Surviving 3 DAYS in the OUTBACK Challenge! (Eating Only What I Catch)
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00:00 (suspenseful music)
00:03 So I've just spent the past 15 hours road tripping
00:08 by myself to a remote pocket of land
00:11 deep in the Australian outback.
00:13 I've left my car, bought three items with me,
00:16 and have just walked a few kilometers into the bush,
00:19 which is where I'm gonna stay for the next 72 hours.
00:22 It's shaping up to be a pretty wild adventure.
00:24 Here's what we got planned.
00:25 So I'm currently in the most dangerous place
00:28 here in Australia, the outback.
00:30 And why I say this is because if there was one place
00:33 that I would hate to get stranded and have to survive,
00:36 it's out here because it's a very tough environment.
00:39 40 degree days out here, not much food, not much water,
00:43 and houses some of the deadliest animals here in Australia.
00:47 Matter of fact, about 12 months ago,
00:51 we found the most venomous snake in the world
00:53 not too far from this location, the inland taipan.
00:56 Hopefully we'll be able to track down another one
00:58 on this trip.
00:59 But for the next three days,
01:00 I've challenged myself to survive out here,
01:03 catch my own food, collect my own water,
01:06 and yeah, live out here
01:07 with some of the deadliest animals on earth.
01:09 Just walking through all these rockiest startments,
01:21 so many animal bones,
01:23 only the tough animals survive out here.
01:25 You kinda hope that they died of natural causes,
01:27 but it also could be things like dingoes,
01:30 which I have had run-ins with wild dogs in the past,
01:33 and it's no fun when you're out by yourself in the bush
01:35 and you have wild dogs trying to attack you.
01:38 That's why we're gonna make the fire
01:39 out the front of our cave tonight
01:41 to hopefully scare off any of those animals.
01:43 But why did I choose this area in the outback
01:46 out of everywhere there is out here
01:48 to survive for the next three days?
01:50 And it's because there's so many different terrains
01:53 within this one little area.
01:55 So where I am right now is the big, rockiest startments,
01:58 which hold a lot of the animals,
02:00 and which is where I'm gonna be camping tonight.
02:02 Down that way, there's a little river.
02:03 It's really dry at the moment,
02:05 but there's still a few billabongs.
02:06 That's where I'm gonna be
02:07 almost constantly collecting water from
02:10 and boiling it up here throughout the day.
02:12 Then if we go over to the other side,
02:14 a few hundred meters over there,
02:15 it turns into red sand desert, big red sand dunes,
02:19 which is where we're gonna go camp one of the nights.
02:21 Then the last part that I'm really excited about
02:24 is the area that these inland taipans live in.
02:27 And it's the big grass fields,
02:28 which I think are just over that way.
02:30 I haven't actually gone around there yet.
02:32 There's a bunch of cracks in the floor,
02:33 and these inland taipans live underground,
02:36 feeding off the long-haired rats.
02:38 It's pretty much all that they live on.
02:40 But yeah, the main reason I chose that place
02:42 is because of that river.
02:43 You're not surviving in the outback without water.
02:45 Have a go at this right here.
02:46 Cave that goes down into the floor.
02:50 We'll jump in it.
02:53 Take a look at that little python.
02:55 This might even be a good place to sleep tonight.
02:57 Love coming out to the outback
02:58 because there's just so many animals out here.
03:02 And take a look at this little fella
03:04 taking cover up in this cave.
03:06 We just got this challenge started three days out here,
03:14 and this is the first animal that we've found.
03:16 Obviously not the inland taipan like we're looking for,
03:19 but this is just a little python.
03:20 This would be his home up here in the cave.
03:22 What he'd be doing is,
03:23 even though it's eight o'clock in the morning,
03:25 it's 36 degrees outside.
03:27 So he's just up here chilling,
03:29 might even be going for a hunt during the day.
03:31 Primarily a nocturnal species.
03:33 They'll come out after dark,
03:35 and they'll even live in the same places
03:37 in the cracks in the ground
03:38 that the inland taipans live in.
03:40 Now, I was actually gonna sleep in this cave tonight,
03:42 but looks like it's his home, eh?
03:45 We'll note this one, maybe come back here later
03:47 if we can't find a better place.
03:49 The only problem about camping in these caves
03:53 is this right here.
03:54 This rock on the floor here was once up there on the roof,
03:57 so don't want something like that falling on your head
04:01 as you're sleeping, and if I'm looking around,
04:03 they're everywhere. (laughs)
04:06 That's right.
