Hi guys that hut near Harrison's cut dargo is our hut we have had there for nilly 40 years....we are there every weekend over winter hunting Sambar deer with hound...that's what the dog beds are for....some weekends we walk 30+ kms up river and around those hills...it's pretty much our home...a beautiful place to be away from the crowds....great video...I see all our fire wood hasn't lasted..never does...lol..
Thank you for letting us know as we were forever wondering... There must be a lot of dogs that go with you, as that really amazed us to see the amount of dog beds. We can confidently say that we did not take any of your fire wood😀. It does look like a great place to stay and we noticed that a lot of effort went into the set up with lights, beds etc...
Hey mate, how many Sam ar are you getting? I’m a fly fisherman and see you guys out all the time and curious as to what and how you do it. Do the dogs ever get loose? I only ask as I came across a pack of about 12 dogs on the Jamieson a few years back and have always wondered where they came from
We get afew deer most weekends..all carried out and meat all unitised...the hounds follow the deer around the hill and we try get infont of them to get a shot...the hounds you seen were probably hunting nearby and lost the trail and wanted to come eat your tucker.@@JasondenHollander-qj5hp
Wherever you go in Australia it is just indiscribable the vastness and quietness of nature really brings you to such a love that you can never let go of
Brings back fond memories. Dargo, Craigs Hut, Clear Hills, Gafneys Creek ect. A mate and I started hiking all through there 40 years ago. Bumped in to a group of fun 4x4 guys who offered us a beer and a feed. They took us on some amazing 4x4 tracks. We got back to Melbourne on the Sunday and bought our first 4x4s the following week. I bought a 1975 Nissan Patrol soft top. Mate bought an old cruiser wagon. Thanks for the memories.
Absolutely brilliant video. Such placid information about that region! I subbed to you when I came across your Mt. Dissa video and your content keeps getting better and better . Also good to see the faces behind the camera .
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Just subscribed. I love channels that are not over produced. Ignore the comments about it not being the most isolated town...honestly, anyone with half a brain would understand you weren't trying to be scientifically accurate. I'll be checking out more content from you guys...keep it coming!
Have they heard of Woods Point? It often describes itself as “ the second most isolated town “ in Victoria. In the winter it is often totally cut off. Their TV comes via satellite. Worth an investigation!
Been there. Dirt road in. Nice place. Hope they never die. People do need to discover them (yes they do) and holiday or buy a holiday home or move there. Otherwise they do die and become ghost towns. Both Dargo and Woodend though are hardly ‘need to plan’. Both have good roads in although Woods Point is unsealed half of the way.
The most isolated town in Victoria is not Dargo but Bendoc which is situated just inside the NSW VICTORIAN Border. Bendoc was settled around 30 years before Melbourne. If you study your map you will see Bonang north east of Dargo and just over the VIC/NSW Border the NSW town of Delegate. Bendoc is situated between Bonang and Delegate. You stated it was 70 km to Dargo however Bendoc is 100km from Orbost and two and a half hours travel. Bendoc on many maps is not marked as in the case of your map. Bendoc people are very proud of having the most remote Police Station in Victoria,a Pub that had its origin in gold rush times and before that had cattle roaming the area. Politicians avoid Bendoc as its to hard to get to from the South. No shop no hospital poor mobile coverage no school in fact Bendoc kids attend NSW schools but we are the most isolated town. Regards Johnno
Thanks for the awesome info. We did look at Bendoc, but due to the closest town in proximity being Delegate in NSW (from at least what we could tell) being about 20km's away, Dargo won on our criteria. Saying that if we were to exclude NSW, then 100% Bendoc would win as the most isolated town. You have inspired us to go visit Bendoc as it seems like an ideal place for us. Feel free to let us know all the amazing things to do in and around Bendoc!
Hi Thank you for the reply. Trout,redfin,blackish, eel fishing,Wilsons hut, Dartmoor hut, gold mines, gold panning, platypus, pub, 4wd, Delegate River tunnel,snow, camping, historic church, Delegate Hill lookout 1200 metres high, historic school, parks, state forests, water falls, pub, fishing competitions,saw mills (not operating) etc. Be aware extreme danger with weather changes, deep mine shafts snakes and people from Delegate that refer to us as Mexicans South of the Border, a town hall, kids playground, no fuel. Similar attractions to Dargo, Bendoc is a beautiful place to visit. Pub is worth a visit just to get a drink and view the trophy trout get info etc. Care should be taken on the Bonang Highway bothways for logtrucks and silly buggars on motorcycles in particular motorcycle racing times at Phillip Island. STAY EXTREME LEFT AND SLOW AS BLIND CORNERS are common.
@@any4wd Make sure you travel Mckillops rd. from Bairnsdale side, over the famous Mckillops bridge over the Snowy River for some great views, and free camping spots along the way. Between Tubbut and Bonang you will pass my place (toot your horn). All the Snowy tracks will be open including the famous Tingaringy track after Melb Cup.(now open) Come and enjoy the Snowy Mountains, on the Victorian side. I'm sure you will enjoy. Make sure you stop in at the Bendoc and Delegate pubs, you never know, I might catch you for a beer. We are a pretty remote community out here, Not much at Delegate, just the essentials, So we do our shopping in Bombala, NSW, an hour away. Orbost is only 100klm away but is a 2 hour drive away on the windy Bonang rd. The top section has just recently been sealed, about time but still a bugger of a road. Hope to see you in my neighborhood.
We looked up that bridge and is 100% on our list now. We will be sure to beep on the way through 😊 We are getting more and more excited at the thought of going to Bendoc and surrounds, and we love a country pub, so you might just see us there.
