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Haha great stories. Keep them coming! I've personally not really had any 'scary' moments but I've had a few strange ones. I usually set up at the top of my drive way because i to am "treed in". I live in a quiet street and i definitely feel like I am looked at strangely when a car comes by at 3 am. My cat usually joins me (which can be really annoying because he likes to rub against the scope from time to time just as im getting a great view of Saturn). Anyway one night i could see something very faintly coming up the street, all i could see was two red eyes coming right at me. In stealth mode. It was a fox. I think it was trying to sneak up on my cat. I usually keep my high powered LED torch with me so I shone it on it. It must of only been 5 meters away. It ran off quickly but i wonder what would of happened if it had gotten right up to us?
Another night I went up to quite a nice "darker then usual' site in the glass house mountains. Pretty good spot can see the milky way nicely and the LMC/SMC. Just a bit of sky glow from the east. We had a few hoons rock up at around 1am. They were fine I think they just wanted somewhere to smoke a joint and then went off on their way. Didnt bother us at all. But they did a burn out as they left and tore off down the road. About half an hour later we could hear a siren in the distance. Coming closer and closer. About 5 minutes later an ambulance came into the car park and came right up to us high beams and all (thanks for ruining the night vision guys). They asked if we had seen anyone else. I'm guessing the hoons had had abit of an accident. They went on their way after asking us a few questions. Twenty minutes later a Fire engine rocks up (night vision ruined again). Asked us the same questions and were on their way. We left about an hour later and the came across the Ambulance and Fire engine down the bottom of the mountain. Not sure what happened. I guess anywhere else it wouldn't of been all that strange but when you are in the middle of no where things are different.
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