Speaker 1: We'll do this, Grumpy Colin roll again.
Speaker 2: Just give where to get on the roll again? Why
Speaker 2: my love is making music with my friend? I give
Speaker 2: on the roll again.
Speaker 1: Steve Collins Traveler.
Speaker 3: His YouTube site, he simply called that Steve Colin's Traveler
Speaker 3: grumpy good morning.
Speaker 2: Well Bullah to you, Tony, And of course buller is
Speaker 2: the three gen work for Hello. And guess where we're
Speaker 2: going this morning. We're going to the South Pacific.
Speaker 1: Which we'll get to inester ticket. Have you spent much
Speaker 1: time in Tasmania? No Ah? The word Well, there there
Speaker 1: goes the segment. I thought we're going to probably milk
Speaker 1: that for ten or fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna ask me questions about it.
Speaker 1: So you're what, you've never been to Tasmania.
Speaker 2: No, it's a bone of contention because lonely this my
Speaker 2: wife has been that I haven't, and I keep putting
Speaker 2: pressure on her to for us to go and so far,
Speaker 2: because I've been to a lot of places, and because
Speaker 2: in fact, she got back from Tasmania a week before
Speaker 2: I met her.
Speaker 1: Ah, right.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: She got back from Tasmania a week before you met
Speaker 3: and the rest is history. Had you known known.
Speaker 2: That she was going to prevent me from going to Tasmania.
Speaker 2: I might not have.
Speaker 1: Married her, that's right. She may not be the very
Speaker 1: famous missus Collins.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. She might be a lot happier.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: No, you've both had a joyous life and continua have
Speaker 3: a pretty joyous life.
Speaker 1: The only reason I mentioned is because I threw it.
Speaker 3: That little question with regards to a great line from
Speaker 3: song happened to come up in a feed just n
Speaker 3: plus twenty four about a button pushing cowboy was asked
Speaker 3: not to do what and had lots of responses by
Speaker 3: way of text as to what the answer may be.
Speaker 3: Some people are very very correct. Other people are really
Speaker 3: really not even close. And then we're and then we're
Speaker 3: talking about it, and then were and then we yeah,
Speaker 3: and then we're talking about Tasmania. Given everything that's been
Speaker 3: in the news about whether at the stadium and what
Speaker 3: the government's doing, and it's been fascinating.
Speaker 2: They might have. They might have They might have an
Speaker 2: election as well.
Speaker 3: They could now be going to election, which imagine most
Speaker 3: Tasmanians wouldn't necessarily.
Speaker 2: Want no, because we've just had a federal election, you know,
Speaker 2: I think people get sick of too many elections, you know, Tony.
Speaker 1: I'd like to announce the date of my next election.
Speaker 1: Words to that effect.
Speaker 2: Well, I haven't had an election for a long time,
Speaker 2: you know, because oh no, it was back in March,
Speaker 2: wasn't it. We had our last election?
Speaker 1: We did, Yes, we did.
Speaker 3: What's happening in your part of the world, Now, tell
Speaker 3: us about what do we need to know? When we
Speaker 3: talk about the South Pacific Islands, you specifically referred to what, well,
Speaker 3: the South Pacific.
Speaker 2: It's actually vast. I mean that there's basically two different
Speaker 2: parts to it. You've got Melanesia, which is located in
Speaker 2: the north and northeast of Australia. That includes Papua New Guinea, Fiji,
Speaker 2: Solomon Islands, Vanawafu and New Caledonia. And then you've got Polynesia.
Speaker 2: Now Polynesia stretches right across the vast area of the Pacific.
Speaker 2: And then it's huge because it forms a triangle between Hawaii,
Speaker 2: New Zealand and Easter Ireland. And the country's there include Samoa, Tonga,
Speaker 2: French Polynesia and the Cook Islands. And so basically we
Speaker 2: just call it the South Pacific because all of it
Speaker 2: is based in the South Pacific, and of course for holidaymakers,
Speaker 2: particularly Australias, they just love going to the South Pacific.
Speaker 2: Now a lot of them will go and do South
Speaker 2: Pacific cruises. They're very, very popular, in which instance you
Speaker 2: visit a couple of different countries. Typically it's usually say
Speaker 2: New Caledonia, Vanawatu, Fiji, because that sort of does about
Speaker 2: a week ten days cruise, and then others just like
Speaker 2: to go and veg out. Now, the thing about the
Speaker 2: South Pacific, whether it be Melanesia or Polynesia, is you
Speaker 2: have got some wonderful islands anywhere. I mean there's hundreds
Speaker 2: of them, there's thousands of them. You've got some beautiful beaches,
Speaker 2: and both the Melanesian and the Polynesian people are just beautiful.
