Survivorman | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Australian Outback | Les Stroud

Well, I have to go upwind, it stinks, I see what it is, it smells so disgusting now, that's life and death in the desert, things just die and rot, that's pretty disgusting, this water is disgusting, this water doesn't It's going to be of no use to me, not if I really want to drink it and experience Australia, it is the only nation that occupies an entire continent, it is the flattest and the second driest place on the planet and, although it has tropical forests, snowy fields and lush ecosystems of gardens, it is also called very little aquatic equipment.

Without camera equipment, the Australian

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has been high on my list as a place of challenge and mystique, and flying my own ultralight is the most exciting way to be in the middle of it all, almost anything can suffice as a runway. Emergency landing when highways are needed. roads, even grass farms or any strip of flat land that appears free of debris, there are a number of out of order strips attached to the parks here, they may be rough, but not so rough that you can't land on them in the first place. place. First I have to tie and secure this thing so that the night wind starts coming.

You can ruin a plane that way if you don't tie it down. You know, it's simple little acts like this that will get you into the most trouble. What I'm doing now is coming here to tie down the plane. The fact is when you get to a hole somewhere there's a brown snake lying there ready to bite you, well the planes are nice and safe now, they actually landed it on an old runway, it's windy and it's cold, ha It's been dropping to two degrees Celsius the other week here, so it can be pretty cold in the desert and at the same time it can get to 45 degrees in the middle of the day.

I have an axe, I know food, very little water, about a day and a half of water, a paper match, and a small pot to boil water. Oh, I have the kangaroos, the wallabies, the emus and the rest of the Aussies. Inside, fortunately, there is still a small piece of jerky in my pocket. There is no better time than the present to go into survival mode. And this good little storm wire here, my short multi-tool, I'm going to stop, I'm sure. I will find it useful, this is how to have a good survival mentality. I try to never miss an opportunity to improve my situation by taking advantage of everything I can get to collect.

I'll just curl up here on the plane and try to get it. sleep a little all night good morning I'm leaving here I have to go somewhere that has more water well it has water period like my times in the Kalahari and the deserts of Arizona it is the dry wind that absorbs my humidity more than any other thing and is associated with surprising temperature fluctuations. Everyone always said how hot it could be in the Australian

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. No one ever mentioned how cold it could be. Here you can reach up to 47 degrees Celsius, which is extremely hot, but you can go lower. until I freeze at night, so I'm going to get off this plane and see if I can find a better place to survive.

I have to be a yoga instructor just to get in and out of these things. I'm going to carry this rope with me because I know I can probably use it out there. The plane should be fine. It is tied on three sides. It does wind and does cold. That means it's a good time to walk this earth because when it changes, it's the same again. the outback we all hear about is extremely hot and dry, there will be no time to travel, there is no water or shade where the plane is now, so my only option is to head for what I hope will be greener pastures in the desert. most corpses don't decompose very quickly, in fact, they last a long time and are almost preserved, a constant reminder that there is little to sustain life out here.

I'll need to find water if I want to make it, finding a lot of bones while Walking mainly kangaroo Nihad yo Mia eh, this is a lot of interior and is probably just a pinhead compared to what actually exists here. It's a big area, a lot of flies here, fortunately, they don't buy when you come from Canada. somewhere else and the flies don't bite. Wow, hey, that's a plus, one of those places that is ultimately quite beautiful at the same time, quite desolate beauty and all nature, that's for sure, no matter how barren it may seem, dying, one thing on all these trunks. and everything down here is the perfect place for King Brown snakes.

The King Brown snake bites you. You have a couple of hours to live. There is a section here with some shade and I think I will stop walking and call this place my base camp. For now I don't know if there is water, if I can dig for water or find water. I have a little bit left in my canteen, so let's see what I can do here. The Eagle's Nest is at the top of one of these trees and that is a good sign. I think it's a good sign for me anyway. Australia is home to the densest population of poisonous creatures on the entire planet, but don't let that scare you because they are actually spread across a very large continent.

