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Some interesting ALONE S7 [100 days] background that I've found ...
Well, it seems our first South African contender in ALONE Season 7 - Joel van der Loon [34] and owner of a Survival School , indeed knows one or two things about survival!
In another survival TV series-Bushcraft Build-Off that he won -- each contender was allowed only ONE tool to build a strong and functional survival boat ---- against time !
Joel's tool of choice?
A 25 mm woodwork chisel!!
[The 2020 Alone THE BEAST Ep 1-6 was a spin-off and is not part of the original Alone Seasons 1-7 series]
Some of the featured locations in the previous ALONE shows have been
Northern Vancouver Island (seasons 1,2, and 4),
Patagonia (season 3),
Northern Mongolia (season 5),
and Great Slave Lake (season 6)
Now ALONE season 7 seems to be in the Arctic with temperatures as low as -40 C!
Well ,well,well- for a boetjie from the hotter/warmer areas of Africa, this sure will challenge him!
All the best ,Sir!
Well, it seems our first South African contender in ALONE Season 7 - Joel van der Loon [34] and owner of a Survival School , indeed knows one or two things about survival!
In another survival TV series-Bushcraft Build-Off that he won -- each contender was allowed only ONE tool to build a strong and functional survival boat ---- against time !
Joel's tool of choice?
A 25 mm woodwork chisel!!
[The 2020 Alone THE BEAST Ep 1-6 was a spin-off and is not part of the original Alone Seasons 1-7 series]
Some of the featured locations in the previous ALONE shows have been
Northern Vancouver Island (seasons 1,2, and 4),
Patagonia (season 3),
Northern Mongolia (season 5),
and Great Slave Lake (season 6)
Now ALONE season 7 seems to be in the Arctic with temperatures as low as -40 C!
Well ,well,well- for a boetjie from the hotter/warmer areas of Africa, this sure will challenge him!
All the best ,Sir!
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Uit Kaburu – Deon Opperman
“Jy vergeet waar ek vandaan kom, swaer.
Jy vergeet wie my voorouers was.
Die stof van hierdie land is in elke been van my lyf.
As julle wil kom, dan moet julle kom;
as julle my jaag, jaag ek terug.
As julle my onderdruk, druk ek terug.
En as julle wil slim raak, raak ek slimmer,
want 'n boer maak 'n plan en hy leef nie in vrees nie.
Ek het respek vir al die mense van my land en ek verwag dat hulle dieselfde respek aan my moet betoon.
En enige mens wat nie my bestaansreg kan aanvaar nie, of wil erken nie, sal ongelukkig op die harde manier moet leer wat dit beteken om die strydbyl teen my op te neem.
Ek ken van vegter wees.
Het al baie sandsakke gedra.
My lot is hier, of dit nou enige ander landgenoot pas of nie.
Ek moet julle verduur, julle kan my verduur.
En as dit jou dwars in die krop steek, het ek eenvoudige raad:
Sluk, boeties, sluk, want ek is 'n Afrikaan.
Ek kom van die stam wat hulle in Afrika die naam Kaburu gegee het en ek gaan nêrens heen nie.”
Geleen,maar dit is so waar!!!
Vasbyt en sterk-staan, die wiel draai!
“Jy vergeet waar ek vandaan kom, swaer.
Jy vergeet wie my voorouers was.
Die stof van hierdie land is in elke been van my lyf.
As julle wil kom, dan moet julle kom;
as julle my jaag, jaag ek terug.
As julle my onderdruk, druk ek terug.
En as julle wil slim raak, raak ek slimmer,
want 'n boer maak 'n plan en hy leef nie in vrees nie.
Ek het respek vir al die mense van my land en ek verwag dat hulle dieselfde respek aan my moet betoon.
En enige mens wat nie my bestaansreg kan aanvaar nie, of wil erken nie, sal ongelukkig op die harde manier moet leer wat dit beteken om die strydbyl teen my op te neem.
Ek ken van vegter wees.
Het al baie sandsakke gedra.
My lot is hier, of dit nou enige ander landgenoot pas of nie.
Ek moet julle verduur, julle kan my verduur.
En as dit jou dwars in die krop steek, het ek eenvoudige raad:
Sluk, boeties, sluk, want ek is 'n Afrikaan.
Ek kom van die stam wat hulle in Afrika die naam Kaburu gegee het en ek gaan nêrens heen nie.”
Geleen,maar dit is so waar!!!
Vasbyt en sterk-staan, die wiel draai!
Here's my tutorial for the day !
Modified plastic bottle rope cutter.....
I found a much easier and more practical way of cutting rope from a plastic bottle!
No more hassles of first creating a cutting gadget etc.
All you need is your knife and a nail--
[--or even maybe a small carved wooden pin as a convenient stopper/guide .]
