A labyrinth of islands and seaways lies before the wind ship Alcyon and her team led by Jean
Michel Cousteau.
They enter an isolated enclave of primeval woods and seas in the Pacific Northwest.
A domain of giants, of waters quaking with life, providing lavish sustenance for hunters
of the ocean and hunters of the air.
So bountiful are the seas and forests that Indian nations here were the richest hunting
and gathering societies in human history.
The immense cedars once carved into native canoes now float away to distant continents
and another culture has arrived to carve away entire forests.
As the Cousteau team will see, a clash has erupted between newcomer and first-comer.
In the cool waters of the Pacific Northwest, however, primordial ways endure.
Here an aquatic feast nourishes many creatures to a greater size than similar species elsewhere.
Among them, the world's largest octopus.
Animals of peculiar form dwell here as well, patrolling the sea floor or lurking in the
eerie darkness of a crevice.
Drawn by the rich waters, behemoths from afar journey here to feed, struggling like the
Indians to reclaim their heritage.
So begins Alcyon's next mission of rediscovery into a North country trembling with change
yet still ruled by giants.
Giants of the land and of the sea.
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Sovereign of the trackless sea, singer of nature's longest, most varied songs.
The humpback whale is renowned for its peaceable ways.
Yet as a Cousteau camera records, males sometimes converge in prelude to violent combat over
females.
Jules between creatures the size of passenger buses.
Deborah and Mark Ferrari, pioneers in the underwater study of humpbacks through photography,
are joined by Elcion's team during a stop in Hawaii.
Under special permit, the Ferraris have spent 14 years in Maui documenting the breeding
and calf rearing of the humpbacks.
Though protected, the species' number is only about 10% of its pre-whaling population.
To learn if that population is dwindling or increasing, the Ferraris spend their days
in the company of fellow swimmers weighing 40 tons.
Before them, a male and female engage in a ponderous dance of courtship.
A sign of gentleness.
An adult glides by, belly exposed, and maneuvers its flippers to avoid striking the human visitor.
Deborah found that a male escort often accompanies a cow and calf, and as in this shot, drives
away other male suitors.
But disconcertingly, she has also found ailing youngsters, and worries that humpbacks may
not be increasing because many calves may not be surviving.
You spend a lot of time in the water.
Right.
Why is that?
Because we want to do two things.
First of all, we want to identify individuals.
We're specifically studying mothers and calves to determine major facts about their reproductive
cycle.
And one of the common methods of identifying humpbacks is the undersurface of their tails.
Each one has distinctive pigment patterns.
Well, mothers and calves generally don't float up above the surface of the water, so we had
to go below the water to find out something else we could use to identify them with.
We also like to go up to Southeast Alaska, and that's where the largest concentration
of humpbacks, these same animals, the same population, goes in the summertime to feed.
One of the problems that we have with calves is that their pigmentation pattern isn't
set in.
So if we can recognize a female here that has a calf here, then see her in Alaska with
her calf, and see how the pigmentation pattern has changed and set in with the calf, it may
give us a clue to being able to identify the calves in later years as adults when they
enter the breeding population.
It's one thing to be reproduced.
It's another thing to be recruited into the population.
A high birth rate is good, but it doesn't mean that the calves are surviving.
And that's one of the questions we're trying to answer now is what is happening with the
calves.
As humpbacks depart Hawaii to follow an unknown route northward to their feeding grounds,
the Cousteau team decides to attempt to rendezvous with the whales in the north in hope of learning
more about the fate of the calves.
From the layover in Maui, Alcyon returns to its course of rediscovery.
He heads toward her next mission among the myriad islands along the coast of Canada and
southeast Alaska.
Here the team will explore waters of unusual vitality, rich in plankton, roamed by extraordinary
creatures.
The expedition, part of a study of nature's treasure islands, will now include an inquiry
into the plight of humpback whales.
The first to arrive, expedition leader Dominique Soumian, who surveys possible study sites
on a reconnaissance flight in advance of Alcyon.
Despite a constant watch during the crossing from Hawaii, not a single humpback is sighted
from Alcyon.
The migration route to the whales, undiscovered even by whaling ships, will remain a mystery.
Nor is there any sign of the humpbacks as Jean-Michel and his team arrive in the waters
off British Columbia.
For the ship's crew, time now to turn from whale watching to the routine work of bringing
to light other secrets of the undersea world.
The first observation, Echinoderms like the Urchin and Sea Star thrive in greater variety
in the Pacific Northwest than anywhere in the world.
Among them, the Basket Star, which snags plankton by forming itself into a makeshift basket.
The Ratfish, small relative of the shark, perhaps named for its rodent-like teeth.
Jean-Michel comes upon a famed resident of these waters.
Humans fear the shy and curious octopus is better understood now, even revered as the
most intelligent of all invertebrates.
They reach their greatest size here.
Specimens 20 feet in diameter have been documented, and even larger have been reported.
Our ancestors, thinking them evil, call them devil fish, yet in fact they are inspiring
creatures.
The octopus mother hangs her eggs like strands of pearls in a cave.
