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Australian Wilderness with Ray Mears

Australian Wilderness with Ray Mears

Renowned bushcraft expert Ray Mears returns to one of the harshest environments, the Australian outback, and travels through it in order to explore how wildlife and people adapt, thrive and survive. Ray swims in turquoise waters with whale sharks in out on the Ningaloo reef, and discovers fossils of their giant prehistoric ancestors in Ningaloo's limestone cliffs which rose out of the seabed 20 million years ago. Ray also traverses through large mangroves and the waterways of Kakadu, where he encounters salt water crocodiles, and stays with an aboriginal family who share with him the history of farming with fire and finding ingredients to make a meal out of the bush, as well as climbing into mountain ranges and exploring deep into the ancient Walpole forest, on the trail for the quokka, one of Australia's most timid marsupials.

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StatusEnded
Original NameAustralian Wilderness with Ray Mears
First Air DateOctober 13, 2017
Last Air DateNovember 24, 2017
Seasons1
Episodes7
Episode Runtime 22min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production CountriesAustralia
Production Companies
NetworksITV1
Walpole Forest
S01E07

Walpole Forest

Sixty million years ago a great forest covered a large area of South West Australia. It’s still there, and Ray travels through time in a primeval landscape of giant trees to meet the quokka, one of the world’s oldest marsupials.

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