My Trip to Wittenoom

[grandrequin111]

There's a longer footage of this trip... "The Hill have Eyes" (2006)... :-)

[theduncans1000]

you guys are talking about it from years ago,the air is safe wouldnt be here otherwise,and karjini gorge is full of it too so whats the differants there ....telll you what the diferants is its called money and bloody politics.

[DustyCustard]

Dude, you need more than a mask to be safe!

Any fibres caught in your clothing means you (or a loved one who's never even been there) risks contamination through inhalation when you shake your clothes out back at home.

Wear a paper suit or something, and leave it behind.

Thanks for the vid though. :)

[cjeremie]

Great spot. Fantastic camping and 4wding

[adamchidell]

Did you meet any of the remaining residents?

[unreel07]

i was there few weeks ago we walked threw the mine with masks.. the place would be great if it wasnt a death wish

[theduncans1000]

well i live here ,the gorge is just beautiful,the town itself is pretty sad,the air is clean ,more to this place than you know ...!!

[gm16v149]

A mask would have been a good idea but it's great you can still visit old abandoned mining towns with the infrastructure still there. The tree huggers nowadays want all remnants of mining towns to be removed, so exploring them is uninteresting.

I guess you would have gone over Kia-Ora Pass? I went over in my first Kenworth truck about 1985 I think it was, a pretty hairy experience with a heavy load.

[BlackAussieBastard]

now thats a top video mate gotta be one of the best ive seen aye!! next time ya go id join, love to see that place, be a great experience

[Sinta97]

I know it's sad, ad dangerous, but I'd love to go there.

Btw, love the running cow :3

[theduncans1000]

you can get it anywhere you live it is all over australia

[beandogfly]

@theduncans1000 blue asbestos or crocidolite (the most dangerous kind of asbestos) was only mined in WA and SA you might be confused.

[EmmaBabySpice]

Thanks for the video, Glad to see the old place is still standing!!

I went to primary school in the late 1960's in Wittenoom, we had fun swimming in the pools and enjoyed the open roof cinema.

So far am feeling fine, but i do get checked every couple of years

Dorothy

[cornelius851]

yeh its sad a lot of people have died, and yes if your silly it is a dangerous place, but of the 20,000 people only 1000 have dies from asbestos related illness. that only equals 5% of those exposed. where as 64% of lifetime smokers die of smoking related illness. so looking at the stats if you worked and lived in wittenoom, you are 13 times less likely to die from asbestosis than you are from lung cancer if your a smoker.

[sulray]

I worked there for 4 months for Hancock and wright in 1969, we were living in the old single men,s quarters in the town and based at the old mine, sinking shafts for iron-ore samples, that were sent to japan worked around mt lockyer area I remember working with a scotsman widening the road that led up to the top of the hill over the mine, and one day i hit a large bolder with the blade of the dozer ,it was all rock crystal with drops of blood inside, pushed 6ft rock to side of road still there

[ozstickman]

great vid mate. Be buggered if I would go there.

[allistairc123]

great video, our fecken tom tom sat nav took us straight into wittenoom when we wanted to avoid it.

right into the centre of australias worst industrial disaster area with the most dangerous grade of asbestos in the world just blowing about everywhere!

as mad as visiting the chernobyl reactor