FLYING INTO THE DESERT to explore the Outback
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Flying a Cirrus SR22 to a bush strip in the Australian desert to explore Mungo National Park. I fly into the desert and land on a dirt strip at Mungo Lodge to explore Mungo Lake.
This is part of my 'Exploring Australia' series of videos travelling to Australia's Natural Wonders and sharing what I find.
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Lucky man i live in the lake District but would love go here
The amount of times you had to place the camera ahead of you is truly cinematic
It gets my daily step count up
he pays me $45 a day to do it
Yeah, I thought the same
"Stef's Outback Tours" Just need to get an orange C208 Caravan to go along with that mini bus. This is some great content here!
Stef could team up with John Jarratt who'd handle the happy tourists hahaha
Hi Stef! I think it would be worthwhile for you to fly out to different parts of australia and educate us on the natural wonders of Australia. It can be a mini-series that could go a long way. It will help ppl plan for their Australia holiday as well. I hope to fly in Australia one day as well.
Appreciate you leaving the story to the communities mate, respect.
It really must take you forever setting these shots up. You're basically doing everything twice to get the shot. Love your work and really appreciate how much work you put into your videos. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Chris, I love making these videos so it never feels like work to me. But I'm really grateful for the positive feedback, cheers.
Amazing cinematography and story telling! Much gratitude and respect from a fellow SR22 pilot.
The filming just gets better with every video
Once again Stef, you have made my day. I have forgotten about the relentless rain outside whilst watching this video. Would love to visit this place some day. Thank you so much mate. 😊✈
Thanks as always Spiro, stay safe in that bad weather.
@@StefanDrury I bet if you turned more of the outback into rainforest, it would be easier to survive there
I was thinking - gee, production values! You have to do everything three times to get those shots... so the final scene was funny. :)
... and THIS is what an Aussie aircraft owner should be doing with an aircraft. :) Exploring Australia....
Good job, Stef.
Australian Travel Service should consider sponsoring your channel Stefan. You do an excellent job of showing us around.
What a well made video. No better TH-camr out there than you Stef! Keep up the great content as usual 😄
Beautifully done!
Being an aboriginal man I have the upmost respect for you , the way you addressed that is beautiful ,
and a lot of people should take a page out of your book
Beautiful work mate
Stef, I absolutely love your channel. Your productions are fantastic. You legitimately have better cinematography rolling solo than some creators with huge teams. I love the travel videos around Australia. My wife’s from Melbourne and I’ve been down there several times. Australia is such a beautiful country, and it’s so cool to see it from the air and ground through your videos.
Thanks for saying that, it’s very much appreciated. I’ve got a lot more travel content around Aus planned for this year and encouragement like this is really motivating. Thanks again, stef
Stef, those are commonly known as Paddy Melons and are a native Australian (usually considered a weed) plant. It would be nice if you were to approach some of the elders of the first nation people asking them to narrate some of their stories of the sacred places you visit. I think it would be a nice way to show tribute to our countries' custodians of the land.
Stef ! 3:49 !! Signs of a true propheshunal pilot, right there. 😁🤠
4:41 = Paddy Melon 🙂
I really liked how you were respectful in regards to the mungo man.
Thanks Dave
I really didn't get that part. You're NOT allowed to talk about someone who died 42 thousand years because another group has an exclusive right to TELL it? It's already published but somehow "inappropriate" to talk about it in a video even though it is a great scientific discovery?
Wow, this is truly cinematic
Very nice. Please keep coming out with more vlogs!!
Incredible video! Good to prepare for more rural parts of the round the world trip
Mungo National Park added to the bucket list of places I have to visit someday
Thanks Stef,
Great content, keep them coming.
I love these videos show casing the amazing natural wonders we have in Australia and the fun and educational way you show it and the respectful way you go about it.
Just about to finish my PPL and it excites me to have the opportunity to go and explore places like you do.
I appreciate that Anthony, and all the best with the rest of your flight training so you can start having adventures like this of your own. Cheers.
