1 00:00:25,403 --> 00:00:28,923 GINA: I think I've made the choice of where my shelter will be. 2 00:00:28,923 --> 00:00:30,683 I'm going to start making a kayak. 3 00:00:30,683 --> 00:00:33,243 The kayak is going to solve my fishing needs, 4 00:00:33,243 --> 00:00:35,443 allow me to find water, and do my recce. 5 00:00:35,443 --> 00:00:39,003 So this kayak is actually pivotal to my survival out here. 6 00:00:40,883 --> 00:00:44,683 PETER: I have not seen a single thing alive. 7 00:00:44,683 --> 00:00:46,323 Just quiet and nothing. 8 00:00:47,763 --> 00:00:50,003 CHRIS: What if I just can't catch anything? 9 00:00:50,003 --> 00:00:51,523 I wonder when I'm going to crack. 10 00:00:53,843 --> 00:00:56,123 BECK: This is a super tough environment. 11 00:00:57,043 --> 00:00:58,483 I want to go home. 12 00:01:00,043 --> 00:01:01,043 (GRUNTS) 13 00:01:01,043 --> 00:01:04,363 The COVID's irritating your heart and that's causing it to raise. 14 00:01:04,363 --> 00:01:06,643 I need to medically take you out of the field. 15 00:01:08,203 --> 00:01:11,083 Who wants to sit out there cold, wet and miserable the longest? 16 00:01:11,083 --> 00:01:12,923 Congratulations - you win, you know. 17 00:01:12,923 --> 00:01:14,563 Ha-ha-ha! Yes! 18 00:01:14,563 --> 00:01:15,883 I'm officially tapping out. 19 00:01:15,883 --> 00:01:17,523 PETER: I don't know what's going to happen. 20 00:01:17,523 --> 00:01:19,363 But something better fucking change. 21 00:01:22,123 --> 00:01:25,243 WOMAN: Holy fuck. What is this place? 22 00:01:25,243 --> 00:01:27,483 What have I gotten myself into? 23 00:01:29,203 --> 00:01:31,603 MAN: We have to document this whole experience 24 00:01:31,603 --> 00:01:33,763 while trying to survive at the same time. 25 00:01:33,763 --> 00:01:36,683 (CHUCKLES) Check it out. 26 00:01:38,323 --> 00:01:40,723 Like 60 K winds. (WIND HOWLS) 27 00:01:40,723 --> 00:01:42,803 MAN: Mother Nature's kicking my arse. 28 00:01:42,803 --> 00:01:44,163 (GRUNTS, GROANS) 29 00:01:46,523 --> 00:01:50,283 MAN: This experience is just as much a mind game 30 00:01:50,283 --> 00:01:52,363 as it is a survival game. 31 00:01:52,363 --> 00:01:54,683 (LAUGHS) We got dinner! 32 00:01:57,443 --> 00:01:59,443 Argh, you fucker! 33 00:02:01,323 --> 00:02:04,083 I'm suddenly going downhill, very, very fast. 34 00:02:04,083 --> 00:02:05,043 (GRUNTS) 35 00:02:06,443 --> 00:02:10,123 WOMAN: A $250,000 prize would change my life. 36 00:02:10,123 --> 00:02:12,203 I like you, Tasmania! 37 00:02:50,803 --> 00:02:52,083 Morning. 38 00:02:55,123 --> 00:02:58,163 Had another night similar to my first night. 39 00:02:58,163 --> 00:03:00,523 It rained. Uncomfortable. 40 00:03:02,883 --> 00:03:04,123 That was about it. 41 00:03:08,323 --> 00:03:09,283 Time to get up. 42 00:03:10,963 --> 00:03:14,643 I really haven't eaten anything since I got here. 43 00:03:14,643 --> 00:03:16,403 The tough part is going to be the starvation. 44 00:03:18,163 --> 00:03:19,523 A few floaty bits in here. 45 00:03:23,003 --> 00:03:25,243 As soon as I found out I was in this competition, 46 00:03:25,243 --> 00:03:28,043 I've dropped everything and been preparing full time. 47 00:03:29,563 --> 00:03:32,643 And I have gone nuts and I put on as much weight as I could. 48 00:03:32,643 --> 00:03:34,803 I've got 19 kilos in two months. 49 00:03:34,803 --> 00:03:38,163 It feels like I've got back fat. (LAUGHS) 50 00:03:38,163 --> 00:03:41,963 Think this is about... almost 30 days of... 51 00:03:43,203 --> 00:03:45,363 ..free time, almost. 52 00:03:45,363 --> 00:03:47,523 Like, I've got a 30-day buffer. 53 00:03:47,523 --> 00:03:49,443 Like, if I...if I ate nothing, 54 00:03:49,443 --> 00:03:52,763 in 30 days time, I'd probably end up looking like I was two months ago, 55 00:03:52,763 --> 00:03:54,603 when I didn't have any excess weight. 56 00:03:55,683 --> 00:03:58,283 So I'm glad it's there. 57 00:03:58,283 --> 00:03:59,643 (LAUGHS) 58 00:03:59,643 --> 00:04:01,243 It actually wobbles first on my stomach. 59 00:04:01,243 --> 00:04:03,683 I've never seen my stomach wobble like that. 60 00:04:06,683 --> 00:04:09,043 The biggest threat for me here is starvation, 61 00:04:09,043 --> 00:04:10,523 and that could lead to my elimination, 62 00:04:10,523 --> 00:04:11,643 because I get too thin. 63 00:04:13,123 --> 00:04:15,443 This may take me to a level of starvation 64 00:04:15,443 --> 00:04:17,003 that I've never experienced before. 65 00:04:17,003 --> 00:04:19,603 (RAIN FALLS) 66 00:04:26,363 --> 00:04:28,763 I need to gather food to feed my body. 67 00:04:33,403 --> 00:04:37,163 Make a set line on a pole for fishing. 68 00:04:39,363 --> 00:04:41,963 I want to keep the bendy tip on this, 69 00:04:41,963 --> 00:04:44,883 help me know if I've got a fish on. 70 00:04:46,683 --> 00:04:48,003 This is a pretty shabby rod. 71 00:04:48,003 --> 00:04:50,003 It's not really a rod, though. It's a set line. 72 00:04:50,003 --> 00:04:52,523 So it doesn't matter that it's shabby. 73 00:04:53,683 --> 00:04:55,123 Matters it just does a job. 74 00:04:58,683 --> 00:05:00,043 Right. 75 00:05:00,043 --> 00:05:00,083 Right. 76 00:05:00,083 --> 00:05:03,043 Now I'm all ready to go to go 77 00:05:03,043 --> 00:05:05,763 to go find a big, chunky piece of bait. 78 00:05:07,203 --> 00:05:09,763 There's a tree over there I noticed last night 79 00:05:09,763 --> 00:05:11,203 had some borer holes in it, 80 00:05:11,203 --> 00:05:13,923 and I'm hoping that they're kind of similar to witchetty grubs. 81 00:05:13,923 --> 00:05:16,043 So I'm going to have a dig around in there. 82 00:05:30,283 --> 00:05:32,083 Oh, jackpot. 83 00:05:32,083 --> 00:05:33,923 Ha-ha-ha! 84 00:05:33,923 --> 00:05:35,563 Yes. 85 00:05:35,563 --> 00:05:37,363 That is a good sign, 86 00:05:37,363 --> 00:05:40,203 because what I'm looking at now is going to be 87 00:05:40,203 --> 00:05:41,923 my bread and butter bait from now on, 88 00:05:41,923 --> 00:05:43,523 and I've got a bloody tree full of it. 89 00:05:44,563 --> 00:05:45,723 Yes. 90 00:05:45,723 --> 00:05:47,243 Check this out. 91 00:05:50,123 --> 00:05:51,643 It's almost a waste to use it for bait. 92 00:05:51,643 --> 00:05:53,563 Oh, yeah, look how long is. 93 00:05:53,563 --> 00:05:55,603 (LAUGHS) Awesome. 