Alone Australia Season 2 Episode 7 Recap – Teach a Contestant To Fish…

We’re deep in the season now but not so deep on the days. Everyone’s still a potential contender and it’s coming down to two things: fish and shelter.

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G’day and welcome back to my somewhat unhinged Alone Australia recaps. They’re a little manic because it’s been raining for over a week in Sydney, and we’re on track to break the record for consecutive days of rain in the city.

So I’m pretty much the same as Rick, Tamika, Andreas, Krzysztof, and Suzan.

Someone is probably going home today as we need to lose one an episode from here to end up with two in the final ep. But who? Some have had more success (I won’t just say luck) than others but with Andreas hauling in fish like it’s a videogame and Tamika showing toughness and angling skill they’re definitely frontrunners.

The quote this week was ‘The triumph can’t be had without the struggle,’ by Wilma Rudolph, an American sprinter who overcame polio to become the fastest woman in the world in 1960. Dope.

It had a profound effect on Mary too: ‘Oh it’s not gonna be a crafty episode then.’ 🙁

Read more: Everything You Need to Know About Alone Australia Season 2

5 Left With 4 Episodes Remaining

Tamika

Tamika’s heating up her fish on her pretty damn-developed hearth. I feel like I’m about to spot a moka pot and a milk jug, how cosy!

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She’s eating 100% of the fish so she doesn’t lose any nutrients. I can’t tell if she’s loving or hating it but I think that’s pleasure on her face?

It’s the first animal she’s eaten in 8 years and she’s eating its eyeballs hahaha.

Can we get a reveal of her hand tattoos though? They look proper wild. I wonder if she was a scary cop.

Krzysztof

What’s all this talk about Krzysztof signalling a helicopter to get a food drop? Like we know that’s not gonna happen.

Ohh HAHA he’s written SEND FNUDES in the sand. That’s great. I wonder if any of the contestant’s jokes were too risque for the editors.

We’ve had some incredible sand art this season

Krzysztof reckons he’s just on a camping trip, and he credits his neurodiversity for his ability to adapt to situations like this one. I guess that’s just his neurodiversity though, not everyone would love to be out on a random beach catching eels all day.

Crafting spotted! Krzysztof is making a boat using some wood he found. The plan is to float out (edit: nope, he’s thrown it) the boat and use it to get further out and catch fish.

Sadly, it’s landed upside down. Little Aussie easter egg in there to describe his feeling of rage too.

Rick

Rick’s having another dip to clean up his body and mind in the icy water. Wonder if he can clean his Gandalf beard that thing is looking mighty yellow.

This is what Mel Gibson in Cast Away would look like

No intimate affirmations to the camera from Rick this time, I reckon he’s finding things a bit tough.

Last time Rick had protein was 15 days ago, so long ago that I’d forgotten it had happened! It’s a distant memory now as the fishing hasn’t been repeatable.

So we’re making a mouse lure.

Ok I’m no expert but either Rick is playing 4D chess with these trout or he’s just lost it.

Trout have great eyesight (apparently) but I doubt they’re going to assume a little carved wooden mouse is an actual mouse that’s fallen in the water. Like, how common is that?

Oh well, Scorsese mode activated. Love that TroutCam™ shot of the lure!

Seriously… his directorial vision is unmatched

I think we can all identify with the frustration of untangling fishing line or headphones. Rick’s spent 40 minutes undoing this thing! He needs to wrap it around a stick like some of the other contestants, I’m worried he’s not thinking straight.

We’re seeing a new grumpy side to Rick, ‘You haven’t caught a fish in two weeks, maybe it’s because you don’t know how to fish!’ he says. Yet he’s fully aware of those negative thoughts, he’s not letting them control him.

At least he has a nice chair to…oh shit nope it’s collapsed and he’s spilled his water into his fire.

Bloody hell! Give the man a break!

Day 23

Andreas

Andreas hasn’t caught a fish in four days and it’s starting to get to him. He had good conditions to catch them and could see them in the water but he didn’t pull it off. Turns out it’s not always as easy as it’s appeared.

Oh he’s spotted one, mid-recording!

It’s pretty beautiful to watch his fly fishing technique and I think a major reason for his success so far, but he’s messed it up this time.

Not Andreas’ day

Maybe he can lure trout with some trout meat? Nope, turns out trout can recognise their own.

But what about fake mice?

Day 24 6:23pm

We’re not moving that quickly through the days hey?

Tamika’s in the sun, pointing toward the ledge.

But she’s only caught one there? She’s calling that her ‘first’ fish. What don’t we know?

I love that Tamika’s excited about making it for sunrise on the ledge. I’ve been to NZ in winter and the sun doesn’t come up until like 8am haha not that impressive.

Just as Tamika is reeling the line back in, thinking she’ll move on, BOOM she’s got a bite. She’s pulled in a massive trout!

Game. On.

Liquid-living gold

I wonder how much the fishing spot affects the fishing versus the skill of contestants. It seems like the spot is pretty important, yet some contestants just tried the same location again and again.

Suzan

I reckon Suzan will be next to tap out.

She’s still not finding food. Her area is particularly lush and dense, so it’s really hard to move through. There’s lots of scat around but I’m not convinced she’s going to be able to actually find a possum, especially if she keeps talking.

We have found… a possum carcass. Swear to god I thought she was going to try and eat it.

Using the skin as bait is an idea for sure, somehow I’m not convinced.

Will this help her catch fish? Possumbly

Krzysztof

Krzysztof’s origin story is that he learnt to box because a priest suggested it, then he punched his bully in the face. The lesson? Violence is the answer.

Krzysztof is making a little Moana boat with outriggers. He’s called it the ‘fish catcher’, which is brilliant manifesting but I’m not convinced he’s actually going to be able to pull in a fish?

