Wild Beauty - "Looking For Water and Food Poisonous Scorpions and Grilled Bamboo Shoots Survival Skills P.2"
release date: 8/30/2022
genre: wilderness Youtube channel
viewing setting: streaming 9/25/24
synopsis: This Youtube channel shares videos of a woman roaming the wilderness and building, killing, cooking, and eating things.
impressions: Finally, we have a video that picks up right after a previous video. This 32-minute adventure deals with some of the most dangerous, and grossest, things yet. The first order of business is to repair her knife, a process which requires another knife (good to see that she had a solid backup.) The second order of business is to fashion a bamboo pipe to divert stream water into a functional shower! Meanwhile, the monkey and dog wrestle on the forest floor. Next up, Wild Beauty builds a fire (of note, she's got what looks like a SOG Fasthawk among her kit) and then heads out into the forest. Soon after, she stumbles upon a nest of nasty-looking scorpions! For most of us, that would be the cue to turn and go the other way...but not for this girl. She quickly makes a container out of a wide piece of bamboo and then SCOOPS UP ALL THE SCORPIONS and takes them back to base and the campfire. See...what you and I call danger, Wild Beauty calls dinner. It's no time at all before she's cooking the scorpions, while the monkey finds other things to occupy his time, and the dog sleeps. (I bet neither one of them will be trying the scorpions for dinner.) She starts eating the cooked scorpions, and the crunching sounds like potato chips. Ugh. And I was wrong - the monkey can't get enough of that tasty scorpion meat, while even the dog seems interested. Next, she retrieves some sort of thick fruit from the fire and its inner portions become dessert (and the monkey loves this too.) Last up is the quick construction of some bamboo candleholders before bedtim.
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WsKVase1GE
acting: There's no acting; this is a woman (and her dog and monkey) doing stuff in the wilderness.
final word: Interesting bushcraft/survival web content.
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