ayjay101

Haha! Nice area, spent some time there and in Olinda. Great place for a quick weekened out of the city. Some old friends of mine were recently married in the Sherbrooke forest. Not sure what it's normally like in terms of active species but there were plenty of others all around the place. Seems like the right environment though.

Went to Sherbrooke over the weekend for a dark, wet bushwalk. Took some pics of the fungal variety to mark the occasion: It was cold and wet.

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Cool, no worries. My thinking with a pub night beforehand was that it would be a chance to organise lifts and sharing of food, gear etc. The idea was grossly unpopular and might as well just be done here instead, so: 1. Please count me in 2. I will prolly be leaving early on the Saturday morning from Chelsea in a mostly empty station wagon, so PM if you and your gear need a ride. I will aim to come home on the Sunday arvo.

A couple of years ago a mate had find of these fellas, about the quantity you have there. He heated them in the oven a couple of times to achieve said convsersion and later consumed them in a soup made with some water, stock and vegies. He found the taste unpleasant, but not as bad as he found the psilocybe taste. The effects were non-existant. Eventually he gave up and went out for a late night Chinese dinner with the missus. That night in bed he had incredibly bizzarre and vivd dreams - something about his brother and him piloting a jumbo jet which was towing a series of skyscrapers across the sky! He said he slept really deeply and soundly but I awoke very early and feeling NQR. For the next few days he felt ill and had severe diahorrea, which sparked off awful paranoia that he might have done something nasty to my liver. He soon recovered and the paranoia subsided with it. Since then he has steered clear of them, depsite making many exciting finds here and there. They are indeed a sight to behold and have a very interesting historical relationship with humans. Recent reading has led me to believe that where they have a strong history of shamanic usage (predominantly European), they have a distinctly different chemical make up than the same species growing in other parts of the world, and hence a vastly different psychoactive effect from place to place.

*sniff* *sniff* so sentimental WS let me be the second to say.... hehe!!...just a s k n ......

I'm very keen to come along too, but would prefer to meet some of you beforehand as I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone on this site by sight. Would anyone be interested in a meet-and-greet drinks-at-the-pub style thingo sometime in the next few weeks (in Melbourne)? Please PM me if interested and if there are enough numbers I will post the details up here.... Cheers!

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Thought all you cactus heads might get a kick out of this. I ride past this awesome sight everyday and had to share it.....

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