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00:00SBS wishes to advise members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
00:05that the following program contains images, voices or names of deceased persons and may cause distress.
00:23Woohoo!
00:24Squeeze the juice out of this road trip.
00:26We're in Darwin!
00:27Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:29Look at that.
00:32The great Australian road trip.
00:34I love driving.
00:36For generations, it's been an intrinsic part of Aussie culture.
00:42Now here's a happy, relaxed family, all set for a blessed Sunday afternoon drive.
00:49And still to this day, if you really want to experience this great southern land, you've got to hit the road.
00:56I love it so much!
00:59In this series...
01:00Wow!
01:01Food guru Melissa Leon.
01:02I am the Lotus Queen!
01:04And comedian Nazeem Hussain.
01:06People who are in comedy, there's something wrong with them.
01:10Along with writer and performer Steph Tisdell.
01:12Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!
01:15And me, Claudia Carvin.
01:16You'd look like an idiot.
01:18Cruise along some of the country's most epic roads.
01:22That's unbelievable!
01:25To uncover extraordinary places.
01:28Look at that lice.
01:30There's a crock!
01:32Reveal a side of Australia that's often unseen.
01:35Rawr!
01:36I like that because that isn't really that well known.
01:39And head off the beaten track.
01:41Woo!
01:43Below red dirt.
01:45Because it's as much about the journey...
01:48As it is the destination.
01:51It can't get much better than that.
01:54I love you.
01:56Yay!
01:58This is Great Australian Road Trips.
02:01This time, Steph and I are on a South Australian road trip.
02:09From Adelaide to Kangaroo Island.
02:12Because I've always wanted to get up close to the seals.
02:15And experience the iconic, remarkable rocks.
02:25So we're here.
02:26In the festival state.
02:27I love Adelaide.
02:29I love Adelaide too.
02:31It's flat.
02:32It's easy to ride a bike around.
02:33Great theatres.
02:34I did a theatre production here.
02:35It's at the Dunstan Playhouse.
02:38Oh yes.
02:39Great audiences.
02:40Great beaches.
02:41I've done several fringe festivals here as well.
02:43It's cultural.
02:44It's good food.
02:46Excellent food.
02:49And it's surrounded by all these beautiful hills.
02:51Yes.
02:52And they make amazing wine.
02:57We're starting this road trip in Adelaide.
03:00The city of churches.
03:01Before taking the scenic route to the quaint village of Harndorf.
03:05Known for its rich Bavarian culture.
03:09Then we'll cruise through the world-renowned wine region of McLaren Vale.
03:13And continue south to the Florier Peninsula.
03:17Named after a French explorer.
03:19Before boarding the ferry to Kangaroo Island.
03:21There we'll travel to Seal Bay to see its colony of seals before feasting our eyes at the natural marvel that is Remarkable Rocks.
03:31I'm excited though too.
03:32Like, I'll be totally honest.
03:33I'd never heard of the Florier Peninsula.
03:34You pronounce that so well.
03:35Florier.
03:36Florier.
03:37What?
03:38French people are so sexy because they get to say words like, urgh.
03:39Florier.
03:40Florier.
03:41Florier.
03:42Florier.
03:43Florier.
03:44I'm so excited that we get to do this together because I couldn't imagine a more fun person to drive around with because you love driving.
03:58Yes, I love driving.
03:59Florier.
04:00Florier.
04:01And you've got a wicked sense of humour.
04:02There's a song that gets stuck in my head.
04:05Every time I'm here it just goes round and round in my head and I love the song and I love the musician.
04:09And there's actually a lane named after him here because he's so famous.
04:14Adelaide.
04:17Adelaide.
04:20Adelaide.
04:23Adelaide.
04:25Paul Kelly is not the only Adelaide-born legend to have a lane named after him.
04:31There's also a lane named after Cole Chisel.
04:34But well before these Adelaide artists hit the scene, a moment in music history was made right here.
04:41Well, you've just seen the Beatles here at the Southern Cross.
04:43On the 12th of June, 1964, the Beatles touched down in Adelaide.
04:48Their first stop on their one and only Australian tour.
04:51Mysterio has really taken hold of the crowd now.
04:53They've seen their idols.
04:54Some 300,000 people crammed the city to catch a glimpse of the Fab Four, which at the time was almost half the entire population of Adelaide.
05:04I'd love to catch up with Mitchell Butell again, who directed the play that I did here, The Goat, or Who Is Still Here, which is a really wild play that we did here.
05:16OK.
05:17That's where we're going, is it, Ma?
05:18Yes.
05:19We're going to meet him.
05:20He's beautiful.
05:21He's a beautiful man.
05:22And he has lived in Adelaide for six years, so he knows it really well.
05:25It's his home.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Hello.
05:28Hello, hello.
05:29Hey, Mitchell.
05:30Welcome back to Adelaide.
05:31I want to see you.
05:32Nice to be back.
05:33Hello, Stan.
05:34How are you doing, mate?
05:35Nice to see you.
05:36Good.
05:37So we're meeting on this rainbow walk.
05:38The rainbow walk, the pride walk, which they put here in 2016 to commemorate Adelaide being the first place in Australia to legalise homosexuality.
05:54Amazing.
05:55I did not know that.
05:57I don't reckon many people would know that, would they?
05:59No.
06:00Adelaide, the first for many things.
06:01First place to legalise abortion, first place in Australia to give women the vote.
06:06Really?
06:07It's an incredibly progressive town, so this is a great, you know, testament to that.
06:11I like that, because that isn't really that well known.
