We attempted to survive 4 days on a deserted island in Tonga with no food, water, or shelter…then we built a raft to try to escape! Check out Viator https://bit.ly/KNViator for your next trip and explore their 300,000+ travel experiences around the world!!
Watch our first 48 hours in part 1 if you missed it: https://youtu.be/QFpdmLJyEyo
Massive shoutout to our friend Tom who created this experience that made Nate’s childhood dream come true 🙂 Check out @desertislandsurvival1725 if you’re interested in doing a survival challenge for yourself!! We obviously highly recommend 🙂 – https://www.desertislandsurvival.com/ And if you do the Tonga trip, it includes a day swimming with humpbacks!! 😉
In case you missed our first survival challenge in Panama a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JA5sQVGal4
Episode 896 | Filmed August 2023 | Tonga
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00:00 Desert Island Survival part 2
01:30 Day 3: we’re halfway!
13:15 Day 4: building our raft
22:26 Day 5: the escape
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Who are Kara and Nate?!
Watch our documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuFv4iF8wgg&t=1s
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, we got married 2013 and were super “normal.” I was a teacher and Nate started a small printing business from the spare bedroom of our apartment.
We discovered the world of “travel hacking” while planning our honeymoon & became addicted 😉
So after 2 years of obsessively saving $35k and over 2 million miles and points, we sold our cars and apartment and left home January 10, 2016 for a “one year” trip around the world.
Our goal was to see as many places as possible before we ran out of money and went back home to “normal life.” We started this channel to share our experiences with friends and family, but quickly fell in love with living on the road and found a new passion for capturing our travels through video. So we did everything we could to keep going.
4 years later, we achieved our new goal of visiting 100 countries and all 7 continents. We had no plans to slow down, until 2020 forced us to 😉 Which is when we bought a converted van to start exploring our own country for the first time!
After ~2 years of van life, we are back to full time international traveling! And now we are finding the best adventures the world has to offer 🙂
We are incredibly grateful to be able to continue doing something we love every day. 😊🎥🌎 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey!
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I watched you guys being interviewed by Matt and Abby and loved it! The question regarding appropriate behavior in different cultures, I have always found you guys to be so respectful of other cultures and traditions, even in the early days. I remember in one video you were watching monks walk in a line down the street and all the other tourists were in their faces taking pictures, you sat respectifully across the street and gave them their space. I was so impressed by that!
I loved this series!! You all did such a good job, I know I wouldn’t be able to last one night doing that! 😂 love Nate’s parents, such pure love they have! Need to see them in more videos 😊😊
“Next time” should be 24 hours surviving but separated and see how each side does
His parents are the absolute cutest! At first I thought it was crazy to put them through this not knowing they were built for the challenge:)
Why didn’t you make delicious broth/ soup from fish bones, crab, coconut and those nutty green pods? That would have been very satisfying
I'm such a sucker…just booked on to do this next summer. Anyone else? Haha
I know this video idea isn’t your usual style – but I think it’d be so cool if you guys drove the van to Disney World. You could drink around the world at epcot and compare real countries to their Epcot representations!
Those coconut bras!
I love you guys but so many ads makes watching the video annoying
You have now activated the gratitude reset!
Ryan trahan: THE GREAT RESET.
I love how affectionate Nate's parents are with each other. Walking down the beach holding hands, cuddled together watch the sunset….so romantic. ❤❤❤
Hi Kara and Nate i am subscriber from Australia and me and my family would love to see you in person in small town in Australia called Clifton. Please come we would love to see you. Thx For Listening to me ☺😀!
Why did you guys dismantle the house? I could have used it in my expedition lol
Had so much fun watching this adventure, adore Nate's parents and his mom just rocks. Thanks for taking us along.
Those are peas not beans
Always check if your old cols are still hot. You can keep one fire going for days if you pay attention
If I'd found net, I'd probably use it to fish. Make more knots to make the net better able to capture small fish. But a hammock is nice, too.
24:53 The coconuts!
This was such a great two parter your parents Nate are very resilient
The Koreans called it a pai yow (sp?) and essentially it creates a shelter that “bait fish” gather underneath. These fish attract tuna, and the tuna attract the tuna boats. I flew helicopters off Korean boats for awhile and those “plastic thingy” are gps locator beacons.
More than once the crew on our ship would “hijack” a raft from another ship, swap the beacons, and stow the other ships beacon.
I actually have a short on my channel flying off of one of the boats
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Nice
Should have used the net around your shelter as like a bug critter protection with the leaves
Seems like a peaceful island. Really enjoyed your vid 👍👍🐶
Love yall vids so much, but how you not gonna show us the whale beaching. haha meanies
Whole YT is filed with made up scenarios. These people is hardly 500m away from the neighbor island which too is attached where other people are present in case they need any help … so much made up
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Nate you are soo lucky to have such a great father…
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You guys are truly amazing ❤
So proud of you guys!!! You didn't just survive, you SUR-THRIVED!
HEY VIEWER! Fancy you own gratitude reset like this? click the link in description to join us for an adventure! 🌴🥥🔥🎣
Next time we need a part three that shows the gratitude reset, please! First coffee, shower, bed, chair 😉
Where’s part 1?
Your parents are so kind, flexible,creative,positive and helpful and no complaining.💕such an interesting survival trip.I think it was better than first one with Nate's brother and his wife. Well done guys.👏👏👏👏🥰
I'd say you learned THREE things: a coconut bikini is always in style.
Haha the coconut bikinis! Ya'll are so fun!
Just so proud of you all and what a wonderful thing to share with your parents. That is something I would have loved to been able to do. How wonderful❤❤❤❤
I found you guys not that long ago from FB reels. I decided to find you on youtube and started watching from the beginning a few months back. Your zest for life and adventure had me hooked! I have waited until I got the very last video before commenting to tell you that you have help change my life and my outlook. I have been well out of shape for years and live in chronic pain. Recently my husband and I both have started doing yoga and learning to eat smarter. We have teenagers that we are on the verge of getting them raised and becoming independent and we have big plans for our future and I realized after watching everything you have so exuberantly been able to experience that we too want to find our own adventures and live in the moment. Thank you Nate for planning some of the most epic adventures I didn't even know were available for us to all get to live vicariously through you. Thank you Kara for being that shining light and beacon of positivity, inspiration and pure joy. I can't wait to continue to see you thrive and open up the world to us all.
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"Gratitude reset" – love that term. I've experienced that after some long backpacking trips, but didn't have a handy short phrase to express the feeling.
i need a link to the shorts Kara wears!
Every video I've watched over the year of Kara and Nate, I always wonder why I feel like I recognize Nate from something. I've just now figured out he looks like Dick Roman from Supernatural, the creepy leviathan dude… (without his new moustache)
You just got yourself a new subscriber, cheers🙌🏼
My husband and I have traveled for years and one of the things we never leave home without any more, is charcoal. And matter what happens stomach flu, food poisoning what have you charcoal from Walmart is the best thing you can take for a bad stomach 🙂 did you guys know this?😊
Your parents are AMAZING!!! It is obvious they are still so in love. No wonder you guys have such a great relationship when you have role models like them. <3 What an adventure!
Lol at the whale breach where you all looked in different directions 🤣
Lmao jockey. Such a great pair of underwear.
The bird is a King fisher.
This was so much fun to watch❤ im humgry now
its pretty bad that your really fit and healthy but addicted to coffee