Life in Paradise - if It Wasn’t for These Two We Would've Gone Hungry!

We have had in a long bloody time, supposed to be blowing six knots today and I reckon it was easily blowing over ten. Anyway we just opened the gunnel of the ski, found out one GoPro broken, fuel has leaked all in the bottom there and our towel has soaked all that fuel up. Great start to the day. Great start to the day, but it looks pretty damn clean in here. The water looks blue. It's still windy, but we're still going to make the rest of this day, guys. So our goal today is to catch some fresh seafood. We're going to go for a dive, have a look around, see if we can find some trout, some jacks. Some Tuskies, anything delicious because I have an epic cook-up planned this afternoon. But we need to catch ourselves some dinner first. We will see you in the drink and fingers crossed for us guys. We need to catch some dinner. Righto, here we go. It's just like a whole, I don't know if the camera will pick it up, but it's pretty much this whole kind of big, isolated, kind of mini reef, I guess. It's got heaps of little bommies all through this kind of shallowy area, and it comes up from, I'm sitting in 10 meters now, and it comes right up to nearly the surface. So, Lach's diving around there to see what he can find, and fingers crossed there's something there. So, after we dropped Lachy and Connor into that spot before, He's got some bad news for you. So I had a little drama. You can see there those two little blue strings on the rubbers there, they actually feed back up through the rollers there and connect back on your shaft and create the tension and set fine once you pull the trigger. But as I went and pulled the trigger before on those trout, or that trout, they snapped. So and they actually by the looks of it go down inside the rubber so I don't know how to do that. That'll be an at-home job I think. So I'm going to put this one away. Connor's actually shot a few fish already. Lucky enough we're with these guys. He's going to let me borrow his gun just so I can shoot a fish. So we can have some lunch. Even though we've definitely got lunch with their fish, but I'd like to shoot one for me. And then we've got the rod here with us too, so we might go look for some bait and see what happens there. But luckily we've got Connor and Kayla, and they're going to come to the rescue. They're going to use his gun. Let's see how we go. Alright, we're at the next spot now. And my speargun's just arrived. Speargun's arrived by now. So we're going to jump in on this spot. Hopefully there's like a few good tuskies or trout on this. We found this really big isolated bommie. There's actually really nothing around it. We're in 12 metres. Metres of water comes up to about three. So I think this might be a good rock. So unfortunately, no luck on the diving front. We have a few things to fix now with Lachie's spear gun and that when we get home, but instead we've got the rod here. So we're gonna have a bit of a flick around see what we can find on the flats. And then hopefully we might be able to pick up something on the troll later on because we still need to catch lunch. It's not even lunchtime yet. So we've got plenty of time. And it has absolutely gone. Look at the wind, the wind's dropped out completely. So good. So nice. Go that way. Do it. Oh. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Are you ******* kidding me? Sorry. I didn't mean it. Watch the rod. Just cut the dole. ****. Holy. Sorry, babe. Oh, what is that? I don't know. GT. It's a little trail. Oh, banger. That was absolute ----. Sorry. We're going to have to beep out some of that, but anywho, we got there in the end. Little GT. It's so good. First cast into that current, hey? Yep, we'll get those hooks out of you. We might do another run, but sick. I don't know if I'm gonna be in the good books for a while. Could you imagine if I did that to you? It would be the end of the world. I didn't mean it. I just didn't think either. Little banger. See you later, little bud. Biggles. Oh, he's frozen. There you go. Oh, what an ordeal that was, eh? Nice, babe, well done. You know how they say sometimes that the skipper catches the fish? In this type of situation, the skipper most definitely did not catch the fish. Just go that way. I don't know how we still caught that, but we did. All right, let's go again. All right, so nothing on the flats apart from that banger that I am still very surprised that we actually got. I can't believe that. I really thought he hated me for a second there. And you know when you're awkward and you can't stop laughing? Anyway, we got that and then a few long tom hits, but we don't want those. So I pulled out the trolling lure, the old... Faithful. So we're going to whack that on the rod and then we'll go for a look out here on our way to the sand cay and fingers crossed we can catch some lunch before we get to the sand cay because the sand cay is where we're doing the cook up so kind of need to. Alright the trolling rod is out, got that at the front of the ski there so hopefully that thing goes and dinner is on the end of it. All right, so no luck on the troll. We just wound that rod in. We're gonna send it to the sand cay now because thank goodness we brought Connor and Kayla with us because if we didn't, we'd be going hungry for lunch. Connor got those two beautiful trout, so we're gonna use one of those fillets and cook up something pretty bloody exciting. But it just goes to show that it doesn't always go to plan out here. We don't always catch fish. It's... We always catch fish and have fun. We just sometimes don't get the eater. That's it. And with broken spear guns and... Broken spear guns and I had a