SURVIVAL CHALLENGE: 3 Days Escaping Volcano Island

The next three days I am stranded here for the ultimate survival challenge. Probably not the best approach. All right time to go test the spear out. So just go to neutral for a sec. All right I'm going. Holy moly. G'day and welcome back to what is quickly becoming a very real survival no freaking way. There's not meant to be crocodiles out here. Man we've come this far to try and get away from the buggers but there is no mistaking this. This, holy shit, this is definitely a crocodile that's been up on this beach here. I've just been dropped offshore and swam in. I was concerned about the tiger sharks that are here feeding on the turtles this time of the year but honestly I thought I was well and truly safe from crocodiles. Holy moly. Now I'll tell you a little bit more about what the hell I'm doing here in just a moment but I just want to try and get some eyes on this croc. Something on the beach here really stinks. It hit me straight in the face as I came in. I figured it must have been a dead turtle that's tried to come up and lay but let's go see if we can track it down. It might actually have something to do with this crocodile. It has this little crocodile den here. This is this crocodile slides up here. He must just be sitting up here. It's almost like there's a little fresh water drain that would run after a bit of rain. Those crocs can smell fresh water from miles away and that must be what's brought him here. I guess that's kind of useful in a survival situation. He can lead you to to fresh drinking water. I must have actually spooked him off that bank as I was swimming in. Oh yeah. All the pieces of the puzzle are sort of coming together. This definitely would have been a fresh water drinking source from the islanders here years and years ago that would have used these baler shells. This is what they use to carry water and drink water as well as all these big giant clams. Yeah look at this. I reckon if they dug this out during the wet season this would be a little fresh water creek here. So the reason for today's episode there is this epic epic bay over the other side which I've had a little bit of a glimpse at before but I didn't get to spend enough time there so I really wanted to get dropped and spend a couple of days there for a survival challenge but it's too rough over that side. There is a wave breaking straight over the entrance so I figured I'd get dropped here and try and scurry over to get in to that bay but now I've been dropped here I'm not actually sure if this is going to be possible at all. My ride friend isn't coming back for a couple of days so we may as well get on with it guys but I just hope I haven't put myself in a bit of a tricky situation here. I didn't realize how tall the vegetation was but I'm gonna have to try and go up and over and back down. Let's get to it see how we go. Now one of the hardest things about these type of challenges is filming it and sharing it with you all. I've got this bag with drone camera gear and stuff in it was sinking me on the way in. It's gonna go on my back and we're gonna try and get out of this place. Let's do it. It's all a bit too steep here to get up. No chance of getting up here. All right so we've got no food, no water, no shelter for a couple of days. This is planning to simulate a shipwreck survival challenge. I didn't want to be here but I guess if you are to shipwreck you don't get to choose where you're wrecked but that might be our best bet. Oh spiky bushes as well. The only vines to hang on to have got spikes. All right the bush bashing has now turned into vertical rock climbing which is hard with a backpack on your back. The view's getting better. Wow what a view. Long way to go. I've got to get on the other side of that big guy. Gives me a pretty good vantage point to see if i can spot that crocodile. There is a decent sized shark right there right on the surface there but the danger of the crocodile is they're just so well hidden. He'd be here somewhere though he'd be just in this bay. Look at that cave there. This volcanic rock's all really crumbly. It's almost like the same as like pumice stone you find on the beach. Just breaks under your hand some of the stuff. Now I'm stuck. Oh wow look at this grand big cave. I don't know whether straight up there's the best bet or around the outside but there looks like a massive cave in there. Might try skirt the outside here. Hang on to something. Wow look at this spot. Holy moly what an incredible spot. I'm definitely not the first person up here because these clamshells they don't fly up here themselves. I wonder when the last time someone was up here though. I think the islanders that would have lived here this is a pretty good lookout spot for them. Uh-oh might have got myself into somewhere that's harder to get out of. Bloody hell. All right let's keep going. Made a real crossroads