For the next 72 hours, we are going to be stranded on this deserted island off the coast of Panama, with no food.
Our only bone hook is stuck on a rock.
No water and only one item each.
I don't even think I've slept at all.
I grew up watching survival shows.
If you're stuck out here with no water source at all, it's actually drink the fluid from a fresh elephant dung.
So if I'm being honest, this is my childhood dream come true.
But at the same time, the realities of how challenging and how uncomfortable this is going to be are already setting in.
If you missed our last video, we have just spent the last three days learning survival skills from the experts.
It is the world's most poisonous tree.
Now the challenge is to take what we've learned and see if we can put it to use in a real life survival situation.
This little shady patch of sand is going to be our home for the next 72 hours.
We have four people participating in this challenge.
And for my one item, I have chosen to bring a fishing kit.
But to make this even more of a challenge.
For no reason we are not going to allow ourselves to use this kit until the last 36 hours of the challenge.
The first 36 hours, we will attempt to catch fish just by primitive means.
I'm Dusty, Nate's brother, and I decided to bring machete.
I'm Sarah, Dusty's wife, and I brought a knife.
And last but not least, I chose to bring coffee.
I already can't wait to drink my morning coffee out of my coconut that I carved out myself.
I know most people wouldn't consider this a survival necessity, but if I'm going to be productive at all to this group And I'm going to share,
And in addition to our one man-made item each, we have a few other things that we've brought along.
All of these things we have made with our own hands during the last three days, as we've been learning survival skills.
This is a pot for cooking.
We have some coconut bowls for eating and drinking out of.
And most importantly is our bow drill kit.
This is what we will use to attempt to start fire.
Fire!
This is genuinely and I'm not just saying this one of the most ambitious attempts to do this final three days.
So, just to be clear, whenever someone signs up to do this survival challenge with Tom, he's kind enough to let them take all sorts of goodies with them to make things more comfortable, but against tom's will.
We refused all of these things and only brought the items we just showed you.
So these guys, i promise you, are doing this really ridiculously hardcore.
They've got to film this thing and they're making it very hard for themselves.
So they're saying that they're not gonna take in the flour.
They're saying they're not going to take in any of these personal hygiene items, their water bottle, they're not going to take the water, the head torch, they're not going to take the sleeping bag liner.
And they're saying that they're certainly going to try to fish just using bones for at least the first 36 hours.
So no to the fishing kit.
All right.
So now that you have a better understanding of the real situation, let's get to work.
Yeah, let's just clear this whole space.
Oh, are you like sweeping?
I love it.
Our top three priorities for today are fire, water, and shelter.
If we can achieve those three things before the sun goes down, we will count today as a massive success.
We're starting by attempting to build a shelter.
This tree that we were planning on building our shelter against is literally covered in millions of ants.
I mean, they seem to just be hanging out on the tree, but the idea that they could just crawl into bed with us very easily.
Think we stay?
Feels like it's almost two o'clock already and we don't have any of our essentials done, so I think we just gotta stick with it today.
Hmm, already looking fresh.
Sarah and I are attempting to build a mattress with all these dead palm leaves on the ground.
Our goal is to layer up as many as possible, because it's pretty much been the crab apocalypse each night when the sun goes down.
I'm pretty nervous about it.
They're everywhere.
Wow.
During our survival training, we learned how to make a mattress out of fresh green palm branches.
And this one is hanging so low, but it's so stuck.
I've been trying to pull on it forever, and I was just shaking the tree.
And these two giant Green coconuts fell from the tree, but also almost landed on Sarah's head.
We learned that coconuts kill 14 times more people than sharks every year.
So this is a real safety concern.
Think you can pull any more down?
Come on, Chad.
Anybody remember which side we're supposed to hit?
We learned last week that these green coconuts are the most difficult to get, but they're also the yummiest.
So getting two off the tree by accident this early in the challenge was a pretty big deal.
But since we were still so fresh, we had no idea how grateful we should have been.
Kara got those down there bare hand.
Well, our first water of the trip.
And maybe we should have saved them for later instead of chugging them right away.
They say you need about 400 milliliters of water per day to survive.
To thrive.
No, to survive.
And I think each coconut has somewhere around that amount.
So we need at least four coconuts a day or we're going to be extremely uncomfortable.
We were all feeling dangerously optimistic at this point, but Nate was right.
We had no idea how quickly we'd feel the effects of not eating or drinking anything except for the half a coconut you just saw.
