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Speaker 1: Alone Australia launched last Wednesday night on SBS and continues

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Speaker 1: at seven thirty this week on Wednesday Night. Doctor Kate

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Speaker 1: Garrick is one of the ten people dropped into the

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Speaker 1: Tasmanian Wilderness to survive. She joins US now, Hello, Okay,

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Speaker 1: good morning, very much for Jodi us Clacy and I

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Speaker 1: are such fass. We are a little obsessed. Where one

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Speaker 1: of us leaves studio to get a coffee, we say,

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to check my snares.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you've also watched the Northern Hemisphere shows

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Speaker 1: and that's what where'd you think I need to do this?

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Speaker 2: I'll give it that a crack, you know, give it

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Speaker 2: a yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a huge fan of

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Speaker 2: the US show. I love it, you know, the psychology,

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Speaker 2: the craziness, you know, reconnecting with nature. It's really really cool.

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Speaker 3: But Kate, when you're out there and you're cold, and

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Speaker 3: you're wet, and you're trying, you're getting hungry, why are

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Speaker 3: you thinking why did I do.

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Speaker 2: This to myself? Yeah? Absolutely, And that's for me, like

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Speaker 2: I had to, I guess find my y wavy On

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Speaker 2: two hundred fifty thousand dollars you know, you hold and

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Speaker 2: you're hungry and money doesn't mean much at that stage

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, Okay, a lot of people struggle when they start.

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Speaker 3: You know, you see some people take a photo of

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Speaker 3: their families. I'm going, why are you doing that to yourself?

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Speaker 3: And it must be hers, especially having a youngster at home.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, I used my daughter as my inspiration,

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Speaker 2: like he was six months old when I left, and

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Speaker 2: I think as a woman in the outdoor space, I

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Speaker 2: definitely felt resistance to that in terms of, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's a man's space, and I guess I wanted to

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Speaker 2: try and show to her that women do belong outdoors

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Speaker 2: and that was I guess my main driving force. So

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Speaker 2: that really helped.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I don't think the photo worked well for Rob,

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Speaker 1: who was we did lose in the first in the

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Speaker 1: first episode, because he kept looking at the photo of

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Speaker 1: his family and he said, I'm lonely and I'm like yelling,

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Speaker 1: it's called.

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Speaker 3: Alone, Rob, don't take the photo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's the beauty of a show. Yeah, everyone

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Speaker 2: leaves at different times for different reasons. An act that

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Speaker 2: hits your you know, psychologically, something wrong and you know

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Speaker 2: let's not discount the lack of calories.

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Speaker 4: Does crazy?

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Speaker 3: Yes, your brain?

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Speaker 2: How you're mad? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Now you are permitted to choose ten out of the

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Speaker 1: forty one items fear packs. What would you considericate the

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Speaker 1: number one essential thing you need to take?

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Speaker 2: Well? I think you need to stay warm and dry,

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Speaker 2: So for me, a really good sleeping bag was number

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Speaker 2: one priority for me. And obviously need stay hydrated, so

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Speaker 2: it's those basic human needs. Really, you don't need food

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Speaker 2: straight away, so I took a nice pot to treat

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Speaker 2: my water and a really good sleeping bag with my

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Speaker 2: two like number one must have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, after watching lessa and I've watched so many

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Speaker 3: series of Alarone, and I just don't know if I

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Speaker 3: could catch a tiny squirrel or a mouse and enjoy

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Speaker 3: the feace money meeting me. But I guess if you're hungry,

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Speaker 3: it's different when you're out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I'm a wildlife biologist. I've spent my career

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Speaker 2: looking after native animals, and so that wasn't something that

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Speaker 2: I was keen to dumping too. And I knew, you know,

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Speaker 2: whacking clubbing a wallaby perhaps to death, would probably do

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Speaker 2: more harm for my mental health and that would to

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Speaker 2: my calorie intake. So that was something I chose to

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Speaker 2: do out there. A bit controversial, but yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 2: really club many Wallaby. No, I'm glad to hear it.

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Speaker 3: No foraging for berries, baby seals alone as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you aren't given a list of you know, the

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Speaker 1: animals that you are permitted to survive on. But what

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Speaker 1: about what's the critter you need to most fear in

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Speaker 1: the wilderness.