here. I don't know whether to keep skirting around the outside but it all gets very steep and overhanging there. I'm going to try and try go through here first. Oh far out. I feel like these vines are just entrapping me. Maybe keep going through there. I don't know. These are the sharp ones. Oh maybe through there. I'll follow you in. Oh I've got to go in now. The drone's in there. I've got me caught. Oh I don't know this is a good or bad idea. There might be some light at the end of the tunnel there. After feeling like I've been getting eaten alive by these blants. There's a hole in the wall there. That might be my passage through. That's dangerous. Don't fall on the spiky vines. Can I get through there? Maybe. Just maybe. Follow this tree up. Hang on tree. You got the both of us now mate. Oh far out. I'm so close. So close but seems to be the hardest bit. That bit's loose. Look it's about to fall off. I could go tarzan and hope these vines hold. Rock climb up maybe. Let's try get a feel. Come on vines do your best. Oh hang on. Hang on. Hang on. I'm caught. Holy and this could be my passageway through. Just a quick disclaimer guys. I'm not an expert at this and by no means do I recommend this be your approach if you get shipwrecked. But in this circumstance I just need to get to the other side. This little portal seemed like my best bet. Fingers crossed for a safe path down. Holy moly. Look at that view man. Wow. Bloody hell. That takes your breath away. It's one of the most spectacular views I've ever ever seen. Get a load at this place. The good news is that's the beach we wanted to get to. The bad news is I got no idea how we're going to get there. Seemed to be a whole lot higher than I wanted to be on the edge of a cliff. But these waves breaking all across the front that's what prevented us from getting in the boat this morning to drop me off. Far out. Holy I went quite because I was I was really really nervous there. There's no obvious way down on that that section. I was hoping from right up the top here we might be able to kind of hop on the peaks all the way across. But I don't know. I'm gonna have to get the drone up in the air and see if I can spot a way down. Look at that. One of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It looks incredible down there from the drone. Now that bay is my only chance of hydration. Hopefully in coconuts and hopefully food because there is so much life down there at the moment. There's a big school of bait fish just offshore and there's sharks just cruising the perimeter of the beach back and forth back and forth. There's turtles, there's birds. What a beautiful spot. But I've got to be super careful getting down. I was flying the drone and did a jump from rock to rock to try and get a cool shot and just slipped over. So like just a bit of a wake-up call. The rocks are slippery and my feet are slippery and I really don't want to come unstuck here. The good news is the bay is beautiful. The bad news is there was no clear way to get down, unfortunately. That's as far as I'm getting this way. There's no way down here. I think I'm just gonna have to jump. I think I'm just gonna have to jump. Alright, by process of elimination I cannot go that way. I'm just gonna have to go this way or I can try and get down and then around. Sometimes going down is harder than going up. Alright, don't stop this one up. A cave. It's crazy to think you're standing on the edge there and you don't realize it's just all hollow underneath. Alright, I'm trying to go down now. Sort of down this crack. I'm not sure the best way to approach this. Try the old splits option. Probably not the best approach. Alright, we might be getting somewhere now. I can't get down there. What a tease though. I can see it. It's just dead end everywhere I go here. My optimism is starting to fade now. I'm not sure if it's possible to get down from here. I'm just going to keep persisting for a bit longer. Otherwise we might have to change plans. Now, I wonder how long this has been here for. But that is a good sign that, I mean, maybe some ancient people but the islanders back in the day would have come up here and eaten this spider conch. Yeah, back when the islanders would have been walking around here, I dare say they would have been doing burn off. So all this vegetation you'd actually be able to walk but now it's just covered in vines and very hard to get through. To put it quite simply, if I fall there I'd die. So I don't want to do that one. I just hope every decision I make opens up another doorway rather than closing a way out. This could be a bit of a risky one. Oh, you know what? I might just be able to do this. I like the look of that big tree. Can I get out when I'm down there though? That's going to be the next question. Come on, come on tree. Need you to hold me mate. Oh, I'm coming. So far so good. Where's the next tree? There's another one