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Hello everybody and welcome to this special edition of Healthy Wealthy and Wise because
tonight the whole Healthy Wealthy and Wise crew boards the Indian Pacific for an adventure
that crosses a continent from coast to coast from Sydney right through to Perth on one
of the longest and probably one of the greatest rail journeys on earth. So come on, join us
for the experience of a lifetime. Now the Indian Pacific takes its name from the two
oceans it links. It's a journey taking the better part of three days and three nights
through three states from Sydney to Perth via Adelaide. Now this particular Healthy
Wealthy and Wise train is nearly three quarters of a kilometre long, the longest passenger
train ever to leave Sydney and is literally a city on wheels. And during the journey we'll
visit some fantastic stops along the way and Peter Weret will test drive the train across
the Nullarbor. Ian Hewitzer will cook for us and Tonya Toddman has some practical train
inspired ideas. It's nearly 4,400 kilometres and I think we're going to have a lot of
fun on the way and it's also a journey back into time. Outside Sydney we begin to follow
the tracks of the early 19th century explorers. You know the first crossing of the Blue Mountains
in 1813 took 21 days but it was during the 1860s that railway engineers cut through the
mountains of the Great Dividing Range to open up a vast continent for the pioneers. By the
turn of the century rail transport had completely changed many remote parts of Australia allowing
European civilisation into what had previously been uninhabited wilderness. Camels imported
years earlier from Pakistan came into their own in the arid parts of the country carrying
surveyors to peg the line and drag ploughs to mark the future rail beds. In Australia
as it had been earlier in America the dream was to cross this land from east to west.
For the time of federation the plan of a transcontinental rail line had taken shape but it was to be
another 10 years before work would begin on the line to link one side of Australia with
the other. Western Australia had built a line as far east as Kalgoorlie and South Australia
as far west as Port Augusta in between more than a thousand miles or 1600 kilometres of
some of the harshest driest land on the planet. The line was eventually completed in 1917
and a major problem which wasn't fixed until 1970 was that each state had built tracks
of different widths or gauges and this caused delays at each border. 25 years ago a journey
from Sydney to Perth would go something like this. Sydney to Albury on the standard gauge.
At the border with Victoria change to a broad gauge. From Melbourne through to Port Perry
still on the broad gauge. Then you'd change back to the standard gauge. Across the Nullar
border to Kalgoorlie then another narrow gauge. No wonder the journey took so long.
But even so the train was popular and a lot quicker and safer than travelling to Perth
by sea. Even in the early days the wagons catered for the customs of the day. A lounge
where ladies could take afternoon tea and a club bar where the men could drink in a
haze of tobacco smoke and play card games. And so today the Indian Pacific remains an
icon for those who feel the need to cross this nation at least once in their lifetimes.
The difference is now you can do it in style. These refurbishments to mark the Indian Pacific's
25th anniversary have obviously lifted the standards and comfort levels for travellers
on one of the longest train rides in the world. But let's get back to our journey through
the Blue Mountains. You soon realise how much blood and sweat must have been shed over 100
years ago to prepare the ranges for today's rail bed. And if you ride the Indian Pacific
as we did from the Sydney end of the line you're in for a spectacular sunset trip through
the mountains. And as we pass through Katoomba Tonya Todman showed us a very crafty way to
pass the time. I'm just doing a few more quilting stitches because this is one of my favourite
crafts to take with me when I'm travelling. I probably wouldn't always take a quilters
hoop as big as this but you know I am on a very big train. The Indian Pacific has some
wonderful lounges that are just perfect for crafts like this and there's plenty of room
to move around. But you know when you do embark on a trip of three days or more you do need
to be well organised and you have to be sure you can be comfortable and warm. And maybe
my fold up carry on pillow quilt might be the answer. This is just as it said it's a
fold up quilt that comes back into being a pillow. Now I'm unfolding it here and you
can see that it's about single bed size. The method for making this works for any size
quilt be it king size right back to nursery size if you like. But a single bed size is
about all you need for travelling. Now the quilt is just as it said it's two pieces
of fabric that have some wadding inside it. That's very soft wadding that you can get
from your craft shop. There's a front and a back and two coordinating prints. But up
here is the key to the whole thing. On one side of the quilt I've stitched a big flap
and it's right on the end of the quilt. In the middle third. Its depth is about perhaps
one fifth or one sixth the length of the quilt. And you'll see what I mean when I start to
fold it up again. Now the third in the middle is important because to fold the quilt back
up as I'm going to show you now you need to have that fairly accurate. Put the side pieces
in so that they overlap over one another and go right to the end like this. And then start
to fold this down into your fifths or sixths or whatever. Now you can see that that's all
folded up but that the flap is on one side of the quilt. You'll see also that I've made
that reversible and this is why. To put it back together reach into that flap grab hold
of the end of the quilt and literally turn it inside out. Push out the corners and there
you have a pillow all ready to snuggle into. You could make that more portable by sewing
on a strap here so that you literally could carry it anywhere. Remember any size very
easy to make and make it in your prettiest fabric too. Well we're just leaving Lisko
on the fringe of the Blue Mountains and we've come to the end of our first days travelling.