Speaker 2: They're gentle, they're kind, they're happy people, and why not
Speaker 2: because they live in a very very gorgeous part of
Speaker 2: the world. Yes, and when you go there, you know,
Speaker 2: you're overwhelmed with kindness and it's just such a great
Speaker 2: place to relax. And of course there's a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff you can do there. I mean, you can just
Speaker 2: redg out on a beautiful island somewhere and do basically
Speaker 2: nothing or you can have a lot of adventures. I mean,
Speaker 2: you've got things. You've got excellent diving there, whether you
Speaker 2: want to go snorting or scuba diving. You've got brilliant fishing.
Speaker 2: You've got some of these islands quite rugged, so you
Speaker 2: can do a little bit of mountain climbing. There's some
Speaker 2: sensational volcanoes there if you want to go and look at.
Speaker 2: In fact, one of the most active volcanoes, most active
Speaker 2: approachable volcanoes in the world, is in Vanawatu, and you
Speaker 2: can get up really and personal to that. And so
Speaker 2: there's so much to go and see and experience in
Speaker 2: the South Pacific. And because they're different island groups, they've
Speaker 2: got different customs, different traditions, et cetera. And the one
Speaker 2: thing all South Pacific islanders seem to do really well
Speaker 2: is seeing they're very musical people. They're just amazing. They've
Speaker 2: got these wonderful voices. They can usually pick up a
Speaker 2: guitar or some other instrument and learn to play it
Speaker 2: pretty quickly. So it's just a wonderful experience to go there.
Speaker 2: You relax, you're enjoying another culture, and of course you're
Speaker 2: in one of the most beautiful parts of the world.
Speaker 2: So it really is a wonderful place to go for
Speaker 2: that relaxing holiday, or for that cruise, or if you
Speaker 2: want a bit of adventure to go and you know,
Speaker 2: have a unique adventure. I mean some of these places
Speaker 2: you can swing with stingrays and things like that.
Speaker 3: That's what we want to do, go and swim with
Speaker 3: those rays.
Speaker 1: What are we doing today? Well why don't we go
Speaker 1: and rays?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, look here in Western Australia, people going pa wow,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah they do.
Speaker 3: Well that yeah, great in a place called Shark Bay.
Speaker 3: What could possibly go wrong? We stated, Because well we'll
Speaker 3: ask the listener. They know way more about these things
Speaker 3: than you or I do. One double three six ninety three.
Speaker 3: So those of you that have traveled around that area.
Speaker 3: Pacific Islands, which has grumpies just outlined, includes some incredible places.
Speaker 1: Would you include Papuo and New Guinea in that.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. Well, it is actually the largest South Pacific island.
Speaker 2: I used to live in pup with New Guinea, but
Speaker 2: that is entirely different experience. I would rate the Solomon
Speaker 2: Islands with Papi New Guinea because they're very very similar,
Speaker 2: although part that as Papu Indi Guinea and Solomoni is
Speaker 2: a part of Melanesia, which means that they're they're sort
Speaker 2: of different to the Polynesians. They're different, different ethnic group.
Speaker 2: But you've got Fiji, you've not got New Caledonia, and
Speaker 2: you've also got Vanuatu that are part of Melanesia, and
Speaker 2: it gets a bit more exciting. I think they're because
Speaker 2: they're certainly in Papua New Guinea. It's extraordinary scenery because
Speaker 2: you've got you've got mountains there that that go up
Speaker 2: to in the old language is over sixteen thousand feet.
Speaker 2: When I lived there, I used to I used to
Speaker 2: live at Mount Hagan, and I would be driving the
Speaker 2: track and we'ren'd be going on mountain passes over ten
Speaker 2: thousand for you know. And it's just an extraordinar place.
Speaker 2: It rained every day on the at four per years.
Speaker 3: Just when you don't need it to raid it every
Speaker 3: day for plust before o'clock.
Speaker 1: It's busy.
Speaker 3: One double three six nine three. It is the South
Speaker 3: Pacific on you've been there, been there, done that. Give
Speaker 3: us a call one double three six nine A couple
Speaker 3: of quick calls. Maggie, say how to Steve Grumpy Collins.
