WORLDS LONGEST TRACK-1 - FULL LENGTH FEATURE in 4K. CANNING STOCK ROUTE | 4xOverland

[Music] [Music] [Music] the canning stock route is one of the world's longest and most remote public tracks totaling 1 700 kilometers a little over 1 000 miles it's the longest cattle stock route ever surveyed it was just 87 years ago that the last cattle drive was undertaken along alfred canning's stock route and only 45 years ago that the first four wheel drive explorers attempted to retrace the route today it's as remote as it ever was and while it is no doubt less rough and demanding it is described in himmer's great desert trails book like this no track compares with a canning stock route in terms of sheer distance and mechanical and physical endurance required it is australia's toughest four-wheel drive track it is thanks to the tireless efforts of individuals that not only keeps this trail open to explorers like us but makes it possible by restoring the wells and the water they provide that's good that's very nice actually i invite you now to join us on our 22-day expedition on the world's longest public track i'm andrew cynthia white join me as i share my passion for building four-wheel drive trucks and traveling to the remotest parts of the world if you enjoy this video please subscribe and remember to hit that notifications bell to make sure you catch our weekly videos it's july 2017. it's a four-day drive from my hometown to the starting point of the canning stock route and the sun is setting on day one i'm traveling with my close friend paul marsh he's a highly experienced overland tour operator and classic rally mechanic not only is this for me the very first time i have explored the australian outback but i'm driving a brand new truck on which i've been working and preparing for this expedition for the past five months the full weight of the stress of building it and getting it done by the time the way i had to leave has hasn't left me yet i'm actually still quite stressed five months ago it looked like this the good part about it is it's driving brilliantly and everything is packed inside and in fact i had a i had a good time packing it because i was able to open a whole lot of boxes that i hadn't opened in years or i'd been through them but i hadn't used so much of my camping equipment for a long long time and while i was in england my camping equipment wasn't used because i had i was i was shooting in in the states and in africa i wasn't using much of my own equipment and of course now i had to find place for each item find place in the truck that was enormous fun doing [Applause] now tell me that that doesn't have character and of course i've got some equipment that i've actually saved specifically for my australian outback trips i must say that i'm very pleased with the truck it's i i think i got most things right i really do think i got most things right but of course we'll only know for sure when the roads get really rough and that's in about four days time the other part of the build was great fun was showing it to paul for the first time right now collecting paul uh i want to film his first reactions to seeing the truck because he he hasn't been watching the videos he hasn't been in malawi so paul is the most experienced overland vehicle builder i know so his approval was important andrew man good to see you are you are you my friend i haven't seen that was malawi oh great that's always no i had a great trip really oh man okay that's a good start oh it looks great i love the color i'm impressed oh we're gonna have a lot of fun driving this one up okay this has to be the best truck you've built which is the best taco bell there's no question it's the best truck it's it's it's a lot better than the other one in a number of different ways the color is just something else and of course the alucar proof and i mean you've got great detail eh so how long was it taken i took delivery in february february wow so of course you're going to make let me look over the hole you're going to be living in it for four weeks so you will probably get to know quite well you'll be at a nitpick until till your heart's content i am no i don't want you to that's a bad idea well you you know me i know i know you that's the problem but uh yeah i i'm so excited about this trip you know this is this is actually a big tick box very big team coming for me coming back to australia yeah of course i lived here for a while and uh coming back to actually say we're gonna drive the canning stock route is just one of these incredible experiences it's like a lifelong experience to do yeah and we're gonna do it probably my most favorite truck of all time right about 750 kilometers behind us and my very very first night camping in the australian outback and uh that's been an easy day's drive the car's going brilliantly and uh we're about all hundred meters from the road and um we're just gonna set up camp here we'll get fuel tomorrow morning after about about one hour uh continuous uh north from here we'll get fuel um i'm just gonna set up camp we decided that because we haven't done it before everything's new we wouldn't wait until it was too dark oh we haven't done it on this truck yet this is christening our new truck the new truck first night's camp have we named it i have named it what's the name smeg because of smeg you get the joke he gets the joke okay because if smeg had to make a car they'd make one of these well it would definitely be this color i agree yeah oh man it's a treat to drive she really is nice to drive hey and so night fell and we slept with the road trains rumbling past day two we've done about a little under 800 kilometers today a little more than 600 yesterday so we're a little more than halfway two full days driving and now as far as i'm concerned the magic of australia begins because with the trees and the light the light is so it's just little it's it's the light is extraordinary