06:13No, you'd think it would be Sydney or Melbourne, like that would be the perception.
06:16That's it.
06:18And you look good at the same colours too.
06:20I know.
06:21You're a very pride march there too.
06:22I am.
06:23I'm very bright and colourful, yes.
06:24And I have recently joined the community.
06:26Oh, great.
06:27Yes, I'm bisexual and proud of it.
06:30Welcome.
06:31And now, look at this.
06:32The Pride Walk has a timeline stenciled onto the pub to reflect major reforms in South Australia,
06:39including it being the first state to decriminalise homosexuality in 1975.
06:45It's a permanent symbol that recognises the contribution of the LGBT plus community to Adelaide's cultural diversity.
06:53So how long have you lived and worked here?
06:55I've lived here for six years now.
06:57I've worked here on and off for about 30 years.
06:59But I've been running the State Theatre Company of South Australia.
07:02Deadly.
07:03Which has been awesome.
07:04And doing a brilliant job.
07:05Well, when we have wonderful people like you coming to work for us, it's brilliant.
07:08But you do productions here that then travel all around Australia.
07:11That's right.
07:12So, like, The Goat that we, Claude and I worked on, started here, then went to Sydney Theatre Company,
07:16which was phenomenally successful in both places.
07:18But not as good as here.
07:20Is that right?
07:21Look, she was good everywhere.
07:22She's, you know, different every night.
07:24That's the secret of a good actor.
07:26Well, shall we head down to the river?
07:27Let's do it.
07:28Okay.
07:39Crossing the Torrens, or Yarrawiripari, as it's called by the Kaurna people.
07:43This beautiful, beautiful river here.
07:49And this is where we did Sylvia, the goat play.
07:52I loved it.
07:53I called it a health retreat, didn't I?
07:55A theatrical health spa.
08:00Adelaide audiences love live performance.
08:04It's a town that really supports its artistic kind of work here.
08:11Yeah.
08:12And people get really involved because they're pretty, what's the word, erudite?
08:16Because the festival's here, the fringe is here.
08:18Sophisticated.
08:19Sophisticated.
08:20That's the word I want, yeah.
08:22The Playhouse, it's actually 50 years old this year.
08:25So, yeah, Don Dunstan got it all happening 50 years ago.
08:29Don Dunstan was one of Australia's most visionary politicians,
08:33with a lifelong passion for the arts and education.
08:37Many of his reforms in sex discrimination,
08:40Aboriginal land rights and consumer protection
08:43were the first of their kind in Australia.
08:46And he also had great hair.
08:54How gorgeous is Mitchell Betel?
08:56Amazing.
08:57So talented, so clever.
09:00That was such a great experience, being directed by him and doing that play.
09:04Hmm.
09:05What do you think makes a good director, just out of curiosity?
09:08They're your first audience member.
09:11So, being able to sort of hold up a mirror and be articulate about it.
09:16Actually, the best directing advice someone gave me was,
09:19be specific in your criticism in general and your praise.
09:25Oh, I love that.
09:27Isn't that great?
09:28I really like that, yeah.
09:30So, our first stop on our South Australian roadie
09:33is the Bavarian town of Harndorf,
09:36Australia's oldest surviving German settlement.
09:40We are driving to Harndorf.
09:42Whoa.
09:43Why is it called Harndorf for a reason?
09:44That doesn't sound like a very Australian name for a town.
09:46Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
09:48What a lead.
09:49You've stumbled across something there, Claudia.
09:50It is, in fact...
09:51I'm an observant person.
09:52Yes.
09:53It's actually a Bavarian town.
09:56So, I'm excited to go there,
09:58but I think the whole Adelaide Hills area is really beautiful.
10:01Like, I've been out here before
10:03and I had one of the most wonderful stargazing experiences out here.
10:09You can just never get used to seeing a shooting star.
10:12You can't get sick of it, eh?
10:14Here we come.
10:15Welcome to Harndorf, established...
10:16Here we come.
10:171839.
10:18Wow.
10:19You would have been, what, five?
10:20Look at how pretty this is.
10:21This is so lovely.
10:22Yeah, it's a real avenue of trees, isn't it?
10:23Yes.
10:24I'm feeling thirsty.
10:25Yeah, maybe we could get a beer and a pretzel.
10:26It could be nice to try some German beer and some salty pretzel.
10:37Yes.
10:38Handorf Inn.
10:39Let's go for that.
10:40Let's go for that.
10:41Let's go for that.
10:42Oh, yes.
10:43Oh, yes.
10:44Oh, yes.
10:45Oh, yes.
10:46Oh, yes.
10:47Oh, yes.
10:48Oh, yes.
10:49Oh, yes.
10:50Oh, yes.
10:51Oh.
10:52Oh, yes.
10:53Oh, yes.
10:54Oh, yes.
10:55that looks like the genuine article look it's got lovely little seating outside
10:59let's go and sit on one of those yes absolutely well that looks fun
11:03Handoff's original settlers were Lutherans believed to be Australia's
11:08first-ever religious refugees they escaped persecution by the King of
11:13Prussia finding sanctuary in South Australia in the early 1800s today
11:19Bavarian culture is still very much alive and kicking hey take a seat here
11:25why what a great posse it's a pretty little town yeah very authentically yeah
11:33vintage today thank you thank you so much is there a certain way to eat pretzels to
11:40be honest with you I would think this I bought you some knives but I think it's
11:42a tear and share straight down the middle done bit of butter easy thank you so
11:48much so much yeah I waited in line for a really long time in New York to get a
11:53pretzel oh I had pretzels in New York too and what happened did you actually get
11:57one like it you didn't like it do you like this one
12:01yeah yeah I do they're very moorish aren't they yeah you could eat a lot of them
12:08yeah now I'm going to taste it with some beer
12:18that's good
12:26our next stop is McLaren Vale home to almost 90 cellar doors making it one of the biggest wine regions in Australia
12:41Oh, look at the vineyards.
