If she’s ever on a plane that crashes in the Andes, Joanna Wane knows who she’d want to have right by her side. Everyone who’s watched the extreme survival series Alone Australia has their favourite Gina Chick moment. How she danced on the moss in bare feet and introduced herself to the trees after being dropped on to an isolated, godforsaken stretch of Tasmania’s west coast.
Her revelation that she doesn’t wear knickers. Day 34, when she jumped a wallaby and “donked” it after getting up for a moonlight pee, apologising for taking the animal’s life and stroking its still-warm fur before expertly butchering the carcass. The daily encounters with a platypus she filmed splashing around in the water by her bush shelter.
The tears she cried on the birthday of her tousle-haired daughter Blaise, remembering the “little chick” who died of cancer in 2013 at the age of 3..