1 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,640 Hello, and welcome to the Alone Australia season three reunion. 2 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:20,280 I'm Kumi Taguchi, here tonight for a different kind of insight. 3 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,720 Tonight we're going to be bringing you an exclusive deep dive 4 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,280 into the experiences of the 10 remarkable individuals 5 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,040 of this record-shattering season of Alone. 6 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:34,800 They are all here in the studio together for the first time 7 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,040 since they were dropped onto the land. 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,400 Also with us here is Auslan interpreter Leah. 9 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,240 Leah, welcome. 10 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,400 Over 76 days, 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,760 6,000 hours of footage was shot 12 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,280 and then condensed down to 12 episodes. 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,240 So that leaves a lot of never-before-seen footage 14 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:55,960 to unpack tonight. 15 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:57,240 Shall we begin? 16 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,680 (APPLAUSE) 17 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,320 It is actually crazy to see all you guys here tonight. 18 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:06,880 I've been following you obsessively, 19 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,920 so it's sort of strange to see you all in person. 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,040 Thank you so much for being here. 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,960 To me, you're all winners. But there could only be one. 22 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:16,600 Shay, that was you. Congratulations. 23 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,240 (APPLAUSE) 24 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,960 (LAUGHS) 25 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,280 You watched the final episodes with all these participants. 26 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:26,480 What was that like 27 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,040 seeing it unfold with everyone else in the room with you? 28 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,600 Yeah, pretty special because we all understand this thing 29 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,320 better than anyone else, 30 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:38,600 because we've all done it and we know the things you don't see. 31 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,120 So it's pretty special to share that with everyone. 32 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,040 A lot of people might not know that before you all went on to the land, 33 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,080 you were at a one-week intensive boot camp. 34 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,080 This is where you figured out filmmaking 35 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,320 and how to use the cameras. 36 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:52,560 But more importantly, I reckon 37 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,040 you were probably sizing each other up as well. 38 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:56,920 Um, Shay, at that boot camp, 39 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,080 you left a really lasting impression on one person there. 40 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,520 Take a look at this. 41 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,920 This is the most extraordinary experience 42 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:13,560 I think I could have in my life. 43 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,760 This is just an incredible opportunity. 44 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:21,720 And to win it would be just... incomprehensible. 45 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,040 But it's a long shot for me. 46 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:29,920 Before launch day... 47 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,560 ..the ten contestants all get together, 48 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,600 and we went to this room for a meeting. 49 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,480 And then this guy walked in. 50 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,320 And I kid you not, I stopped breathing. 51 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:43,680 (LAUGHTER) 52 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,320 This guy I've been following on the internet for over four years, 53 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,560 and he's a fucking legend. 54 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,200 He's an amazing bushman. 55 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,480 His knowledge of flora and fauna is just unbelievable. 56 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:58,960 He's out here. 57 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:06,360 That's why I believe I've got very, very little chance of winning it. 58 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:07,800 (LAUGHTER) Because of him. 59 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,160 If he wins it, and he probably will, 60 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,000 I'm so happy for him. 61 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,520 Shae, what's your reaction to that? 62 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,160 Oh, it's pretty humbling. 63 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,800 Like, it's such a huge compliment. 64 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,120 Um, I don't think I deserve it. 65 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,760 Coming from Muzza too, like... 66 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,040 Obviously that was the first time I met Muzza at boot camp, 67 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,960 and I was thinking a similar thing, to be honest. 68 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:38,160 Like, I was thinking, "Man, he's going to be a bit of a problem." 69 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,840 Um... 70 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,760 And we come from similar worlds, I think. 71 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,800 Like, he was a roo shooter for years 72 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,840 and I've been a possum trapper for years. 73 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,600 So we kind of come from different countries but a similar background. 74 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,640 And so I think we understood each other quite well. 75 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:59,040 And, yeah, we both knew we weren't going to go home 76 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,040 unless we were pulled out and dragged away, basically. 77 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,080 Muzza, emotional watching that back. 78 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,200 What made Shay such a winner in your eyes so early on? 79 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,920 Um, yeah, we share a common bond, 80 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,880 but, you know, Shay is, uh, the next level. 81 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,440 Yeah. No, he's, uh, one of the most amazing, um, 82 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,000 and skilled bushmen I've ever...ever known of. 83 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,200 Was anyone else betting on Shay? 84 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,440 (LAUGHTER) 85 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,040 Show of hands. Pretty much unanimous. 86 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,640 Wow. Um. Why? What was it? 87 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,360 Shay and I both flew into Melbourne together, right? 88 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:37,800 Before going down to Tassie. 89 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,320 And I'd never seen the dude in my life. 90 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,520 I wasn't following him on YouTube or anything like that. 91 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,800 But I saw this bloke from 50 metres away 92 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:45,800 and there was just this aura about him. 93 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,440 He was a man on a mission, and I said to myself, 94 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,760 "I bet you that bloke is going where I'm going, 95 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,480 "and I bet you he goes far." 96 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,040 He just had this steely kind of look of determination in his eye. 97 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,360 76 days, Shay. 98 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,480 You hold the record for the longest, 99 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,040 breaking the previous one by nine days. 100 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,040 How will that prize money change your family's life? 101 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,040 Oh, it'll be massive for us. Yeah. 102 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:13,560 Just takes the pressure off, um, you know, the daily grind, 103 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,480 trying to get ahead and pay a mortgage. 104 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,560 It'll allow us to spend more time with the kids 105 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,080 and less time stressing about money. 106 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:22,640 So it's an amazing gift. 107 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,960 Like, I feel so lucky to have just had the opportunity. 108 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,760 Shay officially took the crown on day 76, 109 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,600 but that was only decided 110 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,480 when the penultimate person departed the arena. 111 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:40,120 Safe to say our runner-up this year was an absolute warrior. 112 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,880 Hearts broke around the country when this happened. 113 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,560 MUZZA: I will not tap. 114 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,600 Any pain down there? 115 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,720 Oh! You're quite sore there. 116 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,400 Alright. Stand up for me. 117 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:12,640 Are you, like, dizziness, Muzza? 118 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:13,840 I'm good. 119 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:16,480 Was that a head spin just then? Mm-hm. 120 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:21,680 Alright, Muzza. 121 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:31,240 I'm sorry. It's not medically safe for you to stay. 122 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:32,520 And we're going to have to extract you. 123 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,800 (RAIN FALLS) 124 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,800 (CRIES) 125 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,480 That was pretty hard to watch. 126 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,040 What was it like for you in that moment? 127 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:22,800 Um, out there... Yeah. It was... It was tough. Uh... 128 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,440 You know, I've... 129 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,520 My head was still in the game. You know? 130 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,040 I was aiming for 80 days, for a start. 131 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,120 But, you know, I was a realist. 132 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,720 I knew my body was, uh, not keeping up with my head. 133 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,360 It was a hard pill to swallow, I said that out there, 134 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,440 but my body was done. 135 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,720 It hit me like a ton of bricks. It came from nowhere. 136 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,640 The decision to extract someone based on physical wellbeing 137 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,440 is not made lightly, 138 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,440 especially as this is a series 139 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,760 that pushes the human body to its absolute breaking point. 140 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:02,680 BEN: Alright. 