* As opposed to my friend, I was more or less familiar with such extremities, because the street I live on in Poland could actually be classified in Australian terms as an unsealed one. There are many grid roads in Poland that can become unpassable especially in early spring due to thaw period.
7/ Exploring a coastal sea cave
The whole exhibition required walking along the rocky seashore and climbing it up at some point. Of course the bottom of the rocky shore was also quite slippery, so you had to walk carefully especially that the sea waves could easily cause imbalance. Walking with water high up your waist was inevitable. Not to mention constant fear of the high tide. It is always good to reassure yourself about tidal timetables in the place you are going to visit, because as I have already realized once it is easy to get yourself cut off the shore in a matter of minutes. Swimming can be equally dangerous as you can never predict the strength of the current, not to mention the venomous blue bottles wandering around. Nonetheless the experience was worth it. The interior of the cave, though small, had a very special micro climate. It was much more humid and damp there. The walls of the cave clearly showed that during high tide the cave is possibly totally filled with water. You could see some sea beings moving in the grainy sand covering the bottom of the cave. I wondered if in the past ancestors of indigenous people were coming here. Surely the place stirred up imagination.
That's not all. To be continued...