How could you put thumbs down to this iconic true Aussie enjoyed watching on TV back in the day, along with the leyland brothers, Malcolm Douglas, also Albe Mangles(blinda Green) Remember those days.... 😂

@tutika1201

3 жыл бұрын

I'm convinced that there are people dedicated to ensuring that all videos have dislikes no matter how uplifting they may be - to what end I can't say but inexplicably these people exist.

I have been lucky, as a Dane, to visit and explore this beautiful part of Australia, a country and a people that I love

Produced in 1987, the yr my family left the Pilbara. It was my home for 11 yrs. It never leaves your blood. Returned this yr for the first time in 32 yrs - l loved it. This is a magic bit of film!!!

@Lyn4817

3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree. We were there from the beginning of 1985 for five years in Karratha. We had the privilege of getting to know much of it intimately, doing so much that many living there never dreamt of. It certainly does gets into your blood. We still have close friends living there.

@AaronHahnStudios

3 жыл бұрын

Too right.👍

I spent 12 years working for Goldsworthy and Mount Newman Mining (BHP Iron Ore) back in the 80's & 90's.. A time and place I shall always cherish and shall never forget. I went, I worked, I survived.

What a beautiful Rocco Jack ! I lived in Tom Price from 1969- 1984 , healthiest and best time in my life! We used to go to Wittenoom racecourse to camp with the family and swim in Witenoom gorge ! At least once a month. At Easter to Milstream camping , swimming, for 3 days with other families as well! They were magic times! Thanks again Jack for showing us!

@Lyn4817

3 жыл бұрын

The water in the Gorges was absolutely freezing. It didn't matter how hot you were, you didn't stay long in the water.

"If there's iron in the mountains, then probably there's bit of steel in the people too" :) Loved it.

@Lyn4817

3 жыл бұрын

There is a lot of steel in those who have and still live in the Pilbara.

Somewhere in the Outback, the spirits of Malcolm Douglas and this bloke are roaming about

@jessesands4099

4 жыл бұрын

_____ That's for sure!🤠🧔

@danozism

4 жыл бұрын

funny you should say that- Jack passed away last year. RIP

@kitiyana

4 жыл бұрын

danoz RIP 🙏

@at9370

4 жыл бұрын

And Russell Coight...

@jessesands4099

3 жыл бұрын

Oh Please!😣

Also Nullagine, dance at Marble Bar, Sandfire (before the tarmac), Bamboo Creek. Swimming in the De Grey on days off, motorbiking everywhere, sports on the weekend, terrific communities . A great life in the early 70s and I miss it.

@gortnewton4765

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. Loved it there.

Watching at 03:30 am. Love Jack. Rip

Jack would always say that when you got a flat tyre or blow out, what is the first thing you do. Make a cup of tea was the answer and I have carried this philosophy all of my life

@edchester1773

5 жыл бұрын

As a 'uptight' American I fix the flat........cursing all the while............

RIP Jack Died 22-March 2019

@RohanGillett

3 жыл бұрын

He was without doubt, my favourite TV presenter and a fine artist too!

@gortnewton4765

3 жыл бұрын

Sad to hear that. I liked Jack Absalom, bought his cookbook too! Still have it and I use it. He had a TV program with lots of tips about surviving 'out there'. Spent a few years in the Pilbara too and loved it.

Remember taping this episode of the TV 30 years ago!📺📼🏜️

I love my mum. Happy birthday

Wittenoom is certainly beautiful. A magical camping and swimming area.

I travelled this road twice. 30 years ago and again in 2010 Incredible country.

Lived in the Pilbara (Karratha & Hedland) for 13 years now and while its hard to capture the feel of this place in a video, this is easily the best doco I've seen yet.

@KNBARON

4 жыл бұрын

Leigh Chamberlain you still live there?

@simonm1528

2 жыл бұрын

One yr in Newman, 6 months Karratha, 3 months Port Hedland. I have to agree. Everytime I leave the outskirts of any town I make sure the car has plenty of drinking water and fuel. I also wonder how the aboriginals survived at all here.

@leighchamberlain25

2 жыл бұрын

@@KNBARON Yeah mate. Still in Hedland

I still have Jack's Outback Camp oven Cookbook. The recipes are plain but I keep it for historical reasons.

@gortnewton4765

3 жыл бұрын

'Outback Cooking in the Camp Oven' I have that too. Lots of good recipes there. It is beside me right now.

@AaronHahnStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@gortnewton4765 Hard Back copy? I think they only printed it in Hard back?👍

I grew in these pilbara region of western Australia port hedland and has always hone to me and still is and I'm thinking about going back to work in port hedland

Spent the afternoon with Jack and his wife at his gallery in Broken Hill a couple of years ago. Was a highlight of my life.

@Lyn4817

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can't visit Broken Hill without visiting Jack's Art Gallery or Pro Hart's.

thank you Austrailia! may paul hogan's min min lights be with you always!!✨

Learnt heaps, Jack is a legend.

