1 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,140 I think I've made the choice of where my shelter will be. 2 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:29,700 We're going to start making a kayak. 3 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:34,940 The kayak is going to solve my fishing needs, allow me to find water and do my 4 00:00:34,940 --> 00:00:38,740 recce. So this kayak is actually pivotal to my survival out here. 5 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:43,620 I have not seen a single thing alive. 6 00:00:44,260 --> 00:00:46,020 Just quiet and nothing. 7 00:00:47,220 --> 00:00:48,880 What if I just can't catch anything? 8 00:00:49,380 --> 00:00:50,900 I wonder when I'm going to crack. 9 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:55,560 This is a super tough environment. 10 00:00:56,580 --> 00:00:57,780 I want to go home. 11 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:03,500 The COVID's irritating your heart and that's causing it to race. 12 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,320 I need to medically take you out the field. 13 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:10,920 Who wants to sit out there cold, wet and miserable the longest? Oh, 14 00:01:10,940 --> 00:01:12,440 congratulations, you win, you know. 15 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:15,500 Yes. I'm officially tapping out. 16 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:17,100 I don't know what's going to happen. 17 00:01:17,660 --> 00:01:19,160 Something better fucking change. 18 00:01:22,140 --> 00:01:23,140 Holy... 19 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:24,500 What is this place? 20 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:26,800 What have I gotten myself into? 21 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:32,820 We have to document this whole experience while trying to survive at 22 00:01:32,820 --> 00:01:33,820 the same time. 23 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:36,160 Check it out. 24 00:01:37,740 --> 00:01:39,880 Like 60k minutes. 25 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,360 Mother Nature's kicking my ass. 26 00:01:44,340 --> 00:01:51,080 This experience is just as much a mind game as it is a 27 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:52,080 survival game. 28 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:54,680 We got dinner! 29 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,000 Oh, you fucker! 30 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:03,180 Suddenly going downhill very, very fast. 31 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:11,460 A $250,000 prize would change my life. I like you, Tasmania! 32 00:02:50,530 --> 00:02:51,530 Morning. 33 00:02:54,650 --> 00:02:57,290 Had another night similar to my first night. 34 00:02:57,690 --> 00:02:58,690 It rained. 35 00:02:59,370 --> 00:03:00,370 Uncomfortable. 36 00:03:02,270 --> 00:03:03,270 That was about it. 37 00:03:07,730 --> 00:03:08,730 Told you to get up. 38 00:03:10,250 --> 00:03:13,010 And I really haven't eaten anything since I got here. 39 00:03:14,010 --> 00:03:15,850 The tough part's gonna be the starvation. 40 00:03:17,650 --> 00:03:19,150 A few floaty bits in here. 41 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:26,440 As soon as I found out I was in this competition, I've dropped everything and 42 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:27,580 been preparing full time. 43 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:33,040 And I have gone nuts. And I've put on as much weight as I could. I've got 19 44 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:34,140 kilos in two months. 45 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:36,300 It feels like I've got back fat. 46 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:43,180 I think this is about almost 30 days of free 47 00:03:43,180 --> 00:03:50,000 time, almost like I've got a 30-day buffer. Like if I ate nothing in 30 48 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,840 days' time, I'd probably end up looking like I was. 49 00:03:52,220 --> 00:03:58,600 two months ago when i didn't have any excess weight so i'm glad it's there it 50 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,360 actually wobbles first time my stomach i've ever seen my stomach wobble like 51 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:09,320 that the biggest threat for me here is starvation and that could 52 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:14,700 lead to my elimination because i get too thin this may take me to a level of 53 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:16,399 starvation that i've never experienced before 54 00:04:26,250 --> 00:04:28,470 I need to gather food to feed my body. 55 00:04:32,790 --> 00:04:36,910 I'm going to make a set line on a pole for fishing. 56 00:04:38,710 --> 00:04:44,590 And I want to keep the bendy tip on this to help me know if I've got a fish on. 57 00:04:46,270 --> 00:04:49,430 This is a pretty shabby rod. It's not really a rod though, it's a set line. 58 00:04:49,890 --> 00:04:52,350 It doesn't matter that it's shabby. 59 00:04:53,170 --> 00:04:54,810 It matters that it just does the job. 60 00:04:59,150 --> 00:05:05,370 Right and I'm all ready to go to go find a big chunky piece of bait. 61 00:05:06,970 --> 00:05:11,110 There's a tree over there I noticed even last night had some bore holes in it and 62 00:05:11,110 --> 00:05:14,370 I'm hoping that they're kind of similar to witchetty grubs so I'm gonna have a 63 00:05:14,370 --> 00:05:15,370 dig around in there. 64 00:05:30,950 --> 00:05:31,950 Jackpot! 