Survivorman - African Plains

" When stuck in one place, it will give me a great advantage to know what's around me. That's where doing a proper patrol comes in. It's all about distance and time. Making a patrol map is not complicated. All you need is a watch, a pen, and paper. Every time you come upon a distinct landmark, you make a note of that landmark and how much time has passed since the previous one. If it's an actual trail that you see, make a note of its direction, North and South, or East and West. This technique originates with the military, but it's very effective in any survival situation. Whoo! This is what I like to see. It's not super clean, but it's moving. There's sand and there's life. The water is probably fine. One of the best things I can do in this kind of heat is get a cool bandana on me, but the best place to put it, really, is not up around your head and your face, but actually, if you can, wrap it around your neck so that your carotid arteries take the coolness. The cattail, it grows all over the world. Hmm! Excellent! Think about a cattail. You can eat a different part of it almost every season of the year. Hmm. [unk] It's unfortunate. I was hoping this might be a termite nest that I could chow down on for dinner and get some termites to eat for lunch, but it seems to be riddled with snake holes."

" Old termite holes are a favorite hunt of the formidable black mamba snake. Plenty of room for it to wind up it's up to 14-foot length of body, and if this is its home, it will shoot out with great aggression to defend its territory. A man once woke up to realize that a mamba had slipped into his sleeping bag. By the time his friends had grabbed his shoulders and pulled him out, which took only about 3 seconds, the mamba had bitten him 13 times. He didn't make it."

" Okay, the results of my patrol map were great. Because of this map now, I can find my way to and from the small river, the creek with the flowing water whenever I need to fill up and get a drink and get rehydrated. This way, I can find my way there and back even when I'm not feeling really good, if I'm disoriented and if I wanted, if I was with somebody, I can say, here, here's the location to the water. They can take it, head out to the water, and find their way back. Patrol maps, they're worth their weight, that's for sure."