Loved this episode.Travellled the Nullabor as a kid in the old Kingswood in 1970 when it was bulldust when we moved from Carnarvon to Sydney after Apollo 11.So much to see and do out there.Have to get back there one day
That took me back . I was taken out to Koonalda station homestead by one of the sons , Neil I think , he introduced me to his father I think . Where you filmed the wood stove with the kettle on the corner was where he kept a can of Southwark beer, Hot beer . I worked at the road construction camp in 75 . Our camp water was carted from Koonalda . I drove a cat 140 grader on the new road . For keeping the grade shape/slope I made use of that flat horizon lined up with the straight window ledge .No digital electronics . Our road was so straight and boring I kept forgetting what that black round thing I`d been hanging onto all day was for ? Based at our camp we had a cessna and the bush pilot Cyril would fly us all around looking for blowholes . Yes we did find some, and on one we made a rope ladder with road pegs .It was deep and peaceful .I went down alone . I fell asleep in the dark tunnel . Every day was an adventure .
Wow Trevor, that really does sound like an adventure. We really enjoyed the old road, and all of its history, caves, tanks etc. it would of been a wild life back then 👍 Thanks for watching and help support us. Cheers, karl
@@nowhereboundtouring Thanks for responding . I will also pass this on to my wife since she was with me in the camp with our sons , both under 4 at that time.
This is certainly one of your best clips, very informative and a treat to watch. I was really surprised when you showed the picture of Ivy Tanks, I first pulled fuel from there in 1969 via a hand pump. The pump in the far right of your picture, which is one of those you pump first to fill the glass cylinder, then gravity feed to your vehicle was the only one with fuel on that trip. I had to stop at every fuel place as I was on a Vespa motor scooter and carried extra fuel in a kerosene tin between my legs on the floor. I've done around 35 trips across the Nullarbor, strangely enough I'm looking forward to doing another one, always something different encountered. Love your almost laughing reference to interest in air pressure, from previous videos. The real problem is that most viewers don't quite understand the weight factor of a light truck, let alone one fitted with super singles; which is another ball game. Great to get your axle weights as well as your tyre pressures and why you are setting them at those pressures. You are on the limit............................ The references by some people that everyone pretty much traversed this road in normal 4x2 vehicles is correct, but the older vehicles were designed differently with longevity over interesting terrain at reasonable speeds as a given. Today the standard automobile, in general, is really not suited to much more than gravel roads, so it is a little unfair. That said, many people doing interesting roads over a longer time frame, usually ran a 3 or 3½ ton truck and often built something on the back to live in. The old man did this in the fifties with our family, his only problem was he bought an Austin truck; reliability was not its best aspect. When you eventually get across to WA and you pass through Balladonia, there may still be the original motel/cabin building. I was on the team in 1974 digging out the foundations for the new improved fuel stops across the Nullarbor. There was excitement and trepidation at what would happen when the "Bitch" (bitumen surface) in the South Australian section was completed. As for car and truck wrecks, there were heaps of broken vehicles in various states of smashed up and just broken down bodies all over the place. Essentially if something was there long enough other travellers would strip what they could to get their own vehicles repaired and running again. The south road from Pt Augusta to Alice Springs was a similar situation, wrecks everywhere and stripping of wrecked vehicles to get broken down ones running again. The police used to say, "don't leave your vehicle if you break down, you'll be doomed if you do". Well that was all and good, but in reality, one never left a broken down vehicle as when you came back there wouldn't be too much left. Government tanks were erected along the route across the Nullarbor, they were sometimes topped up during summer by the authorities, while in the cooler months the quite large corrugated iron roofing designed to collect water for the tanks, usually collected plenty of water. People used to work out many of their stops to camp at the government tanks. If you get to Norseman and head south, then take the first road (was a track in the 70's) to Peak Charles. At the forked junction, you can either take the Peak Charles track, or head west south west, then you will travel in a dead straight line for 88 km's then you come to a 45º right corner. On your left, were a couple of government tanks for travellers. Nice campsite. From there not too hard and quite easy once you get to the rabbit fence and head towards Newdegate followed by a trip across Lake Grace and if there is water in it, it looks wonderful as the road goes straight through the lake.
It wouldn't be Ivy Tanks as the place was demolished when the new road went in. All that is there is a chimney and car wrecks. The owner wasn't allowed to build on the new road so he spat it and leveled every thing. I understand to get there you have to leave the sealed road and take a track to the old road.