94 00:05:57,163 --> 00:05:59,963 I mean, you just couldn't get better bait than that. 95 00:06:04,083 --> 00:06:05,843 Alright. Let's stick him on a hook. 96 00:06:07,283 --> 00:06:09,003 Sorry, mate. This is going to hurt. 97 00:06:10,123 --> 00:06:12,443 I'll go him through the head first so it puts him out of his misery. 98 00:06:13,843 --> 00:06:16,083 (LAUGHS) 99 00:06:16,083 --> 00:06:17,483 Yum, yum. 100 00:06:17,483 --> 00:06:19,683 Alright, let's get this in the water. 101 00:06:24,563 --> 00:06:28,483 We have to be able to see our fishing lines at all times 102 00:06:28,483 --> 00:06:31,843 to see if we've accidentally caught a platypus or something like that. 103 00:06:31,843 --> 00:06:34,803 So I can see this with the branch on the end there. 104 00:06:36,363 --> 00:06:38,563 Whatever I catch, it's going to alert me to it 105 00:06:38,563 --> 00:06:40,683 because I'll be able to see that whole thing going. 106 00:06:40,683 --> 00:06:43,363 So if I apply that same technique, 107 00:06:43,363 --> 00:06:47,363 I can have a line there, there, there... 108 00:06:47,363 --> 00:06:50,723 Basically this whole 180-degree sphere. 109 00:06:50,723 --> 00:06:52,123 And I can easily see if I caught a fish. 110 00:06:55,603 --> 00:06:56,763 That feels good. 111 00:06:56,763 --> 00:06:58,483 I may as well do some more now... 112 00:07:00,083 --> 00:07:02,683 ..just to increase the likelihood I'll know where the bait is. 113 00:07:07,603 --> 00:07:10,163 When you've been deprived of food and water, 114 00:07:10,163 --> 00:07:13,683 personal safety becomes a higher priority. 115 00:07:17,523 --> 00:07:19,963 My biggest fear is getting taken out by something small 116 00:07:19,963 --> 00:07:24,203 and missing out on the opportunity to really go the distance. 117 00:07:24,203 --> 00:07:25,603 And it is a possibility. 118 00:07:25,603 --> 00:07:27,563 So I'm going to have to be really careful 119 00:07:27,563 --> 00:07:29,123 that I don't do anything stupid. 120 00:07:49,123 --> 00:07:50,083 Yeah. 121 00:07:53,483 --> 00:07:56,443 That's a sign to stop doing that movement, whatever that was. 122 00:08:10,003 --> 00:08:13,083 This fatigue I'm feeling now is actually quite similar 123 00:08:13,083 --> 00:08:14,763 to starvation fatigue. 124 00:08:28,843 --> 00:08:30,603 Have a rest, and then... 125 00:08:32,483 --> 00:08:33,883 ..kayak time. 126 00:08:48,283 --> 00:08:51,123 (BIRD CAWS) 127 00:08:53,683 --> 00:08:55,843 It's a raven. 128 00:08:55,843 --> 00:08:58,483 Crah, wah, wah. 129 00:09:02,963 --> 00:09:05,643 (RAVEN CAWS) 130 00:09:08,363 --> 00:09:11,403 I'll just go for a little wander. 131 00:09:11,403 --> 00:09:13,963 It's weird. I didn't feel hungry for the first two days... 132 00:09:15,123 --> 00:09:17,443 ..but today, I am feeling it a little bit. 133 00:09:19,683 --> 00:09:21,763 Maybe just my body slowing down. 134 00:09:23,083 --> 00:09:25,643 I love botany and I love plants, 135 00:09:25,643 --> 00:09:31,483 and I've, like, I learnt a lot about bush foods, traditional foods. 136 00:09:31,483 --> 00:09:35,083 I'll be able to hopefully procure a good source of food, 137 00:09:35,083 --> 00:09:37,323 even if the hunting isn't going well. 138 00:09:37,323 --> 00:09:40,323 The wood fungus here is so cool. 139 00:09:40,323 --> 00:09:42,043 It's huge. 140 00:09:42,043 --> 00:09:43,763 It's bigger than my hand. 141 00:09:43,763 --> 00:09:46,043 Look. That's my hand. 142 00:09:48,123 --> 00:09:52,323 But this environment is so different to what I'm used to. 143 00:09:52,323 --> 00:09:54,203 It's just... 144 00:09:54,203 --> 00:09:56,163 It's thrown me a little bit for six. 145 00:09:56,163 --> 00:09:57,723 So beautiful. 146 00:10:01,323 --> 00:10:04,163 The only couple of foods, plants, that I've seen so far 147 00:10:04,163 --> 00:10:06,603 are just like, you know, that bladey grass. 148 00:10:06,603 --> 00:10:08,203 You can eat the very bottom bit. 149 00:10:08,203 --> 00:10:10,723 Whoo! Ha-ha. Check this out. 150 00:10:10,723 --> 00:10:12,243 So this is what I was looking for. 151 00:10:12,243 --> 00:10:16,723 This nice white, beautiful white here is what I'm looking for. 152 00:10:16,723 --> 00:10:19,003 Mmm. A little bit acidic. 153 00:10:20,363 --> 00:10:22,923 But I'm pretty sure that's good to eat. 154 00:10:22,923 --> 00:10:27,243 What I'm thinking is I could easily eat the first, say, inch... 155 00:10:28,483 --> 00:10:31,323 ..but I might... I might go two inches 156 00:10:31,323 --> 00:10:33,523 and go the fibrous sort of bit 157 00:10:33,523 --> 00:10:36,123 just to get some roughage through my tummy. 158 00:10:36,123 --> 00:10:38,763 I think that might be good for me. Cool. 159 00:10:39,883 --> 00:10:43,083 Ooh, there might be some animals on your outfit, Juno, 160 00:10:43,083 --> 00:10:44,483 that your mum might see. 161 00:10:44,483 --> 00:10:45,963 I've got a wombat. 162 00:10:45,963 --> 00:10:48,003 I have a PhD in ecology, 163 00:10:48,003 --> 00:10:52,923 where I focused on animals that live in hollows in trees. 164 00:10:52,923 --> 00:10:55,643 As a wildlife biologist, I travel around Australia 165 00:10:55,643 --> 00:10:58,043 looking for new species of plants and animals. 166 00:10:58,043 --> 00:11:00,283 Ah-nang-nang-nang-nang! 167 00:11:00,283 --> 00:11:02,683 I'm a really experienced solo hiker 168 00:11:02,683 --> 00:11:05,243 and I love getting outdoors on my own. 169 00:11:05,243 --> 00:11:08,923 I've hiked most of Australia's iconic hiking trails 170 00:11:08,923 --> 00:11:10,603 and many off-track ones as well. 171 00:11:12,003 --> 00:11:14,403 I live in Canberra with my partner, Elsie. 172 00:11:14,403 --> 00:11:16,403 (LAUGH) What are you looking at? Hey? 173 00:11:16,403 --> 00:11:18,883 Elsie gave birth to Juno six months ago, 174 00:11:18,883 --> 00:11:23,003 and Juno's just the happiest little baby ever. 175 00:11:23,003 --> 00:11:25,203 And by the time you come back... Oh, my God. 176 00:11:25,203 --> 00:11:26,443 ..she might be crawling. 