She refuses to eat for five months in order to attend to her eggs.
It is the greatest of sacrifices, debilitated, she dies as her young emerge.
As the divers glide deeper, a forest of bone-white anemones called metridium presents an eerie
tableau.
In a cave, diver Mark Blessington confronts the haunting sight of a near-human face.
A crab is offered in friendship.
Neither ghost, monster, or muppet, it is a fish called the wolf eel.
Equipped by evolution with a leathery mouth and powerful jaws, the wolf eel can devour
nearly any shelled creature, even a spiny sea urchin.
Mesmerized by the apparition before him, Blessington proffers more gifts, brittle star, more crabs,
all are consumed.
Yet like the octopus, the menacing appearance of the wolf eel is deceptive.
But too is a timid creature, more apt to hide or flee than to attack its visitors.
One cannot know the perceptions of another species evolved in another medium.
Retreating into its dark lair, gaping at the new creatures in its midst, perhaps the wolf
eel is startled by such ugliness.
But Ghьте in the
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The raucous cry of the bald eagle, nearly stilled across the lower 48 United States,
continues to resonate throughout the Pacific Northwest. By the thousands, bald eagles congregate
each year to await the living bonanza that arrives from the sea. Dominique Soumion enters
a coastal stream in British Columbia for a close look at the manna that sustains scores
of northern predators. The seasonal flood of salmon schools ending their ocean journeys,
running up the home streams of their birth to spawn and die. Few creatures are so accommodating
to their pursuers. Arriving from the sea in their prime on a regular schedule and at a
predictable place, in shallows where they are easily caught, salmon provide a dependable,
even extravagant food supply year after year. Finding an untended net along the shore, the
Cousteau team watches as imprisoned young salmon are harvested from above. The fish
that feeds eagle and bear and wolf has also fed another hunter across 10 millennia. Footage
taken by pioneering photographer Edward Curtis furnishes a rare glimpse into the past. Northwest
coast Indians here costumed in honor of their fellow hunters, sailing cedar canoes, developed
an aboriginal culture of extraordinary affluence. Their elaborate artwork and ceremonial events
were possible because the easy gifts of sea and forest afforded much leisure time. Salmon
and other seafood were swiftly gathered and preserved. Canoes, houses, totem poles, even
clothing were fashioned from abundant cedar trees. There was no need to farm. There was
reason to celebrate nature. Skilled seafarers, coastal tribes roam near shore waters for
seals and sea otters, even ventured farther out to capture whales. Yet the foundation
of their wealth was the salmon. Perpetuating ancestral techniques, they clean and cure
the fish, stockpiling a year's food supply. Once entire tribes gathered in summer fish
camps to catch and smoke salmon. Now as Haida Indians Marjorie and Wesley Pearson show Cousteau
and Sumion, the preserving is usually carried out in backyard smoke houses.
A means of subsistence for native families, salmon is also the richest commercial fishery
of the Northwest. Called in by local boats, many owned by Indians, the catch will be processed,
canned and shipped for the most part to Europe. Though profitable, fishing can be a perilous
enterprise in these waters where a storm or blinding fog can descend with little warning.
In the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Alcyon approaches the site of a momentous ship collision.
In 1947, just where we now motor cautiously, a ship's prow suddenly emerged from the white
oblivion of the fog, fatally ramming a freighter laden with a fortune. The diamond knot disappeared
with a cargo of seven million cans of salmon, worth nearly four million dollars. In an effort
to regain the precious salmon cargo, crews mounted a million dollar salvage operation,
the largest ever attempted to that date. With hard hat divers below, feeding immense siphon
pipelines, nearly six million cans were retrieved. Most of the salmon was saved, but the diamond
knot would be seen again only by divers. We descend where she sank, victim of fog above,
now blanketed below by a living mist of plankton. Under 135 feet of water, the anchor. A jungle
of metridium has unshrouded her, suggesting a strange ship of cauliflower stalks. A female
wolf eel emerges to inspect us.
A male wolf eel upside down. We have no idea why.
Through a bulkhead, Wilcox finds a reminder that the diamond knot was once a treasure
ship, now serves only as an outpost for eels. Slicing through the waters about Alcyon, not
humpbacks, but creatures revered by Northwest Indians as the kings of the sea, the whales
called orcas, or killer whales.
I send Cornu to film quickly, but the orcas are in no hurry to leave. They are such masters
of their environment, so strong and agile, they seem to have no fear of us. They probably
have in fact no natural enemies. Like Northwest native tribes, they find abundant food in
this rich seas, leaving them ample time we can only conclude for merely having fun.
Orcas use a common array of sounds to communicate, yet each pod, which is a family, has a dialect
different from all other pods. No other creature is known to have developed such a dialect
system. As we watch, the orcas descend to rub their bodies across smooth pebbles on the
bottom. Scientists suspect they may be scraping away dead skin or algae, but no one knows
the purpose. Maybe it simply feels good. Suddenly we hear bursts of sound. A salmon drifts near
the surface, appears to be paralyzed. An awesome display of undersea weaponry thunders through
the waters about us. Imagine creatures so gifted they can fell their prey with volleys
of sound, then leisurely collect the meal. Perhaps the Indians knew best, naming them
kings of the sea.
