandiana Victoria for a course
I'm doing this drive next year in February with my sedan. So, it's really good to see people doing this drive with their sedan.
Ya funny thing is at the begging of this road trip people were “so worried” about us taking our Sedan so we bought a kombie but had a problem with it just before this leg of the trip and rented this car. I think a more fuel efficient car is super important out there. You guys will have a blast it’s a long drive but there are some really pretty stops along the way :)
Wow. I love that drone footage!
It's a big country. Even bigger if you are not prepared!
💯 yes!!! Very very wise words
Love drones, perfect for this. I did on train. Just miles and miles of nothing. My highlight was the stars at night with no cities anywhere, was so clear. Thanks for this
Oh that would have been fantastic at night! We didn’t have a place to stay on the road so we were hurrying … but ya I saw the stars camping at uluru and it was unreal
you have great footage guys, it helps prove the earth is flat.
joe stuart haha it certainly felt flat on that long long long straight drive
Joe Stuart: It only LOOKS flat & for all practical purposes, it is flat. But, unfortunately for you & your junk science-based beliefs, the earth has been proven to be spherical centuries before people like you claimed that NASA is behind the conspiracy of covering up the "truth" of the earth's "real" shape being flat.
Hey MrBlack! No idea you used to make travel vlogs - this is so cool! (I have only seen your super helpful camera reviews over the past few years). Recently crossed the Nullarbor! Great road trip!
oh awesome! ya back in the day... i spent a LOT of time documenting my travels... its great to look back on, but funny how a channel like this could change so much :) thanks for watching, and glad you survived that long trek! lol
@@DannyBlack that's awesome, I love documenting my travels for that same reason! No worries! BTW I'm using the DJI Action 4 with the DJI MIC 2 connected via bluetooth and it is an absolute game changer for travel vlogging! Thanks for all your videos on this!!!
Great vid guys. I just bought a DJI Mavic Pro, you’ve given me some ideas! I must have driven the Nullarbor hundreds of times over the years. First drove it when it was a dirt road from Nundroo to the WA border.
Hey thanks so much :) I want to go back and fly it again... my drone gimbal was broken on that leg of the trip and it was just killing me to try and get not jittery footage. If you get any video let me know I would love to see it
You did well if the gimbal was broken! The DJI Go 4 app makes tracking so easy once you’re used to it.
Next trip across there will probably be February (hottest time of the year!) so I’ll send you a link if it turns out ok. Still practicing at the moment.
Ya I’ll come over and subscribe so I don’t miss it as well! Ya the gimbal was busted. I have a video where I crashed it in the blue mountains lol
That road was getting built when we passed through in early March 1975, I think it was almost finished but wasn't officially open? a sign read that you got fined if you were caught on it so we had to drive on the last frontier route through the desert heading west at night dodging wild life & holes breaking a window & eating tons of red dust, to lesson the constant vibration from the ruts a local said go like the clappers and pray that you not hit anything? LOl, it was an awesome experience, best road trip ever. Looks like remnants of the old road are still visible in this video?
We made the return trip during the day, Wow what an experience that was had to stop and wait to let the road train juggernauts go past past we could see their dust clouds coming toward us from miles away. Stopped and gave a trucker some food and beers he had lost his load and was in for a two day wait for a crane and help, one road trip that will be firmly stuck in my memory for ever.
Omg that would be crazy!!! What an amazing story to tell. I feel like there are some awesome stories coming out of that stretch ... but ya you wouldn’t want to break down out there lol
They definitely didn’t watch the famous Australian movie “Wolf Creek” before taking this long drive ...... 😁guys watch it before driving all the way to such remote Australian areas ...
Oh I still have yet to watch it!! But I heard about it before and people told me not to watch it lol. When we did the pass on the north there was a sign that said wolf creek -> (but I didn’t turn lol)
where is danny black oh you need to that movie is actually based on a real life incident so yeah lol
Dare Devil it’s pure fiction. It’s based on Ivan Milat who didn’t live anywhere near wolf creek. He was from Sydney and picked up backpackers on a couple occasions then took them into the national park where he murdered them
There’s nothing in that movie than remotely based on his killings apart from the fact he killed backpackers
Amazing quality vlog guys! Contemplating moving from Canberra to Perth in the future and this is heaps of fun to watch. Subbed 👌
aw thanks so much for the support.. ya I think that will be a fun move.. that drive even up to Perth was a huge highlight of my trip around Australia!
No contemplation needed for that decision...Just do it! You won't be disappointed !
I drove it back in 78' in a 2.5 ton un-aircondioning truck took 18 hours.It was great.Especially the blow holes.