@@brucelawrence123 I think you may have misread my posting slightly. At 32:54 there is a picture shown of Ivy Tanks, which I last remember being almost exactly like that in 1974, when I did 4 crossings of the Nullarbor. During those trips there were plenty of sections that were bitumenised, but closed off. One used the old road which, within reason, travelled alongside much of the new bitumen sections, but not always. My next trip across the Nullarbor was in 1977 (4 crossings again) bitumen all the way, I distinctly remember looking out for Ivy Tanks but never came across it. I always wondered why it closed down, now I know 44 years later.
@@allanhugh2044 Thanks for the update. I last traveled on the dirt weeks before the new road opened. To be caught on the new road i think the fine was $200 a wheel. I knew the cop at Eucla and when i called in to see him he said i should have seen him first as he would have given me a permit to travel the new road ahhh. I miss the old road as every trip was different.
@@brucelawrence123 Yeah, I remember something like $100 per wheel; was the story I heard. Not too sure how the Cop at Eucla in Western Australia could give you a pass for a South Australian road, but stranger things have happened.
Wow Allan, you have a lot of experience and awesome memories. We are near Esperance at the moment as trying to get to Mandurah to see my sister prior to heading back to Vic for a wedding. I have noted from another viewer the Connie Sue Hwy so sounds like your suggestions will be added to that trip, when we do it in the future. I never knew about why the glass cylinder was on the top of the petrol tanks, thanks for the explanation. I hope you keep enjoying our video's and love the knowledge you are sharing. 👍 Cheers Katty
A very different part of the world out there. Great to see you are on the road less travelled. I have so much admiration for the early pioneers that opened up the inland. If you should travel through the goldfields area of WA be sure to visit the old gold town of Gwalia just out of Leonora. It one of my favourite old places to explore. Stay safe
Glad you enjoyed, we love checking out the history of locations. I have put Gwalia in our Hema map, won't make it there this time as at this stage on in WA till mid April. But will do when we go back into WA. Sounds like our type of place. 👍 Cheers Katty
Must be erie walking through places like that, and in your minds eye, picturing people milling about, pulling into the gas station, tending to the flock, etc. Interesting time capsule.
Gday Shane, The whole place feels like a scene out of a movie, where the people have just disappeared, and it is almost untouched. What a great place to see. That trip on the old Eyre Hwy is still one of our favourite locations. Cheers, Karl & katty
Good old railway sleepers and a bit of cobb & co. Cant believe how strait those walls on the old station house are they have held up well through the weather and the test of time.
the motor mostly commonly used in sheds was a 600cc single cylinder lister...very handy engine also used on genarators and bore pumps....hand crank start
Did any of the wrecks have air conditioners, electric windows,autos, fuel injection, 4 pot disk brakes, efficient turbo charged diesels, 4WD etc. etc.? What about bull bars, driving lights, roof racks and did you spot any dual axle caravans? EGT's, chips, GPS, 2 way radios? Yet those cars were driven there. Excellent video yet again guys. Loved the history lessons!
😂 They were driven their Benny but they didn't make it home again 😁😁😁 glad you enjoy our content, I enjoy your comments, always give me a good laugh 👍 Cheers Katty
Did this trip several times prior to 1974 and those tanks used to have roofs over them to collect the water. Ivy Tanks was one of those but not sure where it was that you stopped. The old road was very wide and so wide pretty much four semis could be parked across it. In the wet it was very treacherous as the pot holes became submerged and difficult to spot. It was a real adventure back in those days.
A great look at a part of the land that so many tried to work, yet were ultimately defeated by the harsh reality of climate and distance. We were a little disappointed not to see a locust recipe included, but hey, I'm sure we will survive missing out ;-) Looking forward to the next instalment. Stay safe and well.
That was fantastic thanks. As far as I could tell, in the Koonalda car museum, there was not one 4WD !!. Back in the very early 60's, I knew a little English Gentleman, who drove an Austin A30 from Mount Gambier in South Australia, to Perth and return, and it would have been along that very road. Just a trip from the Mount to Adelaide in those days would have been a huge undertaking for him. Adding to the story, in his enthusiasm to pack what little space he had, with what he considered necessities, he'd omitted to pack the spare wheel, and it was only when he got back home, that he discovered it. Turns out that he didn't need it anyway !!. An amazing effort, and a tribute to his resolve. Thanks again. Is the discovered rattle in the next video ??. Take care and stay safe, Cheers.
Hey BigKev, an Austin wow! that's crazy, lucky he didn't get a flat out there. He definitely had some courage doing that. The rattle is in the next episode but let's say I was not to far wrong. Karl has been onto Bushtracker and they are sending new parts. Happy Friday 👍 Cheers Katty
Thanks, the station was awesome to check out and all that was along that route in the old days for people to explore. Hope you get out there and check it out yourself sometime.. Cheers Katty
Wow, brings back some memories - I travelled the Nullabor Launceston to Perth and return in 1971. I had forgotten that they re-routed the new road, so this is the one I must have driven. EK Holden, 149 equipped. 320 miles of dirt.