141 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,360 Have a quick look at how I'm going in terms of weight loss. 142 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,520 I've never seen that before. That's a fair hole. 143 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:14,280 Whoa. 144 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,880 I've not seen my legs like this ever. 145 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:22,960 I've definitely lost weight. I was... Bluh. 146 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,600 I couldn't see me old fella. 147 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:25,960 (LAUGHTER) 148 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:27,560 I've lost my overhang. 149 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,560 My ribs are protruding, 150 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:30,760 my hips are protruding. 151 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,040 That's changed quite a lot. 152 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,440 Wow. 153 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:38,720 Fuck! 154 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,480 Oh, shit. 155 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,080 Oh! (GRUNTS) 156 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,640 (GROANS) Bugger. 157 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,440 I know for a lot of people, 158 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,880 the shock to the system gives them the runs. 159 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:51,280 (GROANS) 160 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:53,520 (COUGHS) 161 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,080 Stomach is turning. She's not feeling good. 162 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,640 My stump is frozen. That's all numb from about there down. 163 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,320 Burning. Hope it's not a UTI or an infection. 164 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,120 Ceilidh, 165 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,040 when you were being medically extracted 166 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,680 and they said it's time to go, 167 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,360 was there any part of you that was tempted to kind of try 168 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,320 and argue the doctor's decision in that moment? 169 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,000 Um, looking back, I'm grateful that I did get extracted at the time, 170 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,720 because I was actually worse than I thought I was. 171 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:34,640 Looking back, I could have maybe... 172 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,000 I was, like, tossing up whether to let them know 173 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,040 or just, you know, see if I can get better. 174 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,760 And, um, I'm glad I let them know, 175 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,040 because I actually got worse really quickly. 176 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,280 And I'm really glad that I actually had to go and get, 177 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,560 you know, the treatment that I needed to get better 178 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:53,040 because I did not want any damage to my kidneys. 179 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,040 And, yeah, I just wanted to stay healthy for, 180 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:57,840 you know, my next adventure. 181 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,040 Yeah. I think I would rather go out walking than 182 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:02,280 to be out on a stretcher. 183 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,160 If you hadn't have become unwell, 184 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,920 how long do you think you would have stayed out there? 185 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,400 Oh, I think mentally, I don't know physically, 186 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,800 but mentally I felt very happy, content, 187 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,040 being out there alone in the wild. 188 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,560 I was having a great time and there was so much I wanted to do. 189 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:20,040 There was no way I was going to tap out. 190 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,680 Karla, you were really sick. 191 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:25,720 How hard was it to sort of keep filming and going on 192 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,040 when you were feeling so awful? 193 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:29,560 Yeah, it's concerning because 194 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,680 you don't know how much it's going to affect you and how long for. 195 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,600 Like, I knew it was the fiddleheads that had made me feel sick. 196 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,480 Um, it only really knocked me around for a day, 197 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,960 but I remember sitting there with a sat phone in my hand thinking, 198 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,520 do I need to call someone? 199 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,600 Like, how much have I poisoned myself right now? 200 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,040 Do I need some serious help right here 201 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,760 or do I just wait it out and hopefully it leaves my system? 202 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:49,800 And thankfully it did and I was OK the next day, 203 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:50,840 but that was it for me. 204 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,800 I did not eat any more vegetation after that. 205 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,040 I was like, it's protein or nothing. Protein or nothing. 206 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,600 Tom, you looked like you were in real pain out there 207 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,520 and really feeling the cold. 208 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,040 Going in, how willing were you to put your body on the line? 209 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,840 Did you have some boundaries or end points? 210 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,800 Oh, I mean, I was...I was willing to go as hard as I possibly could. 211 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,720 I know I was talking... I said before going out there, 212 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,560 if I lose another one of my vestigial fingers. 213 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:17,600 I'd be OK with that because it'd be a great story. 214 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,840 But I also knew I had limits. 215 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,440 My partner and I, we decided that go as hard as you can, 216 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,440 but also you've got to come home 217 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,720 and you've got to take care of your family as well. 218 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,040 And that's really important to me. 219 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,840 Ben, you pushed your body as far as you could. 220 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,000 How significant was the amount of weight you lost out there, 221 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,040 and how did you kind of recover? 222 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,520 Yeah, I lost about 25, 26 kilos while I was out there. 223 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,200 Um, it was tricky, you know. 224 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,040 You get a lot weaker as you go along. 225 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,400 I mean, mentally and emotionally, I was feeling good, 226 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,440 but physically, I was so depleted, so, so weak. 227 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,720 But I recovered really quickly afterwards. 228 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:57,760 I was eating like I was eating for Australia, 229 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:02,400 and I was putting on a kilo of weight a day for over two weeks. 230 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,960 You know, every day. 231 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:08,000 So a couple of weeks later, I'd put on 15kg. 232 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,240 Muzza, you stared down the challenge of gout out there. 233 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:12,560 You still wanted to push on. 234 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:15,800 Those scenes of you trying to kind of get shoes on 235 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,040 and the pain of that glassy feeling just... 236 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:19,880 They were really hard to watch. 237 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,600 Oh, come on. 238 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:23,880 Ow, ow, ow. 239 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:26,920 Oh. 240 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:28,480 It's a big lump. 241 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,440 I'd rather a broken ankle than gout. 242 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,080 How did you rate your chances of staying at that point? 243 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,680 Uh, look, when I... It was scary getting gout. 244 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:42,760 Um, because, you know, I've had it that bad 245 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,480 where I can't even get out of bed. 246 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,320 Well, when I got it, I thought, "Jeez, how could I get it out here?" 247 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,800 But mentally I thought, 248 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:52,560 "Yeah, well, you know, 249 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:55,800 "I can...I can crawl around in the...in the mud for another month, 250 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,520 "you know, if I have to." 251 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,040 It would have been incredibly horrible. 252 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,240 But, yeah, I was... I was ready for it. 253 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,040 Wow. That's incredible. 254 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,680 Well, thank you so much to you all 255 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:10,800 for putting your bodies on the line for us. 256 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,040 Being alone on the land is incredibly isolating, 257 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,600 and the only conversation is often just with the camera. 258 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,040 Unless you are Corinne. 259 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,880 Here are some magical moments 260 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,160 from our first-ever Alone love story. 261 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,760 CORINNE: (WHISPERS) It's a quoll. 262 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,920 Oh, did you go into my cabin? 263 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,960 We've got a love/hate relationship. 264 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:39,200 Ha! 265 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,240 Holy shit. There's Quentin. He's everywhere. 266 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,080 Oh, fuck off, Quentin! 267 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,840 You better run. (LAUGHTER) 268 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,800 I know that if he stops visiting me, I'll be worried. 269 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,920 Quoll kept me up. 270 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,840 Nothing's sacred with him around. 271 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,720 So I slept well last night. 272 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,000 Despite the midnight interruption 273 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,480 from Quentin coming in for a snuggle. 274 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,520 Like consent, Quentin. Consent. 275 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:10,120 (LAUGHTER) 276 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:18,040 This experience would be a lot less exciting if it weren't for Quentin. 277 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,360 I think it's hilarious that he was... 278 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,800 ..in my bed with me. 279 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,640 Ah... 280 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,560 Quentin. 281 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,560 That's not how you get a girl. (LAUGHTER) 282 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,600 I love seeing Quentin pop into the back of your footage 283 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:39,840 and, like, there he is again. 284 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,800 Do you miss him? Yes. 285 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,200 Yeah, he was great. 