Australia's Wild North (Coastal Fishing Documentary) | Catch

Arnhem Land of the Dreamtime so remote and inaccessible except by boat a hidden coast of rock art crocodiles sharks and leaping barramundi this is Australia's wild north [Music] then prop and his crew are on a voyage of adventure around Arnhem where the wilderness top of Australia then navigates his vessel freedom to to a narrow and shallow channel into little Lagoon on brutal amber camber is an aboriginal settlement the residents are referred to is a wild lot still practicing in traditional ways Ben's son Dean and Nick slipper joined the local kids on a fishing trip Aboriginal style [Music] that's a cool shot straight up out it looks bigger and everything yeah he's as big as this guy look it's the same size [Music] the kids are in high spirits and very agile the milk fish is good eating look freshly barbecued good don't get much fresher than list here [Music] Nick and his young friends are straightening spilling spy heating them over a fire the blank spears are required for a special ceremony about to take place but only Ben has been allowed to film firstly they must paint themselves without her and dress up as warriors when a serious crime like murder has been committed in the tribe the victims relatives have their chance to prevent Aboriginal law demanded that the guilty must face a trial by speeds and now the white hands law has declared the trial illegal but occasionally the undercover Aborigines be called mock trial in a real trial by Spears your deal is over at the first drawing of blood alive or not [Music] I'm glad we painted all the spear tips I'm in your line of fire too as I film at all now it's the kids turn they're allowed to step closer Nick makes the mistake of wandering in on the scene and he becomes a target [Laughter] Lix being a good sport it's a test of speed and agility [Music] the only injury and that was from a woman another spear Nick look what you did to my leg with the whoooaaaaa what a hip yeah it's all right nice bruise thanks thanks a lot Nick and Dean wish to be a part of the aboriginal culture they look for a hollow tree to make a didgeridoo that sounds good goodnight how much did you redo if you played Nick yeah I've done a bit the breathing haven't quite down pat yet [Music] it's Jackie King his first try [Music] [Music] been anchors in trial Bay a Creek there looks good for fishing that's what the bait fish is for a cyclone through this vessel up in the shallows a whole beside the rock seems a perfect place to hook a bearer he's a baby good I'm trying yeah oh he's a good one whatever this is it it's yours Makarova he's long and thin Barracuda Oh somebody get a gaff ready what I'll try and bring him up now [Music] oh yeah oh it's got me actually oh that was a great fight that one port Bradshaw is another beautiful Inlet south of go it's waters are clear and inviting and there's lots of Aboriginal activity here oh it's not it's McKesson see the rocks places quite a lot of them aha he's more but good pieces here fine here the ordinary pottery though it's not glazed yeah it's just just cheap stuff so buy a cheap ban you mean a very basic sort of pottery that's right very simple looks like about six or eight to five places up here so be quite a McKesson camp yeah and tamarind tree just further up they use the seeds apparently in the curing of the beach to mirth gives a bit of flavor well these are definitely the tamarind seeds here I've got a really distinctive smell so you can see why they use them in their cooking oh they sour quite a definite flavor about them mmm almost caramely hey so Nick wants his own fishing spear and who better to show him than the master spear maker wollenberg they've cut lengths of milk or dander straightening them over the fire it's a slow task that continues in the morning the spear points are heated in the fire Sant cools the ends that will be held by their hands copper wire binds the spear in to stop the wood splitting the heated spear points make their own entry like a hot poker the waters nice and clear it'll be easy to spot the fish and we can also see the big deadly box jellyfish that that is big enough to kill a human very very easy that's almost full adult size very very dangerous so many of them up along here one of the most prolific I've seen with the box jellyfish every step we make is with utmost care to stumble into the tentacles of this box jellyfish would result in agonizing pain even death see how he uses the warmer earth as a club to subdue the show life's little places at seed is freshly baked bread right sounds good and another day is pleasure is freshly caught fish and we need lots to feed a crew of six oh there's more of them down there thing yeah okay not bad at all that's one yeah the released shot came straight back with these friends it was a mackerel Ben travels north passing Arnim rock at the top of the Gulf [Music] I run along marching that Island in the whistle group to a protected Bay on the eastern side I heard it has a lagoon with aboriginal rock art is a tough trick another big truck with his hitter straight into that lagoon so they'll take it careful another big one can you see him it's got to be in here somewhere there's a cave over there that's probably where the aboriginal paintings are but we've got to walk through the lagoon to get to it Jackie and Serena de laners