65 00:05:32,550 --> 00:05:33,550 Yes! 66 00:05:35,170 --> 00:05:36,290 That is a good sign. 67 00:05:37,230 --> 00:05:41,410 Because what I'm looking at now is going to be my bread and butter bait from now 68 00:05:41,410 --> 00:05:43,270 on and I've got a bloody tree full of it. 69 00:05:44,290 --> 00:05:45,290 Yes! 70 00:05:45,930 --> 00:05:46,950 Check this out. 71 00:05:49,670 --> 00:05:51,170 It's almost a waste of years for bait. 72 00:05:51,410 --> 00:05:52,790 Oh yeah, look how long he is. 73 00:05:54,890 --> 00:05:55,890 Awesome. 74 00:05:56,790 --> 00:05:59,410 I mean, you just couldn't get a better bait than that. 75 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:05,340 All right, let's go stick him on a hook. 76 00:06:07,260 --> 00:06:08,760 Sorry, mate, this is going to hurt. 77 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,180 I'll go in through the head first so it puts him out of his misery. 78 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Yum, yum. 79 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:19,300 All right, let's get this in the water. 80 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:29,460 We have to be able to see our fishing lines at all times to see if we've 81 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:31,160 accidentally caught a platypus or something like that. 82 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,020 So I can see this. 83 00:06:33,530 --> 00:06:38,210 with the branch on the end there, whatever I catch it's going to alert me 84 00:06:38,210 --> 00:06:40,010 to it because I'll be able to see that whole thing going. 85 00:06:40,430 --> 00:06:46,930 So if I fly that same technique I can have a line there, there, there, 86 00:06:47,050 --> 00:06:51,850 basically this whole 180 degree sphere and I can easily see if I caught a fish. 87 00:06:55,110 --> 00:06:56,110 That feels good. 88 00:06:56,270 --> 00:07:01,850 I may as well just do some more now just to increase the likelihood I know where 89 00:07:01,850 --> 00:07:02,850 the bait is. 90 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:12,340 When you've been deprived of food and water, personal safety becomes a higher 91 00:07:12,340 --> 00:07:13,340 priority. 92 00:07:16,820 --> 00:07:21,480 My biggest fear is getting taken out by something small and missing out on the 93 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,200 opportunity to really go the distance. 94 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,960 And it is a possibility. So I'm going to have to be really careful that I don't 95 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:28,960 do anything stupid. 96 00:07:52,349 --> 00:07:55,950 Yeah. That's a sign to stop doing that movement, whatever that was. 97 00:08:09,270 --> 00:08:14,770 This fatigue I'm feeling now is actually quite similar to starvation fatigue. 98 00:08:28,490 --> 00:08:33,309 Have a rest and then kayak time. 99 00:08:52,970 --> 00:08:54,350 It's the raven. 100 00:09:08,330 --> 00:09:09,330 So I'm just going for a little wander. 101 00:09:10,850 --> 00:09:16,390 It's weird, I didn't feel hungry for the first two days, but today I am feeling 102 00:09:16,390 --> 00:09:17,390 it a little bit. 103 00:09:19,330 --> 00:09:21,010 Maybe it's just my body slowing down. 104 00:09:22,570 --> 00:09:29,210 I love botany and I love plants and I've learnt a lot about bush foods, 105 00:09:29,310 --> 00:09:30,610 traditional foods. 106 00:09:31,010 --> 00:09:35,990 I'll be able to hopefully procure a good source of food even if the hunting isn't 107 00:09:35,990 --> 00:09:36,990 going well. 108 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,180 The wood fungus here is so cool. 109 00:09:40,020 --> 00:09:41,020 It's huge. 110 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:42,760 It's bigger than my head. 111 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,700 Look, that's my hand. 112 00:09:47,660 --> 00:09:54,520 But this environment is so different to what I'm used to. It's just, it's thrown 113 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:55,520 me a little bit for six. 114 00:09:56,300 --> 00:09:57,300 So beautiful. 115 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:05,440 The only couple of foods plants that I've seen so far are just like you know 116 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:11,940 that lady grass you can eat the very bottom bit So this is what I was looking 117 00:10:11,940 --> 00:10:17,260 for this nice white Beautiful white here. That's what I'm looking for a 118 00:10:17,260 --> 00:10:23,360 little bit acidic But I'm pretty sure that's good to eat what I'm thinking 119 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:28,880 is I could easily eat the first say inch But I might 120 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,180 I might go two inches and go the fibrous sort of bit just to get some roughage 121 00:10:34,180 --> 00:10:35,180 through my tummy. 122 00:10:35,460 --> 00:10:36,860 I think that might be good for me. 123 00:10:37,980 --> 00:10:38,980 Cool. 124 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:43,920 Ooh, there might be some animals on your outfit, Juno, that your mum might see. 125 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:50,000 I've got a wombat. I have a PhD in ecology where I focused on animals that 126 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,920 live in hollows in trees. 127 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,880 As a wildlife biologist, I travel around Australia looking for new species of 128 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:57,880 plants and animals. 129 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:04,740 I'm a really experienced solo hiker and I love getting outdoors on my own. 130 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:10,240 I've hiked most of Australia's iconic hiking trails and many off-track ones as 131 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:11,240 well. 132 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,940 I live in Canberra with my partner, Elsie. 