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Yeah .. in Australia's Northern Territory on a remote area mining lease not far from the Gulf of Carpentaria, the job I had was to proceed on a compass bearing using flagging tape to mark where the Cat D6C would cut a grid line in the following days, the lines were eighteen km long we had a baseline down the middle of the lease, I would flag nine km one day and do the other nine km the next day.

Sometimes depending on the terrain rivers, creeks etc [and crocodiles :(] I would run out of daylight and have to proceed back to the truck in the dark .. I was doing that proceeding thru dense tropical bushland on a compass bearing in pitch dark one evening, and a huge owl flying just twenty inches or so above ground level came straight at me, the owl popped up and over my head then down the other side all in absolute silence.

Another time on the same lease I parked in a grove of pandanus trees and saw there were particularly robust clusters of pandanus fruit, the next day I parked in the same place and saw one of the bunches of fruit had turned a much brighter shade of yellow and green overnight, I was mulling this over when I saw it was a snake .. read Pandanus Python, the day before it had been absolutely the same faded color as the other clusters of fruit, brute must be able to regulate it's color scheme, there ya go.