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Originally Posted by david1976
Cheers Bert ill give it a look.
The wife has booked us up for a stay in the rainforest for 2 nights. There is a night walk through the rainforest which sounds interesting.
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Try doing it by your selves on the next night without lights.
We were dropped a few mile up the track to visit some hippies that lived in the bush. Pretty soon the torches were dead. It's a hoot ( i admitidly had been smoking something the locals grow up there).Pitch dark. When you have to stick to the middle of the track, because you know there's the famous stinging trees at the edge of the forest and one casual brush against them is screaming agony. And your way is lit by pairs of tiny fire flies that seem to disapear as you get close like some malevoent sprites watching you... or guiding you off the safety of the track. And no matter how much you stare and concentrate your eyes cant penetrate the intense gloom in front of you, just the stars above in the gap of the canopy, shadowed occasionaly by the silhouttes of the biggest bats you ever imagined.
And then you come to some water across the track, Is it a stream of a few inches or a river of a few feet?
Is it feet or yards across?
Is it home to an 18' esturian crocodile or will you run across safely?
Should the other go first so you hear them if they are taken, or will they just make it ready for your dash across?
Or should you just sleep up on the track and wait for daylight..... but how far from the river is safe from the crocs?
And you can allready feel leeches on you, and is that a tic?, if they can find you what about the snakes and spiders and scorpions seeking the shelter of the warm the your sleeping body?
Or one of those huge wild pigs you keep hearing crashing through the under growth called razor backs, what if it found you oin the track?
Honestly it's a hoot! Your wife will love it.
Cairns Australia.
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