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For years, the Solomon Islands have been home to legends of massive saltwater crocodiles |
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Separating fact from fiction, |
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the goal of the Castaways team was to capture evidence |
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that huge crocs were living on these little-known islands |
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Braving the highseas, |
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cameraman Wade Fairley made the 1,000-mile crossing from Australia to the Solomons |
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The Solomons are a chain of almost a thousand remote islands |
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Wade would need the freedom of a boat |
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to stand a chance of finding these mysterious crocodiles |
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Joined by producer Mark Brownlow, |
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they started their two-week expedition in the Western Provinces |
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With few scientific leads,they would have to rely on local knowledge |
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The crocodile tales began, interpreted by Wade, a fluent pidgin-speaker |
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Following the tip-off of the four-metre tail-less crocodile, |
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they decided to track him down that night, |
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when these reptiles are most active |
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To minimise disturbance, |
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they scanned the mangroves with infrared light, invisible to crocodiles |
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Aside from a mysterious splash, |
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the only confirmed sightings were juveniles |
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Where were the adults? |
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Over the next two nights, |
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the tail-less croc continued to elude them |