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Originally Posted by JohnG
when the 3 of us heard a strange rustling sound and you could literaly feel the hairs stand up on your arms and the back of your neck,
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wow! an audible aurora!!! do you have any idea how unbelievably rare they are!?
those auroral displays related to the tail end of solar max in the early '80's are legendary, I know of more amazing anecdotal personal accounts of this period, than the other two recent solar max's combined! must of been some beauties!
I have already related my weirdest experience in an old thread, but will repeat it again - its my favourite.
Was watching the 2001 leonid meteor storm from the dark clear skies in the lower mid-north of SA, on a section of the Heysen trail, with 3 other people.
I spent no small amount of time chatting and remarking to what I thought was my mates dark sillouhette, who had taken a blanket from the car and wrapped it around himself to keep him warm, only maybe 6 feet away.
When after a while I started to wonder why his motionless form wasnt replying much, I thought he was maybe in a funny mood maybe coz he was very cold (non-AA, and hadnt brought the clothes I told him he would need).
But then he suddenly started to hop away down the track, past the others, by then I was totally bamboozled, and yelled out after him 'Ross'! "ROSS!" "what are you doin?'"
then I heard a voice from inside the car behind saying "Yer! what!!?"
A large kangaroo had wandered into our very noisy animated midst, in the total darkness!! and stood there watching the shooting stars with us (I am sure I saw it looking up), for maybe as long as 5 to 10 minutes! I find that strange as I would think that it was unusual behaviour for a 'roo to approach and mingle with a group of noisy humans, and then stand there motionless and upright for that amount of time, and then calmly bounce off!?? their not not known for there curiousity? and he definitely wasn't there when we arrived, would of seen him in the headlights and torchlights, and we had been there some time by then.