It's amazing seeing that solid column of water from the clouds to the ground. Logically that's what most rainstorms look like, but it's still striking to see it.
Got to love the Cockatoos. Growing up in North Queensland, Galahs were far more common. 100s of them would meet up on the overhead powerlines in town for the evening. They were super noisy but an amazing sight when they all decided to leave.
CosmicCum The name Dandenong is generally thought to be derived from the Woiwurrung word "Tanjenong" meaning "lofty mountains" possibly referring to the nearby Dandenong Ranges.
Before the Dandenong Bird park was renovated it was quite a bit more open there, with a lot more with a lot more connection to the surrounding forest. This meant many various and somewhat obscure birds could be found if you were lucky. Now with a monitored feeding areas we only really see the more aggressive Cockatoos and some Lorikeets which is a shame but at least the birds are no longer grievously overfed like they used to be. The Dandenong Ranges are beautiful.
@@Targe0 You can save money by going only one way and by just going to Menzies Creek. Emerald is nicer and Lakeside is your best choice for destination especially once the state government builds the facilities they're proposing there. Gembrook is not really worth it although the change in scenery from mountainous forest to farmland is interesting.
In Australia, Australians go to areas like this on holidays and to relax because we get next to no tourists, unless they are friends/family of locals, in these places. The 'Outback' is where all the tourists go.
Is this the trip where Graham came up with the Australian Dave's Spokesman "Dave's house of Lyrebirds and Direbirds" bit? I've always hoped that could get spun into a Crapshot.
The other common jungle sound effect is a Common Loon. Loons don't even live in the jungle, they summer in freshwater lakes in the northern US and Canada, and winter in the ocean.
So yeah, pretty much the entirety of Australia's eastern coast goes: ocean -> beachside bush/swamp (which is largely colonised only in the major cities and not really otherwise) -> mountain ranges with subtropical rainforest -> hinterlands/grasslands thinning out gradually to -> the outback. So it's mostly desert, but the east (and south) edges are pretty green.
Since we only got it described, and didn't see a picture of it, for those playing at home this is the Victoria fire danger sign: www.bushfirecrc.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/KeyImage-565/pix/fire-danger-sign.jpg For comparison, the NSW fire danger sign (which I'm more familiar with): paragonrisk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/mt_w_fire_danger_meter.jpg Thanks, Google Images, you sure do help me find pictures of obscure stuff sometimes.
Yeah! 4:31 When I was in Australia, I was floored by how much it felt like home in Victoria (Canada), just with completely different plant and animal life! (and, y'know, weather......)
lol, normal spring rain, looks fairly heavy but not that bad. You could still see the road ahead of your car, so not heavy rain. Spring and summer are our wet seasons. Also code for flood season for most of Australia.
Yea, I guess everything is relative from perspective. Growing up in tornado alley, any heavy storm without hail or chance of a tornado forming is relatively pleasant
I grew up in the this area, in a place called Belgrave which in near the bottom of the mountain. It's a beautiful area. Though Grants picnic ground use to have Roseallas(the parrots, as you say) now, unfortunately there is mainly cockatoo's. For us those cockatoo's are pest! They destroy houses, as the try and eat the roofs and gutters on the houses.
Have you guys ever walked the Arboretum during one of your various trips to Seattle? Absolutely gorgeous large park with a lot of nice views and gardens in it, seems like your kind of thing. I love it there.
I am loving seeing distinctly Australian landscapes in your videos, Graham! It's a somewhat weird, but mainly nice experience. Pronunciation pro tip: the first syllable in kookaburra is pronounced 'cook', as in what you do with food; not 'kook', like a crazy person or the band.
Isaac Davis Additionally, there is an R in Melbourne. Saying “melbin” when you have a North American accent is... weird at best. Say “melburn”. Also those are cockatoos. Cockatiels are totally different and don’t live in Australia.
And now you know about cockatoos. Do not get one as a pet. They are as intelligent as a three year old and have a crowbar attached to their face. They are troublemakers.
Cockatoos from what I've seen and heard from various people in the know, will try to make as loud and obnoxious a sound as they can, just because they want to. The most clear example of this I know of is the video of a cockatoo screaming into a little cup to make its voice louder.
Had a Moluccan Cockatoo for a long time you did not want to get your hands anywhere near it's beak cause it could take a finger clean off if he wanted to. And he often did want to. He was a mean bastard, near as I could figure it he was pissed at humans for taking him out of the jungle. Which I can't blame him one bit. Now don't say I'm to blame for him being brought to the US. We didn't buy him from an importer. We were the third or fourth person to care for him the other couldn't handle his personality. If you still want a Cockatoo spend the big buck and get a captive raised hand feed bird they are a hell of a lot calmer.