04:07 In these rocky escarpments is also home
04:09 to the biggest lizard in Australia, the perente.
04:12 The thing is massive,
04:13 and if it found this python right here,
04:16 I think he'd be lunch, mate.
04:17 So I'd be careful because they're definitely out here,
04:20 and hopefully we'll be able to track one down
04:21 during this trip.
04:22 One thing I will say is if you were actually trapped
04:25 in a place like the outback or the desert,
04:28 it wouldn't be as fun as it seems in these videos.
04:31 I'm walking around, expending so much energy,
04:34 when really you'd be finding a place like this
04:37 that has a steady source of water and maybe food,
04:41 and you'd be waiting for someone to find you,
04:43 waiting for a plane to fly over, making a smoke signal.
04:47 You wouldn't be using all of your energy,
04:49 'cause trust me, in a place like the outback,
04:51 your energy is drained real quick
04:53 because of how hot it is.
04:55 But yeah, you're really cool, mate.
04:57 I'm gonna squeeze past ya.
04:59 Hopefully you get a feed tonight,
05:02 after being a little movie star, mate. (laughs)
05:04 All right, see you later.
05:06 Oh, you're coming over.
05:08 See, just as I finished filming,
05:14 he's like, "All right, I can go now."
05:17 See ya, dude.
05:18 Where's he going?
05:21 Yeah, that's the right idea.
05:23 (gentle music)
05:25 (footsteps thudding)
05:53 All the animals that live out here at the moment
05:56 have the right idea, right?
05:57 All of these kangaroos and emus that I'm seeing
06:00 while I'm walking around are all sitting in the shade.
06:03 It's just way too hot for them.
06:04 With limited water out here,
06:06 most of these animals are getting most of their water
06:09 from the leaves that they're actually eating.
06:11 But when really big droughts come along,
06:13 that's when you can see mass animals dying.
06:16 Lots of kangaroos that just can't survive the heat.
06:18 So yeah, as I'm up on this big rocky escarpment,
06:21 there's kangaroos jumping around everywhere.
06:23 Literally before I came down
06:24 and sat in this cave right here,
06:25 there was a kangaroo sitting in it.
06:27 So sorry about that, mate.
06:29 Go find another tree.
06:31 All right, let's go.
06:33 (gentle music)
06:36 (sighs)
06:49 (heart beating)
06:53 (gentle music)
07:20 Have a look at this place up here.
07:21 I reckon this could be camp for the night.
07:26 Let's check out inside this cave.
07:28 Wow.
07:32 Are you kidding me?
07:36 Take a look at that.
07:39 All right, I'm definitely camping in here tonight.
07:43 That is awesome.
07:50 I've just found the best cave to sleep in tonight.
07:55 Probably to sleep in for the next couple nights
07:57 that we're out here.
07:58 And it's overlooking this huge rocky plain.
08:00 Over that way is where the inland taipans will be.
08:04 And when it gets dark,
08:05 that's where we'll head, try to find some snakes.
08:07 But yeah, this is really amazing.
08:09 I feel so blessed that I can camp up here tonight.
08:12 Looking at all the different colored rocks
08:14 in this cave right here, it's so cool.
08:16 Let's go to the other side and see what's up under there.
08:19 I reckon I'm gonna be sleeping around this area somewhere.
08:23 We'll have a fire going at the front.
08:25 But yeah, what's back up this way?
08:29 Take a look at this place.
08:34 All right, so I only brought a few things with me
08:38 on this survival video.
08:40 The first is a knife.
08:42 And it's got a little fire starter on it as well.
08:44 Obviously for protection out here against wild animals
08:47 like wild dogs.
08:49 But also we're gonna be using this fire starter
08:51 to light fires and boil up water.
08:54 So yeah, we've brought a little pot out here as well
08:56 to boil up water and maybe even crayfish
08:58 if I end up catching them later.
09:00 And I also bought a pair of binoculars
09:02 because these inland taipans should be just down that way.
09:06 Hopefully I'll be able to spot them from up here.
09:08 We'll see how far they go.
09:09 And if we see one, we're running straight down there
09:12 to film it.
09:13 And finally, we got a torch.
09:15 Because we're gonna be going for a night walk later on,
09:18 a lot of other species come out at night.
09:20 We're gonna be going out to try and find them
09:22 throughout the next three days that we're staying here.
