CBS' Survivor kicked off its 18th season last Thursday night with the premiere of Survivor: Tocantins, set in the Brazilian Highlands.

16 contestants from all over the U.S. started out on a 40-day quest to Outplay, Outwit and Outmatch their tribmates to become the Soul Survivor and win $1,000,000!

Host Jeff Probst started the mayhem by announcing that contestants had 60 seconds to grab as many supplies from off the truck transporting them, before beginning an approximately 4-hour hike to their respective camps.

The Timbira Tribe consists of Coach , Candace, Tyson, Brendan, Debbie, Sierra, Jerry and Erinn.

The Jalapao Tribe consists of Sandy, Carolina, JT, Joe, Taj, Sydney, Stephen and Spencer.

The Timbira Tribe makes the most of their time, grabbing watermelons, water jugs, bananas, beans and wooden crates.

I don't know what the hell the Jalapao Tribe was thinking, but they didn't seem to get anything. Could this be early fore shadowing ... Jalapao could be in for a serious trumping by Timbira.

Immediately after their time is up, Probst announces that there will be a vote right now and one member of each tribe will NOT be making this journey. Aaaah, thanks Survivor, for always mixing it up and giving us surprises ...

Timbura immediately votes out Sierra Reed, the 23 year-old model from Los Angeles, who's showed weakness during the truck ride. She announces that she's suffering from a fever.

Sierra

Jalapao almost unanimously votes for Sandy, the 53 yearold bus driver from Louisville, Ky. Sandy's pissed, knowing that they only voted for her because of her "advanced" age ... really? Is 53 actually such a disadvantage??

Sandy

Jeff motions for both ladies to join him and announces that neither will be taking the first journey, however they will be transported to their camps via helicopter! "Thank you God," Sandy exclaims.

Jeff also points out that although they are relieved, both girls will be missing valuable bonding time with their tribes.

Meanwhile, the rest of the contestants begin their long treacherous treks to camp, leading to various complaints.

Along the way, we get to meet from Jalapao -- Spencer Duhm, the 19 year-old student from Lakeland, Fla., and youngest to every play the game; Stephen Fishbach, the 29 year-old corporate consultant from NY (I'm guessing the token gay guy), and JT, the 24 year-old cattle rancher from Samson, Ala., and requesite good ol' boy.

Coach

Standouts among the Timbira Tribe are -- Benjamin "Coach" Wade, the 37 year-old soccer coach (and asshat) from Bolivar, Missouri; Tyson Apostol, the 29 year-old professional cyclist from Lindon, Utah (also guessing gay); Erinn Lobdell, the 26 yearold hairstylist from Waukesha, Wisc.; Brendan Synnott, the 30 year-old entrepreneur from NY, NY, and Jerry Sims, the 49 year-old US Army sergeant from Rock Hill, S.C.

Upon arriving at Jalapao camp first, Sandy comes across a note which gives her the option to set up camp or hunt for a hidden Immunity Idol. She decides to look for the Idol.

Sierra, however, opts to set up camp, hoping to prove to her tribe that she's valuable. When her tribe arrives, they are very pleased to see that she already has a shelter built for them. However, Coach still believes that since she missed the valuable "bonding time" on the hike, "she has to go."

When the rest of Timbira gets to camp, close to dark, Carolina's immediately pissed that Sandy hasn't done anything! Sandy's viewpoint (given to the camera) is "The bottom line is this: when we go to Tribal Council, you're gonna write down my name again. Now why the hell do I even want to waste my energy on tryin' to get in your good graces when (it) wasn't even an option."

The following morning, Sandy makes an excuse and sets out to find the Idol again. She finds a stick in the sand on the beach and, per her clue, starts digging. She finds another clue that tells her to "take 10 paces" and starting digging again.

SURVIVOR DUMB MOMENT OF THE WEEK:
Sandy says, "What's a pace?" Are you kidding me? She 53 years old and has never heard of a "pace" before???? I think her chances of finding said Idol are slim to none at this point ...

Over at Timbira, the tribe has already finished its water supply, so Tyson and a couple of the girls go off to replenish. This gives the Mormon Tyson the perfect opportunity to strip naked so he can cross the pond and refill their water containers. At least he looks a lot better than Richard Hatch!

Tyson

On to the Reward/Immunity Challenge: Survivors arrive and Jeff tasks them with swimming out to a raft to retrieve puzzle planks, cross over some sand moguls and build a staircase. Once the staircase is built, all tribe members must climb and two players each will navigate a maze to release their Tribe's flag. First to raise flag wins fire and immunity.

As the race begins, JT is way out front, while Carolina struggles in the water. After retrieving their rafts, Jalapao is leading to get to the maze.

Question: Was Sierra not wearing undies? The show censored out her nether-regions during the whole challege -- WTH??

While Jalapao led all the way thru the challenge, Timbira slips past them in the maze and wins!

Back at Jalapao comes the task of deciding who to vote out first. Sandy still seems to be a lock at this point. While cooling themselves off in the river, Taj tells Carolina, in front of Stephen, that she needs to calm down because she tends to panic and it's starting to annoy everyone. Carolina had previously been bickering about "cleaning up" at camp, to which Taj replies, "Clean up the outdoors?"

Spencer, speaking to Joe, says he doesn't want to get rid of Sandy, stating that Sandy did really well on the challenge for an older woman (here we go again, guys, she's only 53!! Let's not forget Bob actually won last season and he was quite a bit older than Sandy!). Anyway, Joe throws in Carolina's name, because she's so bossy and that's going to be real annoying as the game goes on.

Later, Carolina apologizes to Sandy for writing down "old lady" during the vote at the beginning of the show.

On to Tribal Council ... where Sandy is criticized by her tribe for not diong anything when she was at camp well before the rest of them.

Jeff puts the spotlight on Carolina, who admits to being "boisterous and sometimes I come across a little whiney."

Bye-Bye Carolina!

Time to vote and it's unanimous -- Carolina is the first person voted out of Survivor Tocantins! Shame, she would've been great for some drama later on .... anyway, Jeff says something about the tribe pulling off the first blindside of the season and we're off on another season of Survivor!