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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 pleasant 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 Tisdall.
01:12Oh 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.
01:34Rawr!
01:35I like that because that isn't really that well known.
01:39And head off the beaten track.
01:41Woo!
01:42Below red dirt.
01:44Because 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, I'm introducing my mate Steph to the best of my home state.
02:11On a tailor-made roadie full of quirky pit stops and magical scenery.
02:17On Grand Pacific Drive to Jervis Bay.
02:20Starting in Sydney.
02:22Welcome to my hometown.
02:23It's a very affordable place to come and live.
02:25I highly recommend it.
02:27No one has crippling mortgages here in Sydney.
02:31And I'm about to take you over the Anzac Bridge.
02:34Excellent.
02:37We're going down towards Wollongong.
02:39Yeah, nice.
02:40The Gong!
02:44Our first destination is only an hour south of Sydney.
02:47In Australia's oldest national park.
02:50Then we'll cruise along Wollongong's breathtaking escarpment.
02:54Before a pit stop at Port Kembla.
02:56And a snack fest at picturesque Barrie.
02:59And then we'll head to the jewel of the south coast.
03:03Jervis Bay.
03:05First step, beat the traffic out of Sydney.
03:09That's not to me, by the way.
03:12Look at the road rage!
03:13My God!
03:14He's going to beat that other car now!
03:15Oh, get off his ass!
03:16What a weird guy!
03:17Look at that!
03:19Have you been here your whole life?
03:21So many people think I am a Melbourne person because I did Secret Life of Us in Melbourne.
03:25Oh, was that in Melbourne?
03:26Heaps of films.
03:27I always worked in Melbourne.
03:28Yeah.
03:29But I am Sydney.
03:30I grew up in Kings Cross.
03:32Really?
03:33Kings Cross.
03:34I don't...
03:35Is it?
03:36No, I don't know anything.
03:37Why did you say nice?
03:39I thought you...
03:40Because you think I'm a stripper?
03:41Yes.
03:43Yes.
03:47So, we're driving down to the south coast.
03:50Yes.
03:51Out of Sydney.
03:52Okay.
03:53And does this have a special meaning for you?
03:55I spent a lot of Christmases down there.
03:56I'm going to spend Christmas down the south coast this year.
03:59Beautiful beaches, a lot of national park.
04:02You like beaches, hey?
04:03I love beaches.
04:04I love parks.
04:05I love trees.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Trees are good.
04:08Trees are good.
04:10We've left the city behind.
04:11Just an hour south of Sydney is one of the oldest national parks on the planet.
04:16A sanctuary of beaches, rainforest, wildlife and Aboriginal sites.
04:23We must be there soon.
04:25Here it comes.
04:26This is the turn off up there.
04:27See that brown bit?
04:28Is it?
04:29Royal National Park.
04:32Literally though.
04:38Ah, how nice.
04:42How do they choose where a national park goes or is it just kind of anywhere?
04:46And they just go, well, we just won't destroy this area.
04:49It was the first park to be classified as a national park.
04:54Luckily they have them.
04:56Luckily they have them.
04:57Australia's first national park was founded by New South Wales Premier, Sir John Robertson,
05:05in 1879.
05:06It was only the second of its kind in the world, after Yellowstone National Park in America.
05:14Around that time, Sydney's population had doubled to over 225,000, creating unhealthy living conditions.
05:23Parks were seen as a way to address health problems and even moral issues associated with overcrowded cities.
05:30The park was enormously popular, receiving 250,000 visitors a year by 1910.
05:38Conservation is now the main focus of the park's management and wildlife is thriving here.
05:44So much so that it was picked as the location for a groundbreaking initiative to reintroduce platypus to the Sydney Basin.
05:54How are you feeling about seeing this platypus?
05:57Well, hopefully we do see a platypus.
06:00They're pretty shy.
06:01Do you think the plural of a platypus is a platypi?
06:05I wish.
06:08The platypus disappeared from this area almost 50 years ago.
06:14But they were reintroduced in 2023 to kickstart their population in the rivers and wetlands of the Royal National Park.
06:23Hey.
06:24Hi, Gillard.
06:25Hi, I'm Steph.
06:26Hello.
06:27We're meeting some of the people involved with the project who will take us up the river and show us how it works.
06:332019, 2020, during all of the bushfires and the drought that was really severe, really opened up this issue about what do we do as we're seeing climate change and everything progress?
06:45What do we do for platypus conservation?
06:47And so this program to reintroduce platypus to the beautiful Royal National Park was born.
06:52It took resources and technology from Parks New South Wales, Taronga Zoo, the WWF and UNSW to reintroduce this famous animal back into this iconic location.
07:11Would they have originally been native to this area?
07:13Yeah, they absolutely were.
07:14So they were native to this area.
07:16There's records of them.
07:17Um, probably the most recent sighting verified was around about 50 years ago.
07:22So why, what do you think it was that, that...
07:25There's, I don't think, Steph, that there's a single smoking gun here.
07:30A whole range of changes, you know, we've seen increased urban development.
07:33Yeah.
07:34We don't really know.
07:35And what's the lifespan?
07:36Well, the oldest one is turning 30 this year, so...
07:4030!
07:41You're from a similar age to a platypus.
07:44In platypus years.
07:46And, I mean, are they good breeders?
07:47Is it that kind of thing where you go, oh, we're pretty happy that once we introduce a population, they'll be fine?