Regard for orcas and all of nature still inspires the descendants of Northwest tribes, yet their
lives today are an amalgam of times past and present. In the Klingit Indian village of
Angoon in Southeast Alaska, Louis Preslin asked tribal elder Daniel Johnson about the
encroachment of the outside world.
Though technology like the satellite dish has invaded the land of the totem pole, the
tribes rigorously maintain old ways, seek to pass the ancestral culture to new generations.
Their world renowned art, largely carved from cedar, celebrates the creatures of the seas
and woods about them. Elders survive who still recall fish camps and potlatch gatherings,
know the story of each heraldic crest, which like the European coats of arms, depict animals
symbolic in the lineage of a clan. Salmon and bear, beaver, eagle, the headdress of
the shark, another of the orca.
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At the deserted village of Ninstance in the Queen Charlotte's, Haida descendant Gary Edenshaw
shows Sumiyon a cedar cemetery.
They're mortuary pole. There was somebody buried in the top of this one.
But the great trees that supported native cultures across 10,000 years are now in peril,
besieged by the culture of the chainsaw and the clear cut.
In some areas of the coast today, few of the towering cedars survive. Some were a thousand
years old. Even their stumps dwarf the six foot two Sumiyon.
The wood itself has been treasured by native and logger alike for its unique qualities,
soft and light, easily cut, yet strong and weather resistant.
Such precious woods and the exhaustion of eastern timberland brought a rush of lumbermen
to the north coast early in the century. Virgin trees toppled to quickly regenerate, or so
it was believed.
But second growth trees do not grow as fast or as well as predicted. So the ancient forest
and the wildlife within continue to disappear.
To certain conservation groups, clear cutting is a loss of irreplaceable wilderness and
of potential tourist dollars.
To loggers like John McLaughlin, the cutting of trees provides jobs, supplies lumber for
new homes, wood for furniture, pulp for paper. New totems arise. The trees of the native
elders recede.
Halcyon inspects log booms that seem endless.
Seeing their forest on the verge of annihilation, some native tribes have decided to act. The
Haida filed a land claim in 1981 to regain possession of territories scheduled for clear
cutting, territories their ancestors had never ceded by treaty. While the government wrestled
with the question of ownership, logging camps remained. Cutting continued.
On an inspection tour in the Queen Charlotte Islands, Jean Michel visits the area in contention
on South Moresby Island. He is greeted by Kerry McGurlick.
Like at Lyle Island here, we've been here for 11 years. Some of the people here have
been here that full time. They've got their families here. We've got a small school. We're
a small community.
The living generation of Haidas today have a responsibility to perpetuate a culture that's
existed on these lands and in our homelands for over 10,000 years. We've been in contact
with non-Haida societies for less than 100 years with any substantial contact. And our
very existence of our cultural identity is threatened.
There's room for industry. There's room for tourism. There's room for those that if they
want to go right out to the west coast, it's just a total wilderness experience. Beautiful
country out the west coast and we wouldn't be proposing to log anywhere near those areas
at all. So there definitely is room up here for everybody.
Queen Charlotte Islands is Haida land. It's our land. And it's been, we've been raped
for so many years on our island and we're only asking for a portion of it.
The native land claims that's something that has never, there never has been an issue settled.
And the British Columbia government feels that the Canadian government should be responsible
for resolving the issues. And so far nothing has been settled. I don't feel that it should
take 10 years to come up with an answer to a problem.
In 1985, concerned the trees would be gone before the claim was settled. The Haida blocked
the road used by Frank Bebben's logging company.
You're breaking the law and you're stopping us from going to work and we ask you to step
aside and let us continue.
There will be no logging on the area that the Haida people have designated as not to
be touched. This is Haida land and there'll be no further logging in this area.
The battle was joined.
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Their operation stalled by the Haida roadblock, loggers marshal the forces of law.
Morning Miles.
Two Supreme Court orders here.
Armed with court orders, they present the natives with two choices. Retreat or arrest.
Joined by sympathetic supporters, including a member of the provincial parliament, the
Haida at first stand their ground. Then give way to avoid violence.
We realise that what's at stake is our survival as a nation. And we can't survive in a land
of stumps.
Yet as Clay Wilcox sees, the culture of the loggers is also rooted in the forest. He even
exalts in sport the skills of tree harvesting. And sees its own survival threatened by the
native land claims.
They are hard workers. Come here to find employment and then to raise families.
Across the gulf between cultures, two peoples of the forest drift on a collision course.
Refusing to abandon their cause, the Haida return, determined to force the provincial
and federal governments to act on their land claims and to halt the clear cutting.
Eventually, 72 are arrested, wearing vestments adorned with clan symbols. Raven, bear, and
eagle. Creatures that would pass with the loss of the great trees.
As Alcyon prepares to depart British Columbia, the claim of the Haida still remains unsettled.
Logging continues.
