"THE GIBB RIVER ROAD" - A guide to plan your trip & all the HOTSPOTS you can't miss!!👌⛺️🎣
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- The Gibb River Road is one SERIOUS adventure!!
From Kununurra to Derby and everything in between, we show you all the spots you'll want to get to on you're own Gibb adventures.
Here's a quick look at what we get up to:
Kununurra - Ivanhoe Crossing - Emma Gorge - El Quester Station - Home Valley Station - Ellenbrae Station - Drysdale Station - King Edward River Camp - Honeymoon Bay - Haan River River Free Camp - Mt Barnett Station - Manning Gorge - Galvans Gorge - Adcock Gorge - Bell Gorge - Windjana Gorge.
Ooooft!!! So much packed into this one episode!!! All the info and places for ya. Grab a cold one, a notebook and a pen and settle in for good times, good scenery and a whole lotta GIBB GOODNESS!!
Cheers guys👍
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It all started when…
In December 2015 we packed up and hit the road for what we thought would be a 12 month Lap of Oz. Fast forward 7 years and we decided to create a video series of our travels to show you all what it’s like to live life on the road!!
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In 2006 I was out there with Duncan's off-road tours and I was helping them assisting with the tours and when we've done the Ord River Crossing we found out when we got to the other side we weren't supposed to go through because the water was 600 mL higher then the safety limit and I still have photo of my vehicle doing that. Now at the Mitchell Falls where the helicopter is and I bet nobody told you that on the way down there is a lookout over a waterfall not far from The Entrance but when you go back onto the track there is a little detour behind two large boulders on your left which takes you to a cutout under the waterfall that has Aboriginal paintings on it just be careful of paper wasps hanging around.
Sounds amazing
Incredible journey so amazing to be able to explore this with you ❤️
It really is! Thanks for watching
I just love how the fridge was PACKED!
Australia has become incredibly expensive and travelling is a bureaucratic nightmare. In Thailand I am paying AU $20 to $35 a night for an air conditioned room with en suite. The distances between tourist sites in Thailand is a fraction of those on Oz. Entrance fees, if charged at all are a dollar or so. I remember when beaches were free, and we could camp by a creek or river, it was government land. The plan to monetise Australian tourist sites has permanently destroyed the freedom of travelling what was once the lucky country.
Travelling with you by video is saving me a fortune, I'm avoiding hours of dust on back breaking roads and seeing the best of Oz.
Thanks fellas 🇦🇺👍❤️
Comparing Thailand to Australia price-wise is ridiculous, given the vast differences in cost of living, earnings, etc - all you're doing is taking advantage of the differences with your Australian dollars to live on the cheap, as against the hit a Thai would take to live at the same level, which is the true economic indicator. You might as well offer up a cost comparison to living in Iran with the Rial virtually worthless these days. I had to stay on in Kathmandu a few years ago, due to illness after a long trek, and rented a small apartment for about $100 a month - wohoo! Never mind that Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, that the per capita income is far below poverty level by Australian standards, and the cost of living is peanuts. So hey, let's all move to Nepal with the built-in financial advantages of coming from a first-world economy, an economy that, by and large, has given you that free ride in Thailand off the back of everything that's been built up in the homeland you deride - you don't get that exchange rate for your Aussie dollar for nothing, that's what's giving you your cushy ride. Furthermore, if you look up any number of cost of living charts, you'll see Australia generally ranks at or near the top ten, with Thailand nowhere in sight.
You want to talk monetizing, try going to India and look at the cost differential between what the locals pay at places like the Taj Mahal versus how much foreigners are shamelessly gouged - ten to fifteen times as much. It goes on just about everywhere, even at the most insignificant sites.
Your point about distances is also pretty nonsensical, given how much larger Australia is than Thailand, added to which beaches ARE free in the vast majority of cases, right down to Sydney's famous beaches. But hey, let's extrapolate from the few exceptions and present a totally unrealistic perspective, Bob Junie style.
From the sound of it, particularly your point about saving a fortune in travelling expenses through video viewing, your couch potato ways are exactly in tune with your whining ways and myopic perspectives. You might actually get dust on your shoes if you dared venturing out into that dreaded and heavily monetized outback - we wouldn't want that.