A=The distance from the end of your stick/branch where your bottle neck will end up--about 3- fingers width.
B= The distance between the knife blade and the nail
[How 'thick' do you want your plastic bottle rope to be.....?]
C= The direction of pull/cut.
Caution/Tips --
1] The stick must be very stable/unmovable and the 'pull' evenly at 90 degrees to the blade [no up or down , L/R etc]
2] A 'smooth' 2 L [cool-drink/Coke etc] plastic bottle works much better than a smaller one or one with those 'ridges' [ like those 'harder' plastic water bottles]
3] Light pressure/stabilizing/guiding of the bottle neck with one hand while the other hand 'pulls' improves the process.
Its now very easy to cut your own versatile emergency plastic 'survival' rope [or even strong thin fishing-line !]
It can even be braided into a very strong rope , net, hammock or a whip etc,--the options are endless!
Practice applying heat/flame to the lashings of your bushcraft shelter etc to make this emergency plastic rope bonding/gripping even stronger.
Practice this cheap material tip and then do teach your kids / other like minded souls this survival 'trick' as well !
Modified plastic bottle rope cutter.....
I found a much easier and more practical way of cutting rope from a plastic bottle!
No more hassles of first creating a cutting gadget etc.
All you need is your knife and a nail--
[--or even maybe a small carved wooden pin as a convenient stopper/guide .]
A=The distance from the end of your stick/branch where your bottle neck will end up--about 3- fingers width.
B= The distance between the knife blade and the nail
[How 'thick' do you want your plastic bottle rope to be.....?]
C= The direction of pull/cut.
Caution/Tips --
1] The stick must be very stable/unmovable and the 'pull' evenly at 90 degrees to the blade [no up or down , L/R etc]
2] A 'smooth' 2 L [cool-drink/Coke etc] plastic bottle works much better than a smaller one or one with those 'ridges' [ like those 'harder' plastic water bottles]
3] Light pressure/stabilizing/guiding of the bottle neck with one hand while the other hand 'pulls' improves the process.
Its now very easy to cut your own versatile emergency plastic 'survival' rope [or even strong thin fishing-line !]
It can even be braided into a very strong rope , net, hammock or a whip etc,--the options are endless!
Practice applying heat/flame to the lashings of your bushcraft shelter etc to make this emergency plastic rope bonding/gripping even stronger.
Practice this cheap material tip and then do teach your kids / other like minded souls this survival 'trick' as well !
Actually, "this" is bushcraft in Africa.
North America and Europe doesn't have any bush.
They have woods for woodcraft....
North America and Europe doesn't have any bush.
They have woods for woodcraft....
Here is a real survival story,,,
The Lord of the flies boys survival story of the 1950,s
Debunked by a real happening in the 1960,s
In the 6 October 1966 edition of the Australian newspaper The Age this headline jumped out at me: 'SUNDAY SHOWING FOR TONGAN CASTAWAYS'. The story concerned 6 boys who had been found three weeks earlier on the rocky island of 'Ata (near Tonga, an island group in the Pacific)./12
The author's further research led to a story published in the Australian newspaper The Age in October 1966. The subjects of the report were six boys who had been found three weeks earlier on a small rocky island at the southern end of Tonga. The boys had been rescued by an Australian sea captain after being marooned on the island of ‘Ata for more than a year.
The captain's name was Peter Warner. Bregman found the man who rescued six lost boys 50 years ago, in Mackay, Queensland.
The former sea captain told the author he had found himself in Tonga in the winter of 1966 when he saw the once-inhabited tiny island of 'Ata. Peering through his binoculars he saw a naked boy with long hair diving from a cliff into the water below. More boys followed. They swam towards Warner's boat.
The boys, once aboard, said they were students at a boarding school in Nuku‘alofa, the Tongan capital. Warner radioed in and learned their story was true. These boys had been given up for dead and funerals had already been held
Bregman endeavoured to reconstruct what had happened on ‘Ata. He praised 90-year old Warner's memory for its accuracy. The author found a second source. Mano was 15-years-old at the time and is now nearly 70.
Mano said the real Lord of the Flies were six boys – Sione, Stephen, Kolo, David, Luke and Mano – all pupils at a Catholic boarding school in Nuku‘alofa. The oldest was 16, the youngest 13 and the bored boys came up with a plan to escape to Fiji, even all the way to New Zealand.
They drifted for eight days without food or water after both the sail and the rudder broke before coming upon 'Ata. Until the boys arrived the rocky island had been uninhabited since 1863, when a slave ship sailed off with its residents.
Captain Warner wrote in his memoirs, “the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination".
"While the boys in Lord of the Flies come to blows over the fire, those in this real-life version tended their flame so it never went out, for more than a year," Bregman wrote.