here. Oh, tangled. Let me go, let me go. Sorry to you viewers that we're here to watch an actual survival challenge rather than rock climbing and falling but so was I. This is the beauty of completely raw, unscripted YouTube. I mean anything could happen here. Hopefully we can get her in. Look at this bloody beach though. I can feel my legs fatiguing. Let's keep going. Man, I'm agonizingly close but that looks just vertical. I could jump if I had deep water but I just can't quite get to a safe spot down. So close but so far. Maybe, maybe, just maybe we can sort of abseil down here. These are the walls I'm having trouble with. I'm kind of getting to like a point like that and then I can't do that. Oh, I need something to grab onto here. All right, I'm doing it now. The bag's gone. All right, some kind of a monument or something down there. We're getting closer. What is what is this? Yeah, I'm really not sure what this is. I don't know whether this is a signal that the islanders would have used to be like, yep, you can cut through. That's the path over the other side or whether this is like a burial type monument. Either way, I'm going to pay all the respects in the world here and leave this place as it is. Looking from this angle, maybe, just maybe, this might be freshwater drinking water which would explain all the little clams there which would just be a perfect cut. Let's try our luck. Now, it's a bit muddy here. I'm just gonna false alarm. That's salt water. Don't drink that. I'm gonna put this back exactly how it was. All right, let's take the coastal route from here. Those rocks look slippery. I might be better just jumping in. Oh yeah, that's like ice skating on them. I can't do that. I'm a bit concerned by all the sharks that have just been swimming along but I think I've just got to commit to it and jump in here. Too slippery. All right, try not to look like a tired turtle. We're doing it. I'm gonna get out of here. Just keeping an eye out for any sharks or croc. I think I'm gonna have to take the ocean again for this part. Until I get around the corner there. Oh, with this wave. Let's do it. Keen to get out of this water. Oh, slippery. There's no good way to go about this. It's the slippery rocks but in the water there's the risk of the crocodiles, the sharks, stingrays, the jellyfish. I'm feeling every bit like a real life shipwreck castaway at the moment but we're almost there. Come on. Come on. Oh yes. I think I'm gonna make it. I'm so close. I'm on the home straight now. You little beauty. What a beautiful place. Oh man, that walk made it all so much more sweet now we're here. But holy, that was a lot harder than I wanted it to be. Not even the most isolated hud to get to. Little bays and nooks and crannies have escaped. Plastics and rubbish, eh? Although for me there could be something useful in this survival challenge here. Any water or hydration. I'll show you what items we've got working with in a minute as well. I wonder how this could come in handy. So for this survival challenge guys, the only thing we've got is a hand line and a couple of hooks. I kind of felt like if the boat was to tip, a hand line floats, it'd be a pretty good chance this would either wash in with you or you'd be able to grab it. The other thing I've got guys is a knife which is pretty always strapped to the side of me anyway. So that's it guys. Let's see if we can gather any hydration, any food, what we can do for a shelter. I'm just stoked to be in this little bay now. Plenty of signs that someone's been to the beach here but thankfully all the footprints I can see so far are a bit friendlier than the other beach. These are all turtles that have come up. Mother turtles just dug their holes here and laid their eggs. Now in a proper, proper survival situation, I'd be digging straight here and getting those eggs but for now I can do without them. And pretty close to a lot of those fresh turtle track. This one looks like a crocodile but it's a goanna. These goannas are after those turtle eggs. They've got a great sense of smell and they can get down to those fresh eggs and they just, they smash them all. Not all of them. I guess that's where turtles tactics come in. They lay about a hundred eggs in hope that even if a goanna gets them or the tide gets them or whatever gets them, there's a chance that a couple will survive. And on this beach here it looks like it's been working for them. They're everywhere. What an absolute privilege to come to such a spot hey. That's where my attention is shifted to. I need hydration and I need it ASAP. All right here's a bit of a trick if you want to climb a really slippery coconut tree. I chop half a palm frond off. Don't worry he won't mind losing half one. Split it in half, tie it in a knot. You've got a circle there now. Twist this, twist this up and stick your feet in these two circles you've made. Let's see if it works. The idea being the friction