Ceduna is half way across the Nullarbor. We stayed at those motels too when we used to take the 6-7 day drive from Karratha to Rockhampton
Great job, presentation, very good glad you two had a great experience
Thanks so much ! I know it can feel a bit dated being almost 5 years old now but it was one of our fondest memories traveling around Australia
Fantastic video you made! Its really a free drive Nullarbor.. enjoyed watching it.
Drove across the Nullarbor in Jan 1970 in a VW beetle (the three of us). The bit between Ceduna and Eucla was still unsealed back then. Drove all the way from Melbourne to Perth including down to Esperance and Albany and back to Melb.
Wow that would have been such a crazier cool road trip. What an awesome memory to have for you
@@DannyBlack Yeah, we drove a lot of it at night because of the heat, was 22 then.
Hope it wasn't too hot. Beetles have a nasty habit of catching fire if you don't let the engine cool down properly when you stop on a hot day.
Great footage , have done this trip a few times ,keep telling my wife we have to get out of the congested hell hole that is Melbourne now and go west again. Cheers
Haha ya definitely need to get out of that and stretch your legs. Although melbourne you have some amazing places just a couple hours away... Wilson’s prom and great ocean road. But that’s awesome you have done a couple of trips on it. I would do it again. Everyone was always telling us be careful on that road and that it’s the worst. But absolutely not. A huge highlight driving around Australia
Just done this on my own from Melbourne to Perth and back over the 2018-2019 new year and have to say was one of the BEST experiences of my life. I would love to do it again.
Yes!!!! Well said. I loved that drive! Everyone “warned me” about it... and I was like this is so awesome
@@DannyBlack yes same here. everyone warned me about the dangers but i came across none. did run over a few dead kangaroos though.
Soooo many dead Roos! I kept thinking about how much damage that would have to do to a car
black susursuroblack surprisingly on my travel I drove over 3 dead ones and had minimal damage to my commodore. Though theres a lot of fur and blood under my car now hahaha
Don't drive it at night, the Roo's and Wombats come out big time and highly likely you will hit one at night and a Wombat can flip your car if you hit it, even a KW bull bar will suffer a fair size dent hitting one.
If you follow a truck close be ready for a mass of mince fur, bone and meat to fly out from the back of the trailer when the truck hits it (m/cyclist beware.) and that leaves a mess on the car that will stink bad when you stop in the daytime heat.
Great footage ,great to relive my trip from May/June 2018 ,that was a 33 day trip on a bike half the nights at friends and relo's quarter camping in swag on the road side and the rest in caravan parks,hotels/motels.
Omg that’s amazing!!!! What an awesome trip for you! That sounds like such a great experience. Did you make any videos on it?
I can't tell if you're messing around but were you really counting dead kangaroos?
Absolutely beautiful! I had never heard of this area until earlier tonight, and I hope to be able to make that drive some day! Also, DAMN that is some expensive fuel!
Oh you should make the drive. Out of all the drives around Australia... this was the most memorable!!!! So fun
Hey Danny! Could you please tell about your setup, the model of drone.. tks!
I remember doing this about a year ago, 4 kids ages 12,9,7 and 1 we drove from Perth to Victoria cause I'm Aussie 😂 not the best way to do it 😂 especially cause we drove all 36 hours in 3 days and we visited everywhere we could in that time my gosh it was hectic
Wow that would have been tough with kids along... how many “are we there yets” did you experience?? Lol
@@DannyBlack surprisingly not too many, we stayed overnight on a closed off highway the furst fay and left at 3 in the morning to continue driving, we then stayed overnight in remark as we were ahead quite a few hours, it then was real stormy so we just drove and only stopped for petrol and toilet stops but it was overall a great experience, we didn't get to stop and see many attractions but we saw the big gash and orange, and quite a few things you see from the car, we also stopped at the bight, 😂
Great you guys are awesome
Back in '73,as an eight year old,we did the trip through Adelaide,Melbourne,Sydney,then up to the Gold Coast...& back home to Perth. (School Hols..6 weeks, starting in the middle of December)
It was in a 1968 Holden HK Panel Van(Google pics),with a roof rack on top,that my bro & I got to sleep on a few times crossing the Nullarbor. Great stuff 👍😎
Did you post an footage of Stunning Esperance?? ♥️
IWrocker sent me here👍
Edit: Found the video of Esperance..& subbed👍🍻
$1.64 for petrol
"That's really expensive"
*Cries in $2.25"
Wait, have you never seen water mirages on the road before? You can see them on the freeway in most American cities
Glad you enjoyed the drive, it os one of the best drives I have had in my life, the cliffs are awesome! It topk me 2 1/2 days to do the same trip, bit I had 3 dogs with me that had to be walked every few hours on a lead as there are baits set all the way across, my dogs thought it was heaven when they were allowed off lead at the Esperence Show Grounds. I also stopped and did a heap of sight seeing and still did not see everything.
