Blr243 wrote:Marksman do u mean u drove past the same gate several times in one big circle ?
Ive been shooting on a property for 30 years...there is still a couple of paddocks i get lost in...that farmer has a laugh at me sometimes because im not game to do a particular large paddock at night...because i always get lost in it...
Ive driven around paddocks before & gone past the same gate a few times...
I went almost all they way around a paddock one night stopped just shy of the gate & decided to go back other way...no moon & thick cloud...i recognised the gate looked similar, & a small scrub patch looked similar to the one i was looking for, but not the same...
i was approaching them from the other direction which completely screwed my sense of direction up...
...was going north when i thought i was going SE...
I often get "lost" in a paddock chasing foxes at night...some of the paddocks i shoot are as big as hundreds of acres of low level rolling sand hills/stubble..when you see a set of eyes out there thats the priority...when you loose it somewhere in the middle of 300 acres of stubble...it all looks the same with nothing to reference where you are...
I usually start google maps before i go out of mobile service range these days as a last resort backup to avoid the paddock circling.
I too have been lost in the one paddock for nearly 3 hours...it was broken up by seeing foxes during that time, but i have once or twice been a little spooked by it when so far away by myself...
A mate once called me stupid saying its impossible to get lost in a paddock--300 yds & 2 turns in the first paddock & i asked him for directions to get back to the gate...well we drove around for 10 mins to his directions while i pissed myself laughing until i realised it was my fuel i was wasting...
The man who knows everything, doesnt really know everything...he's just stopped learning...