What do you reckon?
Ahh ha
Good morning guys, welcome back.
Today's episode is all about
surviving from the ocean
and how we feed our island family I want to hold it
You want to hold it?
Ok
Hey guys, so today
we're going to take you on a big adventure, with us
we're heading out to a super remote spot
to go on basically an all day spearing trip the reason we're going is we need to stock
up the fridges and freezers a little bit, ah with some protein.
There's also a lot of pelagic species out there
which are our target species and that's kinda what we're going for.
It's not really practical for us to spear fish every day
or every second day because it does take quite a lot of work for us to get out there,
get in, get a fish and get back, so this is kinda
what we have to do to survive at the moment.
Umm, so hopefully we get some fish and yeah.
Watch your toe.
Bye
{boat engine starts}
We've pretty much survived on the food that was left in the resort
when we closed down last year A lot of it's expired, a lot of the dried
lentils, chickpeas and stuff like that has expired
But we've just been using what still seems fine.
And now, we're pretty much left with what we can grow and catch, so,
Let's go!
Bit rough.
Not a whole lot of fish around.
Katie got quite seasick.
So we dumped her on an island.
Despite my optimism, I'm always so sure that I'm not going to get seasick and that I can
go out and fish with the boys for the whole day
I never expect that I'm going to get sick, yet I always do.
We came in to this island here, I've had a spew and
I guess now I can just chill and have a bit of me time
which I don't ever get so it's kinda nice as well, but,
Yeah, Bit disappointed.
What is going on here?
Hey, you get outta my lunch.
Get out of it!
Oh look, there's one in the packet, haha
Anyone want a side of hermit crab?
This is the lunch of champions really.
So melty.
Pretty gooey that peanut butter innit?
This afternoon we're heading to our secret spot
We need more than what we've got to go home.
It's going to be calm,
we're going to clean up
Oh, it's raining.
I'm going to put the camera away.
Argh!
Who locked the esky?
{Katie laughing}
Wooohooo
Here, camera
That's my fish handler ha ha
A quick note on sustainability.
On this channel, you will see us using selective
fishing practices.
Though we enjoy spearfishing, it is not something
that we do just for fun.
Seafood is a primary food source for us and for our local community.
We honour all MPAs, even if unofficial, and
we choose to fish locations like this which have low
fishing pressure because they are more difficult to access.
We also never intentionally feed sharks when
spearfishing as this can lead to a learnt behaviour that
puts divers at risk.
In this case, our safety came first and we
did exit the water soon after the shark took this fish.
Hey what are you doing? What are you trying to do? {Katie laughing}
K bye!
So, we did alright.
Not quite as well as we would have liked. But, it's been a good day.
We are absolutely shattered and freezing cold.
And we should get home in time to put the kids to bed
so we better get home.
[Katie] Yeah a pretty good day but not heaps of fish
Just umm, yeah it was quiet everywhere we went, so
we got what we could so, awesome day out.
I don't know what else to say.
What d'ya reckon?
There's a few fish.
Not quite what we set out for but, there's a few there.
Where's the Spanish?
Where's the Spanish? I'm pretty yeah, ah
I didn't see a Spanish or a doggy all day
I saw one,
yeah, I saw one
That was a tough day of spearing.
It was.
We were in the water for like, 7 hours or something like that
Oh well, still good though. That's enough for the staff
Us, some stuff for the freezer. Yeah it was good.
Ahh haa
Is, is there any doggy?
ohhh
Come on, come and have a look in the esky.
WOW! Woaahhhh.
That's a lot of fish.
What fish can you see?
Ohhh a Pajara, a very big pajara.
Yeah.
Wow. It's a giant one.
What's the one with the poke called?
The what?
The one with the poke in his front? {Katie laughing}
He's a unicorn fish
Yeah, he's a type of surgeon fish.
We might give that one to Mirri maybe.
That's going to be for Rolland's birthday.
And, then what are these two? You know what one is - what's that?
Rainbow Runner.
Yeah
That's right.
And there's another one there
Yep. And, there's a barracuda underneath.
[Arlo] Barracuda underneath.
Fish.
Do they look like good fish Filly?
Yeah.
But what, where's the doggy?
Good question, we didn't see a doggy.