it's something about it it's it's blue but it's the sun's going down so that's orange and it's it can't make up its mind whether to blue be blue or orange absolutely stunning and all we did is at half past four we decided time to find a camp slowed down to 80 looked left left right left right 10 minutes saw a track we're a half a kilometer from the road along a little track silence see tea the drive today hasn't been in scenery like this at all it's actually been quite dull for almost all of the day drab red soil not a lot of trees lots of roadkill i we 30 40 dead kangaroos really a remarkable number of roadkill and lots of wedgetail equals and now this area here is called the pilbara we're in the eastern section of the pilbara mining area very hilly very wooded and very pretty i want to share with you one of the worries i have about the canning stock route not the vehicle not the people we're going with we're meeting up there i'll explain who these people are later but it's the route itself there are two things that concern me one that it's going to be lots of same old same old not really different from day to day i know there are some areas that are quite different from other areas but i'm worried that it's going to be very monotonous the other thing that is but is is foot worrying me far more and that is the number of people on the trail now canning stock route is one of australia's great off-road tracks when i'm when i say great i mean one of those that appears on most avid four-wheel drivers in australia's uh bucket list and many of them it will be right at the top and because of that there are thousands of vehicles that do they trail every year and most of them do it in july which is right now because of course winter time is a great time to do it because temperatures are moderate and it's more fun are we going to be driving in a traffic jam am i going to be crossing these dunes with vehicles that want to drive much faster than i behind me or much slower than i in front of me will i be able to pull over and get a shot get some shots will there be lots and lots of people on the track and you know i don't think that'll spoil it for me but it'll certainly tarnish the experience and the reason why i'm worried really is that there is a trail in botswana it's called the classic it's the murimi cevoti trail those of you who've done it will know what i'm talking about i haven't done and it's magnificent animals and it's fantastic but because there are so many people that do it i haven't done that trail in 20 years purely because there are so many people doing it those are my fears about canning stock stick with us and you'll find out if they are realized the deeper we get into the bush the more typically australian the bush is becoming for me more familiar it is and although i've never been here myself of course i've read lots of books about it and the trees and the color of the grass and everything and we're about to hit remote australia the true outback and that i've never done before i am in the far north eastern part of western australia yes australia that's not an african baobab tree it's a boab tree common in this part of australia i've been driving for three and a half days and i'm half a day's drive from halls creek small town which is right at the northernmost point of the canning stock route and i've decided to take the route from north to south so in effect i'm driving back home to my home in perth it'll take me a little under three weeks to get there well very exciting for me to be in my new truck on a rough ground for the first time just so excited about everything really just for having like a small child this morning so first gravel road listening for every rattle around to feel and see if something's about to drop off and so far the ride is i mean we haven't even deflated the tires and it's really good i think it's working very very well and give me your thoughts on the ride and everything and andrew we've got an amazing truck here i think the suspension is doing exceptionally well i'm really interested on these new shock absorbers and you know the weight has been balanced quite nicely in this truck she's she's handing the the ride nice and smoothly i'm actually looking forward to seeing how she's gonna handle on the dunes but so far what's meg's doing her bed during our few days drive through australia i've seen a lot of wildlife almost all of it dead mostly kangaroos this is unusual in that it's a pig as we approach lots of birds wedgetail eagle and i was told beware of the wedgetail eagle because they gorge themselves on roadkill and they often take flight when apart a car passes and they will always fly and take off into wind and because they gorge themselves they fill up with meat and they can't take off properly so your car slams into them and then the gruesome part of the story is some of them are so full of maggots that they burst onto your windscreen i don't know if that is an australian folk tale or not but i'm not taking the chance we are tackling the canning stock route in the company of a couple from scotland who just spent six years living in rural australia like me they have a toyota land cruiser but this is the far more luxurious 200 series station wagon but unlike me they have experienced the australian bush and so have suggested that we just quickly go into the northern territory before we join the canning why not eh after all how far can it be it's turned out to be about 35 kilometers but don't let that fool you the size of australia beggars belief i mean for example on the way here four days high-speed driving and we didn't even leave the state of western australia alice springs on this red road one thousand one hundred kilometers without a town without a fuel stop to alice springs on this road one thousand imagine next service is one thousand one hundred kilometers you don't have to imagine it here it is let's read 759 kilometers