12:44They are beautiful, aren't they?
12:46Look at this as far as the eye can see.
12:48It's grapevines and grapevines.
12:50They're all blooming, aren't they?
12:52They're very healthy, all the leaves.
12:54Yeah.
12:58Steph is passionate about her Indigenous culture,
13:01so she's planned our next pit stop.
13:06We're off to go meet Carl, and he's a black fella,
13:09and what he's doing is essentially trying to reclaim an area
13:13and introduce, yeah, black fella, black fella way.
13:19Oh, great.
13:20Which I think is really, really, really cool,
13:22especially in an area that I guess a lot of land is used for wine
13:27and all that sort of thing.
13:29Monoculture.
13:30Mm.
13:31But it's so beautiful, this whole drive out.
13:33These are big old gums.
13:35Really beautiful old gums.
13:37Beautiful, beautiful.
13:39Great.
13:40Mm.
13:41.
13:44Carl is the senior cultural custodian of this area,
13:46and for the past two years,
13:48he and his partner, Clare,
13:50have begun regenerating the cultural landscape.
13:52Oh, look at that tree!
14:01This place here is Kaninipila, in the old language it means the place of many eagles
14:09here.
14:10So this is traditional country, in the Clarenbale, in the wine region as you can see here.
14:16But this is a special little place because this is an ancient campground here too.
14:19Like the old people used to come through and move them through country, a long time ago
14:22travelling over country and this is where they'd come and camp here.
14:27What are you planting here?
14:28So this is part of our native grass restoration, so the majority of the grass that you could
14:34have seen here a few days ago before Carl mowed was belt grass and introduced grass, really
14:39invasive and it covered all of this area.
14:42But we're trying to bring back the native kangaroo and other native grass ecosystems.
14:48What's that crop circle looking thing down there?
14:51Oh that's a little bit of my cultural mowing.
14:53Oh really?
14:54Yeah down there, that's like the spiral, see.
14:56So this is about how we need to get people to understand our way.
15:00We don't go directly in the community, you just don't do that protocol.
15:03You've got to come in a spiral.
15:05Circular.
15:06Oh nice.
15:07Yeah so that's all about what's in between the lines, but the education of that and the
15:10respect for that and the respectful country.
15:15What's this one called?
15:16This is saltbush, eh?
15:17Yeah this is saltbush.
15:18Saltbush.
15:19Yeah so it's a atriplex, it's a scientific name, atriplex scenario, it's an edible one.
15:23Ah.
15:24You could grab a little piece if you want like that and just...
15:25And eat it?
15:26Yeah.
15:27Really?
15:28Mm-hmm.
15:29Grab a leaf?
15:30Yeah.
15:31John?
15:32You can pick it up I guess.
15:33Yeah.
15:34I love that.
15:35Mm-mm.
15:36Oh it does taste salty, doesn't it?
15:37Yeah you can taste that salt.
15:38Yeah.
15:39It does grow on the coast and you can see the shininess in the leaves is actually one of
15:44its adaptations that it stores salt and then secretes that.
15:48So you can eat the whole leaf?
15:50Mm-hmm.
15:51Yeah.
15:52And you can like cook it, bake it or?
15:53Yeah so you can have it raw like we've just done or you can bake it and stuff.
15:58It dries really nicely as well.
16:00Chop it up.
16:01It's lovely you can make chips out of it too.
16:02Yum.
16:03Yeah if you've got air fryer that is.
16:04I love it.
16:05Yeah.
16:06You know we're made is um, that's what this place is here, the food forest but it's got
16:12medicine here as well so this whole idea is coming from what we need to give back to
16:17our own people.
16:18You know the diets that we had and everything else we were healthy people.
16:21Now it's about educating the next generation about that.
16:25So what are we going to put in today?
16:28All right so here's the plants.
16:30Beautiful.
16:31You can have a little yarn there.
16:32Are these some sort of banksia?
16:33Yes.
16:34Oh what a nice picker.
16:35Look Ed!
16:36The one plant I know.
16:37The medicine woman here.
16:38Who can see?
16:39You got it there now look.
16:41Yeah straight out.
16:42The one plant that I know yeah.
16:44And we just squeeze the bottom and it helps to loosen the roots.
16:47And do you need to irrigate them once they're in or do they?
16:50Well we're going to water them as they first today when they first go in and then we'll
16:55give them a little bit of water over their first summer and then that will help them
16:59to survive.
17:00And then they're on their own.
17:01They're all good men.
17:02They're adapted to this like climate.
17:03Climate.
17:04Climate.
17:05This is where they grow so they don't need a lot of nutrients and love.
17:08Oh look he's going in his little new home.
17:12And then just bring some of the dirt around there sister.
17:14Oh look.
17:15Look at him.
17:16What's his name again?
17:17Oh his name's Charles.
17:18That's Charles there.
17:19Charles.
17:20You already knew that.
17:21Look at him.
17:22He's a Charles.
17:23That's good.
17:24That's Charles the Bankier if ever I saw him.
17:25Good day.
17:26That's good.
17:27Look at him.
