In the last article I told you about my first attempt to reach the Lanterns and you could read that we were just giving up our second try. But right before we started the car, the clouds vanished and the sun came into sight. And this made Katja decide to stay and to walk the track. Actually she decided that she’ll stay and get her pleasure on the beach. “The track belongs to those with odd ambitions.”

So I could finally walk (or better run) up the cliffs! Because the track starts at the bay, crosses smouldered (but recovering) forests and leads after that along to the edge of the cliffs.

And to walk and climb only few meters (or sometimes two feet only) next to the abyss is such a heart kicking experience that all the endorphins and adrenalins made me lucky and dizzy in the same moment. Right on the not-so-stable rocks And accompanied by The Pixies with “Where is my mind”)

But the cherry on the top was a little friend I met while I was lying on a rock looking down at the dolphins below. First I’ve heard a calm scratching and sniffing. Than I turned my head and saw a little echidna only some centimetres away also staring down the cliff.

Then the echidna asked me what do I think to find down there. Many people do this here. But it itself couldn’t see anything interesting down there. Neither delicious ants, nor yummy bugs or tasty worms. Nothing.

I’ve explained to him, that we humans also live on impressive feelings. And that this cliff is very impressive.

“Like feeling a full tummy after a whole nest of ants?”

“Yes my little spiny friend”, I told him. “Splendid, so go on and feel free too eat as much of the cliff as you like. We have a lot of it here. You are welcome”. With this generosity he left me looking puzzled and waddled away.

Simply a perfect day, wasn’t it?

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