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Australia's Hidden Corner aka Australien's Versteckte Ecke (2005)
1 hour Documentary for NDR (Germany)
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To many people visiting Australia, their itinerary is often focused on the 'must see' elements summarized in tourist brochures and travel company tours. That usually means vast red earth desert plains, gleaming white beaches and enormous wheat and sheep farms.
But in the South West corner of Australia's largest State is an area roughly the same size as Bavaria that offers a very different picture of Australia - real or imagined.
In Australia's Hidden Corner, we enter the lives of a bunch of colourful characters who call the South-West 'home'.
Beneath the towering canopy of karri trees that are among the tallest in the world, we meet tree surgeon Gavin Drake as he prepares to scale a monster karri that needs urgent pruning. And when he's not risking life and limb in the tree tops he takes to the skies in home made ultra light planes. We follow his daring flight as he travels a diverse landscape of forest, farmland and vineyards on a journey to Augusta, on the southern coast.
There we meet Darren and Nathan Adams, abalone divers who brave the treacherous oceans of the far south coast in search of precious bounty. Working in shark infested waters the brothers take each day as it comes, living their lives to the full.
Later, in Albany, we encounter biologist Tony Friend, who's pursuing an audacious and risky plan to save Australia's most endangered animal, the Gilbert's Potoroo. With only 35 animals left in existence he knows a single bushfire could destroy the entire species.
Several hundred kilometres inland - in the heart of the South-West - we meet Stephen Michael an aboriginal coal miner, who was once a famous Australian footballer and is now trying to teach his sons how to hunt kangaroos.
And, finally, back in Western Australia's capital, Perth, Jane Humphries shows what it's like to be a woman living in a man's world. Known to her friends as 'GI Jane', her day job is fighting fires, and in her spare time, she catches waves and lifeguards at the local beach.
With a taste for adventure, and a sense of humour, these intrepid men and women are carving out multi-dimensional lives in a region that is as challenging as it is beautiful - forging an enduring relationship with the unique country found in Australia's Hidden Corner.