With things not exactly going to plan, the rest of the gorge was explored, visiting Boowinda Gorge, Cathedral Cave, Ward’s Canyon, The Bend, and the Art Gallery. One particular attraction is missing from the list, unfortunately.
Note that Carnarvon is mis-spelled in the filename, but this isn’t public :)
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We visit the Carnarvon National Park, an area famous for Carnarvon Gorge, a huge gorge. But will the weather play nice? We get our tent set up at Takarakka, then visit the rock pools, tackle the Boolimba Bluff, followed by the Moss Garden.
This video is the most popular video on the entire channel and is still getting a number of views per day.
I’d have put a little more effort in if I’d have known how many views it’d get.
On the other hand, it was pretty much created because when I looked for such a video, I didn’t find it.
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Warning: winches draw a lot of current, and are usually wired directly to the battery. If you get the wiring wrong, you may cause an electrical fire, and potential battery explosion! Be sure your wiring is correct, and get a second opinion if you’re in doubt.
Here’s how to replace and wire up a contactor / solenoid, and we show you how to identify what the terminals on the contactor are and what the terminals on the winch are when both are unlabelled.
This one was released a bit out of order, as there was still one last video from Townsville.
But this one was finished, so it went out.
Unfortunately the setup had to be removed in 2022, as the house was sold, but the KiwiSDRs were donated to the EMDRC amateur radio club for them to run instead - so the equipment didn’t go to waste.
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Building Pride Radio Group’s KiwiSDR setup from scratch and doing a bit of maintenance work on the VK4XSS SatNOGS station.
Unlike previous muti-part videos, both of these parts took place on the same day.
It was a pretty busy day.
The second part doesn’t seem to have been as widely viewed as the first - but I think the fame of Radical Bay Road led to a lot more search hits for the first part.
Part 1 was identified as “Part 1” in the title - but this one reads “Pt 2” due to the title lengths being excessively long…
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The adventure continues further from Part 1 - having successfully made it back from Radical Bay “Road” having broken only one thing on the car, we decide to take the island’s other 4WD track out to (almost) the westernmost point of the island.
Then we go and do the Forts Walk, which takes you around some World War II infrastructure, back from when Magnetic Island was used for a gun emplacement to defend the military base in Townsville from naval attack.
The weather was not on our side for that, so we headed up to Horseshoe Bay for a swim.
After it hit low tide, we headed out to Cockle Bay to see, and hopefully reach, the SS City of Adelaide shipwreck - but the tide wasn’t low enough to remove the threat of nasty marine stingers, so we went and got something to eat and took it to Picnic Bay.
After that, we went back to Horseshoe Bay for another swim to kill a bit of time before taking the last ferry back to Townsville.
The first of a two part series visiting Magnetic Island.
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We take the ferry to Magnetic Island, and then proceed to drive down one of the only 4WD tracks that is a sealed road… well… kind-of. This takes us to Radical Bay, then we check out the Arthurs Bay lookout and the Searchlight Tower Lookout.
This short video, filmed almost entirely in timelapse, details the drive from Gladstone to Townsville.
It really exists for continuity purposes only - with just 19 views at time of writing this is the least viewed video on the entire channel. Not that there’s much reason to watch it.
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We head from Central Queensland to North Queensland - driving up to Townsville.