It's definitely sad how much trash washes up on the beach.
However, this giant knot of rope is extremely useful.
Sarah and I are cutting little strings like this in order to build our shelter.
So, while the girls work on the roof of the shelter, Dusty and I are going to attempt to start a fire.
The goal is to use this bow to spin the spindle fast enough inside this hole that it gets hot enough to create an ember.
And then we will slowly and carefully move that ember to this tinder bundle and blow on it until hopefully, it combusts into flames.
We've done this once before and it literally took hours.
So wish us luck.
You know what I totally forgot to ask about?
What?
If you can drink your urine.
I think you can.
All right, warmed it up.
All right, ready?
We have a really good ember.
Look at that.
Oh my gosh.
We're not there yet.
Come on.
The smoke is a good sign.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
We have fire.
Oh, it's terribly warm.
Thank goodness I was sweating so bad.
20 minutes.
Wow.
20 minutes.
That was what I was most excited about doing this whole trip.
And the fact that we did it in 20 minutes, I am on an adrenaline high right now.
We were all on a major adrenaline high at this point, but we'd soon learn that survival is a constant roller coaster of highs like this one and lows.
We're going to burn down our shelter.
Yeah.
We might.
All that smoke blowing into the shelter.
If all goes as planned, that's going to keep us from getting eaten alive while we sleep.
Hopefully we can still breathe, to be determined.
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Oh, this is so great.
We learned the importance of keeping our body temperature at a nice, cool level, trying to conserve as much water in our body as possible instead of sweating it all out.
Nate did not get the memo and continued doing lots of things that made him sweat which unfortunately, is going to lead him to feeling worse than anyone tonight.
I kid you not, we just found what's left of a shovel back in the woods.
Oh yeah, that's perfect.
Perfect.
You nailed it.
Isn't that sharp enough?
I think so.
A snake just fell out of a tree right in front of my face.
Look at its tongue sticking out.
That is the most camouflaged animal I've ever seen.
Whoa, look at it go up this tree.
We learned in our training that there are snakes here, but they're harmless garden snakes.
I feel pretty good that it's not gonna bite us or eat us.
I kinda wanna eat him.
So coconuts are going to be our sole source of water for this entire experience.
There's really two types of coconuts here on the island.
We have the green coconuts, which are the ones that are still up in the trees and are growing, and the one that almost fell on Kara's head.
Then we have the brown mature coconuts.
The crazy thing about these is the majority of them didn't even come from this island.
They fall into the water and then they wash up on shore, and these can survive out in the ocean for nine months and still have drinkable liquid inside.
So the green coconuts you open with a machete, but the brown coconuts, because the outside of them has gotten so hard, you have to open them using a coconut spike, which is the pointy stick that we just put in the ground, And 10 minutes later you have the inside of the coconut.
Even though there were drinkable brown coconuts all over the ground.
Little did we know this would be one of our last.
Nate was still fresh enough to crack this one open.
But soon, none of us would have enough energy to even make a dent.
I'm definitely feeling tired and hungry and thirsty and we just got here.
But knowing that, like we've skipped lunch, we haven't had anything to drink and we have not stopped since we got here, we deserve this.
We've been told that you can drink as many of the green coconuts as you want, but if you drink more than four or five of these brown ones, you know diarrhea.
I don't know if that's gonna stop me from drinking more of these though.
Well, today this is definitely lunch because That sucked the bees down my throat.
This is the only food we have.
We also built a bench.
This tastes amazing right now.
I have a feeling I'm going to be so sick of coconuts by day three.
You looked like a two-year-old being forced to eat green beans.
She still hasn't chewed it.
We've already lost the girls.
We've only been out here for about six hours, but it is just so hot and we've had so little water that everyone's already feeling a little lethargic.
Sarah's what we call a coconut drunk.
She's holding onto the edge while she's still sleeping.
A little jealous if I'm being honest.
After my little nap, I decided to continue gathering dead palm branches for our shelter, until.
Where is it?
I think it's a tarantula, or just the biggest spider I've ever seen in my entire life.
I also think it might be dead or close to dead.
Nope, not dead.
Ugh, that's disgusting.
Let's get it far, far away from our camp.
Get him out.
Oh my, oh my gosh.
Oh wow, look at that.
That is the meanest looking spider I've ever seen.
He's like .
We almost put him in our bed.
Get him out.
I can't.
Get him out.
You're gonna have to do it.
I'm sorry.