Overnight we're heading all the way to Broken Hill the scene of some of Australia's greatest
wealth creation. But after the break Jim Brown shows us that Broken Hill isn't just a mining
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As dawn breaks on our second day on the Indian Pacific, we are greeted with colours of the
desert and dream time land.
Well here we are at Broken Hill, one of Australia's best known mining towns. A silver strike just
over 100 years ago caused Australia's largest company, BHP, to be born. But you know the
first silver strike wasn't here. It was about 25 kilometres away at a little place aptly
named Silverton. Today, Silverton is nearly a ghost town. But sadly the silver and the
town didn't last very long. Everyone packed up and went a few kilometres down the road
to a bigger town and a bigger silver strike at Broken Hill. We'll talk about Broken Hill
later.
But here at Silverton, over time the salt bushes reclaimed a lot of the town. Most of
the buildings have crumbled. Yet there are still people here hanging on, capturing the
magic colours and shapes of what's always been the best treasure of all in this part
of the world, the landscape.
See I drive out here every morning and drive back every night and I get inspired coming
out and I get inspired going back.
This is John Dynan, an artist working out of Silverton. He's always loved painting and
little else, to the point where his school art teacher saved this former problem student
from expulsion.
My teacher said to me, if I don't become a bloody artist, I won't become anything.
And that was probably true because I ended up working underground for about 13 years
and kept painting the whole time I was on the mines and ended up becoming a well-known
artist in Australia.
John Dynan's art gallery is in Silverton, but from time to time he exhibits around Australia.
His work not only includes landscapes, but also his favourite flowers of the desert,
which literally spring out of the ground when the rains come.
Another young artist just starting out is Shane Gellert. His paintings of what he calls
robo-roos have a startling science fiction look about them.
Could possibly say it's the future of the Australian landscape. Maybe one day the kangaroos
will be gone and have to replace them with the robots. That's just one way of looking
at it.
Shane operates out of the former Silverton church and his work includes paintings with
a dinkum Aussie feel, sometimes on a dinkum Aussie medium.
But just down the road in Broken Hill is a special place where you could say art, if
you want to call it that, has run riot. Mario's Palace Hotel Motel, an historic building on
the outside, is something incredibly different on the inside, thanks to the creative efforts
of its owner, Mario Solotti.
Born in Florence, Mario says the artistic influences of his birthplace eventually got
into his blood. And about ten years ago he built a huge scaffold and painted his version
of Botticelli's Birth of Venus on the ceiling, above the hotel's impressive staircase.
Well, you're a bit like Michelangelo because you've painted one on the roof out there,
which is quite...
I'm better than him because he's dead, I'm alive.
Wanting more but short of time to do the work himself, Mario commissioned a local Aboriginal
artist to transform the inside of the hotel, the monotonous tones of which, when he moved
into it, offended this colourful Italian.