Great video Stef, always exciting when you post a video :))
Thanks Eddie
Australia is a country made to explore by plane. What a blast.
That van 😅 you’d be a great tour guide 🤣🤣🤣
As always great videos. You can see how much work you have put on the videos.
Love the way you present the places you go and thank you for sharing interesting places around Australia.
I'm saving the places you go around Australia, When weather and time permits, I will be able to fly to those places.
Thank you Stef 😊
That's great to hear Luis, glad these videos are encouraging you to have adventures of your own. Enjoy your travels. All the best.
Beautiful images of the sunset!!!!
The return of mungo man/woman was well covered in the media , great place , only been there four times and still looking forward to another trip anytime
Hi Stef. Really appreciate you doing this type of closeup of the Australian lands. Being from Canada, I've never had a reason STRONG enough to make the trip down there, and wouldn't know which part of "down there" to pick first! So, thanks for showing me around a bit. Have you ever posted on a trip to... the 12 Apostles/Sisters (something like that) down on the coast near you? Would love to see that. Anyway, I appreciate your respect for the people and place at Mungo Park.
Australia is amazing. Go! I live in Kamloops, BTW.
Awesome scenery Stef! Thanks so much for sharing these incredible adventures…(appreciated in rainy BC!)
Thanks for watching Adam, hope the rain eases soon.
9:26 that sunset is honestly incredible!
Awesome! I'm currently in Sydney for the premier of 'Hamilton' and I'm astounded by the acknowledgements I see and hear everywhere of the traditional owners of the land. I wish we had more of this in Brisbane- actually visited Hyde Park Barracks the other day & was brought to tears by both the welcome to country & farewells from the uncles & aunts who helped with the indigenous history of the barracks!
🖐 G, day from Sydney
* The fruit vine, I've heard it called many times PADDY MELON.
* I know mobs that respect fellas that carry the compassion for the people of the land.
* such as your SR22 tail flag.c
Hey John, I'm grateful for the ability and freedom to fly over and visit places like this. The Aboriginal flag on my tail is something I consulted with Reconciliation Australia on and am very proud to fly on EYZ. I appreciate the comment, thanks. Stay safe in all the rain in Sydney this weekend.
The melons are also toxic, invasive, and generally a bit of a #!*t
Also called Pig Melons in Western Australia.
Brilliant video, Stef. I love the story telling in your adventures like these. You do a great job of selling Australia to the world.
Thank you Ali, it's a great feeling to show this country off to the world here on TH-cam so that means a lot, thanks.
Thank you, Stef, for sharing your video with us.
I know that I will never be able to visit this place because I can't fly nor drive a car. But thanks to you I could see this very beautiful place.
Thank you!
That landscape is so surreal, and the sunset was absolutely stunning! Awesome video!👍
I stayed there for 2 weeks with my family about 30 years ago in a little shearer's cabin. It was extremely remote back then, we didn't see any other people for about a week & only saw the ranger when we got there then when we left! A lot's changed since then. Awesome vid!
As someone who won’t drive their car on a dirt road I got anxiety watching EYZ get dirty. Lol, awesome video!
That's awesome Stefan.
Thanks, cannot wait for the borders to reopen.
Good on you respecting the traditions like this.
I appreciate you saying that, thanks for watching Sean and yes hope everywhere starts opening up again soon so everyone can get out travelling again.
I do not disrespect the original peoples of Australia or America or any place for that matter, and having a native guide makes it somewhat more authentic, I guess.
But if not for the great Paleontologist and Archaeologists who dedicated their lives to discovering the forgotten or
lost peoples of our planet, these guides wouldn't have the opportunity they have.
A few comments by you well researched, would not show a lack of sensitivity to these people but a doorway to an ancient culture.
Rik
Excellently put.
@@bsmith2053 Thank you, Mr. Smith, I did get a little carried away in the previous remarks to Stefan, but that's the way I feel and
I hope Stefan gets my point, I'm a big fan of his.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
@@rikspector I have to agree that it is good to respect all people and cultures. But sometimes it can be taken to extremes, which is also common in Human nature. I respect Stephen that he never charges for telling his stories.
