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NARRATOR: On Outback Opal Hunters...

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CHRIS: We're bogged now.
The Cheals' stellar season stalls...

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Might as well come up, mate.
We got a problem up here.

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..as overworked equipment

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and poor ground fails to deliver.

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Hope you guys
are getting some colour down there.

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I think this will be the worse
we've had this season.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey! Look at this!

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Oh, oh, oh!!
Here come the goosebumps.

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Sofia and Isaac,
The Opal Whisperers, dig too deep.

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SOFIA: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Isaac.

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Ah!We have no way out of here.

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And get trapped
in their open cut mine.Oh, no!

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ROD: Look out!
(THUDS)

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That wasn't supposed to happen, Les.
LES: No.

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The broken Bushmen...

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Sorry, mate. I just can't do
much more for the moment.

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..and their aging machinery
fail to fire...

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When you're hurt,
you still got to keep on going.

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..as they limp
towards a desperate sale.

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I'll give you two.What?
No way in the world.

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You want, you want us to starve
for them till we find
some more, do you?

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ROD: Righto. Slow.

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For Christ sake, go slow.
Righto. Whoa!

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Slow, you old goat. Keep going.

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Slow. Whoa.

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Just hold it there, Les. See
what happened is now we've hit this.

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Where's that bar?

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I'll hold it. I won't let it tip.

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This is the only hoist we got.
We can't afford to break it.

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Not working?LES: No.

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At their Dead Dog' claim,

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the Bushmen, Rod Manning
and Les Walsh,

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are struggling to install
a homemade hoist and bucket,

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vital for hauling dirt
to the surface
out of their new shaft.

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This bar here's caught up

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a-against the end
of the, er, angle iron.

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I've just got to lift it up.

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That's it. Keep going. Righto. Woo!

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There's an awful lot can go wrong
with this idea.

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Slow.

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Righto. Keep going.

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(METAL CREAKING)

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Righto. Wooee!

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The Bushmen's season
has been going from bad...

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Christ, look at this.

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(ENGINE WHIRRING)

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..to cursed.

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Unfortunately, just about
everything's going wrong lately.

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$90,000 dollars wasted on equipment

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meant to deliver major opal.

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LES: We haven't made any,

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enough money to pay off what we owe.

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Things are getting
desperate in the season.

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It's coming toward
the end of the season

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and, er, we're nowhere near
where we need to be.

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Four mine moves...

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Put her down. Hang on.

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..the latest being
the Ding Dong claim.

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(THUNDER RUMBLING)

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The elements...It's just flooding
the whole mine.

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..and the Earth
have gone against them.

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She's blocked.

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With the drill bogged,

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we can't put a hole down
to move our blower

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and we're just sucking
from too far away.

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So, yeah, we just got to go back
to, er, Dead Dog.

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At Dead Dog Gully,
the Bushmen gambled

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pegging a claim
and sinking two exploratory shafts.

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And now, they're missing
two members of the crew.

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Ty's out with a pretty serious
family, er, medical problem,

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you know, and Benny's out
for a while. He bogged the drill

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and we haven't seen him since
so I think he's not game
to come and see me.

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He, er, he hurt his shoulder
trying to get it out,
so he's also out.

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So, yeah, it's just back to me
and the old bloke, you know.

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Whoa!

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At Dead Dog,
the shaft they're setting up to mine

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needs to be widened
or belled out at the bottom,

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so they have room to work.

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(GROANS)

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(COUGHS)

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Rod got a couple of busted ribs.

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(GROANS)

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(EXHALES)So, he's in a bit of pain.

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Probably ducked
when I should have weaved

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that was, er, about as much
as I'll say about that.

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When you're hurt,
you still got to keep on going.

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There's no sick days in opal mining.

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Nothing we can do.
It's just me and Les.

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What's the, er, odds on this thing
working, Les?

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Well, you only got a chance
of 50 percent.

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I reckon,
it's under 50 percent meself.

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Righto, mate. You ready?
Yeah.I'll engage her.

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Woo-hoo! She works.
Well, she works like a--

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You beauty!That parts all good.
All good, Les.

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Look out!(THUDS)

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Jesus Christ.

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Finally stops raining. It's like,
three weeks of bad weather.

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This pit was full of water,
so it's been a long wait

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for this to finally dry out.
We need to find opal.

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Hey, are you going in there?
Yeah.(THUDS)

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Sofia.Woo.Yeah,
I don't know about this, ay.

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I might have to shovel back
some of that, erm,

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overburden up there.
It's, it's all just crumbling.

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Sofia and Isaac Andreou,
The Opal Whisperers,

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are finally back to mining
on their Yowah House claim

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after once in a generation
flooding crippled the outback.

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Colour.What have you got?