To follow events here, Jean-Michel and a small team remain behind. If the Cousteau crew is
to reach the Arctic before winter sets in, Alcyon must sail northward immediately.
Meanwhile to the south in Vancouver, a crew of Haida sailors also departs.
We're all with you. Take Lutas home. Haua.
They embark in a cedar canoe. They have christened Lutas the wave eater.
They will attempt to revive their cause and their culture by paddling homeward to the
Queen Charlotte's.
It is a journey of 500 miles.
At the same time as his ship leaves to study polar bears in the Bering Sea, Jean-Michel
receives word that at long last humpback whales have been sighted here. He arranges for Deborah
and Mark Ferrari to fly north and join him aboard a chartered vessel.
For the Ferraris, it is the first opportunity long awaited to search the northern range
of the humpbacks for individuals they have come to know in Hawaii.
We finally made it to Alaska and are you expecting to encounter some of the whales you've been
working with for 13 years?
Yes, we're hoping to see some of the same individuals that we identified in Hawaii and
we're hoping to see them here and we're especially interested in the mothers and calves so we
can determine some factors about their growth rates and the survival rates of the calves.
One of the things that we're most concerned about is the recruitment rate of the calves.
It's one thing for them to be born. We see young animals all the time in Hawaii but the
real question is whether or not they're surviving and going to reach maturity and this is one
of the places that we'll be able to tell that.
The Ferraris will not dive with the whales however. The very reason humpbacks come to
feed here, the rich broth of marine organisms, makes the water too murky for underwater photography.
During the islands of southeast Alaska, we briefly joined two friends on their lifelong
pursuit to decipher the nature of another species and its prospects for survival. They
are determined to spend the next 50 years with humpbacks, photographing, researching
and marveling at the existence of such formidable beings.
As we meet the arriving humpbacks, the Ferraris search for telltale birthmarks and battle
wounds eager to find acquaintances. They're called by such names as Big Hunk, Sprinkles
and Daisy.
Watching my excited friends, I think of how far we've advanced. They use cameras to study
without intrusion. In the past, most facts about humpbacks came from the carcasses examined
at whaling stations. Yet the mystery has a reason. Though humpbacks have been protected
for 20 years, their population does not appear to be growing. The Ferraris fear this means
humpback calves may be dying.
As the hours pass, the exhilaration of identifying several Hawaiian humpbacks is tempered by
concern. Among more than 70 humpbacks sighted, we find only two calves. Where are their babies?
Are the adults feasting before us, the current generation of these creatures? Or one of the
last?
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people for a number of years. Many of them have damaged their spinal cord in an accident
and now live a life in a wheelchair. And I came across this young man from Europe who
had no family here and had damaged his neck in an accident and lost the use of his arms,
hands and body. And over and over again, every time I saw him, he wanted to die. He wanted
me to help him die. He wanted me to kill him almost. And I said to him, I don't know what
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he's still alive, has spent 23 years in his chair and is playing cards, playing chess
and reading and speaking with lots of disabled people. In their Northern California office
two months later, the Ferraris report their findings to Jean-Michel. Very exciting. We
identified 79 different individuals during that week in Alaska. And the real exciting
part is that we were able to identify six whales that we had previously photographed
in Hawaii. This is a whale that we call Cutter. You can see that he has a little cut on the
edge of his, the trailing edge of his flukes. And this is Cutter in Hawaii in 1985. And
again here you can see the cut still present two years later in 1987. All the marks are
identical. Is it accidental or does it come at birth? The cut probably occurred when the
whales were fighting. This whale is a male and he has been seen in active groups when
the males do fight and often times they do receive injuries and scars. This whale is
a whale we call Big Scar. You can notice this huge scar in front of his dorsal fin on his
back. How he got that we don't know. It may have been caused by a boat. He may have been
hit by a boat by a propeller. Could it be maybe a harpoon or a kind of explosion? It's
very possible. It could have been hit by a harpoon. When you particularly take a look
at the underwater photographs where you get a clear view of that scar, it's difficult
to say because we don't know what caused it but it certainly looks like it could have
been a harpoon. The big question, where are the calves? That is a real good question. That's
the one thing that we're most interested in is finding out about the survival rate of
the calves. We're very concerned about what's happening to the calves. In Hawaii last year
we saw two sick calves, two calves washed ashore and we had another two juveniles that
were very sick. We were afraid that the population is becoming more stressed because of habitat
loss. Mothers and calves used to come in very close to shore in Hawaii in order to rest.
It's been the entire day along the coastline. About 80% of our sightings back in 1978 were
with mothers and calves and close to shore. Now that percentage has gone down to 6.8%
of our sightings. One question is, is the habitat loss because of all the activities
going on, the near shore activities such as jet skis, parasails, thrill craft activities,
is this causing the whales to move offshore and subsequently giving them a lot of stress
that they wouldn't ordinarily have? For now, the fate of the humpback calves remains hidden
by the obscurity and the immensity of the ocean. The Ferrari's hope their breeding grounds
in Maui can be turned to a sanctuary. How we call the words of scientist Victor Schaeffer,
as the whale is great so to cherish it can be proof of our greatness. While the humpback
remains in jeopardy, the great trees of the Haida on the Queen Charlotte Islands do not.
