Following a terrible start in Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 1, Chibudu is already two people down. First, Christina lasted one whole night before deciding it was too hard, so she made up a lame excuse and quit. Then, following his challenge injury, Garth was voted out because he was barely able to walk. To make matters worse, they seem to have their next in line already picked out, having decided their “leader” Craig is useless.
Jub Jub claims he has a rash and an infection. He’s saying he wants to go home, too. Oh geez. Where did they find these idiots?
Louw is scheming with everybody. He claims his main alliance is with Izak and Kaseran, but he says that they should jump on any bandwagon they can.
After Jub Jub injures himself on some coral, medical has come in to take a look at him. Diagnosis: he has two minor cuts on the bottom of his foot. On a scale of 1-10, this injury ranks as a 2. There goes his plan to make it look like he has an actual medical problem.
When the contestants arrive at the challenge, Nico reminds them that this is Survivor. It’s supposed to be tough. Furthermore, there are a lot of people who would love to be right where they’re standing, and wouldn’t walk away because they didn’t get a good night’s sleep on the first night.
Each tribe will pick a member to be harnessed to a crane. The rest of the tribe will move that person to build a lighthouse out of puzzle pieces. They must then carry that across the beach without dropping it. If they do drop it, they’ll have to rebuild it without a mosquito. Reward is fishing gear, including a boat. Ashley and Lea sit out for Timbila. GiGi and Cindy are the mosquitoes, who will be in the harnesses. Timbila’s got the lead by a piece or two, and they are the first to complete the lighthouse. Within about two seconds, Timbila’s structure falls, allowing Chibudu to just about catch up. Having dropped their lighthouse once already, Timbilia is going extremely slowly and almost blows their large lead, but they manage to win reward by seconds. Gys is going to exile. Izak will be joining Chibudu for the night.
Izak’s happy to be away from his tribe because a couple people are already starting with the backstabbing.
With the new fishing gear, Louw has managed to catch himself a fish. If he can establish himself as the provider, he should go a long way.
That night is their first stormy one, complete with ominous black clouds and plenty of wind.
Jub Jub may or may not be quitting. Just make a move already or stop whining, dude.
Cindy has designed the shelter in her head following the rains, and now she is putting her plan into action.
Gys waits until low tide before he heads out on his search for the idol. Then he finds it. Or so he thinks he does. Nope, just another clue, telling him it’s not on that island.
Before the immunity challenge, Jub Jub wants to make an announcement. He quits because of an infection in his inner genitals, whatever that means, not wanting his manhood to rot off. For the sake of clarification, he is indeed deserting his tribe before the challenge, leaving them one additional man down.
One person for each tribe will be a codebreaker, solving a mathematical equation to lead their tribemates to keys that need to be placed in the correct boxes. Louw, Izak, and Kaseran sit out for Timbila. Ashley and Craig are the codebreakers. Craig’s first challenge is to just get the numbers out of the bag. The tribes start out guessing without the equation being done. For Chibudu, this works, but Timbila grabs the wrong key. Gys is the first one to the final platform. Gigi then joins him as Ashley and her team argue. ProVerb’s second key is right, and he makes it to the platform after Sade does. Izak is correct on box 4, giving them a clear 4-1 lead. Hanna has the final key for Chibudu, but she’ll need to make it across without falling. Timbila makes it 4-2, then 4-3, then they tie it 4-4. After making for an interesting conclusion, Chibudu nonetheless still wins immunity.
Darren’s worried. It’s quiet. Too quiet. So does that make him the target if nobody is talking to him?
Ashley suggests that Cindy’s very strong and, therefore, a threat. A little early to be getting rid of the threats and thinking of the merge. Someone who’s smart and fit should be a useful asset to a tribe at this point.
Votes
Cindy
Kaseran
Cindy
Cindy
Cindy
Cindy
Cindy has indeed been voted off the island. Strange to see the entire tribe turn on someone they consider a threat in episode 2.
Stay tuned to dingorue for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 3.