Ok I’m wrong, he’s pulled in a fish eel but where did the boat go? I’m confused. That must be SO frustrating. I don’t wanna say he lives in Eel Cove but it’s definitely a cove full of eels. Just saying.

Not that I can tell if it would work, but I reckon he should trek further afield like Tamika to find the fish zone.

Krzysztof, mayor of Eel Cove

Suzan

Suzan’s got some static lines out, which doesn’t feel like the right move from what I’ve seen of these trout, but something else is on her mind.

She’s talking about potentially being forced to leave, but that she’s done something much harder than this before.

Oh woah, she beat breast cancer in her 40s. She was offered palliative care chemotherapy after a double mastectomy but she didn’t want to do the chemo.

The contestants this season have heavy backstories

It’s unclear but I get the feeling that either her chances were so bad that she didn’t want to prolong it with chemo, or she believed in some non-traditional medicine that she’s not quite saying, or both.

Regardless, she managed to pull through and beat it which is incredible, and must have taken guts. Everyone’s got a hectic backstory this season it seems.

Tamika

Fishy montage! Tamika pulled in a day 24, 25, and 26 fish. She’s caught four fish now! This is an out-of-control turnaround from a week ago.

Extravagant charcuterie board!

‘Welcome to plant-based chef fillets a fish’ Tamika says. But as she talks about her plans it’s clear that she knows more about cutting, gutting, and preserving than most of us.

We’re also seeing Tamika’s goofy side now she has a full belly and I live for it.

Inside the Hobbit Hole she’s going to dry out the fish fillets to increase the longevity of the protein. The fact she has a proper hearth she can dry and smoke the fish over is next level, no one else is looking this settled. I wonder if she has salt?

When a restaurant says they ~exclusively~ cook over an open flame… this is what I wanna see

I’m not sure if Andreas has attempted this yet. This is the first surplus. Go Tamika you kapitalist kween.

Thoughts and prayers for any mouse that tries to steal that hanging ball of fish from above Tamika’s head.

Andreas

It’s kind of funny watching Andreas chuck a small tanty with a gorgeous sunset behind him.

He’s changed his approach and made a ‘wet fly’ with some found plastic and possum fur, so it looks like an insect underwater. It’s no mouse though.

He’s fishing without artificial light which is about to give us some of the best footage imaginable.

*darkness ensues*

A still from Andreas fishing at night or an Earth Hour selfie? We’ll let you decide

‘I got a frickin’ trout!’.

Can I have this on a T-shirt? @SBS merch opportunity?

Andreyasssss!!

Day 29 – 2pm

Rick

We’ve fast-forwarded a little to the promised storm. A severe weather warning has been issued with 130kph winds. Shelter test!

Rick’s shelter is more of a tarp. He mentions that he doesn’t like cutting down trees and reuses them on survival courses, but I think he’s probably been a bit too careful about the environment with his own shelter here. This is a pretty real survival situation.

Not sure how this glorified curtain is going to offer proper respite

I do love the premise though, bushcraft and leave no trace can be incompatible at times, but they don’t have to be.

Let’s ride the lightning.

3pm

Are we going to get a tap this episode? There’s only 5 minutes left!

Finally we’re actually getting footage of Andreas building his shelter. It’s WAY more comprehensive than I thought, I wonder if SBS just don’t think we’re that interested (we are by the way).

As the storm closes in you can see the snow falling.

And Andreas is just sitting there sipping water from an old beer bottle he found. He looks like a Queenslander waiting for a cyclone.

Nothin’ like hunkering down with a stubby of boiled water

Rick

Rick’s 47km away, will the storm be as bad here? Looks like it.

Rick’s saying his hands are so cold he’s potentially risking hypothermia, yet isn’t getting deeper into his sleeping bag and closing down the hatches? You’re not an experiment dude!

Rick looks like he’s at camp, telling a scary story (but this time the scary story is just real life)

Andreas has locked it down.

Krysto looks like he’s in a real house and is pretty chill, nothing’s shaking.

Suzan, however, is crying.

And Tamika is like ‘oooh snow’.

The rescue team must be on standby but could they even cross the lake or use a helicopter in this weather? Would they have parked themselves nearby (risking themselves) in case the worst happens? The risk of leaving the contestants out in this must be astronomical.

And that’s it! We didn’t even finish the storm! Or lose a contestant.

But tipping Suzan is next 🙁 watch this space…

Next Week

This storm is going to make or break a few people, I reckon Suzan’s done for. Krzysztof seems fine but still hasn’t eaten any protein. Rick is definitely fighting all of the battles, partly because he hasn’t built a decent shelter. Tamika and Andreas are matched on trout and shelters I reckon.

It’s going to be a big ol’ showdown. It hasn’t quite been a month yet, and remember, last season went for 67 days, but heck the conditions are fierce this time around.

I’m not sure the extra fish totally make up for just how cold and brutal the weather looks. And it seems everyone has given up on catching a deer.

What did you think? Who’s your pick to take out the win? Let us know in the comments and gear up for next week where it’s all going to get very hectic indeed.

Alone Australia Recaps So Far

• Alone Australia Season 2 – Everything You Need to Know
• Alone Australia Season 2 Episode 1 Recap – At Night I Dream of Sandflies
• Alone Australia Season 2 Episode 2 Recap – Helter Shelter
• Alone Australia Season 2 Episode 3 Recap – Crashing in Slow Motion
• Alone Australia Season 2 Episode 4 Recap – What I’d Do for a Stick of Celery
• Alone Australia Season 2 Episode 5 Recap – Look at That Stonker
• Alone Australia Season 2 Episode 6 Recap – Bush Crafternoons