I nearly died because of all the sun colour. Look at the pint I painted, one colour, like
the desert, all one colour.
I reckon some people might nearly die when they come in here now and look at it.
Takarama! Who the hell does all the painting around here?
You know, Mario's palace has had an unexpected publicity boost with the drag queen film Priscilla,
where, my god, look at that characters, we're seen in this, my god, look at that bedroom.
I must tell you that when you see the movie Priscilla, I think most people would have
thought that this was a set built especially for the movie.
No, no, no, this one here. This is a real room and you can stand in it.
Anyway, it's there anyway. And somebody else has come up especially from
another light, a couple on the weekend, and they want to stay here.
Now if you do stay at Mario's, you'll have opportunities to visit galleries showing more
recognised artists like Pro Hart and Peter Brown, both of whom have developed their own
styles, but proof yet again that the landscape around here inspires people to put brush to
canvas. With such a haunting landscape, it's no surprise
that artists around here have produced some wonderful paintings.
But when someone recently lamented, the paintings are great, but where are the sculptures?
The Broken Hill City Council and the Australia Council for the Arts thought about that, and
this was the result. Situated eight kilometres from the heart of
Broken Hill, this symposium is the work of 12 of the finest sculptors from all over the
world. The raw material was sandstone boulders totalling 52 tonnes, manoeuvred into position
with cranes and front-end loaders. It was a huge community effort.
When the sculptors found their cold chisels couldn't cut the dense, well-cannier stone,
200 former miners searched for tools tipped with tungsten to finish this enduring project.
The best time to see these masterpieces is at last light. You could walk up the hill
for nothing or take your car up for $5 with a $10 refundable charge for the access key
from the tourist office. If you want to get a bird's eye view of this
striking countryside, just take a trip with the postie. Don Crittenden of Crittenden Air
makes weekly mail runs to outback stations like Langa Wirra. It's a unique opportunity
to meet Australians like John Gawle in locations so remote they rely on aircraft, not motorcars,
to get around. How far are you from what we'd call the nearest
civilization? Well, Broken Hill is the nearest civilization,
120 kilometres by road and about 60 air miles. This weekly aerial jaunt across the desert
to deliver the mail is a great experience. You've flown over it for many years now,
do you ever get tired of it? No, well it seems to change all the time,
you know. Even getting the rain doesn't look like it now but when we do get rain it virtually
changes overnight. How much does the flight cost?
$210. So that's a full day that includes your lunch and a guided tour at Whitecliffe, the
oval mining town. So that's I think fairly reasonable for a full day from half past six
till about half past three, four o'clock in the afternoon. Broken Hill is one of those
places where you can base yourself for several days. Its mining history as the birthplace
of BHP is fascinating and there are many examples in the architecture of how much wealth was
generated from the silver, lead and zinc mines 100 years ago.
Tourism New South Wales and each capital city can also give good advice about a part of
Australia that the artists around here find entrancing and inspiring.
I mean some people can drive around out here and say oh it's boring, there's nothing to
see. But in the nothingness it's where the beauty is, there's just nothing but it's also
perfection you know. This is border country out here, in just a
few moments we're going to be crossing over out of New South Wales and into South Australia.
That's great, thanks Larry. All the way along this route we've been looking
at this rich red soil mixed with green sage and blending with the great Australian blue
sky and I think it's wonderful. And as well you'll be rewarded on this trip with sightings
of lots and lots of wildlife, heaps of kangaroos and emus and the most fabulous wedge-tailed
eagles which sometimes actually make their nests in the top of the power poles along
the route. Okay now if you just stick around after the
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Wednesday. Well, we're about a third of our way across Australia. And as a New Zealander,
I know quite a lot about sheep. And this is unlike any sheep country I've ever seen. It's
the home of the merino. Must be a pretty hardy creature. They actually tell me there's millions
out there. I haven't seen any as yet, but I will take their word for it. Actually, I
must tell you, just up the road, there are a couple of small towns called Mingare and
Manahill. Now, their main claim to fame is that they service the largest sheep stations
in the world. But enough of my obsession about sheep and their survival rate. What about
us? How do we survive on a train like this for three days? Well, we need some good food.