@@timwilde4200 That great exchange rate was 34 baht to the Australian dollar, now it is 23.5 baht to the AU dollar. Wonderful Australia's dollar's exchange rate is 30% down on 2014. Professional salaries are lower in Thailand and that accounts for some of the disparity, but not all. Petrol at $2 a litre, electricity is Australian prices, Black Label Johnny Walker the same price as Australia. You are right, an Asian tourist really has to pay high prices, $160 a night in Australia compared to $40 a night for comparable standard accomodation is difficult for many. But there are lots of rich Thais, the propaganda that Australians are rich and Asia is poor is grossly misleading. Thailand builds the cars and motorcycles the most Australian drivers are paying off. The Thai economy is strong due to large scale industry. I can see major improvements in living standards.
As for the couch potato, after three heart procedures, and compression of the spine from a road accident in Australia, at the age of 80 enjoying TH-cam makes sense. The fact that I watch this channel is intended as a compliment.
I criticised the poor value for money in Australia. I didn't make personally nasty comments. In Thailand that is considered unacceptable.
@bobjuniel8683 Clearly you don't know up from down and couldn't grasp the basic economics of my point - that the entire thrust of your initial argument, and which you're still floundering around trying to repeat, is that you're making a side by side comparison of cost of living standards BASED ON THE FACT YOU'RE A TRANSPLANT LIVING IN THAILAND ON YOUR AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS!!! Do you have some kind of intellectual impediment that can't get you past that salient aspect, or is it simply a case of not being able to comprehend the basic incongruity of your point?
It's a myth and propaganda that Australians are rich and Asians are poor? It's not propaganda to assert the basic economic differences between countries, and you're living proof of it, an ex-pat living a higher standard of living elsewhere based on your AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS and the economy backing it! Still don't get that, Sherlock? Have you ever heard of GDP, or do you need someone to explain it to you? It's the basic metric by which countries around the world are measured economically, using the International (or Geary-Khamis) Dollar as the standard. Australia's per capita income, based on that GDP, is currently about $66,500 based on IMF tables, whereas Thailand's is $23,400, or roughly a third of Australia's - the comparison is even worse if you make the measure based on nominal rates. What that means, in general terms, is that the average person from Thailand trying to live in Australia on that $23,400 would find themselves living in poverty, as it's well below even our basic pension, while cantankerous old farts (not naming any names here) from down under can take their modest Australian savings/pensions/retirement funds and make it go a lot further in Thailand than they could back home - all while dissing the homeland they've turned their backs on and without the foggiest idea why it's working so much to their advantage.
As for your point about the differences in exchange rates across the years - really? Economies go up and down, as you should know, so it’s a rather asinine point to make, especially across a ten-year span. I’ve lived in the USA for the last 25 years, and when I came here the Aussie was worth an almost all-time low of 58 cents US. Yet it wasn’t that long ago the Australian dollar rocketed up to $1.15US on the back of the mining boom, only to slip back down to where it currently sits at 66 cents. Given the relative strength of the US dollar at the moment, that means my retirement funds when I return to Australia shortly will get me about $1.50 Australian for every US dollar I convert, or to put it another way, about 37 of your precious Baht. Wohoo! Just as you took up the option to live in Thailand, Americans use the strength of their currency to live in places like Costa Rica or Mexico, places where their money goes further than the USA based on all the factors I mentioned - unlike you, most have the good sense to realize why their standard of living is so good in relative terms, as against what it takes for a local to live to the same standard.
If you STILL can't digest all that, you don’t cross reference basic standards of living across various nations based on income derived from one and spent in another - period - unless your name is Bob Junie and can’t grasp the bleeding obvious. The only measure you have at your disposal is the GDP-backed strength of the Australian dollar and the standard of living it can buy you in other parts of the world. Yours is an ex-pat economy, not a true one, and the citizens of your world are not Australians or Thais but other ex-pats trying to get by on the strength of their own currencies and home economies.
