While out on our forest walk, the mob brought me
to the base of a cliff. At the top, was a cave filled with one of the
largest bats in the world, which is known as a flying fox. It's
not the normal tiny bat that are common near my home rather this is a
bat that you salute when you meet them. To get to the cave, they
improvised a ladder in a short period of time and then went hunting in
the cave.
This shows how they lash the ladder
together
with vines. They cut down some small trees and remove the
branches before lashing them together.
Here they're getting higher up the cliff,
handing up additional vines for tying the next tree trunk on.
They cut the vines from the forest and then use the machete to
split the vines to make them easier to tie things up with them.
This whole ladder is built entirely of bush materials. They don't have to go far to collect them.
They're getting fairly close to the top of the
cliff here. Once on top of the ledge, they can get to the cave
where they'll hunt the bats. Now can you see why Nimson wouldn't
let me up there?