northern safari

Decades before Steve Irwins Croc Hunter, Alby Mangels, Bush Tucker Man, Malcolm Douglas and Crocodile Dundee, Keith Adams with his wife and sister lived a searing adventure among the deserts, mountains and rivers among the worlds most primitive relics. They hunt, fish, fossick and encounter, and have adventures that wouls send most people screaming as from their most awful nightmares. They travel in a battered old Buick without backup or radio and followed the old camel trails that wound across central Australia. They recorded their remarkable journey in great detail and made the worlds first colossal, flipping home movie show about him and his family surviving the outback deserts and shooting monster crocodiles in the Gulf of Carpenteria.
Keiths colour film shows how to live with birds, mammals, reptiles, giant fish, dugongs and sharks of northern Australia. He established his home base in a cave in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands and hunted with the aboriginies, sharing their secrets. They called him Uncle. On his way out from the gulf country his vehicle and trailer get stuck in a creek up to the axles. in 1955 power winches were yet to be invented and the method used to extricate the vehicle will have you cheering for the science of invention. Northern Safari screened in every state of Australia then in England, Canada, USA, Holland, Germany, South Africa and New Zealand. Its the stuff pure adventure is made of...