between the palm frond helps you hop up the tree. Oh yeah I need all of these. Do the same in reverse. The real obstacle course for this turtle. It's come up, had to dig under this log and then go up and lay up there. Man I needed this. I really needed this. So good. What an absolute gift. One could pretty well survive just off coconuts for a long time but I'd love to catch some protein. So I'm going to go for a bit of a walk. That school of bait fish I spotted from up the top. They had bigger fish and sharks all chasing them. Seems like a pretty obvious spot to start. So let's go for a bit of a walk and see if we can find them. What an epic spot man. I just can't get over it. This place has got an incredible presence about it. What a little beautiful beach. Whoa from an old wooden ship. Wow. Wonder how deep it is. Just go for it hey. Oh shallow. This is where the stingrays hang out though. This is the second bay and this might even be more beautiful. Doesn't look like there was any easy way in. This is where I was trying to come down or I guess an easy way out for that matter. Just saw a little shark come right up in the shallows. A little eating size shark and if he comes too shallow I might be able to grab him by the tail. Oh just too quick. Oh there's some bigger ones. The water is quite murky. Really stirred up but just off this kind of sand layer there's big sharks just cruising up and down up and down. Some of them don't have big teeth to worry about like this tawny nurse but other ones over here this is a lemon shark. They do have pretty serious teeth and they're experts at hunting in this kind of low visibility area. So I need to keep my feet out of this area as best as possible. A couple of big ones here. From up top when I had the bird's eye view it looked like there was a school of bait fish here. That's what I'm looking for. If the sharks are feeding on it good chance the fish are and that's what I'd like to catch. Oh yeah look at them here. Look at them here. There are so many sharks here. Wow a little treasure trove of rubbish here. One man's junk is another man's treasure they reckon but nothing obvious here. Want another bird's eye view to see where these damn fish are. That might be them offshore there. Look at them here. That is a big boy. There's these two really cute little turtles here. I won't be eating them but I thought this shadow here was all bait fish but might just be rocks. Fortunately. Getting pretty desperate now but these snails can make a good bait. I think that's probably going to be my best option for now. All right light him up hey. These turtles think this is a good spot here. Hopefully there's a fish in amongst them but don't worry they won't they won't eat this bait. Oh I'm getting a bite. Feels like a very little bite but it's a bite. Come on come on come on please. He got me straight onto this rock. No. The fish are onto it as soon as it hits the water there they just jump all over it but the hook is probably too big for the type of fish that are there. The bait's so soft it just falls off. You're gonna get one bite but I'll keep persisting for a little bit longer. I just needed to catch something. Too quick and too small. I need to find some better bait. I'll tell you who's had more luck at finding food here than me. The islanders that lived here for thousands of years before I came along. Check this out. This is all hard rock and then fossilized in are these conches which they eat and you can tell they've eaten them because that's where they crack it open to get the meat out and then that's the shell. This is just fossilized in and these ones trochus shells amongst clam shells. They're the three that they obviously loved eating and look at this man. Isn't it crazy how it's just cemented and fossilized in. I wonder how old these are. I wonder if they left any for me. To get those shells you need to go out at low tide but at the moment the tide's too high and it's too rough. There's one little pippi. Getting pretty desperate here. I'm trying a different approach just seeing if there's any pippies here. What's that? Oh yeah there's another one. Two pippies? If I get enough of these this is a meal. It's a trade-off whether I use them as bait or eat them. You know you eat it you get enough of them they're a delicacy at a restaurant. I'm gonna risk it this pippi for bait. Try and get an upgrade. Try and catch a fish. All right if this doesn't work I'm moving on. That's the spot. That's the spot. I'm just gonna let him take it. Oh something's biting. Something's biting. Come on just have a big mouth and swallow it. I think he might have got my bait the little bugger. Just saw what it was a little trigger fish with a tiny mouth but big teeth so they just peel your bait off all the time. Time to move on. What the hell is this thing? Oh yeah like a supermarket here of them. Just spotted a fish down here whose mouth is probably