Got one for you to consider, haven't been there myself - apparently the most isolated roadhouse in Oz. On the Anne Beadel hwy - Ilkurlka in Western Australia, It is on a road, more like a bush track, i have always wanted to travel. From Coober Pedy to Laverton WA. @@any4wd
We love a roadhouse... they all seem to be disappearing making way for fast food chains and the like, it's now on the list, we will let if we make it there, hopefully you get to travel from Coober Pedy to Laverton as that would be an amazing road trip
We were talking about going to Walhalla in the near future! A few people have mentioned it and it does sound like a great spot to explore. Thanks for the comment
You want isolated? Go to Bullumwaal, just outside of Bairnsdale. No tv reception, no mobile reception, a winding road that snakes up and down mountainside. A total "blink and you'll miss it" gem. There's nothing there, but it's a nice relaxing place to get away from all the distractions of the world.
Drove through twice when going to and from a camping and prospecting trip nearly 40 years ago with my family driving a Subaru4WD, no a/c. Learnt to drive in the bush over 50 years ago mostly in the north of SA when working for a mineral exploration company.
We are guessing that a lot has changed since then, and yet it would still be very familiar. A/C is such a luxury that we take for granted. We still remember the good old 2/90 air conditioner, 2 windows down and 90 km/h. We hope to make it to the north of SA one day (plus the rest of Australia). Thanks for the comment
Not sure I’d paint Dargo as only 4WD tracks to get there. Is has a sealed road in. I’d say Woods Point with a good unsealed (but 2WD accessible) road in as technically more isolated.
100% there are seal roads to get to Dargo... We didn't think we said that, and a lot of the camp sites can be accessed via good unsealed roads. Thanks for the comment 😊
Have heard of it (and possibly seen signs for it), but cannot remember if we ever drove through it, either way it is back on the list for us. Thank you
Yes. I have been in the mine. Have pictures from in there years ago. But friends tried to find it a few years back, and couldnt, due to the growth of the vegetation around there. Its not where the township site is, its a few hundred metres towards talbotville. It might just be very overgrown now though.
Not sure that it’s the most isolated. Try Tubbut, Bendoc, Bonang, Benambra to name a few. Dargo is awesome we know it very well, but the fact that it’s only 1hour 15min from a large regional city and all on bitumen roads means it’s not very remote! Great 4wd close by for sure
Thanks for the reply. We did have a look at Tubbut, Bendoc and Bonang, however these were close together and close to Delegate (just north of the boarder) so for our criteria of being most isolated these didn't quite make it. Benambra is close to Omeo, so once again it didn't meet our criteria. However if we were to go off being furthest from a major town (even probably hospital for that matter), or furthest excluding other states than they would 100% be in the running. All these places are on our list to go and visit.
@@any4wd understand. I think when you do visit these other places, you will agree, they are more remote. To East Gippsland locals, Dargo is a well loved, well visited part of the neighbourhood
@@chillhilltravel9933 Yes I agree. I live near Bonang. I think any4wd will be surprised that places like this exist in Vic. To travel anywhere from here is a journey and adventure.
We are constantly being surprised by Victoria and Australia. Still so much to see and do, and even places we have already been continue to surprise and excite us
The Top End is as isolated as I plan to get, and I lived in Cairns for 8 months but a town like Dargo isn't for me. I look at a map of WA and wonder who the hell would take on those distances with fuel prices today, but obviously people do. Thanks for the video.
We can see how Dargo wouldn't be for everyone. Love Cairns and we really want to be able to do the top end one day. But like you said, with fuel prices the way they are, it does place limitations on us
Eldorado. Go and find if anyone can still take you to Kelly’s caves along the Reedy creek road. There are two of them. On a clear day they are magnificent. A group of us who lived in Eldorado (13 car loads) did the hike, it was amazing. From memory the guys name is Andy Hill but he would be a fair age by now. We did this in 1998. Check it out but be prepared for a hike!
We have now put this on our list. Is it possible to find the caves without a guide (we will try and find someone who knows the area, but just in case we can't)? We are always up for a bit of a hike so that part doesn't scare us 😉 Thanks for the suggestion
Hi guys just ran across your video dont stress you will get more comfy with the camera . Love the vid and the fact that you are using a fortuner i have owned 2 of them and only recently changed to a Hilux rogue ,never had a problem with the Fortuners though i did take the 3rd row seats out as our kids now are old enough to cart their own kids around :) .I have never been to Dargo but its now on the bucket list .i spent many years camping dirtbike riding and 4wdriving around Noojee in victoria .It might be worth a look though i hear these days it gets pretty busy there are the waterfalls there the trestle bridge the trout farm and the pub used to have dinosaurs out the back i think they got burnt in a fire at some stage but may still have something there .and some mad tracks we used to go out on the bikes for the day and find different tracks for the whole day . Another spot near there is Hawthorn bridge its kinda between Neerim south and Noojee years ago after about 4 hrs in the 4x4 exploring tracks we came across a similar site to what you found with the odd building and the dog beds it was really really remote and we got a bit spooked so left it alone .I see you also watch Eva Zubek i watched her for a long time but cracked the sads with her when she had made no mention of ever coming to Australia or ever mentioning Australia at all .
Thank you for the encouragement and your comments. We will put Noojee and Hawthorn Bridge on our ever growing list, we love the fact that we are getting some great recommendations from our subscribers. We think that Eva, along with a lot of other people from overseas are missing our on all the beauty Australia has to offer
Great video, however you forgot to mention the motel and the River Inn just down the road. The pub and the Inn both regularly put on bands and other events.
We didn't have a chance to look at the River Inn, but do remember passing it, and it did look like another great spot to lay your head. On our next pass through we will try to time it so we can be there during an event, as we have heard a lot of great things about them.
There are still lots of places you can go without a 4WD, but it is a lot easier to take the path less travelled with one! We have never been a fan of scheduled & structured tours, we prefer to wonder whenever we get a chance. Thank you for the kind words 😊
That hut is used by deer hunters. I don't think it has any legal ownership. We came across it when we were staying at Mathison's Flat "Lodge". There's a Walnut orchard there along with a rock and bottle hut beside the river.
