Wild Beauty - "Catching Stream Fish and Drying - Midnight Attacked by Wolves..., Part 10"
release date: 6/24/2023
genre: wilderness Youtube channel
viewing setting: streaming 1/29/25
synopsis: This Youtube channel shares videos of a woman roaming the wilderness and building, killing, cooking, and eating things.
impressions: This 34-minute episode is part 10 of the current arc, which begins with Wild Beauty weaving a long container and a filter out of bamboo leaves. Then she goes to a stream and sets it up so that any fish swimming with the current will get bottlenecked and caught in the thing...which she then causes to happen by hitting the water with a big stick. Unsurprisingly, this nets her a whole lot of fish. Also unsurprisingly, the dog just sits there and watches. At least the monkey ran around a little bit and showed some life. She takes her load of fish and returns to base, builds a big platform, lays all the fish out, starts a fire to smoke/dry them...and then wanders away for a bath in the pond. This time the monkey stands there and gets an eyeful, proving his intelligence. Later, darkness has fallen and it's time for a fish feast. The monkey is right there at feeding time, whereas the dog is asleep and the food has to be waved in front of his nose; even then, he just rolls over and goes back to sleep, and the monkey takes that food too. Everyone then goes to bed, but the fun's not over yet: at 00:32 those little wolves from a couple episodes ago show up and have their eyes on the remaining fish atop the platform. Maybe they're pissed that Wild Beauty stole their deer meat before and so now they're out for payback. The monkey wakes up and watches them, since unlike the dog, the monkey's actually useful. And then at 1:13 the wolves are into the fish...and that's it for this installment.
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb0NLmrQ9zs
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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