177 00:11:26,443 --> 00:11:29,403 Leaving Elsie and Juno is going to be incredibly hard, 178 00:11:29,403 --> 00:11:31,083 but I would love for my daughter to be proud of me 179 00:11:31,083 --> 00:11:32,723 when she grows up and watches this. 180 00:11:34,003 --> 00:11:38,043 There's not many points in your life where you are offered an opportunity 181 00:11:38,043 --> 00:11:41,723 to go sit in the woods, you know, test your skills. 182 00:11:41,723 --> 00:11:43,323 It's the ultimate test. 183 00:11:48,043 --> 00:11:49,523 (CALLS) Ooh-uhh! 184 00:11:49,523 --> 00:11:51,643 Oooooo-uhh! 185 00:11:57,323 --> 00:12:00,843 I think it's pretty important for me to try and get into fishing 186 00:12:00,843 --> 00:12:04,683 and get some protein happening if I want to stay out here long-term. 187 00:12:04,683 --> 00:12:07,603 Found this really cool sort of a whipping stick 188 00:12:07,603 --> 00:12:09,803 that I thought could make a great bush pole. 189 00:12:09,803 --> 00:12:12,963 So I'm just going to trim it up, whack a bit of line on there, 190 00:12:12,963 --> 00:12:14,643 chuck a hook on and you know... 191 00:12:14,643 --> 00:12:16,283 Yeah, see how we go. 192 00:12:18,843 --> 00:12:19,963 Bait. 193 00:12:21,123 --> 00:12:23,483 I've been collecting bait and putting it in my shoe. 194 00:12:23,483 --> 00:12:26,963 Big guy. I think they're called nightcrawlers. 195 00:12:26,963 --> 00:12:28,723 I might actually use him in pieces. 196 00:12:35,603 --> 00:12:37,923 I mean, I feel like the meanest person 197 00:12:37,923 --> 00:12:39,803 sticking that hook through a worm. 198 00:12:41,283 --> 00:12:44,963 Part of me wants to catch something. The other part doesn't want to. 199 00:12:44,963 --> 00:12:47,323 But this is what I'm here for. 200 00:12:48,323 --> 00:12:49,523 To push myself. 201 00:12:51,643 --> 00:12:53,323 Don't fall in the water. 202 00:12:54,403 --> 00:12:57,723 I have no idea how hard it is to catch fish here, 203 00:12:57,723 --> 00:13:00,283 so just see how I go. 204 00:13:11,603 --> 00:13:13,963 (SIGHS) I don't feel right about this one. 205 00:13:18,283 --> 00:13:19,243 Oh. 206 00:13:20,163 --> 00:13:22,403 It all feels a little bit harder maybe 207 00:13:22,403 --> 00:13:25,243 without the calories coming in, 208 00:13:25,243 --> 00:13:29,683 not getting my 2,000 calories I need per day. 209 00:13:34,443 --> 00:13:36,363 Like, I know that the calories are the issue, 210 00:13:36,363 --> 00:13:38,083 but I'm just trying to live with the land. 211 00:13:38,083 --> 00:13:40,683 I'm not using it for my personal gain. 212 00:13:42,043 --> 00:13:43,083 As an ecologist, 213 00:13:43,083 --> 00:13:46,643 someone who's worked hard to protect the environment, 214 00:13:46,643 --> 00:13:50,123 I'm not really in a rush to just start... 215 00:13:51,443 --> 00:13:52,403 ..destroying it. 216 00:13:53,923 --> 00:13:56,243 We'll see. We'll see how I go with the hunger, I guess. 217 00:14:15,563 --> 00:14:16,723 CHRIS: Morning! 218 00:14:21,963 --> 00:14:24,203 I had some dreams about eating last night. 219 00:14:26,123 --> 00:14:32,123 Scallops and chicken wings and...oh, heaps of bread. 220 00:14:34,283 --> 00:14:36,163 I've got to get some food. 221 00:14:44,203 --> 00:14:48,083 Alright, I think it's time to go for a little bit of a hunt. 222 00:14:50,283 --> 00:14:51,763 Here, possum, possums... 223 00:14:52,963 --> 00:14:54,643 Oh, he's got another century! 224 00:14:56,923 --> 00:14:59,163 I'm going to be on the lookout for possums 225 00:14:59,163 --> 00:15:00,043 that are asleep in some logs or up a tree. 226 00:15:00,043 --> 00:15:01,683 that are asleep in some logs or up a tree. 227 00:15:01,683 --> 00:15:02,803 Oh! 228 00:15:07,643 --> 00:15:10,523 Yeah. Nice big possum stew. 229 00:15:10,523 --> 00:15:12,443 Oh-oh-oh! 230 00:15:12,443 --> 00:15:15,003 I reckon that's what I'll do one. 231 00:15:15,003 --> 00:15:16,163 This is nuts. 232 00:15:17,883 --> 00:15:19,163 It's just a matter of finding... 233 00:15:20,883 --> 00:15:22,483 ..nice log. Oh. 234 00:15:33,643 --> 00:15:36,283 There's a beautiful log there, but it all just seems so wet. 235 00:15:36,283 --> 00:15:41,723 If I was a possum, I'd be, like, "Stuff that. Not sleeping in there." 236 00:15:42,963 --> 00:15:44,203 Oh, here we go. 237 00:15:45,643 --> 00:15:47,363 OK. What have we got here? 238 00:15:49,483 --> 00:15:50,723 Oh, you know what? 239 00:15:51,963 --> 00:15:53,243 Is that possum fur? 240 00:15:55,643 --> 00:15:57,203 It's just to the right of that. 241 00:15:59,883 --> 00:16:01,283 No way. 242 00:16:02,683 --> 00:16:04,963 Let's go and have a look around the corner there. 243 00:16:07,243 --> 00:16:08,843 It was about there. 244 00:16:10,363 --> 00:16:13,363 Even if that is a possum, he's, um... 245 00:16:16,123 --> 00:16:17,523 ..way too far up here for me to get. 246 00:16:20,003 --> 00:16:23,843 So try and find one that's a bit more accessible. 247 00:16:36,843 --> 00:16:40,083 If we don't get meat someday soon, 248 00:16:40,083 --> 00:16:42,683 we're probably not going to do too well out here. 249 00:17:00,163 --> 00:17:01,443 What is that? 250 00:17:01,443 --> 00:17:04,203 (WATER TRICKLES) 251 00:17:04,203 --> 00:17:06,163 (FOOTSTEPS SQUELCH) 252 00:17:07,643 --> 00:17:11,203 I wish you could feel what it's really like to be here. 253 00:17:11,203 --> 00:17:18,523 It's like I'm in this magical, mysterious children's book. 254 00:17:18,523 --> 00:17:22,883 Getting, like, mad disassociation feelings, 255 00:17:22,883 --> 00:17:26,963 which normally is a bit ordinary, but at the moment, like... 256 00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:32,123 This is amazing. 257 00:17:32,123 --> 00:17:35,443 This is the best part about life, being here right now, 258 00:17:35,443 --> 00:17:37,643 looking at this on this exact day. 259 00:17:37,643 --> 00:17:40,323 This is... This is what it's all about. 