Yes we have built the hut 4 times in the last 40 odd years due to bush fires ect...we got permission to build the hut from parks back then and you will find us there every weekend over winter huddled around a nice fire at night after walking the hill with our hounds hunting
When l was a kid we used to go to Dargo annually, when my Dad and a couple of mates would go to a friends property to shoot kangaroos. Its certainly changed there in the last 40- 50 years!
It's always amazing to hear how places have changed over the years. Dargo doesn't look like it would have changed a lot, just shows how much we know 🤔😀
@@any4wd l remember staying at a caravan park, there was a milk bar down the road and the old pub on the corner (l think it burnt down years ago) That was about it for Town haha I once walked to the milk bar and had to sit on a fence while a bunch of cows was herded up the road 😄
Amazing place, I've only been there once round 12 years back with a mate, but he goes maybe twice a year for the last 20 plus years hahahaha.. Also thanks for having no over the top annoying back ground music, Cheers..
We were told it was hard, and we even heard some stories when we were down there of people that didn't make it. It is something that we would love to do one day, but maybe with a few other people and vehicles... just in case
A quick search on TH-cam will show that we don't even list in the search results when you look up Dargo. It has been a 4WD tourist destination long before we made a video about it, and it will remain so for many years to come. Thank you for thinking that our channel is big enough to cause a rush to Dargo, however we are very small fish, in a very big pond. We hope that anyone that does visit any place, will treat it with the respect it deserves.
There is a Walnut Retreat in Dargo that looks amazing, we didn't mention it in our video as we didn't have time to check it out. Hopefully one day we can stay there and experience more from the beautiful area
Yes 100% This should go without saying. We have pointed this out in the past, and not all people realise that we will lose access to these wonderful places if they are not treated with the respect they deserve!
Laverton WA on the Great Central Road, is a long way from anywhere, is at the end of the bitumen, 360 km NNE of Kalgoorlie and feels isolated. The closest town is Leonora about 125 km away. If you keep going, you get to Ayers Rock about 1100km along the Great Central Road. Approx. 850 km of this road is unsealed. The Laverton mayor Patrick Hill was interviewed on national TV last year cos Morrison govt made an election promise to seal the entire Great Central Road, This will cut 1,000 km off the journey for trucks driving from QLD to Perth which currently is done via the northern coastal roads. But, the Albanese govt cancelled the program. Hence why Laverton mayor was interviewed. There is still gold to be found around Laverton. A prospector I know at Laverton found a six ounce gold nugget in the Laverton area earlier this year. Naturally, he is not saying where he found it. One of the close by gold mines, Sunrise Dam, produces a ton of gold a month (was open cut, now gone underground). Lynas Mt Weld mine south of Laverton is Australia's only rare earth minerals mine (or was, another may have opened). There are real ghost towns in the area from the mining boom days such as Mt Morgan, and Kookynie (20,000 people once lived there, now reduced to six families. Pub is huge and still operating but off the beaten track). Anyone familiar with the Poseidon nickel mine fraud of the late 1960s, this mine is very close to Laverton. This was famous and was naional news at the time. The area is mulga country with eucalypts almost no where to be seen. There are some pockets, but it is mostly mulga.
We are saving up pennies to hopefully one day go see places like Kalgoorlie and Laverton WA(and who knows, maybe even find a little gold for ourselves). A sealed road is nice, but there is something adventurous about an unsealed road (We can already hear people living in areas, with crappy dirt roads yelling at us through the computer) We love a ghost town as they always have a story to be told, and a bit of a glimpse into yesteryear when things seemed simpler, but would have been much tougher without all of todays comforts. We also now need to look up the Poseidon nickel mine fraud as we are also a fan of true crime and it is one that we haven't heard of yet. Thank you for the amazing comment.
I am from Victoria and lived near Laverton for 14 months ten years ago, loved the life style. lived on a cattle station out of town and worked on a local mine. If you visit, the mayor Patrick Hill is very approachable and amiable. Lots of prospectors go to an area close to Laverton called Hawks Nest on the Old Laverton Road which kinda follows the old abandoned rail line (closed 70 years ago). Lots of other places to prospect. Menzies, Leonora, in fact all around Kalgoorlie for hundreds of kilometres. A chap I know, Sam, operates the motel in the town. He was a very active prospector. There are other remains of towns with one south east of Laverton with a still active gold mine - Fish...... is the name of it (though this might be the name of the local gold mine). You can see the old street layouts and the cemetery but the only building left is the collapsed stone walled pub. Some of the graves out there are poignant with young men coming from overseas such as NZ and England only to never to return home and never see their families again, some dying young. Hawks Nest has a well known grave to a young bloke killed by lightning in the 1890s (if memory serves) and he mentions the lightning in the last entry in his diary. If you have a semi licence, you will easily get work. Not much work for MR or HR truckin. Speak to the owner of Desert Sands in Laverton or Breakaway in Leonora (both specialise in road maintenance and construction). Kalgoorlie seems to always have work for semi drivers. Usually paid well cos if they don't, drivers go work on the mines who do pay well - cos FIFO is a crap life style (FIFO - Fly in Fly out. aka 'Fit in or F**k off'😉) I am planning to go back, driving across the Nullarbor next year. From Port Agusta to Norseman is a great drive (1700km) . So little traffic. Cocklebiddy roadhouse does the best steak sandwiches, I always stop there to have one! fuel up at Nundroo SA, the last of the reasonably priced petrol til Norseman. Next roadhouse heading west, the price jumps 30c a litre! (at least last time I went just before Covid). In the Great Victoria Desert, (which includes the WA Goldfields) the local black fella mob are the Wongi who have a joke - If you're a white guy, you're not a Wongi! We call em blackfella and they call us whitefella or whybella and nobody thinks anything of it, not considered racist or a put down. It is a very different lifestyle out there which people either love or loath. I loved it and could have stayed. But family and friends are in Vic. Good Luck if you go, I am sure you will enjoy the journey and the stay. Endless places to pull into the bush and camp all over WA and SA Outback. @@any4wd
It must be a small town if people are on the first name basis with the mayor. We would love to check out the abandoned rail line and old town, it would be a snap shot into Australia's past. The graves sound sad, do you know if it was due to mining that people were dying young, or just a harsh place to live? We do have a semi licence, but due to young(ish) kids, it has sorted of grounded us a little, but we do talk about doing something like that a little later in life. The furthest west one of us has been is Whyalla, but the Nullarbor is a bucket list item for both of us, plus who doesn't love a steak sandwich from a roadhouse. We are looking forward to getting out there one day and experiencing different cultures, and environments. There is still so much of Australia that we haven't seen. Thanks for some amazing suggestions and we took note.
