The Island -Bear Grylls

[Oakey]

I'm more curious as to whether crocs like that are native to pacific islands. I know larger Australian crocs can travel great distances over the sea, but small ones like that?

[Halb]

prand said:

Feel for the poor croc. That's life tho, a lot of us eat meat that has to die. They are enjoying it too!

Yeah. Just to feed a bunch of nancies playing at beachcomber. The farmer did a good job though.

[Mojocvh]

Winder said:

Good to see the Army Reserves sponsoring the ad break. Good possibilities with the Alpha male characters on the programme though.

interesting demographic choice, are they having trouble getting people they fired as regulars to sign up as reservists??

[blindswelledrat]

JackReacher said:

Enjoying it, but some doubts about how authentic it really is. Where did they get the lemon from to dress the fish?

That made me double take.
Also, that net- would that really work? Just spread it out in a straight line and loads of fish get caught in it by themselves with no external factors?

[mund7362]

The young farmer lad has come across a decent, hard working and level headed individual, more so than a lot of the other much older guys on the island. I tip my hat to him.

Oh, and it's a Caiman, NOT a crocodile!

[blindswelledrat]

mund7362 said:

Oh, and it's a Caiman, NOT a crocodile!

And definitely not a caiman crocodile as the programme kept calling it.

[RealSquirrels]

i understood that most catfish were quite unpleasant to eat anyway - the programme said that theirs tasted nasty because they didn't gut it quickly enough.

i was impressed at the cayman catching but did wonder why they didn't kill it right after they caught it? seemed a bit cruel to carry it across the island alive but tied up. maybe the weather is so warm its better to slaughter and cook stuff immediately?

[JMGS4]

Oakey said:

I'm more curious as to whether crocs like that are native to pacific islands. I know larger Australian crocs can travel great distances over the sea, but small ones like that?

Caimann are native to soth america, so I'm thinking these islands are off Panama or the north coast of south america, which technically is the Pacific. The central and west pacific also does not have the death apple, thats south american too....

[The Don of Croy]

I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would - p'raps cos they are actually getting their st together slowly...with a few exceptions. And the producers have passed on many opportunities for false jeopardy (see Channel 5 for how to max out on minor issues).

One thing in the voice-over when we were told the men had not eaten for nearly a week - a week?? Seemed like only three days but they had coconut etc.

After consuming mucho coconut, how come they weren't using the shells for obligatory horse-hoof noises? I have my doubts now...

And matey hairdresser cracking one out in the rocks - if that's a priority for him then his focus may not be on survival. Yet.

[jinkster]

Why don't they use the nasty tasting catfish/ crocodile bits as bate for those Pelicans?

[CaptainSlow]

jinkster said:

Why don't they use the nasty tasting catfish/ crocodile bits as bate for those Pelicans?

I suspect they'll be eating cayman from now on.

[Xaero]

I'm not sure how they chose these blokes, but some of them did seem useless. The telephone support bloke who constantly wanted to go home to eat crisps, and the ex police man who did a lot of talking and trying to take control, yet setting no tasks or proposing solutions, both were rather annoying.

I also don't know why they didn't split up into teams to get food. One team by the rocks collecting shellfish/snails, one learning how to fish, one trekking around the bush, and one trying to catch the pelicans.

Also - Am I the only one who thinks when Bear is commentating after each section, he's got a coconut cracked open below the camera, with a straw and cocktail umbrella in it?

[GarageQueen]

I'm curious why they spent all that time hungrey looking for snails, catching fish etc........and then suddenly they remember there's crocs to hunt inland

[mund7362]

Xaero said:

I'm not sure how they chose these blokes, but some of them did seem useless. The telephone support bloke who constantly wanted to go home to eat crisps, and the ex police man who did a lot of talking and trying to take control, yet setting no tasks or proposing solutions, both were rather annoying.

I'd imagine that it makes slightly better TV than a bunch of guys who know exactly what they're doing. Maybe.

Xaero said:

I also don't know why they didn't split up into teams to get food. One team by the rocks collecting shellfish/snails, one learning how to fish, one trekking around the bush, and one trying to catch the pelicans.

I presume that they probably did split up into small teams and assign jobs, we just don't get sight of that in the (seemingly) heavily edited snippets shown on TV.

Xaero said:

Also - Am I the only one who thinks when Bear is commentating after each section, he's got a coconut cracked open below the camera, with a straw and cocktail umbrella in it?

He's got previous of course: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1558242/Bea... But I like him, interesting guy. Besides, anyone that optionally chooses to drink one's own urine on more than one occasion is a good egg in my book.

[nicanary]

I have it on good authority from Asian friends that a diet of nothing but coconut will result in raging s**ts. Apparently the white inner stuff is largely composed of oil. Rather them than me.

[Asterix]

So.... Have they split up the tasks so that the Brits are looking at catching food, the Germans are building an efficient habitat and the Japanese have been sent to find... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB2GboGOuTI

[RealSquirrels]

The Don of Croy said:

One thing in the voice-over when we were told the men had not eaten for nearly a week - a week?? Seemed like only three days but they had coconut etc.

I remember that part and the narrator said that "the men have had precious little to eat other than snails and coconuts for a week" so actually, they had been eating.

[Halb]

The shot of the chap who was really thin...ergh. Is that after a few days or a week?

[slipstream 1985]

mund7362 said:

Xaero said:

I'm not sure how they chose these blokes, but some of them did seem useless. The telephone support bloke who constantly wanted to go home to eat crisps, and the ex police man who did a lot of talking and trying to take control, yet setting no tasks or proposing solutions, both were rather annoying.

I'd imagine that it makes slightly better TV than a bunch of guys who know exactly what they're doing. Maybe.

Xaero said:

I also don't know why they didn't split up into teams to get food. One team by the rocks collecting shellfish/snails, one learning how to fish, one trekking around the bush, and one trying to catch the pelicans.

I presume that they probably did split up into small teams and assign jobs, we just don't get sight of that in the (seemingly) heavily edited snippets shown on TV.

Xaero said:

Also - Am I the only one who thinks when Bear is commentating after each section, he's got a coconut cracked open below the camera, with a straw and cocktail umbrella in it?

He's got previous of course: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1558242/Bea... But I like him, interesting guy. Besides, anyone that optionally chooses to drink one's own urine on more than one occasion is a good egg in my book.

bear isnt on the island and hardly has to prove he could do it. hes somewhere with his feet up and doing the commentary.

infact the program would be great if bear was on the other side of the island managing everything on his own.

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Would be quite funny to see him laying traps to catch all the call centre workers and hairdressers.