17:28He's so happy.
17:29Oh that's nice comfy in there.
17:30There he goes.
17:31Deadly.
17:32Yeah.
17:33Just in the bowl.
17:34Yeah in the bowl.
17:35In the bowl.
17:36Charles.
17:37There he goes.
17:39Deadly.
17:40Yeah.
17:41Just in the bowl.
17:42Yeah in the bowl.
17:43In the bowl.
17:44Charles.
17:45Put it here.
17:46Yeah.
17:47And then push more in around it.
17:48Yeah.
17:49Pretty.
17:50Not going to take me.
17:51Good day.
17:52Yeah.
17:53And then the water.
17:55There you go.
17:56Drink this up.
17:57That makes me so happy.
17:58Yep.
17:59I would like to come and visit next time I'm in South Australia.
18:02This has been really, really special.
18:03Thank you so much for having us.
18:04Bye.
18:05Nice to meet you.
18:06Thanks for having us.
18:07Bye.
18:08Nice to meet you.
18:09Bye.
18:10Nice to meet you.
18:11Thanks for having us.
18:12I loved that.
18:13Yeah.
18:14Yeah.
18:15There's nothing like putting a plant in the ground.
18:16How good does that feel?
18:17It does feel good.
18:18I just hope it survives and thrives.
18:19A lot of the plants are.
18:20There's so much native.
18:21Replanting it's beautiful.
18:22I can still taste that salt bush.
18:23It's nice.
18:24Those leaves in my mouth.
18:25It's nice.
18:26It's nice.
18:27It's nice to meet you.
18:28Thanks for having us.
18:29I loved that.
18:30Yeah.
18:31There's nothing like putting a plant in the ground.
18:33How good does that feel?
18:34It does feel good.
18:35I just hope it survives and thrives.
18:37A lot of the plants are.
18:38There's so much native.
18:40Replanting it's beautiful.
18:43I can still taste that salt bush.
18:50Those leaves in my mouth.
18:52So I looked up what is the nutritional value of salt bush.
18:56It's a rich source of antioxidants, protein and minerals.
19:01Wow.
19:02That's cool isn't it?
19:03It's so cool.
19:04Salt bush contains 20% less sodium than table salt.
19:08Wow.
19:09It's an Australian superfood.
19:11That's cool isn't it?
19:12You're going to get into salt bush now?
19:14Yeah I want to make salt bush chips.
19:16I want to make salt bush salad too.
19:19Coming up we reach Kangaroo Island and swap the hard road for soft sand.
19:29No way.
19:30Hold on.
19:31No.
19:32Keep your eyes open.
19:38Would you like an apple or would you like a nut bar?
19:41I want that.
19:42You want to munch me?
19:43Yes I want a munch.
19:44Pistachio and cranberry.
19:45Slow dry roasted nutritious snack.
19:48Oh look at the ocean.
19:49I was so close to the ocean.
19:52The ocean looks so beautiful doesn't it?
19:55Wow.
19:56That's a beautiful colour.
19:57It feels like the edge of the earth.
19:59We're heading to Cape Jervis, the southern tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula, where we'll board
20:04the ferry to Kangaroo Island, named by British Captain Matthew Flinders, the first non-indigenous
20:10person to set foot here in 1802.
20:14Flinders and his crew were met by mobs of kangaroos, so they called it Kangaroo Island.
20:21Our first pit stop will be a cluster of sandy dunes, otherwise known as Little Sahara.
20:27I'm hoping we're going to make this ferry, because the maps say we're going to get there 20 minutes
20:32before the ferry leaves, but I don't know how long it takes to load all the cars on.
20:36Okay, yeah I'm a bit nervous.
20:37We were just having too much fun planting those banksies.
20:40I could have stayed there for ages.
20:42I know and we would have missed our ferry.
20:44Yeah.
20:49So Claudia, what do you know about your ancestry?
20:52I found out when I did Who Do You Think You Are, that my great-great-grandmother, who
20:56I didn't know anything about, but I saw a picture of her and she was wearing a, you know,
21:00big fur coat.
21:01She looked like quite sort of well-to-do.
21:03I found out that she grew up in an orphanage.
21:07And I went to the orphanage that she...
21:09Where was the orphanage?
21:10Grew up in, outside of London.
21:13We parked outside this massive castle, massive mansion where Henry VIII used to come and visit
21:19this family.
21:20And we were parked out there and I was like, oh no, don't tell me this is my heritage.
21:24Like, oh no, did they own this castle?
21:27Like, I was freaking out a little bit.
21:29And we were walking around and then they were like, they lost all their money and the building
21:33became an orphanage.
21:34And that great-great-grandmother with the fur coat on, that I made all these presumptions
21:39about her being, you know, Miss Richie Richeritz, like making money off whale oil or something.
21:45She grew up in an orphanage.
21:48So that was amazing.
21:50Do you have any Greek heritage?
21:52No, my stepdad's Greek.
21:54So I've got his name and a lot of Greeks say that I am an honorary Greek.
22:00I love that.
22:01I feel, I feel a bit Greek.
22:02And I can say .
22:03You are good at languages.
22:07We made it to the ferry and are now off to Kangaroo Island.
22:26Sea Link Terminal, that's us.
22:41We're in the belly of a whale.
22:46Yes.
22:47Hello.
22:53It's a 45 minute ferry ride from the mainland to Kangaroo Island.
23:07This stretch of water is known as Backstairs Passage.
23:11And several indigenous women who'd been abducted by sealers are believed to have swum the 16
23:17kilometres to their freedom.