Some would argue that using very unique is a crime against language. However, as Professor Pinker has pointed out in his writing about rules of language, this isn't the correct way to approach the word unique and it's uses and meanings because grammar is not logical. Professor Pinker points out: "The concept "unique" is meaningful only after you specify which qualities are of interest to you. Calling something "quite unique" or "very unique" implies that the item differs from the others in an unusual number of qualities, that it differs from them to an unusual degree, or both." Source "Writing tips from the accuracymatters website" So I guess there is that. There are probably bigger issues we both could be tackling right now to be honest.
"over priced fuel, so fill up before you go there." Obviously Any 4WD has zero appreciation for country / remote communities. Diesel in Dargo is currently 37c per liter more expensive than my local servo. So 60 litres ( almost a full tank in my 4x4 ) is a massive........wait for it.......$21.60 dearer than fuel at home. That's if I run my tank down to the last 10 litres before fueling up. Please ignore this city centric attitude people. Please support country communities. If we fail to support these communities, then they shrink and then collapse and with that we all loose a part of our great country and its culture and history.
We have the utmost appreciation for county and remote communities. But where do you think that money is better spent? At the servo where most will go to taxes and the oil companies, with minimal profits going to the store owner, or buying local produce, coffees, staying at a local hotel, having breakfast and dinner at the local restaurants or stores. All of which we did. It is almost mandatory for us to go to a local bakery, or buy local produce / honey where available. We do everything on a budget and that $21.60 that we could save would undoubtedly be spent at towns we pass through... Or we spend the majority of money on fuel and don't even get to go to these town. Where do you think the value for the community is?
We agree, there are some very remote towns in Victoria, that take longer and are harder to get to, like Bendoc and Omeo. However for our criteria we chose Dargo, as it was isolated when it came to towns near by, and the closest town being some distance from it. A lot of people have pointed out that Bendoc is very remote, but due to being close to Tubbut, Delegate (NSW), and a few other towns it didn't match our criteria. Thanks to all the amazing comments we have put these towns on our list and cannot wait to see them!
Depends where you are comparing it to... For us we were looking for the next nearest town in Victoria. If you were to compare it to other places in Australia it would look like it was next door, but in Victoria, it is the town furthest away from any other
Ha Ha, we love nature but hate the hay fever that comes with it... outer space might be for us... On the next episode of Any 4WD we are going to outer space 🛸🛰🚀 (please note: not in the budget to go to outer space)
We are always open to learning something new. A few people have pointed out towns like Woods Point, Bendoc, Walhala & Licola, however on our criteria they missed out as there was another town or towns close by (although the cluster of towns would be very remote and quite hard to get to), so you peaked our curiosity as to where the most remote town in Victoria is?
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Hi guys that hut near Harrison's cut dargo is our hut we have had there for nilly 40 years....we are there every weekend over winter hunting Sambar deer with hound...that's what the dog beds are for....some weekends we walk 30+ kms up river and around those hills...it's pretty much our home...a beautiful place to be away from the crowds....great video...I see all our fire wood hasn't lasted..never does...lol..
Thank you for letting us know as we were forever wondering... There must be a lot of dogs that go with you, as that really amazed us to see the amount of dog beds. We can confidently say that we did not take any of your fire wood😀. It does look like a great place to stay and we noticed that a lot of effort went into the set up with lights, beds etc...
Hey mate, how many Sam ar are you getting?
I’m a fly fisherman and see you guys out all the time and curious as to what and how you do it. Do the dogs ever get loose? I only ask as I came across a pack of about 12 dogs on the Jamieson a few years back and have always wondered where they came from
Hopefully you get an answer as we are curious as well
Sambar deer! Where did they come from? Your life sounds idyllic.
We get afew deer most weekends..all carried out and meat all unitised...the hounds follow the deer around the hill and we try get infont of them to get a shot...the hounds you seen were probably hunting nearby and lost the trail and wanted to come eat your tucker.@@JasondenHollander-qj5hp
Wherever you go in Australia it is just indiscribable the vastness and quietness of nature really brings you to such a love that you can never let go of
we could not have said that better ourselves
Brings back fond memories. Dargo, Craigs Hut, Clear Hills, Gafneys Creek ect. A mate and I started hiking all through there 40 years ago. Bumped in to a group of fun 4x4 guys who offered us a beer and a feed. They took us on some amazing 4x4 tracks. We got back to Melbourne on the Sunday and bought our first 4x4s the following week. I bought a 1975 Nissan Patrol soft top. Mate bought an old cruiser wagon. Thanks for the memories.
That sounds like it was an amazing adventure, and what all this is about. Glad that this video brought back some fond memories for you
Absolutely brilliant video. Such placid information about that region!
I subbed to you when I came across your Mt. Dissa video and your content keeps getting better and better .
Also good to see the faces behind the camera .
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Just subscribed. I love channels that are not over produced. Ignore the comments about it not being the most isolated town...honestly, anyone with half a brain would understand you weren't trying to be scientifically accurate. I'll be checking out more content from you guys...keep it coming!
Thank you for the Sub! and the kind words. We are glad to see that what we are trying to achieve is not being lost on everyone 😊
Have they heard of Woods Point? It often describes itself as “ the second most isolated town “ in Victoria. In the winter it is often totally cut off. Their TV comes via satellite. Worth an investigation!
