THE DEEP NORTH FESTIVAL Modern Day Castaway

Could you survive alone, for 2 months at sea in a dugout canoe? In 1846, James Morrill survived a shipwreck on Australias north coast. Though the young sailor was then embraced by the local Indigenous community, in Modern-Day Castaway, Michael Atkinson asks, Could James have built a vessel and made the perilous journey to a historic rescue haven in the Torres Strait?

With the cyclone season fast approaching, Alone Australia contestant and solo adventurer, Mike Atkinson, sets sail on an extraordinary 1500-kilometre journey to the northern tip of Australia. His aim: to live entirely off the land and sea. As malnourishment drains his body, Mike navigates his failing dugout canoe through the treacherous waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and along the wild and unforgiving coastline of Cape York. From crocodile defence tactics, to calamitous canoe failure, to fishing with adapted Indigenous tools, Modern-Day Castaway journals Mikes epic struggle for survival. Film screening with 25 minute talk by survivalist Michael Atkinson!

Doors at 5.15pm for 5.30pm start