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Colour, colour.Really?
Yeah. Have a look. Ready?

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Oh, sh- Oh, my God.

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Zac.Oh, no.

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Are you serious?

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It's in the water.

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We're pushing the envelope working,
erm, this late into the season.

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At this time of year, everyone else
has left. It's too hot.

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We're up around 40 degrees Celsius.

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In no time at all, we're gonna be
looking at 50 degrees.

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My concern is that the weather
is going to beat us

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before we find the opal
that we need. We're literally
running against the clock now.

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We're about a third
to our season's target,
which is $150,000.

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We've only got $50,000.

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So a hundred grand, erm,

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we need to, we need
to just stay through summer

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but it's ludicrous
mining in this heat.

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We need to get our act together.
We need to find opal.

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The Andreou family
is steeped in opal.

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Their parents raised their children
in the industry

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and the siblings
have now taken up the mantle.

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Isaac as an opal cutter and polisher

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and Sofia in retail
at her high-end opal store.

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Our main motivating driving force
for Isaac and I

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has been to get back
into the outback

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just like our parents
once upon a time

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and to do them proud
doing just as they did,

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to really be with the land
to be finding the opal

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and to take it back
to our customers.

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That's our family legacy
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doing our very best
to continue that.

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On their Yowah House Claim,

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Sofia and Isaac are hunting
rare Yowah Nuts,

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ironstone boulders
filled with unique opal patterns

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only found
in this part of the world.

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More and more people
from all around the world

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are learning
about this incredible opal.

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So the demand
is the highest that it's ever been.

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The customers are there,
they're rolling in
and they're ready to spend.

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We need to find that opal
so that we can raise that money

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to buy the machinery that we need.

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We've got one jackhammer
and a bunch of hand tools.

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Our ultimate goal
is to own our own excavator.

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First bit of colour of the (BLEEP).

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It's in the trench again.
The trench of all places, Sofia.

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It's my fault.

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It's hard enough to find opal.

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We finally find some
and Sofia threw it up to me.

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It's a good throw, bad catch.

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I've been in that trench before.
I'm not going in again.

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We'll wait for it to dry out
and we'll look for it then.

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OK.

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Let's truck on. We need to find
twice as much opal now.

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(DRILLING)

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I can't see any colour yet.

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This, this corner is where we found
that last patch of opal

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and actually if you can-

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if you have a good look
at the different colours
of the earth,

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the red earth there
and the clay and whatnot

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with the silver stuff on it,
you see that there. That's a slip.

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That whole shelf is a slip

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and that's where we found
that last patch of boulder.

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I'm worried
that it's another ten foot down

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before we reach the colour.

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Because if it's ten foot down,
we're not going to make it.

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Not in this heat.

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With the fuel and the money
we've got, no way.

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What do you reckon?
It's not sucking, right?Na.

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You want to go check it out?
Is it something wrong up there?

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Yeah, we're going to have to.
Righto.

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Our suction's down.

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Might as well come up.
I have got a problem up here.

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What's going on?A couple of holes
there in the top bend.

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Forty kilometres
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the Cheal family are just days
into working a long disused claim.

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We got to take the plate off,
er, to bring it back into town

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so that we can fabricate
a new one exactly like it.

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With the blower,
it's like a vacuum cleaner.

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If you have a little hole at the top
it adds up to a lot,

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you know, bigger consequences
in terms of suction later on.

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It's just another breakdown,
another problem,
another thing to fix.

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CHRIS: Go opal mining they said.

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It'll be easy they said.

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The Cheals, team leader Chris,

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and kids, Oscar, Luca and Rory,

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have been on an opal
hot streak this season.

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How's that? Different to last year
isn't it? (LAUGHS)

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You know, we need to find
opal this year

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to make up for the dismal year
that we had last year.

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You know, we hit our $500,000 target
so, er, we've gone up to $750,000.

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We wouldn't be doing it
if we weren't chasing
the massive ones.

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One of the wettest seasons on record
has forced Chris

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to purchase a second-hand
four-wheel drive truck.

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RORY: We need it. It's wet.
A bit lighter

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and four-wheel drive
so it won't get bogged as easy.

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But the small truck,
obviously we're taking
less opal dirt each time.

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Their successful Lemonade claim
is now exhausted.

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It's too dangerous
to work there now.

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Just weeks left
until the end of the season,

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the only workable mine they have
is their Blower claim.

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We did OK there last season
when we were there,

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erm, but we haven't really
found a run yet.

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(CHRIS SPEAKING)

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Yeah we're, kind of, going into

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something different
which we don't really know
what to expect.

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They plan to use old gear
set up over a year ago,

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but hasn't run since.

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Whatever machinery really,
especially when it's a bit older

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if you're not using it,
it's probably
the worst thing for it.