100% worth the investigation... although by the sounds of it we need to plan properly otherwise we might get stranded... Thanks for the comment
Woods Point is cool. A bit of a creepy vibe even.
Definitely sounds like a place for us 👻
Been there. Dirt road in. Nice place. Hope they never die. People do need to discover them (yes they do) and holiday or buy a holiday home or move there. Otherwise they do die and become ghost towns. Both Dargo and Woodend though are hardly ‘need to plan’. Both have good roads in although Woods Point is unsealed half of the way.
Stumbled upon this vid, love your works guys...Just subbed. Will be looking forward to more of your adventures and vids
Thank you for the kind words
The most isolated town in Victoria is not Dargo but Bendoc which is situated just inside the NSW VICTORIAN Border. Bendoc was settled around 30 years before Melbourne. If you study your map you will see Bonang north east of Dargo and just over the VIC/NSW Border the NSW town of Delegate.
Bendoc is situated between Bonang and Delegate. You stated it was 70 km to Dargo however Bendoc is 100km from Orbost and two and a half hours travel.
Bendoc on many maps is not marked as in the case of your map. Bendoc people are very proud of having the most remote Police Station in Victoria,a Pub that had its origin in gold rush times and before that had cattle roaming the area. Politicians avoid Bendoc as its to hard to get to from the South. No shop no hospital poor mobile coverage no school in fact Bendoc kids attend NSW schools but we are the most isolated town.
Regards Johnno
Thanks for the awesome info. We did look at Bendoc, but due to the closest town in proximity being Delegate in NSW (from at least what we could tell) being about 20km's away, Dargo won on our criteria. Saying that if we were to exclude NSW, then 100% Bendoc would win as the most isolated town. You have inspired us to go visit Bendoc as it seems like an ideal place for us. Feel free to let us know all the amazing things to do in and around Bendoc!
Hi Thank you for the reply. Trout,redfin,blackish, eel fishing,Wilsons hut, Dartmoor hut, gold mines, gold panning, platypus, pub, 4wd, Delegate River tunnel,snow, camping, historic church, Delegate Hill lookout 1200 metres high, historic school, parks, state forests, water falls, pub, fishing competitions,saw mills (not operating) etc. Be aware extreme danger with weather changes, deep mine shafts snakes and people from Delegate that refer to us as Mexicans South of the Border, a town hall, kids playground, no fuel. Similar attractions to Dargo, Bendoc is a beautiful place to visit. Pub is worth a visit just to get a drink and view the trophy trout get info etc.
Care should be taken on the Bonang Highway bothways for logtrucks and silly buggars on motorcycles in particular motorcycle racing times at Phillip Island. STAY EXTREME LEFT AND SLOW AS BLIND CORNERS are common.
Bendoc has moved up on our list of places to see. We will try and remember to fill up before we get there
@@any4wd Make sure you travel Mckillops rd. from Bairnsdale side, over the famous Mckillops bridge over the Snowy River for some great views, and free camping spots along the way. Between Tubbut and Bonang you will pass my place (toot your horn). All the Snowy tracks will be open including the famous Tingaringy track after Melb Cup.(now open) Come and enjoy the Snowy Mountains, on the Victorian side. I'm sure you will enjoy. Make sure you stop in at the Bendoc and Delegate pubs, you never know, I might catch you for a beer. We are a pretty remote community out here, Not much at Delegate, just the essentials, So we do our shopping in Bombala, NSW, an hour away. Orbost is only 100klm away but is a 2 hour drive away on the windy Bonang rd. The top section has just recently been sealed, about time but still a bugger of a road. Hope to see you in my neighborhood.
We looked up that bridge and is 100% on our list now. We will be sure to beep on the way through 😊 We are getting more and more excited at the thought of going to Bendoc and surrounds, and we love a country pub, so you might just see us there.
Great little video. Love the way you describe everything 👍
Thank you, and thanks for taking the time to comment 😊
Please keep up your good work with videos like this.
Thank you for the encouragement 😀
Got one for you to consider, haven't been there myself - apparently the most isolated roadhouse in Oz. On the Anne Beadel hwy - Ilkurlka in Western Australia, It is on a road, more like a bush track, i have always wanted to travel. From Coober Pedy to Laverton WA. @@any4wd
We love a roadhouse... they all seem to be disappearing making way for fast food chains and the like, it's now on the list, we will let if we make it there, hopefully you get to travel from Coober Pedy to Laverton as that would be an amazing road trip
When I saw the title I thought you went to Walhalla! There may not be a lot of 4WD there but it's still a great spot to explore!
We were talking about going to Walhalla in the near future! A few people have mentioned it and it does sound like a great spot to explore. Thanks for the comment
Keep up the genuine style of videos, good on ya guys
We are still finding our feet with all this, thanks for the encouragement it means a lot
You want isolated? Go to Bullumwaal, just outside of Bairnsdale. No tv reception, no mobile reception, a winding road that snakes up and down mountainside. A total "blink and you'll miss it" gem. There's nothing there, but it's a nice relaxing place to get away from all the distractions of the world.
Sounds perfect.... we have a bad habit of missing turns, but we will see if we can find it. Thanks for the suggestion
This. When I clicked on the video, I was totally expecting Bullumwaal to be the destination.
Hopefully we didn't disappoint
I just came across you guys! This is terrific! From Orbost, Victoria HI!
(Oh, have subscribed!)
Thank you so much for the sub... we will beep next time we are in Orbost
Good video guys, subscribed.
Thank you for the Sub!! It helps us out a lot and means a lot to us!
Drove through twice when going to and from a camping and prospecting trip nearly 40 years ago with my family driving a Subaru4WD, no a/c. Learnt to drive in the bush over 50 years ago mostly in the north of SA when working for a mineral exploration company.
We are guessing that a lot has changed since then, and yet it would still be very familiar. A/C is such a luxury that we take for granted. We still remember the good old 2/90 air conditioner, 2 windows down and 90 km/h. We hope to make it to the north of SA one day (plus the rest of Australia). Thanks for the comment
Great in-depth video, looking forward to the next one!