07:53So, female platypuses will breed maybe on average every second year.
07:57The way to see it is, like, actually measure how many are lactating.
08:00Okay, wow.
08:01So platypuses secrete milk.
08:03Because they lay eggs too.
08:05Well, they're, yeah, mammals that lay eggs.
08:07Monotremes.
08:08There's only the two, right?
08:09Echidnas and platypus.
08:10Yeah, that's right.
08:11I love the idea of a mammal laying an egg.
08:14How dangerous are they?
08:15How venomous are they?
08:16Yeah, they'll jab you.
08:17Those males, they have, they carry, like, these spurs on the hind leg.
08:20And if they envenom you with enough, it could be, like, excruciating pain from up to six months.
08:27So, and...
08:28Up to six months?
08:30And painkillers don't work.
08:31So, no morphine won't work.
08:33It's like a...
08:34And you've never been jabbed?
08:35No.
08:39Few creatures are as puzzling as the platypus.
08:44When British scientists first laid eyes on them, some of them thought the strange duck-billed animal must be a hoax.
08:52Found in the freshwater creeks from North Queensland to Tasmania, first Australians used to hunt platypuses for food.
09:00Their fatty tails were particularly nutritious.
09:05So, do we row deep up into this river, or is it...
09:09Yeah.
09:10These platys have been using, like, quite a large area of the park.
09:14You call them platys?
09:15Platys is...
09:16Oh, that's cute, isn't it?
09:17Because we were going, is it platypi or platypuses?
09:21But platys is good.
09:22The males especially, they've been, like, going everywhere.
09:25So, at least I'll show you some of the listening stations that we have in the water.
09:29Fantastic.
09:30Can we get in the boats now?
09:31Yep.
09:32Let's go.
09:33Let's do it.
09:34Do I get to push you out?
09:35Yeah, please.
09:36Yes, please.
09:37Sorry, guys.
09:38Oh, God.
09:39Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God.
09:40You're good.
09:41Alright.
09:42Yee-haw!
09:43Ha!
09:44Ha!
09:45Oh!
09:46Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:47Just a bit of hand-eye coordination now, in the water.
09:48Oh, great.
09:49You have to do that in the water, right?
09:50That's the one thing I'm particularly good at.
09:51And don't you want to go that way?
09:53That's the way we want it to go.
09:54Ha!
09:55There you go.
09:56We're going the wrong way.
09:57Oh, my God, my boobs are in the way.
09:58I'm so sorry.
09:59Okay, so we'll be...
10:00You can shuffle over.
10:01I'll sit next to you.
10:02I'll take one, or you take the other.
10:04Well, I'm just worried about the weight.
10:06You're, like, you weigh about one gram.
10:08Right.
10:09So, I might cry.
10:10Okay, so, now we're going like this.
10:11Okay.
10:12Woo!
10:13No, no, okay.
10:14I'm going to go...
10:15I'm going to reverse now.
10:16This is my one.
10:17Go.
10:18Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
10:20Okay, now we're straight.
10:22Yes!
10:23We're doing it.
10:24This is lovely, aren't we?
10:25It's so beautiful, isn't it?
10:26Look at those big birds.
10:27They call us in the trees.
10:28Oh, my God.
10:29That's it.
10:30Here we go.
10:31Just don't lean too far.
10:32So, each one of these platys has a little tracker.
10:33The only way for us to understand how platys are establishing themselves in the park and their movements and interactions with each other is through these, like, I wish, I wish.
10:39These are listening stations that we have.
10:40So, I'll just bring that in.
10:41And what we do is when we want to download the data, we'll put in a little Bluetooth key in here, and then that will transmit the data to our computer.
10:46Wow.
10:47And then we'll have a date and timestamp.
10:48Yeah, so, this is really the only way.
10:50That we can track platypuses.
10:51They're...
10:52They're...
10:53And their movements and interactions with each other is through these, like, I wish, I wish.
10:56These are listening stations that we have.
10:59So, I'll just bring that in.
11:01And then what we do is we, when we want to download the data, we'll put in a little Bluetooth key in here, and then that will transmit the data to our computers.
11:09Wow.
11:10And then we'll have a date and timestamp.
11:13Yeah, so, this is really the only way that we can track platypuses.
11:19They're really elusive and really difficult to study.
11:22How would we spot one?
11:23How would we know if we've seen a platypus?
11:26Really tough to spot.
11:28You have to be super patient.
11:32The birth of this baby platypus, or puggle, is seen as the biggest achievement of the project.
11:39It was discovered in early 2024, and is thriving in the park.
11:43We took some samples.
11:44We know genetically that she was, like, the, um, seared by, like, the two of the ones that we introduced.
11:50Congratulations.
11:53It's a real privilege.
11:54Spreading the word and love and care for platypuses.
11:57So, yeah, thank you.
11:58Well, I mean, we've got to row back to the starting place together.
12:02Stop!
12:03I swear.
12:04Kill art.
12:05Okay.
12:06Off we go.
12:07It's going to take us, like, three days to get back.
12:10Okay.
12:11It's not a road trip anymore.
12:13It's a boat trip.
12:20Yeah, road tripping, I like going for a long drive.
12:22What about with your kids and stuff?
12:24Do you take them road tripping?
12:25Yeah, I mean, it's a big country, isn't it?
12:27Like, if you're going to go away for the weekend.
12:29We drive long distances in this country.