On the other hand, you can sometimes find a surprising number of poisonous spiders and snakes, all grouped in a small territory. These flies won't be a pain, they don't bite, but they love to get into the corner of your eye. Here you can Look, that sticks your nose in your ears, well these guys are annoying, three is a very thorny Victoria acacia tree, a little find here is fantastic, we CH traditional cultures would break these branches and return such maybe even a year later and this goop of acacia SAP It would be there from the break, it would leave me scars and it is pure sugar, maybe not pure sugar, but it has a lot of sugar, there are no flies, hmm, so it will stick to my teeth , but this is a nice little relief from my sugar spike, courtesy. the acacia tree mmm-hmm I stay ball for a while it's a good way to make someone shut up too because when you chew it it moves your jaw and teeth up and opens a gum that's all I'm going to stop talking for a while while hmm, it's a very small fee, but oh yes, this is lemongrass, it's not much, but there are small groups around here mmm, really nice flavor and it helps me keep giving back energy, but the sun and the wind are pulling.

From the very dry and desolate place, looking back, there seems to be a series of surprises that can nourish the body. This is called Tarr Vine, good salad, edible green roots and all this is a lucky star. Many of the ticks around here can. make a human quite sick, so I'll stay on the floor here longer. It is very unlikely that there will be chicks here. This won't be a very comfortable night for me. I see it coming, but I do what I can. because you have to sleep you can't sleep I'm starting to get a little psychotic no one really wants to have a psychotic

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here now every move I make here to improve my situation and prepare to survive has to be well thought out, calculated and methodical, risk injury due to foolish and frantic movements is a big mistake that in some cases can have fatal consequences.

Wow, it's time to shoot and I only have a paper match, yeah, yeah, if I'm really careful, they can do it. split it down the center, make it two matches, take it all the way, here's a tricky part at the end because you want the head of the match to separate, okay, here we go, why not? Now it's become: yeah, actually, maybe it worked. that and that's all it took, I simply split a match in two and instead of keeping one match to survive, I have two and I have fire. Much of this is cattle and sheep manure made from goat manure and it can all go on. fire will eventually help get rid of these flies just as it does all over the world dried cattle dung works very well to get rid of flies and I have no idea why Aboriginal people at least some of them actually believe that if they put a rope around the place where they are going to sleep at night, the snakes won't go over the rope, you know, they ask for sticks, they go over stones, so I don't know and I have no idea whether or not, It's actually true but the reality is I'll take any help I can get except the foam pillow from the plane I brought with me, we have some padding otherwise I'm just lying on the ground here The sun is out .

I got a little cold but as long as I kept the fire going I was fine through the night so I'll get moving now before that sun and heat starts to kick in and see if I can. finding a place with water because that's what's important now that there are so many variables that will influence the decision to stay or go. There is certainly no water available to make the decision easier for me this time, but sometimes trying to figure out whether I should move forward or not, it can be disconcerting to the point of causing great frustration and it is heartbreaking to make the effort to move only to find myself in a even worse place, almost empty, in my case I always have the added challenge of filming my trips while walking alone, well, we will reach another stream bed, with a little luck, this one will not be as dry as the last one. nothing dry, dry, dry.

I heard you, let's try to dry, dry here, you can only see a faint sheen of water there, so this creek bed is dry as a bone, but eventually you go downhill and you come to some water, yeah, if it's drinkable or not, that's another story, although the water here seems clean, I will boil it first and then leave it. fresh, so the less I can feel safe drinking water without live pathogens. I think I even see something down there that I can eat. Look at it down there. Remember that the entire rope is actually a bunch of intertwined fibers.

Separate them. Go for a slightly small fiber. some beef sausage, beef jerky, it's just that they're so hungry most of the time that they hold on to the food and you can literally pull them out of the water and they won't let go, he knows it's meat, he's got nine dead, okay, yeah, I don't know if I can do this, I have to try to gently pick it up, turn it over, okay, grab the meat, come on, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it. him, yeah, that's amazing, I'm beautiful, I can't wait to eat this guy, friend, nickname, and your dinner, it's pretty amazing how even the smallest meal made for an empty stomach can lift the spirit when you're trying to survive a match. two fires and that's the end of my matches but I've got a good fire going now so that's the important thing this patch of green here is called watercress find there's a snake so that's what makes it spicy mmm oh but better , but really good for me and a fantastic find here in the creek, okay buddy, these are your last moments of life, but I'm going to enjoy the energy that you're going to transfer to me, there you go, it's going to be a little and sweet freshwater lobster. take off the legs, take off the tail, that's fantastic, well in Canada they call them crabs, dad buys them in the US and here they call them yah, the bees do the same thing tonight calling it dinner hmm oh my god that's good oh oh yeah, I'm catching more Those guys, you can count on it, there are plenty of signs of wild sheep, that's the death of the old sheep.