260 00:17:45,603 --> 00:17:46,923 Wouldn't mind a coffee, though. 261 00:17:50,763 --> 00:17:53,243 I'm doing this for myself, ultimately. 262 00:17:53,243 --> 00:17:56,043 I want to really improve my mental health 263 00:17:56,043 --> 00:17:58,483 and my emotional connection with nature. 264 00:18:00,083 --> 00:18:02,883 It's been many years since I got out of the Army, 265 00:18:02,883 --> 00:18:07,083 and, you know, I've got some severe anxiety and some PTSD. 266 00:18:09,763 --> 00:18:13,283 Changed my, um...animal I'm targeting. 267 00:18:13,283 --> 00:18:16,123 We're now moving on to crayfish. Freshies! 268 00:18:23,083 --> 00:18:25,403 Yeah. It took me a long time to find out 269 00:18:25,403 --> 00:18:27,643 what the actual cause was with the PTSD. 270 00:18:28,803 --> 00:18:31,163 8.5 months in the Middle East, 271 00:18:31,163 --> 00:18:34,563 just always on the adrenaline high, 272 00:18:34,563 --> 00:18:39,083 and just coming back from that and going into the civilian world... 273 00:18:39,083 --> 00:18:43,083 I still haven't really, you know, found my place, I guess. 274 00:18:47,563 --> 00:18:49,283 (GROANS) 275 00:18:50,723 --> 00:18:53,723 It's a bit harder to find then the southern rock lobsters. 276 00:18:58,043 --> 00:19:01,803 Going home empty-handed...again. 277 00:19:03,043 --> 00:19:04,643 Yeah, it's going to be a real issue 278 00:19:04,643 --> 00:19:09,563 if I can't get any...any meat, lobsters, fish. 279 00:19:11,003 --> 00:19:12,403 Basically just means... 280 00:19:14,283 --> 00:19:18,483 ..stay out here long enough until the body shuts down. 281 00:19:18,483 --> 00:19:20,043 That's really it. 282 00:19:21,403 --> 00:19:22,883 There's no other fact to it. 283 00:19:42,723 --> 00:19:45,923 My job is hunting. My job is tracking. My job is stalking. 284 00:19:45,923 --> 00:19:47,563 It's what I do. I'm a hunter. 285 00:19:48,403 --> 00:19:51,043 Like, when I sound the baddest motherfucker in this competition, 286 00:19:51,043 --> 00:19:52,003 it's because I am. 287 00:19:55,403 --> 00:19:56,483 Not even a bird. 288 00:19:57,603 --> 00:19:59,043 Not even a bird. 289 00:20:00,483 --> 00:20:02,403 Come on. Give me something. 290 00:20:03,603 --> 00:20:06,363 Just give me something to be like, "Hey. 291 00:20:06,363 --> 00:20:08,123 "Hey, buddy. How are you going?" 292 00:20:17,363 --> 00:20:19,203 I'm great with a rifle. 293 00:20:21,003 --> 00:20:23,283 Great with guns. Great with a bow. 294 00:20:25,043 --> 00:20:26,843 I'm so used to using them, though, 295 00:20:26,843 --> 00:20:28,283 when it comes to being without them... 296 00:20:30,243 --> 00:20:31,763 ..it's very hard as well. 297 00:20:43,683 --> 00:20:44,883 Day three. 298 00:20:46,243 --> 00:20:47,203 No food. 299 00:20:49,083 --> 00:20:50,923 I'm starting to feel it. 300 00:20:52,083 --> 00:20:53,803 I really am starting to feel it. 301 00:20:55,443 --> 00:20:57,363 I need something to put in my system. 302 00:20:57,363 --> 00:20:58,563 Something. Anything. 303 00:21:04,323 --> 00:21:05,283 Anything. 304 00:21:09,883 --> 00:21:12,483 I need 10,000 calories of food 305 00:21:12,483 --> 00:21:16,283 just to sustain what I'm doing right now. 306 00:21:16,283 --> 00:21:20,283 And I'm not going to get that doing what I've been doing. 307 00:21:23,723 --> 00:21:25,043 Got the mushrooms too. 308 00:21:26,763 --> 00:21:29,963 You eat one of them, you wake up in four days time. 309 00:21:29,963 --> 00:21:31,483 It's a good way to make time go by. 310 00:21:32,123 --> 00:21:34,083 But you'll also be in a bad way when you wake up. 311 00:21:41,643 --> 00:21:42,963 You know what? I'm a great shooter. 312 00:21:42,963 --> 00:21:44,563 It doesn't matter how good you can shoot. 313 00:21:44,563 --> 00:21:46,723 You've got nothing to shoot at, you can't fucking shoot. 314 00:22:05,883 --> 00:22:07,123 I don't know what to do anymore. 315 00:22:12,923 --> 00:22:14,283 Tasmania, so far... 316 00:22:15,603 --> 00:22:16,883 ..you're beating me. 317 00:22:16,883 --> 00:22:18,323 You're winning. 318 00:22:20,003 --> 00:22:22,003 Absolutely wrecking me. 319 00:22:40,483 --> 00:22:42,483 I chucked a little line in 320 00:22:42,483 --> 00:22:45,163 with just the worm that I found last night, 321 00:22:45,163 --> 00:22:46,563 and I... 322 00:22:48,323 --> 00:22:50,443 ..I've got a feel, I think. 323 00:22:50,443 --> 00:22:52,123 Ah! 324 00:22:52,123 --> 00:22:54,003 Holy shit. Yes. 325 00:22:54,003 --> 00:22:56,363 Ugh! 326 00:22:56,363 --> 00:22:58,603 Yeah, baby! (LAUGHS) 327 00:22:58,603 --> 00:22:59,603 It is. It's an eel. 328 00:23:01,963 --> 00:23:03,283 I'm going to dong it. 329 00:23:08,523 --> 00:23:10,523 Yeah. Got to dong it. 330 00:23:10,523 --> 00:23:11,803 Sorry, mate. 331 00:23:18,603 --> 00:23:20,523 (THUMPS) 332 00:23:26,483 --> 00:23:27,803 (SIGHS) 333 00:23:36,083 --> 00:23:37,363 Thank you. 334 00:23:51,363 --> 00:23:52,763 Now what do I do? 335 00:24:02,283 --> 00:24:03,283 Alright. I just... 336 00:24:04,523 --> 00:24:07,403 ..filleted my little eel. 337 00:24:08,803 --> 00:24:11,083 My main strategy might just be 338 00:24:11,083 --> 00:24:13,123 whenever I get food is just to eat it. 339 00:24:13,123 --> 00:24:17,123 So, yeah, I might get the fire going 340 00:24:17,123 --> 00:24:19,283 and boil this guy up and have like a... 341 00:24:21,283 --> 00:24:22,523 ..eel stew. 342 00:24:31,963 --> 00:24:33,203 (LAUGHS) 343 00:24:33,203 --> 00:24:36,523 That's because I'm not really going to enjoy this meal. 344 00:24:36,523 --> 00:24:37,963 Like, it's calories, but... 345 00:24:39,483 --> 00:24:42,243 ..I don't really like fish. Or eels. 346 00:24:42,243 --> 00:24:45,563 I like sushi, but I'm not prepared to eat anything raw here. 347 00:24:47,603 --> 00:24:50,363 (SIGHS) OK. I'm going to eat the eel. 348 00:24:50,363 --> 00:24:52,923 I don't actually want to eat the eel, 349 00:24:52,923 --> 00:24:55,283 but this is what we're doing. 350 00:24:55,283 --> 00:24:58,443 We're eating eel. (LAUGHS) 351 00:24:58,443 --> 00:24:59,563 I don't want to eat the eel. 352 00:25:00,683 --> 00:25:01,963 (GROANS) 353 00:25:03,483 --> 00:25:05,603 OK. It's alright. 