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The Cheals have spent

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over $100,000 in machinery repairs,

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fuel, custom jewellery business
and website.

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Just trying to make it
better and better and better.

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Oscar's doing well with,
with the website.

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The boys have got that up
and running.
We're selling opal on that.

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The next thing is now
is keeping that supply up

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and making sure
we've got some stock up for,

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enough for people to, to go on there
and find something they like.

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So what have we got?
One of our rings up.
Stick your hand up, Dad.

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Who?Put your hand up.

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See that.What the hell?(LAUGHING)

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How does that work?
How'd you do that?

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Just the software I embedded
into the website. So, yeah...

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It's like augmented reality stuff.
Yeah. You can put
your hand up and...

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LUCA: It's pretty cool.
..it gives a good perspective
on the sizing.

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They can basically
put it on, can't they?Yeah.
I think I like it.

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00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,120
(ALL LAUGHING)Might purchase that.

237
00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,760
You can buy it if you like, yeah.

238
00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,400
Boy, you know, that's insane.

239
00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,440
Everything we, erm, we got out here,
we have to make ourselves.

240
00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,760
We, you can't just go
and buy it anywhere.

241
00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,800
So we've just had, you know,

242
00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,760
a couple of holes wear
in the, the top of the blower pipe.

243
00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,560
Dad's fabricated a new one.

244
00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:28,960
Yep, perfect.

245
00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,200
Let's get back to mining.

246
00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,520
(LUCA SPEAKING)

247
00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,360
See that potch up there?

248
00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,200
Awesome. It's clean, too.

249
00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,960
Is it trying to go purple
or is that just me being blind?

250
00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,760
Yeah, I can see that a bit.
That's good. That's awesome.

251
00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:08,720
ROD: Look out!LES: Oh!(THUDS)

252
00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,520
That wasn't supposed to happen,
Les.No.

253
00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,720
You wouldn't want to be under that.
It'd drive you straight down
into the ground.

254
00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,240
We'll have to do a bit of work
on the brakes.

255
00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,160
And, er, fit all its bearings out.

256
00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,160
In Grawin, the Bushmen's

257
00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,080
self-designed hoist
and bucket has misfired.

258
00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,680
So, we haven't used this gear
for so (BLEEP) long.

259
00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,080
It's old and it's had
no maintenance for years.

260
00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,000
We lost a miner
with one of these a few years ago.

261
00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,920
Come back down
and caught him and killed him

262
00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,880
and it was a very unfortunate thing.

263
00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,200
They need to get the bucket
and hoist working

264
00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,760
to begin widening the shaft
at the nine-metre deep opal level.

265
00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,200
This old hoist,
we built this years ago.

266
00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,160
Something's gone wrong
with the brake.

267
00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,840
That thing there is a brake.

268
00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,720
It's like, a, a pump.

269
00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,080
Did you check the oil in the brake?
Yeah, it's got oil.

270
00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,320
The brake can be adjusted
by turning the tap on the pump,

271
00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,360
which restricts the oil flow
running through it.

272
00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,760
This creates resistance
in the hoist's cable drum,

273
00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,400
slowing down the bucket
as it descends.

274
00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,880
You got any idea at all where this
(BLEEP) pump could be?

275
00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,880
Oh, it's around in the h-
yard somewhere.

276
00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,120
Around somewhere?
Well, that narrows it down.

277
00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,600
We only got four-and-a-half acres
of crap to look through.I know.

278
00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,120
Crickey's, Les. We could look here

279
00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,120
for a friggen month and not find it.
Well, that's true.

280
00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,480
Oh, Les.

281
00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,160
ISAAC: Come on. We've got
to get something here.

282
00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,360
Well, it's not underneath this.

283
00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,040
Maybe that pocket
we found last time,
maybe that was it.

284
00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:13,920
Just a lucky pocket.
You think we've exhausted it?
There's not even trace.

285
00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,160
(GROANS).Yeah.

286
00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,560
Sweltering 40 degree temperatures
are hitting Yowah,

287
00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,600
marking the beginning
of the end of the mining season.

288
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,160
Found a lot of clay
which is good if you're a potter.

289
00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,200
We might be wasting our time
in that area.

290
00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,160
We need to look for new direction.
We know there's, erm,

291
00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,520
there's lines coming down this side
that are parallel to that one.

292
00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,680
Check this out.
Yes, that's a pretty good...

293
00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,600
it's a pretty good slip.Isn't it?

294
00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,320
Definite fault in the parts here.
Look.There has to be.

295
00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,440
And it comes from above
about six foot down

296
00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,360
and then it splits
into two right here.

297
00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,080
Wherever it splits or joins,
that could be a place
where the opal pools.

298
00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,880
Do you reckon take this down?Yeah.
Have a look behind it.

