……from the air, the jungle looks like a sea of broccoli and a novice might
be forgiven for thinking that the underneath is impenetrable.
It is not !
"...Under the treetop canopy, nature jostles to find a space to catch the
sun’s rays, producing a litany of sounds and a library of sights.
Myriads of insects help propagate new growth as well as slowly
working to eradicate the old.
Damp soil and a mulch of fallen leaves cushion noise but
retain tracks for those who know how to read them.
Birds and animals are heard rather than seen.

Navigation is a skill that anyone can learn ; map, compass and a retentive
memory, along with a cool head, are the main requisites.
The direction of stream flow, a rise of fall in contours, are normally the
only aids in featureless terrains. But the depth of a stream, the thickness of
the bush, the flight of the birds, the age of a track and many other signs
are always there to be read like a book by the initiated and turned into
advantage when, to others with senses deadened and mind dulled by a
depressing and endless similarity, the Jungle imposes
itself as an environment which cannot be mastered. "