And as you can see, we also need the odd drink or two. On the Indian Pacific, there are three
classes of travel. First, holiday and coach. The elegant Queen Adelaide restaurant serves
first class passengers all the way in a style reminiscent of train travel from a bygone era.
While on holiday and coach, for a pretty reasonable price, passengers can dine in Matilda's restaurant.
So on our trip alone, about 1700 meals will be served. And despite the confines of the
kitchen space, they look after us rather well. But it's a three day journey and I cannot
allow the train staff to do all the work. So I've bought my own kitchen on board to
whip up an inspired dessert, a good old fashioned trifle. Anyway, we've got our sponge. We always
have to have a sponge. We're just going to cut it up. Just buy it. Don't bother about
making it. Just buy a wedge of it. Now, it is better if it is a little stale in the sense
that a couple of days old would be great. Just like that. Otherwise, it's a bit soft
because you do want to marinate it. Now, I remember me mum always used to put cherry
and pretty bad cherry. I'm not going to do that. I didn't like bad cherry much. What
I'm going to do is I've got some coffee here, good strong coffee, about a cup, espresso
if you like, but it doesn't really matter if it's another variety, but make sure it's
really strong. Then I've got some Frangelico, which is a liqueur. You could use Cointreau
or Grand Marnier, Tia Maria or anything like that. So I've got three spoons of that and
I've got some brandy, a couple of spoons of that. So we just toss that around and you
could leave that for about half an hour if you like, but no longer. Now, I'm going to
leave it for a shorter period, so I'm just going to sort of throw some of the liquid
on top. But you don't want it too soft because it falls apart. Right. Another variation.
I'm going to make a cream. This is a bit like tiramisu because I'm using mascarpone, which
is about the simplest cheese you can possibly get. You actually could make it at home, but
that is another story. You can buy it. It's freely available at every deli, every supermarket
in the world now. As I said, it's the simplest of cheeses. It's sort of a soft curd cheese,
so it's very simply made. I'm just going to whisk that up just a little. Don't overbeat
it, otherwise it will curdle. A little bit of sugar in it, about a teaspoon, and once
again a spoon of frangelica. Just one, or any other liqueur. You know, whatever you
like. Experiment. That's what the name of the game is. So we just whisk that up a little.
Get it all off my famous whisk. And over here, what I have is just some lightly whipped cream.
I've got about half a cup. I won't even need all that. And I'm just going to fold. That'll
just lighten the mascarpone a little bit more. I'm just going to fold that in there. Once
again when I say fold, be careful. Cream does curdle. So we're just going to fold it in rather
gently. Righty-ho! Next! Another Hewitzen variation. Having a great day today. I love
rhubarb. It's one of my favourite things in the world. We don't use it enough. I've just
got some plain stewed rhubarb, which is stewed with some sugar, cinnamon stick and that's
about all, until it's soft. I've got a nice glass here. I was going to say jug. That's
not a juggy, and that's a glass. I'll put some rhubarb in the bottom. Then we will put
some of this sort of mascarpone cream on top of that. A couple of the pieces of sponge.
Maybe I'll get excited and put three in. Who knows? A generous sort of fella. A little
bit more of the mascarpone cream. I nearly dropped that bowl. It's the train's fault.
It really is. It's not me. I don't do things like that. We all know that. It's just layer
after layer. You can do it in a big bowl if you like. A little bit more of the rhubarb.
It's looking quite good, isn't it? I'll just put a couple more of that sponge pieces up
there. Maybe three. The only thing that you have to do is make sure that you finish off
with the mascarpone cream. That's always on the top, and I'll show you the reason in about
two seconds. It doesn't look bad. Now, last but not least, just some Dutch cocoa. Please
don't use drinking chocolate for this. It doesn't work. You need Dutch cocoa, and just
sprinkle that quite a bit over the top. And there we have tonight's dessert. And if the
train doesn't go from side to side, I am sure everybody's going to love that.