Oscar was owned by my parents but they had to get rid of him when my older sister was born He enjoyed dragging tables, imitating phones and trains in the middle of the night, diving headfirst into chip bowls, and swearing like a sailor. Also smoke. When Dad took him to the pet store he told the staff to put an actual lock on his cage, not just a latch. They said "Sure" but didn't listen. The next day when they opened they found every animal let out, running around the store and Oscar sitting atop the counter, snacking on a dog biscuit, like the King of the castle. Afterwards they used a lock. A sweet elderly couple came in looking for a companion. They looked at him and asked how much he turned to them and shouted "Too f***ing much!" They immediately fell in love with him and took him home. Long story short I really wish I had known him personally, he sounded amazing!
BTW pro tip...magpies may look cute...but they are dangerous mofos. Particularly around spring...When they are on the ground they are ok but they may have a nest nearby and they "swoop". ie they try and pierce a beak shaped hole in the back of your head. Ain't fun. would avoid where possible.
I know right...other countries go on about the spiders and the snakes and shit....no... legit I am more scared by Magpies by far. The spiders and snakes are only dangerous if you piss them off...magpies are literally out to get you.
Graham some of the birds you could have been hearing may have been lyrebird's, so you may have not been hearing the birds that you would think your hearing. I know they are in that area because that's the place I saw them in the wiled with my own eye balls.
So at about 10:23, how does that work? Do you set up the camera, run back and walk normaly? Or do you ask Kathleen to back up and walk normaly with you? Never really got that.
You guys are in the food capital of Australia and you are eating supermarket pizza? Make for the food market, or Lygon street for the Italian, or something. (or better still come across the ditch to NZ)
Australia is significantly subtropical, not any more arid than a lot of other countries with deserts. I'm not even really sure where the misconception comes from. Possibly foreigners' only impressions being based on pictures of Uluru?
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Oh. My. GOD. Penelope vs Kathleen Evil-Cackle Contest is THE BEST! SO cute!
I can't stop giggling about the "Sir, the press has a right to know." part of the video, it's so silly, and the delivery is really good. xD
It's amazing seeing that solid column of water from the clouds to the ground. Logically that's what most rainstorms look like, but it's still striking to see it.
Got to love the Cockatoos. Growing up in North Queensland, Galahs were far more common. 100s of them would meet up on the overhead powerlines in town for the evening. They were super noisy but an amazing sight when they all decided to leave.
Thanks for adding the "Jungle" sound, was just about to look it up when you started talking about it
A lot of the funny names ARE derived from native Aboriginal dialect... for anyone curious
CosmicCum The name Dandenong is generally thought to be derived from the Woiwurrung word "Tanjenong" meaning "lofty mountains" possibly referring to the nearby Dandenong Ranges.
i think its more fun to call it dangerdongs
So nice seeing them enjoy the Grants Picnic Ground, literally a 15 minute walk through the bush from home for me.
Before the Dandenong Bird park was renovated it was quite a bit more open there, with a lot more with a lot more connection to the surrounding forest. This meant many various and somewhat obscure birds could be found if you were lucky. Now with a monitored feeding areas we only really see the more aggressive Cockatoos and some Lorikeets which is a shame but at least the birds are no longer grievously overfed like they used to be. The Dandenong Ranges are beautiful.
I live in Ferntree Gully!! I’m glad you made it to the Dandenongs. Such a cool place!
You should've gone on Puffing Billy. A narrow guage steam railway that weaves through the forests of the Dandenongs. It's really nice
Yer but it's kinda pricey, but it is well worth it especially for little kids.
@@Targe0 You can save money by going only one way and by just going to Menzies Creek. Emerald is nicer and Lakeside is your best choice for destination especially once the state government builds the facilities they're proposing there. Gembrook is not really worth it although the change in scenery from mountainous forest to farmland is interesting.
And here I was hoping Graham was going to start singing the kookaburra song. Alas.
th-cam.com/video/p2VitpGRalw/w-d-xo.html
in case anyone is wondering lol
Tourist's reaction to our fire danger signs are always humerus
In Australia, Australians go to areas like this on holidays and to relax because we get next to no tourists, unless they are friends/family of locals, in these places. The 'Outback' is where all the tourists go.
That bird would be a great politician.
Also 16-18 horses in the race? That's a decently large field.
I was just down in The Dandenongs last Saturday for a wedding reception! It's such a beautiful area.
Woolsworth! a) Wow. I've not seen those since I was still in Elementary School. b) WOW! They still have a diner counter!
Is this the trip where Graham came up with the Australian Dave's Spokesman "Dave's house of Lyrebirds and Direbirds" bit? I've always hoped that could get spun into a Crapshot.
