Malcolm Douglas - Australia - Canoes In The Kimberley (1982)
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- In this classic adventure Malcolm Douglas travels with his Aboriginal companions in two Canadian canoes down the Charnley River gorge in the Kimberley. They are the first people to traverse this spectacular river chasm. On reaching the sea they fit out-riggers to the big canoes to complete the journey down the rugged coast to Derby.
Malcolm was the "Real Deal" BS free zone. RIP mate.
So glad these videos were uploaded. To think he was doing this stuff with no GPS, sat phones, back up etc is truly amazing. dragging the canoes the distance they did at the ages they were then. Different breed of blokes in the day. Hats off I love Malcom's work and what he stood for. He was and always will be Legend in my eyes. Hopefully more of his work is uploaded over the coming years.
We miss you Malcolm!
wifey and I are loving these vids, thanks so much for uploading them.
Fantastic to see real Aboriginals showing their skills. I hate seeing ‘traditional methods’ where steel axes, modern fishing lines and European foods are portrayed. Malcolm was an awesome ambassador; something our country should embrace in these films is there’s no racism. The men are all just men regardless of their skin colour.
We don’t make them like Malc anymore…… a legend
Hadn't Heard Of The Charnley River In The Kimberley Region Of Western Australia Before Malcolm Douglas 1941-2010 Certainly Visited Some Quite Remote And Unheard Of Areas Of Northern Australia!🤔🤠🧔🛶🏞🎣🐟🐊🇦🇺
Thank you for sharing!! These are the improved version of our Wild Kingdom in the States!
Jeez , I had to take a nap after watching this , friggin grueling adventure , but beautiful scenery .
AWESOME DOC...
Man just watching these guys haul a canoe for weeks (just a few minutes for me) actually is insane to me that they voluntarily undertook such a painfully laborius journey. I'm 23 but when I grow up I want to be like Malcolm Douglas lol
What a amazing trip in canoe with all the beauty & hazards alone the way, a absolutely adventure trip in Australias untamed wilderness ...
legend love this man
Back before truck bumper mounted winches were specifically manufactured the Aussie's had to get creative and jerry-rig large aircraft engine starter motors into cable winches. Also they learned to use boat anchors (Bruce and Danforth-types) to pull vehicles out of sand or mud flats where where there are no trees to tie up to.
Thank you to CZcams to provide us free documentaries. Thank you to daring adventurers with authorized connaissances of their environnement who take us to places we shan't ever go to! Mr Douglas is ranking high in my book of souveniers/ Very sincere thank you! I learnt a lot about Mother Nature/ Delighted indeed, I did not know baobabs grew in Australia!!!!!! Cheers
“It’s been a long time since the last rains, it was at this moment Malcolm realised that he’d fucked up” 😂
That's what adventures all about
Fun drinking game: Have a sip everytime Malcolm says water
😂
If you're stranded near the ocean, simply eating the oysters off the rocks is the easiest way to get a meal. They exist nearly anywhere that there are rocks near the water. Obviously they can easily be opened with a knife, but often you won't have this, the easiest way is to simply get a rock around the size of a baseball and use it as a hammer, the top shell with crack and break upon impact, then you can remove the oyster inside and eat it. You can do this every day for weeks to survive easily.
As far as getting fresh water, you probably won't have a large sheet of plastic with you, so I think those guides are kind of useless.
You can use several methods to get fresh water, first of all try to find coconuts, these have a good amount of water in them. Secondly, find depressions in the rocks near the ocean, but areas where the sea water doesn't reach. These will be full of fresh water when it rains, make sure to build a makeshift cover for some of them to stop evaporation, and you can keep using the water out of them for weeks if you do this.
As far as an emergency where you can't wait, look around on the beach area, try to find an aluminium can, these are washed up on nearly every beach, you should be able to find one, no matter how far away you are from civilisation, as they wash in from the ocean often. Try to find two of these, now make a fire put the cans in it, it won't destroy the cans, but it will burn away the internal film inside the cans, you can wash them out further with salt water.
Next you half fill one of the cans with salt water, and put the fire out so it's just hot coals, place this can upright onto the hot coals. The salt water inside will reach boiling point, and steam will rush out of the can opening. You then have the other can nearly entirely full of cold sea water, and you place this can at a diagonal angle above the steam jet coming out of the other can. You can hold the can manually if you want, essentially the hot steam will hit the can full of colder water, and the steam will condense quickly on the surface of the tin, running down it and dripping into something. You can drip it into anything that will act as a container.
