Jungle Trek

So, this morning I decided it was time to check out the jungle behind the house.


What we know is that it is dense - never been cut, has a river of some sort and is a ravine.


So, I donned my outfit - long sleeved shirt, shorts, rubber boots, hat and gloves (the only ones were Lisle's rawhide gardening gloves), and took the camera - - I really was a ridiculous sight!


I headed down the slope to the tree where the monkeys have been, and looked for a way in - all I could tell was that there was a VERY steep slope within a foot of the start of vegetation.  So, not there - walked over to the road and down to the end, where the cuneta disappears into the jungle - about a 15' drop into a hole that has some concrete in it - - not there.  Walked back to the other side of the house, behind the carport.  There is a place where a tree has fallen and been cut - climbing over that you can see where water from the lot has formed a channel - kind of steps.  Worked my way down about 30', and a drop of about the same - huge fig trees with great buttress roots, interesting plants (little red flowers on a tree) - really dense - really old and really tall

From there, it drops about 15' - where the water from up the ravine comes down and drops like a waterfall - and then the riverbed continues behind the house to the road on the far side.

So, no further than that without real pants and a machete - may try coming at it from the road side