Speaker 4: Long Rompy Colins. Now, yeah, cruising in a sense, you're
Speaker 4: talking about the number of cruisers in the past. Most
Speaker 4: memorable of those cruisers as far as destinations go, perhaps
Speaker 4: would be the Surmours. Back then it was were and
Speaker 4: Western and American smart and then honey Hour to visiting
Speaker 4: a hospital which was out of final World War two.
Speaker 5: Hot.
Speaker 1: There you go. There's a great piece of their history there, Stephen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. And it's interesting about a Samoa because
Speaker 2: Samoa was normally like I'm not talking I'm talking about
Speaker 2: Western Samoa, not not not American Samoa. But Samoa was
Speaker 2: right on the International date Line and it was just
Speaker 2: over the other side of it. So what they did
Speaker 2: was they decided, well, we don't like this, so they
Speaker 2: decided that they would move their time, their time and
Speaker 2: put it an hour earlier, so that they were the
Speaker 2: very first country in the world to start the new day. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: they just sort of changed.
Speaker 1: Their time as well as it could be the.
Speaker 2: First country to get of the day instead of the
Speaker 2: last country of the day.
Speaker 1: Benny, Thank you, Maggie.
Speaker 3: Ben, Now you spotted some roadworks for us, So whereabouts.
Speaker 6: Can I go? Hey, he's traveling? Well, thank you, Benny,
Speaker 6: you know that the tunnel. The tunnel has got raid
Speaker 6: works on to see that and Dan have just got
Speaker 6: one guy closed down three lanes and just and just
Speaker 6: spray painting the walls.
Speaker 3: Okay, So that was happening as I was coming through
Speaker 3: late last night, read about ten thirty and I thought
Speaker 3: to myself.
Speaker 6: Then I reckon, it's going to go on for a
Speaker 6: good number two or three.
Speaker 1: Weeks, two or three weeks.
Speaker 6: With the rumor that's on the rumor file.
Speaker 1: Though with one person painting?
Speaker 6: Can I win the Mercedes?
Speaker 1: Please? Too?
Speaker 3: Good on your bed, thank you? In the running that's
Speaker 3: very funny. Can I win the Mercedes for you? Why?
Speaker 3: I think the Breaking program have a great relationship with
Speaker 3: the good people membership of the Berwick Mercedes at of
Speaker 3: Berrika and they do a great job and they've been
Speaker 3: part of the Breaking Program for a long time. So
Speaker 3: it's up for it was one of the rumor files.
Speaker 3: I think that's very funny. Angela, we've just been talking,
Speaker 3: certainly about tas Mania. Angela, you wanted to make a
Speaker 3: comment about Tazzi in the AFL.
Speaker 7: Look certainly do Tony. I hope you're feeling.
Speaker 1: A little bit better thank you very much, welcome back.
Speaker 7: I mean we do miss you certainly look up into
Speaker 7: football games stone Blieve. Overall, I've been to football games
Speaker 7: at your back and long Siste and I cannot ever
Speaker 7: send the.
Speaker 2: Problem by the.
Speaker 7: Just assist that they have a game down every probably
Speaker 7: second week in Hobard and then Monny, I don't know
Speaker 7: what I need this idea about the stadium one a
Speaker 7: billion another, because it's just trying to stop them giving
Speaker 7: in me. I think, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Not too well great. I feel like if.
Speaker 7: You're going to get five hundred thousand people wanted to
Speaker 7: go to any game, you know what I mean that
Speaker 7: as it's just still being I just thought.
Speaker 5: You know that.
Speaker 7: They're putting, you know, silly team in the post before tas.
Speaker 4: It's faulty.
Speaker 7: It's insulting to people who love a game. It's about
Speaker 7: time they looked at why they're trying to stop the game.
Speaker 3: It's a very good, very good point, Angela. You obviously
Speaker 3: love the great apple Isle.
Speaker 7: It's all the people I talk to on your wife
Speaker 7: go down to Parliament and fantastic white as you found
Speaker 7: out today while they broadcasting, because it's suggesting, look, it's stupid.
Speaker 7: For just again it can be well, it's so precious
Speaker 7: down there's precious and if you don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very very good point, Angela. We've got a bit
Speaker 1: of a dodgy line, so I'll let you go.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the line whereever it's coming through
Speaker 3: it if you but thank you Ange for that. It
Speaker 3: just goes to the affection that people have. Grumpy for Tasmania.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, well, you know it's it's a very popular
Speaker 2: state and particularly for tourism. You know, it's I mean
Speaker 2: it's the most compact state in Australia. But it's certainly beautiful.
