 guys welcome back to the channel we're out here in the desert right now we're somewhere between wherever we were and Palm Springs and after we hit this spot we're gonna head down to the Salton Sea check out Bombay Beach check out Slab City but yeah we're just down the road from the nude bowl I just pulled over here to shoot an intro because we've been driving for about an hour now but we're in the middle of the desert I ended up getting a car I'll show you guys in a second there's a pretty cool spot up here used to be a nudist camp there was a pool there it's been filled in some skateboarders dug it out I heard some police like shot it so people wouldn't skate it and ended up getting in trouble for that since then it's been fixed and like dug out and people skate it and there's a little DIY up there so yeah we're gonna go check it out pretty excited because when I was a younger kid I used to watch that doco dogtown and z-boys and I used to watch them like jump fences and skate people's pools and stuff I've never skated a pool probably gonna be horrible at it but yeah it should be pretty fun so the car I got usually I would have gone with a Japanese car but since we're in America Japanese cars over here are very expensive my theory is that because we're a long way from Japan whereas in Australia we're like six hours away from Japan so we get a lot of cheap Japanese cars but I bought something American I bought a 2004 Chevrolet trailblazer all the cars over here are automatic there's not a lot of manual cars so I couldn't get a manual it's automatic 4.2 liter inline 6 rear drive they did have the four-wheel drive version but I didn't get it this is the LS it's quite spacious pretty horrible on petrol though as you guys can see the interior is quite bare bones it doesn't have cruise control doesn't have fog lights it's pretty much it it is quite spacious though and I wanted a car with a bit of space so I could put like my skateboard in the back and stuff and have enough room to go on trips like this so yeah pretty wild place for a nudist colony I mean it makes sense like being in the middle of nowhere I think it was a 70s when it shut down because people used to skate up here in the 80s and 90s got a bit of graffiti going on here I bought some paint today too so if you guys lucky you might see some enox graffiti action today I've never really done any forward driving this isn't really forward driving since this isn't a forward drive it's a rear wheel but you know what I mean I think it's right up there I can see all the graph but I can't really make our way up there they call Chevrolet the hot beat of America if you guys can see but we're pretty we're pretty out there in the desert you know season no Kent Lynn Campbelltown New South Wales in the desert we knew we're coming out of the middle of nowhere guys we had to we had to make sure we come out here you know some protection we're gonna make it probably as far as we want to get in the trailblazer guys yeah we need forward drive to get up those heels I tried but no luck so we're just gonna park the car here it's like a 30-second walk anyway so yeah we're gonna walk the rest of this trail guys too steep for my little rear wheel drive trailblazer you guys ever seen that movie grind and they get the van and they pick up that chick it's supposed to be Ryan Shekla's sister in the movie and she steals the van and leaves them out in the desert and they've got a walk kind of this kind of reminds me of it oh you okay green and nearly slipped over I think that's it just up there that graffiti is pretty sure lucky it's winter right down it's not summer wouldn't be able to do this in summer plus rattlesnakes a lot of debris and rubbish apparently people used to party up here and get wild so the city had to shut it down here it is guys the infamous nude bowl it's anonymous with skateboarding around the world missing is massive oh people are having little campfires out here barbecuing this place looks crazy oh my god this is actually like a real pool like this was like meant to be swam in and I'm sure it was swimming by all the nudists back in the day but it's not like a purposely built skate pool and it's not like Bondi or like Sydney or anything like this is a legit pool pool you guys know I'm not much of a transition skater not much of a transition skater at all but yeah this pool's like the bottom of it it's like cracked so you've got to pretty much avoid the whole bottom section check it out if you guys can see there's some gnarly cracks in here I mean if you had big like 56 like gummy wheels you could roll over it but my my street wheels aren't really ideal for a spot like this but yeah just see you guys can see how deep it is I'm standing at the very bottom right now so it's quite tall the color wave the pool is really cool it's had a lot of different coats of paint over the years as you'd imagine but I think last time they painted it all pink but yeah a lot of graphite has come in and bomb we're in the Wild West out here guys heaps of empty