299
00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:03,520
Behind that and that.Yeah.
Yeah.OK. I like it. Alrighty.

300
00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:07,720
Ah, this particular

301
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,040
part of our mine is, is, erm,
to a degree untouched.

302
00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,280
It's actually been our, our stairway
out of here until now.

303
00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:20,160
As Isaac jackhammers the wall
looking for traces of opal,

304
00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,600
Sofia needs to shift the waste dirt

305
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,600
to keep the workspace clear.

306
00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,320
Did you pull the plug out?
Hey? No. I didn't cut it, did I?

307
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,680
No. It's all good.
Just connect it again.

308
00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,840
No. Jackhammer's dead.Ah.

309
00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,920
I can't hear the generator. Can you?
Na. Generator's conked out.

310
00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,720
We'll just go up there.
Should we check it?
I'll go check it.

311
00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,280
But I've cut our steps away.
It might be a bit harder

312
00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:51,360
to get up there but, erm, anyway.

313
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,040
This time we've got heaps of fuel,
we're totally ready.

314
00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,840
So, he's going to go and fix it
and we'll get going again.

315
00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,000
Jesus. It's not as easy without--

316
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,720
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Isaac!
You all right?Look at that.

317
00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,720
How the hell did that let go? Ah.

318
00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:09,800
We have no way out of here.

319
00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:23,440
Hey, there's a bit more
up there. Look.

320
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,360
Big, big nobby up there
or big bit of seam or something.

321
00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,240
In their Blower claim,

322
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,800
Chris and daughter Luca,
have spotted an opal seam.

323
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,440
Jet black.

324
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,840
We got some material there.
All we need is the colour now.

325
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,440
Oh, hopefully
it'll come through in the tail out.

326
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:51,920
If you're going to be an opal miner,

327
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,440
you got to be prepared
to put money up and prospect.

328
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,400
You've only got to have a look
at the year we had last year.

329
00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,120
I think we had a $40,000 fuel bill
and that's just the fuel bill.

330
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,880
We've started a website, you know.

331
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,000
We're doing
custom jewellery for people.

332
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,400
But if we didn't put
the hard yards in last year,

333
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,680
we wouldn't have had
the year we did this year.

334
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,920
Oscar.Yo.Let's go, mate.

335
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,720
Yeah, I'm good to go.
Rory will be waiting for us.

336
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,000
We want to, I want to try
and get this load in.

337
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,960
Their eight-tonne truck is now full
with opal bearing dirt.

338
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,640
We decided just to leave Rory
at the wash plant

339
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,880
and cover all our bases basically
and if there was a problem there,

340
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,840
he could shut it down quickly, erm,

341
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,800
without it turning
into a major problem.

342
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,120
The Cheals need to traverse
40 kilometres

343
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,800
of boggy roads
to reach the wash plant.

344
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,840
Basically want
to just get this load to town.

345
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,360
If we can get through
and Rory's back there,

346
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,760
we want to show him the trace
that we gouged out.

347
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,280
The rain looks like it's stopped
but it's pretty wet.

348
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,360
We're bogged now.

349
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,080
Na. Not in that section, Les.
Keep a looking.

350
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,800
What about down here?
LES: It'll be under cover somewhere.

351
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,840
Ooh-hoo! I found it.You have?

352
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,600
Yeah.Ooh-hoo! Good work.

353
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,880
I found the brake.Oh, you beauty.

354
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,200
Where was it? Up in this crap?
Yeah. Hidden up under that.

355
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,160
After hours of searching,

356
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,400
the Bushmen have located
a replacement

357
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,000
brake pump for their hoist.

358
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,720
That was a good find.
That looks like it's almost new.

359
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,800
Righto. Let's get ourselves
underground, mate. Come on, dogs.

360
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,800
Nugget?

361
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,840
Come on, buddy. Come here.
(DOG WHINING)

362
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:53,720
Come on, Nugget, Nugget.

363
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,640
Straight under there out of the road
and get cool.

364
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,560
Come on, Nugget. Hey.
Come on, Nugget.

365
00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:08,960
Come on. Oh, buddy.

366
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:13,800
Get in there. Go on. Get...

367
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,680
Come here. That's it.
That got you out, buddy.

368
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,840
Got you out, didn't it, Nugget? Hey.

369
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,120
Run to dad. Save me. Ah, ah, ah.

370
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,520
Back at the Dead Dog claim...

371
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,840
Rain's the last thing
we need at the moment.

372
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,800
Oh. It's cold, it's wet,
we're broke...

373
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,960
..And miserable.

374
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,520
Yeah, bit tighter. That's it. Woo!

375
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,840
Yes! You done it, Les. You beauty.

376
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,200
Yeah.She's working, mate.

