The FORBIDDEN ZONE
"..I've been on this infernal island 6 months now,
Rescue is long past my expectations,
the powers that be, i feel ...have long abandoned their search & rescue mission for me
.
I know, God don't i now KNOW it
,...but my only hope of survival, in fact, my ONLY hope ..
IS making do with the implements and food to hand, to survive long enough to escape some how, some way, by my own devices
Have seen plenty of signs of danger, to make me fully aware, that, THAT is not guaranteed.
Spotted lots of Complications running about, small hideous creatures, that try to burrow deep into your skin when they find an opening, bringing their germs and viruses into your blood stream,
i am constantly vigilant for them
( man could lose a toe or worse quite easily...and that could spell disaster for me, here.)
So with one eye on them, i also try to tread carefully around the insects and bugs i call glucose, good to eat, tasty too, and they seem innocent enough... but early days i learned to my cost the smallest over ingestion or even just a brush against some, can cause spikes and wreak havoc.
After a goods nights sleep last night, i awoke to the daybreak, eyes wide in the early gloom,, as i thought i heard danger..but it passed ok...i'm aware of feeling 'off', something about my blood is different this morning.
I look a round me, now fully awake, and i see, i'm back, deep in the jungle growth.
I slept up in the trees, away from some of the dangers, meter in hand, last night.
i slip off the rope i used to tie myself in, and climb down the tree,
Back on terra firma, i once again, begin my cutting through the bush, in search of a mythical place i
vaguely remember hearing other talk of wistfully, as... REMISSION.
The journey once started has proven tough, but it has eased in some way, despite that.
I know what your thinking ..it's a barren island, how do you have the energy to chop through the undergrowth of thick growing Cowpat bushes and trees.( trees of cowpat, that seem to proliferate, as if over night, respawning in their density and numbers) when your starving..?
Good question and one i asked myself many times in those early days, when i first washed up here
.HOW on earth will i SURVIVE..!!
It's simple dear reader, what at first seems barren and devoid of food, is actually littered with energy giving foods.
At first i near starved, but a few weeks/months of testing... then tasting... then eating items that didn't seem to react badly on my meter, have given me a whole new diet.
Gone are the cheap, easy foods of those back in Blighty..( or my life long past, as i now mentally call it.)
Here, i've learned how to hunt, scavenge, and stalk my prey.
Meat is now back on the menu, and i'm eating more of it..( must be the moons or the month of may..who knows )
And i found if i don't waste the excess, ( the fats i used to discard, because . unhealthy
)
i feel fuller and with more energy then previous foods..
Berries are everywhere, as are nuts..no alcohol tree sadly..but the water is crisp and clean
So yeah..i'm doing ok..no scrub that ..i'm doing great...fitter, slimmer, more muscular, better all around..
now if i could only survive long enough to show off the new bod that's replaced the dad bod i had, i'd be a happy...(tho' more beer grylls, then bear grylls, but better then i've been in 30 years )
But i'm rambling on now.
i took time to write this as it MAY be my last entry...
Shush, no hugs or flowers..it is what i want.,
what iv'e dreamt of these many nights marooned here, on my little island.
This morning my meter said i was close..and low and behold, as i felt the bush begin to thin,
the last few cuts with the machete meter, put me through and almost off the edge of a cliff....:***:
i stared in amazement, checked my meter, to see if it's compass was off.
But as i look out at the plains below, it can only be..The FORBIDDEN ZONE.
the LAND of FOUR, i've heard rumour of...and now i've seen it with my own eyes.
admittedly at 4.9....i've a long way to go to stick around,, but i've come a long way too, so that don't bother me.
The word is, this place has some magical powers, a land where people rarely eat, but live forever.
i've decided to camp here so even if i can't live THERE, i'm close by it.
i'm stepping through, and trying to climb down onto the plains and familiarise myself with it.
After the heady heights of TEN mountain, where i started, the air is thicker, crisper,
it's left me feeling a little weaker, but i persevere......onwards we go, onwards.
wish me luck,
PS: If this is My last post, by george it's been worth it...
My God, but the view IS spectacular.
God bless you all. "