Speaker 2: You know, there's there's certainly a lot.
Speaker 1: Of would you know, you've never been there.
Speaker 2: I've seen photos.
Speaker 1: Photos.
Speaker 2: She lets me look at her photos every now and then.
Speaker 2: Totally have a.
Speaker 1: Look at my photo album of Tasmania.
Speaker 2: You've there. That's exactly right, That's that's what I.
Speaker 1: So we were just traveling through the beautiful Yeah.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about Fiji because that is the most popular
Speaker 2: of the South Pacific islands. What it is for the
Speaker 2: for Australians and that's part of Melanesia, but it lies
Speaker 2: about two thousand and Kilbaria's northeast of New Zealand, and
Speaker 2: it's an archipelago of more than three hundred and thirty islands. Now,
Speaker 2: although it's got you know, the three hundred and thirty islands,
Speaker 2: only only about one hundred of them have got permanent populations.
Speaker 2: And out of that, eighty seven percent of the population
Speaker 2: live on the two biggest islands, which are Vita Levu
Speaker 2: and Evanua Levu Levu. And of those, Vita Levu is
Speaker 2: the main island. It's a home to Suva which as
Speaker 2: the capital, and Nandy the main airport which people who
Speaker 2: fly there would have gone to Nandy and it's and
Speaker 2: it's got the majority of the population of all of
Speaker 2: Figi living there. Of course, it's quite a big islands.
Speaker 2: It's one of the biggest islands in fig but it's
Speaker 2: a really interesting place. You get your cultural experiences there.
Speaker 2: You've got your lux resorts and your golf courses, you've
Speaker 2: got your family resorts. It's great for snorting, diving, surfing.
Speaker 2: There's a place called cloud Break which is an internationally
Speaker 2: known top surfing spot. And they've got a few other
Speaker 2: little islands that are just off the delivery where you
Speaker 2: can go and I mean that you just catch a
Speaker 2: little boat. There's your resorts sort of thing, and it's
Speaker 2: just a fantastic place. But one of the one of
Speaker 2: the popular things to do there. Part of that is
Speaker 2: called the Corals, and it's sort of it's a really
Speaker 2: nice drive right down the coast on the on the
Speaker 2: southwest of the island, and there's all these great little
Speaker 2: beaches there and there's pockets of stunning coastline and you've
Speaker 2: got a lot of family friendly resorts down here, and
Speaker 2: this is where you probably get more of the budget
Speaker 2: sort of resorts, and you've also got some boutique property
Speaker 2: said that are a little bit more expensive. But look,
Speaker 2: it's just sort of a very very laid back area.
Speaker 2: Great for stork we dive in, surfing, et cetera. And
Speaker 2: of course the resorts you can sit by the pool
Speaker 2: and the locals are just friendly, you know. And this
Speaker 2: is but if you want something very up market, Fiji
Speaker 2: has got the most up market resorts, and also French Polynesia.
Speaker 2: But I'm not going to go to Bench Polynesia tonight
Speaker 2: because it was a bit far or cook far away.
Speaker 3: Was just gorgeous, you know. I did the cruise there
Speaker 3: all those years ago on the old fair Sta.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the first now.
Speaker 2: I remember the fair Star, yeahship, Yes, well the Fundship first, and.
Speaker 3: I did a couple of cruises and my job was
Speaker 3: to play the music on board.
Speaker 2: Was it really?
Speaker 1: That was my job on the ship?
Speaker 2: Really? You were the DJ? Were you?
Speaker 1: I was the nightclub presenter?
Speaker 2: Well I was. They didn't call you a DJ in
Speaker 2: those days.
Speaker 1: Load that expression.
Speaker 2: Loaded, right, you know you were if you were in
Speaker 2: the sixties. You would have been proud to be a
Speaker 2: DJ in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1: And your point is, well.
Speaker 2: I've just pointed out that you were so much younger
Speaker 2: that you wouldn't have had that experience.
Speaker 1: Good on your thanks very much. So it was.
Speaker 3: The year was seventy eight, seventy nine and Kylie Minogue's manager,
Speaker 3: who had a relationship with the good people at Sidmar, said, look,
Speaker 3: here's a job. Would you like to spend a couple
Speaker 3: of some time traveling on the Festa? And I said, okay, yes,
Speaker 3: and so did. It took me three and a half
Speaker 3: years to get over it.
