SBS’ excessive actuality collection Alone Australia returned for a second season this week – with a few key changes.
The present, which sees 10 survivalist contestants dropped within the freezing wilderness in a quest to be the final individual standing, has had a change of location for season two.
Whereas final yr’s batch have been dropped within the distant wilderness of south-west Tasmania, this season they’re stranded within the equally rugged forests of New Zealand’s South Island.
Nonetheless, they’ve one key benefit over their season one counterparts: They’re allowed to hunt with a bow and arrow.
That’s completely happy information for the present’s youngest contestant, 27-year-old Chace, a Defence Power Fight Engineer and looking fanatic, as grisly photographs proven on display screen throughout episode one exhibit.
“I’m completely stoked that I can use a bow on this season,” Chace says throughout the episode (the change is because of New Zealand’s extra relaxed looking legal guidelines in comparison with Australia).
“I’ve actually been looking my entire life. I am going looking at the least as soon as a month. It’s what I do for enjoyable. For those who miss you don’t eat … and I by no means miss.
“I’ve hunted with rifles, bow an arrow, spears, boomerangs and even only a knife at occasions. I’m not on the market being a killer … I’m on the market being a hunter.”
However as those that watched season one will keep in mind, contestants who put an excessive amount of religion of their looking skills can generally undergo within the sport – spending all day losing their power searching for a deer or rabbit that merely doesn’t exist of their space of bush, on the expense of honing different survival strategies.
Final yr, rewilding facilitator Gina Chick emerged victorious as Alone Australia’s first winner, lasting an unbelievable 67 days within the Tasmanian wilderness after she targeted her attentions on constructing a heat, sturdy shelter and on catching eels and harvesting different dependable meals sources.
By comparability, looking information Peter lasted simply three days, calling it quits after he struggled to seek out any animals within the bush he may kill and eat.
We’ll need to hold watching to be taught which of these contestants Chace finally ends up extra carefully resembling.
Alone Australia airs 7:30pm Wednesdays on SBS.
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