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Speaker 2: Look, you know Australia in some ways it's beautiful. I

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Speaker 2: don't think i'd do the US series because I'm not

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Speaker 2: comfortable camping with bands. I don't want to get hidden.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no thanks, And you know, people that are comfortable

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Speaker 4: outdoors in the US, they know how to work around bears,

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Speaker 4: they know how to do that, and I guess I'm

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Speaker 4: comfortable in the Australian outdoors.

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Speaker 2: You know, some people are scared of snakes, Some pops

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Speaker 2: are scared of spiders, devils, goals. I mean she who

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Speaker 2: hasn't had a brushtail possum coming into it? You know,

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Speaker 2: their care we can be you know, if you had

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Speaker 2: food and they're stealing that that connected me annoying absolutely,

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Speaker 2: But for me, you know, I just I guess I

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Speaker 2: feel so comfortable outdoors. I didn't find any of the

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Speaker 2: nature scary, which is nice.

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Speaker 1: That's good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just know the way my brains works, I'd

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Speaker 3: be building a fort like Fort Knox out there. But

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Speaker 3: some people just set up a tarp over a bit

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Speaker 3: of rope and a cop trees and the breeze is

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Speaker 3: coming in a bit of rain. How did you go

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Speaker 3: with that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like I live in a house my

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Speaker 2: normal life, so I was there to be a nature

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Speaker 2: so I just ye waked covered up with one side

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Speaker 2: I think, just to keep it of the rain out.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, then I had it open and trying to

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Speaker 2: get a bit of lighting was also important. You're sitting

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Speaker 2: in a rainforest, very dark. So yeah, if you did

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Speaker 2: like log cabin yourself, you'd be you'd have to use

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Speaker 2: your head talks to the middle of the day.

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Speaker 1: How'd you go with the camera work, Cake, because you are,

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Speaker 1: of course your own camera person, and you know this,

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Speaker 1: this is a huge element of the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, you know they gave us camera training at

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Speaker 2: boot camp, which was amazing as a beautiful to be

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Speaker 2: sort of taught those skills a bit more. I have

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Speaker 2: my own little YouTube channel, and you know, you sort

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Speaker 2: of set your camera and it's a little bit you

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Speaker 2: know how you're going, and then yeah, the next level.

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Speaker 2: There was definitely pressure there, so pressure to survive and

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Speaker 2: then pressure to get good footage. I found it quite

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Speaker 2: challenging at first, but you know, later on I actually

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Speaker 2: found it as sort of like my saving race, as

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Speaker 2: an activity that I sort of run and good time into.

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Speaker 3: Have you been there a while, Kate, You've started to

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Speaker 3: feel a little at Tom Hanks on the island. Did

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Speaker 3: you have a Wilson? Did you start talking to a

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Speaker 3: tree or something?

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Speaker 2: I did consider. I did consider that, but you know,

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Speaker 2: like I guess that is something that I needed, Like,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm talking to the camera. I feel like

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Speaker 2: they were my friends. I'm filling my gut to that

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Speaker 2: camera and every morning blah blah blah, every blah. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I had friends in the camera.

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Speaker 4: So that was lovely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, after a while alone, to get really animated with

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Speaker 1: that camera. And of all the things that you missed

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Speaker 1: when you were there, what's surprised you the most? So

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Speaker 1: you thought, I didn't even think about how I'd missed this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like obviously my daughter, yes, but I knew that

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Speaker 2: it was that you know, you know, you have a

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Speaker 2: conversation with someone in their eyebrow raises or little while

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Speaker 2: you know, giggle in the voice. You're getting that feedback

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Speaker 2: conteraction in society. Yeah, and you know we're pack animals

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Speaker 2: and push. That was gone, no Instagram, no nothing, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a deafening silence. But it was also beautiful,

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Speaker 2: like when in life do you get that moment to

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Speaker 2: just sit there and think about everything everything.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's why we love to watch it. It's got

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Speaker 1: the beautiful, gentle quality of you know, just just watching.

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Speaker 1: And it continues at seven thirty on Wednesday on SBS

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Speaker 1: alone Australia. Dot Kate Grerek, thank you so much and

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Speaker 1: good luck. We will follow your progress.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you,