choose the more difficult but safer route some way there's a crocodile in here I think we'll crawl around the rocks to get to the cave [Music] well Jackie stenciled they're tiny yeah that's about my size what they've done they've put the hand on the wall I don't put my hand on this yeah and they fill their mouth with paint and go and spill it out all over yeah very simple I see with the fishes job they walk out pretty covered in paint more so than the rock well Jackie imagine doing this one they must have got the child standing on his head put his foot up there and blew the ocher right over his foot well they do going up there well it looks like I do going but they got the tile wrong yeah got that he walked I'll see ya that's something else over there I think it's a person I'm not sure baby its feet and his head I'm looking at that point yeah it's a man his legs oh yes yes that's right he's fully exposed they're very unusual pain he hadn't seen one like that before the of a person even these eyes almost looks like et I'm running to true in Ireland it has a reputation for great got a fish but while that shocks in there wasn't a turmoil [Music] [Music] okay [Music] the metal fillers are for a barbecue ashore we'll use the carcasses to tempt a group of large Cod we can see waiting under the boat [Music] [Music] [Music] truth parlor is a magic place its waters safe for them to wakeboard an island we do not want to leave [Music] at the tip of Cape whistle is at Kambei and a delightful sandy beach being the most northern landfall to this top end of Australia the Cape has been visited by the earliest of explorers aboriginal paintings dad said those a Dutch ship was wrecked off the point here I guess this sort of verifies that the Aborigines painted a lovely picture of it do you going over there probably Phil I found some coins on the beach dated it so I think 1750 pretty much a wreck isn't it definitely worse than this was a Vietnam refugee ship and the refugee so very lucky to survive when they're landed here cape whistle because they had no water almost died of thirst well look at this snip that's the legacy of all the Indonesian fishermen that are working out here more of a down there there we go that beer one knows the chef please in three coconuts [Music] back in the war the Japanese actually had a flying boat based here in hopefull Bay it's hard to imagine that the enemy was stationed right here in Australia and further north about 20 miles Jensen be named after father Jensen and he was a coach watcher he was stationed there for maybe an early more warning of a Japanese invasion and apparently neither knew that the other was here for quite a quite a long time and eventually when he was discovered the story goes that he was captured and beheaded it I want to go further north to Jensen Bay because there's an Aboriginal community there and maybe we'll get the truth as to what happened to father Jensen and jackie and nick your name is tether we were to see the lagoon over there last time I was here I remember there were Crocs up on the beach here and they're crossing over to the lagoon do you want me to go and show you yeah do you mind mini crocodiles in the lagoon is well that's good [Music] so father Jensen he with a whole community that he in the war and and from what I gather he was like a early early warning station here for Japanese invasion and the Japanese were only a few miles down the road that hopeful Bay and they didn't even know he was here and then when they found out they took his head off no not really I think he died endowing it is alright the report we got was he was beheaded no I think it was a fake report cuz Jensen got old yeah he had white hair then he went to Darwin oh that's good yeah that's good he survived that's a beautiful Lagoon what's this Trevor that's soccer done crocodile poo you're kidding you mean they come out of the water to do it here and they don't do it in the water no well crocodiles a lot cleaner than what they thought they returned to the lagoon at dawn it's the best time to view the wildlife yeah wonder where he is now Nick loves the Aboriginal ways of hunting they're making a woman for him it's a throwing stick to propel his spear he's lost one of his toes in the not offensive wood fits in a groove at the end of the spear the woman acts as a lever propelling the spear much faster and further than a handful [Music] the fishing the Aborigines have given Nick a tribal name wangan Allah they called him river leads us through a labyrinth of narrow passages to reach a rock outside [Music] how do you do these paintings here what do you use quickly please did you just scratch with them or do you make a paint or a Jurong here I think yeah the Hat and the uniform yeah he's got the stripes down along his chest looks like it doesn't it Wong vanilla has captured a small pig on the beach at dawn only young wild pigs are safe to eat a length of discarded iron improvises as a spirit we leave after dinner for the long hop west to New Year Island the isolated Kay sits on a coral reef that is alive with fish yeah yeah back up I got no line left put a little bit more line on this thing he took it all out right almost to the end he's big he's huge he's a huge one [Music] is a huge metal [Music] [Applause] for a little wine like that snap holy try the coral reef is unspoiled and far away from the crocodiles so