The spaciousness and creature comforts on board the Indian Pacific sure takes the edge
of long-distance travelling, especially for children. Children can become quite cantankerous
when they're cooped up for hours. That's if you don't keep them occupied. To help youngsters
pass the time comes the We Sing series of books and audio tapes. They include songs,
games and nursery rhymes. The books contain the words and notes of the songs so that children
can sing along and learn too. Perhaps the most interactive publication is Going Places,
the kids' own travel book. The book was written and literally road tested by author Anne
Siddor and her two children during an overseas trip. It's full of quizzes, competitions
and laughs, and space for the kids to draw, write and stick things on. It's all designed
for kids to foster an interest in other cultures, food, language and history.
Now how do you keep adults and teenagers occupied? Well, despite their size, these four books,
which make up the emergency travel kit, will keep any travel party engrossed in conversation
for hours. For train enthusiasts, the two locomotives pulling the Indian Pacific are
modern CLP class diesels of 3000 horsepower each. But if steam is your interest, then
heavy metal is a must. Inside, the photographers showcase their favourite images of steam in
action. And you'll find many of the shots were taken at dawn and dusk, which further
enhances these romantic monsters of rail. So sit back and relax and stay with us because
after the break, Ross Greenwood toasts our journey with a glass of fine wine. How are
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At Crestal Brook, the Indian Pacific diverts south and hints for Adelaide.
The city of churches, the home of fine art and of course a place renowned for its wine.
Now as a person who's always on the lookout for a good money making opportunity,
but also a good drop as well, what better place to check out wine as an investment.
In the second half of the 19th century, South Australia gave shelter to a wave of refugees who came from Germany.
And they bought with them the art of making wine.
Now it's interesting because most of those people came and settled here in the Barossa Valley, northeast of Adelaide.
And almost overnight an industry was born.
Today people all around the world are enjoying Australian wine.
But apart from drinking fine wine, there are a number of ways of reaping the harvest,
either through investing in wine shares or collecting the wine itself.
Perhaps Australia's best known wine investment is this, Penfolds Grange Hermitage, bottled since the early 1950s.
Now a full set of these is worth more than $60,000 on a good day.
Not bad considering that if you bought the new release each year, it would have cost less than $3,000.
John Deval is Penfolds' chief winemaker.
What is it that makes it such a good wine?
Well I think it's the concentration of flavour, the structure of the wine in terms of the intensity of flavour
and the ability for the wine to sell and keep on improving for 20 years and more.
I think the season plays an important part. We're faced with Mother Nature of course,
and if there's an excellent season where you can get absolute optimum maturity and maximum flavour in the wine,
that makes one vintage of Grange perhaps, of course all Granges are good, but some are exceptional years.
And so which have been the exceptional years?
The late Max Schubert, the great man who created Grange of course, he always had a soft spot for the 55,
because that was one of the first vintages that really achieved recognition by the wine industry itself.
71 was another superb vintage and I guess at recent times we're very, very pleased with the 1990 which is going to be released very soon.
It looks terrific.
Very good condition.
But how good is collecting wine as an investment?
Well let's uncork some good advice from Colin Gaetjens who runs one of Australia's largest wine auction companies.
Now Colin here's a big question we all want to know, can you actually make money by investing in wine?
Ross I think you can. You need to take a little bit of care, but yes like any other collectible commodity I think it's possible.
So what sort of things does the ordinary person need to watch out for if they're going to go out and collect and invest in wine?
You need to first of all recognise the difference between the collecting wine and the drinking wine.
Some are made to drink, some are made to collect.
If you're going to seriously collect a portfolio of fine wine you need to look at the area,
the winemaker, the grape variety and so on.
The wine obviously to be collectible has to last the distance and there are really very few wines that are made to go much more than say two or three years.
So which wine should we be buying now that could increase in price in the future?
Now for your own personal top five what are they?