354 00:25:05,603 --> 00:25:06,843 I'm going to eat the eel. 355 00:25:06,843 --> 00:25:08,123 It's going to be delicious. 356 00:25:15,123 --> 00:25:16,083 It's oily. 357 00:25:18,043 --> 00:25:19,363 Wow, it's so oily. 358 00:25:23,403 --> 00:25:24,523 Ugh... 359 00:25:25,803 --> 00:25:27,323 Ugh... It's OK. Ugh... 360 00:25:29,523 --> 00:25:31,963 Mind over matter. Whoo! 361 00:25:33,723 --> 00:25:36,323 Yee-ha! (LAUGHS) 362 00:25:36,323 --> 00:25:38,883 Livin' the dream. Yoo... (BURBLES) 363 00:25:40,003 --> 00:25:43,043 (LAUGHS) Mmm. 364 00:25:43,043 --> 00:25:45,163 Golly. Bluh. 365 00:25:46,923 --> 00:25:48,043 It's so oily. 366 00:25:49,603 --> 00:25:54,003 Clearly I'm not starving enough. (LAUGHS) 367 00:25:55,323 --> 00:25:56,963 Ohh! 368 00:25:58,603 --> 00:26:00,643 Oh... Fuck, it's disgusting. 369 00:26:00,643 --> 00:26:01,923 (BURBLES) 370 00:26:06,123 --> 00:26:08,283 Bleugh! Ugh! 371 00:26:18,363 --> 00:26:21,323 I want to be getting my nutrients straightaway. 372 00:26:21,323 --> 00:26:23,843 I don't want to be waiting for my body to start breaking down. 373 00:26:28,123 --> 00:26:32,843 I've already found a few little grubs, so...why not? 374 00:26:37,803 --> 00:26:40,963 At this stage, I don't have to eat much. 375 00:26:40,963 --> 00:26:43,883 Might even try these on a hook as well. Fishing. 376 00:26:43,883 --> 00:26:46,643 I can keep going on pretty much nothing, 377 00:26:46,643 --> 00:26:49,643 and that can be a little bit of an advantage. 378 00:26:52,123 --> 00:26:53,843 Oh. Ugh! 379 00:26:55,003 --> 00:26:56,523 (EXCLAIMS) Sour. 380 00:26:57,923 --> 00:27:00,003 Oh! Feel like a bloody... 381 00:27:02,923 --> 00:27:04,763 ..toxin or something on my tongue. 382 00:27:08,523 --> 00:27:11,363 That was silly. (LAUGHS) 383 00:27:12,443 --> 00:27:13,443 Eee... 384 00:27:16,003 --> 00:27:19,003 Foraging for bush tucker is what I know 385 00:27:19,003 --> 00:27:20,723 and what I enjoy doing. 386 00:27:20,723 --> 00:27:23,283 Found a bit of coffee berry. 387 00:27:24,763 --> 00:27:26,043 Still has its fruits on. 388 00:27:26,043 --> 00:27:26,563 Still has its fruits on. 389 00:27:27,603 --> 00:27:28,803 Couple there. 390 00:27:32,963 --> 00:27:35,443 Dose him in some water for 24 hours, 391 00:27:35,443 --> 00:27:38,403 and then they should be nice and soft, ready to eat. 392 00:27:40,243 --> 00:27:43,003 It's a little win. Yay. 393 00:27:47,363 --> 00:27:48,563 As an Aboriginal man, 394 00:27:48,563 --> 00:27:52,203 this experience will deepen my connection to country. 395 00:27:52,203 --> 00:27:55,443 I'm from Dharawal country here in the Illawarra. 396 00:27:55,443 --> 00:27:58,243 I'm a wildlife and environmental officer, 397 00:27:58,243 --> 00:28:02,803 but my passion working on country is what brought me to my career. 398 00:28:04,603 --> 00:28:07,523 For my job, I need to have an extensive knowledge 399 00:28:07,523 --> 00:28:11,163 of flora and fauna, both native and invasive. 400 00:28:12,883 --> 00:28:16,483 Foraging for bush tucker and being able to read country 401 00:28:16,483 --> 00:28:19,323 is going to be an advantage to me. 402 00:28:20,123 --> 00:28:22,043 Don't get it. You don't like it? 403 00:28:22,043 --> 00:28:24,723 (GIRLS SQUEAL) 404 00:28:24,723 --> 00:28:27,003 Our house is being renovated 405 00:28:27,003 --> 00:28:29,363 for a couple of rooms for the children 406 00:28:29,363 --> 00:28:31,643 and we are currently living in a caravan. 407 00:28:34,363 --> 00:28:35,843 WOMAN: Yay! (LAUGHS) 408 00:28:35,843 --> 00:28:38,323 (GIRLS EXCLAIM, SQUEAL) 409 00:28:38,323 --> 00:28:41,323 I'm doing this for my own self journey, 410 00:28:41,323 --> 00:28:44,243 but also to financially benefit my family. 411 00:28:46,363 --> 00:28:49,363 They're sacrificing time without their father. 412 00:28:50,723 --> 00:28:53,043 They are sacrificing living in a caravan. 413 00:28:54,443 --> 00:28:55,963 Tearing up. (LAUGHS) 414 00:28:55,963 --> 00:28:59,483 This experience is going to be so hard. 415 00:28:59,483 --> 00:29:02,643 I love you. I love you so much. I'll miss you. 416 00:29:04,403 --> 00:29:08,243 (THUNDER RUMBLES, RAIN FALLS) 417 00:29:11,883 --> 00:29:13,363 Oh, dear. 418 00:29:16,683 --> 00:29:21,323 That is my first hole in my tarp. 419 00:29:23,083 --> 00:29:25,083 No! 420 00:29:25,083 --> 00:29:30,443 Pretty shitty shelter if it starts picking up 35 K winds. 421 00:29:32,163 --> 00:29:36,483 To be successful in this, I need to keep warm and dry. 422 00:29:36,483 --> 00:29:39,683 So I need to get started on my permanent shelter. 423 00:29:39,683 --> 00:29:41,883 (LAUGHS) 424 00:29:45,843 --> 00:29:47,803 It's pissing down! 425 00:29:51,603 --> 00:29:56,443 Who would have thought I'd bring my axe on Alone 426 00:29:56,443 --> 00:29:59,203 to hold up my shelter... 427 00:30:00,523 --> 00:30:02,083 ..and keep the water out. 428 00:30:02,963 --> 00:30:04,763 Oh, dear. 429 00:30:29,363 --> 00:30:30,603 CHRIS: No food. 430 00:30:33,123 --> 00:30:34,203 (SIGHS) 431 00:30:34,203 --> 00:30:36,163 I feel like I've let myself down a bit. 432 00:30:38,323 --> 00:30:41,003 It's not good to sit down and think. Not good for me. 433 00:30:41,003 --> 00:30:45,963 It's very easy for the mind to go, "Oh, you can just go home and eat," 434 00:30:45,963 --> 00:30:47,723 But you think like that, 435 00:30:47,723 --> 00:30:51,363 and you lose all the motivation of all the other thoughts. 436 00:30:52,563 --> 00:30:54,003 That's the reason I'm here. 437 00:30:56,643 --> 00:30:59,123 Can't sit still in the same spot for too long. 438 00:31:12,123 --> 00:31:13,683 Time to make a fishing net. 439 00:31:15,003 --> 00:31:17,243 So when you tie him off at the top, 440 00:31:17,243 --> 00:31:20,123 you want to keep even spacing along here, 441 00:31:20,123 --> 00:31:22,243 and we're going to go all the way along. 442 00:31:26,523 --> 00:31:29,243 Every day I deal with my PTSD and anxiety. 