These creatures are quite harmless but, due to their appearance, tend to up your heart-rate on first encountering them.
I wouldn't take the risk of going anywhere near one!
Is there a female variety or are they hermaphroditic?
No-one really knows................................ At dawn they all look the same, however some
do disappear further into the woods (with a small bag in their hands?) and hide behind bushes. It is thought that these one's light small, short lived fires, as there have been sightings of steam/smoke in their vicinity, which they douse prior to emerging from behind said bushes.
After re-entering their cave, they re-emerge resembling unhappy female humans. VERY ODD, as it can take them up to 1 hour to accomplish this transformation.
They commence to undertake reorganising everything and everybody within sight, including the loading of the motorcycles they perch on the rear seat of. They then appear to go through some type of ritual which involves much waiving of arms, pointing in numerous directions, alighting from the motorcycle (after the male rider has been required to dismount to enable her to do so), disappearing once-more into the woods, again lighting a small, short-lived fire, before re-emerging, inspecting the area, that the now disassembled and packed portable nylon cave previously occupied.
The male rider is then instructed, by the female, to stub-out his cigarette, throw out the remaining soft drink he was consuming, get on the bike (after she has taken up her position in what appears to be the 'Pilot's' seat) and stop wasting time. They then disappear down the road/track with the female still waving her arms and issuing instructions to the rider.
It is the general consensus that these 'females' are best avoided whilst undertaking such adventures.
I SHOULD ADD THAT I HAVE NEVER UNDERTAKEN THIS TYPE OF EXPEDITION, NOR HAVE I ENCOUNTERED THESE 'FEMALES' TO WHICH I REFER....................... I AM ONLY RELATING WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY OTHERS.
Poppy Dave
