Tom Macker, from wildsurvivalskills.com, documents his week-long survival adventure on a deserted island with his friend Matt. They focus on building a shelter, finding water, and sourcing food. They emphasize the importance of material preparation, such as making cordage from snake grass, and showcase their skills, including making fish spears and traps. They also demonstrate opening coconuts for hydration and cooking. Their efforts result in successfully catching fish and creating a functional shelter, ultimately highlighting their survival techniques and innovations.
1. The narrator, Tom Macker, and his friend Matt are living in full survival mode on an island, demonstrating how to live off the land and survive in a deserted island situation .
2. They moved inland away from the beach to escape sand flies and to find more resources, including almond trees for food and materials for shelter .
3. Their priority was to build a shelter to protect themselves from the elements, as they were unsure when a weather system would move through .
4. They used a mix of local trees, bamboo, palm, and vines to construct the shelter, with the bamboo providing structural support and the vines for cordage .
5. They also gathered coconuts for water, noting that older coconuts had more oil and were better for drinking, while younger coconuts were a pure source of water .
6. They used a method called a bamboo firesaw to start a fire, which they used to cook snails and almonds .
7. They also set up a fish trap using a bamboo spear and a noose, catching lionfish from the reef .
8. They used snake grass to create cordage for their baskets, fish spears, and shelter, as well as for making a rat trap .
9. They caught a mongoose using a trap, which they planned to skin and eat .
10. They cooked conch using a bamboo steamer, and also cooked parrot fish in clay, a method they developed to cook large fish without burning them .
11. They caught escar go, a type of shellfish, and cooked them by wrapping them in coconut leaves and baking them in clay .