Island Time - Episode 29

Great video and music! Can you explain how to make your damper bread please.

Another really great video! Looking forward to the damper recipe Pascale😉

p.s only 1% of most turtles and most sea creatures survive that's why nearly all the species - lay so many eggs - if more than 1% survive there is a plague, also Aboriginals only ate a few they never ate the whole nest they awlays leave some to survive and bury the nest as it was - that is the culture of living off the land and full respect. way to go Aboriginals - teach us all.

My father (white man Father Ex Darwin 1950's early 60's) learnt from Babe Demasso ex elder, Ex darwin. many of these things C/O Free Range Sailing. He knew nothing on his originality ex WWII Child. He was commissioned by the Government back then in the 60's to Kull Crocodiles, back then - there were many many 1000's of them near Darwin. The rules were you had to to eat everything you killed back then, you could cash in on the skins what you ate. Crocodile tastes like oily chicken - lizarrd - and you smell like it when you eat lots - good rules back then. Anyone who lives off the land knows this rule. Anyway the story goes... My dad ended up teaming up with the Aboriginals back then because this ended up as a great feed for them and all their families. White man shooter, lots a crocks, he has a licence to kill crocks (based on the above) well it was born - the Aboriginal tribes fully related - they came from everywhere, they helped, they taught, they treated my dad as an equal, and taught him the ways of the hunting and living like an Aboriginal, including respect, respect of tribe etc etc., catch what you can eat what you catch, How to find them, etc. They taught my Father how to Jump on a Crocodile (on the back big ones 4-6 metres) and they really do go into submission, they drop - you still have to knife them in the head in the submission. Because they have no natural predators. Its like sharks if you invert a Shark they go into a kind of Hibernation - or submission - it would take a lot of guts. Anyway the Journey was over many years fulfilling My father learnt the ways of the Aboriginal Hunter and in equality he provided the means of food and modern world means to cull and survive, in some kind of balance. Its an Outrageous story to most but it is true. Thanks Dad No longer here in a grave in Nambor QLD now. Best Respects DAD miss you and thanks Free Range Sailing providing a glimpse of my fathers Journey XX Thanks.

Very interesting as usual. We don't often get to see a native looking for turtle eggs. I liked your safety line method for climbing the mast too, you always manage to teach this old dog a new trick or two.