133 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:15,600 What are you looking at? 134 00:11:16,090 --> 00:11:22,170 Elsie gave birth to Juno six months ago, and Juno's just the happiest little baby 135 00:11:22,170 --> 00:11:25,930 ever. And by the time you come back, she might be crawling. 136 00:11:26,290 --> 00:11:29,990 Leaving Elsie and Juno is going to be incredibly hard, but I would love for my 137 00:11:29,990 --> 00:11:32,450 daughter to be proud of me when she grows up and watches this. 138 00:11:33,490 --> 00:11:38,010 There's not many points in your life where you are offered an opportunity to 139 00:11:38,010 --> 00:11:40,810 go sit in the woods, you know, test your skills. 140 00:11:41,410 --> 00:11:42,650 It's the ultimate test. 141 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,860 I think it's pretty important for me to try and, you know, get into fishing and 142 00:12:00,860 --> 00:12:03,540 get some protein happening if I want to stay out here long term. 143 00:12:04,340 --> 00:12:08,240 Found this really cool sort of a whippy stick that I thought could make a great 144 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,360 little bush pole. So I'm just going to trim it up, whack a bit of line on 145 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,900 there, chuck a hook on and, you know, yeah, see how we go. 146 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:19,880 Bait. 147 00:12:20,700 --> 00:12:22,800 I've been collecting bait and putting it in my shoe. 148 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:24,539 Big guy. 149 00:12:24,540 --> 00:12:26,000 I think they call them night crawlers. 150 00:12:26,540 --> 00:12:28,300 I might actually use him in pieces. 151 00:12:32,180 --> 00:12:33,180 So mean. 152 00:12:35,140 --> 00:12:39,240 I mean, I feel like the meanest person sticking that hook through a worm. 153 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,960 Part of me wants to catch something, the other part doesn't want to. 154 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:47,160 But this is what I'm here for. 155 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:48,840 To push myself. 156 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:52,740 Don't fall in the water. 157 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,820 I have no idea how hard it is to 158 00:12:56,780 --> 00:13:00,080 catch fish here, so just see how I go. 159 00:13:11,260 --> 00:13:13,660 I don't feel right about this spot. 160 00:13:19,620 --> 00:13:24,260 It all feels a little bit harder maybe without the calories coming in. 161 00:13:24,910 --> 00:13:29,310 I'm not getting my 2,000 calories I need per day. 162 00:13:33,950 --> 00:13:37,530 Like, I know that the calories are the issue, but I'm just trying to live with 163 00:13:37,530 --> 00:13:40,050 the land. I'm not using it for my personal gain. 164 00:13:41,590 --> 00:13:46,730 As an ecologist, someone who's worked hard to protect the environment, I'm not 165 00:13:46,730 --> 00:13:52,050 really in a rush to just start destroying it. 166 00:13:53,530 --> 00:13:56,110 We'll see. We'll see how I go with the hunger I guess. 167 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,940 Had some dreams about eating last night. 168 00:14:25,580 --> 00:14:31,700 I was eating some scallops and chicken wings and, oh, heaps of bread. 169 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:35,040 I'm going to get some food. 170 00:14:44,020 --> 00:14:45,020 All right. 171 00:14:46,180 --> 00:14:48,200 I think it's time to go for a little bit of a hunt. 172 00:14:49,740 --> 00:14:51,100 Here, possum possums. 173 00:14:52,340 --> 00:14:54,260 Oh, he's got another sentry. 174 00:14:56,380 --> 00:15:01,100 And I'm going to be on the lookout for possums that are asleep in some logs or 175 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:01,859 up a tree. 176 00:15:01,860 --> 00:15:02,860 Oh! 177 00:15:07,180 --> 00:15:09,580 Yeah, nice big possum stew. 178 00:15:10,220 --> 00:15:15,500 I reckon that's what I'll do with one. This is nuts. 179 00:15:17,340 --> 00:15:18,760 It's just a matter of finding. 180 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:21,620 Nice log. 181 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,160 There's a beautiful log there, but it all just seems so wet. 182 00:15:36,620 --> 00:15:38,760 If I was a possum, I'd be like, stuff that. 183 00:15:39,940 --> 00:15:41,420 I'm not sleeping in there. 184 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:43,960 Oh, here we go. 185 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:46,760 Okay, what have we got here? 186 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:50,600 Oh, you know what? 187 00:15:51,260 --> 00:15:52,760 Is that possum, sir? 188 00:15:55,140 --> 00:15:56,600 It's just to the right of that. 189 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:00,480 No way. 190 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,480 Let's go and have a look around the corner here. 191 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:07,980 Seemed it was about there. 192 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:16,860 Even if that is a possum, he's way too far up 193 00:16:16,860 --> 00:16:17,860 here for me to get. 194 00:16:20,390 --> 00:16:23,410 So try and find one that's a bit more accessible. 