When they were birdfeeding, I fully expected pirate Graham. However, I also hoped for Kathleen to be like: "Fly my pretties!" Well, 50% ain't terrible
The other common jungle sound effect is a Common Loon. Loons don't even live in the jungle, they summer in freshwater lakes in the northern US and Canada, and winter in the ocean.
So yeah, pretty much the entirety of Australia's eastern coast goes: ocean -> beachside bush/swamp (which is largely colonised only in the major cities and not really otherwise) -> mountain ranges with subtropical rainforest -> hinterlands/grasslands thinning out gradually to -> the outback. So it's mostly desert, but the east (and south) edges are pretty green.
i really enjoy your videos, it feels like going on a trip with friends
Since we only got it described, and didn't see a picture of it, for those playing at home this is the Victoria fire danger sign: www.bushfirecrc.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/KeyImage-565/pix/fire-danger-sign.jpg
For comparison, the NSW fire danger sign (which I'm more familiar with): paragonrisk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/mt_w_fire_danger_meter.jpg
Thanks, Google Images, you sure do help me find pictures of obscure stuff sometimes.
I like how the "Prepare. Act. Survive" is a /separate/ sign that is double-padlocked in place.
i believe its because theres a thing under it that might have a different signage for when its bad? i dont actually know
Such as "TOTAL FIRE BAN" or "Run."
What do you do if the pointer is in the gap between Extreme and Code Red?
Don't start fires, I guess.
"I can't wait to bomb some dandadongos!"-"Link, shut UP"
Also Penelope's all like 'I thought only I was allowed to gibberish'
Good old Mt. Ganondorf
Mt. Dodongodislikesmoke!
OMG old folks in the info centers are the best lol.
Wait....i cant be first surely...
Yeah! 4:31 When I was in Australia, I was floored by how much it felt like home in Victoria (Canada), just with completely different plant and animal life! (and, y'know, weather......)
I found myself dancing to the music, because I knew it from your other vlogs
lol, normal spring rain, looks fairly heavy but not that bad. You could still see the road ahead of your car, so not heavy rain. Spring and summer are our wet seasons. Also code for flood season for most of Australia.
Yea, I guess everything is relative from perspective. Growing up in tornado alley, any heavy storm without hail or chance of a tornado forming is relatively pleasant
I grew up in the this area, in a place called Belgrave which in near the bottom of the mountain. It's a beautiful area. Though Grants picnic ground use to have Roseallas(the parrots, as you say) now, unfortunately there is mainly cockatoo's. For us those cockatoo's are pest! They destroy houses, as the try and eat the roofs and gutters on the houses.
15:04
When you need
to buy some nappies
and a treat
to fill you with happies
PharmaSave
Have you guys ever walked the Arboretum during one of your various trips to Seattle? Absolutely gorgeous large park with a lot of nice views and gardens in it, seems like your kind of thing. I love it there.
"It smells like piss" that's the authentic St Kilda experience alright 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
After visiting the Dandenongs, I was disappointed you guys didn't visit Lake Indian Name.
I am loving seeing distinctly Australian landscapes in your videos, Graham! It's a somewhat weird, but mainly nice experience.
Pronunciation pro tip: the first syllable in kookaburra is pronounced 'cook', as in what you do with food; not 'kook', like a crazy person or the band.
Isaac Davis
Additionally, there is an R in Melbourne. Saying “melbin” when you have a North American accent is... weird at best. Say “melburn”.
Also those are cockatoos. Cockatiels are totally different and don’t live in Australia.
Just glad you went to the mountains and not the city of dandenong ...
And now you know about cockatoos. Do not get one as a pet. They are as intelligent as a three year old and have a crowbar attached to their face. They are troublemakers.
Cockatoos from what I've seen and heard from various people in the know, will try to make as loud and obnoxious a sound as they can, just because they want to. The most clear example of this I know of is the video of a cockatoo screaming into a little cup to make its voice louder.
Tarukai788 yep. That is Harley. He (she?) Is on TH-cam
Had a Moluccan Cockatoo for a long time you did not want to get your hands anywhere near it's beak cause it could take a finger clean off if he wanted to. And he often did want to. He was a mean bastard, near as I could figure it he was pissed at humans for taking him out of the jungle. Which I can't blame him one bit. Now don't say I'm to blame for him being brought to the US. We didn't buy him from an importer. We were the third or fourth person to care for him the other couldn't handle his personality. If you still want a Cockatoo spend the big buck and get a captive raised hand feed bird they are a hell of a lot calmer.
Oscar was owned by my parents but they had to get rid of him when my older sister was born
He enjoyed dragging tables, imitating phones and trains in the middle of the night, diving headfirst into chip bowls, and swearing like a sailor.
Also smoke.
When Dad took him to the pet store he told the staff to put an actual lock on his cage, not just a latch. They said "Sure" but didn't listen. The next day when they opened they found every animal let out, running around the store and Oscar sitting atop the counter, snacking on a dog biscuit, like the King of the castle. Afterwards they used a lock.