Ditto - Melb/Perth 1970 (towing broken Rambler Hornet (kangaroo damaged) Balladonia to Kalgoorlie, Perth/Melb/Perth 1973 and Perth/Melb 1974. A 1965 AP6 Valiant all 3 trips, only problems 1 stuffed alternator on 1st trip and a flat tyre on 2nd trip (something like 3000 miles in 10 days). 1st and 3rd trips solo. I still remember the corrugations at Ivy Tanks. First and easily best car I ever owned.
@@einfelder8262 You need to take a chill pill "fella". My comment was meant as a joke hence the emoji and was simply a dig at the holden vs ford vs chrysler banter of the day. Get over it.
@@hinterkress You could always click on the three little dots to the right of your post and hit delete. Then no-one would know what I replied to. At your age you should know that jokes don't translate in a text on youtube.
Beautiful countryside side. Thanks for sharing. Your a brave woman to sit in a 40° caravan to watch things jiggle and rattle. But why does Australia have so many flies? 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰
Hi, There are always more flys in cattle country, but sometime they are just in the middle of nowhere??? Other times hardly any flys🤷♂️ Thanks for watching.
yes and the shingle backs were also having feast 😂😂 We love finding the less charted locations. Hope to catch you on the road sometime 👍👍 Cheers Katty and Karl
Another great episode, thanks! 🙌🏻What an interesting part of Oz, I'm guessing the air con would have been working O/T! Karl, ever the optimist looking for a blowhole 😁
@@nowhereboundtouring When away from 240v don't you have to use a Generator anyway or can a caravan run AC from battery? To this end what was the mistake in the build please? Leyland Brothers eat your hearts out😜
@@DM-cp4uk we are definitely inspired by the Leyland brothers 😂 We ordered the van with ac that could run from the battery system but due to a miss communication it didn't occur. We will be getting this correct when next in QLD we don't want to run the generator and we don't plug in so a rewire and another battery is needed. The mistake was that the wiring wasn't set up to except the ac from the battery system Karl being a sparky could rig it out but wouldn't be as pretty. Cheers Katty
The Guthries who ran Koonalda had a thriving business right up until they opened the new highway. The day it opened, the traffic stopped, and their business was dead. I note on Vol 2 you call it Koonaldi ... it is Koonalda.
Hi guys. Loving your adventures. Couldn't find the video where you mentioned the caravan jockey wheel. What do you use and would you buy the same one again. Cheers. Tony
Hi Tony, The video has a Aussie map on the thumb nail. Tips and tricks, in Oct 2020. We use an electric leg made by Bull Dog (USA). We have broken and repaired the drive dog, by levelling the van with the truck still attached (I.e. lifting the whole lot). It is still going good and I do like it. I would buy the highest rated unit you can. I have found the companies customer service to be non existent, so I would not rely on it at all. I would buy the same or similar again, as it makes it all easy. Cheers, karl
Where did you get that spice rack ? Did you pass anyone on the track at all ? Would love to travel along there but probably to chicken worried about breakdown 😬
Hi Cazz, We spent 4 days just on the old eyre hwy, you could do it in less, but it depends on what you want to see etc. It is an amazing place, once you really start to look around. The info for the spice rack is on our web site. Cheers, and thanks for supporting us. Karl
I went across there in 1977, riding in the very back of an old Falcon station wagon, no seatbelts, no AC, so the tailgate window was open for air and red dust on/in EVERYTHING. We were halfway across and my mother pulled over and burst into tears on the side of the road, a great time for an explore, apparently, some guy called Elvis had died. Great video, just wish you would kill the music, especially when you are talking. Safe travels.
Goog Vidio boys but the road looks pretty cruisey to what I remember I went a cross there when I was 10 in 1965 with my dad mum and sister 2 younger brother 6 plu 2 older brothers 14 and 16 in an old EJ station wagon it was sky blue ok as a trailer there where millions of rabbits every were thousand of car bodies from start till end may be a car smile if not less We were driving along one day and we saw this wheel come rolling past us dad said what the bloody he'll and be for he finished that sentence the bloody trailer hit the ground and dug it's self into the HWY .so we dragged it to the side of the HWY walked about 100 YDS found a old Holden wreck pulled of the bearing off one side put them on trailer and a way we went ..plenty of more stories . But enough for noe
Gday Keith, We have now had plenty of old stories about this road shared with us, and we love it. There was only a few car wrecks on the road and hardly any rabbits, when we went through. Cheers, Karl
sore subject, we run them to recommended, last week had to have our spares put on because the shit things the side walls were fatiguing at the bead. Today rechecked and the others are f###d we can't go anywhere until we get something different delivered. Never ending saga DONT BUY GLADIATOR
@@nowhereboundtouring Hi I'm converting my nps 300 to 6x6 I am a full-time beekeeper. Conversion starts next week. I have got all black bear steer are the 37x12.5 with kevla wall's and black bear 37x13.5 on rear no kevla on wall's I was talked out of gladiator for that reason.