but it's been erased because this is because it is now far far more than that there used to be fuel and services at a place called rabbit flat that closed down a couple of years ago it's now a full 1100 kilometers before next services and the attitude of the different states is quite obvious welcome to western australia northern territory don't treat it quite the same whereas this sign says if you squint really hard and slow down quite a bit welcome to the northern territory and please be aware that liquor and prohibited men don't drink too much and and we have lots of police and shower offices around and but you know carry on this is the northern territory and my very very first time visiting it which means that of all the states on the mainland the only one i have still to visit is the capital territory but i hear that northern territory people are a bit weird i mean for example right now it's two o'clock and right now it's half past three not three o'clock mind you half past three so here i'm actually quite peckish i'm looking forward to supper and here now just had lunch quite fun really we're not going to continue into the northern territory we're going to actually head back to secret camps campsite number one we are heading for old halls creek the location of the original end to alfred canning's route the drive is through mile after mile of cattle stations where the roads are quickly becoming unkept the air system that i've built into my truck is a lot more advanced than i've ever done before and one of my i'm going to try out now vehicle covered in dust so in here easy to access is my airline i'm going to close that because i reckon with this system which includes a tank air reservoir and the dual arb compressor i've got to plug it in and i'm going to clear the dust now the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to make sure that the direction of wind is not going to blow the dust in my face and that the car windows are closed so okay wind is blowing this way so i'm going to blow this way how do you like that [Music] this is low technology this is justin this one always works look at this whatever you can break down you can still polish your vehicle off look at that does it beautiful okay okay okay okay okay we'll let you know i think we're gonna get on there you go yet one more success what a nice thing that is meet laura and justin busbridge hello hello our hosts i'm going to call you our host okay because you've been in australia for how long six years now six years yeah and you've done a lot of overland traveling outback traveling haven't you yeah okay so thank you for taking it bringing us here what else have you got for us in store we know doing canning stock what else have you got in store well hopefully some amazing secret secret places like this one which this is local knowledge has brought us here you don't really find these on a map so there's no sign to here okay so it's because we were working uh remote and we still do that it's those you know the local people said there's a great spot just down the road that's never got more of those along the canning oh certainly the top end we know that where it's on the tanner morning but um but uh yeah also we've got some great food good in our beginning you're beginning tonight aren't you we're beginning tonight so we're gonna do some uh chicken with uh sage and coats cheese right yeah no wine unfortunately dry communities around here so nowhere oh right dry communities that's true well i look forward to it and we get to know the northern territory wave that usually means there's planets the northern that territory the sun goes they'll disappear yeah okay so okay this is the still there's still a smile oh that's not the stealth movie [Laughter] [Music] join us next time when we cut and onion get spiked by grass incredibly prickly and fill up our tanks it's the fifth day from my home but the first day on alfred canning's route we are traveling the route in the opposite direction to which he first surveyed it so we'll be traveling north to south we've stopped for the night camped amongst the spinifex grass our campsite is very close to a place called old hall's creek where his surveying terminated tomorrow we will hit the track known as the canning stock route but first i'd like to make an introduction this is mr spinifix this soft cuddly fluffy grass is called spinaflex and i've been warned i was warned be careful of the spinifex it gets everywhere and driving here these rolling hills for this soft it's not soft it's far from soft in fact it is incr incredibly prickly it gets everywhere i am sure that i have not experienced the worst of spinaflex because the only thing has happened to me up to this point is that i've had parts of my legs spiked and i think we're going to hear a lot about spinaflex in the days to come we have actually camped on what what might be described as private land this is a gorge cuts in the middle of a very very open flat landscape and uh is part of a cattle ranch an enormous cattle ranch these ranches are as big as some countries there are mostly owned by large corporates and uh because of the challenges of cattle farming and the associated weather problems you'll have three or four five years of drought no private organization can handle that kind of hardship but the big corporates of course can because they can actually they have the finances to actually move the cattle in huge numbers around the country and they still do that by droving the traditional cattle herding and they also do it by rail and of course the canning stock route is one of those very old droving routes that we're going to follow my co-driver is overland guru paul marsh guru so we are going to have um chicken first of all i'm going to cook it with a sage and one and uh lemon and some chicken stock just to cook it through then we're gonna sear it on the griddle here um then i'm gonna take the juices from