Whoa, look at those fangs.
Get outta here, don't go towards camp.
Oh, we were warned about a lot of things, but not those, and we just built the entire top of our roof out of those brown branches that we found that tarantula in and we're using them for our bedding.
Unfortunately, we're running low on palm leaf branches for our shelter and we're only about halfway, so nate and dusty have made this contraption and have pulled down a couple more dead ones.
It's definitely looking sheltery.
So we have about an hour and a half until the sun sets.
And our two biggest concerns at this point is one, the roof is not finished.
And two, we haven't found a good way to get green coconuts.
So we're all very thirsty.
And if it rains tonight, we're definitely getting wet.
The brown ones just take so much energy to open.
It's almost not even worth it.
It worked.
It was fresh water.
So this is called a bottle still, and basically you cut the top off of a smaller bottle and put some salt water in it and the bottom off of a two liter and fold the bottom of it up.
Then you stick this in the sand and put this on top and let the sun heat it up and the condensation runs down into this bottom bit and creates fresh water.
It doesn't yield much, but it's better than nothing.
You want to try it?
It doesn't taste like salt water, but it tastes like plastic.
That's true.
It's a little plasticky.
We're also drinking out of trash, so...
So this is an old termite mound.
Basically, this is just the home that the termite mound makes.
They chew the bark, spit it out, they build their house.
But within that, there's an insecticide.
And so when it burns, it releases that pheromone or whatever it may be.
But it makes quite a sweet scent, almost like a joss stick incense stick, and keeps the sand flies away.
So we're gonna light these on fire and stick them around our shelter tonight and hope that repels at least some of the bugs.
Also, I sliced my ankle open on a thorn.
We thought no shoes would be a fun little addition to this challenge, but that's proving to be one of the toughest parts.
The sun is setting on our first day of survival, and it has already been a roller coaster.
I feel like earlier this morning we started on such a high, but then, as the afternoon went on, we quickly realized that coconuts and green palms were gonna be much harder to obtain than we thought.
We've been able to poke one out of the tree.
Other than that we're just scrounging the brown coconuts off the ground and spending all of our energy trying to open them on the spike.
But all in all, we got a little water today.
We started a fire and we have the majority of a shelter complete.
So I don't think we can be too hard on ourselves.
But one thing Lucas said to us before he left was savor this time, because few people get the opportunity to ever start a survival situation from scratch.
So, even though we're very thirsty and starting to get a little uncomfortable, we'll do our best to soak it all in.
Kara, thoughts?
I'm a little bit hungry and thirsty, but my spirits are high.
I'm starting to already worry about tomorrow, which is not a very healthy way to think.
Alright, before it gets too dark to film, let me show you our sleeping situation for the night.
We've got our termite mounds burning to hopefully keep the bugs away.
We've got our fire set up right in front of our shelter so that the smoke is blowing back into the shelter, to also keep the bugs away.
Termite mound, termite mound, termite mound.
And then the plan is to just sleep on this massive pile of palm leaves.
I highly doubt we're getting any sleep tonight.
Thanks for doing this with me.
That was one of the craziest nights of my life.
Last night just kind of all feels like a bad dream.
So first we crawl into the shelter and then we realize we're getting smothered by the fire that we created.
We're just laying down trying to go to sleep and we're realizing that we've made a mistake, building the fire a foot in front of the entrance of the shelter.
It's hard to breathe in here.
No bugs.
I'm going to sleep like this.
Good night.
And then as soon as the smoke and the light go away, the crabs come out.
I'm talking crabs this big.
They're called Halloween moon crabs.
But we had no way to stop them from coming in bed with us crawling on top of us, crawling over our arm, crawling over our leg, running into our heads.
At one point in the middle of the night, I literally had one climb up the back of my shirt.
It was constant and he couldn't sleep.
And then the sand flies came out.
They're as small as the tip of a needle and they're these little black bugs that bite you and make you itch really bad.
Not sure if you can see those red marks, those are sand fly bites.
And they're all over my hands and my feet.
Then the rest of the night was a mixture of sand flies and crabs.
It was crazy.
You can see where my sleeve ended very clearly.
So the most important thing that we have to figure out today is how to get green coconuts and more water.
Yesterday we had these two sticks attached with a rope at the very end and we were trying to reach those two sticks up to the coconuts and then wrap their string around the coconut and pull it down out of the tree.
The problem is 99% of the coconuts on this island were just out of reach of our stick.
