hello and welcome back we've spent the last three days traveling the 1200 kilometers from sydney to
south australia the outback is our destination today so sit back and let's see if we get there
we're in south australia dave it feels different somehow yeah colder yeah
we're in the middle of nowhere somewhere in south australia
there's roadworks going on and we're stopped as you can see literally in the middle of nowhere
at a red light
we got the green light yay we're still in south australia we're heading for um
town of junta and then we'll turn off and head for the flinders ranges but um it's just incredible
these old buildings 100 and something years old still here preserved beautiful it's hard to
not stop and check them all out here we are just leaving yanta heading out to
akaroola and we're going to camp somewhere out here today
and see the sun start to get low
oh start of the dirt that's what we've come for we spent the last three days
looking for dirt waiting for dirt and here we are
there's dave on the dirt now i want the dirt this is it that's what we came for
does it here we come
late in the afternoon
we're looking for somewhere to camp and there's these old ruins all around here
used to be a gold mine that big building back there was a pub going up to have a look at the
top of this hill here see what the view is like and see if we can find somewhere good to camp
oh hit neutral and this didn't
these work are a bit heavier with the uh pull the camping gear on
let's come down here and then we'll stop and have a look around
how good is that dave that is amazing
unbelievable
it's a chimney from the old smelter they had down the bottom
and if i remember correctly there's a gold mine under us somewhere i'm trying to find the entry to
dave so we found the entrance the the mine yeah you think we should go and check it out
that looks pretty scary but um yeah let's check it out
okay i'm in the mine in the entrance here dave's contemplating coming down uh
it's starting to look scary down here
let's see how far we actually go in i should have uh thought a bit more about
it and taking a torch down here but we're in the mine there's a 150 year old bits of wood
holding up the roof
dave's oh he's coming down
it's incredible to think that people earned their living working in conditions like this all right
let's see if you can get down there i'll let the authorities
join where we're gonna get our firewood from oh yes i'd say that was what was holding the roof up
up there before where we've just climbed down oh don't worry there's one stick holding it up
we'll be fine your e-pip works underground doesn't it
oh it's like actually the other side of it just a water tank is it yeah but that goes
down further that's the real mine yeah well this is all what you're standing looks like
no it was oh sorry structural that it's been built up so it's a wall oh yeah you're right
here's a wall you're right amateurs so this is oh oh wow dave can you see that holy [ __ ] yeah
look at can you see this wall yeah i see what you mean it's been built up so the rocks they took out
instead of taking them all the way to the surface they just start building walls and filling in yeah
and i don't know if you can see but the mine keeps going down down all the way
through this mountain following as you see here following the quartz veins looking for the gold
dave's coming down yeah so if you can see let me just turn the torch away i don't know if
you can even see that the light's way up there where three three cabins in we're almost done
oh wow it goes back under that way dave under there that way
and down there okay this is the end of one so let me see if i can get up here i don't
know if you can see the quartz spain quartz vein there they were working
trying to find the gold obviously it ran out in that direction and they've uh gone in a different
direction dave and i have very far underground now yep um we're going to explore down here
holy crackers it's another shaft dave this is incredible
we're literally many levels underground now i've got that many thermals on dave i'm getting hot
as you can hear i've got our motocross boots on and they're a bit
creeky oh they're here is another vein as you can see the tunnels following this vein
looking for the gold you can see the vein here oh look here dave see this pin
it's a metal nail oh jeez i just broke it off sorry history buffs um put that back it's totally
fine um that's where they used to hang their lantern oh yeah oh they're cleary canary could be
oh here's another one dave oh yeah look at that that's all following oh here's one two yeah
holy crackers oh fresh air look where we are oh geez
oh wow of where we were before yeah that's incredible yeah and the fresh air that's
coming past us you know what that means yeah there's a way out down that way so i'm less
worried about poison gas now because the there's actually a breeze in here so we've come from
i don't know if you can see the light up there maybe i mean just getting a better position
we've come from way up there through a maze of tunnels and ended up here and there's a
breeze i don't know how to show you there's a breeze but there's a breeze coming from up there
down and out that way so where we were on the other side of the mountain dave
yeah there's actually a mine shaft there i think these made up though i'm not keen
to explore much further today well if you want you can crawl through i'll grab my bike
right around the other side and meet you i like that idea but if we swap roles i'd feel better
well i'm not um do you remember how to get back out to there yeah okay hey let's go
i just made a classic uh mining rookie error you went the wrong way
no dave why do you think i'm wearing a helmet yeah right they all wear that don't they yes
how about we scrap the simpson desert and just explore this for the next two weeks
do you think we can get the 990 down here i can get it down that's guaranteed
teamwork makes the dream work dave and the dream is getting out of here alive
at least a strong desire yeah
okay
all right i'm not going to call us safe
yeah but i'm all confident we can get out now dave
there we go made it back to ground level i'm very exhausted from the climbing uh maybe my lack of
fitness who knows but i'm happy to be out here in the breeze i'm not sure if i mentioned but i am
wearing two thermals a puffer jacket and an enduro jacket and i'm very hot from the underground
and it's late in the day it's over and i'm looking for a spot to camp
i think this little clearing might be it by the ruins they'll do me
thanks for watching and we'll see you next time you