big enough to take this bait and the hook. Got a couple of new baits. I'm gonna try and upgrade them. I really would love a fish. One just spooked out from under here. Oh something's having a good bite at it. That was a really nice bite. Come on, come on, come on. See him? Yep he's having a bite. Yes, yes, yes I've got a fish. Oh I've never been so happy to catch a little fish. Whoo we got a little fish. Let's go again. So I can eat these little shellfish, these little snails and what I was planning on doing is just boiling them up in a bit of coconut juice but I feel like a bit more protein would be beneficial so any fish I catch here is just a very very welcome treat. I'm gonna use these guts as bait to try and catch one more fish. It's a little crab he's been feeding on. This is the guts and gills. Pretty good bait there. It's the best bait we've had all day. Come on, come on, come on. Something's biting. Come on. Oh he's having a good go at it. Yeah he's having a good bite. Yes, yes. A very little cod. Honeycomb cod. You know what, we're not gonna die now. We're gonna survive with this one fish for today so I'm actually gonna let this little guy go. All right time to have something to eat. Oh this looks like a good spot. A beautiful leopard cowrie. I'm gonna have a bit of a fire here. This is below the tide line so we won't be boiling any turtle's eggs while we're at it. There's that cowrie shell. All right time to get a fire going. The flint we're using is wet after being swimming in salt so we need to prepare this as best we can. Oh this wind is just killing it. Why isn't anything working today? Go, go, go, go, go. Come on, come on, come on, come on. I can't get a fire going. I just don't know why. I've never not been able to get a fire going with this flint. I don't know if that bit was wet or salty or too much wind or all of the above and I'm going to come out the back here. Try and get one going out the back here. Maybe this flint is too wet and salty or something. What's going on? This is the material I normally use. The flint I normally use. This should just go up in seconds. No, come on. It's just not catching a light. Come on, there's a bit of smoke there. This should just go up in flames but I don't know what is wrong with it. This is by far the hardest fire attempt I've ever had. This is the last of my flint before I start chopping my fingers off here and it's not looking good. Oh, come on. Man, it's so close but I don't know why it isn't. Oh, you beauty. Persistence has almost paid off here. I've been knocking away at this remains of the flint and it's finally heated up enough. Just three hours later, now we can finally cook our rather underwhelming dinner. Alrighty, I want to get this on there nice and hot and boil those shellfish in right in the middle. Oh, it's hot. This is for dinner. Hippies and snails boiled up, fish straight on the coals. Probably the most underwhelming meal I've had in a long time but with these survival challenges, you just take what you can get. You play with the cards, you dealt some episodes, you've been lucky getting big mud crabs and other things like that. Other episodes, not as easy. Our fish is done and the shellfish isn't too far off. Nice feed on these little fish. Those pippies just open themselves up like that when they're done. Yum, yum. Beautiful, sweet fish meat off these little fish this size. Man, that's really, really good. These pippies are like nature's pistachios, aren't they? Very nice and sweet. Could do with another 50 of these but you get what you're given. No time to make a shelter tonight, guys. Food took priority. I'm so stoked we got this fire going. Just a little bit of food, it's a good morale booster. I'm exhausted. I'll just literally lie here by the fire, have a sleep tonight. We'll work on a shelter tomorrow night, I promise you. This is going to be a two-night survival challenge, guys. We'll see bright and early in the morning for the next day. All right now, I reckon I'm faced with two options here. Option number one is to stay here, collect shellfish and catch fish and just live happily ever after. Or option two, we got to get out of here because if we are looking for a rescue, no one's coming in here. There's a wave breaking over the entire entrance, you can't get in. I guarantee you no one's coming in the way I did. So if we want to get rescued, we need to get ourselves out of here and now is the best time to do it because it's a low tide and I might be able to scurry all the way around the perimeter, around the outside and try and avoid going up and over again. To be honest, I have been dreading that a little bit. It just wasn't safe. But unfortunately, guys, I think we're gonna have to take option two. We got to get out of here if we're any chance of getting rescued. All righty, let's do it, guys. Let's try get out of here. Man, these shoes are so slippery. This is a bit safer at