12:31Some people in Europe would never have driven three hours.
12:34Yeah.
12:35I drive, because I drive down to Sydney from Brisbane all the time, which is a 12-hour trip.
12:39That's a lot.
12:40Mm.
12:41And I like it.
12:42Do you, um, listen to music or podcasts or audio books?
12:46Podcasts, music.
12:47Everything.
12:48Mm-hmm.
12:49Phone calls.
12:50You're just greedy on the ears.
12:51Greedy on the ears?
12:52You're a greedy ear person.
12:53I've got the greediest ears around.
12:57We're out from under the canopy and about to experience a 665-metre-long engineering masterpiece.
13:09We're going on the Seacliff Bridge.
13:11Oh, wow.
13:12This is beautiful.
13:13We're cantilevered out over the ocean.
13:16Woo!
13:17It's actually a bit scary.
13:18Oh, it's a bit bendy.
13:19Yeah, it is.
13:20This is beautiful.
13:21Oh, it's a bit windy out there.
13:22Wow, look at the colour of that ocean.
13:23It's beautiful.
13:24I know.
13:25The sea dolls and the lapping.
13:26Oh, wow.
13:27Oh, wow.
13:28The sea dolls and the lapping.
13:29Oh, wow.
13:30Oh, wow.
13:31Oh, wow.
13:32Oh, wow.
13:33Oh, wow.
13:34Oh, wow.
13:35Oh, wow.
13:36Oh, wow.
13:37Oh, wow.
13:38Oh, wow.
13:39Oh, wow.
13:40Oh, wow.
13:41How relaxing.
13:45Dharawal country.
13:46Dharawal.
13:49Imagine what this used to look like.
13:51That's what I often think.
13:52I often think that too.
13:53Oh, man.
13:54What it would have looked like 200 years ago for First Nations people.
14:00The area that stretches from South Sydney as far as Jervis Bay is the traditional land
14:05of the Dharawal people.
14:07It was a plentiful area to hunt wallabies, gather shellfish, and even feast on whales
14:14that washed up on the shore.
14:16The traditional trails used by Dharawal were the very ones that enabled the first Europeans
14:22to move into the area.
14:24The colonists brought conflict, disease, and dispossession of lands.
14:30Despite great adversity, the Dharawal people survived, adapted, and have retained their connection
14:37to the land.
14:42We're now in the Illawarra, and Grand Pacific Drive is going to take us all the way to our
14:49next stop, Port Kembla.
14:51Where to now, Mama?
14:52I heard that you have some sort of fetish for servos, is that right?
15:00I love servos.
15:01I don't know why.
15:02What do you like about servos?
15:03I also love car parks.
15:04You like car parks?
15:05I love car parks and servos.
15:07The servo I'm taking you to, I don't think it's got petrol.
15:11How is it a servo then?
15:12It's called servo.
15:13I think it may be a repurposed service station, but we're going to find out.
15:18We're not just here to listen to jazz, we're here to discover how locals like my
15:40mate Lara are bringing some soul back to Port Kembla.
15:44So Lara, my good friend Lara meets Steph.
15:47I remember you mentioning this about four or five years ago, and it sounded so intriguing,
15:52and you actually pulled it off.
15:54Is this like one of the big cultural hubs of Port Kembla?
15:57I think it is, yeah, for sure.
15:59I mean, Port's evolving all the time now.
16:03It sort of went from its highlights back in the 50s and 60s, this amazing neighbourhood.
16:10Port Kembla is known nationally as a major exporter of coal and steel manufacturing.
16:17In its heyday, the workforce here exceeded 20,000, luring post-war migrants and creating
16:24a melting pot of nationalities from Italy, Poland, Macedonia, Germany and Greece, amongst
16:32almost 30 other nationalities.
16:35But the economic slump in the 1980s hit hard, and many left the industrial town.
16:42In the last five years, people have flocked back here, seeking an affordable lifestyle change.
16:49And the servo remains at the heart of the community.
16:53So do you always have live music here?
16:55Yeah, always.
16:56It was founded on the idea of, you know, creating an all-inclusive safe space for the community,
17:03for families, for LGBTQ, everyone.
17:07And is there anything like this in the vicinity?
17:10No.
17:11This is like a unique one-off place.
17:12Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:13I don't know of anything like this anyway.
17:14Is there even anything like this in Sydney?
17:16I know, I was about to say.
17:17So good.
17:25There was, we have life drawing here, once or twice a month.
17:30I've been wanting to do life drawing.
17:32I've heard it's a really good way to boost your confidence as well.
17:35Oh, you be the model?
17:36Yeah, because people see you as, you don't see you with all the other stuff,
17:41you're just shapes and movement and, like, energy.
17:45People read your energy more than anything else.
17:48That is so interesting.
17:49It's really hard to hold the poses, though.
17:51Don't work!
17:52Don't underestimate me!
17:54Don't underestimate me!
18:01Next up...
18:02Look at the beautiful gate!
18:03Oh, my God!
18:04You beautiful little place!
18:06Our drive takes us into sacred grounds.
18:09Oh, look at that!
18:11A happy Buddha!
18:12Look at that!
18:13He's like, get in here!
18:15Come to the temple!
18:16Let's hang out!
18:17We're in Wollongong, about to start the day's journey to Jervis Bay.
18:24I've found a moment of peace before my travelling companion arrives to brush up on my Espanol.
