Debb immediately rubbed her team the wrong way and was the first one voted out in Survivor: The Australian Outback Episode 1.
Early in the morning before anybody else is awake, Mike wakes up to start cooking some rice. Hopefully everybody else is hungry because he didn’t ask. He thought he was just being helpful, since they’ve been having rice first thing in the morning every day. Because he left the rice to sit when he went away, it cooked too long. The net result of this is that people are upset with him. He hopes that maybe he can catch a lot of food to make everybody happy.
Kel is the fisherman of his group. Well, at least he’s the guy who’s trying to fish anyway. While he’s doing that, the rest of the group is hanging out like they’re on vacation. He’s going to keep fishing until he finds something that works, even though he realizes that he really doesn’t have the equipment to be doing this. The rest of the tribe doesn’t think he has the knowledge to be fishing either.
Since they have all these cliffs around, it’s time to take advantage of them. The reward challenge is to jump off a cliff one at a time, swim out and grab on to a crate, and then bring the crate through the rapids and up the beach. Mike takes the lead for Kucha. Then the challenge becomes a big blur until finally we see that Ogakor has a pretty sizeable lead. Rodger can’t swim, so the lead becomes even bigger, but for him his goal is to merely complete the challenge, rather than winning it. Ogakor wins reward, which is blankets.
Keith is a chef, or so he thinks. The rest of the tribe is not so convinced. They are unhappy with the way he’s cooking the rice. In an attempt to switch things up, showing up Keith in the process, Jerri has made tortillas. Tina and Amber are thrilled by the change, and they’ve decided she is the new cook.
Michael doesn’t want to be seen as the leader, but he does want to be useful. His plan is to just be seen as the food guy. Unlike Kel, he’s had no problem catching fish. Kimmi and Alicia don’t view him as the leader, regardless of what may have been said at tribal council.
Jerri told her tribe that Kel is chewing a brown substance, which looked like beef jerky. They even look through his backpack while he’s away, but they don’t find anything. Kel overhears the ruckus. He returns to defend himself, saying he was chewing on a blade of grass. In an attempt to get in good with the tribe, he’s offered up his razors for the tribe to use. Maralyn doesn’t appreciate the invasion of privacy from the rest of her tribe, but they really don’t care and refuse to apologize.
The immunity challenge is a gross eating challenge. Will vegetarian Kimmi participate? They have put together one of the finest samples of pure aboriginal food (bush tucker). The aboriginals eat everything in order to survive, with nothing going to waste. The lucky people may get the apple or the candy bar that have been placed into the mix. One member of Kucha will have to eat twice. Whoever doesn’t eat or can’t finish will lose a point for their tribe. Michael and Maralyn get mangrove worms. Maralyn removes her teeth to get ready. Mike easily finishes his, and after much struggling Maralyn gets hers down as well. Kimmi and Keith get cow brains. Kimmi’s not even going to try, but Keith has no trouble. Jerri and Nick get shellfish, and both of them finish it. Kel and Elisabeth get apples. Mitchell and Jeff get live wichetty grub larva, which they finish fairly easily. Amber and Alicia get some sort of bug, which they both finish. Colby and Rodger get the chocolate bar, which they manage to force down. Because Kimmi was the only person to not eat anything (or even try), if Tina eats this next food, she wins immunity for her tribe. She and Michael get tripe, a cow’s stomach lining. Mike easily finishes, but Tina is unable to keep it down. That brings them to a tie. Each tribe can pick one member from the other side. Tina and Kimmi will participate in the tiebreaker. They must eat a mangrove worm. Apparently, eating a worm is acceptable for Kimmi as a vegetarian. Not real clear where that line gets drawn, but there you have it. Kimmi finishes first, and Kucha wins immunity. That sucks. Kimmi deserved to lose this for her tribe.
Keith realizes he’s made some enemies and is vulnerable. On the other side of the coin is Jerri, who also is causing friction within the tribe. Then there’s Kel and that whole beef jerky thing, even though eliminating him would be removing a strong physical component that is useful both at camp and at the challenges.
Jeff asks: why is Jerri cooking if Keith is the chef? She didn’t like the rice, and she wasn’t alone, although Colby didn’t mind it.
Tina says that, since she’s the one who screwed up, she should be the one to go. She doesn’t even attempt to offer a reason why she shouldn’t go, but the good news for her is that nobody is thinking about voting for her.
Votes
Kel
Jerri
Kel
Kel
Kel
Kel
Kel has been unanimously voted out because he may or may not have had beef jerky with him, as dumb a reason as any I’ve heard.
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