I was sitting in PJ today with the sound of passing traffic when it occurred to me to ask the forum what it's like to be out in the bush at night with total silence and pitch darkness. Does it heighten your senses? Does it make you feel a kinship with the universe? Would you describe it as a kind of spiritual awareness?
I haven't slept out in the bush, but I live in the country and it's deathly quiet at night, and even during the day most times, so yes it does heighten you hearing after you get used to it. You can hear the birds, you can hear someone walking by on the gravel path, you can hear the owls fly by as their wings move. You can hear crickets chirp and things...rabbits or foxes...running in the crop fields.
Right now I would love the sound of silence out bush.
We are in a caravan park in Busselton WA and the sound of what we are told is a Bronze wing Pigeon has every one here gritting their teeth.
Agree with all said. There is always something making a sound, trees talking, animals moving around..human or other, birds, if you are near water your can sometimes even hear that. I reckon if you listen carefully you would probably hear the grass growing. Different sounds to the city for sure.
Dark... sure is in some places but nothing a torch can't solve. I like it when the moon is full, so different away from the city or towns.
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Talk about peace and quiet!! Paddabilla Bore west of Cunnamulla Qld 2013. Get out into the bush and you will never look back! Your senses are heightened, your heart will swell at the rugged beauty of our land, and perhaps, you will never be able to stop looking for another perfectly quiet and beautiful place...... You do meet beautiful people too!!
Gary, I found myself by a Billabong one night whilst out gold detecting...long story short, I had not allowed for the daylight saving loss of an hour daylight, and did not have my normal backpack with torch/UHF etc and no phone coverage and I had gone three or eight gullys too far from vehicle...........trees were immediately thick with orb spiders and their webs, and pitch dark in no time and lots of eerie sounds one never hears during the daylight hours........I lay down and listened to all the frogs croaking.....then I thought of all brown snakes I've seen out there and how they love Billabongs and yummy frogs...my sphinster tightened at the thought..my senses were heightened alright....it was a warmish night...which meant every mossie within miles was drawn to that spot on my back that 'one' can never reach......they know the exact spot...never been so glad to see the Picaninny dawn mate.....also learnt another valuable lesson you cant eat a gold nugget....
You could say I felt a renewed kinship with my sphinster rather than the universe......and if I had even a drop of spirit awareness I would have drunk it.....
Never will I venture out again without my self contained backpack....I love the bush however it must be on my terms.....Hoo Roo
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One of my favourite things when camped somewhere on a pitch black night is to pour a mug of port, take a chair out into the open and sit and look up into the sky. All those stars and satellites just seem to be so close.
One of my favourite things when camped somewhere on a pitch black night is to pour a mug of port, take a chair out into the open and sit and look up into the sky. All those stars and satellites just seem to be so close.
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Sol
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Thanks for your comments everybody. All very interesting. From sphincter awareness to star gazing. Many GNs have written about the physical aspects of life on the road but I'm wondering more about the psychological aspects. I suspect that after a while, your attitude to life changes somewhat. That's what I'm looking forward to experiencing for myself.