Did you know Sky Lab crashed on the Nullarbour back in the 70s?
I had no idea about that Skylab crash! I almost want to do that drive again and like you, spend more time on it. Dogs weren’t allowed off lead on the drive? It was a highlight of a drive!!
That road seems endless and i love it .Enjoy your trip love louisa
I drove across the Nullarbor, back in 1975, going west to Perth.
wow that must have been a while experience back then!!!
Haha the scenes in the car of you guys doing different things. Pretty entertaining
lol thanks... its so funny that this was almost 2 years ago... its so cool to be able to look back on these things now :)
excellent content, was fun to watch
Yes, I can see. I can see.
lol 😂
That is so good air picture good job guys
Ha.. fun video again.. madness clips were hilarious
Haha sleeping in the car is hard to capture lol
great video we just finished melbourne to townsville return next rip will be to perth. looks like you had fun glad you enjoyed our great country thx for sharing
Oh wow that’s a long trek for sure!!! Ya you will love the one to Perth. Don’t go when it’s to hot!!! (We went in October so it was perfect)
3:15 Nice "falésia"! Congratulations from Brazil!
Did this drive from Perth to Adelaide with my wife in a 6 seat camper, great memories :)
Ya I loved it. I always tell people that it was one of my highlights driving around Australia
@@DannyBlack awesome video, showed my wife too :)
Fantastic and well captured and presented
thanks so much Drew. I think the hardest part about this video is that I had too much footage.. because there was not much else to do so I kept the camera out lol
We are driving Nullarbor in Jan, soooooo looking forward to it.
Awesome! Hope it’s not gonna be to hot... but either way it’s an awesome drive
Hello Sir, thanks for this video. I was looking for more info though. I am travelling from Launceston Tasmania to Perth. I will stay one night in Adelaide. Could you please suggest me please what could be best next possible stay like town or motel ?? How many service stations and motels comes on the way ? And what and where is the longest drive where is no service station or twin in between ? After that I will stop for night in Esperance where I lived for 2 years before heading to Perth. Thanks 🙏
Another 6 months and im travelling our mighty country with my son. This is a challenge i cant wait to do. Heard its a long, boring, tiring road. Sounds fun 😅🤔😂💛💚💛💚
oh wow thats awesome!!! will you be documenting it for youtube? honestly i want to do it again!
@@DannyBlack yes definitely will be mate. Hoping to grow my channel a little by then so the whole world can see our travels across Australia. Camping, fishing, hunting, eating at different pubs and restaurants and so much content hopefully 🤞🎣💞😁
Oh awesome. I’ll be sure to subscribe and relive it!
@@DannyBlack sounds good mate, thanks. 😎👍🍻
So nice, thanks for the video
Thanks so much :)
I must admit to having a bit of a singalong madness session on the 90 Mile straight myself :)
Haha that’s awesome
oh, this should be the runway of fast&furious 6 lol
Haha absolutely ... we should just make our own FF6
In 1968 I rode a push bike across the Nullarbor to propose to my girlfriend.
amazing!
I have done tis trip in 2011....Just me. No stormtroopers. Just after Norseman, our car breaksdown.
noooo way... omg that would be a nightmare!!!! I feel like that would be an good story to tell, since you've survived
Wow what a kool twip, kool couple, nice
Thanks Kamira :)
cool vid! Hey what camera and mic did you Vlog with?
hi Debra! thanks for writing. at the time of making this I was using a Sony NEX 6 with a wide angle (dirty) lens lol
The reason for the wave is to if your awake
What's weird about seeing another human wave when you might not see another human for many hours? Nothing. In Australia, we are friendly..
Aussies are friendly! I love living here :)
14 hours??????? What did you do for the extra 2 hours?????
thats confidential ! haha
crazy stuff alright that is one long drive your keen ... "another"
always up for a great road trip!!!
I stayed in exactly the same motel room in Ceduna as you guys did it looks like...right on the end.
Haha that’s awesome... was the place a ghost town as well???
Hey DB, just watched a reaction video to this from one of your fellow American tubers iwrocker. Pretty cool 👍
Just a short trip by a couple of Noddies. I did the WHOLE trip, Sydney to Perth via Broken Hill. Norseman. Hopetoun, Albany and Freemantle, then up WA to Carnarvon in December 2002. {And back] What a trip. !!!
