So we're on the west coast of the cape, and we're heading north.
Because let's face it, we love to head north.
West coast of Cape York, really good conditions, but we just heard some news from the outside
world, and it's not good.
It's not something that we were expecting and had no idea was happening.
This is a bit full-on, but apparently in Brisbane, there has been a Covid outbreak and Queensland,
while we've been sitting out here on this boat for the last basically two weeks, we've
been out of Brisbane, they've shut down all of Queensland.
Mask wearing, you got to be mask wearing all over Queensland, if you're within 1.5 meters,
if you're not social distancing.
All that sort of stuff is going on right as we speak.
How full-on is that?
Like we had no idea was happening.
I made a sat phone call back home, and next thing you know, it's a lockdown.
Wow.
We've got three more days before we can go into the community, so we're going to do what
the authorities say and we're going to isolate for those three days.
So we're going to go and explore this river, and then three days later, we'll hook up with
the community and that's when we'll start looking at what sort of fuel we're going to
need and things like that.
So true All 4 Adventure style, we're going to do isolation the way we know best:
stay in the bush.
That's it!
Pretty much just want it touching.
Just touching?
Yeah yeah, just touching.
Safety first.
Quadbike off!
Woohoo.
Well that's going to be us for the next few days.
Up there, we're going to set up camp, mate.
What do you reckon?
Hell yeah, quad bike, tinny, explore, catch fish.
That's what I reckon.
This is a pretty spectacular river this one, Apparently there's a lot of rock bars and
you we can follow this river system so far up.
Right up into the fresh, there's little running creeks and fresh water and all sorts of things
going on.
And this one is quite in the middle from civilisation.
Yes.
Now it's been a massive day traveling up the coast.
We've knocked a few k's over.
We're going to set up our gear here.
It's a cool little spot.
We're going to fuel everything up, get everything ready, and then we're going to head off in
the morning.
I'm excited to explore this river.
Bloody beautiful, look at that.
The monster from the deep.
Cheers, mate.
Cheers, buddy.
Birdies know exactly where the fish are.
Looks like we're gonna have to do some hunting, mate.
Hunting for ze fishes.
They ain't gonna come to us easily.
They're gonna need some work.
Look at them stingrays chasing that bait, Simon.
Old man, stinger.
Huge.
Mate, there's there's a hell of a lot of bird life and fish life going on around here.
The stingrays and the pelicans, they're all catching fish.
He did.
He did so.
But we don't seem to be catching many.
I don't know what I've hooked.
I got the bottom of a stingray.
Oh got him.
Oh dropped him.
Got a little salmon, I think.
Oh got him now.
Yeah.
See what's chasing those bait fish.
Little queenies, oh greenie.
Bottom?
Yeah, I'm on the bottom.
Yep.
But anyway, we'll keep heading up the river.
See what we can find.
That's the problem with places like this.
It takes a little bit of time to find where the fish are.