Soon after Alcyon's departure, British Columbia and Canada agree to designate the area a national
park. Logging will be banned forever. Though Haida land claims are not yet addressed, the
establishment of the park is considered a victory for the natives, whose sacred trees
will now survive. For the Haida, the joy is compounded. The homecoming of Lutas coincides
with the end of logging. For the first time in about the last hundred years, the Haida
nation and the government of Canada and the government of British Columbia have agreed
that a very significant area in our homelands is to be left intact. For a people whose ancestors
perished from diseases brought by invaders, whose salmon and cedar were shipped to other
lands, the return of a single canoe, the saving of a single forest, can seem like the rebirth
of the world.
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great pristine area stretching out across the vast outback. This wild and beautiful
country is sought after today for a glimpse of a world that was a source of recharging
jaded human batteries run down by the pressures of urban living as we close the 20th century.
The four-wheel drive vehicle has given any family with the desire access to these areas.
These vehicles have been the key to unlocking the wild country. Many of these outback tracks
can be treacherous. The deserts can be a harsh guard. To go into these areas unprepared can
and sometimes does mean disaster. The best investment in safety is knowledge. Author
and photographer Bruce Honeywell is one person with a depth of knowledge of survival in the
outback. Today with partner Tina Plumb, he travels the outback collecting information,
keeping records and taking photographs. This couple publishes the collected information
as a source for would-be outback travellers. In a year, this couple will travel in excess
of 40,000 kilometres on unsealed roads, cross deserts and flooded rivers, searching and collecting
information that will allow others to find adventure in the outback with safety. We invite
you to join us in just one year's travel. We'll cross the flooded Coopers Creek, attempt
to cross the Simpson Desert not once but twice. We'll travel through the Kimberleys to see
the bungal bungals burning at sunset. We'll leave the four-wheel drive behind and go fishing
off the coast of Arnhem Land. We'll find a sad Aboriginal burial and art site that only
recently had been desecrated. We'll travel down the crocodile infested Roper River in
search of a shipwrecked 120 years ago. On the way to the start of the trek across the
Simpson Desert is Coopers Creek. We have a brief and peaceful sojourn on the banks of
this beautiful water course. We drive the crossing near Birkenwill's dig tree with care.
The creek bottom at this point is solid but we're careful to take a course downstream
slightly to avoid a deep hole. The dig tree still grows in a land of plenty. It's hard
to imagine the tragedy laid out on these banks 140 years ago. This is a very famous tree
in Australian heritage. It's the dig tree on Coopers Creek. This is where Robert O'Hara
Burke and his offside of wills came down from the gulf after one of the most epic journeys
in Australian exploration history. Not far from the dig tree travellers still get into
trouble. These fellas were coming down from Birdsville. While travelling with all the
comforts of home, their vehicles not suited to travel on these tracks. The Toyota's winch
soon has the truck on solid ground. Coopers Creek is magnificent. We enter the special
inner world of the waterway and paddle from our camp down to the small town of Innaminka.
The roads around Innaminka can be treacherous
after the wet. We travel north and take a little time out at the ruins of Kadelga station.
Tina contemplates her own vehicle but while the price might be right, it's seen better
days. The mules take an interest in the travellers, especially when Tina produces a bright piece
of yellow material. The big birds can't help their curiosity. The Simpson's crossing starts
at the Rig Road turn off, 212 kilometres south of Birdsville, along the Birdsville track.
Welcome to the Simpson Desert. This might be a strange introduction to a desert. This
is Warburton Creek and it's the eastern boundary to the desert. The Rig Road is the easier
of the two popular Simpson crossings. With Tina's daughter Juliet, we're crossing by
the Rig Road and then attempting to return to Birdsville by the soft sand and bigger
sand hills of the French line. There are still remnants of earlier pastoral times when landholders
made a living in the good times right out into the desert. From the old cattle yards
we head out into the desert proper. The soft sand of the sand hills on the Rig Road have
been surfaced with clay. It's known as a clayed road. On through the day the vehicle
travels consuming the miles of the Rig Road. While the track looks easy, the distance and
remoteness make it potentially dangerous for the inexperienced. The Simpson Desert is a
huge expanse of rolling sand hills measuring some 150,000 square kilometres. It was only
named in 1939 by the latter day explorer C.T. Madigan. The first person to cross the desert
was Ted Colson who in 1936 crossed from Bloods Creek Station to Birdsville in a blistering
19 days following heavy rain that supplied green pick and ample drinking water for his
livestock. The four wheel drive vehicle must be adequately equipped for the desert. Auxiliary
fuel tanks, strength and suspension and heavy duty protection equipment are necessary. We
also carry a two way radio tuned into the Flying Doctor network just in case of major
problems. Out in the desert a lone gum tree grows like a plaything of nature's whim, choosing
the lonely existence of desert life. But not so lonely in recent years. The tree's cool
shade is a welcome resting spot for many passing travellers. The road is long and the eroded
clay tops of the sand hills add to the roughness of the trip being badly washed out by recent
rains. And then the harshness of the desert is behind us as we drive into an oasis. Bill
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come on Australia, ring 008 809 387 now or send your donations to this address. And with
your help the Endeavour will once again sail into Botany Bay in a tribute to a great nations
birthright. Fernie Boar is indeed an oasis in the desert. Steaming, boiling water gushes
out of the ground, feeding a series of water holes that have become a life giving centre
to a whole ecology of wildlife. Birds are everywhere around Fernie. Top knot pigeons
drink in the late afternoon while carrying out a bit of social chit chat. West from Fernie
and on to the edge of the Simpson is Dalhousie Springs. Here springs fill great ponds with
warm water and fresh air. The
birds are everywhere around Fernie. Top knot pigeons drink in the late afternoon while
carrying out a bit of social chit chat. West from Fernie and on to the edge of the Simpson
is Dalhousie Springs. Here springs fill great ponds with warm water, a very special reward
and respite after a long desert crossing. The springs are an ideal camp and make an
outdoor office to catch up on a bit of work.