18:30Yeah.
18:31Yo tenía miedo de los paisajos cuando era niño.
18:39I better turn that off and let's keep driving, shall we?
18:42Let's go.
18:43We're out of here.
18:45Happy talking, talking, happy though.
18:49Yeah, I don't know about going to bed at 10 o'clock at night.
18:5210 o'clock at night's really late.
18:53I go to bed, like, sometimes at 8 o'clock.
18:55It's because you're a loser.
18:56And then I sleep in until sometimes, like, 9 o'clock.
18:59Because a lot of people aren't more than people.
19:01I'm, like, quite awake.
19:02I just annoy the shit out of everyone.
19:04That's because you're a bird person, do you think?
19:06Birds are a bit like that.
19:07Yeah, yeah.
19:08How many birds do you have again?
19:10I have two.
19:11What are their names?
19:12Michael Parkinson and Eddie Maguire.
19:18Before we hit the motorway that will take us to Jervis Bay,
19:21we're stopping in at the largest Buddhist temple in Australia.
19:26I went to this Buddhist temple when it first opened,
19:28which might have been about maybe 30 years ago,
19:3125 years ago or something, but I haven't been back since.
19:33What made you go there?
19:35Well, I was just so fascinated.
19:36I think I saw it off the highway and was like,
19:38what is that?
19:39Like, it's really impressive looking.
19:41And so we did a little detour and went in there,
19:44and it was just stunning.
19:47Are you a Buddhist?
19:49I would not describe myself as a Buddhist,
19:51but I've read a lot of Buddhist philosophy,
19:54and it makes a lot of sense to me,
19:56and I think it has very much informed the way I live my life.
20:01Mm-hm.
20:02Reminding yourself every day of your mortality,
20:04so reflecting on your own death is something I got from Buddhism.
20:11Another Buddhist teaching I've embraced is gratitude.
20:14And since I've discovered Nantian Temple has a giant gratitude bell,
20:19I reckon we should take a moment to give thanks.
20:21Look at the beautiful gate!
20:24Oh, my God!
20:25You beautiful little place!
20:26Fuquan Shan Nantian Temple!
20:28It feels like you're really entering a really sacred place, doesn't it?
20:31It really does.
20:39There is something really nice about somewhere
20:41that lots of people have, you know, prayed in.
20:44Yes.
20:45Like, it always has a feeling of...
20:46There's an energy, isn't there?
20:48Beautiful grounds.
20:49What a great location.
20:52Oh!
20:53Look at that happy Buddha!
20:55Look at that belly and that smile!
20:57How welcoming is that?
20:58I look like that Buddha.
21:00That's what I look like.
21:02And the eyebrows and the earlobes!
21:04Yeah, I've got big earlobes.
21:05I'm really insecure about them.
21:06But seeing that Buddha's made me feel a bit better about them.
21:09Oh, my God!
21:10He's like, get in here!
21:11Come to the temple!
21:12Let's hang out!
21:13Life's good!
21:15After the influx of Southeast Asian migrants
21:17to this region in the 70s and 80s,
21:19many found themselves with nowhere to worship.
21:23In response, the then mayor invited the Foguanshan Buddhist order
21:28to build a temple in Wollongong.
21:30In the early 90s, the council gave them a 100-year lease
21:34on 26 hectares of land, specially picked for its great feng shui,
21:40for an exorbitant annual rent of a dollar.
21:45It's now a huge drawcard in Wollongong,
21:48attracting around 200,000 yearly visitors from all over the world.
21:53The temple is now home to 28 monks.
21:58One of them is the venerable Miao Yeo, who's been living here for over 20 years.
22:04I came in in 1999 as a layperson, just like yourself.
22:08Oh, really?
22:09So I've never been to a temple before.
22:12Are you serious?
22:13Really?
22:14You'd never been to a temple before?
22:16I guess it was out of curiosity.
22:19The first time I stepped into the temple, I just felt like it was home.
22:25Wow.
22:26I just cried and cried and cried because I've come home.
22:29Wow.
22:30Yeah, so it was a very powerful sense of belonging.
22:35A lot of people thought that when I go into the monastery
22:39and become a Buddhist monk, I would lose a lot.
22:43Yeah.
22:44But in fact, I gained much more.
22:47Leaving behind is the easy part.
22:49Yeah.
22:50Yeah.
22:51Re-learning is the hard part.
22:53Almost being born again.
22:54Yes.
22:55It is like being born again.
22:56Starting from scratch.
22:57What's your favourite part of a day?
22:59I think I don't think about it as favourite and not favourite.
23:04Yeah.
23:05So we try to maintain a very equitable and non-discriminatory mind.
23:12Mm-hm.
23:13So if you ask me what's my favourite...
23:15No, no, yeah.
23:16Good answer.
23:17Ten out of ten.
23:18Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:19That's Buddhism right there, isn't it?
23:21You feel like part of everything.
23:27Mm-hm.
23:28You feel the interconnectedness between not just people,
23:33but also plants and the trees.
23:36And I understand that Indigenous people, like, really love the land.
23:40Mm-hm.
23:41This place is also sacred.
23:43Yeah.
23:44To me.
23:45Oh, that's beautiful.
23:46Because the moment you step in, the energy changed.
23:50Yes.
23:51Yeah, we felt that, didn't we?
23:52Yeah.
23:59So beautiful.
24:00Very calming.
