Predators and Wildlife

A few years ago, I went to the Whitsundays with a girlfriend for 5 days.

During that trip, we decided to hire a Moke and drive an hour to a waterfall. Now, hiring a moke seemed like a good idea at the time. In hindsight, not so much. These vehicles are OLD, there are no doors, the seats aren't comfy and the gearbox was not in the best condition. I don't drive, so I can't explain further.

We get to the waterfall around 11am and are the first ones there. Lets paint a picture. Imagine a quiet little place in the rainforest. The waterfall was perhaps 10 meters high and ran into a natural pool that was about 15 by 15 meters. The sunlight shines through the break in the tree foilage and all you can hear is the rushing of the waterfall. We find a sunny spot on the rocks around the pool and dip our feet into the water. Every once in a while, our feet would jerk in surprise as a fish decides to have a nibble.

Slowly other explorers start to arrive as the day wears on. After a swim (or in my case, a wade - I can't swim) in the water, we have a picnic lunch and decide to explore some more and head back to the carpark. Now, being the first people there, we had parallel parked the moke. Everyone who came after words were parked 90 degrees to the curb.

There was a ute infront of the moke with the driver side facing us. As I packed all our belongings into the back, my girlfriend had gone to the bathroom. Minding my own business I put our things away, but out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw the driver touching his crotch. Doing an uncontrolled double take, my suspicion was confirmed. So I pretend I don't see anything and keep my head down.

Unfortunately, the guy had noticed that I noticed and decided to make sure I noticed some more. Within minutes what I noticed was that the driver door is now wide open and that he's now facing full on in my direction, legs spread apart and going for gold. Once I noticed, my brain paralysed. I did not know what to do or how to react. So I pretend I didn't notice.

By the time my girlfriend had come back to the car all I could do was whisper, "Now, when you get into the driver's seat, you're going to have to look straight ahead to drive out. I just want you to know that straight ahead is a dude jerking off."

Her reaction, in frantic whispers, "OMG why did you tell me that???? I'm gonna look now!"

Of course, if I didn't tell her, she would've been so shocked she might have ended up staring.

So we quickly got into the Moke, avoiding eye contact with this guy and trying our hardest not to see what was unfolding infront of us and went in search of another destination to explore...

A Moke - Our vehicle of choice for the day