443 00:31:29,243 --> 00:31:34,003 Some hours are better, some days are better, and some are pretty dark. 444 00:31:34,003 --> 00:31:36,843 Yeah, I always thought, you know, post-traumatic stress, 445 00:31:36,843 --> 00:31:39,523 especially military related, was... 446 00:31:41,403 --> 00:31:44,323 You know, you kind of don't really have any right to have it 447 00:31:44,323 --> 00:31:46,643 unless things got really, really nasty, 448 00:31:46,643 --> 00:31:48,923 because, you know, there's always someone next to you going, 449 00:31:48,923 --> 00:31:50,203 "Oh," you know? 450 00:31:51,963 --> 00:31:53,403 "You didn't see much. 451 00:31:53,403 --> 00:31:57,083 "Not compared to what I saw or what I did." 452 00:31:57,083 --> 00:31:59,203 And that's not the right way to talk to people. 453 00:32:00,763 --> 00:32:02,603 And it's not the right way to think. 454 00:32:05,003 --> 00:32:08,603 You can get PTSD off the most smallest amount of things. 455 00:32:11,323 --> 00:32:16,083 So, yeah, pretty much after Iraq, I got off the plane in Darwin, 456 00:32:16,083 --> 00:32:20,803 went to the pub, got pissed, really pissed. 457 00:32:20,803 --> 00:32:24,003 I guess that was just what seemed normal. 458 00:32:24,003 --> 00:32:25,243 Like, what else do you do? 459 00:32:26,523 --> 00:32:29,203 I just turned to the alcohol, and just partied. 460 00:32:30,363 --> 00:32:31,643 Partied hard. 461 00:32:33,163 --> 00:32:34,643 Yeah, that's the worst thing you can do 462 00:32:34,643 --> 00:32:37,723 if you're sort of struggling a little bit mentally, 463 00:32:37,723 --> 00:32:39,003 is just, um... 464 00:32:40,323 --> 00:32:41,963 ..yeah, start hitting the piss. 465 00:32:45,443 --> 00:32:49,043 You know, I got to the point where I was drinking... 466 00:32:49,043 --> 00:32:51,523 ..maybe 90...90 beers a week. 467 00:32:55,923 --> 00:32:58,003 And that's with having some days off. 468 00:32:59,563 --> 00:33:00,763 What a dickhead, hey? 469 00:33:00,763 --> 00:33:04,203 That's not who I want to be, who I am. 470 00:33:04,203 --> 00:33:08,283 And then everything just came crashing down a few months later. 471 00:33:08,283 --> 00:33:09,843 I had a bit of a breakdown. 472 00:33:17,923 --> 00:33:20,083 It's just the booze. 473 00:33:20,083 --> 00:33:22,723 Booze bringing out the demons. Shh. 474 00:33:29,803 --> 00:33:31,883 It feels good to talk about it. 475 00:33:31,883 --> 00:33:33,963 Even though I'm talking to this net. 476 00:33:35,723 --> 00:33:39,003 (SIGHS) It's actually the most anxious I've been... 477 00:33:40,243 --> 00:33:42,603 ..since I've been here on the land 478 00:33:42,603 --> 00:33:46,003 is when I'm talking about it, about this. 479 00:33:51,923 --> 00:33:54,883 (EXHALES) The old chest. 480 00:33:54,883 --> 00:33:56,363 Chest gets tight. 481 00:34:02,723 --> 00:34:05,443 Might be enough of that sort of talk for now. 482 00:34:05,443 --> 00:34:07,523 I don't want to go too far down the hole. 483 00:34:18,923 --> 00:34:21,243 Let's go fishing. I'm bored of this. 484 00:34:22,443 --> 00:34:25,723 VOICEOVER: Alone Australia is brought to you by Kia. 485 00:34:25,723 --> 00:34:27,843 Experience the ultimate human endurance 486 00:34:27,843 --> 00:34:32,003 as 10 contestants battle to survive alone in the Tasmanian wilderness, 487 00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:35,923 with the winner taking home a prize worth $250,000. 488 00:34:58,123 --> 00:34:59,283 There's my hinge. 489 00:34:59,283 --> 00:35:00,683 (CREAKING) 490 00:35:01,803 --> 00:35:04,443 Ha-ha! (LAUGHS) 491 00:35:07,643 --> 00:35:10,683 Still alive. That's good. 492 00:35:15,283 --> 00:35:19,483 This place is an absolute bastard of a place to fish. 493 00:35:19,483 --> 00:35:25,723 Like, it's almost impossible to not have a snag and fish from the bank. 494 00:35:25,723 --> 00:35:29,963 (KOOKABURRA LAUGHS) 495 00:35:29,963 --> 00:35:32,563 (IMITATES KOOKABURRA LAUGH) 496 00:35:32,563 --> 00:35:34,523 The kayak is the only way to solve it. 497 00:35:35,843 --> 00:35:40,083 If I trawl through the middle of the riverbed, 498 00:35:40,083 --> 00:35:41,923 that is clear of snags. 499 00:35:41,923 --> 00:35:43,603 That would definitely be 500 00:35:43,603 --> 00:35:46,123 a place where the fish would want to hang out. 501 00:35:54,523 --> 00:35:55,523 Ta-da! 502 00:35:55,523 --> 00:36:01,043 I hope this 20-kilo fat layer last until I get back to my normal weight, 503 00:36:01,043 --> 00:36:05,083 and I hope by then I'll have my ducks in a row 504 00:36:05,083 --> 00:36:08,043 whilst I have this energy and fat. 505 00:36:08,043 --> 00:36:09,363 That's pretty much my goal. 506 00:36:21,883 --> 00:36:23,883 I like this little tree, 507 00:36:23,883 --> 00:36:29,403 but I need a vice so I can have things held for me while I saw them, 508 00:36:29,403 --> 00:36:32,243 or I'm trying to strip some bark off the... 509 00:36:32,243 --> 00:36:35,723 ..the things that go in the bottom of my kayak. 510 00:36:35,723 --> 00:36:38,923 And this little tree is going to be my vice, hopefully. 511 00:36:41,523 --> 00:36:43,563 My greatest skill is improvisation. 512 00:36:43,563 --> 00:36:48,843 I can visualise engineering challenges in my head 513 00:36:48,843 --> 00:36:50,363 and test them, 514 00:36:50,363 --> 00:36:53,443 and then come up with a fairly good working model of something 515 00:36:53,443 --> 00:36:54,603 the first time. 516 00:36:57,243 --> 00:36:59,843 (SIGHS) I also need to make myself some tools. 517 00:37:04,843 --> 00:37:05,923 (EXCLAIMS) 518 00:37:07,283 --> 00:37:08,683 Beauty. 519 00:37:11,323 --> 00:37:13,323 Eventually I'll get to a point out here 520 00:37:13,323 --> 00:37:16,683 where I've kind of made everything, including the kitchen sink. 521 00:37:16,683 --> 00:37:18,443 And one little task is much easier 522 00:37:18,443 --> 00:37:22,163 because I've created all the tools to go and do the next task. 523 00:37:23,283 --> 00:37:27,683 But it's just this bedding in thing, getting all your systems set up. 524 00:37:34,003 --> 00:37:36,803 Alright. Now I've got a mallet... 