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