Another great video, keep up the great work. Good to see the non touristy place. Please don’t get to popular and end up with a heap of sponsors that then ruin your videos because you spend all your time promoting their product.
Hey Tony, we don't plan on sprucking stuff. We are happy on our adventures. Karl and I are too pig headed to be told what to put in our video's etc. So no fear, you will always get the honest us. If given the opportunity for sponsorship, we would make seperate videos that would be correctly titled. But I don't think you have to fear us getting to popular 😂😂😂😂 Glad you enjoy our trips Cheers Katty
Bit of “flex” going on here. How many other Aussies could afford a rig like that? No me certainly. How many 100’s of thousands of dollars? Good video none the less. Not realistic for most people though.
Hey surprisingly you will find that our set up costs less than all the Landcruisers you see getting around. The trucks are everywhere across Australia we are just one of the only ones sharing our journey and rig capabilities on TH-cam. The truck and the caravan are all we own and is our home. We sold everything to have this. Thanks for watching Cheers Katty and Karl
Loved this episode.Travellled the Nullabor as a kid in the old Kingswood in 1970 when it was bulldust when we moved from Carnarvon to Sydney after Apollo 11.So much to see and do out there.Have to get back there one day
so glad you enjoyed and invoked the travel spirit cheers Katty
That took me back . I was taken out to Koonalda station homestead by one of the sons , Neil I think , he introduced me to his father I think . Where you filmed the wood stove with the kettle on the corner was where he kept a can of Southwark beer, Hot beer . I worked at the road construction camp in 75 . Our camp water was carted from Koonalda . I drove a cat 140 grader on the new road . For keeping the grade shape/slope I made use of that flat horizon lined up with the straight window ledge .No digital electronics . Our road was so straight and boring I kept forgetting what that black round thing I`d been hanging onto all day was for ? Based at our camp we had a cessna and the bush pilot Cyril would fly us all around looking for blowholes . Yes we did find some, and on one we made a rope ladder with road pegs .It was deep and peaceful .I went down alone . I fell asleep in the dark tunnel . Every day was an adventure .
Wow Trevor, that really does sound like an adventure. We really enjoyed the old road, and all of its history, caves, tanks etc. it would of been a wild life back then 👍
Thanks for watching and help support us.
Cheers, karl
@@nowhereboundtouring Thanks for responding . I will also pass this on to my wife since she was with me in the camp with our sons , both under 4 at that time.
Great video guy's !
Love The old service station and those cars !
Love the old cars & trucks, super cool !
Need to add this to the bucket list. Thanks for sharing
It was so nice, no one around and so peaceful. Glad you enjoyed
Cheers Katty
Awesome, I did this trip with my parents in 1970 on a greyhound bus from Perth to Sydney.
Wow, that would be something to remember.
Love to see a video on how you have set up the back of the truck cheers Robert
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This is certainly one of your best clips, very informative and a treat to watch.
I was really surprised when you showed the picture of Ivy Tanks, I first pulled fuel from there in 1969 via a hand pump. The pump in the far right of your picture, which is one of those you pump first to fill the glass cylinder, then gravity feed to your vehicle was the only one with fuel on that trip. I had to stop at every fuel place as I was on a Vespa motor scooter and carried extra fuel in a kerosene tin between my legs on the floor. I've done around 35 trips across the Nullarbor, strangely enough I'm looking forward to doing another one, always something different encountered.
Love your almost laughing reference to interest in air pressure, from previous videos. The real problem is that most viewers don't quite understand the weight factor of a light truck, let alone one fitted with super singles; which is another ball game. Great to get your axle weights as well as your tyre pressures and why you are setting them at those pressures. You are on the limit............................
The references by some people that everyone pretty much traversed this road in normal 4x2 vehicles is correct, but the older vehicles were designed differently with longevity over interesting terrain at reasonable speeds as a given. Today the standard automobile, in general, is really not suited to much more than gravel roads, so it is a little unfair. That said, many people doing interesting roads over a longer time frame, usually ran a 3 or 3½ ton truck and often built something on the back to live in. The old man did this in the fifties with our family, his only problem was he bought an Austin truck; reliability was not its best aspect.
