EP.68 New adventures Full time overland travel couple exploring Australia in Touring truck & caravan
adventure beckons and we are out of here we are leaving the murray and heading north for warmer pastures and we are not skimping on the diesel outback here we come as the weather heats up so do the reptiles and these little guys are on the prowl they're looking for birds nests and the butcher birds know it they are relentlessly attacking them can't get out of fourth gear head wind is too strong can only do 75 the prairie hotel it's interesting the food was fabulous the artwork was fabulous but you know you probably need to have a thick skin to deal with the whole place I'm concerned what that camel is don't forget to jump onto our website or our socials and order your calendar stubby holder beanie or sticker and remember we can send it with a message to a loved one if that's what you prefer sunny flinders rangers you gotta love it in australia finish the rainstorm we still got the windstorm and now we're moving into a dust storm okay maybe not quite dust dirty any rain i did mention all hell was gonna break loose i wasn't joking what are we having today bacon hash brown sausages tomato is that in preparation for our walking still looks ominous today looks like there's a lot of birds in Farina Karl's investigating the facilities so last time we were here about 12 years ago i only had a toilet and a shower and it was a little bush built shack thing that looked like bush outhouse i suppose but to heat up your shower water you've got a donkey boiler what are you looking for you put it under there don't you it's the right one you're just straight under yeah even has its own cemetery this morning we're heading off to check out the farina township that's an old deserted town that just has buildings and relics and so on so we're walking from the campground which is only about 400 meters and we will show you what's up here it's very pretty they've done a lot of restoration work on the buildings which is good and bad in my opinion yeah it's nice that they're maintaining it is but it sort of looks a little different to when we were last here about 12 years ago this is the old the hotel and i'm guessing that's the cellar now full up they build everything so high wow look at the corridor the slate floor must have got from somewhere around here opened 1878 and closed in 1960 they also had the inland tele down to adelaide a single wire system there used to be a telegraph pole out the side all rendered on the inside wow this is good nikki isn't it they're so tall all right and the floor is only at the that earth level there oh yeah yeah yeah so it's still massive yeah this is the kitchen i think i checked it out already must have had a wet back yeah wet back in a hot water service somehow there's a bathtub and there's the toilet the bottom of the s bin we sat in that bathtub 12 years ago and it doesn't change it really hasn't changed except it's got a bit of water in it from last night it'll hold the heat i guess you can see it was quite a um established town quite a few streets and everything that's the cop shop okay if anyone can tell us what this one is let us know it even had a coffee holder that's the newly built bakery and that is the fake house not sure what they're doing underground hoping to keep a bit cooler it's not so hot in summer the bakery looks like a prison cell but it's not it is the original bakery for farina so this is where they used to bake the bread and they still do so it's open for a month or so of the year apparently and you can purchase food cooked in this bakery that's made out of panels with rubber or glue this is the cattle and the double banger is the sheep cause we have different dreams we've just explored the ruins and then we went on to the train area and now we're heading on one of the walking trails here at farina this poor guy's seen better days actually heading to uh a trestle bridge over the big creek somewhere something is that where you're leading me too yes right are you cow yep my back's wet well it was freezing earlier move out of the wind for 10 seconds biked fun there's the rails the sleepers for the rails i guess ah there's the water supply for farina the old one what is it made out of a wonder asbestos and where the hell did it come from lee creek we're going on an adventure we just got we got a track to follow and then it says keep the scrub to your left did it really yes and we do have scrub on our left and our right i know but at least it's on our left as well so we're oh did good never mind what was that are you sure we're supposed to be on this track let's see keep the scrub to your left i know but that's lucky can we count stuff up even if we go right it's still on our left perfect they've double plated the bottom to take the stress out and finished it with triangle ends i'll even smart way back and super smart they're bad watching and we keep talking really loud okay we'll be quiet this is the farina war memorial a large percentage of the population of farina was actively involved in a lot of the wars so we'll just go and have a look look at this incredible men who were born in farina and served in world war one look at them all and then men who were born or lived in france and served in world war ii where are we off to to the cemetery at arena to check it out yeah apparently it's haunted well so we heard we saw a show on it i didn't see any haunted stuff but oh really and we are going in the middle of the day so i don't know whether the ghosts care about time or spirits care about time i should suck maybe you might feel the spirits we'll see i feel a lot of spirits sometimes yeah mostly named jim and then my legs go funny and weak i can't stand up anymore and all the way over in this back corner i believe uh the graves of some of the afghan people who inhabited here it just got hotter that was a bit of a weird sensation when we walked towards the corner of the cemetery all of a sudden within a few steps the temperature just got way hotter i'm not really a spiritual person and i don't really go for that sort of thing but that is just what happened maybe the rocks were just a little bit hotter there who knows good morning catherine it's very early and we're going to beat the sunrise and go for a walk oh i need my assistant because if we look outside oh it's gonna be a cracker of a day hello i'm excited big gift you ready do you need coffee okay what time is it six o'clock it's too late the exchange hotel opened 1880 and closed in 1937. super fresh transcontinental this place was a boarding house a bush hospital and a pub not all together i think of you that sort of makes it easier yeah for sure is that what everyone does when they do their spin because they just talk to it like that yeah does that be why they're always stuck to the camera yeah because they're watching because they talk to their face yeah go oh yeah and that's why they flick their hair and stuff well it wouldn't make it easier for that yes thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe if you want a reminder hit the bell and remember we always love a thumbs up this is the last time we're gonna see and bear the murray for a few years so while we had the chance we just sat back relaxed and watched the steamboats go by
2021-10-22 00:40