we eager for a dive my other son Adam joins Dean and I we're using special masks so we can talk underwater [Applause] oh that's it let's say black and white snap yeah we don't really know why like that I think it's really trying to change another female as a mile it's a weird way of attracting a female isn't it to go doing a [ __ ] gob like that No that'll be clean official working working over these sweet leap over here yeah we'll just go in and out and imagine it selfish go so this is they're all in one place this would be like the cleaning station yeah this is a cleaning station and picking up a little parasites and a little tissue dead tissues are on the skin there's a butterfly card to take two of them two of them close those spines are poisonous aren't they well to it to a degree no matter which way they turn in presenting those spines edges and if they do okay is getting pretty low I don't have much more time maybe five minutes back on the coast the scene is not so pretty bushfires and a severe El Nino droughts are taking a terrible toll even offshore islands are suffering here on number two Sankei all is dying the green ant nests are abandoned the nesting Ospreys have given up and left their dead chick behind turns that came here to nest now like dead across the island it's a natural disaster oh poor guy just died here do you wonder if we should report it I don't think so we'll take it as in our personal burial thing yeah definitely been here for a while [Music] survival was most difficult here and the first white settlers soon found that out [Music] a few miles west Red Rocks and McCann built in 1839 on Smith point served as a beacon to guide sailing ships into port Essington to the first settlement in Australia's wild north [Music] the ruins of the Victoria Settlement are visible among the trees for ten years isolation oppressive conditions and disease drain the settlers of spirit and life yeah this is really something isn't it it was named after Queen Victoria and established in 1839 but only lasted ten years I mean they really found hardships here so many people died off and I guess the real problem was that they couldn't stop being English I mean the women we're around with with bustles and lots of petticoats and even these ceilings that you see here there are only about just a bit over two meters high everything was hot and the worst of all is achieved me they could not leave their chimneys behind and I mean you don't you don't have fireplaces in in an area where it doesn't get under 30 degrees Celsius you in there Dean yep this was the ammunition room and I stole all the explosives make a good cyclone shoulder Lippman looks like good Mason work here I wonder where they quarried the stones were they took them off the point there I still can't believe this fireplace up in the tropics here it very hot we're after succulent mud crabs when the low tide begins to flooded record Point the crabs leave the deep water and crawl up into the shallows beans having problems with a little shark just pick him up I mean that is a big mile mile yes that is a big mile I'm cruising past turtle point running alongside an hour in sleek when thin slicing the surfers catch my eye it's a manta ray another two are behind it [Music] they normally feed on plankton but here they're following the algae sleep the not bothered by boat boat drifting close alongside [Music] those horns gave it the name devil ray see how they curled inwards to guide the plankton into their gaping mouth [Music] it is a crocodile and the big one tooth coming in to check out all the commotion he's more interesting so I swing the boat to meet people [Music] beautiful [Music] beautiful I mean this is when the crocodile really looks his best nice and clean you can see every little detail of his legs splayed out and he almost looks harmless because the boat you know we're much much bigger than him and he's a little bit scared of us but if I jumped in the water things would change I think it would come straight for me [Music] fishermen say the weather's crocodiles they will be better so we follow the croc in shore anticipating some good fishing how is that now that is about Oh shouts appa that was a big shock he took the low everything I mean he's got the card he's got your card or it might be the one that just followed my law another shock following the law has hooked the shaft - let's change that old fisherman style the weather flower then shot Oh No at this close well this is our last Lord Dean so we lose this that's the end of our fishing [Music] the Sharks have taken all our lures Dean and Nick hasty fabricate new ones using 303 and triple to bullet cartridges there's no reason why they shouldn't work with a hungry Bearer why I've even seen a clothes peg work when they're on the bike this one will make it spin this has been a great adventure food pen crop and his crew exploring his coast is like stepping back in time when all things were bountiful the 500 miles between Gove and Darwin is so poorly chartered most vessels steer wide but when Ben wanders close inshore we see the real wild north of Australia [Music] I wouldn't say good catch it's a good shot 22 [Music] the job perfectly T to to to to to [Music] you

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Id: PLlM7DMWuhI

Length: 52min 23sec (3143 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 06 2018