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Travelling Australia: Big Bell! Exploring and Camping an Abandoned Gold Mining Town!

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My last episode of this shirt trip sees me leave Meekatharra and head toward the abandoned mining town of Big Bell. After exploring this forgotten town I set up camp and free camp the night there before heading off in the morning back towards home to finish this short getaway!
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4 июл 2022

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@BradGryphonn 2 года назад

That pub at Big Bell would have been a grand thing in its day.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Certainly would of been! It’s still a bloody big building now!

@ivanolsen8596 2 года назад

I was in the railway when the trains DID run through those abandoned platforms. Was acting fireman on old X class loco's that cringed their way to Meeka from Mullewa at the speed limit of 25 MPH, due to very poor track conditions, we changed crews at Yalgoo and Cue, and I was stationed at these depots at various times. We carried passengers, iced goods, iron pellets for Hill 50's ball mill at their gold mine at Mt Magnet and general goods for all sidings on the way. Thank you for showing these wonderful places as they are now, looking forward to your next series!!!

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻 They would’ve looked a lot different to what they are now! And 25mph would’ve been a long trip!

@brianhutchins3933 2 года назад

What a building that hotel was, especially for the year it was built. Another interesting video of passed history and an amazing art gallery. See you after some work.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@danedge5180 2 года назад

Gday Jack, I love going out to those old towns and just wandering around wondering what it would be like back then. we don't realise how good we've got it now adays. cheers Dan and fritz lol

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻 We’ve certainly got it easy compared to those days! For me it’s good fun just having a walk around and seeing all the history left behind and how hard it must’ve been for them! Hope your doing well mate and can’t thank you enough!

@Mechknight73 2 года назад

Big Bell and Bluebird mines are interesting cases. As I've delivered to a lot of mine sites, both of them have been on my list. Both had been dormant for 10 or more years. It's in recent years that a company called Westgold has been reactivating a lot of these dormant mines. Like Koolyanobbing, the town may have died, but the namesake mine lives on. There are two more ghost towns on the way back to Mt Magnet, Lennonville and Austin. Austin is right on the road, Lennonville is 10km north of Mt Magnet. Both are about the same type of ruins as Nannine, but both have stories to tell

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

It seems WestGold are snapping up everything out this way at the moment, I managed to get over to Lennonville but just couldn’t fit it in. Will have a look into Austin as I can’t remember seeing anything on it!

@Mechknight73 2 года назад

@@JS_Adventure You'll see a brown "tourist" sign on the side of the road near a truck parking bay. The main remnants are a railway platform and a cemetery not far away. However, when you look around, you see trees in what I'd call "Unnatural" configurations, as in may have once been part of a garden, or are surrounding the edges of former buildings. The sign itself actually says "Austin Townsite," and there is some information on it near those signs

@ianparmenter1704 2 года назад

Love your “work” mate. Was in meeka a few weeks back. Wished I’d known about the free shower and coffee. Never mind, next time.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻 A lot of the little towns still do them for the truckies but don’t really tell anyone!

@karenfrench4094 2 года назад

Another great video Jack. Wow that hotel at Big Bell was massive. If only those walls could talk 😀

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers! 🥂 There’d be a lot of stories to come out of the hotel!

@1963Macky 2 года назад

Hi Jack - lov,d yr video - me & the wife stayed at big bell about 15 year ago - dos,ent look like it’s changed much lovely/lonely spot - not sure if it’s true but the hotel boasted the longest bar in the Southern Hemisphere- will keep an eye out for yr nex vid👍👍

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate!! Your right about the lonely spot! I believe I’ve heard that rumour as well about the bar which is a pretty interesting but of history!