I think you've got to say Grange Hermitage, it really is the most consistent auction performer and long lived wine.
Henshki Hill of Grace, then it gets tougher.
They'd be mainly South Australian I'd have to say.
Cabernet from Coonawarra Winds or John Ruddock, Penfold 707, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grant Burge Meshack as we're drinking here, 70 year old vines, good pedigree.
It gets difficult after that, really difficult.
What sort of money am I up for?
Well come and see me, I think you really don't start until you get above $20 a bottle.
But what if you're one of those people who prefer to drink the wine then collect it?
Well there is another option, you can buy shares in some of the companies which have been created in the past few years.
Now if you want to invest in wine companies there are around 10 which are listed on the stock market.
You can invest via a stockbroker with a minimum of around $1000.
While you might not know the actual companies you'll certainly know their wines.
One of the biggest is Southcorp and their brands include Great Western, Lindemans, Sephils and Penfolds.
Another one of our large companies is Mildara Blass.
Their wines of course include Wolf Blass and Mildara but they've also got Jamison's Run and Yellow Glen.
Another one of our big three companies is BRL Hardy and their wines include Stanley, Leasingham, Redmond, Horton and Sir James.
Those who specialise in this industry believe if you're looking to buy shares in a wine company, look for one which is large,
grows its own grapes, has a domestic base but is looking for exports.
Local consumption now accounts for 75% of the wine made but because Australian wines are internationally sought there's even greater demand.
Exports have grown 35% each year for the past four years and remember more than 90% of the wine sold is consumed within 48 hours of people buying it.
Well I've got a couple of small investments in wine right here myself.
The interesting thing is no matter whether you're buying wine shares or wine itself, you've got to give them both time to mature,
probably five to seven years so they can start making you money.
Well speaking of timing I'd better get back to the Indian Pacific quick smart otherwise I'll miss my train.
Well when the books have all been read and it's not quite time to go to bed,
there are some things that the young ones would love to make but you'll need a bit of help from mum.
Cardboard's a great thing to keep on hand and take with you a packet of texture colours and some scissors
and believe it or not a chopstick or two, a drawing pin won't go astray either.
What I'm making are one of these wonderful old windmills that are very simple to fasten on the top of that chopstick.
Get a piece of square cardboard and cut in from the corners so that you leave just a bit of a space in the centre.
Now precision is not all that important so don't fuss too much.
You can actually fold it if you like first to get that precise if you're that way inclined
and then these are simply folded into the middle like that and there.
That's what you end up with.
Those pieces are then held through into the top of the chopstick and when you blow on it that's what happens.
Now a good rollicking game of snaps is not a bad idea either and the kids can actually make these themselves.
Just cut some cardboard into squares, three or four of each one and using those texture colours
draw in identical pictures on the same coloured cards.
We've come to the end of our wonderful second day of our fabulous journey
but we're looking forward tomorrow to the most exciting part when Peter Werret actually test drives the Indian Pacific.
He's going to take us across the world's longest straight stretch of railway line.
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Day three of our journey brings us to the Nullarbor, one of the great desert plains of the world.
I used to think Nullarbor was an Aboriginal word. It's not. It's Latin, meaning no trees.
Have a look. Not a tree anywhere in sight.
It's so big, it's overwhelming and comparisons seem rather silly, like five times the size of Belgium.
You can see why when they decided to build a rail line right across the Nullarbor.
It was one of the great engineering feats of the time.
The millions of sleepers were by first choice Western Australian Jarrah,
also used in London's Underground Railway, with chemically treated carrie often used as a substitute.
The rails, at first imported, were later made in Australia and in fact caused the birth of BHP's steel industry.
The company built its Newcastle plant solely on the promise of Commonwealth orders for the new line.
On the 17th of October 1917, five years after work started,
the eastern and western gangs met in sand hills between Uldir and Watson.
It should have been a momentous celebration, but the First World War had drained the project of men and materials,
and the line's completion was marked with very little public attention.
And I strained my eyes for years to look for the kangaroos.