Speaker 2: Well, I used to work for p and O the
Speaker 2: Modern Medication, and we worked it out. But in those days,
Speaker 2: this was in the nineteen sixties, and seventies that on
Speaker 2: some of these cruisers, women out number of single women
Speaker 2: number single men by about seven to one thirty.
Speaker 3: It's one of the reasons I no longer have hair.
Speaker 3: We'll do this when we come back. More of you,
Speaker 3: more of your course, cap and joined us one double
Speaker 3: three sixty nine, Steve Grumpy Collins.
Speaker 1: You want to see some of these texts. Listen to this.
Speaker 3: I thought the International dateline went through Tonga. We'll have
Speaker 3: to double check on that, Megan, not too sure. Another
Speaker 3: one doesn't go through Tom's Eastye, of course, thank you.
Speaker 3: My favorite holiday destination F one J one Licky Lickyloo
Speaker 3: adults only five star resort near Mulo Melo.
Speaker 1: M A l o l o.
Speaker 3: Yeah, helloo over water looks through the floor you can
Speaker 3: see Kaleidescobafish, obsolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, that's what it's
Speaker 2: our specific's all about. Look, it's paradise. Speaking of paradise,
Speaker 2: we're going to go to Vanawatu now our next one,
Speaker 2: which is sort of north of THREEG. But do you
Speaker 2: remember in the sixties a TV show called Adventures in Paradise.
Speaker 2: I do Gard McKay played Adam.
Speaker 1: Troy did Adam Troy Yep, yep.
Speaker 2: Now you'd be surprised to know that most of that
Speaker 2: was actually filled with California, But Vaneratu featured a lot.
Speaker 2: It wasn't called Vanuatu. It was called the Wallace and
Speaker 2: Ellis Islands or something. Then became Valawatu after that because
Speaker 2: it was sort of both French and British colonies that
Speaker 2: combined when it became Vanauatu. But that is one place
Speaker 2: in the world where you can actually get up, real
Speaker 2: up close to an actual volcano. It's called the volcano
Speaker 2: is called Mount Yassur, and it's on Canna Island and
Speaker 2: it's one of the most accessible active volcanoes in the world.
Speaker 2: And one of the best places times to go is
Speaker 2: just on dusk because when it gets dark you see
Speaker 2: all the red glow from inside the crater and it
Speaker 2: spits out a bit of lava. But that they keep
Speaker 2: your will back from that. That's one of the great adventures.
Speaker 2: But the other one that the reason I pitched Adventures
Speaker 2: in Paradise. There was one you've heard of land diving,
Speaker 2: you know, where these guys got up that it was.
Speaker 2: It was a precursor to bungee junkie jumping. They used
Speaker 2: to climb up these massive bamboo tower tie vines to
Speaker 2: their ankles and leap off a lot of I remember
Speaker 2: one episode where they filmed it there. Well, that wasn't
Speaker 2: probably them, was probably Lowell Thomas, another famous travel journalist
Speaker 2: who used to go there. But that is in Vanahatu,
Speaker 2: and that's on an island called Pentecost Island, and that
Speaker 2: is a tradition still a tradition today. What they do
Speaker 2: is you start off as a as a child, it's
Speaker 2: funny for males, and you leap off from the lower
Speaker 2: the lower bridges because they have all these they like
Speaker 2: diving boards, and you walk on that and you and
Speaker 2: you leap off. And what they do is they soften
Speaker 2: the soilters. The whole point as it is to just
Speaker 2: drag your head on the soil and then bounce back
Speaker 2: up again without hurting yourself, and then as you get
Speaker 2: older and braver than you go higher up the tower.
Speaker 2: Absolutely fascinating. But they still do that today and you
Speaker 2: can actually go and see that in real life on
Speaker 2: Vaniwatu if you want very exciting place. But the capital
Speaker 2: of vaner Wuardo is Port Villa and that's that's a
Speaker 2: it's a fairly quiet place. It's got a it's got
Speaker 2: a massive harbor there. And what are the features of
Speaker 2: the harbor is it's got an underwater post box.
Speaker 1: And what you do is you get a water We
Speaker 1: all need one.
Speaker 2: Of them, we do. And you, well, my son sent
Speaker 2: me a postcard from this you dove down. I don't
Speaker 2: know how deep it is and you dive down and
Speaker 2: you post send off this postcard and I send them
Speaker 2: all over the world. Absolutely fantastic place. But there's a
Speaker 2: lot to do there because there was a lot of
Speaker 2: adventures du tourists, oh yeah, and gorgeous rivers and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. It used to be whether it was a
Speaker 2: new hebides what it was.