So this morning we are going to attempt to build a ladder that will let us get a little bit higher to be able to reach those coconuts and pull them down.
We found two pieces of bamboo that had washed up on the beach and we're cutting holes in the bamboo and then we're gonna cut rungs that are gonna go into the holes and then we're gonna use tree bark to tie the ladder together.
Nature's toothbrush.
Mmm.
This is a hibiscus tree and little fibers in here kind of feel like a toothbrush.
They definitely make your teeth feel clean, which is better than nothing.
So when you're not eating anything and you're barely drinking anything, your mouth tastes pretty gross.
Wow, that kinda looks like a ladder.
Now we just have to figure out a way to make it stay together.
It's pretty good.
Oh, it actually feels pretty solid.
It feels super solid.
Ready?
Yeah.
Here goes nothing.
Oh, it's such a high first step.
It's working!
You made a ladder!
I'm so close to the coconuts!
Good work.
Nicely done!
I feel so good right now.
I still can't believe I haven't had coffee.
I'm impressed.
I feel like I need some coffee.
I also didn't build a ladder this morning.
So Dusty had the genius idea to build a lasso out of hibiscus bark on top of our really long piece of bamboo.
So the goal is climb up the ladder, loop the lasso around a coconut, and pull it down.
It feels pretty strong.
I think this is strong enough.
I think standing on the ladder and trying to loop it is going to be more difficult than it appears.
Ah!
OK.
Plan.
So this was what we were trying yesterday, but we didn't have enough pipe to reach any of the coconuts.
But we're hoping we can stick this string either over a coconut or in behind it and then we'll twist these two together and then we'll just pull and that'll break the coconut off the tree theoretically.
Just follow me up as high as you can.
Highs and lows.
Highs and lows, they said.
Okay.
While the guys continue to attempt to get the coconuts down, I'm gonna work on our bed situation.
We've gotta do something about the crabs.
I'm starting by putting some logs on either side.
However, crabs can climb straight up trees, so that's not gonna do much.
But what they can't climb is plastic.
So my plan is to dig a trench on the outside of our logs.
I'm going to line it with bottles and then bury them in.
My little crab fence construction project really took it out of me and it turned into another mini nap time.
Then I woke up to what I thought could only be a dream.
Oh my goodness.
Where are they?
Damn the water.
Water.
Oh, it's so good.
This just solved the hardest challenge of the trip.
We kept the fire going.
We're collecting water.
That was absolutely amazing.
I drank four bowls of water falling out of the tree.
And then as we were collecting it in this old two liter, I realized it looked like this.
It was just like falling down through the bark of the palm leaves and got a little color.
But this is more water than I had to drink all of yesterday.
What a way to wake up.
I was still half asleep, and I heard Nate say it was raining.
So I kind of scooched behind our shelter that we made.
I was like, oh, I'm still dry.
And then I wasn't.
Our bed is now soaking wet.
It feels like I had a little bit of a shower.
I'm torn though.
I want to take this coffee.
I mean, I want to take this water and make a coffee so I can feel alive.
But I know coffee is dehydrating and water is a little hard to come by right now.
You think you got this?
No.
Beautiful.
Nice.
Wow.
Nicely done.
So much water.
I can't believe I'm drinking dirty rainwater out of trash.
Wow.
I cannot believe we got all this water.
It only rained for like, what, 20 minutes?
What do I win?
Do I get something?
Just when we were finished celebrating our one bottle of rainwater, a second rainstorm came through and we got 11 bottles of water.
For breakfast, I'm attempting to make us some toasted coconut.
I'm just putting the coconut meat directly on the embers.
And we've been told that once it cooks, it tastes a little bit like popcorn.
And at this point, anything that doesn't taste exactly like coconut sounds pretty good.
Oh my gosh, it smells so good.
Whoa.
It tastes more like barbecue than popcorn.
It's so good.
I've made more.
We have one last plan to try.
So I've taken the paracord off of the bow drill, tied a rock to the end of it and I'm going to attempt to throw this rock hope the paracord loops around the coconut and then pull it down.
Even though we had what felt like a lifetime supply of water, it still wasn't enough for all four of us to stay hydrated for the next 48 hours.
So the green coconut challenge continued.
Even if we get the coconut down because we have water, it doesn't even score.
Yeah, I agree.
The coconuts can kind of wait until tomorrow, I guess.
It's so crazy how quickly I'll go from here to here.
We were all feeling so good.
We had caught all that rain.
