On 16/07/2009 evanbb wrote:
>On 16/07/2009 southcol wrote:
>>from the BBC:
>>"His shelter, according to his father Richard Cass, was a log, and his
>>attempts to chase down a wild horse, which he looked on as a potential
>>source of food, ended in failure."
>>
>>Are there many wild horses roaming around Narrowneck ? Seen them in the
>>snowy mtns.. or did the mushrooms kick in.
>
>I've never seen horses in the Blueys. Dingoes yes, but not horses.
>
>It's very unlikely he would have found any hallucinogenic shrooms. There
>is a native Aussie psylocybe (psyllocybin australis), but I think it's
>further south. Might have found fly agarics in the pine forests, but I
>doubt he would have walked through any. The other 2 (psy. subcubensis and
>the Blue Meanies) both need cattle.
"Without prejudice"
A lot of the folks who have these kind of mystery disappearances and miracle reappearances don't need hallucinogens.
Brumbies live in relatively open country, where getting lost for 12 days would be more difficult than in the dense bushland I presumed he was lost in. |