24:02So much detail.
24:03I mean, each of those Buddhas.
24:06For the aspiring Buddhist, the temple gives out little cards
24:14with affirmations for visitors to reflect on.
24:17What is this here?
24:19Do not hold grudges against your friends.
24:22Friends are direct.
24:23Friends forgive.
24:24And friends listen.
24:25You have all the good friends here.
24:27Yeah, that's so lovely.
24:29Do you forgive and listen?
24:30That's beautiful.
24:31I won't hold any grudges even after nine days on the road with you,
24:34I promise.
24:35Nice.
24:36Amazing.
24:37The past has passed.
24:38Yeah, that's right.
24:39That's so beautiful.
24:42So apparently this is where they put all the cremated ashes of devotees.
24:48Do you like to go back to the worms?
24:51I think I'd like to do that weird thing where they put you in a bag
24:55and turn you into a tree.
24:57A tree root.
24:58That would be good.
24:59Yeah.
25:00And very environmentally friendly.
25:01Yeah.
25:02Turn it into a big tree.
25:03That would be gorgeous.
25:04Have you heard of the gratitude flow?
25:07No, what's that?
25:08It's when you're feeling like a grey cloud over you and you think about all the things
25:12you're grateful for and you get into the gratitude flow.
25:15Nice.
25:16So what would you say, name three things right now that you're grateful for.
25:20Um, my resolve to keep running.
25:23I'm really grateful to myself for that.
25:25I love that.
25:26Um, my birds and my loved ones.
25:31What about you?
25:32Beautiful.
25:33Um, I'm grateful it's a sunny day.
25:35Yeah.
25:36That I'm in good health.
25:37Yep.
25:38And I'm grateful for your company.
25:40That's really cute.
25:41So with the gratitude bell, um, I heard we have to ring it three times and it's to say
25:48thank you to your parents.
25:50That's good because I've got three parents.
25:53So one bell each.
25:54Good.
25:55Do you want to go first?
25:56Yeah, I'll give one and a half things to each of my parents.
26:01It's big, eh?
26:02Yeah, I think it weighs 1,300 kilos.
26:05Right.
26:06Do I just let it go?
26:07I don't know.
26:08Maybe drive it on home.
26:09You're going to ring it really hard.
26:10I'm going to do it.
26:11How loud?
26:12Oh.
26:13That was gentle.
26:14I don't want to peg it.
26:16Oh, that was good.
26:17That was the right.
26:18That's the, that's the right hit.
26:20Thanks mum and dad.
26:21I love you.
26:22Alright, your turn.
26:24What a beautiful sound.
26:25Wait.
26:26The vibrations.
26:27I hope it doesn't have the brown note.
26:29You know, that's a myth, the brown note.
26:32What is that?
26:33It's a really, really, really deep low note that can make you shit yourself.
26:37It's called the brown note.
26:38Trust you.
26:39But they did it on Mythbusters.
26:40It's not a real thing.
26:41It's not a real thing?
26:42No.
26:43Okay.
26:44I'm going to think thoughts of gratitude.
27:00Sound bath.
27:03I feel grateful for the gratitude bell.
27:05Me too.
27:06I feel really grateful for the gratitude.
27:07I feel grateful that you're grateful for the gratitude bell.
27:10that you're the guidance.
27:20Next up.
27:21We passed through verdant countryside.
27:24Hello, little horse.
27:27To the most exquisite blue of Wreck Bay.
27:30of Wreck Bay.
27:32Oh, this is unbelievable.
27:34Are you kidding me?
27:41Great Australian road trips.
27:43One adventure at a time.
27:45With Lexus.
27:55This is a picturesque little spot.
27:57It's very green.
28:01There's so much in the world that is so pretty that I never think about.
28:08Hello, little horse.
28:10We're 170 kilometres into our road trip.
28:13We've left the seaside and are driving into the picturesque hinterland
28:18to visit the quaint town of Bury.
28:20After a quick bite to eat,
28:22we'll head all the way to our final stop, Jervis Bay.
28:27So we're coming up to the little town of Bury.
28:31Patrol, it's a popular place for people to come and visit, like, go on holidays.
28:34Oh, yeah, very popular.
28:36Like, two hours out of Sydney, so it's a perfect drive.
28:42Pit stops and sightseeing on a road trip
28:44are just as important as the drive itself.
28:47When I was a kid, I used to love stopping at big things.
28:51The oversized kitsch statues that started popping up on the side of highways in the 1960s.
28:57There are now over a thousand big things across Australia.
29:02They were designed to get families to take a turn off the highway,
29:06part with some hard-earned cash in local businesses,
29:09and take the perfect holiday snap.
29:12Bury sadly doesn't have a big thing,
29:15but it has an attraction that is big in flavour.
29:18We're gonna get doughnuts.
29:19Who can say no to a doughnut? Not me.
29:21I doughnut know anyone.
29:24Did you ever play that game when you were a kid
29:26where you tie doughnut on a string and you have to eat it?
29:28I've done it once.
29:29How much fun is it?
29:30It was actually very fun.
29:31Oh, my God, maybe we should do that at the doughnut store.
29:34Excuse me, we're arriving to your doughnut van.
29:38Serve us doughnuts on strings with our hands tied behind our back.
29:42With our hands behind our back.
29:43Because you can't touch them.
29:44Can't touch them.
29:50Let's get some doughnuts.
29:52Yes.