525 00:37:38,003 --> 00:37:39,883 ..to hit the back of the axe... 526 00:37:41,123 --> 00:37:42,643 ..to make the vice, 527 00:37:42,643 --> 00:37:46,443 and then I can wedge in whatever I need to cut into here 528 00:37:46,443 --> 00:37:47,523 and it'll hold it like a vice... 529 00:37:49,643 --> 00:37:53,963 ..so I can polish the beams that will go in my kayak. 530 00:37:58,843 --> 00:38:01,083 It might seem like a lot of effort for that one job, 531 00:38:01,083 --> 00:38:03,323 but I'm going to do a lot of these poles, 532 00:38:03,323 --> 00:38:05,883 and so many things about what I'm going to do, 533 00:38:05,883 --> 00:38:07,643 it's going to be more efficient 534 00:38:07,643 --> 00:38:11,403 if I'm doing it at a good height and safer, 535 00:38:11,403 --> 00:38:13,683 and I'm less likely to cut myself. 536 00:38:16,283 --> 00:38:17,643 Yep. That vice is bloody good. 537 00:38:20,243 --> 00:38:23,603 There's several benefits to de-barking it like this. 538 00:38:23,603 --> 00:38:27,523 One is that there's less sharp edges that can puncture the kayak. 539 00:38:27,523 --> 00:38:29,283 Two, the bark adds weight. 540 00:38:30,643 --> 00:38:33,323 And the lighter the kayak is the better 541 00:38:33,323 --> 00:38:35,203 because I'll be pulling it in and out of the water. 542 00:38:41,523 --> 00:38:43,603 So I'm just going to keep pushing through this tonight, 543 00:38:43,603 --> 00:38:46,083 see if I can skin all the poles off. 544 00:38:46,083 --> 00:38:50,363 I'll figure out some of the design for the kayak. 545 00:38:53,083 --> 00:38:54,843 The quicker I get this bloody thing together... 546 00:38:56,243 --> 00:38:59,163 ..the quicker I can get out fishing and exploring. 547 00:39:03,563 --> 00:39:06,123 (RAIN FALLS) 548 00:39:17,243 --> 00:39:20,843 Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 549 00:39:28,563 --> 00:39:29,883 Come on. 550 00:39:29,883 --> 00:39:32,883 (LAUGHS) Old Rex Hunt. He'd be proud. 551 00:39:35,723 --> 00:39:36,043 Yabba-yabba-doo! That's all, folks. 552 00:39:36,043 --> 00:39:38,123 Yabba-yabba-doo! That's all, folks. 553 00:39:38,123 --> 00:39:40,043 Was that him? I think he did something like that. 554 00:39:43,643 --> 00:39:46,083 What if I just can't catch anything? (RAIN FALLS) 555 00:39:46,083 --> 00:39:48,843 Then I just wait until I starve. 556 00:39:48,843 --> 00:39:54,043 I don't know how I'll go mentally with pure starvation. 557 00:40:02,323 --> 00:40:03,803 Looks like something's moving on there. 558 00:40:05,003 --> 00:40:08,883 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. 559 00:40:15,883 --> 00:40:18,443 No way. Ha, ha, ha! 560 00:40:20,483 --> 00:40:22,883 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 561 00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:27,403 Yeah! Yeah, I got a fish! 562 00:40:27,403 --> 00:40:29,763 Yeah! 563 00:40:29,763 --> 00:40:33,283 You beauty! Ha-ha-ha! 564 00:40:33,283 --> 00:40:34,883 Jesaulenko! 565 00:40:36,603 --> 00:40:38,363 Oh, I'm so happy. 566 00:40:38,363 --> 00:40:39,483 Whoa! 567 00:40:41,363 --> 00:40:43,443 (LAUGHS) 568 00:40:43,443 --> 00:40:44,723 We got dinner! 569 00:40:46,323 --> 00:40:47,563 I got a bloody fish. 570 00:40:47,563 --> 00:40:48,843 That's me first trout too. 571 00:40:49,923 --> 00:40:51,243 OK. 572 00:40:51,243 --> 00:40:53,723 We're going to put him to sleep. 573 00:40:54,963 --> 00:40:56,203 That's it. 574 00:40:57,843 --> 00:41:01,203 Oh, we're having fish soup for dinner. 575 00:41:01,203 --> 00:41:03,083 Yeah! 576 00:41:04,403 --> 00:41:08,003 (LAUGHS) I was getting pretty disheartened before, I'll be honest. 577 00:41:09,483 --> 00:41:11,123 Righto, let's get out of this rain. 578 00:41:17,123 --> 00:41:18,843 Ha-ha-ha! 579 00:41:18,843 --> 00:41:21,883 I can catch food! I can survive! 580 00:41:21,883 --> 00:41:23,243 Don't even need a possum. 581 00:41:24,643 --> 00:41:28,283 You guys are safe now. (LAUGHS) 582 00:41:31,603 --> 00:41:35,443 (EXHALES) It's good to be alive. isn't it? It's good to be alive. 583 00:41:38,523 --> 00:41:40,163 Oh, yeah! 584 00:41:57,403 --> 00:41:59,323 The ground. Even the ground looks good. 585 00:42:02,203 --> 00:42:03,843 Everything's really pretty. 586 00:42:05,403 --> 00:42:06,883 Just not to live and survive. 587 00:42:09,283 --> 00:42:11,043 (GROANS) 588 00:42:12,363 --> 00:42:13,643 (CHUCKLES) 589 00:42:13,643 --> 00:42:16,843 It is very, very hard to walk through that terrain. 590 00:42:16,843 --> 00:42:20,403 It's all mud and slosh and slippery and mosses and... 591 00:42:20,403 --> 00:42:23,403 Look, look. I'm just stepping. 592 00:42:23,403 --> 00:42:24,363 Just step. 593 00:42:26,243 --> 00:42:28,043 Not even putting weight on it. Just... 594 00:42:33,403 --> 00:42:34,683 Fuck. 595 00:42:39,803 --> 00:42:41,083 Don't lose your shit, mate. 596 00:42:43,403 --> 00:42:44,683 (EXHALES) 597 00:42:57,683 --> 00:42:59,643 There's just nothing but fucking mud. 598 00:43:01,523 --> 00:43:03,843 All I need is one game trail. Just one. 599 00:43:03,843 --> 00:43:06,723 Just hear something move and take off, 600 00:43:06,723 --> 00:43:08,243 I'll be very happy. 601 00:43:09,523 --> 00:43:11,323 Even if it's an animal not on my species list, 602 00:43:11,323 --> 00:43:14,803 I'll be happy just to know that something lives in this. 603 00:43:17,843 --> 00:43:19,043 (SIGHS) 604 00:43:22,523 --> 00:43:26,923 Oh, fuck. Can't even fucking walk here. Fuck me dead. 605 00:43:29,403 --> 00:43:31,243 It's like I'm ice skating here. 606 00:43:33,203 --> 00:43:36,003 Fucking trying, I'll tell you that much. 607 00:43:36,003 --> 00:43:39,443 I'm trying not to lose my fucking shit. Fuck. Oh... 608 00:43:45,403 --> 00:43:47,003 This is really getting on my nerves. 609 00:43:56,723 --> 00:43:58,803 Just keep pushing, Peter. Just keep pushing. 610 00:44:08,963 --> 00:44:10,123 Whoa! 611 00:44:12,283 --> 00:44:13,603 (GROANS) 612 00:44:15,923 --> 00:44:18,843 VOICEOVER: Alone Australia is brought to you by Kia. 613 00:44:18,843 --> 00:44:21,323 Experience the ultimate human endurance 614 00:44:21,323 --> 00:44:25,483 as 10 contestants battle to survive alone in the Tasmanian wilderness, 615 00:44:25,483 --> 00:44:29,163 with the winner taking home a prize worth $250,000. 