I haven’t been back since 1985 watching these videos I thinks it’s time to go back I spent 12 years there and had a ball

@matthysbarkey5584

3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful Rocco Jack! I lived and worked in Tom Price , 1969-1984. Healthiest and best period in my life !

I have just acquired green Jasper beads from The Pilbara and I have been SO intrigued with the region because the green Jasper is the most beautiful I have known. Stunning place it seems and also great documentary- passionate host :D Thank you for sharing this beautiful place. I have never step foot in Australia.. now I want to visit!

That water really clean . Protect our Mother Earth.

@alphaone3704

3 жыл бұрын

Jacobe Ksor. Tell that to the criminal politicians!!!!!

A privilege to watch this beutiful documentary

and now it all goes to china and we buy rubbish steel back, what a waste of Australian iron ore

@craigrik2699

3 жыл бұрын

its called globalism. the capitalist will manufacture in the cheapest labour markets in the world, no conspiracy here, the largest company to the smallest entrepreneur do it

Amazing doco! Thank you for sharing!

Long Mac - with the long silver beard - such a distinguished man, and a well respect Roebourne Elder. RIP

Great to see these old vids good memories 👍

Beautifully done story. Thanks!

Enjoyed the videos very interesting, Thanks

Those awesome mullets in Tom Price.

The Shito Shrine was interesting. Great show!

EXCELLENT!!!!...GREAT HISTORY!!!....40,000 years+....WOW!!!!

Brilliant. Miss the place.

THANK YOU FOR GREAT DETAIL VIDEO AS GOOD WATCHING SEE BEAUTY OF AUSTRALIA

Lived on finucane island too .... loved it....Gml

From 1987. The old folks are all gone now.

@nathanroberts6880

5 жыл бұрын

I been to wittenoom blue asbestos mining town and it was a good thing of races and karijini gorges on its door step

@jakartaman3365

5 жыл бұрын

True, including Jack himself. Passed away March this year, 2019 aged 91.

@niklashall5969

4 жыл бұрын

So sad.

Yes water is under your feet. Great vid , went through Wittenoom recently just about all gone , my dad worked there before the mine shutdown and no he didn’t die off that disease

I was here in 1989, we camped across the road from the graveyard in Karratha, 20 years later I'm in the same spot in a mining camp lol

Wittenoom is not on the maps now, Thanks to Midnight Oil song Blue Sky mine its forever etched in Australian history.

@davidwolff8903

3 жыл бұрын

Wittenoom

@TheEarthHistorysConfusing

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidwolff8903 Thanks spell check must done it , ive fixed that.

@gortnewton4765

3 жыл бұрын

What a pile of garbage. Midnight Oil had nothing to do with Wittenoom being shut off. I have been there and it was the constant deaths that caused the govt. to act.

@joshcook8586

2 жыл бұрын

Still on some maps.

Ahhhhhh......home 🙏

In 1962 went to Millstream for dates from Wittenoom.

Last time I seen Davina she was beautiful.

Now this is entertainment, sweet as

Wonderful story. Sorry to hear he's passed away. One thing that could have been added is where did the iron come from? I think there was a great oxygenation event 2 bn yrs ago as a result of the development of photosynthesis that precipitated dissolved iron in the seas as iron oxide. Perhaps a geologist could comment here and get the story straight.

To all tourist travellers please avoid wittenoom blue asbestos mining town and don't go in obey the warnings of blue asbestos

@265hemi7

2 жыл бұрын

It's going to be too late for many ..

william dampier was on the money.

@simonm1528

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing grows here unless you water it hourly lol.

I lived in the pilbara region and visited wittenoom blue asbestos mining town and it's now a abandoned ghost town because of blue asbestos deaths

My father Dave Roberts was a deputy shire president of the shire of Ashburton 1984 to 1990

I'm thinking of going back to Port Hedland and do the water filtration business and its because the water is not good drinking

@simonm1528

2 жыл бұрын

That would be a good idea! You can't even wash your car in it atm.

Would like to know when the part in Wittenoom was recorded. As news coming only one resident remained in Wittenoom right now who works for Australian Weather Department.

@tonylakis6107

4 жыл бұрын

1966

@nextwayeducrafts5567

4 жыл бұрын

@@tonylakis6107 Thanks Tony!

@simonm1528

2 жыл бұрын

Mario who was a resident is moving back there so I was told.

Yes, Wittenoom my trouble!

I 4got bout u jack. r mems! lov u man!

In 1962 that was first time I met Aborigines living in their humpies from Wittenoom to Millstream.

Goldsworthy was the first mine that started it all

I found where the old telephone exchange site yard wittenoom township was it was located in Gregory st wittenoom township

@Lyn4817

3 жыл бұрын

I had the fun of sleeping in the Court House and the old Fire Station, in the dying days of Wittenoom.

If you want to see how bad it can get as a harbor pilot. Look for video's about the Columbia River bar in Oregon. This is pretty tame compared to that one.