09:24 So yeah, that's it.
09:25 Besides all my camera gear,
09:27 I got a drone to get some good footage.
09:29 But yeah, we're gonna be living out here for three days
09:32 with these few items right here.
09:33 Let's get into it.
09:35 (gentle music)
09:39 (wind blowing)
09:42 Take a look at the terrain.
09:48 Now, I don't know if you can see it,
09:51 but over there, there's a massive whirlwind
09:54 of sand and everything picking up.
09:56 I really hope it comes over here
09:57 'cause I'm definitely gonna run straight into it.
10:00 (footsteps thudding)
10:03 See the big dust cloud?
10:06 When you're in a survival situation,
10:08 you wanna conserve energy
10:09 by chasing as many dust clouds as you can.
10:12 It's like a tornado of dust.
10:13 So far away, I just chased it for like a kilometer
10:18 and it kept going that way.
10:19 Now, it's a cool environment,
10:21 but you're not gonna find the inland type ends here.
10:24 But if you take a look at this huge field
10:27 over the other side, that's where these snakes will be.
10:30 At the moment, they'd be six feet under.
10:32 I don't actually know how deep the burrows go
10:34 that they live in,
10:35 but they'd be under the ground in the cracks.
10:37 I'm walking around here through these sand dunes
10:40 and I'm not seeing any animals.
10:41 You'd think that there's none here
10:42 'cause it's such a harsh environment.
10:45 But if you look in the sand,
10:47 there's tracks from bilbies, small marsupials,
10:50 guanas, snakes, all through this area.
10:53 So they would be living in here somewhere.
10:55 A lot of the marsupials would be in burrows
10:57 under the ground, getting away from the heat,
10:59 and they'd come out after dark.
11:01 (eerie music)
11:07 Ready?
11:08 Look how many flies are on my back.
11:10 Crazy, so many of them out here.
11:18 Just trying to get any kind of moisture they can.
11:20 My eyes and mouth.
11:21 First time I came out to the outback,
11:23 it was pretty annoying,
11:24 but you get used to it after a while.
11:26 You end up just forgetting that they're there,
11:27 even when there's
11:28 that many on your back.
11:32 (eerie music)
11:35 So the plan right now is I've walked away
11:51 from that really dry desert area
11:53 down to the only water source that's around me right here,
11:57 and it's completely dry.
11:59 There's only really small pools that remain out here.
12:02 Luckily for me, there's one that's not too dirty
12:04 that I think will be okay after I boil the water
12:07 in that pot that I brought out here.
12:08 But this just down here is the little water source
12:12 that I'm hopefully gonna be able to catch food out of.
12:16 Now it doesn't look like much,
12:18 but there is a chance of there being freshwater crabs
12:21 and maybe even some big red core crayfish living in here,
12:25 because you can see the whole system's dried up.
12:28 So whatever was in here, if it's not buried in the mud,
12:31 it should be in this little pool.
12:33 (eerie music)
12:36 His little feeler things and his claw
12:54 is just sticking out of the water.
12:56 All right, so they're in here.
12:59 See him?
13:01 Right there.
13:02 There we go.
13:08 There is one little crayfish.
13:12 All right.
13:13 Oh, mud from this swamp all over my face.
13:17 Thanks, mate.
13:18 All right, we got something to eat.
13:20 There we go.
13:22 And that right there is gonna be my dinner.
13:26 I had a bit more of a walk around.
13:28 There was definitely one more yabby in there,
13:29 but I think it buried down into its hole.
13:32 Couldn't get it out here in the outback.
13:35 This kind of heat really takes it out of you.
13:37 It drains you so much, but it's cool.
13:41 It's really cool being out here
13:42 and surviving out here on this land,
13:44 no matter how harsh it is.
13:46 We're gonna go back to camp, go back to the cave,
13:49 cook this fella up later on this afternoon.
13:57 Now we'll make a little fire and cook up this water.
14:00 That water looks great, doesn't it?
14:12 Oh, perfect.
14:17 Hopefully we don't get sick after drinking this water.
14:25 I can imagine a water source like this
14:27 out in a place where it's so hot
14:29 is getting used by a lot of animals,
14:31 wild pigs, kangaroos, emus.
14:34 And where those animals go, there's a lot of disease.
14:37 So boiling it should get rid of it, but we'll have to see.
