OPERATION GOLD RUSH SBS 7.30PM TONIGHT 6/12

Hi All
Doco on Sbs tonight Apparently retraces the Klondike gold rush.3 part series, may be worth a look.
Cheers Dig

Wombat

Sure glad we don't have to do it like that now days, extreme gold fever to have to go through that.

I agree dave, it would be a hard slog. far to cold for me

You have to give it to the old timers they were tough. Thanks Dig for putting us on to it. Can't wait for the next episode next week.
wombat

flyspecks wrote:I agree dave, it would be a hard slog. far to cold for me

***********Over here they died of thirst, over there they lost fingers and toes to frostbite !

That was a good program for a change better than all the doom and gloom on the news !!

Just a reminder to everyone that the second episode is on tonight at 7.30pm on SBS
wombat

and there nearly at the destination, hope they have time to actually look for a bit of gold next week.

I was a little bit disappointed in the show last night. I thought they were going to do it the same way as it was done in 1896. Build their own boat, and then travel all the way to Dawson City. But no, they all already had a boat built and waiting for them. And when the wind on the lake was blowing in the wrong direction, they got a tow from the safety boat, up the lake. And when they reached the next town they put the boat on a car trailer and traveled 400 miles closer to Dawson and launched the boat again. The old timers didn't have that luxury. They did it the hard way. The show was suppose to show you what hardships the old times suffered heading up the Yucon River and then into the Klondike . The show and crew should be doing it the same way to get the true feeling of what the old timers went through and the hardships they suffered. Oh well next week I think they go looking for gold.
wombat

I was out last night and missed it . I will have to wait for a repeat .

Minermike wrote:I was out last night  and missed it .  I will have to wait for a repeat .

Live and free and SBS on Demand.
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https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1106168899620/operation-gold-rush-with-dan-snow-lakes-and-rivers

Thanks, getting stressed out with the computer .... Spent 1 hr. 36mins. talking to Telstra , then another 1 hr 15 mins. It is still not right .

MM, SBS on demand is available on any smart TV, no need to watch it on your PC.

I think my t.v. is like me , not very smart ! Thanks any way I will have a look , got to go and watch the cricket now ....