[0-1:59.930]For years, the Solomon Islands have been home to legends of massive saltwater crocodiles
[00:05.680]Separating fact from fiction,
[00:07.700]the goal of the Castaways team was to capture evidence
[00:11.150]that huge crocs were living on these little-known islands
[00:14.260]Braving the highseas,
[00:15.700]cameraman Wade Fairley made the 1,000-mile crossing from Australia to the Solomons
[00:21.240]The Solomons are a chain of almost a thousand remote islands
[00:25.600]Wade would need the freedom of a boat
[00:26.670]to stand a chance of finding these mysterious crocodiles
[00:29.960]Joined by producer Mark Brownlow,
[00:32.130]they started their two-week expedition in the Western Provinces
[00:35.860]With few scientific leads,they would have to rely on local knowledge
[00:40.460]The crocodile tales began, interpreted by Wade, a fluent pidgin-speaker
[00:45.700]Following the tip-off of the four-metre tail-less crocodile,
[00:49.190]they decided to track him down that night,
[00:51.460]when these reptiles are most active
[00:53.500]To minimise disturbance,
[00:55.090]they scanned the mangroves with infrared light, invisible to crocodiles
[00:59.800]Aside from a mysterious splash,
[01:01.960]the only confirmed sightings were juveniles
[01:05.120]Where were the adults?
[01:06.870]Over the next two nights,
[01:08.360]the tail-less croc continued to elude them