14:41 (dramatic music)
14:44 (leaves crunching)
14:47 (footsteps crunching)
14:50 (leaves crunching)
14:56 (leaves crunching)
15:11 (footsteps crunching)
15:14 Try and get this fire going.
15:26 There we go.
15:35 Think we got it, mate.
15:37 How good.
15:41 As if it wasn't hot enough already.
15:43 Now it'll be good to make a little fire
15:45 and cook up this crayfish.
15:47 Everything's so dry out here.
15:50 Doesn't take much.
15:52 Little bit of flint and steel.
15:53 This is where we're staying tonight.
16:01 Pretty magical, hey?
16:03 I'd say it's been a pretty successful first day.
16:11 We caught food, we found a place to camp, went exploring.
16:15 We haven't found the target species yet,
16:17 but I reckon maybe tonight or tomorrow morning
16:21 we're gonna find one.
16:22 While this crayfish is cooking up,
16:23 I'll get the binoculars out and have a look.
16:26 There's a few emus down there.
16:28 Mother and about six or eight babies
16:31 just following her around.
16:33 We'll get the drone up as the sun's going down,
16:35 try to get some footage of her in that paddock
16:37 where the inland taipans would be.
16:39 A few kangaroos chilling,
16:41 although it's the afternoon at the moment,
16:43 it's still about 38 degrees,
16:45 so they'll be hanging under the trees for a bit longer.
16:48 No snakes yet.
16:49 We chucked this pot on.
16:52 Crazy thing about this inland taipan, right,
17:01 is it's only eating an animal that's about that big,
17:04 these long-haired rats that they primarily feed on.
17:07 But because sometimes there's lots of droughts
17:09 around this area and they need to kill that rat
17:12 as quickly as possible,
17:14 they've developed the most toxic venom
17:16 drop for drop in the world.
17:18 And number two in the big picture, the eastern brown,
17:20 the second most venomous snake in the world,
17:23 is not even close.
17:24 So yeah, pretty amazing snake.
17:28 And the patterns on them are crazy.
17:29 They're just real, real powerful animals.
17:31 And the reason why I'm not nervous
17:33 when I come out here to work with these snakes
17:36 is because I'm not gonna take any risks.
17:38 It'd be a silly thing to do when you're out here by yourself
17:40 so they're one of my favorite snakes.
17:42 All right.
17:51 Big first day out in the outback.
17:56 What I'm gonna do now,
18:01 now that I got 4% more energy
18:05 after eating that crayfish,
18:06 is wait for it to get dark,
18:08 get the drone up in the air,
18:10 get some shots of the sunset,
18:11 maybe go try to find those emus
18:13 that I saw before down there with the binoculars,
18:15 and then go out looking for snakes.
18:18 (drone whirring)
18:21 (drone whirring)
18:23 (drone whirring)
18:26 (drone whirring)
18:30 (drone whirring)
18:34 (drone whirring)
18:36 (drone whirring)
18:42 (drone whirring)
19:01 (drone whirring)
19:04 All right, sun's just setting.
19:29 We've just made it out to the plains with a torch.
19:33 We're gonna be staying out here after dark,
19:35 seeing if we can find any snakes cruising around.
19:38 And yeah, this place right here,
19:41 you can see the sun going down at the moment,
19:42 is where these inland taipans are living.
19:44 It's so crazy.
19:45 We'll keep walking, wait for it to get dark,
19:48 and yeah, see if we can find any.
19:51 (dramatic music)
19:55 (footsteps crunching)
19:58 (drone whirring)
20:04 (leaves crunching)
20:17 (drone whirring)
20:20 Pretty successful first day out here in the outback.
20:45 We found some cool animals,
20:47 found a place to sleep, did a lot of exploring.
20:50 We didn't end up finding the inland taipan,
20:52 but what I'm gonna do in part two of this series
20:55 is head out early morning
20:57 and try to track down one of those snakes.
20:59 So you'll see that video next week.
21:01 But yeah, thank you so much for watching part one
21:03 of this outback survival video.
21:05 So cool, and I'm so blessed that I can come out here
21:08 and experience this land and show you all.
21:11 So yeah, I'll see you all next week for part two,
21:14 where hopefully we track down
21:16 the most venomous snake in the world.
21:18 See you legends then.
21:20 (leaves crunching)
21:23 (drone whirring)
21:31 (leaves crunching)
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21:44 (leaves crunching)
21:47 (drone whirring)
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22:06 (upbeat music)
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