Get your bush eyes on
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:42 pm
Hi Guys, have been away for a while and have recently relocated back to Queensland. In the meantime I have made a couple of trips out to the Gross valley and dragged my beloved brothers for a nightime foray. It was hilarious. My brothers are open to anything I'm interested in and it seemed only natural that they would eventually accompany me on a trip sometime. It was winter 2008 and very cold. In the comfort of an old Sydney terrace it was decided by one of my brothers that we should spread out a kilometer apart from each other. I smiled to myself as I knew it was an easy thing to say in the security of a kitchen in the middle of Sydney. Once we were out there we hardly drifted more than ten feet from each other. It was a full moon and it was well lit as trundled all the way down to the weir.
Before we even got over the fence we were stymied by our own hypotheticals of what to do if there was trouble. Apart from run... and run together that was it. When some action did take place no one ran. This was good as we believe it was a wallaby and we didn't want to be caught running with our skirts over our heads just for the sake of a wallaby. Or was it..? It most probably was but we didn't actually sight the thump thump through the bush... ok wallaby...
We did find a rock stack to the side of the track. It was similar to one Dean and I found on tablelands road in 2005. This was the trip where the unholy sounds of the night were my stomach evicting pumpernickel and smoked mussels.
Here's the pic.
The night passed without further incident except the bone chilling temp of three degrees... a fridge is five. We tried tree-mail but there was no reply to our knocking. We think they were scanning and refusing to pick up
Anyway it's good to be back on the forum. Here's an interesting link to a short vid on vision and perception. I have been going out on regular walks and training my brain to perceive what my eyes are seeing. The two actions don't necessarily go hand in hand.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/beau_ ... e_see.html
Hope this vid helps unlock some of the mysteries why we don't see our hairy friend all the time.
Cheers Buck
Look forward to getting back into the bush.
CHeers Buck
Before we even got over the fence we were stymied by our own hypotheticals of what to do if there was trouble. Apart from run... and run together that was it. When some action did take place no one ran. This was good as we believe it was a wallaby and we didn't want to be caught running with our skirts over our heads just for the sake of a wallaby. Or was it..? It most probably was but we didn't actually sight the thump thump through the bush... ok wallaby...
We did find a rock stack to the side of the track. It was similar to one Dean and I found on tablelands road in 2005. This was the trip where the unholy sounds of the night were my stomach evicting pumpernickel and smoked mussels.
Here's the pic.
The night passed without further incident except the bone chilling temp of three degrees... a fridge is five. We tried tree-mail but there was no reply to our knocking. We think they were scanning and refusing to pick up
Anyway it's good to be back on the forum. Here's an interesting link to a short vid on vision and perception. I have been going out on regular walks and training my brain to perceive what my eyes are seeing. The two actions don't necessarily go hand in hand.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/beau_ ... e_see.html
Hope this vid helps unlock some of the mysteries why we don't see our hairy friend all the time.
Cheers Buck
Look forward to getting back into the bush.
CHeers Buck