195 00:16:36,510 --> 00:16:42,270 If we don't get meat someday soon, we're probably not going to do too well out 196 00:16:42,270 --> 00:16:43,270 here. 197 00:16:59,850 --> 00:17:00,850 What is that? 198 00:17:07,150 --> 00:17:10,050 I wish you could feel what it's really like to be here. 199 00:17:10,910 --> 00:17:17,109 It's like, I mean, this magical, mysterious children's book. 200 00:17:18,369 --> 00:17:24,190 Getting, like, mad disassociation feelings, which normally is a bit 201 00:17:24,190 --> 00:17:26,910 ordinary, but at the moment, like... 202 00:17:30,410 --> 00:17:34,650 This is amazing. This is the best part about life, being here right now, 203 00:17:34,830 --> 00:17:39,850 looking at this on this exact day. This is what it's all about. 204 00:17:45,270 --> 00:17:46,490 Put them on a coffee, though. 205 00:17:50,210 --> 00:17:55,570 I'm doing this for myself, ultimately. I want to really improve my mental health 206 00:17:55,570 --> 00:17:58,150 and my emotional connection with nature. 207 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:04,460 It's been many years since I got out of the army and, you know, I've got some 208 00:18:04,460 --> 00:18:06,420 severe anxiety and some PTSD. 209 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:14,500 Changed my animal I'm targeting. We're now moving on to crayfish. 210 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:16,120 Freshies. 211 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:27,360 Yeah, it took me a long time to find out what the actual cause was with the PTSD. 212 00:18:28,430 --> 00:18:32,390 Eight and a half months in the Middle East, they're just always on the 213 00:18:32,390 --> 00:18:33,770 adrenaline high. 214 00:18:34,390 --> 00:18:39,910 And just coming back from that and going into the civilian world, I still haven't 215 00:18:39,910 --> 00:18:42,750 really, you know, found my place, I guess. 216 00:18:47,310 --> 00:18:53,350 A bit harder to find than the southern rock lobsters. 217 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:04,660 going home empty-handed again yeah it's gonna be a real issue if i 218 00:19:04,660 --> 00:19:11,540 can't get any um any meat lobsters fish basically just 219 00:19:11,540 --> 00:19:17,600 means stay out here long enough until the body shuts down 220 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,340 that's really it there's no other fact to it 221 00:19:42,190 --> 00:19:46,730 My job is hunting. My job is tracking. My job is stalking. It's what I do. I'm 222 00:19:46,730 --> 00:19:47,730 a hunter. 223 00:19:47,930 --> 00:19:50,890 Like, when I sound the baddest motherfucker in this competition, it's 224 00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:51,890 because I am. 225 00:19:54,870 --> 00:19:55,970 Not even a bird. 226 00:19:57,070 --> 00:19:58,630 Not even a bird. 227 00:20:00,030 --> 00:20:02,090 Come on. Give me something. 228 00:20:03,090 --> 00:20:04,830 Just give me something to be like, hey. 229 00:20:06,150 --> 00:20:07,410 Hey, buddy, how you going? 230 00:20:17,420 --> 00:20:22,680 Great with a rifle, great with guns, great with a bow. 231 00:20:24,620 --> 00:20:30,180 Like I'm so used to using them that when it comes to being without them, it's 232 00:20:30,180 --> 00:20:31,180 very hard as well. 233 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,640 Day three of no food. 234 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,160 I'm starting to feel it. 235 00:20:51,420 --> 00:20:53,440 I really am starting to feel it. 236 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,080 So I need something to put in my system, something, anything. 237 00:21:03,860 --> 00:21:04,860 Anything. 238 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:14,840 I need 10,000 calories of food just to sustain what I'm doing right now. 239 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,440 And I'm not going to get that doing what I've been doing. 240 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:24,760 You've got the mushrooms too. 241 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:30,460 You eat one of them, you wake up in four days time. That's a good way to make 242 00:21:30,460 --> 00:21:31,460 time go by. 243 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,960 But you'll also be in a bad way when you wake up. 244 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:44,080 You know what? I'm a great shooter. It doesn't matter how good you can shoot. 245 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,400 You've got nothing to shoot at. You can't fucking shoot. 246 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,560 I don't know what to do anymore. 247 00:22:12,650 --> 00:22:13,970 Tasmania up so far. 248 00:22:15,210 --> 00:22:16,290 You're beating me. 249 00:22:16,630 --> 00:22:17,630 You're winning. 250 00:22:19,730 --> 00:22:21,230 Absolutely wrecking me. 251 00:22:39,850 --> 00:22:41,690 I chucked my little line in. 252 00:22:42,350 --> 00:22:44,210 with just a worm that I found last night. 253 00:22:44,930 --> 00:22:49,790 And I've got an eel, I think. 254 00:22:51,590 --> 00:22:53,070 Holy shit, yes. 255 00:22:55,830 --> 00:22:56,830 Yeah, baby. 256 00:22:58,230 --> 00:22:59,230 It is, it's an eel. 257 00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:02,710 I'm gonna dong it. 258 00:23:36,110 --> 00:23:37,110 Thank you. 259 00:23:51,050 --> 00:23:52,090 Now what do I do? 260 00:24:01,810 --> 00:24:05,170 All right, I just filleted my little 261 00:24:07,449 --> 00:24:12,690 eel My main strategy might just be whenever I get food is just to eat it. 262 00:24:12,750 --> 00:24:19,030 So yeah, I might get the fire going and boil this guy up and have like a 263 00:24:19,030 --> 00:24:21,910 eel stew 264 00:24:33,050 --> 00:24:34,890 That's because I'm not really going to enjoy this meal. 265 00:24:36,270 --> 00:24:41,250 Like it's calories, but I don't really like fish or eels. 266 00:24:41,830 --> 00:24:45,070 I like sushi, but I'm not prepared to eat anything raw here. 267 00:24:47,970 --> 00:24:49,430 Okay, I'm going to eat the eel. 268 00:24:49,910 --> 00:24:54,190 I don't actually want to eat the eel, but this is what we're doing. 