Love your vid...........as a fellow GenXer.......13:50 just letting you know that the reason why it is known as the City of Lights is because: Perth, Western Australia, became known worldwide as the "City of Light" when city's residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the Earth on Friendship 7 in 1962. The city repeated the act as Glenn passed overhead on the Space Shuttle in 1998. Noiyce one! I'm a Brissie native, but have been living over here for the past 13 years. x And also, 14:15 it's Gage Road! You actually said "Cage Road" twice.............actually, I think I'll stop now, because I loved your video, but I can't help myself!!! xx

@genxplorers

4 ай бұрын

Cheers for that, yeah I only saw that gage road after I had already done video haha

Also not many wooden houses because we have termites that can eat almost anything in no time. Local wood jarrah lasts a bit longer - but still eventually gets eaten

@genxplorers

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I didn’t see a lot of pine trees there that’s for sure not like east coast. Thanks for watching 👍

@bluedog7321

Ай бұрын

Don't know much do you! WA has pine plantations in the South West where rainfall is heavier. Lots of houses currently built with treated pine frames- termites don't eat them. Older houses have Jarrah frames, even some were clad with Jarrah boards but Jarrah became too scarce and expensive. Termites do NOT eat Jarrah! My 80 year old house is Jarrah framed- no termite damage.

@janmeyer3129

Ай бұрын

@@bluedog7321 yep - we have century-old house with lots of jarrah too. The house is still fine, but some less substantial and more dried-out outbuildings erected at the same time were eventually attacked by white ants. Mind you, they have been chewing on them for about a decade without any real loss of structural integrity to the sheds.

@Kevin-oh2je

12 күн бұрын

janmeyer...don't light a match

Nice images. Audio is only on one channel.

@genxplorers

2 ай бұрын

Cheers for watching, thanks for info about audio we still new and working stuff out still 👍

No we turned our Lights on for Astronaut Glenn as he passed overhead in 1962 City of light - 50 years in Space On February 20, this year, WA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of a very significant event. On that day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in the Friendship 7 spacecraft. On this mission, Glenn flew over Perth and the people of Perth turned on their lights to acknowledge his mission. Glenn observed that the city was clearly visible from space and Perth became known worldwide as the ‘City of Light’. This early space exploration mission set the stage for the Gemini and Apollo programs which culminated in NASA landing men on the moon.

@genxplorers

21 күн бұрын

Cheers for info 👍

So pretty, new friend

@genxplorers

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

They didn't think you were bin Laden's brother, they thought you were the missing piece of the "Bali10". If you dress and have the same barber as the Corbys, whaddya expect?

@genxplorers

Ай бұрын

Haha

Blue Lamborghini Gallardo

@genxplorers

21 күн бұрын

Cheers, I can go buy one now haha 😂

fact checks: near zero.

@genxplorers

2 ай бұрын

I try and provide entertainment, not a history lesson

The further north you go the more like a moonscape it is, foul countryside

@genxplorers

Ай бұрын

Couldn’t believe how many goats were roaming around middle of nowhere

@johntimmins1393

Ай бұрын

@@genxplorersUsed to be lots of cattle to!!

@Kevin-oh2je

12 күн бұрын

two legged goats

Don’t give up your day job, lots of facts wrong.

@genxplorers

2 ай бұрын

Cheers for that info