We had eaten our coconut popcorn.
I had so much energy and then just all of a sudden I've crashed.
Some of it could be the caffeine addiction.
I barely feel like I can hold the camera.
I'm just trying to remind myself that we chose to do this and we get to do this.
We've had a slight setback.
Remember how I said we were gonna do primitive fishing for the first 36 hours?
I had weaved 15 feet of this super thin line and then I left it laying on a log.
Last night, and I'm pretty positive, a crab carried my homemade fishing line into the woods.
Even though it's tiny and it's made out of bark.
I can't break it even if I'm using all of my might.
So that was plan A for catching a fish.
Plan B is to take apart the paracord that I was just using to try to get the coconuts, and inside the paracord there are about six smaller ropes, and we'll tie all of these together and then we'll use this bone hook that we made to hopefully snag a fish.
It's okay, i think i found another.
Oh no, i think the crabs literally buried it and then just chopped it up.
They did not want us to fish.
Stupid crabs kept us up all night.
Ate our fishing line.
I'll get it set up and dusty and i'll try to go catch some fish.
We all decided to take a nap during the hottest part of the day, but not sure if that was a great idea.
We're all feeling pretty lethargic after that.
But Dusty and I have gotten ourselves up.
We're gonna hopefully go catch some fish.
I think the lack of food is really what's hitting us now, almost.
Math is hard right now.
Almost 30 hours in.
And at this point, all we've had is coconuts eaten several different ways.
So Sarah and I have hit a second wind.
And now, since they're going to catch fish, we are using seashells to scrape out this coconut flesh into a bowl.
And then we're going to squeeze it to make coconut milk to eat coconut curry for dinner.
So this is our fishing setup.
We've wrapped the line from the paracord around a plastic bottle.
We have the bone hook tied onto the end, and then we're using a little crab for bait.
Wish us luck.
Our only bone hook is stuck on a rock.
First cast.
Got her back.
No way.
Okay, we have about an hour and a half until the sun sets, and this homemade fishing contraption that the hook just fell off of is not working at all.
I mean, fish are biting it.
We just can't catch them with this bone.
Technically, we were not supposed to use the fishing kit that we brought with us until hour 36.
It's currently hour 31, but we've decided to make a compromise.
We are going to use the fishing kit five hours early in hopes of eating something besides coconut tonight.
Do I feel a little guilty about bending the rules?
Yes.
Am I starving?
Also yes.
Let's go see if we can catch some fish.
No no, you lost it calories.
So the new fishing setup is almost exactly the same.
We're still using a plastic bottle.
We just have real fishing line and, most importantly, a real hook.
Hey, we have a fish.
Come on, get him up!
Whoo!
It's a small guy.
I got one.
Oh, it's a good one.
It's a good one if I can get it up.
No!
Gosh, no!
It was like this big!
We've shaved as much coconut as we humanly could, and now we are using this natural burlap that comes from the palm tree to hopefully squeeze out some beautiful, fresh coconut cream.
It's beautiful.
Oh no, I just wasted half our coconut cream.
It's okay, we have more.
It's not much, but it's dinner.
All right, we're gonna store our coconut cream in this cute glass bottle we found on the beach.
One man's trash is a survivor's treasure.
Wow.
That's a lot.
I cannot believe we made this.
So fishing was not quite as fruitful as we had hoped for, but we are eating more than coconut tonight.
So this afternoon, Sarah and I made some hibiscus sun tea.
We can pick these beautiful red and orange ones and just make a sun tea.
You don't need to cook it.
You just steep it in water.
So fun.
So we're going to have a little sunset tea time.
It really lifted my spirits.
Cheers.
Day two of survival.
This is luxury.
It's nice to have something added to the coconut.
Yeah.
It's half coconut water and half rainwater.
It's about to get dark.
Honestly, I'm hurting a little bit more than I thought I would.
Like if I played ping pong, a three year old could beat me right now.
You just do everything like so much slower and weaker it seems.
I definitely am looking forward to like pizza.
Honestly, any food that's not coconut.
I mean, it could be my least favorite food in the world and I would still love it.
Celery.
I'd take some celery.
You would eat celery right now?
Probably the biggest disappointment of today though, was how hard me and Nate worked to build that ladder, and then the ladder actually working, but then it not helping anything.
Yeah.
A hermit crab!
It's 2.30 in the morning.
Just started raining.
And I came out to start the fire back up so that we don't lose it.