So instead of trashing Australia and making sweeping generalizations that don't hold up to scrutiny, be thankful you come from a country that has the kind of economic strength to back the currency that affords you the 'cheap' lifestyle in Thailand you’re so boastful about. In other words, don't bite the hand that's feeding your sumptuous lifestyle.
Saved to watch later in the morning. I work on Aussie time now from Ireland and honestly your videos are getting me through the night, feeling the sunshine thru the screen.
Thanks guys. Dreaming of the day we can make it out there.
Legend!
All those vids were some of my favourite ones and so inspired me to do the same this year. Well, that was what was planned and is still on the list, maybe next year after the road is restored from recent flood damage. Maybe next time you go, it will be sealed all the way. You were all so lucky to experience it at its best. All those stations will need massive support in the future to get back to normal and your guide will go a long way to ensure it does. Thank you, Justin, Bec, Ruie, Billy, and Charli, for the laughs along the way. CHEERS
Cheers mate, hope you can get up there soon
Great video! Definitely keen to do the Gibb now…. 👍
Go for it!
Great show thanks guys
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for taking us with you on this trip. Enjoyed watching.
Cheers mate, you’re so welcome
Epic. What fortunate kids to have this lovely family life.
Great kids, love em🤙
Top class effort video, guys... Your kids are also little adventurers... You are creating stories and memories they will never forget...
Sadly I had to skip El Questro last year, but I will be back - your video highlighted how much I missed.
Cheers mate
We haven't tackled the "Gibb River Rd" yet, however thanks to you guy's and all of this information and adventures it's been pushed up the list.
Awesome adventure you’ll love it
Stunning spot
It really is!
You have a beautiful family mate enjoyed the trip with yous every stop of the way
Cheers bud
I love the photo at EL QUESTRO guys
I love ur sons after the socon😊❤❤
Awesome effort at turning 5+ hours of quality viewing into nearly 2hrs of concise valuable track info. Great to see Colin or was it Kevin make a return🤣🤣
😂cheers mate
What a great trip down the Gibb! It's on our bucket list.
It really is!
I love ur sons ofr the scn😊❤❤
Brings back so many amazing memories! What a trip for you all and it looked like you had all the different conditions on the Gibb. Looking forward to the next ep fam 😊
Cheers legends
Nice treat to watch on a beautiful Saturday here in Los Angeles, USA. Thank you and enjoyed.
Glad you enjoyed it all the way over there in the USA
You could do a full compilation of Beck’s singing and screaming 😂😂😂
Great rehash of the Gibb👍👍
Challenge accepted
Happy Sunday legends
cheers champion
Will be on the Gibb in two weeks, thanks for the tips
Hope you enjoy it!
Fantastic vid. Never managed to do the Gibb when in Australia. I love watching these from the much cooler and very green UK.
Glad you enjoyed it
Geat job guys !!! Always a pleasure.
great video guys it had me frothin the whole time cheers
Thanks mate
Wow and wow again, reminded me of how great the Gibb videos were, keep up the great work.
Glad you like them!
Beautiful WA coast, great job getting off the beach ⛱️ ☂️. Life's like a box of chocolates 🍫 😀
The best!
Thank you for taking us on a lovely tour of all the Gorges.
Enjoying this Episode. 🇿🇦🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it
Love y'all so much Australia so beautiful your right on bro be safe y'all 🔨💳⚖🛢🔦😎Karl from Tennessee
Thanks so much
You are brave swimming anywhere in Australia!!!! 😂
Another fantastic episode of another fantastic trip 🚙💨💨💨😃👍🏼
Glad you enjoyed it
What a cracker of a trip. Nice one legends! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome vids guys this will make my trip planning whole lot easier loved it.
Cheers
Absolutely Awesome Guys😀🤩🤩🤙
Cheers
Another excellent film. A hug from Portugal
Cheers
Such detailed information in your vids. Much appreciated 🤙🏻
Cheers mate
Love these travels guys! Actually got my little one wanting to hit the road too. Loving the dream! ❤
Cheers mate appreciate it
Thank you guys and its an amazing video, believe it or not I smashed it in one go - such an insparation😀
Great job! cheers for watching
Great episode guys always love ur work ❤️🇦🇺🤙🙏
Cheers mate
Great vid Justin Bec and kids.Reminiscing about my trip I did on the Gibb last June. Thirteen travellers plus two guides in a 4x4 Isuzu bus and trailer .Look forward to your next vid.
