Australian Documentary of the Outback in NW Australia

As a US national, all my life I have resided in the western Great Lakes region near the Canadian border.

It is kind of a miracle I can stream video at all given my rural location. I just happen to be nearby a cell tower, but I'm down in a hollow. That is another story, but it wasn't an easy to find solution here. Only one company, not a popular consideration, could get me hooked up to it and it works very well using their Mo-Fi router. Satellite fails badly, but kind of works. I eventually dumped it !

Last night I happened upon a streaming documentary from Australia.

What I was able to stream last night is a solo self made documentary by Michael Atkinson called 'Surviving the Outback'. It retraces in survival mode an incident in 1932 of two stranded German aviators in northwestern Australia.

One thing that surprised me was the abundance of Crocs near the ocean !
I know that alligator preferred habitat is a freshwater marsh, but they often do swim the coast.
This was a far different habitat, extremely dry, but beautifully natively vegetated to the interior.
It is truly nature worth protecting.

Also surprising was how remote it still really is.
One needs permission from the local aboriginals to even be there.

I'm still not sure what the 'bush tucker' plants were that he ate.
The film also shows the extreme prejudice the rescuing aboriginals faced at that time.
Sadly, I can't say that the US has done much better.

Note: The Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canada is well worth visiting. I have been there. https://bushplane.com

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Currently estimated to be 100,000 Saltwater crocs in the NT. They're well known to swim kilometres offshore in search of food, or a mate.
The Bush Tucker Man is worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7HSPnTFVAuFQkVzs3KzXjGXO78x-0HNE