269 00:24:54,990 --> 00:24:55,990 We're eating eel. 270 00:24:57,870 --> 00:24:59,090 I don't want to eat the eel. 271 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:04,300 Okay, it's alright. 272 00:25:05,180 --> 00:25:06,180 I'm gonna eat the eel. 273 00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:07,420 It's gonna be delicious. 274 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:15,320 Mmm, it's oily. 275 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:18,740 Wow, it's so oily. 276 00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:26,900 It's okay. 277 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,180 It might never matter. 278 00:25:35,510 --> 00:25:36,950 Living the dream. 279 00:25:42,270 --> 00:25:43,270 Golly. 280 00:25:46,410 --> 00:25:47,670 It's so oily. 281 00:25:48,910 --> 00:25:51,110 Clearly I'm not starving enough. 282 00:25:58,250 --> 00:25:59,970 Fuck, it's disgusting. 283 00:26:17,390 --> 00:26:20,510 I want to be getting my nutrients straight away. 284 00:26:20,750 --> 00:26:23,530 I don't want to be waiting for my body to start breaking down. 285 00:26:27,530 --> 00:26:32,570 I've already found a few little grubs, so why not? 286 00:26:37,390 --> 00:26:40,230 At this stage, I don't have to eat much. 287 00:26:40,430 --> 00:26:42,130 Might even try these on a hook as well. 288 00:26:42,750 --> 00:26:48,410 Efficient. I can keep going on pretty much nothing, and that can be a little 289 00:26:48,410 --> 00:26:49,410 bit of an advantage. 290 00:26:51,550 --> 00:26:52,550 Oh. 291 00:26:52,730 --> 00:26:53,730 Oh, 292 00:26:55,010 --> 00:26:56,130 sour. 293 00:26:57,850 --> 00:27:04,250 Oh, like a bloody... ..hoxon or something on my tongue. 294 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,400 That was silly. 295 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:20,020 Foraging for bush tucker is what I know and what I enjoy doing. 296 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,020 Found a little coffee berry. 297 00:27:24,780 --> 00:27:26,280 Still has its fruits on. 298 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:27,920 A couple there. 299 00:27:32,580 --> 00:27:36,560 Dose them in some water for 24 hours and then they should be nice and soft. 300 00:27:37,290 --> 00:27:38,290 Ready to eat. 301 00:27:39,510 --> 00:27:40,550 It's a little win. 302 00:27:41,770 --> 00:27:42,770 Yay. 303 00:27:46,470 --> 00:27:50,990 As an Aboriginal man, this experience will deepen my connection to country. 304 00:27:52,130 --> 00:27:54,910 I'm from Dharawal country here in the Illawarra. 305 00:27:55,250 --> 00:27:57,650 I'm a wildlife and environmental officer. 306 00:27:57,870 --> 00:28:02,670 My passion working on country is what brought me to my career. 307 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:10,080 For my job, I need to have an extensive knowledge of flora and fauna both native 308 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:16,680 and invasive Foraging for bush tucker and being able to read country is going 309 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:21,800 to be an advantage to me Our 310 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:28,600 house is being renovated for a couple of rooms for the children 311 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,240 and we are currently living in a caravan 312 00:28:38,220 --> 00:28:43,540 I'm doing this for my own self-journey, but also to financially benefit my 313 00:28:43,540 --> 00:28:44,540 family. 314 00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:49,060 They are sacrificing time without their father. 315 00:28:50,060 --> 00:28:52,760 They are sacrificing living in a caravan. 316 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:54,980 They're tearing up. 317 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,800 This experience is going to be so hard. 318 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,100 I love you, Daddy. 319 00:29:00,380 --> 00:29:02,220 I love you so much. I'll miss you. 320 00:29:11,950 --> 00:29:12,950 Oh dear. 321 00:29:16,190 --> 00:29:21,170 That is my first hole in my tarp. 322 00:29:22,550 --> 00:29:23,550 No! 323 00:29:24,970 --> 00:29:29,590 Pretty shitty shelter if it starts picking up 35k wind. 324 00:29:31,410 --> 00:29:35,250 To be successful in this, I need to keep warm and dry. 325 00:29:35,890 --> 00:29:39,170 So I need to get started on my permanent shelter. 326 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:46,880 It's pissing down. 327 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:57,400 Who would have thought I'd bring my axe on alone to hold up 328 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,460 my shelter and keep the water out. 329 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,140 Oh dear. 330 00:30:29,230 --> 00:30:30,230 No food. 331 00:30:32,590 --> 00:30:35,970 I feel like I've let myself down a bit. 332 00:30:38,030 --> 00:30:40,430 It's not good to sit down and think. Not good for me. 333 00:30:40,630 --> 00:30:44,970 It's very easy for the mind to go, oh, you can just go home and eat. 334 00:30:45,450 --> 00:30:50,690 But you think like that and you lose all the motivation of all the other 335 00:30:50,690 --> 00:30:51,690 thoughts. 336 00:30:52,110 --> 00:30:53,290 That's the reason I'm here. 337 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,840 Can't sit still in the same spot for too long. 338 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,160 Time to make a fishing net. 339 00:31:14,620 --> 00:31:19,400 So when you tie them up at the top, you want to keep even spacing along here. 340 00:31:20,020 --> 00:31:21,760 And we're gonna go all the way along. 341 00:31:26,159 --> 00:31:28,620 Every day I deal with my PTSD and anxiety. 