I don't even think I've slept at all.
The crabs are even worse tonight.
One pinched my toe. look rough.
Well I can confidently say that that was the worst night of sleep of my entire life.
Somehow the crabs were worse.
I think, my back just from sleeping on the ground for the night before.
It just can't take it anymore.
The night's definitely the hardest part of this.
None of us said it out loud to each other at the time because we didn't want to bring down the group, but later we learned that we all woke up feeling the same on this morning, which was terrible.
We had major headaches and we're all a little nauseous.
I need this this morning.
In addition to crabs and rain last night, I also feel like I just sweated the entire night. morning.
Last night was so wild.
First of all, there was no wind and it was just so hot.
Somehow there were more crabs last night than the night before.
Because of the barrier I made, I think they were all trapped in here.
Really hoping I can get a cup of coffee this morning.
It's been 48 hours and we've had zero caffeine.
I think we have enough water that it's not an irresponsible decision.
Maybe it still is.
I feel so much better after that swim.
Last night, when we all had more energy and we were sitting around the fire, we decided today we could either survive or thrive.
Surviving would just be sitting around drinking the rainwater that we collected yesterday and pretty much just not doing very much of anything until the boat picks us up tomorrow morning.
But we decided we'd rather remember our time here on the island as thriving.
So we've set three goals for ourselves.
We want to make a coconut fish curry, shell necklaces and souvenirs to remember the trip by.
And this morning, I'm going to finally attempt to make carrot coffee using a coconut.
We'll see if we can all muster up enough energy to accomplish these three things.
Okay, so here's the plan for coffee.
We're going to attempt to boil water in this gourd.
Then we're gonna take this coconut that has a hole in the bottom and we're gonna put the natural burlap from the palm tree down in the coconut as a filter.
Then we'll pour the boiling water over the coffee and it'll drip down to our cup.
It's like an island pour over.
Okay, here goes one very valuable bottle of water.
The gourd can't go directly in the fire, so I'm having to just surround it with embers.
Oh, it's falling apart.
Oh no.
What are you missing?
Coffee!
We have coffee, but it's not going to be easy to make our coconut curry later today without our bowl that I burnt to a crisp.
That is the longest it's ever taken me to make coffee, and the end was the most stressful coffee making experience that I've ever had in my life.
Wow, it's the strongest coffee I've ever had in my life.
It is also the most anticipated cup of coffee I've ever had.
I currently feel the weakest I've ever felt in my life, so this probably isn't what I should be drinking, but it's all I want.
I can't do it anymore.
You look like a two-year-old being forced to eat green beans.
She still hasn't chewed it.
It is crazy how much our taste buds are changing, even things we were eating yesterday, like the roasted coconut.
No one in the group can think about that without gagging a little bit.
Kara hasn't even finished her coffee.
Honestly, i just don't want my brain to explode.
Okay, now that I have a little bit of an energy boost from my coffee, I thought I would give you a full tour of our camp, starting with our shelter.
It's not quite waterproof.
We're calling it water resistant.
But it's enough.
And most importantly, I think it's a good shelter from coconuts that are falling.
So knowing that I can sleep and a coconut wouldn't hit me directly in the head helps me relax a little bit more, that our bed is comfy.
When the crabs are moving around, it's just so much louder, which is also kind of a good thing, because then I know they're coming and I can sit up and shoo them away.
Speaking of crabs, my crab fence that I made out of plastic bottles that I found on the beach I don't know if it did anything at all.
I can confirm that it did nothing at all.
I think the crabs were worse last night than they were the first night.
They dig these little holes.
Like, that's a crab hole, that's a crab hole, crab hole, crab hole, crab hole.
No telling how many of these are under our bed.
It's not their fault.
But I do resent them at this point because they got into my coffee bag, they ate Nate's homemade fishing line and they keep me up all night.
Okay, moving on.
Over here we have our fire pit that Nate and Dusty made with their own two hands.
This is a very multi-purpose area.
It's like the sit-down area on these little flat benches that we brought over here.
Up here above the fire is a great quick drying place because you have the heat and the breeze and things up here dry in like five minutes.
Throughout the day we'll all grab some firewood and we've been storing it over here in these nice little piles that Dusty's made for us.
Here, in the middle of the living area, we have a coffee table made out of this bucket that washed up on the beach.
Underneath the bucket, we're keeping some of our fire starting supplies just in case it rains.
We want to keep this nice and dry.
This is the coconut that almost knocked me out last night.