Thank you 😊
Love the high country it’s the dest for a day or month,great vid 👍
There is so much to explore in the high country, thanks for the comment!
Not sure I’d paint Dargo as only 4WD tracks to get there. Is has a sealed road in. I’d say Woods Point with a good unsealed (but 2WD accessible) road in as technically more isolated.
100% there are seal roads to get to Dargo... We didn't think we said that, and a lot of the camp sites can be accessed via good unsealed roads. Thanks for the comment 😊
Woods Point is also a very isolated town. Check it out.
Have heard of it (and possibly seen signs for it), but cannot remember if we ever drove through it, either way it is back on the list for us. Thank you
Always lived in nsw, seen a bit of vic but not enough. Such beautiful country in vic🙂. Thanks for the awesome vid❤️
We are very lucky here in Victoria, every state has it's appeal. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the comment
Just had to subscribe keep up the good work cheers the ol caretaker 👍🍻🇦🇺
Thank you so much for the sub, it means a lot to us 😊
Will be there in a coiple of weeks. Keen as! Top vid.
we were wondering if you had already made it down to Victoria or not. Hope you have a great time!
Yes. I have been in the mine. Have pictures from in there years ago. But friends tried to find it a few years back, and couldnt, due to the growth of the vegetation around there. Its not where the township site is, its a few hundred metres towards talbotville. It might just be very overgrown now though.
We would love to be able to find it one day, hopefully it's still there! Is it worth the effort to find? Thanks for letting us know!
Not sure that it’s the most isolated. Try Tubbut, Bendoc, Bonang, Benambra to name a few. Dargo is awesome we know it very well, but the fact that it’s only 1hour 15min from a large regional city and all on bitumen roads means it’s not very remote! Great 4wd close by for sure
Thanks for the reply. We did have a look at Tubbut, Bendoc and Bonang, however these were close together and close to Delegate (just north of the boarder) so for our criteria of being most isolated these didn't quite make it. Benambra is close to Omeo, so once again it didn't meet our criteria. However if we were to go off being furthest from a major town (even probably hospital for that matter), or furthest excluding other states than they would 100% be in the running. All these places are on our list to go and visit.
@@any4wd understand. I think when you do visit these other places, you will agree, they are more remote. To East Gippsland locals, Dargo is a well loved, well visited part of the neighbourhood
@@chillhilltravel9933 Yes I agree. I live near Bonang. I think any4wd will be surprised that places like this exist in Vic. To travel anywhere from here is a journey and adventure.
We are constantly being surprised by Victoria and Australia. Still so much to see and do, and even places we have already been continue to surprise and excite us
Agree. Woods Point would be a contender being in unsealed (but still 2WD accessible). As you say Dargo is in sealed roads so hardly a hard slog.
The Top End is as isolated as I plan to get, and I lived in Cairns for 8 months but a town like Dargo isn't for me. I look at a map of WA and wonder who the hell would take on those distances with fuel prices today, but obviously people do. Thanks for the video.
We can see how Dargo wouldn't be for everyone. Love Cairns and we really want to be able to do the top end one day. But like you said, with fuel prices the way they are, it does place limitations on us
Dargo felt isolated but it’s not far from Bairnsdale. I’ve been there YEARS ago. It was beautiful weather that day too.
We were lucky with the weather, it really made the place feel magical
Eldorado. Go and find if anyone can still take you to Kelly’s caves along the Reedy creek road. There are two of them. On a clear day they are magnificent. A group of us who lived in Eldorado (13 car loads) did the hike, it was amazing. From memory the guys name is Andy Hill but he would be a fair age by now. We did this in 1998. Check it out but be prepared for a hike!
We have now put this on our list. Is it possible to find the caves without a guide (we will try and find someone who knows the area, but just in case we can't)? We are always up for a bit of a hike so that part doesn't scare us 😉 Thanks for the suggestion
Hi guys just ran across your video dont stress you will get more comfy with the camera . Love the vid and the fact that you are using a fortuner i have owned 2 of them and only recently changed to a Hilux rogue ,never had a problem with the Fortuners though i did take the 3rd row seats out as our kids now are old enough to cart their own kids around :) .I have never been to Dargo but its now on the bucket list .i spent many years camping dirtbike riding and 4wdriving around Noojee in victoria .It might be worth a look though i hear these days it gets pretty busy there are the waterfalls there the trestle bridge the trout farm and the pub used to have dinosaurs out the back i think they got burnt in a fire at some stage but may still have something there .and some mad tracks we used to go out on the bikes for the day and find different tracks for the whole day . Another spot near there is Hawthorn bridge its kinda between Neerim south and Noojee years ago after about 4 hrs in the 4x4 exploring tracks we came across a similar site to what you found with the odd building and the dog beds it was really really remote and we got a bit spooked so left it alone .I see you also watch Eva Zubek i watched her for a long time but cracked the sads with her when she had made no mention of ever coming to Australia or ever mentioning Australia at all .
Thank you for the encouragement and your comments. We will put Noojee and Hawthorn Bridge on our ever growing list, we love the fact that we are getting some great recommendations from our subscribers. We think that Eva, along with a lot of other people from overseas are missing our on all the beauty Australia has to offer
We lived about 20klm from Dargo for a few years. It's a pretty place. The pub uses to have great News Eve parties. 😊
We definitely need to check out a new years eve there one year. It is an amazing place.
Great video, however you forgot to mention the motel and the River Inn just down the road. The pub and the Inn both regularly put on bands and other events.
We didn't have a chance to look at the River Inn, but do remember passing it, and it did look like another great spot to lay your head. On our next pass through we will try to time it so we can be there during an event, as we have heard a lot of great things about them.
I miss my 4WD 😢 Been to Dargo a few times, love the Victoria high country, better than going overseas on a scheduled, structured tour. 👍🏼🇦🇺
There are still lots of places you can go without a 4WD, but it is a lot easier to take the path less travelled with one! We have never been a fan of scheduled & structured tours, we prefer to wonder whenever we get a chance. Thank you for the kind words 😊
Seen any yowies on your travels?