Only 12 kilometres from the springs are the Dalhousie ruins. Dreams of a pastoral empire
once flourished here, as well as being a repeater station for the Overland Telegraph line. But
drought smashed the dreams of greatness. The station established by Ted Baggott at the
end of the last century today glows in the afternoon sun under the still flourishing
date palms. Heading back from Fernie it's only 31 kilometres to the start of the French
line. The soft sand of the first hill is a distinct difference from the clade hills of
the rig road. Once in the soft sand it's necessary to partially deflate the tyres to maintain
traction and flotation. Around 15 psi is found to be a good starting point.
Even with deflated tyres some hills are difficult. It's a matter of calmly reversing back and
trying again. And getting the speed just right is a challenge.
The track of the French line is fairly easy to follow. A reasonable pace can be maintained
on the flats between the sand hills. Even out on the desert birthdays don't go away.
The further the track heads east the more salt lakes are crossed. These can be treacherous
if still wet. Even when dry they make heavy going for the four wheel drive. Juliette amuses
herself while we work on the lake. Her backyard is huge.
Here in the middle of the desert is a very special spot.
Popple's corner is the point where the Northern Territory, Queensland and South Australia shake
hands. This point was surveyed by Augustus Popple in 1880. Conditions were different
in those days. No tracks to follow and no air conditioned four wheel drives. Popple
took six months to cover 300 kilometres on his slow moving camels. Popple was the first
European explorer to venture into the desert that was to be later called the Simpson.
The desert's just about behind us. You can just about taste the cold beer at Birdsville.
Only one problem. Big Red. This is Big Red. As far as sand hills go it's the challenge
of the Simpson Desert. It's not necessary to go straight over it on the QAA line. There's
a good bypass for most four wheel drives with a lot of difficulty off to the north. I'm going
to give it a go. I'm not saying I'm going to get over there but I'll give it one or
two goes. If I can't get across I'll just wander around. It's no big deal.
The temptation was too great. The one try extended into two and three but the heavily
laden Toyota just would not pull over the talc soft top. Not without deflating the tyres
and running it too fast for safety. Birdsville. Never was there so small a town that seemed
so wonderful after a week or two in the desert. Now it's time to head for the Kimberleys.
At Alice Springs Juliet returns home to the city. From here in the land of road trains
we start the Tanami Track. This track is a long run of some 1400 kilometres with few
services crossing the Tanami Desert. Out in the desert lie the granite's gold fields.
This long abandoned source of wealth has been kick started in recent years with the increasing
value of gold. The ruins still lie about the golden riches telling of tough old times when
fortunes were sought in the remotest of deserts. When a miners belongings would be hauled a
thousand kilometres in a wheelbarrow. The Tanami Track is a reasonably graded dirt road. The
Tanami Desert is a flat desert of spin effects totally removed from the red sand hills of
the Simpson. When leaving the track care should be taken not to get spin effects caught under
the vehicle as it contains a resin that is highly flammable and can be ignited by a vehicles
exhaust pipe. The borders crossed. In Western Australia the track becomes a little rougher.
It's a long haul across the Tanami but at the end of the track is the wonderful geographical
jewel the Kimmel. Monday. Who put it in the fibre flakes box and where are the fibre flakes?
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the last ridge the sights of the bungal bungal massive takes the breath away. With the sun
setting it's magnificent vista.
It's been said the best way to see the bungal bungals is from the air. Tina, Neil and Michael
book up the three seater helicopter that works the bungals during the season.