Speaker 1: Called, that's the one.
Speaker 3: Yes, my recollection of that of that port was it
Speaker 3: was pretty good for duty free purchase.
Speaker 2: But it still is, yeah, yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 2: That's that there's basically only one main road in Portvilla.
Speaker 2: It's sort of like a big long road along the harbor.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it used to be good for duty free,
Speaker 2: probably still is because they do depend on tourism a lot.
Speaker 2: And there's an island in the harbor that a lot
Speaker 2: of the cruise ships go to when everybody goes in
Speaker 2: and hops on this island and there's a nice beach
Speaker 2: there and stuff like that. But yeah, but that's in Vanuatu.
Speaker 2: I think it's some of the upper islands that you
Speaker 2: want to go to Tanner Island and Pedecost Island to
Speaker 2: see the others and it's just and it's they've got
Speaker 2: it's very very cultural. They've got these traditional ceremonies there
Speaker 2: and you can visit local visit villages and they're very
Speaker 2: similar to some of the they're very similar to the
Speaker 2: Papua New Guineans and some of the some of the
Speaker 2: rituals and that that they do because there's a lot
Speaker 2: of singing and dancing. But yeah, they really get dressed
Speaker 2: up in the in their gear with their their masks
Speaker 2: on and their their paint and stuff like that. Fascinating experience.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's that's a that's a great place
Speaker 2: for Vanuatu studying holiday destination. Pristine beaches, last rainforests and
Speaker 2: really rich cultural experiences. So it's it's something if you
Speaker 2: want something a little bit more exciting than say fee
Speaker 2: G that's sort of the next step up. I guess
Speaker 2: is to go to Vadawatu, but no, it's just it's
Speaker 2: just a great place. You've got a Fete Island is
Speaker 2: at the home of Port Villa, but then you've got
Speaker 2: a Spiritu Santo which is famous for its Champagne beach
Speaker 2: and the Blue Holes. Now these blue holes, there's world
Speaker 2: class diving there. They are really really deep dive holes
Speaker 2: that you go down to and down the bottom of
Speaker 2: one you've got the wreck of the s S. President Coolidge,
Speaker 2: which was sunk during World War Two. So you know
Speaker 2: there's a lot to do there. It's just a fantastic place.
Speaker 2: And you know, whatever holiday you want, excitement or just
Speaker 2: relaxation and cultural activities, it's all there on the in
Speaker 2: Vanat and you've got a choice of really good resorts
Speaker 2: as well. You've got Turtle Bay Lodge for instance, You've
Speaker 2: got the Ratua Private Island Resort, and you've got a
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of other resorts like that. So
Speaker 2: it's another fascinating place you visit in the South Pacific.
Speaker 3: I'm just having a look at Adventures in Paradise. Been
Speaker 3: a lot of comments online about Adventures in Paradise, so
Speaker 3: have a look at this. So you're right about Gardener.
Speaker 3: McKay played Adam Troy and James Holden.
Speaker 1: Very young looking bloke.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Guy Stockwell like Chris Parker.
Speaker 2: I think he was Dean Stockwell's brother, Remember Dean Stockwell.
Speaker 2: He played Stockwell. I'm just trying to think he was
Speaker 2: in a police series or something like that. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was in Oh, was mainly in TVs. He was sort
Speaker 2: of like the young teenage guy. I'm just trying to
Speaker 2: think what he was in.
Speaker 3: He was in the Hebody going to be somebody will
Speaker 3: tell us that's train.
Speaker 2: He had a good television career Anchors Away Man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he was in that. Yeah, and you.
Speaker 3: Else was in Adventures in Paradise from time to time.
Speaker 3: Was a very well known person.
Speaker 1: Michael Pate.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, he well, when he wasn't playing American Indians.
Speaker 2: Michael Pate was a lovely man. He was a trific,
Speaker 2: terrific guy because he came back to settling Australia after
Speaker 2: his career in Hollywood. But for some reason they thought
Speaker 2: that this this good looking Australian guy.
Speaker 1: Was always going to be portrayed as a grumby.
Speaker 3: Stay there, we'll come back in just a moment. Wrap
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Speaker 3: a look of the week. The YouTube site which is
Speaker 3: great simply called Steve Collins Traveler Steve Grumpy Collins. Have
Speaker 3: a look at what he does on his YouTube channel.
