Alone Australia Recap Episode 9 

My younger brother left the pathway to RAAF and went to the UK to fly with RAF fighters pre Falklands. I understand what you did to try and get that helmet. But I think you have found your niche. Explaining country and how to be on it and appreciate it is so revealing and educational for non aboriginal people. Your joy at sharing your love of adventure and remote places is special. I'm hoping you are the new 'Les Hiddens bushtucker man' on our screens for future generations. Greetings from lutruwita.

Thanks for the recap! Trying to free that snag looked like mission impossible, but the only thing worse than failure is regret. Looking forward to the final episodes!

Not sure if you've already covered the shelters in another video but there's a pretty significant difference between your open shelter and Gina's very closed-in one. Was that something you had thought about doing or were you not that concerned about burning calories in the interest of retaining a bit more heat?

I’m loving the extra information. I wish we got more of this during the show to put things in context.

Echo the "inoculation against guilt" bit too - you don't want to die wondering. Thanks for the recaps Mike - it's good to get your perspective as someone who's done it 🤘

Wow, only 2 episodes left. Can’t wait to see how it ends. 3 very resilient people left. Great observations on Michael and his unassuming nature. Shows the power of believing in something whether it’s faith or something else. Good luck.

Well, fkn, done, Mike!!! I'm so sorry you didn't get the win mate. It was such a pleasure watching you out there on Alone. You're an absolute inspiration. Legend 🙌

Mike your strength and determination is inspiring, thank you

Enjoying the discussion about the range of emotions with adventure. Thank you ☺️

Fast Forward. Let's imagine for one moment that Gina ventures out for that impromptu pee complete with an announcement and her headlamp flashing around like Tas Police air wing. We then see her disappear behind a large stump out of view for privacy. So far so good, but then the "miracle" occurs. (maybe God got the camps mixed up and the wallaby was supposed to be delivered to Michael earlier but I hear the great man upstairs has still got a huge backlog from the pandemic) Anyway apparently the adult wallaby just sits there or decides to depart in slow motion enabling Gina to grab it. Now imagine it turning into a rag doll and waiting for it's demise with a simple tap tap on it's head. Now because of the location we can assume our friend the macropod hasn't been to the ISOBAR and been slipped a roofie. It's a wild animal that's made it to adulthood and is in good condition. I live in Tasmania and those little buggers have their wits about them and certainly would scratch you to pieces even if you did manage to grab it. Now imagine holding it down with one hand while you supposedly tap it on the cranium. If you've got this far you certainly have got a good imagination. No evidence of trauma to the head to “effectively” kill the animal. Zero, zilch, nada, not even a single drop of blood! These miracles are certainly stacking up! Even Gina would admit she stuffed up there. Truth is we will never know how she got the animal. Don't mind her winning because she deserved it and most likely would have done so without the "miracle" but just doesn't sit right knowing she bent the rules. Love the recaps Mike, it gives you a hell of a lot more perspective on things. I know it's not the be-all & end-all for you but I hope you get some monetary rewards for all your efforts

Hi Mike, loved your effort and mindset on the show. I don't think you could have given much more or tried harder than you did, but you just didn't have the luck. Sorry to hear you didn't make it through the tests, it happened to me too, but I think maybe it is for the best and you wouldn't have been able to do what you did and without the life and family you now have if you did make it through them, it shapes you. All the best and hope to see more content from you. Cheers

thanks mike!, keen as for the last 2! rooting for you :D

Mike, "inoculation against guilt" is so introspective and I guess the same as preventing the inevitable existential crisis about whether you did enough to save the day. You were very brave doing that dive. I mentioned in the last episode's recap about keeping the bait higher in the water column, that may have helped here.

You are amazing; keep it up 👍🏻

Imagine going on an adventure with Mike.

