Travel Oz Season 5, Episode 16: Bushfires, Tasmania, Ants

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The Town of 1770

Captain James Cook became the first European to step ashore in Queensland. The date was May 24, 1770 and to mark that historic event, this delightdful settlement was named after the year of his landing. So much water surrounds this town, resulting in numerous water activites - the mighty Larc, jet skiing. Off shore sits Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Turtles laying eggs, hatchlngs waddling to sea. Swimming up close to turtles. Celebrations every year to mark Cook's landing. Walks, kangaroo sanctuaries, home distilleries.

30 min

2

Where To Travel To Now Restrictions Are Easing

Travel in Australia is opening up. Features the Great Barrier Reef, Lady Musgrave Island, Lord Howe Island, Dubbo, Lightning Ridge, Broken Hill, Echuica,. Phillip Island, Ipswich.

30 min

3

Great Australian Outback

LIGHTNING RIDGE: Characters of the Outback, larger than life. Down a black opal mine with jack hammer-wielding miner Vicki Bokros. THE GRAWIN - A rough and ready mining community west of the Ridge. NARRAN LAKES: Flooded for the first time in 10 years attracting thousands of waterbirds. Reminders of past aboriginal inhabitants. WALGETT: Town hero singer Jimmy Little remembered in song by his daughter Frances. CORINDA: The day singer David Bowie came to this tiny town to record a pop clip remembered with an annual festival, LET'S DANCE.

30 min

4

Australia's Most Terrifying Creatures

Australia's most terrifying creatures including crocodiles and snakes.

32 min

5

Unusual Deadly Destinations

Some of the more unusual deadly destinations and creatures of Australia in this episode, including the cassowary and Lake Eyre.

24 min

6

Australia's Most Iconic Animals

We take a closer look at some of Australia's most iconic animals and how dangerous they can really be, such as Kangaroos and Tassie Devils.

26 min

7

Contrast of Sand and Sea

A true contrast of sand and sea, from a crossing of the Simpson Desert to some of the deadliest undersea creatures.

28 min

8

South Australia

South Australia. Famous Vineyards, the Eyre Peninsula, and Adelaide Also Burke shire on the Gulf of Carpentaria. and the Plastic Free boy.

27 min

9

Australia's Wildest

Australia's wildest weather. Killer Kangaroos. Emu round-up...

30 min

10

Australia's Deadliest Destinations

Sharks and Crocs...

30 min

11

Tasmania, Central West, Barossa Valley

Tasmania's festival of voices, Central West Cycling Trail, and Barossa Valley experiences...

30 min

12

Dingos and Great White Sharks

Dingos and Great White Sharks...

30 min

13

Blue-ring octopus, Snakes

Blue-ring octopus, Snakes

30 min

14

Treasures of Victoria

12 Apostles, Hanging Rock, the Macedon Ranges, Bendigo Trams, Phillip Island, Puffing Billy Railway, Healesville Sanctuary...

30 min

15

Reef, Crocs, Whale Sharks

From the awesome beauty of the Great Barrier Reef. to the breath-taking spectacle of giant whale sharks cruising the Ningaloo Reef...

30 min

16

Bushfires, Tasmania, Ants

Bushfire: Ravaging Australia. Tasmania: Jack Jumper Ants...

30 min

17

Lord Howe Island, Wild Weather

Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid. Wild weather strikes...

30 min

18

Kakadu, Kimberley Round Up

Kimberley Cattle Round Up, Crocs and the indigeneous way of life in Kakadu...

30 min

19

Queensland

Spirit of the Red Sands: Indigenous performance. Best of Ipswich, Toowoomba and Southern Downs. Moving to the next level on the Sunshine Coast...

30 min

20

Whales

The whale whisperer. Interacting with humpback whales in Hervey Bay. Southern Right whales and huge pods of dolphins off the Western Australian coastline...

30 min

21

Outback Queensland: Reef To Longreach

From Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef to Banana Shire, Tambo Blackall and Barcaldine. One of Australia's greatest aviation mysteries, the American bomber that disappeared for 50 years. Catching giant Barramundi. Boxing promoter Fred Brophy's former hotel in the ghost town of Cracow. Rounding up the cattle on Gyranda Station. Tambo Teddies. Chicken racing. The Blackall Woolscour. The Tree of Knowledge...

30 min

22

Outback Queensland: Longreach to Cloncurry

Galloping horses with Cobb N Co style stagecoaches. Crusing the Long Reach of the Thompson River. The revamped Stockman's Hall of Fame. The QANTAS light show. Winton's Crack Up Sisters, and Waltzing Matilda Centre. Digging for fossils in Richmond. Glorious outback sunsets and hot tubs in Julia Creek. Feeding cattle and John Flynne memorial in Cloncurry. The abandoned Mary Kathleen Uranium mine...

30 min

23

Outback Queensland: Gulf & Burke Shire

Outback Queensland: Gulf & Burke Shire

30 min