Speaker 3: A great friend of this program for a long time
Speaker 3: as well. I don't know, one of these days, Grumpy
Speaker 3: you and I might do you know, like one of
Speaker 3: those moments where two blokes just go away for three
Speaker 3: or four weeks and I think we should go somewhere
Speaker 3: like Israel.
Speaker 2: Yes, well that would be interesting certainly together. Who is
Speaker 2: all my sons as well? I haven't been there. He
Speaker 2: absolutely loved it. He just thought it was a fantastic
Speaker 2: place to go over the very good destination.
Speaker 1: Well, let's go to Israel right now.
Speaker 5: Hello, David, Tony, you and Steve Grumpy Joes Jones would
Speaker 5: be absolutely welcome. That puts you up. We drink beer.
Speaker 5: We have Pavlova and I will take you to all
Speaker 5: the great size.
Speaker 3: Beer and beer and pa beer and Pavlova. What could
Speaker 3: possibly go wrong?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, do you know Australia's connection with Israel was.
Speaker 5: The ANZACs, the Ansecs, the horspit granted whatever there, Yeah,
Speaker 5: the butler chevar in the the First World War.
Speaker 1: Against I got a second.
Speaker 3: Gents, we're talking over each other a little because we're
Speaker 3: both in two parts of the great Land.
Speaker 1: So you were saying, David.
Speaker 5: In the the what's it called the horse Brigade free
Speaker 5: to bear a chevar from from the Turks in the
Speaker 5: in the First World War and is a very big
Speaker 5: Anzac memorial. Actually, not far where the fromas visited us
Speaker 5: on October seven, is an enormous Antact memorial there in
Speaker 5: the Anzac forest. Which of them too, were the kids
Speaker 5: a lot gubby?
Speaker 2: Yep? Well, that was where the Battle of Besheba occurred,
Speaker 2: and that was the Australian Cavalry and it was the
Speaker 2: last cavalry charge on horseback because it was the Australian
Speaker 2: Mounted Force and they were taking on the Turks and
Speaker 2: the Turks were well in trench and I said, Aha,
Speaker 2: these guys on horseback, We're we're going to slay them, right.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately that didn't happen because they kept riding and riding
Speaker 2: and riding, and the Turks were in the trenches. Their
Speaker 2: horses leapt over the trenches and so they were behind them,
Speaker 2: and they won the battle, and we celebrated the hundredth
Speaker 2: anniversary of that probably five or six years ago, I
Speaker 2: think would have been more than that would have been
Speaker 2: back in the brand were about twenty eighteen or twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: But I had a bit to do with that, because
Speaker 2: there was Asrael the historian came to Australia and he
Speaker 2: would but I just thought it was amazing. There we
Speaker 2: are a bit of Australian history, the Battle of Wash
Speaker 2: but the last ever cavalry charge on horseback, and it
Speaker 2: was and the the Australians were heavily outnumbered by the
Speaker 2: Turks and they beat them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they feed their chev you know Hebrew bel Seva.
Speaker 5: As I said, there's an enormous Anzac memorial there in
Speaker 5: the attack forest, in the place called Berry, which is
Speaker 5: not far from where the must invaded and did what
Speaker 5: they did very nice with eucalyptus trees. It looks very
Speaker 5: much like the Australian.
Speaker 2: Landscapes.
Speaker 5: As I say, we used to go to where the
Speaker 5: kids a lot. I'll tell you what tee you what
Speaker 5: I called called about Tasmania. Please, Tasmania is the most
Speaker 5: paradise it's just beautiful. I remember going to Tasmania and
Speaker 5: going to the Huan Valley where you do this walk
Speaker 5: and all these trees are like one hundred meters or
Speaker 5: something in the air walks at fifty meters. You've got
Speaker 5: the ground below, you've got the tops of it, the
Speaker 5: cannon be the trees above you.
Speaker 2: You sort of you're walking with.
Speaker 5: The trees and everything. And did it in the winter,
Speaker 5: so that was sort of it was very damp and
Speaker 5: you could you could smell the eucalypt and it was
Speaker 5: just gorgeous. And another place was Mount Wellington where I
Speaker 5: climbed Mount Willington with a friend to the peak, also
Speaker 5: in the winter, and you've got water coming out of
Speaker 5: the rock. People go up there with you know, with
Speaker 5: their with their bocking collect water from the rock and
Speaker 5: drink it. And you're actually above the cloud. When you
Speaker 5: get to the peak of Mount Wellington, you're actually above
Speaker 5: above the cloud. The cloud is sort of on the
Speaker 5: mountain and then the peak is it's biblical. It's very
Speaker 5: very special, so it's really worth going there. So if
Speaker 5: you get to get convinced your wife to go there,
Speaker 5: you must. You will enjoy it.