29:53Quite famous for the doughnuts.
29:55Fresh, hot doughnuts.
29:58Oh.
29:59No.
30:00Give me a yes, please.
30:01That can help.
30:02Four originals and two Nutellas.
30:04Yeah.
30:06And we'd like them handmade with love.
30:08Anything else?
30:09Extra love.
30:10Just extra love, please.
30:11Extra love.
30:12In the early 70s, a couple hitched their van to the back of an old FJ Holden.
30:18They then set off and travelled through many parts of Australia, making doughnuts and meeting
30:23friends all along the way.
30:26Or just acquaintances, probably.
30:27Yeah, probably.
30:28Probably not really true friends like us.
30:30Yeah, we're true friends.
30:31Just acquaintances.
30:32Number 85.
30:33Oh, yes.
30:34We're 85.
30:35That's really interesting because that's how old you are, isn't it?
30:38That's your age.
30:40Four cinnamon donuts and two Nutella.
30:42Perfect.
30:43So.
30:44We'll go original and then we'll have a bite of the Nutella.
30:51Mmm.
30:52Nice and crispy.
30:54I'm concentrating on the flavour.
30:55Perfect.
30:56Oh, there's the love.
30:57I found it.
30:58And away we go, babes.
31:11Yee-haw.
31:12Oh.
31:13Oh.
31:16Our next destination sits in the Jervis Bay Territory.
31:20Jervis Bay is mainland Australia's third territory, after the ACT and the NT.
31:27It is surrounded by New South Wales and has a permanent population of around 310.
31:34In 1908, politicians decided that the new landlocked ACT would need a port.
31:41And so, in 1915, a small chunk of the New South Wales coast was carved out to become Australia's newest territory.
31:5190% of it is Aboriginal land, owned by the Wreck Bay community.
31:55Oh, Wreck Bay, here we go.
31:56Aboriginal Community Council.
31:57Yes.
31:58You're now entering private land.
32:00Yeah, totally.
32:05They've given us a special invitation to visit, so that Steph and I can connect with their country.
32:14Wow, it's beautiful.
32:15This does have a sort of a cathedral vibe, doesn't it?
32:18It does, yeah.
32:20I'm just saying my thank yous to the old people.
32:24Thank you, old people, for having us.
32:26I'm recognising that I'm on some of the Aussie's country here.
32:40Oh, this is unbelievable. Are you kidding me?
32:46They're fishing.
32:48Yes.
32:49I am so...
32:50Look at them!
32:51...excited!
32:53Oh, wow.
32:54This is stunning.
32:56Unbelievable.
32:58Absolutely unbelievable.
33:00Coo-wee!
33:01Was that a fish just jumping out there?
33:03Nah, that's my lure.
33:05Oh, wow, you had a... you got a long throat.
33:08Philip.
33:09Hi, Philip.
33:10What are you, Brad? What does everyone call you? Phil?
33:11Oh, yeah, Phil.
33:12Oh, yeah, Phil.
33:13Philmore, Philip.
33:14Lip.
33:15Oh!
33:17There's a lip on it.
33:19Yeah, give us a cuddle.
33:21Nice to meet you.
33:22Nice to meet you.
33:23Thanks for having us.
33:25Hello.
33:26Nice to meet you.
33:27Hello.
33:28Nice to meet you.
33:29So the Wreck Bay community is, like, how many hectares of acres or...?
33:33403 hectares we got given back.
33:36The community's just there.
33:37This has always just been us here.
33:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:40It's all part of our home, our family and that.
33:42This is owned by your community.
33:43Yeah, yeah.
33:44That's deadly.
33:45That's really, really deadly.
33:48After years of campaigning by the local Aboriginal community,
33:52in 1986, the Hawke government handed 403 hectares of Wreck Bay
33:58back to its traditional owners.
34:01In perpetuity, forever, it's safe.
34:03It's protected forever.
34:04Yep.
34:05What a great feeling.
34:06That's amazing.
34:07It's, yeah, it's magical out here.
34:08It's beautiful.
34:09Stunning.
34:10Yeah.
34:11Yeah, how many people live in Wreck Bay?
34:12The amount of people that live in the community, it's over 100.
34:16From growing up, we just come down here.
34:18This is, like, literally like our front yard.
34:19Amazing.
34:20And we just come down here, go for a dip.
34:22Up and over.
34:23We can go for a walk through the bushes and that.
34:25Build cubbies, build little, little umpies and that.
34:28Yeah.
34:29Yeah.
34:30No, but seriously, like, all of us young Wrecky lads there, we made, like, little cubby houses all through here and that.
34:35Yeah.
34:36Just, we love the salt water.
34:37We grew up with it and around it.
34:40Do you speak the language?
34:42Oh, we all wish.
34:43A little bit.
34:44We got taught a bit in school, but there's one thing we never got the opportunity to have is our language, our culture, really.
34:50Yeah, same with, yeah, where I'm from.
34:52We're trying to learn the language again now.
34:54There's actually a lot of people around that speak my language.
34:57Yeah.
34:58But it is one of those things, isn't it?
34:59You've got to spend a lot of time really focusing.
35:01But, so, what's the process like as far as, you know, young ones coming through and kind of passing on culture and all that?
35:07Do you fellas make sure you pass that on?
35:10Out here, it's just a natural thing, really.
35:12So, we don't really have any groups or anything that really do it.