616 00:45:10,883 --> 00:45:12,843 That fucking hurt. (GROANS) 617 00:45:19,683 --> 00:45:21,843 That was my knee in that rock. 618 00:45:23,563 --> 00:45:26,803 That was my back...on that branch. 619 00:45:28,043 --> 00:45:31,403 And my axe smacked me in the back of the fucking head. 620 00:45:33,643 --> 00:45:35,043 Oh! 621 00:45:44,763 --> 00:45:45,883 Fuck! 622 00:45:47,603 --> 00:45:49,843 That hurt my knee. 623 00:45:49,843 --> 00:45:51,203 Alright. 624 00:45:54,963 --> 00:45:57,803 Everything just keeps fucking me here. 625 00:45:57,803 --> 00:46:00,483 Am I not supposed to fucking be here or something? Like, fucking tell me. 626 00:46:05,763 --> 00:46:06,963 Fuck. 627 00:46:08,363 --> 00:46:11,043 I've got shit that's fucking wet everywhere. 628 00:46:13,563 --> 00:46:14,843 Fucking hungry. 629 00:46:19,163 --> 00:46:20,403 Oh, my God. 630 00:46:28,043 --> 00:46:30,003 My first night I set up the tarp wrong... 631 00:46:31,443 --> 00:46:33,003 ..and it was raining a lot 632 00:46:33,003 --> 00:46:34,803 and all the water ended up coming in to the tarp 633 00:46:34,803 --> 00:46:37,283 and absolutely soaked all my clothes, 634 00:46:37,283 --> 00:46:39,283 so I don't have any more dry clothes. 635 00:46:40,963 --> 00:46:43,163 I can't start a fire because everything's really wet. 636 00:46:45,243 --> 00:46:46,883 After I went for that walk today. 637 00:46:48,643 --> 00:46:50,803 There wasn't much sign of anything here. 638 00:46:50,803 --> 00:46:53,203 I've walked every single inch of where... 639 00:46:54,803 --> 00:46:57,403 ..the area has been allocated to me, and I didn't see anything. 640 00:46:57,403 --> 00:46:59,163 And that's not saying that they're not here. 641 00:46:59,163 --> 00:47:00,643 I just didn't see them. 642 00:47:05,323 --> 00:47:06,523 I don't know what to do. 643 00:47:14,483 --> 00:47:16,043 I will make that call. 644 00:47:21,563 --> 00:47:23,403 This is something that I can't do. 645 00:47:24,363 --> 00:47:25,923 I thought I could, but I can't. 646 00:47:27,123 --> 00:47:28,643 There's nothing else for me here. 647 00:47:28,643 --> 00:47:30,883 (PHONE RINGS) 648 00:47:30,883 --> 00:47:32,403 WOMAN: (OVER PHONE) Hello. 649 00:47:32,403 --> 00:47:35,203 Um, I'm officially tapping out. Come and grab me. 650 00:47:37,403 --> 00:47:38,763 I've done three days of walking. 651 00:47:38,763 --> 00:47:40,603 I haven't seen a single thing. 652 00:47:40,603 --> 00:47:42,603 Just come pick me up. Take me home. 653 00:47:53,163 --> 00:47:55,843 They're on their way. So we'll see what happens. 654 00:48:08,803 --> 00:48:10,123 Here they come. 655 00:48:12,843 --> 00:48:14,043 My saviours. 656 00:48:23,363 --> 00:48:24,683 WOMAN: Pete, what's happened? 657 00:48:24,683 --> 00:48:27,403 (GROAN) I had a fall earlier on today 658 00:48:27,403 --> 00:48:28,843 and I thought I was going to be OK, 659 00:48:28,843 --> 00:48:31,043 but it's just gotten a lot worse. 660 00:48:31,043 --> 00:48:33,923 My knee's just blown out, so it's not... 661 00:48:33,923 --> 00:48:35,883 There's not much else I can do, really. 662 00:48:35,883 --> 00:48:40,083 I pushed...I pushed hard trying to find something to hunt. 663 00:48:40,083 --> 00:48:42,203 I haven't eaten in three and a bit days, so... 664 00:48:43,763 --> 00:48:46,083 Um... 665 00:48:46,083 --> 00:48:47,763 Yeah. And I just... 666 00:48:47,763 --> 00:48:49,603 It'll be stupid for me to push further. 667 00:48:52,083 --> 00:48:54,603 OK, so just can just point to where it's...where it's sore? 668 00:48:54,603 --> 00:48:55,963 There. Just there, is it? 669 00:48:55,963 --> 00:48:57,123 Yeah. OK. 670 00:48:58,723 --> 00:49:01,163 Stomping through that mud, you just get so frustrated. 671 00:49:01,163 --> 00:49:03,323 You just want to just chomp through it 672 00:49:03,323 --> 00:49:05,243 and just keep stomping away just to get out of it, 673 00:49:05,243 --> 00:49:08,563 and that one wrong step is what got me. 674 00:49:10,043 --> 00:49:12,243 Accidents happen. They're called 'accidents' for a reason. 675 00:49:21,163 --> 00:49:23,683 I thought I was going to last to the very end. 676 00:49:23,683 --> 00:49:25,883 There's no doubt in my mind. 677 00:49:25,883 --> 00:49:28,283 I'm just spewing because I had so much more to show the world 678 00:49:28,283 --> 00:49:30,043 what I wanted to do and what I could do. 679 00:49:30,043 --> 00:49:31,083 what I wanted to do and what I could do. 680 00:49:34,083 --> 00:49:35,763 It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity 681 00:49:35,763 --> 00:49:38,323 that just didn't work out in my favour. 682 00:49:42,643 --> 00:49:44,163 You deal with the cards you're dealt. 683 00:49:44,163 --> 00:49:47,203 And if you've got a good hand, you play. 684 00:49:47,203 --> 00:49:48,803 If you don't, you fold. 685 00:49:53,523 --> 00:49:54,843 This is me folding. 686 00:50:06,203 --> 00:50:08,643 Really enclosed here. 687 00:50:08,643 --> 00:50:11,563 It takes this long to go one metre, it's not a good sign. 688 00:50:11,563 --> 00:50:13,563 I'm exhausted. 689 00:50:13,563 --> 00:50:16,603 Oh! What is that? Where is it? 690 00:50:16,603 --> 00:50:17,883 Wow. 691 00:50:19,603 --> 00:50:22,243 The shack is complete. Hello. 692 00:50:22,243 --> 00:50:24,803 I don't know if it's waterproof yet, but we'll find out. 693 00:50:24,803 --> 00:50:26,163 Hello, little fella, 694 00:50:26,163 --> 00:50:29,843 I'm going to switch to making that trap full-time today. 695 00:50:29,843 --> 00:50:32,883 It looks pretty good, but I didn't test it, you know? 696 00:50:32,883 --> 00:50:35,803 I don't know whether to be hopeful or not. 697 00:50:35,803 --> 00:50:39,283 I'm losing my fucking shit, eh? I really am. 698 00:50:39,283 --> 00:50:41,843 You live another day, my friend. 699 00:50:41,843 --> 00:50:43,843 I'm over it. I'm fucking over it. 700 00:50:45,963 --> 00:50:48,243 Captions by Red Bee Media (c) SBS Australia 2023