With this method you can create about a large drip of fresh water every 2-3 seconds. Obviously the key here is to not hold it manually, and try to rid something up where the condenser can is held above the other can automatically. To do this you can simply have the hot coals buried a bit deeper in the sand, and thus have boiling can mostly submerged under the ground with only the top 2cm or so poking out of the sand, it will still boil fine, but now you can easily place piece of wood around the can to hold up the cold water can above it easily, and because the hot coals are deeper, the wood won't burn above the sand.
With this method, you can set it there and leave it by itself for 10 minutes or so, by which point you will have to refill the boiler can as it will be out of water. With this method, you can easily get fresh water anytime you want, because you are using the salt water as your source, and just distilling it.
Also as Malcolm said, if you find a lizard or something like this, try to remove it's intestines with as little of a cut as possible, and don't overcook it, essentially you want to retain most of the liquid in the lizard for yourself, so it can help hydrate you as well as feed you. Therefore you will have to drink far less water if you are eating foods that have a high moisture content.
When you find crabs, don't cook them, pull the flesh out of the crab and eat it raw, it contains more moisture this way. I don't suggest eating fish raw however, because some fish are safe to eat raw, where as others may have a parasite in their flesh that can get into your organs. Therefore you have to be like the Japanese and know which species that can be safely eaten raw and which can't, obviously you won't have this knowledge, so just be safe and cook all of the fish you capture in the hot coals.
Just as Malcolm showed you, the easiest way to capture fish is to make yourself a little spear. I wouldn't suggest making a large spear and trying to capture large fish however, that's a skill Malcolm learned and the average person won't have success.
I instead suggest making a medium spear, where the end of the spear is 3 prongs, you essentially split the wood, and put a softer wood in the centre to keep the prongs open.
I then suggest you try to hunt in the larger rock pools and such, you can very easily capture a large amount of fish that are around 10-15cm in length, this may seem pathetic, but it's the most realistic way you can survive, you will need to capture probably 6 of these little fish for a meal, at least it's very easy to do however.
Interesting Advice On Survival!🤔🐚🐟🦀🔥🏖
That was some good reading.
Thanks!
Cook it first
You can also find water in bulges of paperbark trees if you can cut into them
Can also sometimes build a fish trap like the first nations did here in Canada.
😎👍 Greetings from Germany Peter
thats so coolturning those canoes into mini yachts
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Man he earnt his Ampol money, bet that was an old stainless steel canoe too, heavy.
Thanks for the upload.
Aluminum?
I thought I had been on some good adventures until I watched this.
Great video thanks
Back when gay meant happy and a pansy was a flower....how I miss my childhood when there was still wonder in the world and no gave a toss about words.
31:37 wow that glass bottle knapping is great
God bless ampol😂
Greetings from Queensland 🤠yet another typical exciting adventure from Mr Douglas rip mate 🦘🦘 as I'm typing this I have a beautiful KELPIE retired from cattle station DUSTY is red KELPIE and indentical to beautiful jowdy in this video U get a rip to jowdy you were a Star of the show to cheers stevo 🦘🦘🐨🐨🦎🦎
The turtle is buried alive in the sand? Go to you-know-where!
Wonder why they didnt develop a bow drill for fire lighting
Jomry is God like
Anybody got any idea what some of the suck music used is called?
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2 white fellas wit names 2 black fellah no names:)just local aborigines, thems was da good ol days.
Jomery & Agamen
The two aboriginal men did have names in their language
If I ate a snake, I wouldn’t stop vomiting 🤮
Then you were never really hungry in your life...👀
There's Always Fish To Be Caught In The River As Well As Crocodiles Freshwater And Saltwater Even Native Bees Honey Or "Sugarbag"!🤠🛶🎣🐟🐊🐝🍯🏞🇦🇺
Food Items Such As Snakes And Turtles Would Have Been Traditionally Eaten By Aboriginals Over Many Thousands Of Years Probably Good Eating!🤔🤠🪃🐍🐢🔥🇦🇺
might be but not gutting it still gets me.
and as Australian born bread here im not allowed to - dub standards
You've Got To Be Quick To Get The Fish Out Of The Water Before The Sharks Grab Them!🤠🛶🎣🐟🦈🏞🇦🇺