286 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,480 Yeah, it was definitely a love/hate thing. 287 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,520 Um, once my food was secured and he couldn't get at it, 288 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,040 he would still come and visit for scraps. 289 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,360 Well, we didn't want you to be apart for too long, 290 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,080 so we have a very special guest here for you all tonight. 291 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,400 Please welcome to the studio Quentin the quoll. 292 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,320 (LAUGHTER) 293 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,040 There he is! Sniffing around. 294 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,760 Do you feel emotional seeing him again? 295 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:09,040 I don't think I realised how much I missed him until he left. 296 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,480 It just made the place a little greyer. 297 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,520 He left around the time that the floods and the storms came, 298 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,040 and all the animals left. 299 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,600 The wallabies, the birds, everything disappeared. 300 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,760 Did anyone else wish they had a buddy like that? 301 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:22,280 Like, someone keeping them company? 302 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,320 TOM: I had a little Bassian thrush I saw every day. 303 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:25,960 A little bird. Oh, how sweet. 304 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:27,800 And I had a full relationship with it, 305 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,760 but I was definitely going to eat it if I caught it. 306 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,000 Oh, really? Did you chat to it? 307 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,200 I did. It'd be the first thing I'd see in the morning. 308 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:35,440 Oh, I can relate with that. 309 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,040 I had one hoary-headed grebe 310 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,440 that was my best friend from the get-go, 311 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,360 and I got really attached to my little grebe out there as well. 312 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,040 Corinne, you not only gave us our first Alone love story - 313 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:48,280 thank you so much - 314 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:55,040 you also lasted a phenomenal 70 days and tapped out on your own terms. 315 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,560 You looked so content out there most of the time. 316 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,320 That was one of the things that struck me so much. 317 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:00,880 Like, there could be all this stuff going on. 318 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,600 You're sitting there like meditating and chilling out 319 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,440 and you're so calm out there. 320 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,760 Was the experiences as you expected? 321 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,000 Yeah, it was much better than I expected. 322 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,480 Mentally and physically, 323 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,120 I felt really healthy and I looked healthier. 324 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,240 Like, my hair was better than it has ever been in my life. 325 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,800 And my skin was clear, and I couldn't understand it. 326 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,560 I guess I just went through this massive detox. 327 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:30,600 You also spoke a lot about not wanting to be alone anymore, 328 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,040 and the lifestyle that you'd been living up until that experience, 329 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,760 and also potentially rekindling something. 330 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,040 So when I get home, 331 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:44,000 there are some unfinished conversations that I need to have 332 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,160 with those people that, um, 333 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,320 have offered to be sperm donors 334 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:55,480 and the person who wants to be more than a sperm donor. 335 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,960 Do you mind me asking how that went? 336 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,680 Pretty good. (LAUGHTER) 337 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,280 You don't have to go into massive detail. 338 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:03,560 Yeah. No. 339 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,560 Being out there offered a lot of clarity 340 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,920 and gives you a chance away from all the noise 341 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,600 and pressures and work stresses, 342 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:16,320 to just sit and think about what's important in life 343 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:17,680 and what do you actually want? 344 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,600 And, yeah, I came back. I was like, "Right, this is where I'm at. 345 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,560 "Where are you at?" It's like, yeah, let's go for it. 346 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:25,680 It's like a real love story. 347 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,720 You had one there and you've got one here. 348 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,640 That's great news. Congratulations. 349 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,000 That's lovely. Yeah. 350 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,480 Karla, you also had sort of similar epiphanies when you were out there. 351 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,600 Can you relate to that idea of having that clarity to make choices? 352 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,600 KARLA: Yeah, definitely. 353 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:39,960 It's not something I went out there 354 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,880 expecting to have a life-changing moment. 355 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,280 Um, you know, I was pretty content, or so I thought, with my lifestyle. 356 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,000 But my job is really social. 357 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,800 And then when I'm not at work, I do keep to myself, 358 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,360 and I go camping and fishing and just really have that alone time. 359 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:55,040 And it just really hit me of, why do I do that so much? 360 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,320 Like, it's...I've had to make so many sacrifices 361 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,520 of not seeing family and friends and relationships 362 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,200 for such a long time for my career. 363 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,160 So it just really hit home of, I don't want to do that anymore. 364 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,040 And I've really stuck true to my word, 365 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,040 and I've seen heaps more of my family 366 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:09,600 and caught up with lots of friends, 367 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,480 and officially dating, 368 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,240 which I haven't done for a long time. 369 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,800 So, um, yeah, it's definitely brought my walls down 370 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,280 and my heart's open, and yeah, 371 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,440 it's...it certainly has changed my outlook on life. 372 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,000 That's so lovely to hear. 373 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,400 Alright, don't go tapping out. We've got loads more to come, 374 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,120 including a catalogue of unseen footage. 375 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,800 We're going to take you on an exclusive tour 376 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,280 inside all those ten incredible shelters. 377 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,640 Plus we've got some very big announcements and surprises 378 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:38,920 coming your way. 379 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,160 See you after the break. 380 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:57,160 Welcome back to the Alone Australia season three reunion. 381 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,120 Shay, going in, your biggest fear was your fast metabolism, 382 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,920 but you managed to keep yourself relatively well fed, 383 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,200 by Alone standards anyway. 384 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,840 You also bagged another series record 385 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:13,120 for the highest-ever individual catch count. 386 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:14,720 Take a look at this. 387 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,480 SHAY: I'm going to treat myself 388 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,080 and just dig out some little cheesy chips, 389 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,120 which are some sort of larvae. 390 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:23,800 I don't know what they are, 391 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,480 but I've been frying them up on my pot lid. 392 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:31,800 Like, they would go so well with some salsa or some guacamole. 393 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:32,920 Oh. 394 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,920 What's on the menu today, you ask? 395 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,160 Well. 396 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,280 Worms pan fried. 397 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,080 Got some beautiful bat's wing. 398 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,720 Salted fiddleheads. 399 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,560 Salty, delicious smoky trout. 400 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,800 We've also got all of these bracken roots. 401 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,000 The mountain pepper leaves, 402 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,480 tree fern, fiddleheads, 403 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,120 lots of worms floating around in there. 404 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:01,320 I've got a bit of saw sedge 405 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:05,240 and some little grass spaces in the pot there. 406 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,200 Mmm. Mmm. 407 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:08,520 Check that out. 408 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,560 Does that look good or what? Look at that. 409 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,840 That will be eating basically everything off this thing 410 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,480 except for the toenails and the claws. 411 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,320 The testicles. Oh, wow. 412 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,120 Pretty tender, actually. 413 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:26,480 The other part of the genital, plus some skin. 414 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,800 I'm not expecting this to taste great. 415 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,920 (LAUGHTER) 416 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,080 OK, Shay, I'm just going to run through the little list here. 417 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,960 You got 23 trout, 14 eels, 2 lots of whitebait, 418 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,000 some freshwater shrimp, a whole bunch of grubs, 419 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,880 over a thousand earthworms, 420 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,640 countless cheesy fries you made. 421 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,480 And, of course, that pademelon. 422 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,920 No possums for the possum trapper. 423 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,080 How did that feel? 424 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,240 And when did you kind of reconcile that this mightn't happen? 