I'm thinking of doing taking my family on a road trip to the pilbara region of western Australia at towns of port hedland and marble bar and newman and tom price and Onslow and exmouth and Perth home

28:35 bro got bloody balls of steels going out right next to mine

Good one AB, We sell IRON ORE to japan for $100.00 a ton. They give it back to us in a $ 10.000 dollar CAR.!

RIP JACK

To all tourist travellers please avoid wittenoom blue asbestos mining town it's bad of blue asbestos warnings

I heard that Wittenoom has no more population. A true ghost town now. It's not advised, but you are allowed to drive through it and you must not exit the vehicle.

@SenorTucano

Ай бұрын

The WA government deliberately withdrew all services in order to close it down

At 9.16 you see the real Australia!😉👍🇦🇺🏜️

Wittenoom is closed, last resident's moved and house demolished, the place is closed off to everyone.

Dorathia, the Cat Woman! lol

Jack you are a tresure! Are you still around?

@eoin1959

3 жыл бұрын

Jack died in 2019... but I'm sure he's still around in spirit!

There's water everywhere in Australia, under your feet; right.

@allywynter8573

6 жыл бұрын

Lacy McDuffie really

31:52 how many cats does that lady have ?

@nicoleparry5103

3 жыл бұрын

All the strays left behind when people abandoned the place

@265hemi7

7 ай бұрын

@@nicoleparry5103 😥

I lived in tom price and parraburdoo and Onslow and old blue asbestos exposure of doom mining companies of wittenoom and back 42yrs ago and lived in port headland 4yrs 8yrs ago from 2009 to 2012

I grew up tin the pilbara and lived in Tom price and port hedland and been to old mines of wittenoom blue asbestos mining town of wittenoom and it's abandoned now it's Barron blue asbestos land it's killed all the township of wittenoom it's nothing left of it

I think this was shot in 1688...✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️

I lived in Tomprice and Paraburdoo and Wittenoom and plus my father was a deputy shire president with the shire of Ashburton and fixed telephone exchange s in mining towns of tom price and Paraburdoo and up to the mW tower on Mt Watkins above Wittenoom gorge only way to get to it is by 4wd only

The scale and logistics involved in successfully raping the Pilbara is both impressive and sad in equal parts.

@gortnewton4765

3 жыл бұрын

If you don't like iron (steel) then sell your car you twerp. Don't buy one again and don't buy a fridge, stove, house, tools ever again.

@simonm1528

2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile this flog is using technology only brought about by taking ore from the earth and making everything she uses.

Ahh Shat Gap, Goldsworthy, Pt Hedland,

teen ages have 2 decide either work on the mine or do ice, ur choice

Any other goldsworthy expats here

Feeling very frustrated again!!!! Why don't the posters of these woderful historical gems think to include the date of the original production???????

@TheEmslaender

5 жыл бұрын

1991

@allymayful

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheEmslaender Thank you.

@jakartaman3365

5 жыл бұрын

This was produced in 1987. It's written in Roman numerals at the end of the closing credits.

“The natives”

Videos before drones!

Malcolm Turnbull should start making such programs.

So what she die of ??

@265hemi7

7 ай бұрын

I guess we'll never know? .

Are there Crocs in Millstream?

@77iam97

4 жыл бұрын

Norman McKinnon Nah nothing only fresh water catfish fresh water tortes and perch fish

@simonm1528

2 жыл бұрын

Nope

And she died of Mesothelioma two days later ....

@colinhead8118

5 жыл бұрын

actually got eaten by a couple of hundred cats.

@ronsmith5648

4 жыл бұрын

@@colinhead8118 thats my laugh for tonight

Bush tucker man's great grandfather...?

At 14.48 rock art could be evidence of an Extra Terrestrial visit to Australia!🤔👽👾🛸🇦🇺

Wtf the cat lady?

Poor australia such destruction of a truly beautiful land RIP Jack🇦🇺

@simonm1528

2 жыл бұрын

What???

Wo w...2020 and you just didn’t sell iron ore to CHINA you sold you SOUL.....

Australias allright by me, but you keep claiming things that come from over here in kiwiland like Russel Crowe, Pharlap, Crowded House, Pavlova, Lamingtons, all the best footie players..

Covid 2021

Yeah playing around with blue asbestos at Wittenoom hasn't aged well...downvoted.

I like all these videos, but come on man, even out in the middle of nowhere you never ever fling rocks off of cliffs. Have to say I could watch these for hours..

@lukereynolds9907

4 жыл бұрын

Why wouldn’t you throw rocks

@MACRStratum

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukereynolds9907 In Capetown, on Table Mountain, the signs used to read: Moe nie met die klippe gooi nie. Bergklimmers laer af.

How awful to listen to the narrator making patronizing and condescending remarks about women working in the mines...Must be physically challenged between the legs to be so easily intimidated and by the same token, women need to stop apologizing for being good at their jobs. While I realize this was made several years ago, doesn't mean times have changed, because they haven't.