Great video, and thanks for showing respect for those who tell the story. Another place I need to visit, hopefully as pilot in command.
Another awesome video Stef and respect to you for your respect. Unlike a magician you are happy to share your tricks. Many years age flying out of East Midlands I filmed the take off from inside when our kides saw the complete video they were amazed how I had inside and outside shots of the take off.........did'nt have the heart to tell them I filmed the outside shots a week earlier.
Respect to you Stefan
Good man.
“Here we see Stefan Drury, the first person to ever land on Mars.”
The melons are Gourd!
I really hope Dolby vision HDR REC2020 will become standard for youtube content. This video would have been even better in HDR.
Camel melon (not to be confused with the paddy melon which has spikes...) Introduced to Australia for middle east and afghanistan as it's a nice treat for camels. Camels probably are long gone now except from Silverton for tourist reasons, but the afgan melon is here to stay
Sorry to say that the camels are far from gone. They roam over many parts of Australia and give you a hell of a fright if you come around a corner and encounter a mob of them all over the road. We even export them back to a lot of countries.
A very good vid Stef.
Mate those meleons are pattie melions poisonouse but fun to kick but don’t kick the big ones or you will break your foot like I did
Oh no, thanks for the warning (hope your foot is ok)
Fantastic as always Sef. Amazing cinematography and such a unique destination.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching Michael.
How don’t you have more subs?! Amazing content!
That glowing orange thing in the sky looks terrifying 🇬🇧
Fear not, It will without fail to appear on the Easter Bank holidays.
Very well done! Loving the content, thanks Stef!
Cheers Simley Bob, thanks for watching
Plz make a video about naming airplanes
I can see they are in abbreviations (like your EYZ= Echo Yankee Zulu)
But what are the regulations/requirements for naming your aircraft?
Hey Stefan. Im currently a flight student at tristar aviation moorabin and your videos always teach and entertain me so much. Love your vids
That's great to hear Thevan, all the best with your flight training.
the red earth of home memories
An absolutely beautiful video!
Awesome video. Well done. Was great to meet you at Mungo!
Wow! Beautiful. Thank you.
Great footage...brings back memories when we were out there watching the storms roll across the plains late in the afternoon from the vantage point of the watering holes out near the big white sandhill around the backside of the park. Its a great place Mungo National Park. Thanks for sharing it.
Been a while in a manual hey? This is one place now to add to my "places to fly and explore" list.
I'm loving the videos with the adventures book ended by the aviation.
Stalled it for the likes
Great camera work, Stef! Amazing place.
Should come to Griffith and visit the national parks here , I can guide you threw the park and show you aboriginal sites with cave paintings , and rock carved with spear heads , scar trees and maybe even make a didgeridoo haha
Love the content ✅
Great video! Another place to add to the bucket list and to learn more about Mungo National Park. Now that's a great use of a GA aircraft!
Yes if you can get out there it's a brilliant place to visit, and fun to fly there rather than drive of course.
Those melons are Pig Melons, or Paddy melons, very common in the bush and at roadsides near the bush. I think they're a little bit poisonous if consumed, mostly vomiting from both ends.
Yah, finally a clip I can say been there done that 😎, great spot and very interesting
Nearly at 100K subs! How aren’t you more popular?
Hey Stef!! Great Video!!
For a second I thought that was the surface of Mars 🤣🤣...Tks for sharing this great trip with us!!
It really was like what I’d expect being on another planet to feel like. Such a beautiful landscape, like nothing I’d seen before. Thanks for watching Joe.
Great filming Stef. Loving the blue Australian sky 👍
Beautiful
As always!
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Love the vid Stef it's great to see the outback
Yes every time I get out there it reminds me to do it more. We're lucky to be able to fly out there and explore like this, thanks for watching Lachlan.