377
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:57,880
Now the hard work starts.

378
00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:01,240
Nothing more to it
than going down there

379
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,320
with the jackhammer
and just start digging.

380
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,600
Oh.

381
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,120
Ooh. That really
pulls on the old ribs.

382
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,320
There is a bit of movement here,
Les. It is looking all right.

383
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,200
Yeah.I haven't found a thing yet

384
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,080
but the ground looks
like it will produce.Yep.

385
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,080
Where the top of the,
erm, sandstone is

386
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,720
and your clay starts,
the water, sort of, pooled there

387
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,720
millions and millions and millions
of years ago. It pooled there.

388
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,040
And then it found
one of these fault lines.

389
00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:47,720
It travelled down the fault lines
and it just sat there

390
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,520
again for millions
and millions of years.

391
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,920
Then it went from a water state

392
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,920
into a jelly and then, er,
hardened into opal.

393
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,560
Oh, Les.

394
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,360
Sorry, mate, I just can't do
much more for the moment.

395
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,960
No, well, come up.

396
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,680
Just give me a minute.

397
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,720
I've got to work up the courage
to climb this (BLEEP) ladder.

398
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,320
(GROANS)

399
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,480
What was it tied to?
Did it break or?

400
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,080
It was tied to the strap
and the strap's tied
to the tree. Oh.

401
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,960
Isaac, how are we going
to get out here?Ah.

402
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,200
Sofia and Isaac are trapped

403
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,800
at the bottom of their eight-metre
deep, open-cut mine

404
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,840
in crippling 40 degree temperatures.

405
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,920
We can, but this is desperate
because we got no water down here.

406
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,960
Both the water bottles are empty.
We've taken the steps out.

407
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:56,800
You reckon
you could make it up that?

408
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,080
It's not the easiest place.
Maybe through here.

409
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,720
Just be ready to catch me.Just
concentrate on what you're doing.

410
00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,400
Oh, no!

411
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,120
Get footholds. There.

412
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,520
Yeah, that's good.
That's a good one.Ah.

413
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,880
(GRUNTS)You right?

414
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,480
You're nearly at the top.
Just be careful of the top.

415
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,240
(SOFIA PANTING)

416
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,600
Yeah.Hey, listen...

417
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,880
See if you can tie
a better knot this time.(LAUGHS)

418
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,120
I thought for a minute
that we weren't going
to get out of here, ay.

419
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,760
OK. We're all good this time.
Well done, Sofia.

420
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,640
(MACHINE WHIRRING)

421
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,440
Power's back on.

422
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,920
Woo.That's it. That's it.
Ironstone.Colour?

423
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,560
Definitely ironstone.No, no colour.
Check that.

424
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,800
This looks good.
There is colour in that.

425
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,880
Whoo!Yeah, that's purple.

426
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,480
All right, awesome.
Well, there has to be more, right?

427
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,880
Hold on.There, there.
I saw something for sure.

428
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,560
There's nothing in that.Woo-woo!

429
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,440
Hey!(LAUGHS)Colour.

430
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,760
Oh, there's heaps.
We got to check all of these.

431
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,640
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Look at this.

432
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,880
I love colour. Oh, oh, oh.
Here come the goosebumps.

433
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,920
(BOTH LAUGHING)

434
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,040
That's beautiful.
Mum and dad would love this.

435
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:50,200
Oh.This is the legacy baby.
Look at this.

436
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,760
Look at the colour.
I wish they were here right now.

437
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,440
We've bogged that truck.

438
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,920
Ah, she's a bit soft
because all the rain, so.

439
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,400
Yeah, she's just gone
down the back there, see.

440
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,400
It's a four-wheel drive truck.

441
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,200
Hey, kids.LUCA: Yeah?

442
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,840
You want to grab some, erm, timber,

443
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,160
whatever you can
and we'll jam under that wheel.

444
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,800
The Cheals' four-wheel drive truck

445
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,200
loaded down with eight tonnes
of opal bearing dirt

446
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,440
is bogged in soft sand,

447
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,880
25 kilometres from their wash plant.

448
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,080
I'll try and back out.
(ENGINE WHIRRING)

449
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,280
OSCAR: Gees, he did well there.
Look at that.

450
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,360
Yeah.It's soft down there, too.
Yeah, very.

451
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,680
Dodged a bullet there.
(LAUGHING) That was close.

452
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,840
I didn't think
we were getting out of there.

453
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,640
With more rain forecast,

454
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,520
now the rush is on
to get the opal dirt

455
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,360
into their wash plant agitator.

456
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,720
You need your agitator,
digging in nobby country

457
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,600
because you've got
to wash everything.

458
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,560
You don't see it all underground.

459
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,400
Tiny little stone can be worth,
you know, a hundred grand.