35:15So, out here, growing up on the mission, it was just, you've got your uncles and your aunties.
35:20Your parents taught you to take you out bush on the weekends.
35:23That was where you learned all your culture and that was with your parents.
35:26The first thing I ever got taught was go fishing and that.
35:29We used to, yeah, go fishing when I was a kid.
35:31And all the uncles and that, they come down there with their boats, their nets.
35:34And then they get the rod out here with the lure on it, catch a mad feed.
35:39Nice.
35:40But then other than the fishing stuff, like all my uncles and that, they've taught me,
35:44was surfing and that, like, unfortunately it wasn't like hardly any cultural stuff,
35:49like cultural business, but it was just surfing and fishing.
35:51But that is cultural business.
35:52Yeah.
35:53That's how to listen and be on land, eh?
35:54Yeah.
35:55There's a fish starting just there.
36:01Yes!
36:04That is so deadly.
36:07Oh!
36:09You see how far that cast was.
36:12What do you usually catch around here?
36:14Anything really.
36:15Semen, tailor.
36:16No, I'm terrible at fishing but I love it.
36:18I love fishing.
36:19My auntie always says I'm too, too keen.
36:21I want to put my feet in that water.
36:23Oh, that's a nice temperature.
36:25Wait, you see them shining?
36:27Oh, you should see the big schools, see them all.
36:30That's the thing.
36:31Hey, like, country is all about, that's what my auntie taught me.
36:34It's like, I didn't grow up on my country.
36:36Yeah.
36:37And I used to be real sad about that.
36:38I said, how do I learn, you know?
36:39And she said, you have to be still and quiet and get lost on your own country.
36:44And that's how you learn.
36:46Because you have to take notice of things.
36:48You know how to cast her?
36:52Can I?
36:53Can I have a go?
36:54Is that alright?
36:55Yeah.
36:57I brought me dad rods just in case.
37:00Yeah, that's alright then.
37:01I'm going to be ashamed now though, look.
37:04Alright, everyone be careful.
37:05God.
37:09Oh, nice.
37:11No, that wasn't very good.
37:13That shouldn't go very far.
37:14We all know it.
37:16I'd be so happy.
37:20Hey!
37:22What?
37:23I probably thought I had something there.
37:25Don't you?
37:26Yeah, it feels like a bite.
37:28It might be the little bumps on the sand on the floor too.
37:30How dare you?
37:32Don't you dare.
37:33See, I get too excited for fishing.
37:37We'll get them on the next one.
37:39Claudia, you want to have a go?
37:41Yeah.
37:42Too bad!
37:43Yeah.
37:46Kidding.
37:47Here you go.
37:48Ready, set.
37:51Woo!
37:54Lock it.
37:55Yeah.
37:56And reel it in.
37:58Can I have another go after you Claudia?
38:00Nah.
38:01Next up, we spot another elusive native animal.
38:09Echidna.
38:10Oh my God.
38:11Got to be kidding me.
38:12I've never seen an echidna in the wild.
38:15And swap our wheels for a truly memorable ride.
38:19Hang on!
38:20Echidna.
38:21Echidna.
38:22Oh my God.
38:23Is it an echidna?
38:24Yes, it's an echidna crossing the road.
38:26You've got to be kidding me.
38:27I've never seen an echidna in the wild.
38:28Look at it!
38:29Oh, cutie!
38:30Find your window down and look out the window.
38:31Okay.
38:32Oh, it's just stopped.
38:33Oh, it's just stopped.
38:34It's curled up.
38:35Oh my God, you little cutie.
38:36Don't stress.
38:37It's just us.
38:38Oh my God, look at it.
38:39It's just us.
38:40Oh my God, look at it.
38:41It's hiding, look.
38:42See you later, bub.
38:44We're on our way out of the Buttery National Park and heading to the white sands, emerald waters
39:03and holiday vibe of Huskison Beach.
39:08This is pretty around here.
39:09It is, isn't it?
39:11We might see some whales.
39:14Look at all these beach shacks.
39:16They're huge.
39:17They're monstrous.
39:22We don't have time to get out of the deck chairs, as we have a boat to catch for some
39:26whale watching.
39:27Hopefully Steph loves marine life as much as she loves her birds.
39:32So this is my bird.
39:33So exciting.
39:34You are going to be...
39:35Oh, what?
39:36That's my bird.
39:37Peekaboo.
39:38Peekaboo.
39:39Peekaboo.
39:40Peekaboo.
39:41Peekaboo.
39:42Peekaboo.
39:43Peekaboo.
39:44Peekaboo.
39:45Peekaboo.
39:46Peekaboo.
39:47Peekaboo.
39:48Peekaboo.
39:49Peekaboo.
39:50Peekaboo.
39:51Peekaboo.
39:52He's so cute.
39:54Steph might get a chance to hear some whale song on our cruise into the Jervis Bay Marine Park.
40:01The Marine Park spans over 100 kilometres of coastline and is home to seals, penguins,
40:09seabirds, dolphins and most importantly, migrating whales.
40:14Final destination.
40:15Yes.
40:16The ultimate expedition.
40:18You ready for whale watching?
40:20I could never be ready.
40:21Could you be ready?
40:22Step on there.
40:23That's it.
40:24Great.
40:25Watch your head.
40:26There you go.
40:27Just step onto that.
40:28Great.
40:29Okay?
40:30Thanks, mate.