The unexpected emotion of the trip bubbles out of Tina as she rejoins us. The bungal
bungals are indeed a special place. Windham is the cauldron port of the Kimberleys. Stewing
under the bluffs of the bastion. This town has cleaned up its act in recent years metamorphosizing
from a lazy Kimberley port and meatworks town to a clean old world town facing a future
of tourism. The touristy thing to do at sundown is to join the side seers at what used to
be the blood gutter from the now demolished meatworks. Today the crocs are fed fish leftovers
to maintain this tourist tradition and on cue the crocs come. Above Windham from the
lofty bluffs of the bastion is an eagle's eye view of the Kimberley river system. From
Windham we leave the heavily beaten tourist paths. We head into the rugged heart of the
Kimberley into real four wheel drive country along the Gibb River Road. The Coburn Rangers
are out of a western movie set. Their bluffs soar red and tall. This is country where eagles
dare. The Gibb River Road crosses the ranges then crosses the rocky bed of the Pentecost
River. Climbing into the mosquito hills on Home Valley Station there's a vantage point
that looks out across the Pentecost Valley to the magnificent Coburns. Dyrack River Station
is a new traveller centre on the Gibb River Road built on Jack's Waterhole part of the
Dyrack River. Jack's Waterhole was once a favoured camping spot of a drover of old.
Here he let his horses graze and fatten in the off season making ready for the following
seasons work of taking Karungi bullocks through to the rail heads of far distant Queensland
half a continent away. The station's facilities offer meals and showers and the waterhole
is a great place in which to cool down. The Gibb River Road joins gorgeous and creek crossings
spearing right through the hearts of the real Kimberley. It's a track running from Windham
to Derby. It can be rough and corrugated and there are many wet crossings like the Barnett
River. Quiet, isolated camps are easy to find even though there are many four wheeled drivers
on the road today. Here in the heart of the King Leopold's there's time to reflect away
from stringent deadlines and fast trip times. Time to absorb the quiet magnificence of the
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Under the dramatic shapes of a fossilised coral reef, the Napier Range, are the ruins
of the Lily Marula police station. At the turn of the century this was an outpost of
European settlement, further removed from civilisation than a moon settlement would be today.
Where the forces of white settlement waged war on the local fierce aboriginals.
It wasn't a war easily won, and black gorillas waged successful hit and run tactics, fighting
for their birthright right through the first quarter of this century.
Injana Gorge is a magnificent cleft in the Kimberley Range. Freshwater crocks are plentiful,
and Tina approaches one and gets a shock as this fellow lunges into the water.
Kimberley nights. We drive on beneath the tropical moon. We have to make a business
appointment in Broome. The fairy dance of dry season bushfires play and tune to the sound
of the night birds on the warm air. Magnificent country.
We're on Bitumen Road again, with all the Gibb River road information collected. This
time heading for Arnhem Land via Halls Creek. Old Halls Creek is a ghost town. Desert winds
blow through the ruins of what was once a thriving gold town. The cemetery is a sad
reminder of the hardships that confronted the miners and their families of half a century
ago. Tombstones tell of hopefuls who perished on the Tanami Track, and of the grief of mothers
who could do little but watch their babies die of fever. Today the frontier spirit is
not dead, and a new building has risen among the old, offering a range of services to visitors.
But the ruins are deteriorating as time goes on. Each wet season washes more of the old
post office back to the earth from where it came. It is of all Australians' interests
to maintain these buildings for the future, so visitors can get a feel of just how hard
it was in the pioneering days. With the four wheel drive left behind, it was time for another
style of travel. This time in the diesel powered fishing boat the Oceanitis. This boat's based
in Nullamboy on the north east corner of Arnhem Land. Playing fisher folk rent the craft for
some of the best fishing in the world off the almost unknown Arnhem Land coast. It's
not long before Frank and Ron have got their lines wet, and the long trip flying up from
down south's starting to pay off. Skipper John Grimes has a good knowledge of our northern
coastline, but there are some reefs that even he doesn't know about. In spite of a few setbacks,
the fish come in. John hooks a little reef shark, who in turn hooks himself. Fishing
along reefs close to the shore, a variety of reef fish are pulled in, mostly choice
coral trout. The anchor comes up, but we're steaming northward, past the dog dreaming
islands. In Aboriginal dream time mythology, it's believed that these islands are the
tracks of the ancestral dingo as he crossed the Arafura coming to our land from the north.
The rugged rocky coast of Arnhem Land is spectacular as we steam past.
We round Cape Wilberforce and cruise into the calm waters of Elizabeth Bay. Here Matthew
Flinders on his voyage of discovery came across a fleet of prowls. The Macassarees people
came down from the Celebes in what's now northern Indonesia each year and hunted Beshtemer.
These sea slugs were boiled and dried in the hot sands of these beaches and sold to the
Chinese market for high prices. The dried Beshtemer were used to make an aphrodisiac
soup. The beaches of Elizabeth Bay have been the scene of commerce for centuries. Today
as part of Arnhem Land, they're pretty much deserted.
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The Wessel Islands run like a narrow finger of rugged land up into the Arafura. Through
the centre of the Wessels is a narrow fast-flowing channel called the Hole in the Wall. It's
used as a course for trawlers and fishing boats travelling between Darwin and the Gulf
of Carpentaria. We steam for the Hole in the Wall. Skipper John Grimes has picked his tide
right. We glide through the deep, fast-flowing passage. The rock formation of the Wessels
is spectacular. Historic graffiti adorns the rock walls, telling of the boats and ships
that have made the crossing.