460
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,400
Goes up in there,
we mix water with it.

461
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,280
Turns into a mud
and then washes the silt away

462
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,360
and then you're just left
with your real hard
tailings in there.

463
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,160
Rory's going to stay back here
at the wash plant.

464
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:38,920
It's time for him to step up now

465
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,440
and be responsible
for this whole setup in town.
I've got faith in him.

466
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,200
Chance of all of, erm... hey!

467
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,360
We're at the next stage
of the of the cutting process

468
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,400
which is forming the stone
or making preforms,

469
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,120
also known as rubs.

470
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,440
We've blocked out
so that's blocked out

471
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,240
and you can see where the colour is.

472
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,000
It goes right the way around.
We need to face it

473
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,640
which means coming down,
taking the rock away.

474
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,960
We expose the blue colour,
the face of the stone.

475
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,480
As season end draws near,

476
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,280
Sofia and Isaac,
desperate for funds,

477
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,320
want to transform their rough opal
into finished jewellery.

478
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,080
We need money to find more opal.
Buy big machinery.

479
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,520
It's not cheese and bikkies.
Oh.

480
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,160
It's opals. There we go.
A flutter of opals.

481
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,720
Oh, my God.Finished product.
It's all done, drilled,

482
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,760
everything, exactly the way
you requested.

483
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,520
Oh, there's so many nice ones.

484
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,240
I am officially hitting the road.

485
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:02,160
I have with me, erm, some amazing,
beautiful pendant stones.

486
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,720
Sofia needs to take Isaac's work
to her shop on the Queensland coast,

487
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,720
thirteen hundred kilometres away

488
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:14,120
to get the cut stones appraised
by her jeweller, Monique.

489
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,040
She's got
a pretty strong personality.

490
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,960
She's very fussy. She might,
she might not like any of it.

491
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,360
And, and everything's
really resting on this.

492
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,960
We are now in the Whitsundays
at my beautiful shop.

493
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,360
Our store we, erm, have
a really special thing that we do.

494
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:43,280
Sponsor young adults to help them
to get into business.

495
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,120
We sponsor Monique
as a jewellery artist in the store.

496
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,320
She's a lovely girl
that I worked with

497
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,560
over ten years ago
as her disability support worker.

498
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,320
She's a brilliant,
upcoming jewellery artist

499
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,160
and she also happens
to deal with disabilities

500
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,480
like cerebral palsy and autism.

501
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,640
The jewellery that I make
is a lot like myself.

502
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,520
There's only one of it in the world
and will ever be in this world.

503
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,800
What I love about opal is that
it's inspiring, beautiful.

504
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,560
It is not like anything

505
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,680
that anyone has ever seen before
or ever will.

506
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,640
So, I'll give you a moment
to check it out
and see how you feel.

507
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,000
I thought it would suit
what you do perfectly

508
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,440
because everything that you create
is so unique.

509
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,600
What about this one?

510
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,760
No, I don't like it.

511
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,160
You don't like this one?No.

512
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,040
What, you don't like the colours or,
or something?No.Really?

513
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,920
Erm,

514
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,200
what, what about this one?
It's beautiful.
What do you think of this?

515
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,400
No.Not this one either?No.

516
00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:02,280
I love that.You love this one?Yes.

517
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,920
Oh, I love this one.
This is actually
one of my favourites.Yes.

518
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,960
I love this one.OK.

519
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,240
That one.Great.And this one.

520
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,000
Great.And that one.Great. Great.

521
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,520
I'm very relieved
to say that Monique

522
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,440
absolutely loved the opals
that we brought home.

523
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,120
There was a few
that she actually didn't like at all

524
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,400
and I was getting quite nervous
that she was going
to reject the lot,

525
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,800
erm, so really positive outcome.
She loved almost all of them.

526
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,280
Monique will be working
with Yowah nut opal

527
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,480
of deep blues and greens.

528
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,240
They've been cut and polished

529
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,960
ready to be fashioned
into 25 pieces of jewellery.

530
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,840
These are beautiful.
We're going to have some pieces

531
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:52,400
that range from anywhere
between $250 to $650 each.

532
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,160
With enough customer support,
we're looking at just over $11,000.

533
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,080
I just got a call from Sofia,
the jeweller's happy. I nailed it.

534
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,160
You need to be able
to look at that rock,

535
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:10,440
follow the lines
that nature's given ya

536
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,760
and be able to work out
how to bring the best of it out.

537
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,520
It's incredible what you'll see
if you really look.

538
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,520
You just have to open your eyes
and opal will do that for you.

539
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,920
I think she just,
you must have just stalled.

540
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,800
The revs weren't up enough,
I reckon.

541
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,560
RORY: Just with the extra weight.

