SEARCHING for EXPOSED TREASURE on REMOTE BEACHES - Ep. 140

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]I can see the shadows. I'm so excited.

[00:00:03]>> They must have just molted.

[00:00:08]>> There's like a million of them all pushed under there.

[00:00:12]>> I've got mud crab hooks just in case.

[00:00:16]And I've got you guys.

[00:00:28]>> Hello crew. Welcome back to another episode. This is tomorrow, which was last week, which was yesterday, if that makes any sense. Anyway, we're going across the other side of the Gulf to have a look at some remote islands and some remote beaches that we haven't seen post cyclone. So, yeah, let's go.

[00:00:45]It's a glass off.

[00:00:47]Look, >> look. Oh, there's something on Oh, that looked a bit mantay. Oh, that's a manta.

[00:00:53]I'm pretty sure that's manta.

[00:00:55]Caitlyn reckon she just spotted a manta right when we're trying to get moving.

[00:00:59]>> It's a dong.

[00:01:01]>> Just a dong.

[00:01:02]>> Just look at it though.

[00:01:18]>> All right, we're just arriving on the other side here.

[00:01:22]plan at the moment is to get to a beach and assess the situation and then we're going to work north and then work back through some islands. How's that sound?

[00:01:32]>> I'm so excited.

[00:01:37]>> Super murky. I don't see us being able to hop in today, but >> I don't think we'll be hopping in for a while. It's been filthy since the cyclone. Since the last cyclone. We're walking to the beach. What's happening?

[00:01:51]>> I can see the shadows. I'm so excited.

[00:01:54]>> We've just won all of them.

[00:01:58]>> Yeah, you're not wrong.

[00:01:59]>> This is the moment of anticipation when you can just see what's happening, but you don't know what's there yet. How you feeling, Caitlyn?

[00:02:05]>> So excited. I can already see so much stuff.

[00:02:10]>> Yeah, it's drastically changed. We were here a couple >> quick. Look, >> we were here a couple of weeks ago and it's drastically changed.

[00:02:19]Look, he eat more shells this side than last time.

[00:02:22]>> Wow. It's drastically different.

[00:02:25]>> Look at these. These are trumpet shells.

[00:02:28]>> Wow.

[00:02:30]>> I'm getting smacked so badly.

[00:02:34]>> You can see this whole beach has just been flattened and the dunes pushed right up and there's moing boys and floats that were not here last time.

[00:02:47]It's amazing how quickly these cyclones can just change the whole coastal landscape.

[00:02:54]Um, a lot of the plants and the mangroves on that side on on the town side of the Cape have just been absolutely decimated.

[00:03:03]Uh, Bandigi mangroves, old Bandigi mangroves has just been flattened. All right, I'm going to have a look through here. See what's around.

[00:03:31]This is all dune vegetation, I reckon.

[00:03:53]Wonder where they started their life.

[00:04:12]What?

[00:04:13]>> There is so many shelves. Look, there's like a million of them all pushed under there. Look at these bad boys.

[00:04:23]>> I >> We found the Baylor graveyard.

[00:04:26]>> I'm in heaven.

[00:04:28]>> Wow. Look at the color of this one.

[00:04:31]>> What's this?

[00:04:32]>> Pretty color. Oh, that's so pretty.

[00:04:35]>> What's this? a razor clam.

[00:04:39]>> It's really interesting. We come across a section where there's heaps of these sea stars. These knobbly sea stars >> that look at this one. This one looks dancing.

[00:04:56]>> Perfect baby ba.

[00:05:00]And then that's a trumpet there.

[00:05:03]That one's alive.

[00:05:05]>> And then those are knobbybly sea stars.

[00:05:10]>> Crazy.

[00:05:11]>> I just had a beautiful walk on the beach. Just having a little dip in the shallow water here. That nice float, mate.

[00:05:18]>> Huh?

[00:05:19]>> Is that a good float?

[00:05:20]>> Yeah.

[00:05:21]>> All right. So, we're going to head up this way and then we're going to head out that way, that way, and then home eventually off that way. So, K wants to walk up the beach a little bit. So, we're going to jump on the boat and cruise up and we'll pick her up a little bit further up. So, there goes Caitlyn.

