Some time in the depths of the night the moon had risen and the moon rays of eerie moonlight shone onto the falls there materialized strange spectral sight. In among the torrent a pair of ghost arms and hands protruded through the water fall as if in desperate pleading to beckoning the heavens above?
It was ghastly sight as the surveyor stood there above his bedroll transfixed awaking the assistant who shrieked in terror not knowing if he was awake or not having a nightmare, awoke the poor two aboriginal men in terror as they cringed pointing and Saying Dem Debil Debil. As the two aboriginal men pointed in terror at the moonlight falls with the ghostly hands protruding from them fled through the bush as the falls turned to blood red for a few minutes that seemed an eternity.
The two surveyors watching this spectral sight was transfixed also in terror too scared to move as the silver light of the moon reappeared
and ghost arms and hand faded back into the water fall.
Stunned in silence they slowly came to there senses into day break hours and asked themselves what the hell did they see? Was it am illusion? The falls roared on as they fell back into a fitful uneasy sleep into mid morning.
Awaking and knowing their aboriginal friends had decamped and fled back to Bathurst. They knew their surveying expedition was over for now until they could get two more assistants. They pondered over last nights ghostly spectacle. Were they hallucinating?
The falls roared on as a non silent witness to some thing incredible. Some thing it seems some one or some thing was beckoning them from inside the falls? Yet the surveyor was not simple men as they was men of science not of superstition and fear of ghosts. Yet the doubts challenged their very beliefs. So there was only one option for them was to get at the bottom of the mystery? They decided to climb and explore around the falls.
To be continued....
Kanacki