425 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,160 Yeah. It's not lost on me that it's kind of funny. 426 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,160 The possum trapper couldn't catch a possum. 427 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,320 And then I was kind of hoping, you know, 428 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,400 at least I'd be able to trap a wallaby, 429 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,920 but I just cocked that up repeatedly as well. 430 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:12,240 Um, and then Corinne made me look bad as well, so, you know, 431 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,160 because she made it look so easy. 432 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,680 Um... She did. 433 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,080 And she's the one who was kind of 434 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,800 not really wanting to even kill a bug at the beginning, so... 435 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,480 You did redeem yourself massively. 436 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,040 You caught a pademelon, and it actually seemed nearly too easy. 437 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,800 It's just sort of there and then it's there. 438 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,720 It's done. Like... Yeah. I know. 439 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,200 I worked out early on that in the rain, 440 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,800 the wallabies and the pademelons were a lot easier to sneak up on 441 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,840 because the ears got pinned down and they weren't as alert, 442 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,800 but that one was pretty lucky, really. 443 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,600 It was stuck on the island with me. 444 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,200 So, yeah, just grabbed it. 445 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,160 It was luck. Yeah. I got lucky there. 446 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:49,760 Eva, Shay had some good luck there. 447 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,800 Your fishing hunting experience was very different to Shay's. 448 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,440 Does it come down to skill, or is some of it luck? 449 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,120 I think it's absolutely both. 450 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:03,680 I think that every single location is going to be different as well. 451 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,680 But I was going out there every day fishing, using different bait, 452 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,840 different times of the day, different locations on that lake. 453 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,920 And I didn't actually even see an eel or a fish. 454 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,480 Yonke, you too? 455 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,440 YONKE: Oh, yeah. I didn't catch anything. 456 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:22,320 Um, and again, I tried, you know, I tried leeches for a whole week, 457 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,160 I tried worms, I tried grubs, I tried many different places. 458 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,000 But it also comes down to skill, 459 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,600 and the skill, um, that Muzza and Shay have, 460 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,200 that innate, uh, hunting skill, that observation 461 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,160 that made them really fine-tune everything. 462 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,040 Made me realise that in reality, 463 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,320 I don't have that kind of fishing skill. 464 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,320 Ceilidh, you figured out how to do away with bait 465 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,640 and built this incredible trout trap. 466 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,040 Was that something that you'd had in mind? 467 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,720 It wasn't. Um... 468 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,880 I took fishing hooks and lines out thinking, you know, 469 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,120 I'll do my normal... what I'm good at, go fishing, 470 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:02,880 and caught nothing on the hooks. 471 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,400 I grew up in Bundaberg, 472 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,520 so I kind of had an understanding of how fish traps were made 473 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,480 using rocks from, you know, First Nations people. 474 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,760 So I thought, well, I'm going to build a rock wall and a funnel 475 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:21,680 to see if these fish would swim back down and get caught in this funnel. 476 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,800 And, um, yeah, I didn't know if it would work or not, 477 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,760 but surprisingly, it did. 478 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,520 It was amazing to watch and to watch it work, 479 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,960 and your excitement when you saw the fish. 480 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,280 It's really exciting. "Oh, my God, this actually happened!" 481 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:35,400 Yeah. 482 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,640 I got a brown trout in my funnel. 483 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,240 Look! Fuck, yes! 484 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:41,800 MUZZA: I'd said to my family, 485 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,320 "There's no way she's going to catch a fish with that." 486 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,000 And my wife made a bet with me. 487 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,480 "If she does, you're doing the dishes for a week." 488 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,320 And I did the dishes for a week. 489 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:51,840 (LAUGHTER) 490 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,320 Well, of course, when you were out there, you had to live somewhere. 491 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,120 When I think of building a shelter, 492 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,920 all I kind of want is something, I don't know, 493 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,480 that keeps the rain out and I can go to sleep and... 494 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,480 But you guys took it to the next level. 495 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,000 Like, seriously, you've set the bar super high. 496 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,680 We're talking about things like stone fireplaces, 497 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,600 alfresco dining, even a jetty. 498 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,840 Thanks, Muzza. 499 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,480 You've kind of really put the bar high there. 500 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,160 Here are some of your constructions. 501 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,280 Hello, friends. 502 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,520 Come with me as I take you through my multi-million-dollar mansion. 503 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,480 As you come in, there's your beautiful duck-feathered bed, 504 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,600 a beautiful wall there with plenty of sticks poking out 505 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,160 to hang things on. 506 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,120 It also comes with a built-in fireplace. 507 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:36,280 It doesn't work... 508 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,480 ..but for aesthetics, it's quite good. 509 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,440 Oh! 510 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,480 That is sensational. Look at that. 511 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,440 Look, Bronwyn, how organised am I? 512 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,640 This is even better than when we go camping at home. 513 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,080 I've got a little bloody nest happening up here. 514 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,120 All over this camping shit, hey. 515 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:59,480 I'm thinking about basically making up a frame, 516 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:04,320 cladding it in paperbark, and going with that for a door. 517 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,480 Yes! 518 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,120 Yay! 519 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:11,960 Oh, wow. 520 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,600 That's pretty cool. 521 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,960 I think I'll work inside the shelter today 522 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,000 and build a little tunnel 523 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,600 to bring some air to my fireplace, 524 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,800 and then put slate over the top. 525 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,840 OK. There you go. 526 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,040 That's better fire. 527 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,320 Alright. Sort out this floor. 528 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:39,560 Liking this little cobblestone floor here. 529 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,280 Cool. It's looking good. 530 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,680 I created a smoker. 531 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,680 It's all sealed up on the inside. 532 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,600 This is going to be a nice fire. Nice dinner. 533 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,000 I think it'll be worth it. 534 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,600 Let's start in the sunroom. 535 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,480 I can sit here and whittle. 536 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:03,080 The fireplace works when the wind's blowing in the right direction, 537 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,240 which is half the time. 538 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:06,480 So that's my shelter. 539 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,520 And it does feel like home. 540 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,880 This...is my shelter. 541 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,120 As you can see, no door. It's nice and cosy. 542 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,400 That's my bed behind me there. 543 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,160 That's the start of it where you can see that blue tarp. 544 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,480 So that's probably the most unusual thing about my shelter 545 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,080 is that I have firewood above my bed. 546 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,920 The ultimate energy conserver. 547 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,560 So here is my shelter. 548 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,600 And I have a window 549 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:50,480 and my beautiful little fireplace that's kept me toasty and warm. 550 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,480 And my stretcher that I made. 551 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,480 And the best of all is... 552 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,480 ..my chimney. 553 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,360 I've really loved living in my shack. 554 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,080 I'm so proud of what I built. 555 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,880 Did anyone have, uh, shelter envy, watching that? 556 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,240 Karla wins it, hands down. Like what an un-unbelievable thing. 557 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,760 Thanks Muzza. I had no idea what I was doing. 558 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:18,800 Really? 559 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,560 Uh, yeah I just knew that I wanted something solid, 560 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,120 that was gonna keep me warm. 561 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,040 I'm from tropical Australia, I don't like the cold. 562 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,440 And that was gonna send me home. 563 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,680 And I wanted something big enough 564 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,400 that if it was raining for days and days on end, 565 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,400 I wouldn't feel confined, and I could build things, 566 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,960 and do things inside there. 