low tide than how we did it coming in. Slippery though. So there's our little monument pile. We've got a decision now to go up past my drone here I left or to go around. While it's low tide, I'm going to go around, guys. Three big, beautiful GTs. I saw one come past. Yeah, yeah. That's what I could see feeding when I had the bird's eye view and I was hoping to catch. We could have nailed one of them with a good spear. We're going in. Just epic, incredible landscapes. Can we get up here? Oh, please don't get a stonefish. Up, down, up, down, up, down. Don't want to get done by oysters. Where are we? So many clams. Oh, wow. I wonder what the significance of this is. There's a lot of clamshells that have been placed there quite deliberately. I'm going to leave that in case it's like a burial type site and I'm going to keep moving on. Wow. Just about to come around the point here. This will probably be the time that I'll know whether I made the right decision or wrong decision. Whether I can keep going around at the edge of the water and it's the right decision or if I've got to swim through that, then it might have been wrong decision. Oh, this little cave. Don't fall, don't fall, don't fall, don't fall. Hey, mate. I see some big moray eels down there. There's probably three of them stacked on top of each other. So far, so good with this approach, but on the high tide, these waves would be smashing up here. I couldn't have done it. Man, there's some crazy caves going up the back there. So this is the bay where it all began. This is the crocodile slide here. There's no fresh tracks up the beach, but something popped its head up, which I'm not sure if it's a turtle or a crocodile, but this is the way we need to keep going anyway. Oh, let's go for it. We've made it. Now this island, I feel, gives us a far better chance of being rescued. So we're going to use this as a bit of a base camp to try and get rescued. We're going to need to set up a shelter. First things first, I'm pretty hungry. So let's get a hold of some food. Turtles like it here as well. There's a whole heap of coconut trees anyway, so as we know, that's a source of hydration and food. Let's see what else we've got here. Oh, yes. These are beach almonds. Oh, I love these guys. These are a really nice nut. And coconuts are plenty. There's Brekkie. So for Brekkie, we're going to have some dried coconut and beach almonds. I think if you're to successfully sort of live off the land, you really need to master the foraging game. Although catching fish and chasing sharks in the shallows can be a lot more fun, it uses a lot of energy. And for example, picking up a rotten coconut is a lot easier. But this one is rotten. You can't eat this one. Holy moly, that is putrid. Try to find one that's not rotten. It's crazy how much that stinks. The reason I wanted to do this shipwreck survival challenge was the remote Torres Straits, where we are, has got a really crazy history with shipwrecks. There was a story in 2004 which captured world news. There was a family in a small boat that was crossing from one island to another island. There was really rough seas and it capsized the boat. Unfortunately, upon capsizing, mother and father passed away, drowned, as well as the youngest baby. But that left three basically teenage kids floating in the middle of the ocean. And what they did was super inspiring. They managed to get washed ashore on basically a rock. And that's where they stayed for six days, surviving from oysters and little bits of rainwater that was pulled in this rock until a passing by vessel, I believe it was their uncle, was able to save them. So a tragic story, but incredible persistence allowed the kids to survive. And there's similar stories to this that are really happening every year up here in the remote Torres Straits, guys. And every time I hear one of these crazy stories of survival, I often wonder how would we go in a situation like that? Like we're exploring some pretty remote areas on this trip, Fran and I, and hopefully fine-tune some skills in case we ever, heaven forbid, need them. Start by opening a coconut. Look at that. That's all the edible stuff inside a coconut. It's awesome when they split like that, hey? This is all on its way to going bad, but still edible at this stage. Next we're going to have some beach almonds. Come on, come on, give me an edible one. Oh, this has gone bad. Oh, I'm not having much luck this morning. Here's the beach almond. Even the beach almonds are going bad. Oh no. There's got to be something here. Thankfully, there's another tree not too far away. And that's what we're looking for. Beautiful little almond. Pretty good size almond, actually. All right, we're going to use this as a base camp. Plenty of coconuts, beach almonds. We'll try our best to catch some protein out the front, but now let's build a shelter. Sorry, I haven't been chatting that much. I've just got