that chicken we're going to justin won't be our chef for the entire trip more's the pidgey add some goat's cheese and then that's going to mix through some nice pasta a penny penne pasta and then we'll serve that on a bed of wilted spinach so that's tonight's menu [Applause] we're lucky this time timing of the moon is often so important and it's a good idea to sit with your calendar and see what the moon's doing we've we've hit it just perfectly this time because we've got the the moon rise last night it was at about eight o'clock and uh magnificent but before then we had the milky way galaxy in all its glory we didn't do that this time this was pure luck i mean i just looked at the calendar and spoken spoke to everybody involved in the trip and said when can you do the trip and they said this time and that was it we didn't even look at the moon and its movements and we i guess got lucky today we're heading back to hall's creep we will resupply all of the bits and pieces fill up absolutely everything the vehicle then will be at its absolute heaviest and we will head on to the canning stock route heading south to a town called wiluna and we will get there in probably 18 ish day's time hello uh little village here please insert card so now um just under 700 kilometers of rough driving and because i don't know the fuel consumption of the vehicle i've got to just guess i'm going to fill up everything here fuel prices are steadily getting higher it's 140 in town 270 here and the village the one and only fueling stock on the whole route it's over 3.50 liter so it's getting quite pricey but hopefully she'll be light on fuel [Music] onward i'll know sooner have we entered the canning stock and the corrugations begin and they're already nasty so i'm going to thinking also about the dunes that lie ahead i'm going down to 2.5 bar on the back and 1.8 bar on the front ah you know there is nothing quite like it friends my own truck and a new place to [Music] explore [Music] uh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] huh we have arrived just after sunset at our campsite on the edge of stretch lagoon [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] uh time for uh here they come just stop for a moment to make sure they're good behind us see them in the far distance uh lots of corrugations this morning time for coke and drovos we just hit the first few very shallow dunes so it's time now to put up our warning flag it's not only just courteous to do so but it's also increases safety of course as we fly a nice high flag so when you come up a blind side of the dune then people can see you long before you actually crest the tune so it avoids collisions and uh time to put it up sometimes i actually have to pinch myself this is a working day i'm working why i love doing this new truck a new country new trail new new new fantastic fantastic fantastic it doesn't get better than this and we are on day one of the actual track itself we have encountered our first traffic a lone truck traveling in the opposite direction and our first well this is well 51. there are 51 wells on the canning stock route this is first we will be counting down from now to zero i assume there's a well called zero and more traffic these travelers are going south to north the way most people do the canning stock route [Music] [Music] so and then a startling reminder about what can happen you wonder what caused the fire i think you could get that going mr marsh yeah a bit of time eh the harsh reality is this happens and this is a dying shame you can just imagine your vehicle oh my god it makes me sad bad electrical wiring or spiniflex many of the original wells dug by canning and his crew have fallen derelict but many have been rebuilt and because of them we can top up our water supplies on route this is our first chance to do so you know what it's good that's very nice actually well of course the canning stock is a heritage trail it's a it's it's a reminder of the days of the very very tough men conquered the wilderness of outback australia and here lies jack the rager smith cook and stockman died aged 70 70 after a fall from his horse 23rd of may 1939 that's not very long ago one more that'll be enough [Music] we've done a really good stretch today about 170 kilometers so uh what are we actually going to do is now to actually turn around we noticed behind us about two kilometers uh there's an open area where we can set up camp i decided that i i'd rather not camp near the wells because that's most people that do the canning stock will go to the wells because there's fresh water then they can have a shower and everything we're carrying enough water we don't need to do that and these red hills are going to turn golden in a few hours time these are the braden hills and the best part about not camping near the wells is that near the wells there's no firewood feels like we've been on the trail for weeks it really does feel remote one of my big worries about kangsok was it's a very popular route um and that there would be too many people on it and in fact that we would be cr would have a feeling of not have a feeling of being really isolated remote i'm very pleased to say that although 15 vehicles passed us today coming in the opposite direction it certainly does not feel overcrowded at all and it does feel very remote and it is very very remote people pay a lot of money see a mountain range like that well it's just part of daily overland travel in australia sun is well below the horizon now the other three have gone off for a walk i don't know where they've gone and just being here alone in the utter silence has made me i recall my trips through botswana and the movie i did solo trips completely on my own with myself my truck and in fact i was so alone i didn't even have a sat phone with me i wanted that that sensation of being utterly cut off and it was exhilarating i found the nights quite tough um sometimes