40:31How's the clarity?
40:33The water.
40:34Look at the colour of it.
40:35Oh, my God.
40:36I know.
40:37It's beautiful.
40:38Yeah, the water's beautiful at the moment.
40:39You go for my company.
40:41Oh, look.
40:42That cormorant sang.
40:43It was this big.
40:44Yeah.
40:45Ah!
40:46You know, that's what they do.
40:48They dry their little wingies.
40:49Dusky, flathead.
40:50Good catch.
40:51Is it a flathead?
40:52What a nice boy.
40:54I thought I expected him to flip me the bird, actually.
40:57What is it about waving from boats suddenly?
41:00Like, if you're walking on the side of the street, you wouldn't do that.
41:04If you're going fast in a boat, it's suddenly the thing to do.
41:07Oh, okay.
41:08Oh, here we go.
41:09We're going to get wet.
41:13This is like four-wheel driving.
41:14I'm just thinking of all the things I'm grateful for.
41:18Woo!
41:19Woo-hoo!
41:20Like, what's your general feeling about boats?
41:22I like boats.
41:23Windy!
41:24We're going to die.
41:25We're going to die.
41:26We are, yeah.
41:27One day, but not today.
41:29Oh, it's just...
41:31It's just water.
41:32Who's...
41:33It's just water.
41:34It's soft.
41:35It's not soft.
41:44Okay, guys.
41:45What you've got to do now is look out all around this area here.
41:49You're looking for a spout.
41:51Whales would think that we were adorable, right?
41:54Yeah.
41:55Because we're tied to them.
41:56Sophie, you're a legend.
41:58Thank you so much.
41:59Thank you so much.
42:00Oh, this is cool.
42:01Come on, little whales.
42:02Come on, little whale whales.
42:03Come on, little whale whales.
42:04Woo-hoo!
42:05Woo-hoo!
42:06Woo-hoo!
42:07Woo-hoo!
42:08Are you calling them?
42:09Yeah.
42:10So, are we coming to the end of the season now?
42:13Yeah, we're right at the end of the season at the moment.
42:15And how long does the season go for?
42:16It's starting off at the end of April at the moment.
42:18We've seen that each year it's getting a little bit longer because the population is growing
42:22so heavily.
42:23Oh, how wonderful.
42:24What a beautiful story.
42:25Yeah.
42:26From 1840 until 1919, ships would sail into these bays, hunt the whales, then process
42:39them for oil and other valuable products.
42:43By the 1960s, whales were nearing worldwide extinction until international whaling bans were introduced.
42:50So we've got about 45,000 that migrate just on this part of Australia.
42:56So they go up to have their calves because the calves wouldn't be able to survive in the
43:02cold waters and they're fattening them up to be able to survive.
43:04They're good parents.
43:05Yeah, they are good parents.
43:06And how big are the calves when they're for?
43:08Four and a half tonnes, so about six metres.
43:11Sorry, a calf for six metres is four and a half tonnes.
43:13Four and a half tonnes, yeah.
43:14They can grow from 15 to 25 kilos per day, so almost a kilo per hour.
43:23So do you ever come out here and not see whales?
43:26It's never a guarantee because it is Mother Nature.
43:28Yeah.
43:29Armies.
43:33Do you reckon we'll see a whale?
43:34I hope so.
43:35Are you getting seasick?
43:36Let's just not talk about it.
43:38Woo!
43:39Oh, this is good.
43:42This is a dangerous night.
43:43It's like a rollercoaster.
43:45What's been the highlight of your New South Wales trip?
43:48What?
43:49Do you know what?
43:50Can I be...
43:51Can I offer you a surprise?
43:52I am loving this.
43:54Really?
43:55This is your highlight?
43:56I'm loving it too.
43:57Only because I was so afraid and now that I'm doing it,
43:59it feels like an accomplishment.
44:01It's sort of electrifying.
44:03Yep, that's definitely...
44:05And I'm getting very wet.
44:07I know, right?
44:09Me too.
44:10You're teasing me as being one of the highlights of my trip.
44:13That makes me very happy.
44:14And you can always say something.
44:16Oh no!
44:17Here we go!
44:18Hang on!
44:19Ah!
44:20Ah!
44:21Ah!
44:22Ah!
44:23Ah!
44:24Ah!
44:25Ah!
44:26Ah!
44:27Ah!
44:28Ah!
44:29Ah!
44:30We could all spend the holidays talking to the monks.
44:31Yeah you loved that hai?
44:32Yeah.
44:33Ahn!
44:34Because you learnt that, you don't measure a day.
44:35Yeah there's no favourite part of the day, just a day.
44:37Yeah I don't know.
44:38And we asking eachother, what was your favourite part of the trip
44:40and we learnt nothing from those Buddhaess.
44:42We really do learn.
44:43Just don't judge anything.
44:44It's all fabulous.
44:45don't judge anything it's all fabulous it's all been fabulous it has it has you know should we
44:51go home now yeah I reckon but let's keep our eyes peeled for any whales come on whales where are you
45:00they're shy today I don't even feel disappointed that we didn't see any whales
45:08see that what is that oh it is magic it's like a unicorn it's like seeing a unicorn
45:20is it a dolphin so close up
45:30that was pretty spectacular give me a hug
45:40I love you you're so cuddly I'm very cuddly
45:50so
45:52so
45:59so
46:03so
46:07so
46:11so
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