trout pull out of the spear gun. Yeah. Just wasn't my day today. And also getting tipped off the ski. It's one of those days. I was waiting for it. But nah, it's bloody beautiful. We're about to head to a secluded little sand island on the middle of the Great Barrier Reef. It doesn't get much better. Let's send it. That's the way to live. I pulled up to the sand cave and this is a different sand cay to the one we went in a few episodes back, but just as bloody beautiful. We're going to get the drone up. We're going to go for a walk around, see what we can find on the cave and put the skiff board in later, go for a skiff, cook some lunch. We're just gonna... Enjoy the rest of the day. It's gonna be pretty cruisy. Taylor and Connor are just over here. They're gonna meet us over here soon. So, yeah, really doesn't get much better. And you get down. Maybe the last time you do that, you'll be like . Oh, what? That's all you're gonna do? Actually, it would be over my head. All right, so we've set up some gear on the sand cay. Connor's got his fish here. Couple good ones, too. Ooh, yeah, couple nice trouties. So good. We literally only need probably half a fillet of that. Really? Yeah. Have you told them what we're doing? No. Better. So, I don't really know what these guys are called, but Haz Foz made them and they looked bloody delicious. But he made them on the back of a ski. We are not coordinated enough to do that, so we're going to make them on the sand cave. But they're pretty much like a rice paper roll, spring roll style. So we're going to mince the fish, chuck a heap of condiments in there, and mix it all together and wrap it up, and it's going to be pretty bloody delicious, I reckon. So let's get started. Alright, so to start these spring rolls, we've got some lemon rind in here. I think the real recipe is a little bit more technical than this, but this was just a Thai style blended, I don't know, paste of like coriander, well, chili, lemongrass and whatnot. So I think the best way to do it is to do fresh lemongrass and fresh chili and fresh Fresh coriander, but we're just running with this because Not really close to anywhere, civilization right now. So we're going to whack some of this in, some sesame seeds, some sesame oil, and then we're going to mince up that fish really, really fine, literally like a mince, mix it all together so that it forms like a nice thick consistency, and then we're going to get some oil on the pan and get those rice paper rolls rolled up, and then we'll fry them up. Lach's going to mince up. After he gets the skin off that troutie. All right, so I mixed up this little paste. Lach's getting that fish minced up and we're just gonna mix that all together and then we'll get these rice papers ready. Okay, so the rice paper roll part, we're gonna dip this in the ocean and then I'm gonna get the nori sushi sheets and then we're just gonna add all of our stuff into it. I was trying to get it out of the way of the sun. Oh. Oh you're hurrying me up. Okay so I've got the nori here and then I'm just going to put like a little bit of coral trout, sesame seed, lemon, coriander, chili mix in there and I guess I guess we just roll it kind of like a burrito maybe? You reckon? What do you reckon? Sweet. So we're going to make a few of these, and then once these are all put together, then we'll get our vegetable warming up on the stove, and we'll just shallow fry those, and they'll literally be little coral trout spring rolls. Yum. Okay, we've got our spring rolls. Hopefully, they turn out okay. So the real recipe, go and check out Haz Hoz on Instagram. I'm I'm sure I've skipped a few steps here, but Haz is an unbelievable chef, so you'll get some really good pointers from him. But this is how they look. We're gonna get them straight in the hot oil and fry them up. Hopefully, they'll turn nice and crispy. And then I've got some Kewpie mayo and some sweet chili sauce to put as a dipping sauce. So I'm excited for these. I just jumped in the water and it's so bloody hot but we're gonna whack these straight on the hot plate and hopefully we get a little sizzle sizzle. Look at this. Oh yeah, look at that some some. Oh they're so sticky. They're all stuck together. Oh yeah. Shit! They're bumbling. I'm gonna use my fingers. Oh! Wholly! Ha ha ha! She's sizzling. Oh they broke! Okay! Now I guess I don't really know how long these cook for but I'm just going to turn them over in a couple minutes and see how they turn out I guess. Oh my god they look so good. Yum. Alright flipping them over. I think it's a good order on this side. It's popping. All right give it a few more minutes again. All right I think these are ready we've given them probably about 10 minutes in the oil. They're going to be really really hot still so we're just going to put them aside on a plate for now but they look so good. I'm so excited to try these. Alright guys, taste test time. I'm going for Connor today, shooting the fish, because otherwise we'll be going for Connor. How good is this, Laura? Yum. Thank you. So good. Bit of dippy dip? Yeah, bit of dippy dip. What have you got in the dip? What is it? Uh, sweet chilli sauce and Kewpie mayo. Cheers. Yum. Cheers. That's unreal, eh? Okay. That's yum, eh? That is unreal. Thank you. I must admit. And thanks, Haz, for the recipe. Yeah. We'll be doing that again. We sure will be. No. All right, guys. We'll see you on the very next episode. Thanks, Connor, for the spear gun and the fish, because without Connor, this wouldn't be happening. And you know what? Just because we didn't spear, it doesn't mean we couldn't have a good day. It's bloody living. Bloody oath. See you in the next episode. See you, love you, bye. I love you, bye.