Thoughtful Thursday // Stranded On An Island For A Week!

This might be one of the most interesting questions I've done yet! I feel like there are so many qualifiers that would change what kind of answers one would give. But we'll give it a go anyway.

The whole question is "If you knew you were going to be shipwrecked alone on an island for only a week (the Coast Guard is coming), what three things would you want with you?"

Let's set a few parameters:

1. it's a temperate island
2. there are no dangerous animals
3. there is vegetation

With that set up for our scenario, what three things would you want? I think I would pick a LifeStraw, a plant identification book, and a fire starter kit. I'm not really a survivalist, but those sound like three things that would help keep me alive until I was rescued.

Other things I considered putting on my list were sunscreen, a hammock, and a first aid kit. Hmmm... maybe my first aid kit could have my LifeStraw and fire starter in it and then I could have a first aid kit, a plant ID book, and a hammock! See, I'm already trying to find loopholes ;)

This is kind of a silly question to start with, since if you knew you'd be shipwrecked you'd probably do a few things differently (like not get on the boat), but it's still a fun question to ponder.

What three things would you take? Would we take any of the same things?