After responding to the thread about the survival programe on a father and son I was wondering how close people here have ever come to a survival situation.
I don't get out much but despite this fact I surprisingly once got stuck on a desert island. It may not be much of a story but its close to a survival situation as Ive come!
Here is my "survival" story:
I went on an Operation Wallecea expedition to an island in Honduras. There was only 12 of us on the island. A group of 5 of us arranged to trek over to the other side of the island through the dense forest and be met at the other beach by a boat to take us back. The island is maybe two miles across. When we reached the other beach, the boat never came for us. it turns out they went to a wrong beach and never saw us. As the hours ticked by, darkness fell and we found ourselves alone for the night on a beach with no food. We had brought enough water though, or else it actually might have become serious! To be honest, I found the whole thing great, I was so excited to really be stranded on a desert island and building a shelter! We laid out logs to lie on because the beach was all coral, and we made a wind breaker. We tried to open a coconut, but that was simply impossible.
During the night a search party found us who had trekked through the forest, it was the guys from the boat. I was a bit dissapointed to be rescued, I had really hoped we might be stranded a bit longer! Though it did mean we had to trek back through the jungle at night with only two torches- a dangerous thing to do and not recommended. but if there is one thing I have ever seen in my life that surpasses all other amazing things Ive seen , it is a jungle at night time.
I don't get out much but despite this fact I surprisingly once got stuck on a desert island. It may not be much of a story but its close to a survival situation as Ive come!
Here is my "survival" story:
I went on an Operation Wallecea expedition to an island in Honduras. There was only 12 of us on the island. A group of 5 of us arranged to trek over to the other side of the island through the dense forest and be met at the other beach by a boat to take us back. The island is maybe two miles across. When we reached the other beach, the boat never came for us. it turns out they went to a wrong beach and never saw us. As the hours ticked by, darkness fell and we found ourselves alone for the night on a beach with no food. We had brought enough water though, or else it actually might have become serious! To be honest, I found the whole thing great, I was so excited to really be stranded on a desert island and building a shelter! We laid out logs to lie on because the beach was all coral, and we made a wind breaker. We tried to open a coconut, but that was simply impossible.
During the night a search party found us who had trekked through the forest, it was the guys from the boat. I was a bit dissapointed to be rescued, I had really hoped we might be stranded a bit longer! Though it did mean we had to trek back through the jungle at night with only two torches- a dangerous thing to do and not recommended. but if there is one thing I have ever seen in my life that surpasses all other amazing things Ive seen , it is a jungle at night time.