342 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,740 Some hours are better, some days are better, and some are pretty dark. 343 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,120 Yeah, I always thought, you know, post-traumatic stress, especially 344 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:43,400 military-related, was, um... You know, you kind of don't really have any right 345 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,960 to have it unless things got really, really nasty. 346 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:52,040 Cos, you know, there's always someone next to you going, oh, you know... ..you 347 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,040 didn't see much. 348 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,560 Not compared to what I saw or what I did. 349 00:31:56,660 --> 00:31:58,940 And that's not the right way to talk to people. 350 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,060 And it's not the right way to think. 351 00:32:04,420 --> 00:32:08,380 You can get PTSD off the most... smallest amount of things. 352 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,520 So, yeah, pretty much after Iraq, I got off the plane in Darwin, went to the 353 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,280 pub, got pissed. 354 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,240 Really pissed. 355 00:32:20,420 --> 00:32:21,760 I guess that was just... 356 00:32:22,719 --> 00:32:24,960 what seemed normal. Like, what else do you do? 357 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,040 I just turned to the alcohol and just partied. 358 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,320 Partied hard. 359 00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:35,620 Yeah, that's the worst thing you can do if you're sort of struggling a little 360 00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:41,320 bit mentally, is just, um, yeah, start hitting the piss. 361 00:32:45,220 --> 00:32:50,720 You know, I got to the point where I was drinking maybe 90, about 90 beers a 362 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:51,720 week. 363 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,340 And that's with having some days off. 364 00:32:59,020 --> 00:33:00,080 What a dickhead, eh? 365 00:33:01,140 --> 00:33:03,720 That's not who I want to be, who I am. 366 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,500 And then everything just came crashing down a few months later. 367 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,160 Had a bit of a breakdown. 368 00:33:17,460 --> 00:33:18,620 It's just the booze. 369 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,040 Booze bringing out the demons. 370 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,220 Feels good to talk about it, even though I'm talking to this net. 371 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:43,060 It's actually the most anxious I've been since I've been here on the land is when 372 00:33:43,060 --> 00:33:45,580 I'm talking about it, about this. 373 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,500 The old chest, chest gets tight. 374 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,620 Might be enough of that sort of talk for now. 375 00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:06,780 I don't want to go too far down the hole. 376 00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:19,500 Let's go fishing. 377 00:34:19,620 --> 00:34:20,620 I'm bored of this. 378 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,719 Alone Australia is brought to you by Kia. 379 00:34:25,190 --> 00:34:29,510 Experience the ultimate human endurance as 10 contestants battle to survive 380 00:34:29,510 --> 00:34:33,949 alone in the Tasmanian wilderness, with the winner taking home a prize worth 381 00:34:33,949 --> 00:34:35,370 $250,000. 382 00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,160 There's my hinge. 383 00:35:04,420 --> 00:35:08,420 Still alive. 384 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:10,560 That's good. 385 00:35:14,620 --> 00:35:20,540 This place is an absolute bastard of a place to fish. Like, it's almost 386 00:35:20,540 --> 00:35:25,380 impossible to not have a snag and fish from the bank. 387 00:35:32,430 --> 00:35:34,270 The kayak is the only way to solve it. 388 00:35:35,350 --> 00:35:41,290 If I troll through the middle of the riverbed, that is clear of snags. 389 00:35:41,810 --> 00:35:45,430 That would definitely be a place where the fish would want to hang out. 390 00:35:54,730 --> 00:36:00,610 I hope that this 20 kilo fat layer lasts until I get back to my normal weight. 391 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:07,020 and i hope by then i'll have my ducks in a row whilst i have this energy and fat 392 00:36:07,020 --> 00:36:08,800 that's pretty much my goal 393 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:16,580 i 394 00:36:16,580 --> 00:36:22,620 like this little tree 395 00:36:22,620 --> 00:36:29,460 but i need a vice so i can have things held for me while i saw them or 396 00:36:29,980 --> 00:36:33,920 I'm trying to strip some bark off the things that go on the bottom of my 397 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:34,920 kayak. 398 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,420 And this little tree is going to be my vice, hopefully. 399 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:47,460 My greatest skill is improvisation. I can visualise engineering challenges in 400 00:36:47,460 --> 00:36:52,620 my head and test them and then come up with a fairly good working model of 401 00:36:52,620 --> 00:36:54,200 something the first time. 402 00:36:57,870 --> 00:36:59,490 I also need to make myself some tools. 403 00:37:06,810 --> 00:37:07,810 Beauty. 