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hello and welcome back Welcome to our Outback Adventure our mission for this episode get to the
Flinders ranges I live on this big island called Australia Australia is a big place people don't
really comprehend how big Australia is Australia is so big in fact that you could fit the world in
it let's have a look at where we are going we're going here to the Outback specifically the South
Australian Outback we had a number of riders on this ride seven to be precise we had Riders come
from Queensland we had Riders come from Sydney and a few of us from the Central Coast of New
South Wales we had all traveled for days to arrive here in broken Hill then we traveled 30 kilometers
North to the town of Silverton Silverton is famous as being the location used in Mad Max 2.
if you don't know Mad Max and Mad Max 2 stop this video right now and go and watch them
we settled into the Silverton Hotel for dinner and a few drinks as we discussed our plans
we needed to travel into South Australia and find the Flinders ranges the next morning we headed off
as a group back through broken Hill and onto the highway headed to south Australia for this trip
I've tried something different I'm trying the collaborative approach to filming at the end of
each day I would download footage from the guy's cameras and use the best of it for these videos
I learned a few things along the way I learned some have great skills in cinematography
I learned that I needed to upgrade to a newer GoPro and I learned that
some people should not be let anywhere near a camera let alone have their own personal one
you'll have to excuse some wind noise and some shoddy camera work as we experience this ride
from multiple perspectives soon we made it to the Border Town named after a nasty irony
incident cockburn thank you we had another 150 kilometers of highway to cover but along the way
Scott spotted a dirt track following the train line we all thought it'd make a great detour
it was a very pleasant change from the endless Highway and we're all enjoying it
until track started to get less and less well used in the end we lost the track completely
and we were just following the railway this was becoming problematic because it was quite large
bumps dips gutters you name it it was out there and we were going slower and slower
quickly regrouped and headed back out on the highway to do the final stretch
we were now on the dirt properly and headed north from yunta
looking for our destination an old gold mine where we would stay the night
still had many kilometers to go so Dave clicked the big 990 into sixth gear and took off
finally we had arrived at Boca ringa it's an old gold mining area from the 1800s
we visited the Old Pub before making our way over to the hill where over 1
400 kilograms of gold was found back in its heyday
we rode to the top of the hill to take in The View from up here the vast flat plains stretch out to
the Horizon where glimpses of mountains tell us we're getting closer to the Flinders ranges
it was time to head back down and find somewhere to camp the wind was quite strong this day so we
took advantage of the ruins and put our tents in the Lee side of the hill and out of the Wind
the foundations of an old building was a perfect spot for us to set
our camp kitchen it gave us great shelter from the wind
while Dave and will prepared dinner I took a few brave souls on a tour of the gold mine
we ventured deep into the belly of the mountain and explored the mines as far as we did
[Music] with the sun Now setting we all hiked up to the top of the
mountain to sit and enjoy the view the spectacular sunset [Music] thank you
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our first day together as a group was done and we looked forward to the rest of the adventure
the next morning Lyndon let us off trademark wheelie and we followed him in search of the Hills
we were now getting excitingly close to the Flinders ranges [Music]
finally after months of planning and days of traveling we had made it to the Flinders ranges
everywhere you look the views are just spectacular
while we were here we decided we need some practice climbing Hills for what was to come
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with all of us at the top of the hill and confidence High
Dave and I thought we would up the challenge and look for a bigger Hill
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how cool was that that was a sick
would have been a great challenge for everyone to do yeah yeah what's that bit look like
uh looks okay the first bit and let me get a photo okay
Dave and I were well proud of our efforts and felt confident that we could conquer
anything that tomorrow had to offer tomorrow where we would attempt to conquer Mount Gill
oh that was fun
it was starting to get light in the afternoon and was time to head for our overnight stop
we pushed on towards the Old Homestead warawina a massive sheep station tucked
away in the Flinders ranges we would spend a couple of nights here in the Shearer's quarters
this brought us to the end of another great day we settled in lit the campfire and enjoyed more
of Will's Gourmet cooking in the morning it would be time to attempt Mount Gill
join us in the next episode to see who will conquer Mount Gill and who will
make it back to camp [Music] thanks for watching we'll see you next time
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