i mean quite lonely and i felt very vulnerable particularly because the wild animals around but the daytime's exhilarating so i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to do some solo trips i think maybe a week-ish western australian too far from my home maybe two days to drive there not more cutting stock was four days to get to the northern part of canning stock so something obviously less ambitious but the experience of canning stock i th is already giving me confidence so i'm thinking about maybe i should do some solo trips because i remember with enormous fondness the solo trips i did through botswana 2009 2010 and so trips through namibia in 2010 i must do some more but i'll do them in this country [Music] [Music] good morning um welcome to brisk wind actually went to sleep in a brisk wind and uh inside my uh troop carrier last night i uh was very very grateful that i could actually get out of the wind this is why i built the truck the way i did it's windy outside really quite actually quite unpleasant they're sitting having coffee i'm very tired this evening so i'm going to turn in early but i can spend time even stand up and move around inside my vehicle completely sheltered from the wind outside it's a quite really chilly wind and so it becomes a mini camper when i wanted to be but with the side doors and access i have easy access uh like would one uh one would have it with a camper but it's not a camper it's the same size as a station wagon so you have all the convenience of a camper but not the size and yet well that's why i love this truck so much well we found ourselves uh camped last night really just found an opening away from the spinifex grass uh with this magnificent view last night and uh wind came up uh i went to bed early and of course woken up this morning with the wind still blowing actually really quite strongly we went and got past wealth 49 well 48 is about one kilometer away from us probably won't visit it i don't believe it's an active will we'll go straight past and continue our way south the track stretches endlessly ahead of us from here to the first sign of any habitation whatsoever is about 600 kilometers and it's going to take about six days to reach it a village called kunawarichi where we will be able to refuel but not much else this for me is the true spirit of overland travel australian feral camels were imported in the 19th century and australia can now boast the world's largest camel herds these are the more common single humped drummer dairy camel good man enjoying it yeah very much so yesterday we met about seven vehicles today the oncoming traffic has started early oh right we knew you're out this way sounds familiar oh okay yeah yeah loving it absolutely brilliant you weren't sure if you were gonna look because your last vlog we saw about a week and a half yeah okay all right yeah i enjoyed the build it's working so well and there are very few rattles yes which is a big thing 20 25 for 30 members well that was nice meeting a few fans that appreciate a good truck lookout point and uh i'm gonna stop here for a quick um break this morning met some really friendly people on the route earlier on and um it was actually nice i think they had seen the videos on youtube and were hoping to bump into us so we all got lucky tradition so i've let paul write it instead well 46. uh it's a little after 12. good time for a place for a a lunch stop i think at well 46 the the wreckage of a nissan patrol very strong smell of gearbox oil and if i have a look at this vehicle the vehicle is actually complete it wasn't crashed nobody crashed it um it was obviously rolled onto its roof by whom probably people trying to get some spare parts off it um it was probably just broken down it was left here for a while but unbelievably uh you can see there that it was uh was rolled onto its uh onto its roof while the door open and that's the door the damage around the door front axle still there power shafts and wheel hubs brakes have been removed gearbox still there all intact exhaust intact rear axle intact with its brake drums really this vehicle is is pretty complete inside steering wheel and some of the dashboard has been stripped out barely an hour after our lunchtop another one this time it's a jeep it's height and how many of we see now must be about fifth fifth one we've seen burnt out turned upside down and went ahead of a fire so we've seen the prado prado the patrol in the patrol today what other one is there anything this is the third one this is the third this is the third we've seen yeah since we started yeah yeah and you can imagine all the fuel on board uh scary [Music] [Music] [Music] loving this v8 and the ride now i think that uh adjusting the rebound on the front has solved that problem i don't know if we need to do any more in the back an hour or so ago the nose of the land cruiser was bouncing too much like this it's a function of rebound so we made an adjustment to the bp51 shock absorbers on the front it's a wonderful system in that you can tweak it for the terrain there and then the moment is not kicking up much no it's great um you've got great flexibility in adjusting it for the conditions and actually it's very easy to adjust it takes no time to get under the card now it's very straight smallest adjustment four days on the road time for a shower a little past well 46 gravity lake our campsite for the night there's the opening for the shower it's zipped into the ensuite and i'm now ready for my shower here is where the beauty of this system lies i've selected whether i want tank or bucket and i turn all four of us will shower tonight with my onboard hot water system so now i had a you had a shower yeah that was fabulous so how much water did you use well between the two of us we have that's a 10 liter container so what nine liters four and a half each maybe i think laura probably took more than me because she was washing