Inside the Mani 2015 | Page 29

any prey. No lump in its neck or its 7ft long body. I moved downstream a little bit further and found myself looking down 6ft int a clear pool. Looking around I couldn’t see a way down but in attempting to turn, my feet started slipping on the green slime and I was suddenly heading feet first into the pool. A split second vision of a parachute jump reminded me to buckle at the knees and although the pool was sandy and shallow I was completely drenched. Quick. Straight out of the pool, battery out of the camera , memory card out, separate lens, phone battery out, wallet emptied ,banknotes separated (Euros have a lot of glue in them. Not a lot of people know that). All this carefully laid out on the rocks, then clothes off hung on the thorn bushes. Shoes off but not socks as the rock was so hot my bare flesh