542
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,040
Perfect example of, erm,

543
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,120
when you get side-tracked like that.

544
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,840
Always got to be looking
and watching.

545
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,760
Yeah, little, little bit of pressure
on my shoulders.

546
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,560
You know, I'll be out here by myself

547
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,640
running all the machinery,
running the agi.

548
00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:51,440
Erm, a little bit nerve wracking.

549
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,520
Rory, in his first shift
as an agitator operator,

550
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,720
needs to ensure eight tonnes
of opal bearing dirt

551
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,280
is washed for 24 hours.

552
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:09,320
Hey, mate. How's it going?Good.

553
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,720
She right to go?Yeah, boy.
You ready to tail out?Yeah.

554
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,480
It's going strong. Water seems
like it's coming out all right.

555
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,880
The Cheals are hunting nobbies,

556
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,200
small solid balls of opal.

557
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,800
The most valuable,
rare red on a black base,

558
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,880
worth up to $49,000 a gram.

559
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,960
You know the reason
this tail out's important

560
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,600
cause it's, you know,
it's in a new area, a new claim.

561
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,160
CHRIS: I'm hoping that there's
some material in there

562
00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,560
and, and, and at least
even an indicator
to keep, keep digging there.

563
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,560
Fingers-crossed.

564
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,600
I have some nice,
beautiful black nobbies.

565
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,040
Just no colour in them.
No colour in them.

566
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,320
Little bit disappointing.
Yeah. Bit of a shame.

567
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,040
Ah, obviously nobbies are great.

568
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,040
It's a good sign but you don't
get paid unless you get colour.

569
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,200
I think this would be the worst
we've had this season.

570
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,840
And, and times like these
where you don't get anything

571
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,720
you appreciate how rare opal is.

572
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,400
Yeah, this is a bit of a reality
check for us today, to be honest.

573
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,760
The Cheals have found potch,

574
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,520
low-value, predominantly
colourless opal.

575
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,760
If there's any piece here that's,
that's convinced me to keep going,

576
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,200
it's that piece there
and that's because
there's flashes of red in there

577
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,560
and, and it's sitting
on that black potch

578
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,000
and with that sort of colour there,
you definitely got to keep going.

579
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,480
Back at homebase, a glimmer of hope.

580
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,160
G'day.Hey, Mike. Hey, Danielle.
How are you guys?

581
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:41,120
Good, thanks. How are you?
That's good.

582
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,360
A buyer is interested in a ring

583
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,960
from the Cheals' website for $9,000.

584
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,240
I was just a bit worried
without seeing it
in the flesh. Is it,

585
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,520
it hasn't been Photoshopped
or doctored in any way?

586
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,280
So all the photos
are taken on a macro lens,

587
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,800
erm, just in nice even light, and
we don't, erm, like Photoshop them

588
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,040
or edit them
or enhance them, whatsoever.

589
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,600
It's for our twent- er,
our twentieth wedding anniversary

590
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,640
and it's hard
when you buy over the net.

591
00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:10,560
Especially something like that
but I...

592
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,560
DANIELLE: So is it,
um, is it black opal or?

593
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,000
Yeah, we found it
in our Lemonade claim.

594
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,880
It's a lot of money. You're happy?
Yep, yep.Yeah.Yeah.

595
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,600
All right.Oh, awesome.
CHRIS: Thanks, guys.Lovely.

596
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,040
We'll package that up to you
and get it sent to you
as soon as possible.

597
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,720
I'm sure you'll love it.
It's a beautiful piece.

598
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,800
Yeah, I'm sure you'll love it.
(LAUGHING)

599
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,880
How's that? We just
nailed that last step.

600
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,280
First jewellery sale.
That's good. It's perfect.

601
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,320
Proud of you.Absolutely perfect.
Proud of you kids.

602
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,280
That's the thing
with the, the website,

603
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,200
even if we don't get
opal for the week,

604
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,200
there's always backup.
It's cool to see
how excited they were.

605
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,320
Yeah.Like she
couldn't stop smiling.Yeah.

606
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,040
All right, well we better go out

607
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,280
and think about trying
to find some more.Yeah.

608
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,160
Oh. (EXHALES)

609
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,000
(GRUNTS)

610
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,320
How are the ribs?
Feel them scraping.Yeah.

611
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:31,800
(SIGHS) Anyway.Well, just rest up.
But I'll get me hat.

612
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,480
You just got to keep on going
no matter what.

613
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,200
I'll still be doing stuff up here
and I'm not giving up.

614
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,320
Got to be there somewhere.
We drilled colour up
when we put the hole down.

615
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,960
I don't like not being able to do
something and having
to get Les to do it.

616
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,320
He's done his time on jackhammers.

617
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,640
The ground down there
does look pretty good.
It looks like it could produce.