her hair and i haven't got any so i think that's probably maybe what three liters for me and five liters for her yeah fantastic [Music] so i've never seen dried mud like it it's like dried paint [Music] is so six so we're 45 so we will hit well this is as well 45. this is well 45 it was close well 45 and this is just just past it yeah yeah so here you go yeah we're making good progress and we'll prefer to do some staff photography tonight i think well we've all had a shower we're all clean yep shower freedom yeah good sleep in a place like this it's as quiet as you can get and tomorrow morning drone flight filming in the blackest night uh the familiar southern cross and below it the diamond cross and below that the fourth cross almost used south to south just a little bit to the left of the that's those constellations and there they are um so uh this is the kind of camps i absolutely love because it is very flat very open love big sky country and canning stock route considers continues to surprise [Music] so hmm i'm flying the uh mavic pro and a far leap it is from my first drone which was actually a typhoon h i've been watching my shows you'll know that i took one to africa namibia last year after buying one in england test flying it getting reasonably familiar with it and took it to africa and it wouldn't fly because some typhoon h drones do not acquire satellites when in the southern hemisphere and being an inexperienced pilot i could not fly it safely without the use of a satellite and so this is not a product review apart from saying that as a newbie to drone flying uh this is a absolutely remarkable little tool it's fantastic it does everything it's simple it's quick to set up it flies well and picture quality is good not great but very good perfectly good enough for what i'm doing and i don't find the drone father fly the drone every morning i don't see it as a primary tool for storytelling i find it i think it's um i think drones actually used too much because they're cool not because they're great at storytelling but every now and again they can do something that nothing else can do and it's a huge wow factor and so i see it as a it's not a must-have on my shoots i don't have to have a drone in my shoes but i am i do admit that i am enjoying it more and more and more but i'm finding very select times to fly it because i actually find that that you know because it takes quite a bit of time to get a flight going getting shots going um you can lose a lot of time actually getting other shots and other other great content which is easier to get quicker to get and and often is more meaningful from on the ground with you know traditional cameras and things so heading south landscape june one dune after the other there are close to 1 000 dunes on the canning stock route and as we're moving south they appear to be getting higher and batches of them really quite close together magnificent i just love it go go [Music] no sooner had we crossed a dozen or more dunes that the landscape flattens out completely these are salt flats where the camels seem to prefer living this is well 44 it's quite obvious that a lot of the wells have been refurbished and others like this one have not been and those that have been refurbished are used by travelers to this day and it interests me that well who would pay for that because who else uses there's no agriculture there's no farming the only people actually that making use of the wells are travelers like us i think it's wonderful that that the government whoever thinks that's important and keeps some of the wells active and the water fresh and i think that's fantastic because we consumed more than our usual supply of water last evening with our showers we're going to try and top up our water supplies wherever we can and because we don't know which wells are serviceable and which are not we'll check everyone a lunch stop is under a group of tall trees near the track it seems that there is not a plentiful supply of shade on this section of the track hello how are you doing well we were the first to arrive at the at our lunch stop no shade for several hours as we were driving through looking for a place where we could stop heard on the radio that another convoy coming up from well 41 was also looking for a place to stop for lunch so we arrived here and within 30 seconds three other vehicles joined us and two other vehicles passed us but this is not i'm glad to say typical of canning stock even in high season that in which it is now we've actually had no other traffic at all all day and it's half past one you say is there water there's water watch that yeah am i going to stand on that lots of wasps lots of wash lots of finches the water doesn't look great does it hasn't yeah we should get a rope in a bucket yeah and put a bucket load out and see what it looks like yeah oh it's well 41 we're now going to find out if the water is good enough to uh to shower with because we're just running a little bit short we will get our next reliable water supply um at the village which is at least two to three days from where we are here yeah that's clean let's have a look that's andrew shower water right here it's easy i just throw it over andrew you wanted a shower look we could clean that we could let's we if we need to get water like if you're gonna need something let's chuck it in you know what should work you're rocking after topping up our shower water cans we also give the finches something to drink we are chasing the light we've been looking for a suitable place to set up camp for a while now it's mostly thick spinifex grass impossible to camp on [Music] [Music] we are 470 kilometers from billy luna for us the starting point of our canning stock route expedition for over an hour now it's been endless spinifex grasslands and we need to find a clearing on which to set up camp preferably close to the track when we find one it's on top of a low