On the lee side, we drop anchor. There's supposedly some good fishing around the Hole
in the Wall. But it's not long before the Travali are running in the channel. It's
like an aquarium, big fish in clear water.
Outside the main channel, the big queenfish run.
Trailing along the coast, Frank finds the action he's been looking for. Watch this.
Frank has hooked one and is playing it. Just watch John, who's just playing around with
a light rod while Frank works. Yep, he's got one too. Two queenies together. This is fishing.
Frank rounds off the day with a beauty. At Truant Island, a pre-breakfast throw-in delivers
a big barracuda. Caught come up out of the clear water for breakfast scraps.
The Truant light saves many ships from running aground on dangerous shoals, but even with
the light, some don't make it. Up on the headland, age-old rock placements tell of communication
between Aboriginals and the Macassarees through the centuries.
Now, Terry Yumbolool, who's the traditional owner of this part of the island group, his
totem, his family totem, is the whale. And the rock at Cape Arnhem, as it is a wash,
is known as Yumbolool. He uses the whale as his symbol, and here we have the whale depicted
in his totemic form with the outline that you can see around here as the whale is breaching.
And here's the whale's tail. The rocks were used by the Macassarees and the Aboriginals
to communicate. They were symbolic terms, and one of the rock formations is still used
today by the Boy Scouts, and it's the international symbol for goodbye.
John Grimes is a fisherman who cares for his chosen environment.
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On the other side of Arnhem Land, on its southern edge, is the Roper River.
A tropical river, the home of the saltwater crocodile.
It wasn't far from here that we found a sad reminder of the callousness of humans, but
also a splendid art site.
Following directions given me by an Aboriginal stockman some years ago, I climbed a steep
rock wall, too slippery for boots.
I entered the cathedral quiet of the cave.
It was a powerful place, a place commanding respect.
I walked into the main section.
Magnificent paintings were spread overhead.
And then I saw them.
A chill went down my spine.
These were human bones.
Human bones still daubed in red ochre from ancient burial rites.
But they should have been rolled in paper bag.
And where were the skulls?
The whole picture slowly dawned.
The burial site up on a rock ledge had been desecrated.
The unwanted bones thrown in a heap on the cave floor below.
The skulls taken for whatever reason.
The unwanted, very sacred site.
Probably the family group, with responsibility for the caretaking of this country, had been
shot out in the wars that raged in this country as late as the 1930s.
Up on the Roper, we once again meet up with Neil Bromley.
This time, he's bought his tinny.
And it's with Skipper Bromley we're now looking for the wreck of the Young Australian.
The Young Australian was a steam-driven paddle wheeler tugboat.
It was set up to the wild Arnhem coast in 1870 to tow ocean-going vessels up the Roper
River.
These ships were laden with materials and supplies for the construction of the Overland
Telegraph Line.
For a year and a half, the tugboat laboured under the command of Skipper Bill Lorry.
When the last load was hauled, the tug ran fast aground on a dot of an outcrop called
Tomato Island.
The rumours tell of a New Year's binge on rum, but whatever the answer is, the relics
of this piece of history are somewhere down the Roper.
And we were going to try to find them.
The waters of the Roper can be tricky.
And in the light aluminium boat, the course is tenuous in places.
We pass the confluence of the Wilton River, bringing waters from far inside Arnhem Land.
There ahead lies the minuscule Tomato Island, barely visible and close to one bank.
Difficult indeed to imagine how the young Australian found it, let alone impaled itself
upon its rocks.
The young Australian was 95 feet long with a beam of 17 feet.
It was built in England in 1853 and powered by a 40 horsepower steam engine.
In Lorry's almost unreadable log, he describes the last days of the tug, how his weary crew
battled in torrential wet season rain, pumping out the hull and cutting bushed him for the
patch the void.
All these efforts were to no avail.
Tomato Island's grip was tenacious and there the young Australian stayed.
I still can't believe how well the steel of the boilers and everything, the old riveted
things, they couldn't weld in those days of course.
But the rivets are just in perfect condition aren't they?
Only the ironwork remains, the timber hull having long rotted away.
The shafts and cogs and rods and iron boiler are in remarkable condition considering the
brackish water.
This is the long Billabong country of the Roper, magnificent water holes bejeweled with
water lilies.
Here lie the recent ruins of St Vigean Station.
Established by Jack Pender in the 60s and having several owners since then, today it's
abandoned through remoteness and the vagaries of the cattle market.
Slate flooring shows some of the home-made style that once made this homestead comfortable.
Even the cattle yards are in disrepair but there's still strength in the kudji butt
rails, a timber chosen because it's not on the menu of the North's rapacious termites.
Loaded, on the road and heading for home.
But it has been a long trip, taking on a continent in a few short weeks.
It's a brief pause at an idyllic Billabong, the strains starting to till.
Tina's getting tired, too long away from her family.
Even while lunch is being cooked, Joanna strolls down to the local for a drink.
Birds make the music of relaxation.
It's been a long trip but the facts are in the bag.
Trips are defined and measured.
The photographs are taken.
At home, it's only a short sprint of two days away.