Alone Australia Season 3 Episode 10 Recap – The Floodening

The water’s rising and SBS is keeping everyone guessing about who’s the best Aloner worthy of the $250K.

I was warm and snug as I watched the episode last week, rain pelting down as it battered Sydney for days on end. The contestants weren’t so lucky, with hundreds of millimetres falling in days and freezing temps as well.

Earlier this week, Tourism Tas started pushing its ‘Winternships’, full of kooky activities like babysitting a Tassie devil, to promote how much fun Tasmania is in winter.

Well, maybe on the East Coast; on the West Coast it’s pelting, it’s howling, and after 46 days, everyone’s feeling the pressure.

The quote this week is fairly fitting. ‘On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero’. This quote from Chuck Palahniuk highlights the ‘death by degrees’ that the contestants are facing. It’s also from Fight Club, so I’m not sure we’re allowed to talk about it.

We’ve got four contestants remaining. Muzza, Shay, Corrinne, and Tom, and given how SBS has been bamboozling me all season, I’m not even sure if my updated winner predictions from the week before are holding up.

Want to get up to date before the big finale? Read everything you need to know, including details about the finale double episode and reunion special. SBS skipped airing an episode last week without warning, presumably because of the footy, which was kind of strange. But up the Blues yeww!

Read more: Alone Australia Season 3 – Everything You Need to Know

Shay’s net bed actually looked hella comfy

Corinne

Have you ever seen a woman more excited to get her period? That was beautiful. I think she’s kind of taking the piss that she’s ‘fine and healthy’ now it’s happened, but hey, it’s a pretty good sign if I’m being honest.

Corinne’s yoga in her well-lit, dry shelter is the ultimate flex. I bet some of the other contestants watching it back are choking on their eel dinner. It’s so simple, but it just seems to work. Even in hail and 90km/h winds.

Namaste in the quoll temple

The lake’s come up, big time, over two metres! Although it’s not going to affect her shelter, Corinne’s fishing is ruined now with snags and mud making up the bank.

I’d love to see a season on a lake that doesn’t appear to be dammed, it really feels like it’s making the fishing grim and a bit unnatural. Petition for a warm weather Australian season!

Shay

Shay’s stump is going underwater, and as he aptly puts it, ‘Oh maaan’.

An unidentified friend has told me that Shay always appears stoned, and I can’t disagree. He pretty much watches his shelter flood before deciding to move it. I think we get three clips of him talking about it happening while water is lapping at the door.

Hopefully he’s got the munchies too, because he’s pulled in an absolute monster eel. His first, somehow, after 17 (!) trout!

This would do numbers on Hinge

Dunno about you, but I feel like Shay’s fishing prowess has been kept a bit hidden. The man’s been eating, and this is good for his prospects, if he can stop himself from floating away.

It also explains how he has enough energy to rebuild his new teepee situation from scratch, rather than move it like Muzzah. Quirky! It’s worth noting that Shay says, ‘My family, our future plans are sorta riding on this’. He’s so motivated to keep going, even when he sometimes seems lost.

Tom

Tom’s only eaten five trout in 46 days, he misses his family, and his home is a mud pit. Things are grim.

After a bout of complaining, he goes through a med check. He’s super quick to say he feels light-headed when he stands up and that he’s cold all the time.

How does Tom get this angle? Also, yikes, it’s giving sty

Did you hear the doctor? ‘You’re starting to suffer from your lack of calorie intake, so it’s really important to crank that up as much as you can.’

Dude, what! Do you think Tom’s been throwing them back?!

It was clear there that Tom was hoping they’d medically tap him out; he cries once they leave. But this is the doc who let Muzza keep going with gout. He doesn’t give a flip. No doctor’s certificate for you, Mr Tom.

Posting this pic again because it’s so haunting

Later in the ep, Tom throws in the towel anyway. Fair play. I think he knew that he wasn’t coming back from that close call on the med check, not in the state he was in. Ken oath that’s a good innings with a prosthetic hand though, bravo mate.

Muzza

The big man has waterfront property at this point, which would be good if it wasn’t still bloody raining. He’s gonna have to move.

And geez, do you reckon he’s ever done a stint as a removalist? How quickly can a man move 260kg of improvised shelter? We even get a #fishhaulreveal, and the man has proper piles of meat on a platter. He’s not close to running out at this point.

And he’s moved, or as he puts it, he’s ‘Absolutely fucken organised’.

The new shelter was immediately put to the test in a storm, and I was STRESSED. The heaviest rainfall of the season hits on night 51, and we skip through to day 54 soon after. Seems everyone just hunkered down.

Yeah probs time to move Muzza

Only a few days of wondering left!

The standard has been far higher this season than in Season 1, I’ve been pretty impressed by the resilience and ingenuity of the contestants. No one’s going crazy with their bushcraft; in fact, the traps have barely worked, but fishin’, keeping warm, and keeping sane have narrowed things down.

Muzza, Corinne, and Shay are all contenders. Muzza is a workhorse with heaps of fish and a toasty shelter. The only concern is that he’s low on hooks.

Corinne is warm and dry, and seems to have a very strong head game. Her main concern is a lack of food coming in (that we’re aware of).

And Shay, well, we don’t know how the teepee is going, but he’s got the hang of fishing, and he needs the cash more than anyone. I honestly couldn’t split these three.

Which is exciting! We’ve got two episodes in a row this Wednesday to find out once and for all who has what it takes. See ya there!