That is awesome!
Amazing to watch, ❤ that’s the life I should of had! That’s started my Sunday off well, thank you 👌
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks guys gotta love Australia 💌🇦🇺🦘Karen from Port Mac 🐨🥰
Cheers legend
Love the videos guys. Thank you.👍🇦🇺🍺❤️
Cheers mate
Love watching you guys on your adventures, such a great couple. I wish I had been along too ! I've only been in as far as windjanaas we didn't have the right car , but it's on my bucket list for sure ! Thanks guys. So cool x
So many waterholes! Lol well done guys x
So many waterholes! Hope you get back there one day
@@TripInAVan yes me too ! It's definitely on My to do list . X
Brilliant! Thanks for the memories.👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Happy Sunday mate hope you are doing well?
Thanks for the visit, we are great thanks mate
All joking aside mate,A super video,Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Hey Justin, Bec and family, just to touch base with you! great way to start sunday morning. Unfortunately I have a busy day so no time to watch just as yet! will catch up later! Cheers guys!
Sounds great! Enjoy this arvo 👌🍺🍺
As always thanks guys been following you're adventures from your very first post. We are now ready for our adventures and starting with Tassie 29th of April on a one way ticket no idea how long it takes or we would like to stay, anyway I have done as much research as possible in the past couple of years to get us ready but as usual always will learn a lot as we go. Please have a look at our gear to date and advise on anything that might be of an issue or I have missed on the more important items or gear.
We have a brand new Crusader Excalibur Serenity caravan fitted with a heap of extras on build including Cruisemaster XT suspension 16 inch wheels DO35 hitch ESC dual reversing cameras 480ah Lithium 3 x 170W Solar panels on roof limited space due to Satellite dish but can fit one more panel 1 x 200W portable solar 2000W Enerdrive Inverter RV WiFi and WiTi to keep it safe Projecta management system 2 x 95lt water tanks 1 x 95lt grey water. Our tow vehicle is a 2019 XLT Ranger 3.2 and recently fitted with ARB snorkel TJM Canopy 1 x 75Lt dual zone fridge 1 x sliding drawer 120ah Lithium with Enerdrive 40ah DCDC charger Bendix brake upgrade 2.5 inch Outback Armour full adjustable suspension with 500kg leaf springs Hamer front bar with Runva winch obviously we have just about reached our weight limit but still managed to be bit under with careful and common sense packing. I will be upgrading to the F250 in the near future which we will use to tour the rest of Oz after we finished with Tassie. Kind Regards.
This is great!! All looks quality and well thought out set up mate! Perfect for Tassie touring. You’ll have a blast down there hey🤙
Lovely Ep ,
Cheers
Too many people on the GRR these days! I would add Mornington Station.
Don't forget to hit that like button it doesn't cost you anything but it surely helps out this channel and the lorimer family alot
Thanks champion. It helps a bunch , cheers👍🤙🍺
I went through the crossing to El Questro Gorge 6 times last year and each time water came out of the car when I opened the door! It was probably 80cm deep!
Gorgeous episode ❤
Thankyou
Lovin these compilation vids guys! Keep up the awesome work!
Glad you like them!
You guys should catch up with will n wind again
Keen as
Hi guys. Just want to let you know that I tried to get your book from the library. Unfortunately they only had 1 copy and 24 people waiting to read it !!!!. So it's probably a years wait. Shows how popular you guys and your book is x
Oh wow, that’s crazy
Awesome thoroughly enjoyed that !!
Glad to hear it!
this is sick 🤙🤙
me and my fiancé are about to travel around Australia in our van named sandy. cant wait to get out there and see some of these awesome place's. we love your vids , you inspire us to get out and do things our way. hope to see you guys out there❣🦘
So cool! Stoked your loving the vids!! Safe travels guys
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Thanks champion 🤙
Would recommend Birdwood Downs
Thanks for the great vids ! hope to do this one next yr!
