Oct 12, 2018 01:15 AM
(This post was last modified: Oct 12, 2018 01:17 AM by confused2.)
I've used to hanker after something like this:-
https://www.obelink.co.uk/images/thumbna...2_open.jpg
( https://www.obelink.co.uk/coleman-cobra-2.html )
I may even have one but I gave up that sort of thing after a bad experience.
The experience ...
I was looking for glow worms so no torch and on a totally dark path in a tunnel under trees. In the UK the most vicious animal (apart from humans) we have is the fox. They are quite rare and they avoid people and after checking out a few slightly phosphorescent mushrooms I trod on one while it was (I assume) sleeping in the middle of the path. When you tread on a fox they start yowling and howling and snapping and generally scaring the bejeezus out of you if you aren't expecting it and probably even if you are. In the dark it couldn't see me to attack me and I couldn't see it to flee from it. This part of the bad experience ends with me fleeing towards a patch of starlight visible at the end of the tunnel through the trees and the fox left behind still yowling and trying to attack me in the area where it thinks I must be. So I carry on to the beach where I normally sleep under the stars on glow worm watching nights. Even on a good night there's rockfalls and imaginary beasts playing grandmother's footsteps among the pebbles. I waited until I couldn't convince myself the noises were natural before turning on my torch. And there was the fox about six feet away.
https://www.obelink.co.uk/images/thumbna...2_open.jpg
( https://www.obelink.co.uk/coleman-cobra-2.html )
I may even have one but I gave up that sort of thing after a bad experience.
The experience ...
I was looking for glow worms so no torch and on a totally dark path in a tunnel under trees. In the UK the most vicious animal (apart from humans) we have is the fox. They are quite rare and they avoid people and after checking out a few slightly phosphorescent mushrooms I trod on one while it was (I assume) sleeping in the middle of the path. When you tread on a fox they start yowling and howling and snapping and generally scaring the bejeezus out of you if you aren't expecting it and probably even if you are. In the dark it couldn't see me to attack me and I couldn't see it to flee from it. This part of the bad experience ends with me fleeing towards a patch of starlight visible at the end of the tunnel through the trees and the fox left behind still yowling and trying to attack me in the area where it thinks I must be. So I carry on to the beach where I normally sleep under the stars on glow worm watching nights. Even on a good night there's rockfalls and imaginary beasts playing grandmother's footsteps among the pebbles. I waited until I couldn't convince myself the noises were natural before turning on my torch. And there was the fox about six feet away.