Speaker 3: There you go so you've got to get work on
Speaker 3: the Thank you, David. You're going to get to get
Speaker 3: Brandy points if you get there.
Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, I would like to go. But yeah, fascinating,
Speaker 2: a fascinating place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, I hope we don't know. Not getting confused here.
Speaker 3: So I've got lots of text now in front of
Speaker 3: me saying yeah, Butshiba, the charge of the Light Brigade
Speaker 3: was in Palestine, got into jam.
Speaker 2: Well yes, I'm saying that it was in Palestine then,
Speaker 2: but it is now part of Israel.
Speaker 1: Got it? All right? Thank you, it's all because.
Speaker 2: That area changes its name quite often. Yeah, but it
Speaker 2: was Palestine, yeah, yeah, yes, but it is now it
Speaker 2: is now part of Israel.
Speaker 1: Very good.
Speaker 3: All right, Now where do we get to just to
Speaker 3: wrap up with a couple of minutes left grumpy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we were talking about Tonga. Yes, well, I
Speaker 2: was going to talk about Tonga because that was that
Speaker 2: was another one. But we're talking about there was a
Speaker 2: very The Tomlin's are very very big people. You see,
Speaker 2: They're very large, and they had their most popular their
Speaker 2: longest They're large in Tonga because one of the most
Speaker 2: popular Tonguin's ever was their monarch Queen Salotte and Queen Slato.
Speaker 2: She ruled from nineteen eighteen to nineteen sixty five, which
Speaker 2: is the longest strain of any Tongue and Market monarch.
Speaker 2: But she was She was six foot three or one
Speaker 2: point nine to one meters tall, and because she was
Speaker 2: a monarch, she was invited to the coronation of Queen
Speaker 2: Elizabeth the Second and she shared an open carriage with
Speaker 2: the Emperor of Ethiopia, Hailey Selassie. Now she was a
Speaker 2: very big lady, and I mean tall in stature and
Speaker 2: quite quite robust, and he was a very very small man.
Speaker 2: And I remember the commentator at the time was the
Speaker 2: bb City Today, and she was very popular in Britain
Speaker 2: because she'd been out and about and they said, oh,
Speaker 2: oh look there's Queen Solati. Who's that with her? And
Speaker 2: the commentator said, I think that's her lunch.
Speaker 1: Oh oh ah.
Speaker 3: Now, just as you've been speaking, because we've been talking
Speaker 3: about the international dateline, yes, and if you look at
Speaker 3: the International dateline, I hope this is accurate. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at it now and so it goes really just to
Speaker 3: the just slightly to the east of Tonga.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well wobbles around here and.
Speaker 1: Then wobbles around and then goes around KIDABARTI.
Speaker 2: Back through Cura bus busy kid.
Speaker 3: A bus Yeah, and then back around and then it's
Speaker 3: just really interesting.
Speaker 1: Who would have thought?
Speaker 3: So it divides if you might be in between Tonga
Speaker 3: right down through American Samoa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Yeah yeah, and Western Samoa said, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we want to be the first. We want
Speaker 2: to be the first place in the world where the
Speaker 2: new day starts. So they they changed, they changed it
Speaker 2: to suit them.
Speaker 1: One does grumpy.
Speaker 3: It's always a bit of light relief on a Friday morning,
Speaker 3: and I thank you for that. If people want to
Speaker 3: find out more about what you do, how you do it,
Speaker 3: and with whom, the best way to do that is.
Speaker 2: Well, it's called Steve Collins tramp. But I don't know
Speaker 2: that anybody would want to be with me though, to be.
Speaker 1: Honest, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: I'm sure if we ever did a tour together, it
Speaker 3: would sell out within I don't know, seven and a
Speaker 3: half years.
Speaker 2: Probably, yes, yeah, probably.
Speaker 1: See bye. Thank you for that.
Speaker 3: Got a lovelier text here that says is the international
Speaker 3: dateline zero zero five five one eight hundred. No, it's
Speaker 3: a different international dateline. It's funny though, Thank you Rob.
Speaker 3: The voice is going forgive me.
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