Survivor 4 - Episode 3, Bug-bites & Peeing

Rotu is in good spirits after their immunity win and the tribe is functioning as a family unit. Maraamu, on the other hand, can't seem to get their act together and morale is below sea level. It's like this is the first time the tribes have ever been camping without their motor homes and TVs. Survivor 4 continues with more injuries than a night in the Emergency Room!

Rotu: Gabriel, John, Kathy, Neleh, Zoe, Tammy, Robert, Paschal.
Maraamu: Gina, Hunter, Patricia, Rob, Sara, Peter, Sean, Vecepia.

Reward Challenge:

Using their newly constructed bamboo rafts, the teams had to race along a criss-crossed water course while they unhooked and picked up supply boxes. The first team to complete the task and touch the floating dock with the raft wins. The reward was either a week's ration of... what else - rice or blankets, pillows and a lantern. It looked as though Maraamu had a chance to win but Rotu beat them by a tiki torch and walked away with a supply of comfy bedding.

Immunity Challenge:

Only five people from each tribe could participate in the Coconut Maze Race. The wooden maze is hung by a system of pulleys from its four corners. One member of the tribe instructs the other four members (responsible for operating a corner pulley) which way to move in order to sink a coconut in the hole. The members have to rotate from station to station and the first team to sink three coconuts wins immunity. Poor, poor Maraamu loses another Immunity Challenge and sends a confused Hunter packing.

High Points:

John's hand is pricked by a sea urchin while trying to get some chow. The only way to relieve the injury is to pee on it, but when Paschal steps up he has a little performance anxiety. Lucky for John, Kathy has no shame and pees on his hand in a jiffy. This was yucky and funny to watch but it was no laughing matter for John.

Low Points:

The tribes are being eaten alive by bugs called "No Nos." They're tiny but according to Rob, their bite is about 45,000 times worse than a mosquito bite and there's no stopping them.

Robert slices his big toe open on a rock. The cut is really deep and John, the registered nurse, scrubs it out and cuts the remaining skin off with a knife. Did anyone else shout out at their TV - "no, that's not what you do, you idiot?!"

Survivor Saying of the Week:

"I need somebody who has to pee, does anyone have to pee?" - John Carroll after his painful encounter with a sea urchin.

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