And today I've seen dozens and dozens and dozens.
Bert and Betty Tomlinson have crossed Australia ten times by train.
They say they've always loved the rail journey, as they've loved nearly 60 years together on their journey through life.
I met them celebrating their 59th wedding anniversary.
Sadly, lung cancer has meant 81-year-old Bert's days are numbered,
and this happy couple could think of no better way to celebrate their last trip together
than book a deluxe suite on the Indian Pacific.
We've been in the sit-ups. We've been in second class.
We've been in the first-class roommates, and we've done in first-class compartments.
But this time I said, as it's our anniversary, darling, our 59th wedding anniversary, we're doing it in style.
Bert and Betty have six children, and one of their sons was there to greet them
when the train pulled into Adelaide for a two-hour stopover.
And that's what the Indian Pacific's all about.
It has for over 80 years been one way friends and family on different coasts of Australia can keep in touch.
Before we crossed the border into Western Australia, we stopped at Cook, a railway town literally in the middle of nowhere.
They're all $3, are they?
No, $3.
Here we saw children trading with train passengers to raise money.
They want to travel east to see the things they can only dream of, the ocean and snow.
Their parents had defied the nullabore and actually succeeded in growing trees in their tiny town.
Well, to live in this part of the world, I reckon you need two things, a strong will to survive and a sense of humour.
Look at this. This is the Cook Golf Course. Nine holes, every green a beauty, not a blade of grass on any of them.
People really enjoy it out here. It's out in the middle of nowhere, and they really have a good time.
Cook stationmaster Merv Gould showed us around the greens, or really I suppose they're the browns.
The rules are laid back, but there is apparently a two-stroke penalty if your ball lands in Cook's cemetery.
Merv is not only the stationmaster, he's also the town sheriff.
And to detain lawbreakers, he has two tin sheds, which double as jail cells.
If years and once in my nine years here we had a chap who was a bit uppity, but he calmed down.
That prisoner, whoever he was, would have had a unique place in Cook's history. The trouble is Merv can't remember his name.
So we found, as so many others before us, one of the charms of the Indian Pacific is that this journey across Australia
brings you face to face with characters you may never otherwise have had the chance to meet.
It was the train that heralded in the great age of romantic travel, the period in history when people could cross entire continents.
Europe, North America, Asia and of course Australia. And to cross Australia you had to cross the Nullarbor Plain.
The longest single stretch of absolutely dead straight rail track in the world. 478 kilometres.
And for part of it, I'm going to ride in the train.
We have two locos on the Indian Pacific, but the second of them is used only when necessary, on steep pinches for example.
Each engine is a two stroke diesel, turbocharged 16 cylinder unit, producing about 3000 horsepower.
But the engines do not directly drive the train. They generate electrical power for the traction motors, which are the motive source.
It takes this rig, which in rail terms is called a consist, about two to three minutes to accelerate to its cruising speed of over 100 kilometres per hour
and about one kilometre to bring it to a stop again.
The fuel tank holds 10,000 litres of diesel fuel and the consumption rate is about five litres per kilometre.
Pretty good on a per capita basis. There are, after all, 400 passengers on this train.
Joe, tell me what's the procedure for driving this big rig?
Well this is a throttle. A throttle, right?
Forward, reverse. Yep.
The horn, engine brake, train brake. Yep.
All your gauges gives you an idea of how much air you've got in your train, how much air it's coming past, engine brake air.
And how much air it's maintaining in your reservoirs.
You talked about two different systems of brake there, engine brake and train brake.
You're talking about something that's braking the locos and something that's braking the carriages behind.
Well, the train brake puts all the brakes on all the carriages behind us. Yep.
The engine brake only does the engine brakes. Right, okay.
So when you do make a brake application for your train, you just leave, you pull it across and it releases the engine brake so it doesn't come on.
At this sort of speed, which is just over 100 klicks, what do you do if you have an emergency, for example?
You have to stop in a hurry. Yeah.
Or you just go straight into an emergency application. Yeah.