shotgun shells and bullet casings out here yeah someone's out here shooting right now you hear that guys someone shooting guns out here imagine just being out here with your friends like just partying and shooting guns and skating and stuff in the middle of the desert pretty wild alright guys we're heading out now because we're going to head towards Slab City so we're going to check out Bombay beach hopefully check out some abandoned houses maybe do some more throwies and then head on down to Slab City check it out bunch of people just rocked up a couple people in forward drives and a skater with his misses and dog and a family so this is quite the hotspot for tourists apart from the two forward drives that made it up there for a back road we got the furthest up there's another van and another family forbee down there but we made it the furthest up and Chevrolet hot bead of America about 20 minutes off Bombay beach and there's a bunch of just run down buildings and businesses and houses and stuff apparently these places to be pumping back in like the 50s and 60s and 70s from there I kind of just went downhill because it's a man-made lake all the run-offs from the farms all the chemicals and stuff in the fertilizer ran off into the lake and kind of ruined everything so there's a lot of salt in this lake just arrived in Bombay beach checking out the streets of Bombay got some weird kind of caravans here planet caravan got a boat with a mannequin head in it pretty creepy there's a sign that says private property so I don't really want to go walking around in there maybe we'll find some more spots to have a look at we're at some weird Coachella looking place some steel stuff and a big concrete steel star over there pretty crazy huh who built this why is this here where they get all this rebar from why is there is a while it's a big canal thing here and then there's the Salton Sea which is a big lake big man-made lake we're at a house of doors or something right now it's like a weird art installation some doors that go into this big place it has other doors I'm not gonna count how many because it looks like there's a lot you want to punch a hole in the door I'm sure back in the day they would have had a super different idea of how Bombay Beach estates is gonna turn out it's like mad banks almost out here guys abandoned boat here someone left that someone's done a pretty cool piece on in this garage it's pretty cool on the trailer and everything wow the hull of a boat but there's electricity here big art insulation I don't want to go for there looks sketchy you might step on a nail or something careful there's a weird body type of thing on this table here creepy ass this place is nice green is just dying to take me into this place here I don't know why I wanted to check out the caravan graveyard what's in here cardboard art it's pretty wild a lot of time put in here notes some to-do lists if you come to Bombay Beach and you want to buy somewhere or rent somewhere to pop down to Suddersby here check out the real estate you can purchase here or rent here in Bombay beaches state just rolling up to what's this place called Salvation Mountain Salvation Mountain this is where they bury Jesus you can't go in because of COVID but check it out so you used to be able to go inside here but it's closed for repairs and the old boy there's an old bloke that built it passed away so I don't think they've been maintaining it or something would have been fun to go in explore but yeah she's closed a few abandoned cars here that have been bombed up literally in the middle of nowhere here guys crazy I believe we've made it to Slab City guys there's a bunch of campers everywhere bunch of caravans bunch of people the tents and stuff I think we're uh yeah Slab City apparently how you roll up here is you're all up find a bit of vacant land you stake your claim and then you can set up camping and live out here for free last three place in America apparently it's a skate park yeah I was just saying like I'm gonna do the slab up there okay because this one it looks flat but honestly isn't against the okay this is a bit of a decline yeah yeah naturally I also just want to make the biggest me like huge spinning around possible really expanding yeah I want to take up a lot of the pool alright guys had a pretty rad day today out in the desert got to hit the nudist ball or the nude ball sorry got to hit Slab City got to skate Slab City ran into a Slab City local and he recognized me from the DIY diaries videos at the slab he said he was on YouTube looking at like DIY stuff and then the slab popped up so shouts out to Blake super rad dude we're gonna drive home now we've got a probably about a three-hour drive just at the back of some abandoned looks like a meat a meat factory or something but yeah check out this sunset guys you guys can't really see my camera is about to die guys hopefully you guys enjoy this video thanks for watching shouts out to all the new subscribers hope to see you guys in the next video cheers for watching