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Next morning, we resume our search for wild game and plants, so we split up again (some in the chopper and some in the Cruisers), this time for a full day out. On our wishlist are a young pig, whistling ducks and, of course, barra, as well as mud crabs and giant river prawns – all in abundance up here. I’m on the pig detail with Lennox and Mark, Paul is on barra or saratoga, and Dave and Beau are on wild birds. We have pots in for muddies and giant river prawns, baited with bits of wallaby, considered a pest up here.

Lennox and I are in the chopper, along with our friend Riley Aitken, when we spot a mob of pigs: there’s a large boar, a couple of sows and some young suckers running across the plain. Only thing is, we have no guns…