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@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen G’day Marc. Zanzibar was not what I imagined it to be. I would have liked to stay there longer and see the offshore prison and an island nearby inhabited by giant tortoises. This was the last video in my East Africa playlist.

I can understand a small country town having a very basic airport but a major regional city ?

Good Question ?

"Airport Freedom" ? That sounds both good and scary.

Very weird indeed, George. I found waiting at the edge of the tarmac was exciting.

@@JediJan it sounds like Tanzania is 50 years behind Queensland. WOW ! Queensland is 20 years behind Western Australia. lol.

@@jeroenoppers73 Thanks Jeroen.

@@bowstarchannel Thanks Bow Star old mate.,

@@WarblesOnALot G’day Warbles. As you know, I work as a tax agent. I get to see people financial affairs. From my observations from my client base is that even though mortgage repayments and the cost of living is creating financial strain, people always seam to find money to go on overseas holidays. Maybe my clients are mainly cashed up FIFO workers. They always seam to have money to spend on expensive toys and holidays. In Australia, whenever a travel company collapses, new ones always fill the in void to satisfy demand. The Travel company I went on Safari with “Intrepid Travel” are an Australian Company who organise adventure holidays all over the world. I looked at their financial statements which are public and they seam to be in good financial health. I’m currently looking at one of their trips to Antarctica. There are no locals there selling their trinkets to tourists.

@@VBEd666 Well, my guess is that unless Canberra wants to subsidise Rex Aviation to continue all it's Regional Feeder-Liner Routes, then Nobody will be Sufficiently stupid as to try to set up any Replacement Airline - because the Actual DEMAND for the Service is far too low to be able to operate a Commercial Airliner on a Regular Schedule - merely to better convenience a couple of Professional Locum GPs covering tinpot little Hospitals on the Weekends - WHILE all the Drs living in the Town employing Locums are themselves away getting $2,000/day Pulling Locum Duty 150 miles away in Coffs Harbour. Put the Trains back on the Tracks, Roster ALL the GP's in Town as Visiting Medical Officers at the local Hospital - so that they work their assigned Shifts On-Call, or they don't get to refer ANY of their Patients to the Public Hospital for Admission under themself. Society will cope OK when the Airliners stop taking-off and landing for the Convenience of Tourist Trap Operators... But I doubt that the habitual Tourist-Trappers and Sheeple-Fleecers Will cope at all well with the Transition. And, yeah, FIFO Miners will be the Last to be effected...; But you might want to ask all the Nickel-Miners on your List How it feels to be Unemployed...,(?). BHP announced that they're Mothballing all their Nickel Mines & Smelters. Just(ifiably ?) sayin'. Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@@GeorgePencilArt G’day George. The reality is that tourists never get attacked by lions when they are on Safari in Africa. I’ve never heard or read about any cases. There might be the possibility that the locals keep attacks quiet to protect their tourist industry ?

@@WarblesOnALot G’day Warbles. It so happened that during our evening dinner, Vince told the African crew about our Holland Track video on UA-cam. The crew watched it and were impressed by his tyre changing ability. They asked him with his experience, why didn’t he help them ? To this day that 4WD trip haunts me. Vince constantly asks me to do it again but I’m not interested. No way.

@@VBEd666 Ah, really ? Why would that be ? I thought you would be super keen to get back out there - and be able to rely on stuffing your punctured Tyre-Cases with Spinifex Grass ; so as to re-run the Process in true pioneering old fashioned Q.A.N.T.A S. style....(lol) Somehow, between Vince's Planning & Logistics Skills, going Bush with mismatched Wheels & insufficient Spares to be able to change Flats, with no way to tackle a Puncture at all (and no grasp of how to revert to weird stuff which has historically saved the day in such cases....) - and when that is Cross-Referenced with that trick of trying to open a Green Hard Fruit by putting it in a Rock & punching it to see how much that hurt his hand...; I'm wondering if you keep him around for purposes of Comedy in such matters (?). Does he cook people's Books garnished with little flourishes like those ? You'd better not take him SCUBA Diving or Parachuting ; what if he insists on maintaining his own Equipment (?) ! "Owww ! "Shit, that really bloody hurt ! "Why didn't you stop me from doing that, ya Bastard ; fcuk - it really bloody hurts..., Boo-hoo sob-sob whinge whine moan-grown /, Poor poor pitiful little Sore-Hand Man...!" Or words to that effect. Take him to a Brothel, and then laugh at what he goes home with, kinda thing...(?) ! Schadenfreude on a Leash, trotting along, eagerly looking forward to the next Prat-Fall ? Even Homer Simpson doesn't say to Marge, "Doh..., That hurt ; why didn't you stop me from hurting myself - you ONLY told me not to do it Three times. How could you let me go and hurt myself like that, Ya horrible Bar Steward....?!?! I tend to leave people like that at home, when I go away on holidayze, lol (!). Such is life, Have a good one.. Such is life, Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@@evancortez2 G’day Evan. The thought of getting eaten did cross my mind when I wondered off to have a pee.

@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen G’day Marc. It was a trip of a lifetime. I’m planning a trip to explore more of Africa in the future.

@@noswonky only just.

It is overwhelming George.

@@rafaelbaligod5196 The native village in this video is in my opinion fake. Totally setup for tourist dollars.

G'day Warbles. Before any place plays the tourism card, they seriously need to ask if they have anything of value to offer tourists. The biggest tourist trap in WA is the town of Broome. It costs big bucks to fly there and when there there is nothing to do. It only offers a beach, but WA has no shortage of white sandy beaches. All those Island resorts off the coast of Queensland all went broke. None of them really offered anything other than relaxation and relaxation is not a tourist attraction. After visiting East Africa, I am firmly committed to pursuing adventure holidays from now on. I cannot see myself going to Bali ever again. I am sick of wasting my money on relaxation holidays.

