LAST EDITED ON 11-23-15 AT 04:35 PM (EST)

I don't think that the producers would enjoy having to defend kicking a survivor off the island for seeking shelter under a boat. But it would a tight (albeit warmer) fit for all of them at once.

Yes, it would be a tight fit for all of them at once. Even with two of those boats available. And, although I think that I've seen two of the boats in photographs of the merged camp, I'm not sure of that. In any event, I don't think that you could fit more than two to three people under each one of them. Which is why I wondered - way back up there in Post #31 - why they didn't seem to be taking turns sheltering beneath them. But, it's certainly possible that they are. Off-camera. Away from the shelter.

Speaking of which, body heat? Heat of the hive? OK, I'm picturing a heaped up snore-fest of nose whistles. I do not think the producers or editors would turn down that scene.

What a picture! And, no, I don't think that the editors could resist that ...

Until they get tarps, and unless they have experience with them, those palm frond roofs probably aren't rainproof.

I'm pretty sure that they are using one or two tarps as a roof and (perhaps) as a backdrop for the shelter. And it's possible that they have three (as well as I remember each of the three tribes - including Angkor - had a tarp). But it's also possible that not all three of those tarps made it to the merge. And I did suggest hanging the third one that may - or may not - exist and that may - or may not - be in use - across the face of the shelter to block the wind and rain. But, having thought more about that, I'm not certain that the roof of the shelter could support a drenched (canvas) tarp.

Walls? Why would you erect walls? Camera rules probably aren't the reason there are no walls. A sweat box isn't what you would be aiming for.

I wouldn't. Want to build walls. Because, although I've never spent any appreciable amount of time in tropical climates, I have lived for seventy-three years in a West Virginia valley subject to air-inversions during our hot and humid summers.

And one of my most vivid memories is of the ridicule my grandfather endured (well, actually, enjoyed) when, in the very early (pre-central air) '50s he built, on our hillside, a beautiful Florida-style rancher with glass walls across its front (fitted with vertical wooden blinds that were opened wide in the winter to allow the sun to heat his home and adjusted in the summer to filter the sunlight) and a breezeway between the house and its garages that funneled a constant flow of cooled air to his backyard patio. And, of course, the ridicule stopped when my grandfather had the lowest heating bills in the neighborhood and the most comfortable outdoor gathering place in the family.

So, I appreciate the importance of breezes.

I was just responding to Michel's comment that no shelters had ever been built with four walls when I happened to remember the
hut-like circular shelters that Bob was so adept at building in Gabon.

And I tend to agree with you that Camera rules probably aren't the reason there are no walls. In fact, that was the point I was trying to make by citing several instances when Survivors retreated to enclosed (or semi-enclosed) spaces that precluded the use of bulky filming equipment.

In short: I think that if, as Michel has suggested, Cambodia's players might have been denied the use of any of the materials at hand in their camp to improvise shelter for themselves during that six-day rain because the producers wanted unencumbered shots of them being as pathetically miserable as the lack of that shelter could possibly make them - that stinks!

Because I would rather look at my screen and think How smart! than to look at it and think How sad!

Good to hear from you, Kingfish ...

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