When you eventually get across to WA and you pass through Balladonia, there may still be the original motel/cabin building. I was on the team in 1974 digging out the foundations for the new improved fuel stops across the Nullarbor. There was excitement and trepidation at what would happen when the "Bitch" (bitumen surface) in the South Australian section was completed.
As for car and truck wrecks, there were heaps of broken vehicles in various states of smashed up and just broken down bodies all over the place. Essentially if something was there long enough other travellers would strip what they could to get their own vehicles repaired and running again.
The south road from Pt Augusta to Alice Springs was a similar situation, wrecks everywhere and stripping of wrecked vehicles to get broken down ones running again. The police used to say, "don't leave your vehicle if you break down, you'll be doomed if you do". Well that was all and good, but in reality, one never left a broken down vehicle as when you came back there wouldn't be too much left.
Government tanks were erected along the route across the Nullarbor, they were sometimes topped up during summer by the authorities, while in the cooler months the quite large corrugated iron roofing designed to collect water for the tanks, usually collected plenty of water. People used to work out many of their stops to camp at the government tanks.
If you get to Norseman and head south, then take the first road (was a track in the 70's) to Peak Charles. At the forked junction, you can either take the Peak Charles track, or head west south west, then you will travel in a dead straight line for 88 km's then you come to a 45º right corner. On your left, were a couple of government tanks for travellers. Nice campsite. From there not too hard and quite easy once you get to the rabbit fence and head towards Newdegate followed by a trip across Lake Grace and if there is water in it, it looks wonderful as the road goes straight through the lake.
It wouldn't be Ivy Tanks as the place was demolished when the new road went in. All that is there is a chimney and car wrecks. The owner wasn't allowed to build on the new road so he spat it and leveled every thing. I understand to get there you have to leave the sealed road and take a track to the old road.
@@brucelawrence123 I think you may have misread my posting slightly. At 32:54 there is a picture shown of Ivy Tanks, which I last remember being almost exactly like that in 1974, when I did 4 crossings of the Nullarbor. During those trips there were plenty of sections that were bitumenised, but closed off. One used the old road which, within reason, travelled alongside much of the new bitumen sections, but not always.
My next trip across the Nullarbor was in 1977 (4 crossings again) bitumen all the way, I distinctly remember looking out for Ivy Tanks but never came across it. I always wondered why it closed down, now I know 44 years later.
@@allanhugh2044 Thanks for the update. I last traveled on the dirt weeks before the new road opened. To be caught on the new road i think the fine was $200 a wheel. I knew the cop at Eucla and when i called in to see him he said i should have seen him first as he would have given me a permit to travel the new road ahhh. I miss the old road as every trip was different.
@@brucelawrence123 Yeah, I remember something like $100 per wheel; was the story I heard. Not too sure how the Cop at Eucla in Western Australia could give you a pass for a South Australian road, but stranger things have happened.
Wow Allan, you have a lot of experience and awesome memories. We are near Esperance at the moment as trying to get to Mandurah to see my sister prior to heading back to Vic for a wedding. I have noted from another viewer the Connie Sue Hwy so sounds like your suggestions will be added to that trip, when we do it in the future.
I never knew about why the glass cylinder was on the top of the petrol tanks, thanks for the explanation.
I hope you keep enjoying our video's and love the knowledge you are sharing. 👍 Cheers Katty
Love the video !
To stop at Koonalda station is on my to do list.
Thanks for sharing .
Happy travels 😎👌
We thought the whole area was great, if you plan on doing it, it may be worth researching some of the less known caves. We liked these as well 👍
@@nowhereboundtouring Magic !
Great video. Waiting for next one. Thanks Rusty
glad you enjoyed, am working on the West episode right now 👍👍 Cheers Katty
thank you for detail video as beauty watching
glad you enjoyed Robert, thanks for watching 👍 Cheers Katty
What an interesting section of road.
Hi Steve,
We still love that trip, we enjoyed the isolation and checking out the “ old times”.
Cheers, karl
I crossed it in 1975 on a motor bike parkes to perth a lot different then but fun thks for your videos mate just love them
Hi John glad you enjoy the videos. That would have been hard work on a motor bike back then. Cheers Katty
@@nowhereboundtouring part of the nullarbor was still dirt was a crazy ride i was still in the army
That is an amazing setup you have there!!