Its a fantastic place to see Bow Star. I would like to revisit this place again in the future.

@@GeorgePencilArt Thanks George. I flunked it.

@@WarblesOnALot You are a fountain of knowledge, Warbles. At the end of the day, I find all weapons to be repulsive. The only thing I would have liked to have purchased as a souvenir from Africa would have been a wooden sculpture. In the end, my only souvenirs were a few bottles of empty Tanzanian beer - Serengeti Larger and Kilimanjaro Larger.

@@GeorgePencilArt thanks George. When you go on a Safari in Africa, there is never a shortage of exotic animals to observe.

@@bowstarchannel Thanks Bow Star. I had to do these African videos different from the way I normally make them. It wasn’t practical to do a live commentary while I was there. It was easier to record and relax, and worry about the commentary when I got back.

@@jeroenoppers73 Does that mean my videos will make me some money ? lol

@@WarblesOnALot Bean Counters on Safari. YEE HAAR. I’m seriously considering doing another Safari. Exploring Namibia, Zambia and Botswana. I know my mate Vince is keen. I’ve been bitten by the Africa bug. I wanna go back.

@@VBEd666 Pharoah enough, But...., remember that It's a bloody long way to swim, to get back home...(!). Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao ! Have a good one, Stay safe.

@@JediJan Lucky we weren’t camping near a stream of water.

@@ShesSoRandom I don’t make many videos these days. I’ve made 12 videos in my East Africa series. Releasing them slowly. Sort of lost my mojo lately. Going to New Zealand next year and that will be a new video series.

@@WarblesOnALot When you pursue an adventure holiday, there is no comfort. If you seek comfort, you stay in a fenced off resort in Bali.

@@VBEd666 Absolutely ! A mate of mine went to Algeria, and hitch-hiked with a Camel Caravan across the Sahara, after which he kept going, through 36 Countries in a year with 34 of them being on the Continent of AfriKa. He had his "Everyday clothes" and his "Border-Crossing clothes", and he began in Morocco with a $US100 book of Travellers Cheques, which he burnt and reported asstolen, then had it re-issued in Francs, then the Francs got "stolen" and re-issued in Pounds Sterling, which were also "stolen" to become Marks, and then the Marks were "stolen" and they were re-issued as $US - which could be actually spent, as required. And then, when crossing Borders, Canada John could show the Guards his 3 books of unused English, French & German Cheques, plus the AmeriKan one's he was using. As long as one had more than $US200 they were considered to be rich enough to come in as Tourists. He still had $15 in US Money in the Book when he got to Zimbabwe and took a job shovelling Coal on a Steam-Locomotive - because he always had a Thing for Steamtrains. I think there were 50-something Countries between Kanadia and Oz, from 1970 to '75. He climbed Kilimanjaro and got 17,000 ft up the side of Everest - while walking from Tibet to Bhutan, And in between them - after West Pakistan, India, East Pakistan, Burma and Thailand...; in 1972, Canada John Hitch-hiked through Cambodia, Laos & South Vietnam...(!). Crossing Cambodia involved Helivoptering between two Loyalist Enclaves - going out over the Khmer-Rouge controlled Country, into which Sean Flynn (son of Erol Flynn, the Tasmanian Movie Star), ride on a Motor-Scooter and Vanished - at about the The same time Johnnie was Thumbing his way through, Going to Vietnam, "To have a look at their Wars..." After he died, crashing his Ultralight, I was collecting his "Effects" to send back to his father in Vancouver ; And I found, and handled, those 3 full and new - and one tattered battered almost used-up Books of Travellers' Cheques. Your AfriKan Safari, While rougher than Bali ; Looked a lot like "Glamping" (Glamorous Camping), To me, y' see. And, I bet it cost a shade more than the $85 US which Canada John spent on his epic crossing of the Continent. I made a video about him, titled, "REQUIEM FOR A REDHEAD..." It's in both my Warbles In The Wilderness, And Personal Aeroplanology Playlists... He was one of Kanadia's greatest Adventurers...; and he died in what amounted to being a Spintaneous Kamikaze Attack On a Sheep...(!). Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@@bowstarchannel Lucky I took two rolls of toilet paper wi5h me.

@@jeroenoppers73 hahaha. Cheers mate.

@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen G’day Marc, my big fear is snakes. The African big cats didn’t really scare me. I haven’t heard of any cases of lions mauling tourists.

@@Robroscob G’day Rob. It seams those little critters are known by 2 names - Mongoose and Meercat.

@@mitchellandrachelm5700 No one in our touring group got the shits or got sick. The drinking water in Africa seams to be better than the water in south east Asia. I did have a “Life Straw” drinking bottle.

@@GeorgePencilArt Cheers George. The alternative hotel was better anyway.

@@WarblesOnALot The lower rainfall and warmer climate is the result of the wind movement around the mountain chains in the area. The same reason why Hobart is a lot drier than the rest of Tasmania to the west of Mt Wellington.

@@bowstarchannel Cheers Bow Star old mate.

@@johnblack9582 Cheers mate. Is the balloon fabric fire proof ? That is a bloody good question ?

G’day Mitchell. Fair Enough. Of our 15 person touring group, only 6 people took up the hot air ballon opportunity.

@@bowstarchannel G’day Bow Star. I have always wanted to experience a hot air balloon ride. The opportunity came up and I took it.