And everything else happens all at once.
That's not going to stop quick even then, is it?
Well, yeah it does, but it does stop quicker than normal brake applications. Right.
Just that it releases all the air straight away instead of gradually.
The drivers are in constant communication by HF radio with a train controller in Port Augusta in order to be certain of the location of other trains on the track.
In this way, on a single line, the passing points can be arranged and advised.
The drivers, and there are always two of them, have a vigilance button which must be cleared periodically to ensure they are alert and on the job.
A potential problem with long distance operation.
These days, the Indian Pacific only carries mail to remote locations like the towns the train passes through on the Nullarbor.
But if you'd like any information on any segment from tonight's show, call 005531600 for an info sheet to be mailed to you,
or dial 005535522 for an information sheet to be faxed to you.
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We've been on the train now for a few days and since we left Sydney we've whined and dined. We've slept soundly and we've even seen the sights.
Well, despite the long distance, I feel quite fresh and that's because I did my homework. No matter which mode of transport you take, you can make the going easier if you follow a few simple steps.
Covering long distances always means a lot of sitting. That can lead to sore backs and stiff necks, often caused by poor posture.
If you feel down your back, there are actually three curves. One at the neck, one in the middle of your back and one at the base. And if they're forced into an unnatural position for too long, then the supporting muscles and ligaments can start to ache and cause problems.
On most long journeys on trains, planes or buses, a pillow will be supplied. But just in case you miss out, it's a good idea to bring your own. And I've got Tonya's pillow that she made in South Australia.
Now you can use this to support your head while you're snoozing or you can roll it up and put it behind the base of your spine and that will help restore your back's natural curves and alleviate some of the stress.
If you don't have a pillow, improvise. A rolled up towel or jumper will have the same effect. Inflatable neck cushions can also be very handy.
But if you are confined to your seat, there are exercises you can do to help prevent you from becoming stiff and sore.
Everyone has to put their arms up and just sort of sway from left to right. Look like human seaweed. Yeah, get the joints going.
Try and touch your ear and your shoulder. You won't be quite be able to do it. Leave your shoulders down. Just try and touch it.
There are plenty of other limited range exercises that will increase your circulation and get the energy flowing.
You may look silly, but you'll have the last laugh when you arrive at your destination feeling fresher than everyone else.
When it comes to food, don't eat everything that's put in front of you. If you eat too much, you'll feel bloated. Stick to light meals and drink plenty of water. The same goes for the kids.
However you travel, air conditioning is bound to have some drying effect. Take moisturizer for your skin and lip balm for your lips.
Aromatherapy can come into play when you travel too. Inhaling lavender oil from a handkerchief can help you relax.
Or try eucalyptus oil or peppermint oil to prevent motion sickness and to keep the nasal passages clear.
And tomorrow morning we'll be arriving in Perth. And whenever you reach your destination, there's always luggage to be carried.
Now remember, when you're lifting your bags, keep your back straight and bend your knees. You should be lifting with your knees.
Also, keep your luggage as close as possible to your body when you're lifting. And never lift and twist at the same time.
As our final day comes to a close, there was just one more surprise in store for us.
200 kilometres from Kalgoorlie, we reached Xanthus and here we came across the magnificent scene of the Nullarbor in flood.
But not a single drop of water had fallen on the Nullarbor itself. These still waters are the result of the tail end of Cyclone Bobby,
which came across Western Australia in February. And the floods have poured from a huge catchment area, 300km north of the track.
Well, we've finally reached our destination, Perth. Our adventure across Australia is now complete and the journey has been a memorable one.
The images of endless time and space and the loneliness of the outback is one that will stay with me and I'm sure all the crew for a very, very long time.
But now that we're in the West, next week we explore this beautiful state.
Last but not least, on behalf of all the team at Healthy Wealthy and Wise, I would like to thank Australian National, Optus, Qantas,
and all our newfound friends in the Indian Pacific who have helped make this journey such an enjoyable one.
So until next week, from all of us, cheers!
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