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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halftwo" data-source="post: 3348525" data-attributes="member: 45720">I was once in a car that overturned on the way to the Scillies - two of four of us had to go to hospital (not me). I almost got arrested by armed military on Crete while birding on an airfield - after a chase and my concealment in a bamboo thicket I made it back to the hotel. I was once sleeping rough in Greece when half the island burnt - I had to run for the coast a few miles away. I nearly drowned on the same Greek trip when I went into the sea after my carrymat which blew out to sea - having not caught up with the mat I found I was too far out and the very strong wind was pushing me further. I swam at ninety degrees to the wind and made it to a cliff which I had to scramble up to get out of the waves.Very scary. I was in a hotel in Costa Rica which caught fire - I put it out largely single-handedly - and then went birding later than planned. (an earthquake later destroyed the area that year) I left my binoculars on the roof of my car and drove off, in Dorset, a couple of years ago - £1500 Swaros too! But perhaps the most foolish thing I've done is to get lost in the rainforest in Oz - and had no idea how to get back the the road. After many frantic minutes of exploratory forays with absolutely no sign of which way I'd come, nor which way was back, I decided to stay put & start shouting as loud as I could. After a time a bloke at the road heard me and I followed his shouts out of the Outback. He told me what an idiot I'd been - I could only agree. Never been so relieved to be told I was stupid! I did manage to see the Chowchilla that had given me the runaround though!  I'm sure Jos is reading these and thinking - 'Nah, those are nothing!'</blockquote>

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