[00:05:36]She's having some Caitlyn time on the beach with the shells. Her happy place.

[00:05:44]>> I am back on the boat. That was so fun.

[00:05:47]That was actually the same beach that we went to in the episode before last after the first cyclone that we had. And there was a few shells, but nothing like that.

[00:05:58]There was literally thousands of trumpet shells and veer shells there. So, that was pretty cool. Um, and now we're going to go for a bit more of an explore.

[00:06:08]We're going to go up even further away and see if we can find any cool beaches.

[00:06:15]Um, it's crazy how different all of the beaches look compared to even just a few weeks ago after this cyclone. So, just going to go for a bit more of an explore. All right, we've just made our way to a different spot. We're actually trying to get into a creek right now.

[00:06:30]Just got to find the channel in there.

[00:06:33]Super murky water. But you can see there's some breakers over there and over there. So Craig is maneuvering us in. Um, but we haven't actually been to this spot for ages cuz it's really far away from town. It's a really special spot though because it's a nursery for a really endangered creature called the green sawfish. So, we've seen little baby ones in the creek here before, which is really, really cool. So, we're going to duck into that creek and probably put the drone up and see if we can spot any of the little sawfish in there. See how they've fed through the cyclone. Um, and see if there's anything else around. Sometimes there's mud crabs around, but it's a pretty high tide at the moment. So, um, yeah, see if there's any treasures, any mud crabs, and any sawfish.

[00:07:21]We've just found the channel. So, we're on our way in.

[00:07:26]So murky. It's like a meter deep. You can't see anything.

[00:07:31]I've made it to the spot. I've got my mud crab hook just in case. And I've got you guys. And I forgot to put my shirt on. Whoops.

[00:07:41]Hopefully not too many sand flies. But this is the scenes.

[00:07:46]It's more like sandy than muddy here.

[00:07:48]But this is the creek where the little baby sawfish live. I can see some little splashes in there. It's actually quite a different shape than it was last time we were here.

[00:08:01]All the sand's kind of moved a little bit and there's like a little extra creek there now.

[00:08:07]Let's go and have a little look. See what we can find.

[00:08:36]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:08:45]Hey.

[00:09:04]Hey. Hey.

[00:09:46]Oh, hey.

[00:10:14]Look at all this seaggrass and shells all piled up.

[00:10:19]That must have been where the water was after the cyclone.

[00:10:23]Crazy.

[00:10:26]I've maybe found a hole.

[00:10:29]Let's see how we go.

[00:10:46]Definitely looks like it's been dug out, but it's not much of a hole.

[00:11:01]Don't think anyone's home there.

[00:11:05]Oh, there's a little one there.

[00:11:09]I think he's too small, though.

[00:11:16]Let's try this one.

[00:11:31]There we go.

[00:11:36]Whoa, he's completely soft shell.

[00:11:42]I think he's under size as well.

[00:11:45]We'll put him back.

[00:11:48]Wow, he's like dead soft. That's crazy.

[00:11:51]Sorry, mate. It will put you back in your hole.

[00:11:56]They must have just molted.

[00:12:00]Back you go.

[00:12:06]Flip him over.

[00:12:08]Damn it.

[00:12:12]Find a bigger one. It's another hole.

[00:12:16]You guys are about to have a flat battery.

[00:12:20]Clearly, we're out of practice on the whole YouTube thing, but let's see. I'll see if there's anyone home.

[00:13:24]Kaitlyn's back.

[00:13:25]>> I'm back.

[00:13:26]>> And she got a crab. And she's got a sticker on her plum.

[00:13:29]>> Yeah. You missed the crab cuz you ran out of battery. But we did get one crab.

[00:13:33]>> One claw crab.

[00:13:36]>> My crab. You want to hold it up for the team?

[00:13:38]>> Sure. All of the other ones were little babies. Not yet because it's >> and soft shell >> and soft shell.

[00:13:44]>> He's going to sleep on the ice. We'll show you guys later.