We were just sitting here enjoying the fire.
We heard the branches.
We heard it breaking.
And we all just went like this.
And it fell right in the middle of the fire.
Very dramatic.
Sparks flew and missed us all just by a few feet.
Very scary.
This is the view we get to go to sleep and wake up to every day, but we've just been so focused on surviving that we haven't taken it in enough.
Moving on to the kitchen.
First aid kit just in case.
We've created a little makeshift kitchen table right here using a piece of foam we found on the beach.
Here we have our fishing hooks, chopsticks we made out of hibiscus leaves whoa, our coffee, our bowls, the coconut cream man sarah made, and all the water that we caught yesterday is just sitting right here in front of the kitchen table.
We are down to one half half quarter.
We're pretty much down to two full bottles of water to last us the rest of the day, which i think is enough.
This area is what we're calling the workbench.
It's kind of like the garage.
We have this stump that we've sharpened to open the coconuts right here, and then this is where we can kind of assemble things.
These are all of our coconuts that we've chopped open.
We're not very tidy here on the island.
We just kind of throw things down when we're done.
Here we have another clothesline that we've made out of hibiscus tree bark.
And if you follow me down to the sea, I'll show you where our bathroom is.
I don't know about everybody else, but I've been using this little nook as my bathroom.
It's a nice little private area and no doubt the best view I've ever had from the potty.
Also, since we're not eating very much, we're not having to deal with number twos very much, as you can imagine.
Hibiscus leaves make great natural toilet paper.
Feels very natural.
I really enjoy it.
Behind me is where Nate and Dusty have been fishing every day.
So the beach just kind of turns into rock right here and you can follow it all the way around this peninsula.
And last but not least, we have the world's largest saltwater pool.
Like we said before, this survival challenge was full of highs and lows.
And we realized that we were a lot better at capturing the high moments than the low ones.
At this point, I had half a coconut of espresso coursing through my blood.
And I was able to really turn it on for the camera.
However, just before this, simply walking to the beach to use the potty would make my heart pound.
I'd have to sit down and catch my breath before walking just 30 steps back to the camp.
So, even though it's a little hard to tell, for every cheerful moment, you see, just know there was also a low moment, or at least a nap.
For lunch today, we're gonna attempt to make a coconut fish curry.
Basically fish in coconut milk.
Yesterday, Sarah and I made this beautiful creamy coconut cream.
So that mixed with a little rainwater makes more of a coconut milk.
So we're going to pour that in this bowl.
I'm going to pour the rainwater in our milk jug just to make sure we get every last bit.
We worked hard for this coconut cream.
That looks really good.
Now we're going to heat up our coconut milk on the fire and that's going to be our broth.
So Dusty and I went out fishing early this morning and we caught these two little guys.
They've been cleaned and gutted on the inside.
So I'm just wrapping it in two leaves.
And then I've just cut some strips of the hibiscus bark.
And I'm just going to wrap it around and tie it up.
And now we're going to throw these on the fire to fully cook before adding them to the broth.
The leaf is stuck to his skin.
Gotta try a little piece of this by itself.
Oh, it's so good.
It's unfair because if I chewed on this chopstick long enough, it might taste good.
Oh my goodness, we almost died.
Oh my gosh, again.
Oh my gosh.
This bowling ball feeling and weighted thing just fell out of the tree straight onto our bed.
Ugh.
This island is safe in so many ways, but also deadly in a couple ways.
Like getting hit in the head with a coconut.
There's also the deadliest tree in the world just a few hundred meters down the beach.
It begins by being delicious and you go, oh, I'm loving this.
And then it gets peppery and you start to feel tingling and your throat can close and you can asphyxiate.
As a final touch, we're adding just a few of these little island succulents.
They're very salty and just have a little bit of crunch to them, kind of like a snap pea.
Just makes this curry feel extra fancy.
Okay, first bite.
Oh my gosh, that literally just melted in my mouth.
Man, today's a good day.
Coffee and curry, we're definitely thriving.
I think in my everyday life I would actually love this, but because I've had so much coconut, I'm just going to stick with a plain fish.
Something about the smell and taste of coconut gives me a little bit of a gag reflex.
I might be over coconut too.
So it's all mine?
Yes.
Man, this is my day.
You see the little teeth on this guy?
Wow.
Eating and digesting takes a lot of water in your body.
So if you are dehydrated and then you eat, you're even more dehydrated.