@Australian_Outdoor_man 2 года назад

Some great history in these old towns. Love your work mate. ❤️🍺🇦🇺👍

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@Lee-bx5vc 2 года назад

Great Video Jack, brings back a lot of memories lived all around that country off and on for over 25 years.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@shortmanaut1736 2 года назад

Exactly what I like doing,your coverage was fantasic & ya living the aussie dream,good onya mate!👍

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@chriskinkead9045 3 месяца назад

Amazing. .all. You. Have. Shown. Us. Places. Ive. Never. Heard. About. .as. Ive. Not been. Travelling. In. Those. States. Thank. You. Eye. Opening. Huge. Hotel. At. Big. Bell. Eh.

@neilrobertson6535 2 года назад

Hi Jack was interested in your video when you mentioned going to Big Bell. A uncle of mine was a engineer there some 70 or more years ago. Unfortunately he was killed there in some accident, I don't know the details. My Aunty returned to Perth with her baby ,my cousin and his name was Jack. Great video keep up the good work.

@grahamjones504 2 года назад

Great episodes Jack, really enjoy old historical old towns.👍

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻 They’re a bloody great walk around!

@ronrogers9610 2 года назад

Good video jack it was good to see that the pub is still much the same as when i was there in the late 1990s but there was a few more of the houses left than now i also stayed at the rock and was able to do the walk to the top great views thanks for the reminder all the best Ron

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻 Would’ve been great to see a lot more of the town still standing but still great to just see whats left!

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen 2 года назад

Only just discovered your channel. Great stuff. We camped 3 nights at Big Bell, really great place.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers guys, it’s a bloody ripper spot!

@stevenicsadventures 2 года назад

Great stuff .. love these old towns 👍🏻👍🏻

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers guys! Good little look around just off the beaten track!

@ClissaT Год назад

Maybe other people have been doing their own mining at Nannine since and finding a bit here and there obviously or they would not dig such deep holes. The hotel at Big Bell has been significantly vandalized in the last year or so. Photos of it from not too many years ago show it still in reasonable condition for a building with no roof. Someone still owns the actual property and there are lots of other privately owned house lots around the pub too. Used to be houses on them. The mine owns a lot of it now probably in their mining lease.

@rayjack49 2 года назад

Great to see been there big bell and the rock 10 years back thought you may have said something about the sailing ship on the rock drawings have they still got the goats running around on the rock

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! Yeah wasn’t sure about the sailing ship, i did say something about it but it didn’t make the cut in the end.

@offcampnandy7727 2 года назад

Awesome as always Jack, cheers for sharing 👍👍👍 Cheers Andy

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@brentmcd12 2 года назад

very nice and interesting historics well captured ! 📹 🏜️🌄😎🤙🛻

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@raz5326 2 года назад

Good video jack 🔔

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers!

@dougneville9097 2 года назад

G'day Jack,top vid mate, we've seen a lot of old mining towns and lived in a modern one for a few years always interesting places.Thanks mate.👍😎

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻 There’s a lot of great hidden history in these little mining towns and I’m also in the same boat!

@johnbergeron7208 2 года назад

Gooday mate just to let you know big bell hotel has a sister pub at como in perth

@mattmcewan5806 2 года назад

Great video Jack surprised you didn't mention the sailing ship on Walga rock .I've never seen it but I've heard thats one of the historical parts of it .

@mattmcewan5806 2 года назад

Might run into you in Gero mate .I live here with my family

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻 Unfortunately I filmed it and didn’t get the info right so it had to be cut from the video. It’s an incredible bit of art the really does stand out from all the other art!

@fluffykitten8181 2 года назад

Great episodes Really enjoy your work 👍 I do miss Sophie sundays

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers! Unfortunately we’ve both been pretty flat out work wise and she hasn’t had the time to get a video going

@DavidKing-jx3sg 2 года назад

Legend has it big bell had the longest bar in Australia at the time

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Yep! Have also heard rumours that it has ended up somewhere around horrocks!

@philhurn1114 2 года назад

Thanks for showing us around.. amaising place. Great also watching your driving footage showing road conditions and scenery

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@ventura9513 2 года назад

great vid mate,,,,, have you thought of taking a metal detector on your travels,,,, relics and gold in those old towns

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! I’ve taken one before but really need the training to understand how to use it properly, and is also very bulky in the car. One day with a caravan I’ll get out and into it!

