maybe not hooked but I remember it well
I was about 10 early 70s cannoeing on somerset dam we had travelled
along way up into one of the smaller creeks that run into the dam itself
and as it turned out were hopelessly lost as was the crew who were suposed to meet us with food and camping gear.
getting dark we came across a sharp bend in the creek were the
dropping water level had left a huge thick bed of water hiacinth
about 10 feet thick upon which we spent the night .
The guy who had managed to get us lost was into astronomy and
spent the evening showing us around the night sky
It was great lying on your back incedibly comfortable and an amazingly
dark sky to look at ... we had only travelled about 10kms to far btw