The kids worked in teams of two, drew up a roster for work around the island, and solved arguments by using a time out system. They began and ended their days with a song and prayer. A makeshift guitar was made, but it barely rained and the boys were thirsty.
A breakthrough came when the boys found a volcanic crater, where people had lived a century before. They found wild taro, bananas and chickens (which had been reproducing for the 100 years since the last Tongans had left).
The children were finally rescued on Sunday 11 September 1966.
The boys of ‘Ata had been consigned to obscurity while Golding’s book is still widely read and some credit the author as the inspiration behind reality TV.
Bregman who rediscovered the story and told it in Humankind, put it like this:
"It’s time we told a different kind of story. The real Lord of the Flies is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other."
Because the Real Lord of the Flies is a story of human friendship and resilience, a story about how much we can accomplish if we work together. [Photo's of Peter and Mano by Maartje ter Horst]
Now obviously, this is just one story, not a scientific experiment. But if millions of teenagers around the globe still have to read the fictional Lord of the Flies, then let's also tell about the one time real kids were really shipwrecked on an island.
The google map location of 'Ata island....
https://www.google.com/maps/place/'...e10c33499!8m2!3d-22.3333333!4d-176.2?hl=en-IE
The Lord of the flies boys survival story of the 1950,s
Debunked by a real happening in the 1960,s
In the 6 October 1966 edition of the Australian newspaper The Age this headline jumped out at me: 'SUNDAY SHOWING FOR TONGAN CASTAWAYS'. The story concerned 6 boys who had been found three weeks earlier on the rocky island of 'Ata (near Tonga, an island group in the Pacific)./12
The author's further research led to a story published in the Australian newspaper The Age in October 1966. The subjects of the report were six boys who had been found three weeks earlier on a small rocky island at the southern end of Tonga. The boys had been rescued by an Australian sea captain after being marooned on the island of ‘Ata for more than a year.
The captain's name was Peter Warner. Bregman found the man who rescued six lost boys 50 years ago, in Mackay, Queensland.
The former sea captain told the author he had found himself in Tonga in the winter of 1966 when he saw the once-inhabited tiny island of 'Ata. Peering through his binoculars he saw a naked boy with long hair diving from a cliff into the water below. More boys followed. They swam towards Warner's boat.
The boys, once aboard, said they were students at a boarding school in Nuku‘alofa, the Tongan capital. Warner radioed in and learned their story was true. These boys had been given up for dead and funerals had already been held
Bregman endeavoured to reconstruct what had happened on ‘Ata. He praised 90-year old Warner's memory for its accuracy. The author found a second source. Mano was 15-years-old at the time and is now nearly 70.
Mano said the real Lord of the Flies were six boys – Sione, Stephen, Kolo, David, Luke and Mano – all pupils at a Catholic boarding school in Nuku‘alofa. The oldest was 16, the youngest 13 and the bored boys came up with a plan to escape to Fiji, even all the way to New Zealand.
They drifted for eight days without food or water after both the sail and the rudder broke before coming upon 'Ata. Until the boys arrived the rocky island had been uninhabited since 1863, when a slave ship sailed off with its residents.
Captain Warner wrote in his memoirs, “the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination".
"While the boys in Lord of the Flies come to blows over the fire, those in this real-life version tended their flame so it never went out, for more than a year," Bregman wrote.
The kids worked in teams of two, drew up a roster for work around the island, and solved arguments by using a time out system. They began and ended their days with a song and prayer. A makeshift guitar was made, but it barely rained and the boys were thirsty.
A breakthrough came when the boys found a volcanic crater, where people had lived a century before. They found wild taro, bananas and chickens (which had been reproducing for the 100 years since the last Tongans had left).
The children were finally rescued on Sunday 11 September 1966.
The boys of ‘Ata had been consigned to obscurity while Golding’s book is still widely read and some credit the author as the inspiration behind reality TV.
Bregman who rediscovered the story and told it in Humankind, put it like this:
"It’s time we told a different kind of story. The real Lord of the Flies is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other."
Because the Real Lord of the Flies is a story of human friendship and resilience, a story about how much we can accomplish if we work together. [Photo's of Peter and Mano by Maartje ter Horst]
Now obviously, this is just one story, not a scientific experiment. But if millions of teenagers around the globe still have to read the fictional Lord of the Flies, then let's also tell about the one time real kids were really shipwrecked on an island.
The google map location of 'Ata island....
https://www.google.com/maps/place/'...e10c33499!8m2!3d-22.3333333!4d-176.2?hl=en-IE
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How to stay alive--Bear Grylls
[--Just left click with the mouse on the link to download this +_ 470 pages book on your pc]
[--Just left click with the mouse on the link to download this +_ 470 pages book on your pc]
It's kind of amazing to think about how little waist their was in the old days..
They used everything because that's what you had to do to survive..
They used everything because that's what you had to do to survive..
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