567 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,560 And it was my little safe space, that really felt like a home. 568 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,040 So, I loved it, yeah. 569 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,720 Matt, you also had a fireplace in yours. 570 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,120 And that was just for aesthetics. 571 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:42,560 Why? 572 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,840 Well, I say aesthetics, but it was more the fact 573 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,360 that it worked but it was kind of, like, 574 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:49,480 you couldn't be in there when it was going. 575 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:50,880 Yeah. (LAUGHTER) 576 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,240 You'd just smoke yourself out. 577 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,520 Shay, your coffin bed could not have been comfortable. 578 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,960 Why did you do that? Like, weren't you claustrophobic? 579 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,480 Oh, it was quite cosy actually, 580 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,200 I was disappointed when I had to move 581 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,000 because, yeah, I had about 582 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,320 two or three inches of reeds underneath that, 583 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,360 so, it was actually quite well insulated, 584 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,000 so...it did the trick. 585 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,120 It was...looked like a homeless shelter but it did the trick. 586 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,440 Ben we've not seen a paved floor before. 587 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,400 What made you come up with that idea? Why did you want that? 588 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,000 Just the ground there was so wet. 589 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,480 Just the moisture was coming up from the ground. 590 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,160 So, I thought, if I put in my cobblestone floor, 591 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,640 at least, hopefully, the mud will stay below the cobblestones, 592 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,320 and I'll hopefully be kind of dry. 593 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,800 And it largely worked, so that was good. 594 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,080 Tom, did you have some sort of envy, looking at that paved flooring. 595 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,880 I was calling his Shrek's swamp. 596 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,960 Oh, and it was like Shrek's swamp. 597 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,840 I still think though, if I had paving, 598 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,400 the mud would have swallowed it. 599 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,680 Really? It was that bad? Yeah. It was... 600 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,480 It was up past me ankles in some spots. 601 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:54,680 Loved it. 602 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,280 (LAUGHTER) 603 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,520 Your shelters were all just amazing. 604 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,760 But we really saw them get tested to their limits 605 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,760 with those floods that really no-one saw coming. 606 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,640 I remember watching it 607 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,080 and feeling that sort of oppression just through the screen, 608 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,840 so I cannot imagine what it was like living through it. 609 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,160 Here's what some of you went through. 610 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,120 (RAIN AND THUNDER) 611 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,720 This is crazy. 612 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,320 It's pissed rain all night. 613 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,160 And it's been raining all this morning. 614 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,200 The lake has come up a significant amount overnight. 615 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,960 Nearly 300mm overnight. 616 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,880 My sitting log is now floating. 617 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,520 Look at that shelter over there, man. 618 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,000 That's our shelter, and that is the water. 619 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,880 (SIGHS) 620 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,960 MUZZA: So, I've gotta pack up and get outta here. 621 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,880 The lake rose by almost seven metres. 622 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,040 At what stage did you realise that this was actually 623 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,560 a...a pretty decent threat? 624 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,440 Oh, yeah, when... when I could hear the waves when I was sleeping, 625 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,320 I knew it was a big threat. 626 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,680 Um, like when we first got there, the lake was so low, 627 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,360 and I thought I'd made a mistake camping so far away from it, 628 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,160 'cause I had to walk to go fishing and everything. 629 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,800 And then it came in and I thought, "Oh, I'm living in paradise now. 630 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,080 "I've got a beach next to me, and I'm catching fish." 631 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,280 And then it was like, "Oh, no." 632 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,840 (LAUGHS) "OK, it's just still coming." Yeah. 633 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,240 It felt quite apocalyptic. Did it? 634 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,160 Yeah. It felt like... Biblical. 635 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,880 "This is a joke, this is... we're really getting tested here. 636 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,520 "Nature is throwing everything it can at us." 637 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,920 Yeah. 638 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,400 Muzza, you moved your entire shelter in a day 639 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,920 and you replicated it exactly. 640 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,360 And this was at a late stage, too, in your adventure out there. 641 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,680 How taxing was moving that shelter 642 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,160 and rebuilding it exactly the same way. 643 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,760 Yeah, it was a big day. Um, but, yeah, I pre-planned it. 644 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,280 And I've had a lot of people say, you know, 645 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,400 "Oh, why did you build your first one below the water line?" 646 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,200 Well, I had anticipated being flooded out from day one. 647 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,240 I just thought, "Well I'm below water line, you're asking for it." 648 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,440 But I chose that if I got 30 to 50 days in that shelter, 649 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:19,760 I was happy to move. 650 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,600 But the lake went beyond 100%, 651 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:27,440 and I was at the point that I was thinking, 652 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,480 "Am I going to have to do this a third time?" 653 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,560 Wow. 654 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:31,920 You know, like, I could not believe 655 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,880 I was metres above the high-water mark, 656 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,440 and it just kept coming. 657 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,400 And I...I was looking, "Where am I going to go next?" 658 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,520 And it was very limited to what I had left. 659 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,920 Karla, you didn't know this but days after you left, 660 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,240 our crew arrived at your site 661 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,640 to find your cabin completely flooded. 662 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,800 And within the week, it was basically underwater. 663 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,800 What is it like, to see that? 664 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,600 It's crazy, like... and I very carefully looked at 665 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,080 where the waterline was, 666 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,560 and I was up on a little island, 667 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,000 and it felt like it was going to be safe there. 668 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,400 Um, I definitely saw the water line come up a fair bit in my time, 669 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,360 but that's wild - that's so much water. 670 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,960 OK, it's time for a quick break. 671 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,920 But please don't leave your shelters. 672 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,560 We're about to reveal some pretty incredible records 673 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,320 our participants achieved, 674 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:23,440 and also show you that they weren't actually as alone as they thought. 675 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,160 See you back here soon. 676 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,440 Just have a go, at that view. 677 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,080 Bloody beautiful mate. 678 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,720 Come on. The sun's out. 679 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,120 (SINGS) # I'm makin' a home on the river 680 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,720 # Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm... # 681 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,320 Sun's out, guns out. 682 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,840 # Building my shelter... # 683 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,000 This is Gillnet 1.O. 684 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,520 This is me first one, and I'm pretty stoked. 685 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,640 (SNIFFS) Eugh! 686 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,080 # I'm freezin'! 687 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:09,960 Rat Trap 3000. 688 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,960 This is me Possum Club 3000. 689 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,520 # Come on...little fishy... # 690 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:15,840 Whoo! 691 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:22,320 White Bait Freshwater Shrimp Trap...2000. 692 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,320 Now, one participant who surprised us all when he tapped out 693 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,320 was Matt, on Day 16. 694 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,920 He stayed out there the longest before a first tap 695 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:38,920 in Alone Australia History. 696 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,960 And he is now the second-longest first tap in the world. 697 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,200 Matt, congratulations on that, that's incredible. 698 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,640 You look like you were really thriving on the survival front. 699 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,720 You're having a great time, you're catching food, 700 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,320 you've got this amazing shelter. 701 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,840 The land was connecting with you as well. 702 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,720 What happened for you? 703 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,800 Um, I was just trying to... 704 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,280 ..have as much fun with my experience as I could 705 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,080 and trying to keep a positive mindset. 706 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,840 Because I knew family would come into a bit of play for me. 707 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,480 So, I was just trying to keep myself distracted 708 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,520 and be as positive as I could. 