618
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:03,440
You might go a metre
and then all of a sudden it opens up

619
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,400
into this big pocket of colour.

620
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,640
You know that's what opal's like
so you've just
got to keep chasing it.

621
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,120
Oi!Hey?

622
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,440
I just seen a lump
of grey potch, ooh,

623
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,520
fall so I've just got
to get in here and have a look.

624
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,120
Yeah, it's pretty hard
to see this stuff but,

625
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,560
cause it's the same colour
as the dirt just about. Oh.

626
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,280
Well, I just found
a piece of potch.Yeah?

627
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,480
Ah.Just potch or has it got colour?

628
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,440
No, it's got, er, colour.
It's got red and blue

629
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,360
and a bit of green.It does?Yeah.

630
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,200
Hey, hey. You beauty, Les.
It's looking good.

631
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,120
It could be worth a couple of bucks.

632
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,880
Just one piece?
No, there's got to be more in here.

633
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,040
Anything else, Les?Not yet.

634
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,600
Oh! That's a bigger piece.

635
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,280
Must have been a pocket.

636
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,720
And the gold in it. Oh!

637
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,680
Hey, guess what, Les?What?

638
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,160
Me ribs just stopped hurting
a little bit.Oh. (LAUGHS)

639
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:15,040
The Bushmen have discovered
a pocket of grey-based seam opal.

640
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,600
Although thin, highly sort after

641
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,160
reds and golds flash
across the surface.

642
00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:24,560
It's in the rough and, after Les
has collected all the pieces,

643
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,000
they weigh 85 grams.

644
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,880
(SINGSONG) Ho-ho-ho.
We found some money.

645
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,920
Ho-ho-ho. That colour is good.

646
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,320
Next stop, Australia's Got Talent
for you, Les.

647
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,360
I know.
I'll be in the talented nitwits.

648
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,080
Oh, hey, that's all right, Les.

649
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,920
No wonder you're singing old fella.

650
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,120
There's a couple of nice bits
in there, mate.

651
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,480
Another sodden day
in the opal fields

652
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:06,200
and the Bushmen are heading
to see local buyer, Brian Gray.

653
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,920
Hey, mate. How are ya?
Why'd you bring him for?

654
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,800
Hey. Told you to leave him at home.

655
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:14,640
We got to keep you honest, mate.

656
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:17,040
Old Les and him
have got a little bit of history.

657
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,640
They always have a bit
of a backwards and forwards.

658
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,840
If you don't squeeze them,

659
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,200
they'll talk you down
as cheap as possible

660
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,200
so you've got to turn the cards
on them,

661
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,240
and hopefully make them
feel guilty to give you more money.

662
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,720
I've been in the opal industry
for, oh, 12 years,

663
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,440
going on 12 years,

664
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,680
and I sell to upmarket jewellers.

665
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,800
How much you looking for this
thousand-dollar parcel?What?

666
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,520
Thousand (BLEEP) dollars?Hey.

667
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,120
We want
four-and-a-half grand for it.Oh.

668
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,480
Colour bar's pretty thin though
when you think about it.

669
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,280
Some, some of it and it's.
It ain't thin.

670
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,520
It'll cut. Look at that.
Wow, that's nice.

671
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,760
Overnight, Rod rubbed
a few of their opals

672
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,880
to prove their potential.

673
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,960
There's another one. Look at that.

674
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,000
Mm.So, what are you offering?

675
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,800
I'll give you $2,000.You want,
you want us to starve for them

676
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,560
till we find some more do you?Hey?

677
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,400
Come on.How's, how's $2,500
then sound?No.

678
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,880
Between old friends.
No way in the world.

679
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,680
I can't go any higher
than thr- thr- oh,

680
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,160
I'll give you $3,200 but I,
I can't, I can't go any higher.

681
00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:36,120
And, and it gets better.

682
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,240
I'll give you 50 bucks extra

683
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,920
so you can go
and buy a carton of beer.

684
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,480
Sounds all right, Les.
That sounds bloody good to me.

685
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,200
Deal.Done. Thank you, fellas.

686
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,480
$3,200.Thank you.

687
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,160
Plus 50.Thank you.

688
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:02,480
Are you happy?
I'm always happy.

689
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,360
Good, mate.Good to see you.

690
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,440
Les?

691
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,840
Oh, wee! You beauty, Les.

692
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,440
That's a little bit
more fuel money, isn't it?

693
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:17,280
Well, it gets us out of trouble,
doesn't it?Well, yeah.

694
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,280
Good on ya. You've saved us.

695
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,200
See not all heroes wear capes, Les.

696
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,400
Yeah, I know that, mate. (LAUGHS)

697
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,600
I haven't got a cape.

698
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,400
(BOTH LAUGHING)

699
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,480
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