Very good Steve Irwin video

[The Snark]

One of the best videos he ever made. Not about crocs but the food chain and animals of the Red Desert. He covers the bases step by step, revealing an abundance of wildlife in one of the most arid regions of the world. He did some serious dicing with death for this video. Even though they had a helicopter he would have had a very poor chance of survival in that remote area if he had got tagged, and he was playing pretty sloppy and loose with the very worst.
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PS Najakeeper, you are forbidden to watch this. They have no internet out there and we would lose track of you.

 

[Python]

Steve was taken way too soon. He was a true champion for all things great and small and now we're stuck with the alligator hunting for profit loons that make great TV these days. I'm ready to leave this planet now.

 

[bugmankeith]

I watched all his shows and saw his movie too, I saw this episode a few times. One of my favorites was the mice outbreak when you saw thousands of them in the field and grain storage and Steve went in lol. His daughter must be close to 16 by now and his son near 10.

 

[Najakeeper]

I started running towards the desert. I should be there within a couple years .

Man! Amazing video. I have seen this before several time but never gets old.

 

[The Snark]

The low down I got on that video was Steve originally intended a major documentary of the ecology of the Great Red and Sandy. That got curtailed to just the great red. Then there was some typical noise from the producers. Not enough Steve grandstanding and gator wrestling. There supposedly is about 20 hours of partly edited footage of that trip, mostly of Steve making points about endangered, habitat encroachment, adaptability and so on. Not flash and crash enough for mainstream.

To me that video is unreal. It seems like it is a half hour it has so much info packed into it yet it's an hour long and obviously a huge chunk got cut out so they could get Uluru in it. I've considered writing Wes and pleading/asking/cajoling for an expanded release for the environmentally oriented academics. Wes however has his hands full, balancing the needs of AZ, running the show, and keeping the money coming in on top of the day to day work load.

It is also a very rough video. Not polished like the animal planet stuff. There are several shots of Steve, cuts and scrapes all over his hands and arms, occasionally a bit flustered as the camera demands one thing while his attention is elsewhere. His screw up getting his booted tagged and a 3 second glimpse of him and a snake going just the wrong way where he was within inches of getting it right in his lap and he had to dive in a very un-Steve like Holy Sheet! way. The unplanned and choreographed encounters like the Taipan he was obviously reluctant to play with and the big Brown he refused to play with at all. A good glimpse of how close he worked to the edge and the behind the scenes where he obviously backed off.

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I started running towards the desert. I should be there within a couple years .

Man! Amazing video. I have seen this before several time but never gets old.

You only got one little problem. The Great Red is about the size of Texas. The nearest cities are Perth, 1000 miles SSW and Alice Springs, 1000 miles east. Pack an extra bag or two.

 

[Kaimetsu]

Thank you for posting this now i'm on a youtube steve urwin kick again! Sometimes I take for granted how much his passion and enthusiasm for nature affected my own love for nature, I mean i was already a young naturalist when I started watching him in the '90s but his influence on me was huge! Also his kids are great, if I get any time on my pc later i'll post some videos of his daughter including the essay she wrote about human overpopulation that was censored. I hope my two daughters end up as smart and passionate about nature as she did.

 

[The Snark]

Re: Kaimetsu. Certainly demonstrates what proper role models are as opposed to using the TV and video games to raise your kids.

 

[AgVet09]

Man, Steve was the best. We need more like him, and less Turtle Man on TV. He was one of the greatest champions wildlife ever had.

 

[Galapoheros]

I remember watching that one a long time ago, yeah that was a good one.

 

[korg]

Interesting video... never really watched a lot of Steve Irwin, but yeah, clearly this is pretty "real." Does anyone know if he had some sort of justification for grabbing dangerous snakes with his bare hands? Seems unnecessarily dangerous for him and disrespectful to the snakes... at best it's crass sensationalism.

 

[The Snark]

Interesting video... never really watched a lot of Steve Irwin, but yeah, clearly this is pretty "real." Does anyone know if he had some sort of justification for grabbing dangerous snakes with his bare hands? Seems unnecessarily dangerous for him and disrespectful to the snakes... at best it's crass sensationalism.

Were are both risking being flamed as cynics but that seems spot on to me. "Okay Steve, we need to get a shot of you kissing that Taipan. In fact, A-holemal Plantit has given us a list here...." ???
And in his videos, mostly the out takes, you get little glimpses of the real Steve, the dedicated sincere environmentalist. Different tone of voice, different mannerisms.

Come in here dear boy, have a cigar, you're gonna go far
You're gonna fly high, you're never gonna die
You're gonna make it if you try they're gonna love you

Well I've always had a deep respect and I mean that most sincerely
The band is just fantastic that is really what I think
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it 'Riding the Gravy Train' -Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar from Wish You Were Here.