This is how the nightwalking went….
- We walked from the bottom of JC Slaughter falls carpark to the Mt Coot-tha Summit (had ice-creams, drinks and quite a few laughs) and returned by the same bush path. About 4 kilometers round trip.
- The night’s darkness was not dark enough – there was too much ambient light coming from the city lights reflecting off the low rain clouds. Retrun trip was a bit darker with some of the clouds clearing. We would like to try again on a darker night, and therefore further out of town.
- Brin and Mark entered a cave along the way and we believe that we experienced the amount of darkness required to get the effect.
- Some did experience a level of heightened awareness on the return journey as there were darker parts of the path and by concentrating on the light object.
- By spreading out, and therefore relying more on your own senses, there was a greater gain in sensory awareness as we were not orientating ourselves to the person in front of us and their ups/downs and sways that gave us more information about the path ahead.
- It seemed to us that using the luminous ‘glow in the dark’ stickers or mobile pieces was ample to focus on and that the true luminescent paint is actually not that important. We may modify this hypothesis as we try future nightwalking events though.
Following the stars - Nightwalking (before sundown), at Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane
Watch for our future Nightwalks on the Sunshine Coast and/or Gold Coast where we will go into the hinterland to be far enough from ambient lights.
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Last minute assembly in the dark - Ashley
Creating the cap - Nightwalking (after sundown), at Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane
Serious Nightwalker - Brin
What the Nightwalker see's as they walk into the darkness
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April 28, 2010 at 06:26
WOW! I’m so impressed you’ve got people going out to do Nightwalking! You know I’m a big fan, so I have to give you all major kudos for making this happen and getting a group together to share the experience.
If I could share an option that MAY improve your results in especially dark places, perhaps try much smaller photoluminescent targets, like…. 1/2-inch diameter circles or so. Just enough to bring your attention back, not enough to affect how brightly other things can be perceived in the dark. The glowing object on my Nightwalking cap is only 1/2″ wide. Also I didn’t like my glowing object bouncing around, so I affixed a solid wire that extended straight out, then curled around back towards me. The object that glows was made from a small plastic “furniture foot” that has a nail sticking out one side. I taped the nail to the solid wire, wrapped it with tape, so that when wearing the cap, I was looking at the bottom of the plastic furniture foot. Like this: http://www.componentforce.com/userfiles/image/categories/nailonfeet_lg.jpg. And then I painted that plastic disc with about 10 layers of children’s glow-in-the-dark craft paint. Works like a charm!!