this raging headache that just is killing me. So I'll get on with it, build this shelter. Hopefully it all comes together. There is a heap of wind, so I'm hoping to build more of a dome type shelter, almost like an igloo that will hopefully keep the wind and sand blow off me. Let's see how we go. This is why I'm normally an advocate for a super simple shelter. As you can see now, I'm just wasting so much energy, getting damn frustrated. Hopefully it keeps the wind off us. Tying together with that vine. This vine is so nice and strong. All right, she's finally starting to take some type of shape. I think she's ready now for palm fronds to go on the top and cover the entire thing. There's something quite metaphoric about this, I reckon. Like to start with, it was so flimsy and just ready to fall apart. But then the more members you put together, she gets stronger and stronger. I don't know, maybe I've been in the sun too long, but I think that's quite cool. Could put up with, I mean, a fair bit of shaking and a fair bit of wind now. Everything's holding together. I'm just going to take a couple of green leaves from each one, so it doesn't ruin the tree's shade. But these ants are starting to tell me to get off that tree. Anyway, all right, next one. Oh, what a gift. I feel like we need to drink probably 10 of these just to catch up with the bottom areas to stop that wind coming through. All right, how are we looking? Oh, starting to look pretty cozy. By weaving them in and out, they all give each other strength and support each other. If you wanted to make a permanent structure, I'd of course weave these and make them really waterproof, but we're not going to get any rain tonight. It's more just blocking the wind and the sandblasting. Just kind of doing it rough like that does the job. Finishing touches. We've got a bottom sheet, top sheet and a pillow. Nice and cozy. No chance of rain tonight, but this does cut out any sand and also a lot of that wind. It's howling out there, so this is pretty good actually. I burnt more calories than I would have liked doing it, but I'm happy it's done. Getting there. Might not take down any monsters, but it'd definitely be able to get some of those sardines. All right, time to go test the spear out, see if we can catch some dinner. Bit of a vantage point here. Some good rockfalls here. Every chance there'd be some crabs there. They do spook quick, so let's rush them. Oh, that's what I was hoping for, but this guy is dead and he's a bit stinky. Good sign though, there's crabs here. Oh, it's just too rough, scaring any of the fish away. Oh, something spooked in here. Got him. Come back here, mate. Hey, there we go. Got a crab. The spear works. That's a big school of bait fish there. Oh, if they come a bit closer, I'll be able to get them. He's dead and stinky, unfortunately. Oh, check out this cave here. These big crabs, they're just out of reach. It's too slippery. Look at them all here. Oh, that's a big one. Man, they're just out of reach. Bummer. I think that's a big school of bait fish down there. Oh, bugger. I'm actually going to save him for bait tomorrow morning, see if we can catch something with him. Sun's setting. Keep him in here for bait tomorrow morning. I think that's me. Yeah, I'm pretty exhausted tonight. It's been a big day, so I'm just going to get some sleep while the body's telling me I need it. But it's been a bloody awesome day. I need some rest. Pretty nice morning this morning. I did hear what sounded like some turtles coming up to nest last night or some loud noises down the beach. Anyway, let's go for a bit of a morning walk and see if we can catch some breakfast. Crabs are great bait, actually. A bit of a tip, if there's lots of sharks around the shallows, they're less inclined to take a crab than they would, say, like a piece of cut meat. So that's when crabs can be really good bait. Perfect. Got my hook stuck on one of the rocks out there. I'm going to need to go get it. Doing my best not to look like a tired mother turtle, because this is where the tiger sharks roam, waiting for that exact thing. And then that's when they grab their breakfast. But I'm going to need another bait. I think if it ever came to a real survival challenge out here, I think that's just how it would work. Some days you'd get lucky and you'd eat fish. Other days, you'd be happy just to eat your coconut pillow. But the main important thing is, of course, hydration, keeping your morale high, food can come and go, a bit of shelter. Hopefully, I don't find myself in a situation like this for real anytime soon. I can see my rescue vessel coming on the horizon now, guys. That tide is just right for Fran to come on in and save the day. So if you're new here, Fran, my partner, and I are traveling up the East Coast. There's plenty more of these episodes to come. Hope you enjoyed it, guys. This was a challenging one. Rescue is on its way.