Survivor

BARRAMUNDI CAMP DESTROYED & AMBER VOTED OUT
April 12, 2001

After a torrential rainstorm caused flash floods to wipe out their camp, the Barramundi Tribe had a surprise of its own in store: Amber Brkich, the 22-year-old administrative assistant from Beaver, Pennsylvania, and former Ogakor tribe member, was voted out of the tribe. The most reserved of the group, especially after her friend Jerri Manthey had been voted out of the tribe, Amber hoped to go unnoticed and avoid the vote. But Tina Wesson, the personal nurse from Tennessee, saw through her strategy and said, "Amber can't survive by just flying below the radar�. She has proved to me that she's a tougher girl than I thought." And so Amber became the 11th Survivor to be voted out of the Outback, leaving only five others in the running for the title of "sole Survivor" and the million-dollar prize.

Living Remains Primal

No one said that Outback living was going to be easy. Just ask Elisabeth Filarski, the 23-year-old footwear designer from Newton, Massachusetts, who said, "This game, in the past three days, has become drastically primal. We are just beings out here that need food." With their new supply of rice replenished a day earlier in a swap for their shelter, Tina Wesson expressed a sense of relief: "That rice gave me hope that I wasn't going to have live out here starving to death for the next 11 days, which, to be honest, that's what I thought was going to occur." (

Tina on surviving in the Outback. ) Little did she know, however, what nature had in store for them.