Travel To Little Known Places Vol. 1
S. D. Hollick
Author Bio
About the Author
S. D. Hollick
Shirley has been exploring the world all her life, each year travelling further and further off the beaten path. As a writer, counsellor, teacher, immigration officer, corrections worker, probation officer, parole officer, teacher of deaf adults, teacher of the criminally insane, counsellor to new immigrants, mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend – she has a non-stop curiosity about people and places in every part of the world.
Overall, she feels she has had many opportunities in my life, both professionally and personally, and each one has opened new doors and provided amazing new experiences.
Both she and her husband are fascinated with other cultures. They love to be included in any local festivities, try exotic foods, and try a few exciting new things like zip-lining, or white-water rafting, or canoeing on the ocean, or searching for crocodiles in the Amazon swamp at midnight by flashlight!
Don`t worry – they also like quiet places with miles of fine white sand beaches and turquoise waters. Oh, and islands, they love those.
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Description
TRAVEL TO LITTLE KNOWN PLACES by S. D. Hollick
TRAVEL. EXOTIC DESTINATIONS. AMAZING ADVENTURES. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Travel To Little Known Places is filled with humorous stories of a couple’s adventures to off the beaten path, exotic but cheap places. They share their experiences in a very down-to-earth, conversational style, and readers say they feel like they are right there with them sharing their experiences vicariously. Often revealing their silliest fears or dumbest travel mistakes and consequent misadventures, you will be rolling on the floor laughing.
The book is rich with beautiful high-quality photographs and budget travel tips that allow you to travel cheaply, yet travel in comfort, to little-known but amazing places.
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Book excerpt
Chapter 28: Searching For Crocodiles By Flashlight In The Amazon
We have done some crazy things in the past, but this one about tops them all. On a pitch-black night, in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, in Ecuador, we canoed on a swamp searching for crocodiles by flashlight, with a twelve-year-old native Quechua Indian navigating.
Before it got dark, a photo of the canoes at the dock captured my artistic side.
A few of us had flashlights, so as it got darker and darker, beams of light flitted across the black water, occasionally catching some weeds or a tree or some tall reeds. We were very quiet. It was taking a long time, but the anticipation was intoxicating.
Then, there – was that one? A dark mass just above the water?
Yes! Amazing. And just over there – another one!
How exciting it was to see the big crocs! Their heads were just visible above the water as the light of the flashlight made them distinguishable, and just a few yards away, their eyes shining out in the dark night!
Would they, could they, suddenly attack? Or were they sleeping with their eyes open. I was afraid to ask. We found one seven-foot female crocodile and one eight-foot male, and three baby crocodiles.
The baby crocs were cute in a weird sort of way, but when the twelve-year-old boy couldn’t start the motor on the canoe, I got really scared.
Excitement and adventure immediately turned to panic! Now what? We were sitting ducks.
What the Hell were we doing on a crocodile-infested swamp in the middle of Amazon jungle, in the middle of the night?! I need my head examined, I thought.
It seemed like an eternity before the motor eventually caught, but it was not over yet because once we got back to the other end of the swamp near shore, we could not find the dock.
It was an ink-black starless night. Back and forth with the flashlight, we motored slowly this way and that, again and again.
Those starving crocodiles were surely swimming patiently below us.
Finally we found the dock.
It was not until I managed walking across the narrow rickety wood bridge over the last part of the crocodile-infested swamp, and then up the long steep stairs, that I somehow immediately forgot about the danger, and felt that this was one of the most exciting experiences of my life!
What a difference it was to see animals in their natural habitat, compared with a zoo. The crocodile’s big eyes just staring at you, or earlier on the river, the little monkeys sitting half hidden on a branch of a big tree in the jungle, barely visible, and peering at you as if to say,
“What on earth are those strange creatures on the river?!”
You come to truly understand that you have been invading their space.
Author Website
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