29 August 2009
Cast Aweigh
I determined the first thing I should do was find water. There was plenty of vegetation but I could not find any surface water. I dug in next to some especially green grass and found plenty of groundwater but it tasted salty, probably from a mineral bed or seawater intrusion. I eventually noticed some moisture on a large rock. I could have used a thread from the suture kit or a lace from my boot to collect the water and filter it into my canteen but that would have taken all day. I was wearing thermal underwear that I needed to take off anyway since it was too hot. I spread the top half against the wettest part of the rock. My reasoning for using the top was that it spread out more to cover more of the rock. By saving the bottoms I would at least have half at night. And if it was still too cold I could always dry the tops at the fire. Assuming I could make one. In about an hour the underwear was wet enough to wring water into the canteen.
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When I was growing up we often went on these survival things. It was a natural part of our Native heritage.
For sure, we had the basics, Salt, Sugar, Flour, Baking Powder, tea, carnation evaporated milk, and for some strange reason, blackstrap mollasses. We would usually go out at berry picking time, hunting season and in the winter, to fish and to trap. We had canvas tents. A good axe, a butchers knife and hunting stuff including snare wire for smaller game. I did this when I was young but most no longer do this and would get lost if their battery on their GPS ran out.....
Our old hunting grounds are overrun by deer and rabbits now. They die off by the thousands each winter. Everyone tries to hunt them but it takes skill to hunt and that is lost too......And why pick berries when you can buy all the jam you want at the supermarket.
Hey, that was pretty cool about the static electricity. I am gonna remember that one...
About giant snakes and nudity. I actually prefer semi nudity. I.e. the lady actress gets her clothing all torn up, has a wet teeshirt contest incident yet maintains her hairdo. In all of this she has a sense of humour. Only works when the heroic male in the movie never gets to kiss her being shy and reserved....
Wow Mia. I just got tired reading, I don't know how tired I would feel if I was in this excercise. I think all humans should experiment this type of extreme situation, isolation, it would make life easier and we never know when something will happen. If we know how to survive with almost nothing, we know everything. About nudity, this is how we were born. We weren't born semi nude. Nudity is not the problem. The way people see nudity is.
Take care.
Michelle, I think if more people pushed themselves they'd see what they're capable of doing. Man was designed for more than watching TV. And I agree completely about nudity.
Garry, if I'd had all the supplies you had I could've had a feast. And there was no wet T-shirt contest. I would've won anyway.
Well, let me call it speculative. As a rule we aboriginals do not get lost. Something to do with our spatial appreciation of the world -so the experience would be unique, at least in my family, so I could only speculate. I would probably do what you did but I would be more carnivorous. I imagine that there are desert rats out there. find a hole, put a bit of mica(aboriginal catching animal secret that i will not explain) to attract the blighters and do them in. broil them with mustard dressing and voila.
I like the zanuck reference except in my memory the swimmers are always brunettes, at least in the visible parts.
So if you were on a flight from London to Sydney and fell asleep on the plane only to wake up on the ground after the plane crashed you wouldn't be lost? There are a million reasons somebody might find themselves in a survival situation.
I never saw any rats or larger animals. Only insects. Lots of insects. But we have strict rules against eating those.
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