Great video Stef, I love your work, and exploring places like this, which you never see on other travel vlogs. The melon is a paddy melon (Cucumis myriocarpus), and was brought over from the Sub Saharan Africa, where they are native, around the mid 1800s. Kangaroos and wallabies love them. You can see them pretty much all over western NSW, at least.
I really like the fonts you use and are thinking of starting a TH-cam channel what fonts are they?
Great video Stefan, I just wanted to ask, did you do a Precautionary Search and Landing? or did you call through and ask about the condition of the strip?
Hey Robert, I called the owners of the airstrip about 2 hours before departure who gave me a status report. They also mentioned others had landed there that morning. Thanks for watching.
I so need to visit Australia 🤔🍻
Very inspiring, such a nice video :)
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love these vids!!
What an amazing video Stef, great production! (but why did the tour guide sound so gruff @.11.07) ?..lol
As always, a great video🛫🚀👍
Great video as usual ...
Does anybody know why you can't fly drones over certain areas? What risk to they pose?
I was going to ask how long you spent filming the van sequence but then you answered it by commenting on the time. Interesting background to the Mungo Man story and who should tell it. Great video as usual Stef.
Thanks Tim, yes the drive across the Lake Mungo lakebed took longer than usual. Thanks for watching, and congratulations on your 300th video!
@@StefanDrury Thank you
Lol, I was thinking it was a long drive out there when seeing all the drive-by and parking shots! Lol'd when you threw in that camera retrieval clip, keeping it real! 👍
Flew into Moorabbin for the first time ever last week... awesome to be greeted by EYZ!
Welcome to my home airport. Hope you had a good flight, where did you come in from?
@@StefanDrury thanks Stefan. Flew in from Albury YMAY. Love your content, inspires myself and others to keep flying :)
I took my RV-6 to visit Mungo over the June long weekend last year. One of the very few highlights of my 2020.
Sunset on the shores of a lake that’s been dry for 20,000 years, talking with Indigenous guides about evidence of *culture* from 40,000 years ago, was amazing. Every Australian should visit at least once.
It’s such an interesting place, glad you enjoyed your trip there too Mark. Stay safe in the East Coast weather this weekend.
@@StefanDrury My plane is in Adelaide getting a new engine and an avionics refit. My aviation this weekend couldn’t possibly be safer :D
Great video on a beautiful place Stef
Cheers Joey, it was a stunning place to visit.
Man, very cool.
What a beautiful vid. Thanks for respecting the culture. When we went to Uluru some years back they were still allowing people to climb it. Three of my friends climbed and I thought it was a bad decision. You have to respect the culture where you travel.
Which camera you using?, you making the videos like a pro, I like it:)!
There were a few cameras used in this video - Canon EOS RP, GoPro hero 9, and a GoPro Max on the wing of the aircraft. Sometimes I use my phone too. Thanks for watching.
Thanks 👍🏻
I like the cinematography / flying reminded me of when I was there. Some Mexican? bloke from Balranald did my tour and told me the story of the Mungo man. Obviously made up but a nice story all the same. Cool place thanks for the video.
Having been fortunate enough to visit Uluru twice in my life I can see why you chose not to tell the story. It was only when I first went and learned of the aboriginal stories and appreciated their long and fascinating history that I understood how much of an outsider I was. There is always the chance in life to learn and respect history and other cultures. Great video and perhaps I may be lucky enough to travel half way around the world to find out more about that amazing place. Thanks Steff!
I agree. Uluru is just magical, there is something special about that entire area, that words cannot describe. Even someone as irreligious and unspiritual as myself was brought to tears at the sheer majesty of Uluru, and the significance it holds for the local indigenous people.
Why no drones?
Stunning
Another great video Stef
Thanks for watching Luke
i think choosing to not tell the aboriginals stories because you're not aboriginal is bullshit, everyone should be able to share and embrace the history of all our brothers and sisters
Very very good video Stef.
Cheers Steve.
Anyone else hit the Like button, before the vlog starts? I do
I thought the Leyland brothers were good Stefan videos are better , great job keep it up