Hi Mike. Tough way to leave 'Alone', but health always the number one priority. Have you thought of doing a video about how you video-ed yourself? Love to know what cameras they gave you, how you charged the batteries (solar?), and how you managed the data. Seems that no-one talked about that in any episode (edited that way I'm sure). But it must have been a pain sometimes to remember you had to also film yourself. Thanks. (You shot some drone stuff for me last year at Mountain Trails.)

So good Mike. Love the insight. Can you talk a bit about how you can go for so long without food? It just amazes me. Also, how do you recharge the batteries? Do you get fresh ones dropped off?

Mike, did you inspect the gut/gullet of the trout you caught? And, did you think about colouring or shading the hard body lure you made? Sorry, I've got a one track mind, I mainly watch these shows for the fishing.

The filming / shots were beautiful. How did you folks recharge the Go Pro and other camera equipment?

You made a very impressive effort. How did you find your physical recovery after you returned? Do you feel you took a hit to your health?

That was such a rubbish spot. An inundated waterway. Man made not nature made. You did good for such a difficult place. Hope you get access to your footage of the night sky.

You were stiff cobber, dealt a rubbish spot for starters and losing your small wire due to faulty scales certainly put you on the back foot from the get-go. And then there's the Gina wallaby capture incident. Couldn't help but laugh each time you lost your shit - it sounded EXACTLY like me. I look forward to grabbing a copy of your Castaway book when it's released

Mate, much as luck has played an important part in winning any series of Alone, I felt you were at war with your environment as opposed to to embracing & accepting it. It was like were at war with the land and were constantly trying to outsmart and outhink the bush. Compared to Gina, who fully embraced and became "at one" with country, you fought it all the way. Her way with country was to immerse herself into it...she walked barefoot, wore animal skin coat, and I believe the main reason she "outlived" you was that the animals surrounding her accepted her and were unafraid of her presence. That's why when she went to wee that night she was literally able to catch a wallaby with her bare hands, whereas the wallabies near you probably were scared shitless of you and your aggression towards the bush. You are a man of tremendous bush skills, but you lacked focus and where trying to "outbuild" the environment which didn't help you...I'm sure the edit didn't show how hard you tried, but what we saw made you look like you gave up easily on fishing. Surely you know that the trout go deep during the cold and come to the surface during the rain...other cast showed how easily available earthworms were but you seemed to give up on finding them so fast. Trout love worms...you should have found a spot where there were few snags, and then stuck to that patch of water and then fished it relentlessly...you'd have caught a ton of fish as that area of Tassie is teaming in fish and eels. I would have used a float when fishing in the area where there were snags. Building a kayak was a waste of energy and it didn't deliver and trolling for fish in an area where trout are easily spooked meant you were unlikely to succeed. So all in all, if you take anything out of this experience, it should be that you need to "live with country" and not fight it", as that's how it came across in the edit: "Mike at war with Tassie Bush". I believe the main reason Gina won was because of her decision to take a rock of salt...it keep her electrolytes up and she was able to make wallaby biltong and salt the fish as well as making salty broths with the leftover bones & skin. She outsmarted you in every department. But well done nonetheless, coming second was no mean feat.

What was the first thing you ate when you got back? Can't imagine the feeling of hunger at day 60🤣

