Sorry, but this is cool...

[AWo]

I wonder if the Australien people here know this video / expedition....however, I consider this is a normal drive to work...down under...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdc0cbcWBEo


Happy winching....

AWo

 

[TheDocAUS]

The Leyland Brothers are very well known in Australia. One of the pioneers of 4X4 driving in Australia. A must watch program when I was a kid.

I stopped at Coen to refuel on my 4 day helicopter trip around Cape York. From memory it was one of the WWII bomber and fighter bases in Northern Australia.

 

[AWo]

Program? What was it? A TV series?

AWo

 

[TheDocAUS]

They made a few series, the most famous was probably Ask the Leyland Brothers and Travel all over the Countryside.

Other big names were Harry Butler (Wildlife) and Malcolm Douglas (mostly Kimberley and northern Australia). The Bush Tucker Man was also popular - who is on this forum under the user name @Bushguide - he owns a Grenadier.

Documentaries​

• Down the Darling (1963) – A trip from Mungindi, Queensland, to Mildura, Victoria, following the 2,300-kilometre course of the Darling River, part of Australia's longest river system, in a small aluminium boat. An accompanying book was titled Great Ugly River and was published by Lansdowne Press in 1965.
• Wheels Across a Wilderness (1966) – Driving two Land Rovers from Steep Point, Western Australia, across the centre of the continent to Cape Byron, New South Wales. The trip was also published as a book, Where Dead Men Lie.
• Open Boat to Adventure (1969) – A six-month journey from Darwin to Sydney in an 18-foot open boat, following the coast around Arnhem Land and Cape York. The book was titled Untamed Coast.
• The Wet (1972) – Documents a journey to what is now called Kakadu National Park via Darwin. There were no sealed roads to the north-west part of the Northern Territory at the time. It also provides footage of a Darwin before Cyclone Tracy.

Travel All Over The Countryside​

Travel All Over The Countryside was originally a series of one-hour documentaries commissioned by the Seven Network in the late 1990s and produced by Mike and Margie Leyland. The films were later released on DVD by Flashback Entertainment.

• Lure of the Red Centre
• Border Country
• The Stormy Coast
• Outback Coast
• Along and Beyond the Tanami Track
• Tracks of the Past
• Travel Across The Cape
• Travel to the Lost City
• Trek Around The Pilbara
• Kakadu and Beyond
• Cape York Adventure

Television series​

• Off the Beaten Track, 1970–1972
• Trekabout, 1974–1975
• Ask the Leyland Brothers – Nine Network, 1976–1980 and 1983–1984.
• The Leyland Brothers Great Outdoors – Seven Network, 1980–1984
• Leyland Brothers' World
• Leyland's Australia – Network Ten, 2000

 

[Tazzieman]

Program? What was it? A TV series?

AWo

They made films and travelled all over the country screening them in small town cinemas.
No Netflix or Discovery channel , nor Youtube back then!
Proper hardcore adventurers they were

 

[bigleonski]

Where are we Mike?
Buggered if I know Mal.

 

[Clark Kent]

For Australian adventurers add Alby Mangles (with Judy Green) to the list.

And Russell Coight.

 

[bigleonski]

For Australian adventurers add Alby Mangles (with Judy Green) to the list.

But only for Judy Green

 

[Shopkeep]

Travel all over your own back yard, ask the lazy buggers.