Alone contestant aiming to make more friends in Port Douglas
Shire tourism
A former contestant of the Alone TV show who spent 86 days living by herself in the Patagonian mountains has visited Port Douglas with a view to running retreats and workshops here.
Carleigh Fairchild, who was on season three and five of the hit US show - which also screens on SBS - was in the region last week scoping out the local sights.
She spent time in Port Douglas and also visited key locations around Mossman researching potential future jobs while on holiday here before flying to New Zealand to run a retreat there.
Since appearing on Alone in 2016, where Ms Fairchild came second after being evacuated a day before the winner, Zachary Fowler, she has forged a career running workshops, doing public speaking, teaching basket weaving and hosting retreats.
She was guided around Douglas Shire by mutual friend Annie Andrews, who lives in Tasmania, but was coincidentally visiting her daughter Kathryn in Cairns at the same time.
“Annie found me on Instagram and we started having a dialogue,” Ms Fairchild says.
“I will definitely come back, probably next year or sooner.
“I’m open to possibilities.”
She says living in the mountains of Argentina for close to three months helped her connect better with nature.
“It was hard, I could only take 10 items with me,” she says.
She only caught six fish in 86 days, but learnt to survive by foraging for plant-based food, she says.
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