[00:13:48]>> Okay, we'll show you later. All right, we're just heading out of this creek.

[00:13:51]Now, often when we film in here, people ask us about crocs. I've never seen a croc in here in this creek. I have seen a croc in the Gulf. Um, and we are very close to places where there are crocs further to the north from here. So, I always just treat it with a bit of respect as though there are crocs here, even though I don't think there are in this particular creek at the moment. I don't see any slides and I don't see any evidence of them, but they are stealth predators. So, best to be prepared and not need it, then not at all. Caitlyn is just soaking up the breeze on the bow there, covered in mud on the back.

[00:14:37]And she got a crack. So she's stuck.

[00:14:39]Okay, I'm going into the beach.

[00:14:42]Deeper than I thought.

[00:14:44]Little bit weedy.

[00:14:49]Coast has just been scarred by Nurell.

[00:14:55]Had a bloke contact me. He said Nurel had ruined his holiday.

[00:15:01]It's also his ex-wife's name.

[00:15:05]Brutal turtle there flying along in the shallow water. You see the wake and the splash every now and then.

[00:15:21]Look at this sand.

[00:15:23]Some black sand mixed in.

[00:15:50]Hey.

[00:15:53]Hey. Hey.

[00:16:18]We're back.

[00:16:20]That's a beautiful spot. I love it there. Uh, I would love to spend some time there somehow under an amphibious vehicle.

[00:16:31]I think >> I went for a walk down the beach and then I just kept walking and then I was like, "Oh, Craig's going to come and pick me up, so I'll just keep walking until he does." And then the boat disappeared into the distance and I thought I lived there now. And then I turned around and walked all the way back. And then he picked me up >> right at the end after I'd already walked all the way back.

[00:16:54]>> You were 2K from where we started when I picked you up.

[00:16:59]>> Got my steps in today. Didn't see much cool stuff though.

[00:17:03]>> We have arrived back at the beach.

[00:17:05]>> We are back uh on the other side of the Gulf where we live. Um so yeah, hope you guys enjoyed that. That was an epic day.

[00:17:12]As we suspected, all of the shells were pushed up on that side of the beach cuz the westerly was what left us at the last bit of the cyclone. So, this side of the beach, while it's cleaner shells, obviously has been impacted in in many ways, but um a lot of the stuff seems to be pushed back in the water.

[00:17:27]>> But the good thing was that most of the shells that we found were clearly old shells that had just kind of been scooped up and put on the beach. They weren't full of dead animals and things like that. So, >> and there wasn't much in the way of dead animals. I was a few sea stars, but apart from that, uh, as Kate said, a lot of the shells were old and no fish or anything like that. Hey, >> yeah, >> I saw one bird.

[00:17:48]>> I saw one fish and maybe two or three birds. So, >> yeah. So, that's really good.

[00:17:53]>> All right, that's it for this week, crew. Hope you enjoyed.

[00:17:55]>> We'll see you soon.

[00:17:56]>> We'll see you next week here in England.

[00:17:58]>> Maybe.

[00:18:00]>> Bye.

[00:18:04]>> Hello.

[00:18:05]>> Oh my. As you know, I am not into Dobby or 67 anymore.

[00:18:10]>> Uh neither is uh Oak.

[00:18:15]>> Okra is a good boy.

[00:18:19]>> He's the best dog ever.

[00:18:21]Goodbye.

[00:18:29]>> Bye, mate.

[00:18:38]Yeah, >> I want my phone out.

[00:18:43]>> Stop. Stop it. India.

[00:18:45]>> No, I want to take a video.

[00:18:48]>> India, stop doing that cuz it looks funny. No, it doesn't.

[00:18:52]>> India, I'm just doing a video of you.

[00:18:56]>> Yeah. Hi, I'm Tim the man Mayard. I'm the place to be with the dance eleg.

[00:19:02]Come with me onto the beach. Yo. Okay.

[00:19:05]Wait. Poppy. Hang on.

[00:19:14]>> All right, crew. Welcome back. Oh, sorry. Start again. Cut.

[00:19:34]Heat. Hey, Heat.