23:19The first recorded solo crossing was made in 1995 by a South Australian marathon swimmer,
23:26who crossed it in just over four and a half hours.
23:29Another attempt was made in 2022.
23:32But with just two kilometres to go, a four metre great white shark got too close for comfort
23:38and the swim was aborted.
23:40How beautiful is Kangaroo Island?
23:51More like Kangaroo Eiffel.
23:53What a beautiful place in it.
23:55Am I right?
23:56It's so nice to be off the mainland.
24:00It's funny to think of Australia as the mainland.
24:03Yeah, it is, isn't it?
24:05They wave to us.
24:10Whoa.
24:11Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
24:13Oh my God.
24:14Look at that.
24:16Wow.
24:17It's so beautiful.
24:19Excuse me, who do you think you are, Ocean?
24:22You're exactly who you think you are.
24:24I'm very proud of you.
24:26I'm very proud of you.
24:33Kangaroo Island was once connected to the Australian mainland
24:37before rising sea levels separated it around 10,000 years ago.
24:43Known by some as the Australian Galapagos,
24:46the island is home to koalas, kangaroos, echidnas and bandicoots.
24:52Ligurian bees were brought to the island from Italy in 1884.
24:58Today, they only exist on this island,
25:01making it the oldest bee sanctuary in the world.
25:07With you, all roads lead to birds, don't they?
25:10They really do.
25:11To me, birds are this really connective tissue, right?
25:16And whenever I think of nature, I go, birds are from the sky,
25:21which I love.
25:22They are in the trees, so they're high up.
25:25They also come down to the ground.
25:27They connect with flowers.
25:28They connect with other animals.
25:30They're social.
25:31They're colourful.
25:32They are the connective thing for me.
25:39I thought of you when I saw a little story
25:41about a depressed parrot that had picked all its feathers out
25:44and they danced it back to...
25:46Stop it.
25:47You'll make me cry.
25:48They danced back to a pig.
25:51They kept dancing in front of it and it danced with them
25:53and its feathers grew back and it stopped pulling its own feathers out.
25:57And it just started becoming addicted to dancing.
26:00Stop it.
26:01Look at that.
26:08That's all been burnt out.
26:09Wow.
26:10That was from the bushfires because they are burnt out trees
26:13and then they're growing back.
26:20The evacuation call came in the middle of the night.
26:23Hundreds of Kangaroo Island residents told to leave their homes.
26:28The 2019 Black Summer fires burnt almost half of this remote island.
26:34More than 25,000 koalas were killed.
26:3760,000 livestock perished.
26:40And 50 homes were destroyed.
26:42Tragically, a local father and his son lost their lives.
26:46Across Australia, it is estimated that over one billion animals perished
26:53during the Black Summer fires,
26:55making them the worst wildlife disaster in modern history.
27:00Black Summer fires.
27:04I was in the writer's room for Bump and we stepped out for our lunch break
27:10and literally embers of leaves were falling in the sky
27:15and we were in the CBD in Sydney.
27:17The smell of the smoke in the air was so strong, wasn't it?
27:20And the colour of the sky.
27:23I struggle sometimes to think about or talk about those sorts of things,
27:27especially when you can see evidence of it.
27:31There's so much power in the earth and, you know,
27:35Mother Nature has, she has plans.
27:40You know what is incredible about this landscape
27:43is all these eucalypts are called mallee trees.
27:47So the, it's like, it's from a ligno tube or something,
27:52so the root crown is in the ground.
27:55So it's bushfire resistant.
27:57So it can all burn.
27:59And then the heart of the tree lives underground.
28:02And so it just springs back.
28:05Isn't that clever?
28:06They're completely adapted, totally resilient to bushfire.
28:10Amazing.
28:11Kangaroo Island is a diverse and unique landscape,
28:25boasting forests, wetlands and natural wonders.
28:29And our next stop is no exception.
28:32Sand dunes, sand boarding, guided tours.
28:36Little Sahara.
28:41Oh my God, look at this dune!
28:43Oh my God!
28:45What the hell?
28:46I thought it was a cloud.
28:48Where did you come from?
28:50That is just a wall of whiteness.
28:53What are you doing here?
28:55Known as Little Sahara, this sand dune system is over two square kilometres in size.
29:05Yep, that feels good.
29:06Try that.
29:07Maybe the best way to explore it is to strap in for a buggy ride.
29:11Are you excited?
29:16Tell my mum and dad I love them!
29:18Ha ha ha!
29:19Wow, the sand is very white, isn't it?
29:48This is an inland sand dune system.
29:53They go up to 70 metres above sea level.
29:56The whole area is about two and a half square kilometres.
30:00And you already mentioned, Claudia, that the sand looks very white.
30:03It's rich in calcium.
30:04So it's basically a ground skeleton from previous marine life.
30:08Ground skeletons?
30:09Yeah, and this goes back about 17,000 years ago,
30:13which was the last ice age.
30:15It was a moment that the ice blocks were getting bigger and bigger
30:19and was pulling water from the continental shelf where Kangaroo Island sits on.
30:23So water levels got fairly shallow and all that marine life in there basically just died.
30:28Right?
30:29Ah, because it got trapped.
30:30When the water levels even dropped more.
30:33Ah.
30:34This got all like, together with severe winds for many years from the southwest,
30:38all this kind of marine life got grounded and broken down.
30:42Got ground up.
30:43And turned into sand.
30:44And turned into sand.
30:45So basically this area shows you the amount of marine life that was around back in that time.