A sweet elderly couple came in looking for a companion. They looked at him and asked how much he turned to them and shouted "Too f***ing much!" They immediately fell in love with him and took him home.
Long story short I really wish I had known him personally, he sounded amazing!
Am i the only one who picked up that Kathleen called them “Cockatiels?”
Kathleen's shirt/dress thing is amazing
I think living in Australia my entire life means it's impossible to see cockatoos and not just feel contempt...
Loving these vlogs, Graham!
when the cockatiel flew off your shoulder it looked like it shat out a smaller birbo
Yeah, great coincidence! I first thought it loosed a feather or two as it took off..."I must go; my people need me!" ^_^
yeah, just like that :)
BTW pro tip...magpies may look cute...but they are dangerous mofos. Particularly around spring...When they are on the ground they are ok but they may have a nest nearby and they "swoop". ie they try and pierce a beak shaped hole in the back of your head. Ain't fun. would avoid where possible.
Yep probably most feared creature by Australians is a Magpie in the Spring.
I know right...other countries go on about the spiders and the snakes and shit....no... legit I am more scared by Magpies by far. The spiders and snakes are only dangerous if you piss them off...magpies are literally out to get you.
milamber319 That's why you salute Magpies.
no that's an English thing and they are VERY different magpies. completely different species.
actually id say saluting an aussie magpie is a surefire way of loosing an eye
featuring random appearance by canonese people at the birb park
Fun fact: In NSW, the top level of the fire danger scale is CATASTROPHIC
Same for WA
I brought that up when they were talking about it at Desert Bus. Someone found a pic.
That's for when the sign is already on fire.
Looks like you really enjoyed the birds
come to scotland, it's pretttyy beautiful (try going up to glencoe and loch ness that drive is INSANE)
Kowboi Kate Stark has been.
yeah, I saw that, it was pretty cool :)
"Irresponsibly sounced by 4" is written on our currency somewhere...
Graham some of the birds you could have been hearing may have been lyrebird's, so you may have not been hearing the birds that you would think your hearing. I know they are in that area because that's the place I saw them in the wiled with my own eye balls.
So at about 10:23, how does that work? Do you set up the camera, run back and walk normaly? Or do you ask Kathleen to back up and walk normaly with you? Never really got that.
...I'm Australian and I can't understand the lady highlighting stuff on the map.
Dave Ellis I’ve only seen fellow Australians say this lmao and I’m so confused
3:14 to 3:19, that moment when the bird turns its head the same time as Graham :D
Fun fact from a local: Dandenong's nickname is Dandy
The mispronunciations of the names for places that I grew up with is slowly driving me to insanity.
Go to next level games in Dandenong
Kathleen is clearly ready for a Hatoful Boyfriend run.
The horse that won must have had Haste.
Busted up laughing at 11:03
0:25
oh Penelope does not like Gannondorf x'D
You guys are in the food capital of Australia and you are eating supermarket pizza? Make for the food market, or Lygon street for the Italian, or something. (or better still come across the ditch to NZ)
God bless 20/20Ex Olympian Mission.Olympian are Olympics.
It’s really weird to watch you all walk around melbourne as someone who lives 50 mins away from the city.
DYK: Primitive Technology is made in Australia?
Tusday? It is Fridayay!
Matt Andre But its Fridayay right now and you cant deny it!
juhheli put down the drugs
9:43 Sir, the press has a right to know.
FYI that magpie was a mam, not a sir. Also Australia has a metric ass tonne of birds that are all incredibly loud. Biodiversity y'all.
FEED THE BIRBS
Always thought the sound effect was monkeys not a bird 0o
*Feeb Birbs
9:54 Hahaha that's a female magpie! (You can tell because its back is grey; males have white backs) :).
th-cam.com/video/XNzWZAcYmH8/w-d-xo.html So THAT is where Macaroni comes from!
Australia is significantly subtropical, not any more arid than a lot of other countries with deserts. I'm not even really sure where the misconception comes from. Possibly foreigners' only impressions being based on pictures of Uluru?
HayabusaTaichou Mad Max and Crocodile Dundee.
Of course, how could I forget the two most important Australian documentaries.
HayabusaTaichou Nah, its just what a lot of Americans picture Australian outback as. We're uncultured swine for the most part.
You forgot Steve Irwin's show's since everyone loved him. He was one of our grates people.
Use your pusher...mate!!!
Wait... There's a bus that goes directly to Australia ? I don't believe you. After all, Australia is not even a real place.
Wow, your camera batteries only last seven minutes of footage?
*cockatoos
"Australia has funny names, OK?" Uhh. Swastika, Ontario anyone??? Dildo, Newfoundland???