Have fun!
Really funny hearing Justin say Birchy considering that is also my last name Birch. And my nickname is Birchy as well 😂😂😂 How good is that 🤙
To good. Birchys a legend
Seen that corrigation going into Gregory Downs Queensland got a a blowout ended up on 2 wheels scary!!!!
Yeah that’s scary
Bec, you have to say “ giddy-up” lol.
😁👍
Looks to tough for me mate but we’ll done
Hi, for heaven sake let Bec talk when your in her kitchen. Cheers
G'day mate. Excellent vids, you have a lovely family. Good on ya's.
Anyway, was watching one of your vids where you gave a run down of your cruiser and van.
You said your towing a 4.5 ton van. Is that possible (legally) weight wise, as I thought a cruiser was limited to 3.5 ton.
We're old buggars and new to caravanning, just curious is all mate. Cheers, keep on cruising, well done 👌
Thanks 👍 yeah so our cruiser has been modified to be 650mm longer wheelbase and upgraded the suspension to be a 4495kg gvm that can also tow 4.5tonne 👍
@@TripInAVan hey mate. Just watched your vehicle build vids. Guess that answers my question in more detail hey. I've not long bought a 200 vx , can understand why people rate them so much. Brilliant rig.
Cheers mate.
@@nevillesims3088 cheers
I spent $295/l at Drysdale 5 months ago!!!
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Thanks for liking
@@TripInAVan always the first thing I do
Such a great tool for planning a trip. Along with your book it makes it easy. What month of the year did you do the trip?
Thanks mate, it was July/august
with all your food packing did you get dehydrated veg @ powder mash potatoes or was it all fresh and frozen love your work stay safe
All fresh or frozen yeah
Fantastic info, loved it. But I didn’t get Colin’s intro lol.
Another great vid. High lights of the Gibb.
One question. What time of the year did you do it? What time would you recommend doing it? 👍🏻
July august it was. I’d recommend any time outside of school holidays between June and September
Wow, what a trip. And thanks for all the tips. What time of year did you do this?
You’re welcome , July august
Good summary of the trip 👍
What month did yous do the gibb?
July august
16:21 *Looks at the caravan in the background* I feel as though you missed an opportunity to make the lift a little easier.
Why does Bec like the two words GIDDY UP so much
Great condensed version of The Gibb with handy tips & awesome free camps! We will look to use this in our itinerary. Can I ask the name of the free mint camp you stayed at where the kids were splashing in the water just after the segment on changing your destroyed tyre & what 12v water pump did you use filling your tanks from the creek please?
Yes of course! It’s a rule 12volt inline submersible pump.
It was tagged on wiki as gibb river free camp
What's the blue L shaped hose nosle called that was used to sit in the water inlet? Thanks?
www.caravanrvcamping.com.au/stand-at-ease-water-tank-filler
Hey mate, how do you book that hunting fishing tour in home valley
Get onto birchys fishing tours on insta and you can book a trip👍👍
At 1:14:40, what floated past you guys down side of boat?
Just a jelly fish hey
Hi. How did you stick your items on the wall. Do the items hold well?
What canopy does old mate have on the 79?
No idea sorry
What a air compressor would you recommend?
@@sandiberwick4428 the ARB4x4 dual compressor. 👌👌
Thank you very much.
Show pony and work horse.😄
Someone has probably asked but is it 4 wheel drive only or can 2wheel drive do down the Gibb
2wd could do the main gibb I reckon. Mainly just rocky corrugations, but if it rained you might be in trouble
How do u cook your rice in those packets, when you’re off grid ?
Microwave runs off the battery system
What unit do you guys use for pressurising the van to keep dust out
It’s called a carafan sahara
Awsome i will look into it
What month did you go?
July!
What month was this trip taken...please
july august
What did the burchy day trip cost what and experience
Unreal hey. It was $500 each
Hi folks Im pretty sure that tour bush Turkey is a Bustard
Yep
Shouldn't you have fire protection gear from head to toe when going near the bar by,Goggles on the eyes for splatters and a team of surgeons on standby,just in case,modern living and all that!
It’s probably the new oh&s rules yeah
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