709 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,800 The...yeah, what changed was when I caught my first eel. 710 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,800 Like, knowing that I had that ability to get more food 711 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,080 and stay there longer. 712 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,640 And the thought of staying an extended time away from the kids, 713 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,520 it just...it just rattled me. 714 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,000 And then I was tossing it up, 715 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,080 whether I should stay or go, or whatever. 716 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,560 And, yeah, when I made my decision to leave, 717 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,960 I was well and truly emotionally spent. 718 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,880 It seemed like you were really wrestling with that... 719 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,360 Yeah, definitely. ..with that choice. 720 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:37,480 Yeah definitely. 721 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,960 Did it surprise you...? 722 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,200 It surprises lots of people, time and again, 723 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,280 that that was the thing that really felt... 724 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,960 ..that yearning inside that, "Actually, no, I wanna be back home"? 725 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,120 Yeah, coming into it, I came in with a pretty staunch opinion on myself 726 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,280 for not tapping out for that reason. 727 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,000 And then for it to hit me the way it did, 728 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,680 it was pretty humbling, to be honest. 729 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,480 And, yeah. I'm grateful for that experience, 730 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,480 to have shown me that that is my reason to go home. 731 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,600 And it's one of those things that I don't think 732 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,680 many people would ever understand, unless you've been in it yourself. 733 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,880 Yonke, can you relate to that sense of yearning for family? 734 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,000 I can relate to it, but I actually had the opposite experience, 735 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,880 which surprised me. 736 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,000 See, I've got twin boys who are 17, 737 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,520 and it suddenly hit me, for 17 years, 738 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,800 that I'd actually not had time to myself 739 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,560 because of the nature of my relationships. 740 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,480 And I was thoroughly enjoying myself, 741 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,280 to a degree that I actually felt guilty 742 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,920 that I wasn't thinking about my children or missing them at all. 743 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,960 Might need to wipe that. (LAUGHS) 744 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,840 I'm sure there's a lot of parents 745 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,000 who might agree with some of the things you've said, Yonke. 746 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,440 So, thank you. 747 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,600 Um, these 10 participants were truly living in isolation. 748 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,040 Completely alone. 749 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,760 But if you count all of the creepies and the crawlies 750 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,120 and all the things that go bump in the night, 751 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:56,200 it might make you wonder if they really felt alone. 752 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,160 There's some sign of pademelon's here. 753 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,080 Saw a spotted quoll, just ran past my shelter. 754 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,560 Oh, it is, it's a leech. 755 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,880 There's a little leech on my gum. 756 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:14,600 Ah! 757 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,640 What is that? That's a Tassie devil. 758 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,080 A spider. There's a wallaby. 759 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,240 There's a possum up there, in that tree. 760 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:27,240 Delicious-looking specimen. 761 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:30,120 Look at that. Little crayfish. 762 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,000 Oh, my God, yellow-tail black cockatoos. 763 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,920 Holy shit, there's a wombat. 764 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,040 Are wombat's edible? 765 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,240 Hello? See them? 766 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:45,720 They're not termites but they're something similar. 767 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:48,640 Protein's protein. 768 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,080 Pretty sure it's a little potoroo. 769 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,160 So, I might have a crack at making a trap and catching that. 770 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:56,680 And there you have it - 771 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,720 my first ever wee little rat trap. 772 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,120 Yeah, that worked. 773 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,160 (LAUGHTER) 774 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,480 Couldn't see it. 775 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,080 Eva how was it, sleeping at night, 776 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,160 knowing that there were all those other creatures out there? 777 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,680 I've slept a hell of a long time in the bush, 778 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,760 hearing animals around me, 779 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,920 so that part was kind of cool. 780 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,920 But it wasn't until the bush rat 781 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,160 actually started interfering with my things 782 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,720 that it was, like, really unsettling, 783 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:27,640 and I couldn't really sleep properly, 784 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,280 knowing there's a little critter hanging around, 785 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,720 messing with my stuff. 786 00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:34,600 But it's actually really cool hearing animals out there, 787 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,760 and not knowing really what's going on, 788 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,600 but just knowing that there's all this activity in the night-time, 789 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,040 happening around you. 790 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,320 It's...it's actually a really cool experience. 791 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:48,400 Ceilidh, you didn't want to turn your cochlear on at times. 792 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,480 Was that a conscious decision to kind of block out the noise for you? 793 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,160 I think, at night-time, 794 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,000 I, um, just wanted to, like, put my mind at peace 795 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,640 and not worry about the animals out there, 796 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:58,920 Like the Tassie devils. 797 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,280 That's what I normally do at home, 798 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,800 I take my processor off, and everything quiets. 799 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,360 Like I'm completely deaf. 800 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,120 So, I thought, "Well, I'll just go to sleep 801 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,440 "and just hope that they don't come 802 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,680 "and chew on my ear or anything like that." 803 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,000 Well, you all lived with a lot of animals, 804 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,760 but you also caught quite a lot, too. 805 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,720 In fact, the catch count was so huge, 806 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:18,840 we couldn't include them all in the series. 807 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:23,440 Here are some of your best and never before seen catches of the season. 808 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,960 What's in there, I don't know if you can see it. 809 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,320 It's a little freshwater shrimp. 810 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,840 Check out that? 811 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,280 I just got me first eel, baby! 812 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,120 My first fish! 813 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,240 (SINGS) # I got an eel! # 814 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:40,600 Yes! 815 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,800 Oh, yes! 816 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,520 Oh, a little brown trout. 817 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,640 I just got an eel! 818 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:47,960 What a blessing. 819 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,040 Thank you, Tasmania. 820 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,880 I bet nobody thought 821 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,120 I was gonna catch a wallaby. 822 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,240 That pond's moving. 823 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:04,800 Ooh Oh, look, we do have one. 824 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,960 The day has only just begun. 825 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,000 Whoo-hoo! I fucking got one! 826 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,960 Trout number two for the day. 827 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,400 Fuckin' look at that? 828 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,560 Another one. 829 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,440 Look at the size of that. 830 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:19,880 I got another one. 831 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,560 Check that out. Bang! 832 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,640 Another trout. Wow. 833 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,240 How good is that? Got it! 834 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,320 There you go. Look at that eel! 835 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,440 Yes! Another one! 836 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:32,720 Whoo-hoo-hoo! 837 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:34,200 (SPLASHING) Got it. 838 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,520 We bagged an eel! 839 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:36,760 (LAUGHS) 840 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,040 Whoo! 841 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,160 Holy shit. 842 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:41,920 Look what we've got. 843 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,160 I've got a fuckin' pademelon, man. 844 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,480 I can't believe it! 845 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,880 For context, in Season 1, the total catch count was 36. 846 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,640 Season 2 was 14. 847 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:04,880 This season, collectively, you all caught 97 creatures. 848 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,560 Shay, you caught the most fish out of everyone, 849 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,160 and you were going in there as the possum trapper. 850 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,000 How did you switch it up, 851 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,360 and did you think you would catch that many fish? 852 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,280 No I'm pretty shit at fishing. 853 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,120 Like, at home, yeah, it's sort of a running joke 854 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,840 that I just can't catch a trout. 