She's a 27-year-old nurse from Florida who absolutely hates the beach. He's a 25-year-old nurse from California whose love for the beach only exceeds his love of dangly earrings. Despite this monumental sand-related obstacle, Kat Izzo and Brayden Bowers hit it off in the season 9 premiere of Bachelor in Paradise — and their "journey" to find "love" has just begun.