The Power of One
The Power of One
“As waterfalls go, it wasn’t a major one, but it tumbled down through an area of rain forest which, on our only previous visit, we’d come across too late to explore properly. The cliffs rising above the forest looked interesting, and Doc was sure we’d find succulents and several species of dwarf aloe in the rocky crags and ledges. I had been concerned when Doc had suggested the hike; it was a good twenty miles across the mountains, and Doc was over eighty. Just how far over, no one knew, and whi...le he was as lean as a twist of licorice and tough as a mountain goat, it was a hard day’s march by any standards. In the notes he had made on our previous trip nearly eight years earlier, he’d noted that the hike had been an exhausting one.
He had answered my protests with typical Doc logic. “Peekay, if not now it will be never again. Our work is unfinished, the topography, see, I have made a drawing here in my notes, suggests limestone in the cliffs. If this is true, it is rare, almost impossible, some geological freak happenings, maybe?”MoreLess
He had answered my protests with typical Doc logic. “Peekay, if not now it will be never again. Our work is unfinished, the topography, see, I have made a drawing here in my notes, suggests limestone in the cliffs. If this is true, it is rare, almost impossible, some geological freak happenings, maybe?”MoreLess
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