855 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,200 So, yeah, it surprised me, yeah, 856 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,520 that I managed to somehow catch quite a few, yeah. 857 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,520 And did you have a strategy of how you were going to catch them? 858 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,520 Yeah, I tried lots of different things, 859 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,680 making flies and floats with sinkers and stuff, 860 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,480 and found one way that worked, which was to have a long pole, 861 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,280 with the end of the pole often touching the water, 862 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,680 so when it was choppy, 863 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,120 the water would actually work the pole up and down 864 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,960 and make the...the worm move up and down, 865 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,720 and that seemed to be the only way I could really catch them. 866 00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:56,760 Yonke and Eva, the two of you worked really hard at fishing, with no luck. 867 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,080 How hard was it to maintain patience 868 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,600 or the faith that something would come up and some point? 869 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,360 It is really hard, watching it all back. 870 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,360 Like, I think part of me goes, "Did I not try hard enough? 871 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,400 "Should I have stayed up longer? Should I have observed more?" 872 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:11,760 Yeah. 873 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,400 I mean, yes. But, also, we tried everything. 874 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,600 Like, I had frog bait, I had worm bait, 875 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,040 I had every kind of little bug bait, in different times, 876 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,640 and if an eel wasn't going to eat a frog, then I don't know, 877 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,440 like, what's gonna catch an eel, 878 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,200 'cause they usually go for anything. 879 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,680 I catch eel all the time, and it's easy as, usually, 880 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,920 but not in this situation. 881 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,920 Tom, you were so happy when you caught your first fish. 882 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,400 What does that first catch do for your sense of game play 883 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,280 and how you're going to do things going forward? 884 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,920 I won't forget that day. 885 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,360 It was pouring rain, I was sitting out there for hours, freezing. 886 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,600 And, uh, I remember looking at the water, 887 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,400 and I saw a fin go past. 888 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:51,680 And I thought, "I'm seeing stuff." 889 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,840 And then it was about 15 minutes waiting, and I saw it again, 890 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,600 and then I realised my line was taut. 891 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,200 The fish was wrapped around something. 892 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,920 And you pull it in and the wave of endorphins that hit me from that 893 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:04,320 was just phenomenal. 894 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,240 Ohhh...yeah! 895 00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:08,400 Whoo! I got a trout. 896 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,280 That's why I think I could go 47 days on five fish, 897 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,520 'cause I just kept living for the next high. 898 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,480 Corinne, your wallaby trap was quite an unconventional one. 899 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,200 What was the inspiration for it? 900 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,240 My wallaby nets actually 901 00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:22,840 started off as gillnets. 902 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:27,760 And the idea was to not scoop them up or confine them, 903 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,320 but more just tangle them. 904 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,400 And I actually didn't think it would work, but I had to do something. 905 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,320 And I guess it didn't really work, 906 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,320 because the wallaby just took off with the net, 907 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,160 and, yeah, I had to go track it down. 908 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,640 I mean what was fascinating was, going in, 909 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:44,920 you were really concerned about 910 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:46,520 whether you could actually kill an animal 911 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,200 and take the life of an animal. 912 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,360 I found that just incredible to see that you could do it, 913 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,880 and I'm not going to say easily, 914 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,320 but it was sort of like it's a matter of staying out here or not, right? 915 00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,280 Like do you feel like you're a hunter now? 916 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,880 Do you different in that space? Oh, no, definitely not a hunter. 917 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,840 To be honest, it was just an adrenaline-filled blur. 918 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,880 Shay, what are your thoughts on Corinne's method 919 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,520 of getting her wallaby? 920 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,360 I mean, you really were trying so hard to trap one, 921 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:15,760 and, you know, didn't have as many 922 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,040 kind of kills as you would have liked? 923 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,280 Yeah, oh, I thought it was genius. Yeah. Really cool. 924 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,520 It's something light you can carry around, 925 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,440 whereas my trap was big and stationary. 926 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,280 And I kind of put all my eggs in that one basket. 927 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,600 So, yeah, I thought it was an ingenious idea, yeah. 928 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,120 Yeah, but your trap was such an incredible construction. 929 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,360 Like, every time it didn't work, I'm like, "No!" 930 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,520 You know? Yeah, I caught myself. 931 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,600 MUZZA: Yeah, he caught himself. (LAUGHTER) 932 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:45,640 Fuck. 933 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,560 And so did Karla, don't forget! Yeah. 934 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,200 Ooh, that's close. Don't do that, Karla. 935 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,640 I thought, "How funny is this gonna be if they have to tap out 936 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,680 "'cause they've trapped themselves in their own trap?" 937 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,360 (LAUGHTER) 938 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,160 OK, we're going to take our final break. 939 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,880 Grab your tissues, because when we come back, 940 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,360 we're going to be looking at 941 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,160 some of the most tough, gut-wrenching, unseen moments. 942 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,800 Plus all of the bush-crafting we never got to see. 943 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,080 See you soon. 944 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,800 When it comes to the Alone experience, 945 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,280 the lack of food, waning energy and physical exhaustion 946 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,840 is enough to break anyone. 947 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:41,160 But it's not just the physical game that can take its toll. 948 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,760 As the days turn into weeks, and the weeks to months, 949 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:50,400 being alone on the land can also really take its toll mentally. 950 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,880 Brrrr! I'm having a hard day today. 951 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,160 Ohhh... 952 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,960 This has been tough mentally. 953 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,880 Pick yourself up, Tom. 954 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:13,760 Fuckin' sick of this. Oh, for God's sake! 955 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,320 I actually rather resent the cameras. 956 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,400 I really do want to be the last person. 957 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,840 God I miss Bron. 958 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,960 I can't wait...to see my family 959 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:28,840 and have my little man running up to me. 960 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,720 (LAUGHS) 961 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,520 I'm not crying, you are. 962 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,320 (LAUGHTER) 963 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,960 Yonke, camera frustrations became a mental challenge for you. 964 00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,080 What did you think the experience would be like, 965 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:48,840 versus the reality of it? 966 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,880 Um, I thought I'd be able 967 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,640 to move through the landscape 968 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,000 in a more freer way, 969 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,200 a more intuitive way, that I'm used to. 970 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,200 And the cameras, it... it really puts your headspace 971 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,560 in a different realm. 972 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,160 You...you can't quite drop into that space. 973 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,720 It's...it's just a different part of your brain you have to use. 974 00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:12,840 And, also, you know, dragging these camera's through, 975 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,200 the...the weaker you get, 976 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,360 you're still carrying quite a heavy camera. 977 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,120 When you're truly out there trying to survive, 978 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,000 and you're burning so much energy 979 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,200 walking around, trying to fish, building shelters, 980 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,240 whatever you're doing out there, 981 00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:26,680 and then to have to constantly think about the cameras, and the angles, 982 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,520 and "Is the battery charged enough?" 983 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,800 Or you'll be talking to the camera or doing something 984 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,600 and then you go, "I'll just go check the battery," and it's off. 985 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,160 You're like, "How long has it been off for?" 986 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,000 Like, "How much of that story is now missed?" 987 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,800 And, yeah. It definitely takes its toll. 988 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,360 It took a while to get used to the camera. 989 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,720 I did resent it at first. 990 00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:45,800 But once you get the hang of it, 991 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,720 once you kind of accept that it's now part of life, 992 00:46:49,720 --> 00:46:52,800 it does become a... almost like company. 