30:50Wow.
30:51Are we about to go down there?
30:53Yeah, that's the idea.
30:54Oh, mama.
30:55Let's go.
30:56Fox, take us on the roller coaster.
30:59All right.
31:00Let's do it.
31:01Keep your eyes open, Steph.
31:03Keep your eyes open.
31:04Ha, ha, ha, ha.
31:06Don't forget to breathe.
31:07Oh, no rain.
31:08Come on!
31:09Oh, my!
31:11Oh, my!
31:12Oh, my!
31:13Oh!
31:16Oh.
31:18Oh.
31:20Oh!
31:22Oh!
31:23Oh, my!
31:25Oh!
31:26Oh!
31:28Oh!
31:29Oh!
31:31Oh!
31:32Oh!
31:34Oh!
31:35Next up, we get an enthusiastic welcome
31:40from some of the locals.
31:49Great Australian road trips,
31:52one adventure at a time with Lexus.
31:54I haven't seen many kangaroos on Kangaroo Island.
32:07There's actually estimated to be some crazy amount,
32:11like 65,000 kangaroos on Kangaroo Island.
32:14Roughly 14 kangaroos per person.
32:17What would you do with 14 kangaroos?
32:20With 14?
32:21Yeah.
32:21I'd take some, like, flash mob sort of a dance.
32:34We're cruising across the majestic Kangaroo Island
32:37on our way to Seal Bay.
32:39Not to see kangaroos,
32:41but to get up close to the seal colony
32:43that's native to this island
32:44before we reach our final destination,
32:47Remarkable Rocks.
32:51I'm really, really, really excited about seals.
32:54I think that seals are wonderful.
32:55I once saw them described as sea dogs.
32:58Sea dogs.
33:00They are really cool.
33:01They're so built for exactly what they do.
33:05I mean, they feel like they're way more ocean-y
33:07than land-y.
33:09Well, they don't really move very well on the land.
33:12Yeah, no, they look like idiots.
33:13But yet they spend a lot of time on the land,
33:15but they don't look like they're meant to be there.
33:16Can you do your best seal noise?
33:20Is it?
33:21Something like that?
33:23No, but...
33:24Yeah, but...
33:25I sound like Shaggy.
33:27Scooby, no.
33:27No, Scooby.
33:28I sound like Scooby.
33:28Oh!
33:30Oh!
33:30Oh!
33:30Oh!
33:31Oh!
33:31Oh!
33:31Oh!
33:32Oh!
33:32Oh!
33:32Oh!
33:33Oh!
33:33Oh!
33:34Oh!
33:34Oh!
33:35Oh!
33:35Oh!
33:36Oh!
33:36Oh!
33:37Oh!
33:37Oh!
33:38Oh!
33:38Oh!
33:39Oh!
33:39Oh!
33:40Oh!
33:40Oh!
33:41Oh!
33:41Oh!
33:42Oh!
33:42Oh!
33:43Oh!
33:43Oh!
33:44Yeah, the sea lions, seals, whatever they were, they would, the males, just all they do
33:49is fight each other.
33:50Oh!
33:50That's all they're into.
33:51They just love a good biff.
33:53Battle, yeah.
33:54They always biff.
33:55It's an animal kingdom.
33:56I know.
33:56But they biff, and they literally don't care if they are trampling babies to death.
34:01While they're biffing.
34:02They're just biffing and just trampling.
34:03Ah!
34:04Okay.
34:04Well, we might see a bit of that today.
34:06No!
34:07We might.
34:08I would throw myself in the middle of that.
34:10No, you wouldn't.
34:11No, I know I wouldn't.
34:12And also, you can't.
34:13I know.
34:14That I would just want to, I would just be like, I would just be blowing so many kisses
34:18to the babies.
34:34Hi!
34:35Hey, how are you?
34:36I'm Claudia.
34:37Nice to meet you.
34:38You're Emma?
34:39Nice to meet you.
34:40Hello.
34:41G'day, I'm Steph.
34:42Nice to meet you.
34:43Hey, look.
34:44We've both got, um...
34:45Ah, we do too.
34:46...stirt desert peeves.
34:47There we go.
34:48...on our jackets.
34:49There we go.
34:50Beautiful.
34:51This is my Adelaide jacket.
34:52I do love that.
34:53I read up there that there's 30% less sea lions than maybe 30 years ago.
35:01Yeah, correct.
35:02Yes.
35:03Um, so there are a few threats directly to them today.
35:07Main threats to them are entanglements out at sea.
35:09Really?
35:10Really?
35:11Correct.
35:12Wow.
35:13So not sharks or...
35:14No, no.
35:15...or hunting or...
35:16I mean, obviously there's no hunting anymore.
35:18No.
35:19So there was 200 years ago.
35:20Yeah, right.
35:21And you'll notice from here that we do have a reef system.
35:24So that's where all those waves are breaking.
35:26Yeah, wow.
35:27So very fortunate 200 years ago, sealing ships were unable to access here at Seal Bay.
35:32Oh, so that's why they didn't get hunted.
35:34Yeah, correct.
35:35It is...
35:36It is absolutely...
35:37This is...
35:38So gorgeous.
35:39This is unreal.
35:40It's pretty special.
35:41By the early 1800s, around 500 sealers were working on Kangaroo Island to collect seal skins
35:49and oil from sea lions.
35:52By the 1830s, this intensive hunting by sealers led to the near extinction of the island's seals
35:59and kangaroos.
36:02So how many do you estimate there are?
36:04So here at Seal Bay, we have about 800 that reside here.