No... well other than the chocolates that used to once exist... but we are still hopeful that one day we will see one in the wild 😉
That hut is used by deer hunters. I don't think it has any legal ownership. We came across it when we were staying at Mathison's Flat "Lodge". There's a Walnut orchard there along with a rock and bottle hut beside the river.
Wow, thanks for the insight. We thought we saw the walnut orchard, but think we need to go back to look for the bottle hut as it sounds amazing.
Yes we have built the hut 4 times in the last 40 odd years due to bush fires ect...we got permission to build the hut from parks back then and you will find us there every weekend over winter huddled around a nice fire at night after walking the hill with our hounds hunting
Great video keep up the good work
Thank you 😊
Dargo might be isolated, but it still costs a fortune to buy l;and and a house there. Crazy.
Yeah, all the places we would love to live, that were once very affordable, now seem out of reach. Maybe one day
When l was a kid we used to go to Dargo annually, when my Dad and a couple of mates would go to a friends property to shoot kangaroos.
Its certainly changed there in the last 40- 50 years!
It's always amazing to hear how places have changed over the years. Dargo doesn't look like it would have changed a lot, just shows how much we know 🤔😀
@@any4wd l remember staying at a caravan park, there was a milk bar down the road and the old pub on the corner (l think it burnt down years ago)
That was about it for Town haha
I once walked to the milk bar and had to sit on a fence while a bunch of cows was herded up the road 😄
Our kids look at us like we are crazy when we tell them there used to be a milk bar on almost every corner...
Amazing place, I've only been there once round 12 years back with a mate, but he goes maybe twice a year for the last 20 plus years hahahaha.. Also thanks for having no over the top annoying back ground music, Cheers..
Maybe you are due for another visit... but by the sound of it, your mate goes enough for everyone. Thanks for the amazing feedback
When I read the title, Licola, Hayfield or Walhalla came to mind. Dargo didn't immediately come to mind.
We did have a look at these as well, but due to being close to a few other towns they missed out on our criteria. But all worth a visit all the same
Awesome area 😎👍
We agree 100%
Did they have a Macca's?
KFC, Nando's, Hungry Jack's, Macca's... none of the above. Probably for the best as it would take away the small town vibe 😊
Did Billy goats over the cup long weeekend. Was a stressful track
We were told it was hard, and we even heard some stories when we were down there of people that didn't make it. It is something that we would love to do one day, but maybe with a few other people and vehicles... just in case
Love it
Thank you
How about Woods point nice drive very isolated from
The big smoke
Sounds like our kind of place. Will definitely find time to check it out
You've just brought upheaval to the locals.
Now every man and his dog and 4wd will be tearing around what will no longer be an idyllic isolated town.
A quick search on TH-cam will show that we don't even list in the search results when you look up Dargo. It has been a 4WD tourist destination long before we made a video about it, and it will remain so for many years to come. Thank you for thinking that our channel is big enough to cause a rush to Dargo, however we are very small fish, in a very big pond. We hope that anyone that does visit any place, will treat it with the respect it deserves.
Ģreat and love the wallnunts the history a wonderful history agreat cash crop should be gown more inareas of gipsland
There is a Walnut Retreat in Dargo that looks amazing, we didn't mention it in our video as we didn't have time to check it out. Hopefully one day we can stay there and experience more from the beautiful area
Please remind the tourists to take their rubbish home with them and not chuck it out of the car window. 😡😡😡😡😡
Yes 100% This should go without saying. We have pointed this out in the past, and not all people realise that we will lose access to these wonderful places if they are not treated with the respect they deserve!
Billy goats bluff is awesome…….on a bike, be scary in a 4WD.
We would imagine that it would be a little scary on a bike as well
@@any4wd only if you go off the side, amazing place 👍
Had an XR 250... staying upright was not a speciality, probably would have ended up off the edge
Laverton WA on the Great Central Road, is a long way from anywhere, is at the end of the bitumen, 360 km NNE of Kalgoorlie and feels isolated. The closest town is Leonora about 125 km away. If you keep going, you get to Ayers Rock about 1100km along the Great Central Road. Approx. 850 km of this road is unsealed. The Laverton mayor Patrick Hill was interviewed on national TV last year cos Morrison govt made an election promise to seal the entire Great Central Road, This will cut 1,000 km off the journey for trucks driving from QLD to Perth which currently is done via the northern coastal roads. But, the Albanese govt cancelled the program. Hence why Laverton mayor was interviewed.
There is still gold to be found around Laverton. A prospector I know at Laverton found a six ounce gold nugget in the Laverton area earlier this year. Naturally, he is not saying where he found it. One of the close by gold mines, Sunrise Dam, produces a ton of gold a month (was open cut, now gone underground). Lynas Mt Weld mine south of Laverton is Australia's only rare earth minerals mine (or was, another may have opened).
There are real ghost towns in the area from the mining boom days such as Mt Morgan, and Kookynie (20,000 people once lived there, now reduced to six families. Pub is huge and still operating but off the beaten track). Anyone familiar with the Poseidon nickel mine fraud of the late 1960s, this mine is very close to Laverton. This was famous and was naional news at the time. The area is mulga country with eucalypts almost no where to be seen. There are some pockets, but it is mostly mulga.
We are saving up pennies to hopefully one day go see places like Kalgoorlie and Laverton WA(and who knows, maybe even find a little gold for ourselves). A sealed road is nice, but there is something adventurous about an unsealed road (We can already hear people living in areas, with crappy dirt roads yelling at us through the computer)
We love a ghost town as they always have a story to be told, and a bit of a glimpse into yesteryear when things seemed simpler, but would have been much tougher without all of todays comforts. We also now need to look up the Poseidon nickel mine fraud as we are also a fan of true crime and it is one that we haven't heard of yet. Thank you for the amazing comment.
