Blr243 wrote:Deans story of two much salt water in the heat reminds me of the time midday. Super hot October cape York. Walking the soft white sandy creek beds with intermittent waterholes. Generally only time I see fresh water crocs up there is their eyes at night with a torch But in the extreme heat I remember seeing a few crocs on the daytime on land sun baking but I avoided them and just kept looking for boars ...eventually I turned around and came back along the same creek and eventually made it back to the Ute. But walking back to my Ute along the creek this time I saw no crocs. I was pushing myself real hard in the hot weather. To this day I really don’t know weather I actually saw crocs or not. Been to the cape may times. Never see crocs on the banks before this. Perhaps the heat was frying my brain. It’s hard to comprehend how in that condition I could function and hunt Ok but hallucinate as well.
I do a territory trip every year but avoid the real bad heat, but after hearing of how Jenno died up there when he had food and water and a locator beacon and didn’t know he was in trouble I am very very cautious.