No wonder you find penis corpses here and there, oh no Stan, and those look like a mask. I should be fine here, I'm very green underneath. very live tree there are a couple of dead trees further up but with a little luck I'll be fine, a little risky but I don't feel like being in the sun so I cleared an area here but this time I'm going to do something a little different. I'm going to heat this floor so that when I sleep on it it will be nice and warm. do it in the other place.

Trying to put all combustible things in my bed. It may not seem that way. It's necessary in the desert, but the nights can be much cooler than you expect and this method will keep the cold out of my bones. Those guys would look good roasted on the fire spider: don't eat, move there. I will go up there, but not much. opportunity to get close to them, that's how it is with big game like an emu. It would be wonderful to capture one of those, of course, if I had a high-powered rifle it would be easy, but on foot it is impossible. a human to run over an emu, it would be best for me to hope to find an emu nest and even then they are guarded by the males, now their front claws can give you a nasty cut, they can, they can kill people.

If you are taken to the right place then you need to be very careful with yourself, the key to catching big game usually lies in having some serious hunting weapons, a rifle or at least a good bow and arrow combination, catching big game by hand or even trapping is a pipe dream at best and that can be really disappointing if your expectations for a successful hunt are too high. Okay, the last thing I have to do now is just check and now that the ground has cooled down, I'll just put the vegetation on top and that little bit of foam that I got off the plane rolls on top and I'll be warm all night.

It works great when you do it right, you just have to do it safely because otherwise you'll burn yourself. and melted the soles of my shoes, the morning sun revealed to me a surprise ofroosting pigeons waiting to become breakfast, as long as my aim is good, I went for a short walk and may have found myself treating her to know. This is the cable I found on the floor the first night. Look, I have it folded there. I know it doesn't look like much, but with any luck it will be a pleasure inside this little hole. you have to move fast because there's a treat in there and you start moving oh yeah this is called a witch larva just a little hmm mmm nice sweet peanut flavor example of well you can find a witch larva in which you can see the swellingthe tree should indicate that there is a witch larva there hoo hoo I see him cutting out the cavity that the larva has created it will not damage the tree at all eventually it will leave a scar and continue to live without problems oh my god oh yes sweet look at the size of that guy, yes , I'm going to cook it for breakfast so it's going to straighten out as it heats up, it's all toasty for me, this is going to be nice and sizzling, I think that's all it needs so it's actually It's hot so I'm going to cook it The first thing I want to do is remove the head, the same thing that is on the back.

I want to pull the butt because with it comes all the poop and stuff, wait for it. Oh, hmm, oh, this will give me a lot of energy, I think. Whether or not, this is not the kind of creepy crawly that evokes fear of the plate where you have to pop it in your mouth and put it down quickly so you can get the nutrients. It's tasty mmm oh man that's good, well I would definitely try to find it. more jam areas downriver and see if I can get more of those witch larvae. If I could eat three or four five of those a day, I'd actually be surviving pretty well, full of nutrients, that was good, yeah, that's better than eating raw. sweet, oh yes, the witch larva, which are the larvae of the ghost moth, which is used to attract hordes of Aboriginal people from all different tribes to come and dine on them as a delicacy.

This is new. I'm cooking witch larvae on cow dung, they can take up to two years to grow inside the tree, that's good as long as my luck is with me. Guess I should go get some more Gattis to see you, big fella, yeah, you see that piece of meat, come on, fella, he's all yours. Would you see jerky? well he's a little guy but I'll take it if he shows up ooh two of them fight over it yeah I got it it's just one it's not scorpions this time yeah I need how to do it ex this is what it's all about. to enjoy, oh man, it's so good, so this is a good feast.

