MY HISTORIC SHIPWRECK SURVIVOR GEAR - Surviving The Great Barrier Reef Expedition, Ep 5

So I'm going to give you a rundown of most of the historic equipment that I've taken on my surviving the Great Barrier Reef expedition. Let's go through the things one by one. In fact, starting with this hat. This is the kind of hat I used to wear back in the day. Very inappropriate for the sun up here. I need to make my own straw hat. Quick smart. I've got clothes, the kind of clothes I used to wear back in the day, which my mum sewed up for me. Thanks mum. And I've actually got slightly different pants, which mum sewed up as well, but I've just got these ones on at the moment. So clothing wise, there was seven people that made it ashore, plus the remnants of clothing from the other 14 people that died in the raft. So the captain did die. That's a captain's jacket, which is something similar to a captain's jacket, a wool jumper, you know, cotton, natural fibre, that kind of stuff is the kind of thing they used to have back in the day. That's a possum skin beanie there and a scarf. And this is an entire possum skin rug, which I've sewn out of New Zealand possum skin, because you can't hunt possums in Australia. And I've turned that into a sleeping bag. And beneath that, I've got a wool blanket, which he also talked about having in his book. And I've sewed that into a sleeping bag as well. This is a sextant, a genuine 19th century sextant, which wasn't working when I bought it secondhand. A couple of things were wrong with it. The focal length was incorrect. So I ended up improvising an extension to the focal length with a piece of bamboo. It now works well. I had to clean off basically the measurement where the units are drawn there. And also the mirror, the sextant mirror was all degraded. So I made an emergency fix for that by using beeswax and charcoal. And that is an emergency method for fixing sextants. And I've got down to a mile accuracy with it. So I'm pretty happy with that. So these are some goggles, which I've made myself using natural materials. That is sextant glass, the mirror glass that goes here on the sextant. And the spare glass for that has basically formed the lenses. That's bamboo, which I've shaped with pocket knife. And that is native beeswax, which I've shaped to seal around my face. I haven't been able to test it yet. I was down south in winter. And I'm looking forward to testing those out because that'll allow me to get under water. There's some native beeswax that doesn't enjoy being in the sun. And it also needs to dry out a little bit. I'm looking forward to getting in water and trying to get some lobsters with that. There is a sharpening stone. That's canvas, which I've just used a heated axe head to melt into the canvas. It's a great way to waterproof stuff. Hand lines, wooden. I am using monofilament line. He wouldn't have had monofilament. So I'm cheating a bit there. But he was fishing at a time when there was a hell of a lot more fish in the ocean and no sanctuary zones. And it's also pretty hard to find line like that used to have back in the day. That's a spoon lure, which I made myself, believe it or not, out of a vintage spoon. And it seems to have pretty good action. That's a popper. And it basically just pops along the surface. And I've just asked the kids to collect feathers over the last few months. And I've just tied feathers onto various things. That's my tackle box full of homemade poppers and spoon lures. And just hoops and sinkers and stuff. There's my warmer sitting over there. This actually has dried kangaroo meat in it. I'll pull some out. So this is the kangaroo meat, which I dried over the fire. And it just had basically sea salt on it and it tastes pretty good. So I've got a few kilos of dried kangaroo meat, which is going to be one of my staples, actually. And that's the kind of thing he easily could have made. He talked about drying shark and other stuff as well. All right, that's just a brush. Things are sandy here. And I call this my feed box, even though it doesn't have a lot of food in it. There's a mug, which I can also boil stuff in. Hemp sail thread. This is native ginger, which has been dried. Also, there's some salt on the bottom of that, just sea salt. Just olden day utensils and some tools. I'll have all the same tools that I built the raft from as well, just like the axe and the adze and stuff like that. There's some native honey in that one. I was pretty hasty when I packed up, so it was a bit wet. So there's a bit of mold growing in there. That's a good start, isn't it? Same with that one. That's just a spare. It's getting a little bit moldy on the middle there. And here's some more native honey in this one. This one here, that's a camera cleaning kit there. That there is coconut oil, which I can extract from coconuts, which he could have done as well. And that's going to be a fat supply. And this is more dried ginger, which I collected up on the way up and dried in the back of the car. Some of it's still drying over there. This has got coconut flour, which is basically just rasped coconut into flour. These are some sunglasses, which sunglasses were invented back then, and there's a good chance he didn't have sunglasses. But to look after my eyes up here, I've just basically given myself some lenses and I've just improvised the case for them. Probably look like George Michael. Not great, but it's really just a way to protect my eyes. I really need to make something around here to stop the UV light getting in around the side, because there's a lot of reflected light up here on the reef. There's a chopping board for the fish that I hopefully catch. Of course, there's my 20 litre water barrel, which my shipwreck survivor talked about having a small barrel. That's my primary water container. I forgot to mention the telescope. Good for seeing long distances, but he talked about pulling the lens out of it, using it as a magnifying glass and lighting fires that way. And that's what I'm planning to do with it as well. And as I was walking through the bush, I found Kpop fluff, which is fantastic for lighting with it. I've also got kangaroo poo, or wallaby poo, which when you dry off is also a great way to start fire. It's great kindling. There's some pumice, which I can use as a float for the sea anchors. I won't use this plastic bucket, that's just something in the back of the car. So I've been driving around the bush here just collecting stuff. Now this is a bailing bucket, metal, and that's what I'm going to use, well not only for bailing, but also for an oven. Now I just actually googled using galvanized iron for cooking and it's bad because it's got zinc. I did put it in the fire to try and burn off any poison, but I don't think I made the fire hot enough. So I'm going to really burn that thing in the first campfire I can make, just to get rid of the zinc poison out of it. I'm taking wood because I'll be camping a lot of the time while anchoring behind national park islands, and you're not allowed to collect wood from the national parks. That's why I'm taking some wood to start off with, and then I'll just replenish it from the mainland when I'm not in a national park. Yeah, so that's my historic stuff. There's a little bit of extra stuff probably floating around, which I haven't managed to get out on here, but that's the bulk of it. So yeah, please subscribe if you want to see more videos. So the next one I'm going to do is the modern equipment that I'm taking with me, the survival stuff, my camera stuff, my drones, and that kind of thing. And please subscribe to see more videos of my surviving the Great Bay Reef expedition, because it's going to be epic. So thanks for watching.