Thought that ending was bullshit tbh

What a difference a nice pristine unharmed wallaby makes, right in the nick of time. Look someone has to have the balls to just come out and say it whatever your sex, race or circumstances - that has no bearing on anything. Mike, as a veteran Tasmanian hunter, living in Pontville by the way, 58 years walking the bush etc seeing it all, I feel you got absolutely robbed. You will have to stone me and defend Gina and Alone I know - but I will say it anyway. Afterall everyone is entitled to their opinion and my opinion is based on evidence or the lack thereof of any supporting evidence in the show supporting the purported events we are told to accept with the circumstances and goose stepping along with woke and political correctness. To digress as an example, I walked out into the living room last night in the dark and tripped over the chair leg as it stuck out from the table, I had to process where I was, what was going on and get my bearings and thoughts together before I made another move, after an initial fright which stuns and brings oneself to a halt for some seconds. Now, shoot the messenger if you must but my experience with NOCTURNAL mammals is that they are extremely wary and impossible to catch bare handed. Add to that if the animal is a reasonable sized wallaby, a healthy animal is going to be a handful to manage without losing it or being clawed and injured in the process, that is if you can manage to get anywhere near it to begin with. Further, if I was going for a stroll in the dark for "a leak", without a camera mind you, but somehow some kind of questionable laughable audio being engineered afterward without visual evidence to suggest it was possible to stroll upon a wary, healthy, nocturnal animal without seeing it and somehow grab it and then find some object to club it with - you see where I am going here, it just does not make any sense at all. All of that notwithstanding, the pristine wallaby displayed showed an immaculately groomed specimen, without blood or coagulation of blood from the ears and the nose as one should logically expect from a blunt force trauma kill - even further once the carcass was hung and dressed, the animal showed no signs of bruising, clots or evidence of a violent end. Ever clubbed an animal to dispatch it anyone? Know what happens to it? How it looks? It does not look like that wallaby that is for sure. This evidence of trauma should all exist as they do in postmortems on humans suffering similar faits, it is horrific to the poor dears not familiar with it. But wow, the media with it's scripting and it's agenda - you my dear friend Mike, whatever you believe in my words, were robbed. Join the dots, put the pieces together, was this yet another Marie - Jose Perec setup styled Australian conspiracy? I felt so once the sticks started beating and the singing started at the end, the whole overwhelming deal about racism was utterly distasteful throughout the show - we don't need that constantly beaten into us incessantly, what? to say the contrary is offensive? We just have to grin and bare it? Give it a rest already, that is not what the show was about, the show in Australia had an agenda and one agenda only. Well, on the wallaby we may never know the truth - but secretly I feel you Mike suspect something also, but you can never say, as it would be media suicide. Far far too many rational issues I have raised are more than quite valid, show me the evidence if they are not anyone otherwise STFU and my findings arguable given the lack of any credibility or the camera supposedly being worn always as part of the arrangement. I guess what I need and have a right to see is the kill like in all the other Alone series', the moose, the musk ox, the porcupine, the rabbits, the ducks, the - well whatever, I want to see the god damn evidence not a fabrication of a fictitious result designed for Neanderthals and the brain dead. But of course in Australia hunting is frowned upon and your never going to see a REAL Alone series, we just made fools of ourselves in o foul mouthed comedic version of the show with OH&S processes with silly fire extinguishers by fires and cotton ball rules and such, no snares, no bows, no hunting after the sun sets and it went on and on ad nauseum, this is Australia the woke country. If I am wrong lay the evidence bare and make me choke upon it - it's a bitter pill to swallow but I said it. Perhaps Gina can see in the dark, perhaps she had a bath every night to be scent free, perhaps she was a super stealthy seasonal hunter or outdoorsman, perhaps she cornered the wallaby in an alley, perhaps she was carrying a club or just scarred it to death from its appearance or perhaps the damn thing was just set up and it was rigged to get her by while you my dear friend were left to starve. We are talking about a wallaby here not a tiny padymelon, you saw how agile and fast those things get out of the way of your drop net. As I said, it is my opinion based on my lifetime experience and as we live in a democracy, I am entitled to my opinion based on the facts and evidence available, argue the point with evidence not BS or political correctness. Very very suspicious ending - you killed it Mike, you won in my book, I don't care if your male, female, black, yellow or brindle. People are so quick to label you something in Australia if you speak your mind and step out of line, but we have to. Lastly and remember this, remember the Europeans that came here and saved the natives from the Japanese in WWII when they arrived afterwards, without us and colonization there would be NO natives or so called first nation people here today, the natives would be the Japanese people - BOOM! Worship the ground European immigration peoples walk upon, you owe your existence to them.

Alone, Australia is so lame that it has almost destroyed the whole premise of the alone show.🤨