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Island Survival

Imagine waking up in your handmade palm-thatched hut, rubbing two sticks together to make a fire, and spearing fish for a dinner you have made from wild edible plants and coconut milk.  This is the expedition of a lifetime, a 5-day intensive training course mixed with a personal challenge where you survive for an additional 3 days with little to no supplies.  Live the adventure that everyone talks about but only a select few will ever experience.

Desert Island Survival Training

What you Learn

This class is for everyone from the novice enthusiast to the seasoned outdoors person. The adventure is so unique that it will push your skills no matter your experience level.  We begin the process of learning how to create fire by friction, harvest edible and medicinal plants, weave palm-thatched shelters, make coconut milk and oil, set traps, weave fishing line from plant fibers, create pottery from the landscape, fish with bone hooks and spearfish for lobster and fish dinner, weave baskets, create containers, purify water and a myriad of other skills to prepare you for your 3-day group challenge.

3 Day Challenge

As a group, embark on the challenge phase of the class where you go to a remote part of St Croix, to live off the land for 3 days!  During this time you will essentially start from scratch and will have very few modern items with you.  Build your own shelter, harvest all of your food, catch your own fish, create fire from the landscape, spear lobster and hunt goats and test yourself and your skills...in paradise.  

Desert Island Survival Training

Class Description

Spend 8 days "in St Croix with Tom McElroy as you train in island survival skills.  Days will be filled with new skills to hone before getting stranded in the ultimate challenge. 

Where we begin...

   Imagine harvesting your own coconuts on the beach, roasting them on a friction-fire you made from rubbing bamboo together, relaxing under the stars while listening to the ocean in your handmade shelter, constructed from palm-fronds and grasses.  Come spend 8 days with us as we have a true adventure.  The first few days will be spent with expert instructors, catching you up to speed learning about shelters, numerous friction fire techniques, traps, water purification,  net weaving, spear fishing, pottery, basket weaving and edible/medicinal plants of the islands.  Then, as a group, we take off for our remote location for 4 days, testing ourselves, and our skills....in paradise.  This is a truly one of a kind adventure!!
    
  Fly into Fredricksted, St Croix.  We will meet and begin the class at Mt Victory Camp where you may camp (included) or rent a bungalow.  We will begin by preparing ourselves for the excursion for the first 4.5 days and then head out and spend the next 3 days living in full survival-- with a knife as our only modern tool.  Class will end before noon to ensure everyone enough time to make their afternoon flights.
Cost (airfare not included): $1600

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