I am from Victoria and lived near Laverton for 14 months ten years ago, loved the life style. lived on a cattle station out of town and worked on a local mine. If you visit, the mayor Patrick Hill is very approachable and amiable. Lots of prospectors go to an area close to Laverton called Hawks Nest on the Old Laverton Road which kinda follows the old abandoned rail line (closed 70 years ago). Lots of other places to prospect. Menzies, Leonora, in fact all around Kalgoorlie for hundreds of kilometres. A chap I know, Sam, operates the motel in the town. He was a very active prospector. There are other remains of towns with one south east of Laverton with a still active gold mine - Fish...... is the name of it (though this might be the name of the local gold mine). You can see the old street layouts and the cemetery but the only building left is the collapsed stone walled pub.
Some of the graves out there are poignant with young men coming from overseas such as NZ and England only to never to return home and never see their families again, some dying young. Hawks Nest has a well known grave to a young bloke killed by lightning in the 1890s (if memory serves) and he mentions the lightning in the last entry in his diary.
If you have a semi licence, you will easily get work. Not much work for MR or HR truckin. Speak to the owner of Desert Sands in Laverton or Breakaway in Leonora (both specialise in road maintenance and construction). Kalgoorlie seems to always have work for semi drivers. Usually paid well cos if they don't, drivers go work on the mines who do pay well - cos FIFO is a crap life style (FIFO - Fly in Fly out. aka 'Fit in or F**k off'😉)
I am planning to go back, driving across the Nullarbor next year. From Port Agusta to Norseman is a great drive (1700km) . So little traffic. Cocklebiddy roadhouse does the best steak sandwiches, I always stop there to have one! fuel up at Nundroo SA, the last of the reasonably priced petrol til Norseman. Next roadhouse heading west, the price jumps 30c a litre! (at least last time I went just before Covid).
In the Great Victoria Desert, (which includes the WA Goldfields) the local black fella mob are the Wongi who have a joke - If you're a white guy, you're not a Wongi! We call em blackfella and they call us whitefella or whybella and nobody thinks anything of it, not considered racist or a put down.
It is a very different lifestyle out there which people either love or loath. I loved it and could have stayed. But family and friends are in Vic. Good Luck if you go, I am sure you will enjoy the journey and the stay. Endless places to pull into the bush and camp all over WA and SA Outback. @@any4wd
It must be a small town if people are on the first name basis with the mayor. We would love to check out the abandoned rail line and old town, it would be a snap shot into Australia's past.
The graves sound sad, do you know if it was due to mining that people were dying young, or just a harsh place to live?
We do have a semi licence, but due to young(ish) kids, it has sorted of grounded us a little, but we do talk about doing something like that a little later in life.
The furthest west one of us has been is Whyalla, but the Nullarbor is a bucket list item for both of us, plus who doesn't love a steak sandwich from a roadhouse.
We are looking forward to getting out there one day and experiencing different cultures, and environments. There is still so much of Australia that we haven't seen. Thanks for some amazing suggestions and we took note.
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So I guess there is that. There are probably bigger issues we both could be tackling right now to be honest.
Thanks for the tip
This SUV is my dream .... 🤌
We love it, although the 3rd row can get a bit squishy, other than that we have no complaints.
"over priced fuel, so fill up before you go there."
Obviously Any 4WD has zero appreciation for country / remote communities. Diesel in Dargo is currently 37c per liter more expensive than my local servo. So 60 litres ( almost a full tank in my 4x4 ) is a massive........wait for it.......$21.60 dearer than fuel at home. That's if I run my tank down to the last 10 litres before fueling up. Please ignore this city centric attitude people. Please support country communities. If we fail to support these communities, then they shrink and then collapse and with that we all loose a part of our great country and its culture and history.
We have the utmost appreciation for county and remote communities. But where do you think that money is better spent? At the servo where most will go to taxes and the oil companies, with minimal profits going to the store owner, or buying local produce, coffees, staying at a local hotel, having breakfast and dinner at the local restaurants or stores. All of which we did. It is almost mandatory for us to go to a local bakery, or buy local produce / honey where available. We do everything on a budget and that $21.60 that we could save would undoubtedly be spent at towns we pass through... Or we spend the majority of money on fuel and don't even get to go to these town. Where do you think the value for the community is?
I disagree that it’s the most ‘isolated town in Victoria’, there are some in the North West that are very isolated with nothing there.
We agree, there are some very remote towns in Victoria, that take longer and are harder to get to, like Bendoc and Omeo. However for our criteria we chose Dargo, as it was isolated when it came to towns near by, and the closest town being some distance from it. A lot of people have pointed out that Bendoc is very remote, but due to being close to Tubbut, Delegate (NSW), and a few other towns it didn't match our criteria. Thanks to all the amazing comments we have put these towns on our list and cannot wait to see them!
@@any4wd Benambra is further out than Omeo.
Correct, but it is only 18 minutes away from Omeo, so that is part of the reason it didn't match our criteria for this video. Thanks for the comment 😊
Bit dramatic. Dargo is hardly that isolated!
Depends where you are comparing it to... For us we were looking for the next nearest town in Victoria. If you were to compare it to other places in Australia it would look like it was next door, but in Victoria, it is the town furthest away from any other
Fire pit of demons and destruction! If you have a place in JESUS'S LAND OR palace go now!
not going to lie, a little confused, however thank you for taking the time to comment 😊
bah i hate nature, i’d rather be in outer space 🎉
Ha Ha, we love nature but hate the hay fever that comes with it... outer space might be for us... On the next episode of Any 4WD we are going to outer space 🛸🛰🚀 (please note: not in the budget to go to outer space)
Well that’s rubbish- we lived in the most remote town in Victoria and this isn’t it……
We are always open to learning something new. A few people have pointed out towns like Woods Point, Bendoc, Walhala & Licola, however on our criteria they missed out as there was another town or towns close by (although the cluster of towns would be very remote and quite hard to get to), so you peaked our curiosity as to where the most remote town in Victoria is?