I have eaten witches' food and I can still find more. I hope to go further down to find a wetter area so I can actually carry a whole mass of witch larvae, if possible, because they will keep me going for a long time. Yah bees are fantastic so tonight I have a nice bee feast and what I might do is build a trap and see if I can get some. More caught yabbies that I can take with me tomorrow is my shirt tie from one end here some of that wire I found okay, here we go and my bait will be the remains of the abbeys with the trap left in the water, I can let it work for me and hopefully it will be productive enough to get me a meal that was a feast, let me tell you, Dave, full of grubs, witch grubs and yabbies, it feels good, I sacrificed my entire sleeve of my shirt, flytraps and I have nothing, nothing It is safe.

I'm going to travel today. I don't have any more matches so I'll have to light a fire somehow on the other end and I know how I can do this now instead of doing some sort of traditional thing. fire pack You could also use the can of cow manure, essentially any manure that comes from animals that eat grass, ungulates, hoofed animals, essentially you just bale up grass and then let it dry and harden and you have the perfect fire pack. So I'm going to look at this big blurry paddy field and then I can take it with me to my next location.

Now the problem is that at the moment it is very windy and that can cause sparks and things to fly, you can start a brush. fire that way so I have to be very careful here we go that's all I need for this cow to finish smoking like that and I've put a modern twist on a fire pack smoking well surprisingly I've only found four larvae in In an area a few hundred meters long there are many yabbies here, but I imagine they will be in all the streams in the area, so I have decided to move to a better place to hunt for food, this time my decision to move may not be useful to me. at all the wind blows very hard now the pots still smoke well, although that's good.

I have walked many miles now, too far to return. I'll have to survive on whatever I find here. This is a dry place where I can't walk. further away it's like I saw some water down there, it really looks like it's flowing as much as the last place, but that's water, yeah, I go back to this chamber, this area looks like it could be a great area for a lot of King. brown snakes to live so I want to get up and get out of their way and I think on these rocks up here with this nice little sleeping platform is perfect.

I can have a fire here, the heat reflecting off the rocks, and hopefully be free and clear. Of the snakes, of course, there are skeletons up here, so things have died here, that's for sure, smoking cow dung has worked wonders to bring my fire to this new location. There are a couple of hours of daylight left to see what happens tomorrow, oh that was quick. In many places on the planet the aborigines have told their survival stories by painting on the rock on day five when the flies get tired the heat will come to you the sand will come to you and the earth will come to you, so anything you can do to keep your mind Busy is really important even if it means drawing pictures on a rock and the Outback has many moods, many colors, many different scenes, all of them worth seeing, you just don't want to have to survive here, that's all. bring water, it's good water, I brought it from another place, the water here is terrible, it looks like just a cesspool.

I'm going to have to dig for water for sure, and I'm going to have to try to find some food. There's a lot of it. In fact, it's hot. in this valley, which surprises me. I would have thought it would be higher up, but I think the heat of the day comes from the rocks and keeps it warm down here. I don't even need a jacket at the moment, so I'll curl up by the fire here and tomorrow see what I can do to find some food, but especially to find good, clean water. I'm going to have to dig to find it.

I'm sure my boards are making noise tonight. I hope there are snakes tonight, that's for sure. The suns are rising early, which means it will be warm soon, so I'll get going now and spend a couple of hours this morning seeing what I can find. I'll worry about digging for water. a little later, but I'm going to go up and down the valley here, see if I can find something I can eat, take a look around, see what I have to work with, it wasn't that bad last night, it was actually a long time ago heat.

All night the good news is that it was very windy, hopefully it stays that way which helped keep the flies down and kept it from being scorching hot, but if it dies it will be a hot day so I'd better get moving now. I smell something unpleasant, although the first bird's eye view of Vitaliy let me see what it is, it smells so unpleasant now, that's life and death in the desert sheep around here, some are ranch raised and some are just wild, which The same thing happens with goats and their corpses are skeletons. along with kangaroo skeletons ending up everywhere, things just die and rot and foxes move around in that smell, that's pretty disgusting, dead animals in the water, animal feces and no doubt tons of animal urine a around and within, so these waters will do me no good.

Not at all, if I really want to drink it and live, this would be one of those times where I would look at the water and say, you know, I'm often dehydrated right now because I don't want to drink it. from here nasty and twisted well, I still have another day here. I have to find some better water because I'm pretty parched at the moment with so much water around and I can see that there are underground springs feeding. So there is no reason not to dig for water. The reality is that if I drink this water I could get terribly sick.