36:08Two thirds of that number are typically out foraging, so we never have the entire span
36:13of the colony here at Seal Bay at any given time.
36:19Seal Bay is the only place where you can get this close to Australian seals in the wild.
36:26Did I hear a call or some noises from down there just then?
36:29You sure did.
36:30Sounds like some rowdy party animals down there.
36:33Shall we go down and check them out?
36:34Please.
36:35Yes, yes, yes.
36:36I want to.
36:37Did you hear them?
36:38Listen to them.
36:39Yeah.
36:40I know.
36:41We do have, once we get down to the bottom of the stairs just to our left, we do have
36:46a reasonable sized male.
36:48He's been here for a couple of days resting, so we'll make sure we're nice and quiet.
36:52Look at his beautiful, he's like a Labrador, the colour of a Labrador at the top.
36:57It's exactly what I associate them as being too, the males.
37:00He's got that big beautiful head.
37:01They're very beautiful animals.
37:03I have a big soft spot for the bulls.
37:05Beautiful.
37:06Aren't they pretty?
37:07That one's looking at us.
37:08Yeah.
37:09They're two-tone, aren't they?
37:10Two-tone, sort of cream and grey.
37:11They are.
37:12Look, look, look, one's coming in from the water.
37:13Oh.
37:14Oh, there we go.
37:15So maybe that one's been out for a bit of a forage or maybe they're coming back in after
37:31a morning of surfing.
37:32A bit crazy I think.
37:33Do they just do it for fun?
37:34Yeah, yeah.
37:35So sometimes.
37:36They do.
37:37Yeah.
37:38Yeah.
37:39It's a beautiful thing to see.
37:40It shows that they're happy.
37:41Being wild animals, that's pretty special.
37:43Oh, there's so many of them.
37:46Yeah.
37:47They're all the way down the beach.
37:49Beautiful.
37:50Oh, look, one's running.
37:51One's running.
37:52Look, look.
37:53It's vaulting.
37:58So are there any pups here at the moment or is it not sort of birthing time?
38:04So a lot of our pups now are about one year of age.
38:08Is that one of them?
38:09Yeah.
38:10So these two little ones here that are spooning each other.
38:13They are a couple of our pups.
38:14They're the youngest?
38:15Okay.
38:16Yeah.
38:17So this is all about conservation.
38:18You were saying that you tag them and you track, you know, sizes and stuff.
38:22What do you learn about them from tagging them?
38:24What do you get from those chips?
38:26Yeah, great question.
38:27So we can scan a female when she gives birth.
38:30We know who she is, how old she is, how many pups she's had in her lifetime, which male
38:36is guarding her as well.
38:38So we do sort of know the most dominant and successful males in the colony as well.
38:42Like what's the harem sort of situation with the guys, with the bulls?
38:47Yeah.
38:48How many sort of wives do they have?
38:50Some of our most successful males, they might make 12 females in a breeding season.
38:5512 females in a breeding season?
38:58Yeah.
38:5912.
39:00Oh, we've all been there.
39:01He's saying, Mum, where are you?
39:06Is that a pup?
39:07Is that a pup calling out to its mum?
39:10Yeah.
39:11Yeah.
39:12So it's a pup saying, hey mum, where are you?
39:14I'm getting hungry.
39:15Oh, oh, oh.
39:16Can we step away?
39:17We'll just stay nice and still.
39:18We allow them to sniff our shoes, check us out.
39:23But of course we want them to get bored of us.
39:26I assume this might be a young male, because he's got a big chest on him.
39:31Here he comes.
39:40Oh, bored of us.
39:41Yeah.
39:42Not interested.
39:43Yeah, you're boring.
39:44Off I go.
39:45That's good.
39:46We passed that test.
39:48And this bull is still sound asleep.
39:50Yeah.
39:51He hasn't even noticed we've come and gone.
39:54No, sound asleep, understood.
39:56Exactly how we like them.
40:01Wow, what a treat.
40:02Thank you so much.
40:11Okay, that was one of the coolest things I've ever done.
40:13How knowledgeable was Emma?
40:15How...
40:16What a great guide.
40:17What a great job.
40:18Yes.
40:19What a great job.
40:20It's more to the point.
40:21I was like, what's the hardest thing about your work?
40:23She's like, well, it's not really work.
40:27Coming up, we've reached the end of the road.
40:30Literally.
40:31As we eyeball the most remarkable of rocks.
40:35Is that wind in your eyes or are you...?
40:36I'm getting a little emotional.
40:38Oh, really?
40:39No, it's wind in my eyes.
40:40When you're out in nature though, like, what's your favourite part of it?
40:54Like, the thing that you go, that's what I want to look at.
40:56Like, I love bark and I love birds.
40:58Right?
40:59What are you, like, flowers?
41:01Rocks.
41:02Rocks.
41:03Rock formations.
41:04How good is this?
41:05That's actually amazing.
41:06And that's where we're going.
41:07That's actually really cool.
41:09We're going to remarkable rocks.
41:11Rock formations.
41:12They're exquisite.
41:13And that's sort of geological, like, the messaging that you can get,
41:17the information you can get from rocks is pretty fascinating.
41:20That was a beautiful answer.
41:22You're a very interesting woman.
41:25Interesting.
41:26I love you.
41:27I love you too.
41:28You're a very funny woman.
41:34We're headed to the southwestern tip of Kangaroo Island.
41:36To the jewel in the crown of Flinders Chase National Park.
41:41Our exquisite final stop.