Wow that sounds incredible... I love those kinds of trips because you can feel accomplished!! I’m actually in Fremantle right now (on a cruise ship)
This is where ufo chase cars :D
I’m going to be cycling through that madness soon, will probably take like 10 days!
Omg that’s amazing !!! Seriously I couldn’t imagine what an awesome feet that will be to accomplish!!! Best of luck … will you be documenting it ?
@@DannyBlack yeah I sure will! Won’t be on my channel until like December because I am actually riding from my home (Gold Coast) then probably to Melbourne, Adelaide, and then the Nullarbor straight to Perth haha! Just trying to practice to vlog before I leave so the vids are more interesting 😂
where are you originally from? how did you end up in Australia? You probably already covered this in another video.....great videography btw!
Met my wife working on cruise ships ... she’s an Aussie, and that’s the gist I think we do cover it somewhere amongst the videos lol
It's a West Eyre / Nullabor thing that we locals wave to all other drivers 👋
what genre is that music, Cassy plays that kind of music also.
hey thanks! ya I'm not sure the genre but I did get those earlier songs from the same artists Casey was using because they were Copyright free songs. He was a big inspiration of putting together these videos around Australia! I'm doing the same thing around America in 4 weeks
Divided 2(+) lane road, vehicle barriers, animal fences and no speed limit equals a more dispersed population.
_“He still needs to drive hundreds and hundreds of miles...”_ - Richard Hammond, Top Gear, Race to Oslo episode
Well....
That's not expensive for Petrol, that's what we pay here.
$1.60 / litre or 6 bucks a gallon is normal here. But then the average wage is a lot higher also.
haha ya that didnt age well did it 🤦♂️
This is dope man! Which drone you got? Also, where do you get your music? :)
This particular one was the phantom 4 with a broken gimbal (I crashed a couple weeks before that) as far as music I just looked on TH-cam for copyright free music
I remember the good ol’ days when petrol was $1.71 a litre. Now we’re well over $2. Sigh
2.80 in NZ now
nice drone shots dude!
+Rich Simms thanks so much. Ya that was a tough one too because I had a broken gimbal (you can see it mess up every now and then) but luckily I was able to put in those shots... I need to go back!!
Very enjoy your video
Thanks so much for watching :)
nice @@DannyBlack
Awesome video!! What month were you there?
This was October ... seemed like the perfect time
4:09 lol
lol it was so hard to get us both to look sleeping while also trying to be safe... luckily that road is so straight!!!
And you never while driving such a huge distance veered off to the left hand side of the road?
Like falling asleep ??
@@DannyBlack Falling asleep would be extremely dangerous, but I meant driving like you do in America!
@@rbruce63 oh haha... I don’t recall, but wouldn’t be surprised if I did 😂😂
You do mean the right-hand side? Australians drive on the left.
how is waving to other drivers weird 😹
Heads up on the first song please
Great video mate, especially the drone footage. I've done that crossing by road 40 times between 1964 and 1999, from the days of durt tracks, black and white brownie box camera and 8mm movie film, through to sealed road, Canon SLR camera and video 8 movie camera. I'm just about to do that trip again in teo weeks time,..over to Perth and W.A. and back to Adelaide, over a 4 week trip only this time I'll have better cameras, still and video,...and a Phantom 3 drone. I am assuming from your drone footage that you were able to use the 'follow me' mode in the Phantom,..very, very effective from the air. Very interested to know if that was controlled by the passenger or by automatic setting and at what speed was the drone able to 'keep up' with your car. Basically, could it all be done on automatic by just the driver. The one 'ammusing aspect' was your comment,...'City' of Cocklebiddy,....😄...They'll love you for that title,..lol
Can you tell me how long the drive is from one end of the Nullabor to the other, road wise, I am interested. Thanks.
It was a lot different when most of it was dirt !! But now its a/c in a car .and that ok too!!
Haha ya that would have been really roughing it back then. Ironically we had a 70s Bedford with no a/c ... but something happened to it just before this leg of the tour so we had to get a rental... kinda happy to cause you don’t want to break down there
What speeds do people drive at?
Speed limit is 110kph but a few cars speed. Road trains can do 100kph.
what drone did you use? Awesome video!
It was a phantom 4 and a broken gimbal too 😭 I did my best to keep it from looking to wobbly
I've done the drive many times and never get excited about it.
+cjeremie haha ya.. many times... I think I wouldn't be able to do it... this was fun for the first few hours, flying the drone by the Cliffs... then just long long long but you know that
It took me 17 days to run this in the opposite direction in summer.
Omg that would have been insane... how hot was it??
Great video. How fast were you driving?
I think we got up to like 140
@@DannyBlack thanks.
How long would it take from Melbourne to Perth on that road?
36 hours!