Well it was all once swamp. So, swamp gas. 😀

Nah definitely a shooting star speed and tail trail match perfectly .

It's a shooting star mate. Hey Rob can you do a video on Redbank as it does have some fascinating hidden gems such as the Army barracks and dumping of WWII relics in the rifle range including bombs , woolen mills , markets, railway workshops ,sink holes ,xxxx malt factory, train museum, rifle range, .Kerwick street cop shop the first place Bill Hayden was a cop, the commercial and Kerwick hotels,the piggery, the mini bike track ,the 74 floods,the school,the school of arts building,the churches,the coal mine ,the proposed radioactive dump site near the malt factory. Give me a hoy if you are interested .

UFO shooting star would have left longer tail and way to quick

IMHO I think it was meteor. It had a trajectory, though briefly seen, never changed speed or direction.

Boobs

No need to wonder. Bring your money up North and take a look at places like Cape Trib. Plenty of other places also.

@@theoztreecrasher2647 I been up north, prefer down south actually.

It was the same as up north but cooler, no crocodiles but a lot more yowies.

That was a bit weird wasn’t it?

Was it on a single wire "Party Line" system too? 🤔 We certainly realize we're old when we start remembering things like that from our childhood! 😉😊

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Such wonderful memories. I'm hoping you have some never before seen photos of the area from decades ago?

Thank you! I hope you enjoy some of my other shows

I used to live in one side of the boobs. Our farm was at Bundall, not far from the racecourse. Somewhere we have photos of my great grandfather, my grandfather and his brothers with their horse and wagon loading sugar cane. We left there around 1967/8.

That’s ridiculous- it’s a gorgeous huge long beach. Very clean and safe. Elsewhere in the world beaches are much less beautiful. Plus it was illegal to be gay in Queensland until 1990, so it can’t have been that wonderful

@@Degjoy the beach today is a mere shadow of what it was up until the big cyclones of the 1970s wiped it out. And shadow being the operative word with all of the high rise casting so much shadow over the beaches in the afternoon. I can remember standing in full sun at 5pm in the 1960s while surf fishing - not a shadow anywhere along the beach. And the streets were so very quiet and friendly around Broadbeach. Now it's over-developed and busy streets.

Awesome, thanks for your patience on this one!

Thanks 👍

thanks for putting in the time signature - I totally missed it :D

It's an incredible success story in changing a mining area into a successful residential and commercial area. They did great work back then.

I really liked living in Runcorn back in the 80's.

Thanks!

Yes, I did read up on his life. Very interesting man indeed.

@@walkaboutwithrob The comment was more for subsequent viewers Rob - you having obviously already done the research. 😉 1 thing that you might be able to check up on sometime is details of how many, over what period, to whom and the possible locations of any surviving instances of the "king" breastplates that were issued to local leaders of Aboriginal groups. In that Wikipedia listing for Jupiter Mosman there is mention of another "local Aboriginal leader King Kiara, son of Barney, of the Dalleburra people, who wore his breastplate for the occasion" officiating at an unveiling ceremony. I have seen photos of such breastplates but, even over a lifetime of being raised with, living with, working with and for and employing Aboriginal people, I have never seen 1 in the flesh. The closest was probably many years ago when a remark at our dinner table by a neighbour that his son was working in Tasmania elicited the response that "I've been to Tasmania, Boss" by an older gentleman with the name of "Kingy" Costello. Apparently he had once been taken down all those thousands of miles to aid in the search for a missing child. Unfortunately the old man was long dead before my own knowledge had reached a level to be properly interested.

I hope I waved back...

It's odd, I shot tonnes of footage but the finished product was only 17 minutes. I think I was extra tough in the editing on this one.

@walkaboutwithrob Wow, really! Well, I can safely say that even if it had been 70 minutes instead of 17, I still would have watched it in its entirety 😊

Looks like a shooting star.

I saw that too! Meteorite maybe?

My pleasure. I had fun making this one.

Probably a bird.

Quite roomy actually. Would happily stay there again.

I think it was a bird

I never really noticed until you mentioned it... now I see them everywhere

I'm thinking it's to low to be a meteor as it's below the level of the, already very low clouds.

I am keen for sure to retrace their course. But if there is dense bushland along the way I'd have to detour.

Very true indeed. The van got away before I could catch it.

Grundys was in surfers not broadie

That was at Surfers Paradise, this episode was Broadbeach.

Probably a bug

It's worse than that. Prior to the development the Gold Coast area was the most botanically diverse area of Australia.

Yes I saw that video. Her videos are very well made. Personally though, I don't believe in the supernatural and anyway, Ned Harper's death certificate says he was buried in a different cemetery.

@@walkaboutwithrob I am skeptical about it as well, not only because of that but also for complete lack of witnesses. Many other supposed ghost sightings (i..e. Southport cemetery) there are witnesses available (be they real or misidentification etc) for at least some of them, though I've not been able to find anyone who's actually said they saw him there. I suggest it's a great, entertaining story but that's it.

​Keep an open mind Rob. I'm an outdoor person like you and I've seen some stuff just another 2 or 3 hours inland from this video location. So interesting those burial grounds.

Never seen anything paranormal at cemeteries and I've walked plenty in the middle of the night. A spirit doesn't stay near the body after recognition of death.

@@yardman111100 Just being honest here, but at the age of 53 and having lived and worked in 17 different countries, directed a movie, had two near-death experiences and have walked half way across Europe etc al., I'd like to think that I do indeed have an open mind. Just because I don't believe in the paranormal doesn't make me closed-minded. I know you were being very polite and friendly and I totally acknowledge that. The fact is, Ned Harper is not buried there. So it begs the question, what are these 'ghost hunters' actually doing? Should I just wholeheartedly 'believe' whatever they say, and if I don't, does that make me closed-minded??

Who doesn't mate¿? 😅😏😂

Actually why I simply prefer the sunshine coast instead.

No, the Lennons Hotel was a new build. It didn't take over a pre-existing building.

James, Lennon's was a Brisbane hotel mob and had the joint built. Lennon's gave up and it was taken over by Federal Hotels Ltd in 1961, changing things from posh to cheap/informal aiming at youngins ,giving it the crappy coloured look. They failed too and auctioned it off and it was passed in at a million bucks. (cost 2 mill to build) In late 1965 a subsidiary of Carton & United Breweries bought it and re named it Broadbeach International Hotel and they leased it to Chevron Qld Ltd to Operate. Sure nobody made made big doe out of it but the Chevron and the Surfers Paradise Hotel also struggled then for years.

@@servantofgod5642 Thanks for the info!! The only reason I ask is that there is a movie called High Rolling (1977 and on KZfaq) That has scenes filmed at the Broadbeach International. It also has awesome scenes of Surfers Paradise that will blow your mind !!

​@@jamessimpson2674 Yeah remember the film , must watch it again one day.

Bird

There is no evidence that the human remains were subject to attack, blunt force trauma or spear injuries while alive. This particular burial ground was sited on a small area above the level of the swamps and marshes and was in use for over a thousand years.

@@walkaboutwithrob what evidence do we have of this?

@@slingblade8963 The evidence from the archaeological report: espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205559

@@walkaboutwithrob @slingback forgot to say thank you , it’s an amazing how many negative & trolls you pull , Helps ur channel thou so good on you 😊

Yes. We live in hope that it may one day, slide in.

Well, it's only one casino...