993 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,800 And something to talk to. 994 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,840 SHAY: For me, yeah, I don't talk a lot, normally. 995 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,320 And, so, yeah, having to talk 996 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,000 through every little thing I did 997 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,640 and why I'm doing it, 998 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,040 and...yeah, that... that's very unnatural for me. 999 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,000 So, yeah that took a bit of getting used to. 1000 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,200 But after a while, it was almost like 1001 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,720 I put myself through therapy out there, 1002 00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:18,800 'cause I was talking so much more than usual, 1003 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,440 and about, like, my feelings, and why I'm feeling like this. 1004 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,200 And, so, that was interesting, yeah. 1005 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,720 It took me a while to, uh... 1006 00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:27,480 ..to realise, you know... 1007 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,360 ..talk, you know, express your thoughts. 1008 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,000 Yeah, and talk to the camera. 1009 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,040 Um, and once I got that, I was... 1010 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,600 Couldn't shut me up. (LAUGHTER) 1011 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,600 I think it's just extraordinary what you guys have all done. 1012 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:40,760 Like, seriously. 1013 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,960 And watching you navigate those highs and lows 1014 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,240 is what draws us all into Alone. 1015 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:48,600 Another big reason is the bushcraft. 1016 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,400 I would love to do a bit of pottery out here. 1017 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:57,000 Definitely not a mug. It will be a bowl. 1018 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,440 Ta-da! One bowl. I love it. 1019 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,480 Making a knife and fork. 1020 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,600 What do you think of that? 1021 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,800 And it's only a two-pronged fork. 1022 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,720 I found this most beautiful piece of wood. 1023 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:12,600 I think it's going to make a great cup 1024 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,080 if I can carve it out a little bit. 1025 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,400 Look at this. How cool is that? 1026 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,920 I'm gonna see if I can tidy up this love heart 1027 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,520 as a gift for Lauren. 1028 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,520 Du-dunk, du-dunk. Love you guys. 1029 00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,200 You better come and have a look. See what I've made. 1030 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,840 So, that's the crow trap. 1031 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,120 Put the bait down in the bottom here. 1032 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:38,240 What happens is crow comes along and lands on here 1033 00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:40,840 'cause he's seen the bait, and he drops in. 1034 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,560 But he's got his open his wings to come up 1035 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,800 but he won't fit out this hole. 1036 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:49,880 Well, that's the theory. 1037 00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,040 Bird comes in, eating some worm. 1038 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,560 Boom. Comes down. 1039 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,840 To codify, it's just a hole where your fire's going to be. 1040 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,200 And then a smaller hole that you dig through the dirt leading to it 1041 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:02,440 so the air can come in. 1042 00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,520 Yes. Come on. Keep going. OK. 1043 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:07,920 Success! 1044 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,400 Ah! Toilet paper glen. 1045 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,240 Could be used as a, like, make-up sponge. Insulation. 1046 00:49:15,240 --> 00:49:19,320 A bit of this I found yesterday as blusher. 1047 00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:24,200 I'm booked in to get my facial 1048 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,880 at the bush salon. 1049 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,760 Wow. 1050 00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,320 Oh, my gosh, it feels so... 1051 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,160 ..so supple. 1052 00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:36,760 Now, it's not the biggest. It's not the best. 1053 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,840 It's not the brightest gillnet you've ever seen. 1054 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,240 But this is Gillnet 1.0. 1055 00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:43,000 Hopefully, I bloody get something. 1056 00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,520 Look at it. Should work just fine. 1057 00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,840 The original carbonated water. 1058 00:49:53,840 --> 00:50:00,400 You put...charcoal in your bottle of water. 1059 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:01,400 Shake it up. 1060 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,480 And it bubbles away. 1061 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:09,480 Ah! 1062 00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,840 I had that many projects lately. 1063 00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,840 Got me table and chairs and build a jetty. 1064 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,240 Fucking hell, yeah. That'll do. 1065 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:21,400 What's next? Taj Mahal? 1066 00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:26,800 This is a low-energy project which gives me joy. 1067 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,080 (STRUMS) 1068 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:33,040 People who know music will appreciate how hard it is 1069 00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:37,200 to get a tuning right on a piece of driftwood. 1070 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:38,920 So I'm pretty proud of myself. 1071 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,120 And that guitar is in the room with us. Corinne, it's incredible. 1072 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,040 How long did it take to build? 1073 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,400 Oh, I have no idea. I don't know. 1074 00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,360 Just... I wasn't even sure what it was going to be. 1075 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,040 I just saw a piece of Huon pine and thought, 1076 00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,960 "I can't just leave it sitting there. I can't burn it." 1077 00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:04,520 So, yeah, it just started turning into a guitar at some point. 1078 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,320 (LAUGHS) Muzza's just got this smile on his face. 1079 00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,120 I think he's just like, "What the hell?" 1080 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,520 It is unbelievable. When... 1081 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,840 The first time I ever heard it, 1082 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,920 I thought it was dubbed over, the sound of it, and... 1083 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,000 You know, God, what would that be worth on the market? 1084 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,160 That's incredible. 1085 00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,240 Did anyone else think of making a guitar? 1086 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,160 (LAUGHTER) 1087 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,520 MATT: Not with zucchini fingers. 1088 00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,640 (LAUGHTER) 1089 00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,360 Well, you are all very busy out on the land. 1090 00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,480 And I also promised you that there would be 1091 00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,840 some surprises and revelations in the last part of this show. 1092 00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,320 Corinne, during your time on the land, 1093 00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:45,480 you decided your one goal was to start a family of your own. 1094 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,480 Do you still feel the same way? 1095 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,600 Um, it was very healing, 1096 00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,680 and I needed that time alone 1097 00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:54,840 to think about my priorities and what I wanted. 1098 00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,600 And I came out and I chatted with Mark, 1099 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,120 and I was like, "Just checking where you're at in life. 1100 00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:03,680 "This is where I'm at." 1101 00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,520 And he said, "Yeah, let's do this." 1102 00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:09,880 So, it's early days yet, but I'm 12 weeks along. 1103 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:11,760 You're 12 weeks pregnant. Yeah. 1104 00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:13,880 (LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE) 1105 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,840 You did get busy. (LAUGHTER) 1106 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,360 You've been hiding that. 1107 00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:20,480 Yay. 1108 00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,840 Congratulations. Thank you. And Mark is stoked. 1109 00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,840 And he's, like, yeah. 1110 00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,480 We're excited about this journey together. 1111 00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,240 Ah, there he is! (LAUGHS) 1112 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:34,120 Shay, not only did you win Alone Australia, 1113 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,800 but I believe you have some even bigger news for us as well? 1114 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,480 Yeah. So, our team's getting a little bit bigger. 1115 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:45,320 We've got another baby girl coming in July, so only a month away. 1116 00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,400 That's amazing. Congratulations. The tribe is bigger. 1117 00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:52,360 Yep. Somehow I managed to make a baby as soon as I got out, so... 1118 00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,840 (LAUGHTER) 1119 00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,000 Well, congratulations again, Shay, for being the last one standing 1120 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,000 in this incredible group of competitors. 1121 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:01,760 I'm going to miss you all very much. 1122 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,720 Thanks so much for being part of my company over the last 12 or so weeks. 1123 00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:08,360 You had an incredible 76 days on the land. 1124 00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,480 A huge congratulations to every single one of you, 1125 00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,440 and thank you so much for putting it all on the line for us. 1126 00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,080 And a big thanks to Australia 1127 00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,440 and the wonderful global community of fans 1128 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,960 for being with us on this wild ride, 1129 00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,360 from day one to this very moment. 1130 00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:27,000 I'm Kumi Taguchi, and we are officially tapping out. 1131 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:30,160 (APPLAUSE) 1132 00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,240 Captions by Red Bee Media (c) SBS Australia 2025