Thanks Walter, and thanks for watching us 👍
A very different part of the world out there. Great to see you are on the road less travelled. I have so much admiration for the early pioneers that opened up the inland. If you should travel through the goldfields area of WA be sure to visit the old gold town of Gwalia just out of Leonora. It one of my favourite old places to explore. Stay safe
Glad you enjoyed, we love checking out the history of locations. I have put Gwalia in our Hema map, won't make it there this time as at this stage on in WA till mid April. But will do when we go back into WA. Sounds like our type of place. 👍
Cheers Katty
Must be erie walking through places like that, and in your minds eye, picturing people milling about, pulling into the gas station, tending to the flock, etc. Interesting time capsule.
Gday Shane,
The whole place feels like a scene out of a movie, where the people have just disappeared, and it is almost untouched. What a great place to see. That trip on the old Eyre Hwy is still one of our favourite locations.
Cheers, Karl & katty
Great video, I last drove the old Eyre in '66 in a Mini Cooper, the road was a little better after the grader had been through. Thank you.
glad you enjoyed. A mini would have certainly been an experience
cheers Katty
Good old railway sleepers and a bit of cobb & co. Cant believe how strait those walls on the old station house are they have held up well through the weather and the test of time.
Absolutely spectacular sleeper walls, was really great to visit and it seems a lot of people have great memories of this trek Cheers Katty
the motor mostly commonly used in sheds was a 600cc single cylinder lister...very handy engine also used on genarators and bore pumps....hand crank start
Great video brings back memories from my travels threw there in the early 90s can't wait for more .love the truck an van set up .
thanks glad you enjoyed, it seems everyone has fond memories of this old drive cheers Katty
Did any of the wrecks have air conditioners, electric windows,autos, fuel injection, 4 pot disk brakes, efficient turbo charged diesels, 4WD etc. etc.? What about bull bars, driving lights, roof racks and did you spot any dual axle caravans? EGT's, chips, GPS, 2 way radios? Yet those cars were driven there.
Excellent video yet again guys. Loved the history lessons!
😂 They were driven their Benny but they didn't make it home again 😁😁😁 glad you enjoy our content, I enjoy your comments, always give me a good laugh 👍 Cheers Katty
Did this trip several times prior to 1974 and those tanks used to have roofs over them to collect the water. Ivy Tanks was one of those but not sure where it was that you stopped. The old road was very wide and so wide pretty much four semis could be parked across it. In the wet it was very treacherous as the pot holes became submerged and difficult to spot. It was a real adventure back in those days.
A great look at a part of the land that so many tried to work, yet were ultimately defeated by the harsh reality of climate and distance. We were a little disappointed not to see a locust recipe included, but hey, I'm sure we will survive missing out ;-) Looking forward to the next instalment. Stay safe and well.
glad you enjoyed, I considered cooking up some locusts 😂 but wasn't sure what garnish to use. Heading to Afghan Rock next time 👍
😂😂 Cheers Katty
That was fantastic thanks. As far as I could tell, in the Koonalda car museum, there was not one 4WD !!. Back in the very early 60's, I knew a little English Gentleman, who drove an Austin A30 from Mount Gambier in South Australia, to Perth and return, and it would have been along that very road. Just a trip from the Mount to Adelaide in those days would have been a huge undertaking for him. Adding to the story, in his enthusiasm to pack what little space he had, with what he considered necessities, he'd omitted to pack the spare wheel, and it was only when he got back home, that he discovered it. Turns out that he didn't need it anyway !!. An amazing effort, and a tribute to his resolve.
Thanks again. Is the discovered rattle in the next video ??. Take care and stay safe, Cheers.
Hey BigKev, an Austin wow! that's crazy, lucky he didn't get a flat out there. He definitely had some courage doing that.
The rattle is in the next episode but let's say I was not to far wrong. Karl has been onto Bushtracker and they are sending new parts. Happy Friday 👍
Cheers Katty
Great memories remember doing this with my dad in 1970.
glad you enjoyed cheers Katty
Great episode. That station looked fascinating.
Thanks, the station was awesome to check out and all that was along that route in the old days for people to explore. Hope you get out there and check it out yourself sometime.. Cheers Katty
Fascinating video, and nicely shot.
thanks for that, we feel we are improving. The wind is a problem though. Cheers Katty
Thanks for showing us
no problem hope you enjoyed Cheers Katty 👍
Another interesting episode. Well done guys
Thanks Peter, glad you enjoyed. Keep up the good work. Cheers Katty
Great video love to go out the there too.
Andrew, it is well worth the effort. Fascinating to see how it was just left.
Cheers Katty
Wow, brings back some memories - I travelled the Nullabor Launceston to Perth and return in 1971. I had forgotten that they re-routed the new road, so this is the one I must have driven. EK Holden, 149 equipped. 320 miles of dirt.