404 00:37:11,130 --> 00:37:14,890 Eventually I'll get to a point out here where I've kind of made everything 405 00:37:14,890 --> 00:37:19,010 including the kitchen sink and one little task is much easier because I've 406 00:37:19,010 --> 00:37:24,450 created all the tools to go and do the next task but it's just this bedding in. 407 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,460 thing, getting all your systems set up. 408 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:40,900 Now I've got a mallet to hit the back of the axe to 409 00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:46,440 make the vice and then I can wedge in whatever I need to cut into here and 410 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:47,440 it'll hold it like a vice. 411 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:53,840 So I can polish the beams that will go in my kayak. 412 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,600 It might seem like a lot of effort for that one job, but I'm going to do a lot 413 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,060 of these poles and so many things about what I'm going to do. 414 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:11,640 It's going to be more efficient if I'm doing it at a good height and safer and 415 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,260 I'm less likely to cut myself. 416 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,280 Yep, that vice is bloody good. 417 00:38:19,820 --> 00:38:22,480 There's several benefits to debarking it like this. 418 00:38:23,380 --> 00:38:26,400 One is that there's less sharp edges that can puncture the kayak. 419 00:38:27,180 --> 00:38:28,600 And two, the bark adds weight. 420 00:38:30,180 --> 00:38:33,800 And the lighter the kayak is, the better, because I'll be pulling it in 421 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:34,800 and out of the water. 422 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,200 So I'm just going to keep pushing through this tonight, see if I can skin 423 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:49,860 all the poles off, figure out some of the design for the kayak. 424 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,700 The quicker I get this bloody thing together... 425 00:38:55,630 --> 00:38:58,850 the quicker I can get out fishing and exploring. 426 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,400 Oh, Rex Hunt, he'd be proud. 427 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,120 Yabba yabba doo, that's all, folks. 428 00:39:37,620 --> 00:39:39,420 Is that him? I think he did something like that. 429 00:39:43,220 --> 00:39:45,020 What if I just can't catch anything? 430 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,100 Then I just wait until I starve. 431 00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:53,440 I don't know how I'll go mentally with pure starvation. 432 00:40:02,060 --> 00:40:03,400 Looks like something's moving on there. 433 00:40:35,630 --> 00:40:37,410 Oh, I'm so happy. 434 00:40:37,930 --> 00:40:38,930 Whoa. 435 00:40:42,370 --> 00:40:44,070 We got dinner. 436 00:40:45,530 --> 00:40:48,530 I got a bloody fish. It's me first trout too. 437 00:40:49,490 --> 00:40:53,470 Okay, we're gonna put him to sleep. 438 00:40:54,610 --> 00:40:55,610 That's it. 439 00:40:57,290 --> 00:41:00,170 Oh, we're having fish soup for dinner. 440 00:41:05,550 --> 00:41:07,630 I was getting pretty disheartened before, I'll be honest. 441 00:41:08,950 --> 00:41:10,290 All right, let's get out of this rain. 442 00:41:17,090 --> 00:41:19,370 I can catch food. 443 00:41:20,170 --> 00:41:21,170 I can survive. 444 00:41:22,350 --> 00:41:23,430 Don't even need a possum. 445 00:41:24,270 --> 00:41:25,550 You guys are safe now. 446 00:41:32,150 --> 00:41:34,350 It's good to be alive, isn't it? It's good to be alive. 447 00:41:57,230 --> 00:41:58,870 Look at the ground. Even the ground looks cool. 448 00:42:01,830 --> 00:42:02,830 Everything's really pretty. 449 00:42:04,970 --> 00:42:06,530 Just not to live and survive in. 450 00:42:11,810 --> 00:42:16,070 It is very, very hard to walk through that terrain. 451 00:42:16,390 --> 00:42:21,390 It's all mud and slosh and slippery and mosses and... Look, look, I'm just 452 00:42:21,390 --> 00:42:22,390 stepping. 453 00:42:22,970 --> 00:42:23,970 Just step. 454 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,560 I'm not even putting weight on it. Just... 455 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:33,660 Fuck. 456 00:42:39,380 --> 00:42:40,660 Don't lose your shit, mate. 457 00:42:57,250 --> 00:42:59,230 There's just nothing but fucking mud. 458 00:43:01,010 --> 00:43:03,110 All I need is one game trail. Just one. 459 00:43:03,350 --> 00:43:05,310 Just hear something move and take off. 460 00:43:06,450 --> 00:43:07,490 I'll be very happy. 461 00:43:09,050 --> 00:43:12,430 Even if it's an animal not on my species list, I'll be happy just to know that 462 00:43:12,430 --> 00:43:14,490 something lives in this. 463 00:43:17,630 --> 00:43:23,030 Ah, fuck. 464 00:43:23,790 --> 00:43:25,390 Can't even fucking walk here. 465 00:43:25,930 --> 00:43:26,930 Fuck me dead. 466 00:43:28,810 --> 00:43:30,210 It's like I'm ice skating here. 467 00:43:32,510 --> 00:43:34,650 I'm fucking trying to tell you that much. 468 00:43:35,570 --> 00:43:37,990 I'm trying to lose my fucking shit. Fuck! 469 00:43:42,930 --> 00:43:46,470 This is really getting on my nerves. 470 00:43:56,460 --> 00:43:58,440 Just keep pushing, Peter. Just keep pushing. 471 00:44:12,420 --> 00:44:18,200 Alone Australia is brought to you by Kia. 472 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,980 Experience the ultimate human endurance as 10 contestants battle to survive 473 00:44:22,980 --> 00:44:27,420 alone in the Tasmanian wilderness, with the winner taking home a prize worth 474 00:44:27,420 --> 00:44:28,860 $250,000. 