Last week on “A.B.C-Z オーストラリア縦断 資金０円 ワーホリの旅” (A.B.C-Z’s working holiday trip through Australia with 0 yen), we enjoyed watching them work alongside crocodiles. With the guys no doubt taking it easy in this episode after reaping the reward for their labor, will they find some way to make it just as exciting?
Leaving their workplace, they’re still expressing pride at passing the $1000 mark and reflect on the need for cola.
Spotting the sea, they shout ecstatically as usual. It’s still as inexplicable to me as ever why the sight of the ocean gets them so excited and impressed.
Stopping to grab the much-needed soda, they get sidetracked by a dog.
Well, when I say “they”, I mean everyone but Goseki-kun, who walked on ahead to buy it, but then ended up having to carry the five cans back.
Tossing the cans to the guys, he decided to give Tsukada-kun a tough can to catch. Did Tsukada-kun manage to save the off-target Coke?
As they drink their sodas at the beach, they’re clearly taking this episode slow so far.
They’re sort of in a reflective mood as they talk, but it’s only for a brief minute before they head out on the road again.
The sunset is scenic . . .
. . . and while Totsuka-kun naturally has the camera out to record the beauty of it . . .
. . . Tsukada-kun has to don sunglasses because of the glare.
They reach their berth for the night, and try to figure out how to do their laundry. Since they’re paying $58 for the night, they might as well take advantage of the facilities, right?
But Goseki-kun declares the machines “dame!” and they end up hand washing their laundry in the sink. It looked like they were only doing some tee-shirts, anyway. Their drying methods were . . . vigorous.
Back in the van, Kawai-kun and Tsukada-kun were cooking crocodile meat and pasta. Surely, a feast for kings.
The meal met with broad approval from the members, who scarfed it down in about five minutes flat.
After getting some much-needed sleep, they get up before the dawn to hold their planning conference outside.
Tsukada-kun, who clearly takes the lead on planning the recreational activities, wants to aim for the Great Barrier Reef.
They head out with the sun rising and Totsuka-kun recording every moment of it.
The particular part of the Great Barrier Reef they plan to encounter is off the coast of Agnes Water . . .
. . . where there are plenty of ships ready to take them out.
Unfortunately, as we’ve already seen, the cost of recreational activities in Australia is substantial. This time, it was more reasonable than the whitewater rafting they had to turn down – the ticket price was $180 apiece for snorkeling plus a lunch buffet. That would take their savings from $1073 to $173.
But while with the whitewater rafting they didn’t have to money to all do it, this time they did have the money, so they went for it.
The guys were in the back of a ship that had what looked like at least twenty people.
Among the activities offered on this voyage was a close-up look at the local aquatic life . . .
. . . and, of course, food. Since it’s free (or, more accurately, they’ve paid for it already), they had better get as much in their bellies as they can.
Unfortunately, the soda is not free – tea, yes; coffee, yes; soda, no. The guy who informed them of this made a hilarious move to comically block the refrigerator, but I didn’t get that screenshot.
Got a few of them enjoying the snacks and coffee.
Then they head onto one of the little boats that takes them out to the uninhabited islands.
It has a clear center to passengers can get a good look at the coral.
That’s it for this episode – we’ll see what they do at Lady Musgrave Island in the next episode (which has already aired, but isn’t available yet from my usual source).
Even though not much happened in this episode, A.B.C-Z managed to keep it reasonably engaging. Somehow, despite all the hard work they had to do, they brought remarkable energy to this episode, literally bouncing around when they weren’t sipping soda at the beach.
Otherwise, this was a transitional episode, moving them from the crocodiles to the corals. We’ll see what they make of this adventure in the next episode. Will it be worth the hard-earned money they spent on it?
J-Everything 
”Surely, a feast for kings.” Haha great comment. I found it quite weird how at some point during the previous episode in the crocodile farm, they would speak of bag and shoes etc made of crocodile, and then also the farmer would give them crocodile meat….I don’t know, maybe because in my country they wouldn’t have spoken on TV nor shown it about meat as a present from the very own animal they spent the day working with, and the part about shoes and bags and such would have never been aired…
I liked this episode, though it was much more peaceful than the previous one, more one of a transition I would say. They managed to keep it funny, thanks to some moments such as Tsuka-chan jumping and trying to get his Coke
They were SO loud in that boat, I would have been annoyed if I were a passenger, but then again, most of the time I was in a boat with Japanese boys around their age, they were making as much noise as this lol so I don’t know…Excitement over the sea, always. I always find it funny, I mean living in Tokyo especially, they are not that far from the sea too
The drying method was …original. I m not sure it can work though ? XD
I don’t know if you heard about it, but ABC-Z fans have finally found how many people are in Js Journey ( I mean staff and such). According to the paper Hasshi has in his hands they are 17 in total getting in the boat ( and actually it cost them almost $3000 in total) http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab39/petitesorcieres/vlcsnap-2013-05-14-14h08m08s230_zpsbfeac7d6.png
Which would also explain why the staff of the boat is so accomodating, for example when Tsuka-chan took the whole cookies box,even if it was free, for example, and said nothing….
Thank you for the review
Yeah, the Japanese are quite open about the uses that animals are eventually put to. It is a farm, though, not a zoo (you can tell that because there’s a lot of one animal, not one or two of a lot of animals) – the assumption is that the crocodiles are being raised for their meat and hide. They spent the day working with animals that are being bred to be eaten or worn – much like any other farm raises animals – so it’s not that weird. I probably should have mentioned that in the article for the last episode.
Tsukada-kun’s leap for the Coke was an absolute highlight.
I was thinking the same thing about how loud they were in the boat, but I guessed the other passengers would been able to see that they were filming a show and had to act boisterous.
Well, tee-shirts eventually dry on their own anyway, right?
Oooh – nice bit of info about the number of people they had with them, I totally missed that. A dozen staff helping out the five guys? That’s more than I expected. Let’s see – three camerapeople, three assistants, two translators, a director, and . . . who are the other three?
Well, yeah, good point about the cookies. But when you think about it, just the five boys paid $900, so what’s a three-dollar cookie box between friends, right? Besides, aren’t they supposed to be getting a free lunch as part of the package?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!