Mick Dolman

The food, I could get by without the food.

It didn't bother me.

I think you can live a long time without food.

But water was the most important thing.

And we rationed that water to a teacup.

for one day on particular days.

And when we had some good rain and we were able to capture some more water, we would utilise it very carefully.

Well, I never got to see the lights, but Ken had his head through the canopy standing up and he saw a fleet.

There was a mothership and then there's a couple of smaller ships that feed into the mothership and probably get supplies for themselves and then they go off and do fishing and then they rendezvous somewhere else.

All illegal.

Well, he said, I don't want to send off a rocket flare just yet.

I'm mindful that they might nick off if they see that there's activity out there, us.

Anyway, so he kept just biding his time and he said, I'm going to go now.

He got the parachute flare.

It was a dud.

It didn't work.

Then he got another one and we only had a few.

We didn't have enough to waste them.

He got one up and it was a big red glow across the horizon.

You could not miss it.