dune [Applause] okay more okay let's just check the level of the tent level uh all right this is gonna be perfect okay are you sure i'm not sure it's deep enough no this that's the whole point look it's going to drop down onto the bottom axle paul has dug a hole for justin so justin can level his vehicle and therefore level his tent oh that's perfect it is yeah i'm not sure you get out tomorrow but anyway that's on my phone someone's got to dig a hole here and it's not even for my vehicle or my tent getting it oh come on just you get fed don't you get on with it do i get a beer at the end of this damn i hope so only one yeah that's the problem are we level luckily for you yes otherwise no beer cheeky burger no you're one degree off sorry no beer i'll have it don't worry it won't go to waste i always like to show off and how quickly i can rig up our tent and it takes precisely this long the weight on the roof is stopping it going up by itself normally it does really i'm not making excuses i guess done as opposed to or as opposed to let's watch you have an audience of millions do it slickly this is a waste of film turn the camera off do we need to see how long it's going to take know how long it's going to take nearly done i've got to put the pegs in yet done done done done done definitely done this is still got to zip this up but done you uh i'm still at it then really though this year i celebrate 35 years of over landing and i think to myself what a bet what better way to celebrate that anniversary but by coming to one of the great overland expedition tracks in australia the canning stock is described as the probably the most challenging in all of australia in terms of endurance it's very long the longest it's tough on vehicles and it's tough on people too but by no means the most difficult in terms of technical four-wheel driving i've only been on it now for five days and it is magnificent it will stand out as one of the highlights of my career i am sure it is breathtakingly beautiful diverse absolutely fantastic [Music] no man we're enjoying this i bet you wish you were here [Music] [Applause] well good morning the sun is just rising above the very flat plains as we camped last night in duneland right on the top of a dune again one of our best campsites which one so far is the best well this is going to be very difficult to decide another magnificent one it seems as if we are averaging one dune per day now from waluna in the south they number upwards 1 to 51 at billy luna in the north and we are now between worlds 41 and 40 41 of course where we got the water yesterday so we're averaging one well a day so that's about as much information i can give you this morning no extra news vehicles both running superbly no problems the food isn't running out seems to be working well water is fantastic there will be water in two days time we know that and another fantastic day in outback australia we've discovered during our morning vehicle checks grass caught up in justin's land cruisers radiators and it looks like a lot of it is not from this trip but from their previous adventures what's going on here is absolutely typical uh vehicle is that is a very well maintained vehicle but it's maintained by dealerships and dealerships don't understand overland travel so they didn't check the radiator for grass seeds and things like that they get kicked up when driving along this kind of track kicked up into the radiator they won't check that kind of thing [Music] time to clear it out and find some way of protecting the radiators the fact is that if you don't maintain it yourself the chances are it's not going to be well maintained unless you have somebody that understands this kind of application for the vehicles and will service your vehicle properly good luck in finding [Music] it's a perfect day for the road [Music] the blue sky will take us home [Music] we'll take it easy we'll take it slow it's a good day for the road and time goes so fast when you is the ones you love but i won't worry today [Music] even if time flies [Music] okay [Music] we've we've entered a shallow valley of tobin lake really just a salt pan at this point and it looks like on the map we're leaving the great sandy desert and entering the gibson desert and the pan surface and everything is very similar in many ways to my beloved makarikari pans in botswana similar but not the same [Music] i can't help comparing areas that i travel in to previous places i've been the obvious thing here is the makarikari pans the vegetation on the pan is quite different here there's a lot more of it the the pan surface look looks equally treacherous to drive across obviously very soft but i'm surrounded here with red hills which is unique canning stock route traffic two vehicle convoy heading south to well 38 crossing dunes so we do that every kind of 10 minutes or so because we reckon the radio range is probably 10 to 15 minutes and so you know it's a really good idea to do it uh earlier this morning we had a long conversation with somebody who like us was worried about cresting the dunes uh we nearly had a head-on collision so yesterday the day before just driving so fast not on the radio not on the frequency just just driving flying stupidly missed us by probably less than a meter because that would be the end of our trip it's a remarkable coincidence that um at every single day at around 12 30 we come across an open flatbed almost parkland like landscape where we can stop and have a nice lunch it's quite weird actually that it's just the timing seems to be perfect every single day we're between 39 and 38 and today will be our last night before we reach the village the village is not the center point it's before the center point but the village allows us to stock up on fuel and also on water and we will be reaching there sometime tomorrow time for a spinner flex update my nickname that i've given myself is colander because the bottom