Miranda Whall

12.00pm

I was so excited, crawling was exhilarating, I plundered through the undergrowth with almost no hesitancy, my skin was getting scratched to pieces by thorns, spines and prickles, my eyes were being poked by unfurling ferns, my body stung all over by nettles, but I was in another world, a place between human and animal, I was in a place I had never been before, I felt privileged, grateful and humbled. It was so dark down there…I hadn’t expected it to be so dark.