So we were told, if we weren't drinking enough water throughout the day, then we probably shouldn't eat either.
What's crazy is we've been thirsty more than we've been hungry.
So I think our bodies naturally know not to give us those hunger pains, because we need water more than we need food.
We also learned that fat takes the most water in your body to digest and coconut's pretty much all fat.
It makes sense that we're over it.
We were just standing here brushing our teeth and realized that we have no idea what day of the week it is.
Not a clue.
And then brushing our teeth with this stick almost feels normal at this point.
Bling bling.
Sorry.
So crooked.
It's amazing to me that you haven't properly eaten or drank in three days and you're still worried about the shopping.
We had a super restful afternoon.
There were a lot of naps taken and there was also a lot of jewelry made.
I made a bracelet and we have matching necklaces.
It might not look like much, but the fact that you can make rope this small using the bark of a tree.
Like I, hand wove this entire necklace.
This was a fun way to pass the time this afternoon without it spending too much energy.
Can you hear that plane?
It's so weird when you live away from like city noise, how loud a plane is going overhead.
I never recognized a plane going overhead in normal everyday life.
But here I'm like, what is that machine?
Today we thrived.
We marked off all three things on our to-do list.
And I feel like I still have a little extra energy left over.
Weirdly enough, I think all four of us feel the best we felt this evening.
But it almost feels like our bodies are kind of getting used to it.
There's literally no food unless I go physically Get it?
I was gonna say, our only two options are coconut and fish.
Actually, that is incorrect.
Even though we pretty much only ate coconut and fish.
There were several other food options on the island, including anoni tree, aka starvation fruit, which is actually a superfood, but we weren't starving yet.
However, all of these things were on the opposite side of the island and walking even 100 yards literally felt equivalent to running a marathon in the Sahara Desert.
So as crazy as it sounds, we just didn't have the energy.
Plus, in a weird way, our bodies just didn't want food.
I'm very proud of us, and I'm very grateful that you've done this with me.
It really is a life-changing experience in every way.
I'll never be the same.
I feel like anything we have, words are kind of hard right now.
I feel like anything we do after this is going to feel easy.
Yeah, that and just appreciating every little luxury as small as a toothbrush or deodorant.
And then like all the food we have access to, all of the running water and trash.
Oh my gosh.
I'm never using a plastic bottle again.
I think the biggest difference between what we've experienced here and the survival shows that I used to watch as a kid is when I was watching on TV I was like oh, I'd be building all this stuff.
I was thinking about all the things I would do.
But then when we got here and we started doing it, I realized you just have no energy to do these things.
It's this constant game of, Anything I wanna build, do, or eat, how much energy is that gonna take?
Okay, now all we have to do is sleep one more night with the crabs, and then the boat comes to pick us up at 8 am.
The sunset's so bittersweet, because it's like, oh wow, the sunset's so beautiful.
Oh, it's so beautiful, and it's not as hot.
I literally can't see anything for the rest of the night, and I have to get in bed with crabs.
And then you just hear them.
Okay, I'm about to turn a light on to see how many crabs are in our bed.
One, two, three, get out of here.
Out, get out.
You're just laying there under the leaves and I see you.
Now I'd like you to leave.
Get out, out.
No, not under my pillow.
Our rescue boat arrives in 30 minutes.
Somehow it didn't rain all of last night and as soon as we got out of bed this morning, get me off this island.
I can't believe it's over.
I'm not sure that we did a great job of capturing it, but standing there in the rain, we all agreed this was the hardest thing we had ever done, But knowing the boat would arrive any minute kept our spirits high.
Even after being out here for a full three days, it's still hard for me to fathom what it would be like in a real survival situation where there was no timeline or even a guarantee that rescue was coming.
The boat ended up being 15 minutes late due to the heavy rain, and even that short amount of time felt like an eternity.
A boat engine has never sounded more beautiful.
It's so beautiful.
Oh, we did it.
We survived.
We did your dream.
Was it a dream come true?
Yeah, dream come true that I never want to have again.
There you go, team.
Nice work, guys.
I appreciate it.
We did it.
You're on the boat.
I've never been so happy to see this boat.
Oh, it's so hard.
Let's go to civilization.
If you've enjoyed these last two videos and you want to try it for yourself, we've left a link for Desert Island Survival in the description below.
As you can probably tell, Tom is awesome, and he will help you out.
Plus, they also do trips in Tonga, so maybe we'll see you there.
In like a year.
We need some time.