Ditto - Melb/Perth 1970 (towing broken Rambler Hornet (kangaroo damaged) Balladonia to Kalgoorlie, Perth/Melb/Perth 1973 and Perth/Melb 1974. A 1965 AP6 Valiant all 3 trips, only problems 1 stuffed alternator on 1st trip and a flat tyre on 2nd trip (something like 3000 miles in 10 days). 1st and 3rd trips solo. I still remember the corrugations at Ivy Tanks. First and easily best car I ever owned.
Ahh forgot, the AP6 was 225 powered and ate Holdens for breakfast 😉
@@hinterkress And even now at your age you can't avoid a pissing contest. Time to grow up, fella.
@@einfelder8262 You need to take a chill pill "fella". My comment was meant as a joke hence the emoji and was simply a dig at the holden vs ford vs chrysler banter of the day. Get over it.
@@hinterkress You could always click on the three little dots to the right of your post and hit delete. Then no-one would know what I replied to. At your age you should know that jokes don't translate in a text on youtube.
Cute Shinglebacks. Happy you moved them :-)
There were so many it was awesome, those were the only two that refused to move as we approached 😂😂 Cheers Katty
Beautiful countryside side. Thanks for sharing. Your a brave woman to sit in a 40° caravan to watch things jiggle and rattle.
But why does Australia have so many flies? 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰
Hi,
There are always more flys in cattle country, but sometime they are just in the middle of nowhere??? Other times hardly any flys🤷♂️
Thanks for watching.
@@nowhereboundtouring Thanks for explaining that
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You can cross the Nullabor on the Trans access track and on the Anne Beaddell Hwy
Thanks Blake, maybe we will do them next time we cross 😀
Looks like pueblo west Colorado I bet that old flat head v8 would still run !
Hi Sam,
It is quite a unique countryside. We liked it👍
Mate you two get to some ripper spots..... That Brown Falcon would be gorging itself on the locusts.....
yes and the shingle backs were also having feast 😂😂 We love finding the less charted locations. Hope to catch you on the road sometime 👍👍 Cheers Katty and Karl
Another great episode, thanks! 🙌🏻What an interesting part of Oz, I'm guessing the air con would have been working O/T!
Karl, ever the optimist looking for a blowhole 😁
a/c in truck reduced temp to about 35 degrees 😂 didn't turn ac on in van as need to run generator 🤬 mistake made in build. Thats ok we are tough
@@nowhereboundtouring When away from 240v don't you have to use a Generator anyway or can a caravan run AC from battery? To this end what was the mistake in the build please? Leyland Brothers eat your hearts out😜
@@DM-cp4uk we are definitely inspired by the Leyland brothers 😂 We ordered the van with ac that could run from the battery system but due to a miss communication it didn't occur. We will be getting this correct when next in QLD we don't want to run the generator and we don't plug in so a rewire and another battery is needed. The mistake was that the wiring wasn't set up to except the ac from the battery system Karl being a sparky could rig it out but wouldn't be as pretty. Cheers Katty
The Guthries who ran Koonalda had a thriving business right up until they opened the new highway. The day it opened, the traffic stopped, and their business was dead. I note on Vol 2 you call it Koonaldi ... it is Koonalda.
Hi Laurie,
Thanks for the info. 👍
Cheers, karl
Hi guys. Loving your adventures. Couldn't find the video where you mentioned the caravan jockey wheel. What do you use and would you buy the same one again. Cheers. Tony
Hi Tony,
The video has a Aussie map on the thumb nail. Tips and tricks, in Oct 2020.
We use an electric leg made by Bull Dog (USA). We have broken and repaired the drive dog, by levelling the van with the truck still attached (I.e. lifting the whole lot).
It is still going good and I do like it. I would buy the highest rated unit you can. I have found the companies customer service to be non existent, so I would not rely on it at all.
I would buy the same or similar again, as it makes it all easy.
Cheers, karl
Where did you get that spice rack ?
Did you pass anyone on the track at all ?
Would love to travel along there but probably to chicken worried about breakdown 😬
Hi Wazhe,
All the details are listed on our website.
Www. Nowherebound.com
Cheers, karl
Love this video, our old Australian past! Can I ask how many days did you take to cross the Eyre? That spice rack!! where did you get it from please?
Hi Cazz,
We spent 4 days just on the old eyre hwy, you could do it in less, but it depends on what you want to see etc.
It is an amazing place, once you really start to look around.
The info for the spice rack is on our web site.
Cheers, and thanks for supporting us.
Karl
I went across there in 1977, riding in the very back of an old Falcon station wagon, no seatbelts, no AC, so the tailgate window was open for air and red dust on/in EVERYTHING. We were halfway across and my mother pulled over and burst into tears on the side of the road, a great time for an explore, apparently, some guy called Elvis had died. Great video, just wish you would kill the music, especially when you are talking. Safe travels.