475 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,780 fucking hurt that 476 00:45:12,780 --> 00:45:19,700 was 477 00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:26,420 my knee in that rock that was my back on that branch 478 00:45:26,420 --> 00:45:31,180 and my axe smacked me in the back of the fucking head 479 00:45:31,180 --> 00:45:33,680 oh 480 00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:48,720 That hurt my knee. 481 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:56,620 Everything just keeps fucking me here. 482 00:45:57,220 --> 00:46:00,320 Am I not supposed to fucking be here or something? Like, fucking tell me. 483 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:06,200 Fuck. 484 00:46:07,980 --> 00:46:10,700 I've got shit that's fucking wet everywhere. 485 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:14,400 Fucking hungry. 486 00:46:27,790 --> 00:46:33,130 My first night I set up the tarp wrong and it was raining a lot and all the 487 00:46:33,130 --> 00:46:36,210 water ended up coming into the tarp and absolutely soaked all my clothes. 488 00:46:37,190 --> 00:46:38,970 So I don't have any more dry clothes. 489 00:46:40,430 --> 00:46:42,970 I can't start a fire because everything's really wet. 490 00:46:44,890 --> 00:46:49,730 After I went for that walk today, there wasn't much sign of anything here. 491 00:46:51,030 --> 00:46:53,130 I've walked every single inch of where... 492 00:46:54,350 --> 00:46:57,690 The area that's been allocated to me and I didn't say anything and that's not 493 00:46:57,690 --> 00:47:03,770 saying that they're not here I just didn't see him I 494 00:47:03,770 --> 00:47:05,970 Don't know what to do 495 00:47:05,970 --> 00:47:11,510 I 496 00:47:11,510 --> 00:47:15,110 Will make that call 497 00:47:15,110 --> 00:47:22,030 This is something 498 00:47:22,030 --> 00:47:23,110 that I can't do 499 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:25,660 And I thought I could, but I can't. 500 00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:28,040 There's nothing else for me here. 501 00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:31,700 Hello? 502 00:47:32,060 --> 00:47:34,400 Um, I'm officially tapping out. Come and grab me. 503 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,640 I've done three days of walking. I haven't seen a single thing. 504 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:41,360 Just come pick me up. 505 00:47:41,620 --> 00:47:42,620 Take me home. 506 00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:54,780 so we'll see what happens. 507 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:09,360 Here they come. 508 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:13,640 My saviors. 509 00:48:22,879 --> 00:48:23,879 What happened? 510 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:29,960 I had a fall earlier on today, and I thought I was going to be okay, but it's 511 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:30,960 just gotten a lot worse. 512 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,180 My knee's just blown out, so there's not much else I can do, really. 513 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:40,540 I pushed hard, trying to find something to hunt, to eat. I haven't eaten in 514 00:48:40,540 --> 00:48:47,080 three and a bit days, so... Yeah, and I just... 515 00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,040 It'll be stupid for me to push further. 516 00:48:51,870 --> 00:48:54,010 Okay, so can you just point to where it's sore? 517 00:48:54,350 --> 00:48:56,590 There. Just there, is it? Yep. Okay. 518 00:48:58,510 --> 00:49:00,570 Stomping through that mud, you just get so frustrated. 519 00:49:00,850 --> 00:49:04,590 You just want to just chomp through it and just keep stomping away just to get 520 00:49:04,590 --> 00:49:08,310 out of it, and that one wrong step is what got me. 521 00:49:09,850 --> 00:49:11,610 Accidents happen. They're called accidents for a reason. 522 00:49:20,750 --> 00:49:22,450 I thought I was going to last to the very end. 523 00:49:23,230 --> 00:49:24,590 There was no doubt in my mind. 524 00:49:25,650 --> 00:49:28,510 I'm just spewing because I had so much more to show the world what I wanted to 525 00:49:28,510 --> 00:49:30,110 do and what I could do. 526 00:49:33,690 --> 00:49:37,770 It's a once in a lifetime opportunity that just didn't work out in my favour. 527 00:49:42,110 --> 00:49:46,270 You deal with the cards you're dealt and if you've got a good hand, you play. 528 00:49:46,810 --> 00:49:47,950 If you don't, you fold. 529 00:49:53,100 --> 00:49:54,180 This is me folding. 530 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:06,940 I'm really enclosed here. 531 00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:10,740 It takes this long to go one metre. It's not a good sign. 532 00:50:11,660 --> 00:50:12,660 I'm exhausted. 533 00:50:13,540 --> 00:50:14,680 What is that? 534 00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:16,080 Where is it? 535 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,160 Wow! 536 00:50:19,060 --> 00:50:21,220 The shack is complete. Hello! 537 00:50:21,870 --> 00:50:23,950 I don't know if it's waterproof yet, but we'll find out. 538 00:50:24,250 --> 00:50:25,330 No, little fella. 539 00:50:26,190 --> 00:50:31,110 I'm going to switch to making that trap full-time today. It looks pretty good, 540 00:50:31,150 --> 00:50:34,350 but I didn't test it, you know. I don't know whether to be hopeful or not. 541 00:50:35,690 --> 00:50:38,370 I'm losing my fucking shit, eh? I really am. 542 00:50:38,830 --> 00:50:40,790 You live another day, my friend. 543 00:50:41,630 --> 00:50:43,470 I'm over it. 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