of my legs have more holes in it than your average colander every time i walk around i forget about the spinaflex and the next thing i have spikes in the lower half of my legs this is the wada bunny rock hole near well 38 canning's men used explosives in an effort to create a place for standing water but the cattle never liked this place since then it's been used by aboriginal folk the evidence of which are these spear sharpening marks and this graffiti is from canning's own crew uh we are camped in a forest of desert oaks today has been mostly june driving salt pans more dunes some salt pads more dunes and now this between two dunes unlike all of the others just hundreds of very very old some up to 500 years old desert oak trees remarkable the root is like that every every now and again it's wow look at that a complete change of scene amazing that's poor showering everybody's been using a shower [Music] because it has warm water and a hassle factor of zero really so tonight we're having a pre-cooked meal cooked by my daughter at home before i left home isn't that nice of her she is a very very good little cook and has made my life a lot easier i'm making some really nice pre-cooked meals all i need to do now is find the wooden spoon good morning once again this morning camped in this beautiful little plateau between two dunes and our forest of desert oaks we are not far from well 37 and that's just over the rise there less than a kilometer away and today we're going to basically do what we did yesterday more dune driving this morning uh it's been great fun the tune dunes seem to be getting a little bit tougher uh sand is a little bit soft and the constant uh pounding on the suspension because i got to get the impression that a lot of people that drive it drive perhaps too hard or too hard tire pressures certainly damaging the track a lot i'm finding it unbelievably easy to drive but for the fact that it's very very rough but we just we're just driving over we're not even we haven't taken one second attempt at a single junior so um but looks like by the state of the road that a lot of people really struggle to get over these dunes this is well 36 so we are now paying the price of not taking the rig out for a test run we've got some rattles and we've got one particular rattle that is absolutely ear splitting and it is right next to my ear so we're going to try and solve the problem because it's driving me nuts do you hear crazy i believe it's got something to do with the mounting bracket and the rivets that are mounting the shower curtain the ensuite onto the side of the vehicle and i believe that in a blind spot we've got a rivet moving through and actually rubbing on a on a piece of metal that's what i believe but it's so so difficult to pinpoint yeah we've got it down to this area here but uh it actually just resonates through a cavity so it'll be something small and that's what i said if you if you're actually fitting something and you actually like this bracket's been sickered and it's been riveted and i think the only challenge we're talking about is this rivets touching the inner existing roof and just rubbing on that inner existing roof and resonating through this cavity here and driving you man yeah plugs no music cloud yes uh but you know the big mistake of course was not to take it on a trial trip you know iron out all the problems but actually this rattle only actually started on day six so if i'd gone for a weekend away i don't think it would have appeared gonna let the tire pressures down a little bit more we have been at uh 1.7 on the front we're going to go down at 1.5 tars are warm but not hot and down to 2.3 on the back we found the dunes easy really easy at those pressures but we know that ahead of us is our horrific corrugations everybody talks about how terrible terrible they are 50 to 60 kilometers of them so i thought let's go down to i mean let's really soften up the tires a lot the day's drive has been spent mostly um dune driving quite high dunes some of them quite challenging and then between them wide broad open spinifex planes and uh the tractor belongs runs along the planes are quite corrugated in places but it's just one dune after the other it's almost as if like a like a russian dolls you you take out one and there's another one and there's another one and there's another one it's endless endless endless day after day i guess we've been driving over this kind of terrain now for five full days i would say almost unchanging but with the occasional lake dry saltpan ridge of red rocky hills to interrupt the landscape it's enormous fun driving and not super challenging but definitely entertaining [Applause] so now we are at well and we've started to actually bunk down with everybody else this is not really the halfway point although it is kind of called the halfway point it's a little more than one-third so we've covered a little more than one-third of the canning stock route and this is the watering this is a place where you know all the time you will get beautiful clean well water and limited water supplies means unlimited numbers of campers anyway time to do laundry [Music] thank you for watching if you haven't already subscribe and click the notifications bell so you don't miss our weekly videos [Music] you

Channel: 4xoverland

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Keywords: canning stock route, outback tracks, australia, outback, 4wd, 4x4, overland, trucks, expedition, off-road, Andrew St Pierre White, 4xoverland, off-grid, overlanding, Toyota Land Cruiser, workshop, van life, Troopy, Troopcarrier, Land Cruiser 70-series, travel, wilderness travel, remote tracks, Australia, Gwynn White, car, off road, adventure, andrew st pierre white, truckt, world trip, car trip, Western Australia, jeep, all-wheel drive

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Length: 87min 13sec (5233 seconds)

Published: Sun May 16 2021