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My episode on the beach was curious because we were convinced there were folk stalking us in the bush.
It was pure imagination and yet that produced a fear that I have never experienced before or since.
We imagined hearing a walkie talkies either side and voices..you know that static when they switch on and off..like we were surrounded... but the next day we were able to detrmine it was wave noises reflecting out of a small cave...and this fear built over hours...the coast gaurd came by just on dusk and yelled a warning from their boat which we could not hear properly but it sounded like he was saying they were having trouble with groups causing problems for campers...that started it I guess...maybe he was just telling us we could not be there☺ but at that stage we could not leave cause the tide had come in and the waves had built up such that we could not get out to the boat...so hours of extrodinary fear thinking we were in a "deliverance" type situation. In the end I could not stand it and determined to find whoever and set off creeping up on "their position" armed with a machete...that was rather intense because by that stage I figured it would be a battle...never thought it could have been inoccent folk..and thank goodness I did not find anyone as I probably would have attacked.
And the irony is the most intense fear I have ever experienced was a product of imagination.
Alex
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