@leepizarro 2 года назад

The night time lapse was really pretty.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers!

@DavidKing-jx3sg 2 года назад

Lots of history around cue also ,Yalgoo

@trackexplore 2 года назад

Great video mate. We loved having a look around Big Bell. We too were surprised by it's size.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

🍻🍻 Great spot out there and great to see it still standing and not just bowled over!

@trackexplore 2 года назад

True that

@ericsebasio681 2 года назад

Good vlogs bloke...

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@thelazyoverlander 2 года назад

Didn't know you were from Gero mate. we lived and worked there for 3 years, still miss the place. Nice video Jack, subbed and G'day from Merredin.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers! 🍻 it’s a good little town gero! And hopefully won’t be that long and I’ll be getting down that way!

@d4dan734 2 года назад

FYI you could get a lot better mileage if you switched the engine off.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate, the amount I stop and start while filming I’m happy to lose the couple of cents and preserve the starter motor

@stevelawrie9115 2 года назад

Yep, interesting looking at the old mining towns but not so sure about the beautiful view.

@Jellybean00001 2 года назад

Loved the series 👏👏👍👍

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻

@waynevivianboof 2 года назад

awesome stuff, and in your back yard it is so cool. Living in Queensland I haven't been to the west "YET" but it's definitely on the list. Keen to do a lap soon but work and life seem to get in the way. Keep up the awesome stuff. 👍👍

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate!! They certainly do! Counting down the days until we get back on the road to finish our lap! My opinion is west is best! 😂😂 but I’m a little biased!

@Rusty_Gold85 2 года назад

How come these mining companies make those bloody big holes but never refill them back in ?

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

🤷‍♂️ For some reason they all just get away with it

@leeashton4328 2 года назад

Modelled on theComo Hotel

@TedBear1954 Год назад

The sheds at around the 10 to 11 minute mark look new?

@nzmarkb8713 2 года назад

Was that your camera crews car in the drone shots of Big Bell 😉😉😂😂😂😂😂😂

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

😂😂 They got a little bit scared of the drone when it went up!

@simonscott1121 2 месяца назад

The WA govt really should put a levy on mines that is set aside, so that when a mine closes they can pay to have them backfilled and rehabbed. So tired of people mining the shit out of everything and then just walking away leaving a massive eyesore.

@chaffcutter58. 28 дней назад

There are some graves at that church.

@brentonguy4772 2 года назад

Whered the second car come from?

@davidriggs5116 2 года назад

Hi Jack Great video mate we'll done and thank you. Mate what sort of drone do you use? I'm looking at buying one soon. Cheers

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate! 🍻🍻 I’m using a dji mini 2, it’s been a great little drone but we are looking to upgrade to a mini 3 soon

@davidriggs5116 2 года назад

@@JS_Adventure yes that's the drone I'm looking at...cheers for that

@joffa5555 2 года назад

What was the second car when you did a drone shot at the big bell also what machine noise. Big bell shutdown and owned by Aragon Resources. There’s no active mine there

@joffa5555 2 года назад

My bad. Other mine active to the left of weld range yes

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

West Gold are reopening a lot of older mines out this way and big bell being one of them, little car was a couple of photographers from Perth just having a look around like me

@nataliemay415 Месяц назад

Anyone who knows, knows. Did you go from Meekatharra, to hospital, to jail?😂

@JS_Adventure Месяц назад

A couple of times! 😂

@MichaelKingsfordGray 2 года назад

Too many bloody ads, mate.

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Cheers mate, it’s set automatically by RU-vid

@muzza566 2 года назад

Better hurry up an get that metal detector

@JS_Adventure 2 года назад

Got the detector, just haven’t had time for the training or a dedicated trip for it yet! Maybe in the coming weeks I can bring it out and just have a go and see what happens!