I'm going to dig. Hey, I'm sinking in the gravel. How much better? That is the only method I can follow. If I am in a situation like this where there is a lot of water around but it is skunky, it is dirty, there is a lot of animal feces and urine everywhere, of course, away from the top, dig a hole in the water that leaks, leaves let it settle and clear up and at least it's the best water I can get in this area and then I take it and boil it, that should be fine, you know what people don't know about things like Cryptosporidium or Giardia, other pathogens and diseases that can be contracted from contaminated water. is that you don't have to drink it to get it, you can just splash it in your eyes, get some on your lips or in your ears when washing and you can get infected, so you have to be very careful.

The whole location here, this is a good find, there is a lot of water around it, it is a terrible place as far as King Brown snakes are concerned because there are a lot of hiding places for them with all that wash you can see - how high is it the flash? Floods are coming, there's some in some places, they're 10 feet above my head here, but with all the water and all these fresh young gum trees there, it's a good place to go hunting for witch food. I had another dead animal that looks like a little one, I guess it's hard to tell you K, but I think it's a baby kangaroo, there's another one, oh my gosh, there must have been a pretty massive flood that caught them all on guard like that, yeah , I'm going to leave the big camera here and head to work around those trees, see if I can find some larvae.

No, this is such an active area with so much wildlife here. I'd be surprised if there weren't some King Brown snakes around. The other problem is that we are in October and it is October. when they come out of hibernation and are more aggressive, so be careful, but I need some food, that's what I wanted to do when I grew up. I'm not sure my response would have been oh, I don't know, it's drama. I'll show you a note to see if I can find larvae inside the trees that I can eat percent again, which maybe that's exactly what I would have said, oh boy, this place when it heals, a lot of larvae CNN, here's a clear example of your problem. that's gone and gone easily, see the sawdust, look up, here's the hole, it's gone and there's probably a redback spider in that hole, well that's really disappointing, I mean, no food today, well, since I haven't had any luck finding larvae. that patch of gum trees and I really thought I'd find a bunch of them because they're all young trees and that's where they like to be.

There's something up here that will help a little anyway. This is actually the only name I know from its nickname, which is vicks tree vapor rub, it's not very romantic but it is a very nice and healthy tea that will help me have some energy on this day when I started trying to get many larvae. I have made a classic. mistake I thought the grass would be greener on the other side and now I am in a place that stinks like death the grub hunting is terrible the water is bad there is no shade the flies are worse and there is no yabbie here to eat all the instructions should have told me yelled at me to stay still in last place this is a common problem for lost victims getting anxious and moving on when staying still would have been a better plan, well at least I'm having some heat tea tonight that's a plus mainly today , although I just spent it walking up and down this valley trying to avoid the sun looking for more wild edibles oh my goodness you even see it, there's a sheep sleeping right in front of me.

I'm not kidding. I'm up here, I'm making noise and I didn't even know he was there. We'll talk about your groceries now. If I had a bow and arrow, a spear or a gun, he would be mine, but I bet you he could walk. up to him in the Club they, but I'm not going to do that now, am I bad? Okay, I'd almost guarantee that cheap guy is probably the guy with the dead one I found there, I probably could have sneaked up behind him and hit them. Better to let it go would have been a good meal, although the lamb chops, the wild sheep and goats that run wild around here would be excellent food for survival, it would also be much easier to catch than the kangaroos and the immunes, but either way Anyway what it takes is a good rifle to make even trying to hunt them worth it.

The sun is barely peeking over the horizon and in fact it was quite cold last night. He kept the fire going, but it was definitely cold and I was huddled around him for most of the time. Well, with some good luck and good technology, I hope my security team will be here soon with the sun in their eyes to pick me up,All you have to do is check the GPS coordinates to land you here and I can go home at seven. days in the Australian outback, I have used an emergency GPS satellite device to link my location via a tracking signal every 10 minutes to a web-based mapping system that my rescue team can log into civilization .

It's resourceful and allows my rescue team. to determine my location with great precision and come find me, they will check my position online and be able to find me wherever I am.