Ten Things

[den]

Ten things I've done I don't think any of my friends have done.

1. Raised an echidna from baby to release.
2. Stood for 2 hours with my left leg wrapped to the knee in a bag because there was a 6 foot long diamond python up my pants.
3. Stood under the stars in a place so dark, Venus cast a shadow.
4. Held a bat that weighed less than 1 gram
5. Imped a Wedge-tailed Eagle
6. Mined for black opals in Lightning Ridge
7. Stood on the flight deck of HMAS Melbourne
8. Touched a Zero that bombed Pearl Harbor
9. Helped the zoo vets dart an angry wallaby, before breakfast
10. Appeared in News Of The Weird and a Hombrewer's Journal AND a Norwegian newspaper, all because of something I did.


Supplementary: 11. Peewees.

Comments

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. Where was 3? It makes me happy to know there are places like that at all; I hadn't been sure it was bright enough there ever *could* be.

I keep wanting to do this meme, but damn my friends are too interesting. I've got nothing to this.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The farm I used to live on was 10 miles from the nearest town, and that only had 5 streetlights. The nearest town after that was 30 miles away.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

That's lovely, if maddening for things to do.

There are places that remote which I drive through on my longer road trips, pulling over my car and sitting on the hood to watch the stars in the middle of the night, but there's usually still a cell tower in sight, and enough trees on either side that it ruins a bit of the effect.