Hi Amanda,
It would of been an interesting trip back then, you can still remember it, so it must of been….
Thanks for watching,
Cheers Karl and Katty.
Gotta love those corrigations, thats how you end up with mystery cans in the fridge. 50-50 wether its a beer or a coke
Lol, it’s all funny until one breaks, then the next one, and so on. Beer and sticky soft drink everywhere.😄
@@nowhereboundtouring we took bets after 7 days at kalumburu... to guess the mystery can.... turns out we really had run out of beer 😂
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Excellent tour, thanks
Thanks glad you enjoyed 👍 cheers Katty
How much it cost for the rig + caravan???? What upgrades did you introduce for comfort???
Goog Vidio boys but the road looks pretty cruisey to what I remember I went a cross there when I was 10 in 1965 with my dad mum and sister 2 younger brother 6 plu 2 older brothers 14 and 16 in an old EJ station wagon it was sky blue ok as a trailer there where millions of rabbits every were thousand of car bodies from start till end may be a car smile if not less
We were driving along one day and we saw this wheel come rolling past us dad said what the bloody he'll and be for he finished that sentence the bloody trailer hit the ground and dug it's self into the HWY .so we dragged it to the side of the HWY walked about 100 YDS found a old Holden wreck pulled of the bearing off one side put them on trailer and a way we went ..plenty of more stories . But enough for noe
Gday Keith,
We have now had plenty of old stories about this road shared with us, and we love it. There was only a few car wrecks on the road and hardly any rabbits, when we went through.
Cheers,
Karl
Hi what tyre pressure are you running on highway with the gladiator's?
sore subject, we run them to recommended, last week had to have our spares put on because the shit things the side walls were fatiguing at the bead. Today rechecked and the others are f###d we can't go anywhere until we get something different delivered. Never ending saga DONT BUY GLADIATOR
@@nowhereboundtouring Hi I'm converting my nps 300 to 6x6 I am a full-time beekeeper. Conversion starts next week. I have got all black bear steer are the 37x12.5 with kevla wall's and black bear 37x13.5 on rear no kevla on wall's I was talked out of gladiator for that reason.
@@palma8120 yeah we have the same tyres coming in the next few days. Who did you deal with that talked you out of the gladiators? Cheers Katty
Cool atw they didn't stock them any more due to the issues you are having.
The microwave towers were for radio communications. There were several between Norseman and Ceduna.
Thanks Ian, I was extremely confused 😂
Cheers Katty
hey, what ball park did your setup cost ?
just shy of $370k 😊 Cheers Katty
I’m surprised nobody has stolen the old fuel pump
True, it is in the middle of nowhere though.
Where u get spice rack from ??
Hi Louise, it is a TM Essential Spice rack comes in individual runs. Jump on their website.
Cheers Katty
@@nowhereboundtouring Brilliant
So what's the noise?
something to do with the suspension, lucky I sat in as I could feel it through the floor.
Cheers Katty
Another great video, keep up the great work. Good to see the non touristy place. Please don’t get to popular and end up with a heap of sponsors that then ruin your videos because you spend all your time promoting their product.
Hey Tony, we don't plan on sprucking stuff. We are happy on our adventures. Karl and I are too pig headed to be told what to put in our video's etc. So no fear, you will always get the honest us.
If given the opportunity for sponsorship, we would make seperate videos that would be correctly titled. But I don't think you have to fear us getting to popular 😂😂😂😂
Glad you enjoy our trips Cheers Katty
Cobb and Co Twitch at 32:08
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not long ago
water was once present . . .
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Maybe a little while ago 😆
You need to turn the music off when talking....
noted John, I get a bit heavy handed with the music. Thanks for the feedback will fix in the next episode 👍👍 thanks for watching Cheers Katty
The wreck is a Chrysler Sigma
cool thanks 👍 Katty
Umm....you are not allowed to travel in a caravan while its being towed.
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Bit of “flex” going on here. How many other Aussies could afford a rig like that? No me certainly. How many 100’s of thousands of dollars?
Good video none the less. Not realistic for most people though.
Hey surprisingly you will find that our set up costs less than all the Landcruisers you see getting around. The trucks are everywhere across Australia we are just one of the only ones sharing our journey and rig capabilities on TH-cam. The truck and the caravan are all we own and is our home. We sold everything to have this.
Thanks for watching Cheers Katty and Karl
Mate, have to learn how to read with out sounding so Robotic😂
😂👍 thanks but he wasn't reading 😂