41:43Otherwise known as Remarkable Rocks.
41:50And this is our last day in South Australia road tripping together.
41:54How do you feel?
41:55Do you just never want to see me again?
41:57Do you want to do any more road trips with me?
41:59Yeah.
42:00Or have I burnt my bridges?
42:01No, I think, yeah, I'd probably chuck you in front of the car before we go.
42:04Okay.
42:05And do-dum, drive over you.
42:08And then reverse back over.
42:09Yeah, yeah.
42:10Excellent.
42:11Okay.
42:12What about you?
42:13I've loved it.
42:14I think we need to do more.
42:15So we're going to see these Remarkable Rocks.
42:18I wonder what's so remarkable about them.
42:21Do you know?
42:22I feel like they're just showing off.
42:23Just name themselves Remarkable.
42:24Yeah.
42:25But when we go to see them they'll be like, hmm, I would have called them Mediocre Rocks.
42:29But they might be Remarkable.
42:30They might be appropriately named.
42:32We're yet to find out.
42:34Well, they might be very heavy.
42:41How far are the Remarkable Rocks?
42:4323 kilometres away.
42:44Well, it's pretty remarkable.
42:45That's a big island.
42:46It's crazy how huge this island is.
42:47It is very big.
42:49Yeah.
42:50When we were coming over in the ferry I thought it was like that tiny chunk.
42:54But then I realised it was like three, four times bigger than what I could see from the boat.
43:04That's unbelievable.
43:13It genuinely is, isn't it?
43:31Let's swiftly get out and check these out.
43:33Yeah.
43:34Let's get out.
43:46I like these, um, the blossoms.
43:48Beautiful gum nut blossoms.
43:50They're incredible.
43:51And they smell stunning.
43:54Look, look, look, look, look.
43:57We can see it from here.
43:58It looks like an abstract painting.
44:00It looks like an alien put it there.
44:02Like an alien was sort of doing some art.
44:07These granite rock formations have been naturally sculpted by millions of years of weathering and erosion by wind, sea and rain.
44:26The rocks have a distinct orange brown coloration from iron minerals within the granite.
44:33And during sunrise and sunset, they adopt a golden hue.
44:37It's beautiful.
44:38It's beautiful.
44:39What a silhouette.
44:40I mean, like what a sort of outline.
44:43It's so...
44:44It's amazing.
44:45Unique.
44:46Absolutely beautiful.
44:47It's called honeycomb erosion, apparently.
44:48Oh.
44:49It's like a honeycomb, like the bees have been at it.
44:51Yeah.
44:52Yeah.
44:53And this is granite.
44:54Wow.
44:55Everything is eroded away on top, revealing this granite mound.
45:00People pay a lot of money for this in their kitchen, you know?
45:02Yeah, this would be a great kitchen bench.
45:04It's unreal.
45:05It's really cool, huh?
45:31I feel like we're stepping into a mouth, but in a comforting way.
45:38It's worn away in the most unusual patterns.
45:50Oh, this is nice.
45:51Shall we sit down here?
45:52Yeah.
45:53There's little bits of vegetation as well, which is interesting.
45:56Oh, it's nice and warm.
45:58You know when you come out of the swimming pool and you lie on hot concrete?
46:02Yes.
46:03Oh, that's what this feels like.
46:04It's so nice.
46:12It's just crazy to think that the wind can wear away at a giant rock.
46:21Well, this is the end.
46:23We've come to the end.
46:24That felt like a threat, like you were going to say, this is the end.
46:27Push.
46:29It might not be the end.
46:30We might have some more trips ahead of us, do you think?
46:32We do.
46:33But this is the end of our South Australian trip.
46:36It's been fantastic.
46:37Thank you so much.
46:38You've been the best company.
46:40And you've been really funny and a good driver.
46:42I feel like I've learned a lot from you.
46:43Well, you better, I'm learning.
46:46No.
46:47Is that wind in your eyes or are you...?
46:49I'm getting a little emotional.
46:50Oh, really?
46:51No, it's wind in my eyes.
46:56Do you meditate?
46:57Yeah.
46:58Are you doing your giraffe chin?
47:08Not even a little bit.
47:10It feels like we're sitting at the edge of the earth.
47:19A perfect place to reflect on our South Australian roadie.
47:23The natural beauty of this landscape, shaped by time and weather,
47:28reflects a resilience that is deeply grounding.
47:32A reminder of the strength of the environment
47:35and the strength within us.
47:37Next time...
47:48There's a crook!
47:50Naz takes Mel on a wild ride.
47:52Woo!
47:53From Darwin to Arnhem Land.
47:55We made it!
47:56Yay!
47:57On a bucket-less roadie of a lifetime.
48:00Oh, wow.
48:07You are almost completely done.
48:08Now, just hope you all are going to be alive.
48:09academy, former master elder해서 to the top of the abdomen.
48:10Okie!
48:11Yes!
48:12If someone could business with the art,
48:13that makes the sound and the top all!
48:14till Ross四io-nya holy as Jeff Zong.
48:15Is there really a heart of pain for it?
48:16Yes, there!
48:17I'll be right back from him!
48:18My hand.
48:19My hand.
48:20My hand.
48:22People are birантиomos.
48:23steps ride into the air!
48:24Clip through the air.
48:25So, too.
48:26Well, I'm thank you for the air.
48:27Home Malaysia!
48:28There are definitely who?
48:29wheeler!
48:31Don't act!
48:32Let's Out!
48:33You're a little bit!
48:34automyt!
48:35One night.
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