We asked, you answered. Here are the “best” encounters with wildlife at a doof according to you, the doofing community:
*Please note, we do not advocate doing any of the weird shit listed in this article. We don’t not advocate it either.
Terrifying
1. “I accidentally ate half a huntsman at my first doof whilst tripping. Pretty sure I gained it’s powers though so we’re all g.”
2. “Got bitten by something on the ass while I was sitting at camp, usually camp away from everyone, fang marks the size of a snakes, face swelled up, luckily was close to town and had a mate drive me to the hospital!”
3. “Centipede crawled out of log after being on fire all night… this motherfucker just wriggled his way out the ashy inflamed log and fucked off, not from this planet.”
4. “Goanna in the tent at Earth Freq was quite a scene.”
5. “Feeding goannas eggs and seeing how high in the sky they could jump, I was shitty [ing?] myself the whole time but was so cool.”
6. “Wearing a massive huntsmen as a fascinator.”
7. “Red belly black coming out of market stage on Sunday mid-party, crowd watching and erupts as a snake catcher finally grabs him up. Music playing the whole time.”
8. “I found a huntsman spider in someones tent so I decided to put him on my arm and just crawl around, forgot about the spider and then probs 2 hours later was on the d-floor and realised the spider was still with me that whole time through my cooked adventures.”
9. “I played with a scorpion on a piece of bark on the side of the dance floor for around 15 minutes, before realising that it was a horrible idea… I promptly let it go in the scrub out of the way.”
10. “A wolf spider fell onto my face at New Psycle this past NYE.”
11. “Found a 2m goanna on top of the hill at Dragon Dreaming.”
Trippy Encounters
12. “I was one with the wombats at Strawberry Fields one year about 10 years ago. If they were real or not I dunno. But we had a connection.”
13. “Spitfire caterpillars. They metamorphosis into sawflies. Legit thought this was some alien shit when the dude who spotted them showed it to me.”
14. “I once met a guy at a doof with a pet moth named Caruso. I patted it. This moth was bigger than my hand! Admittedly, I was tripping balls, but I don’t think I made it up in my head.”
15. “We all gathered around a stunning beetle once, magical colours, ooing and aahhing, then [redacted] stumbled in, stood on it, and then asked what we were all looking at!!!”
16. “Went in the bush to pee at Jungle Love (not a doof but still a story) and looked up to see a deer 2m away from me. Spent 10 minutes staring at it trying to project my good vibes acid aura. I think he got it.”
Majestic As Fuck
17. “Two bucks fighting over 6 doe during pack down of Harmonise Festival. The clashing of the horns was so loud we could hear them over power tools about a km away and was awesome to watch when we went to see what it was. It was like being in a David Attenborough show.”
18. “Fluorescent green scorpion.”
19. “Can’t remember which doof, but it was in the Watagans, 100s of fireflies drifted through the campsite in the middle of the night. Felt really magical.”
20. “When we were in the desert for Eclipse 2004 a roo came through at about 50Km/h, it was incredible, he touched the ground every 10metres!!!”
21. “The frogs that say ‘Me’ at Warwick.”
22. “About 30 brumbies galloped past the main floor Sunday arvo at Summer Dreaming a few years back.”
23. “Oh emu on dance floor at a West Aussie NYE doof years back was pretty nuts, came, had a bit of a stomp and looked at all the wild life then went on his way.”
24. “Ebor, mid Saturday night cicadas came and landed on everyone on the dancefloor.”
25. “A stunning Hercules moth was perched right outside the girls bathroom at Orin Aya a few years back. I hadn’t realised that my boyfriend was waiting for me so I spent about half an hour making everyone who walked past marvel in its glory. I forgot to wee in the end.”
Hilarious
26. “A friend ate a bunch of mushrooms and decided to take a walk off the beaten track. Met a kangaroo who began masturbating furiously. Neither would have believed it if they weren’t both there and neither would I. Nature is majestic.”
27. “A swarm of Nosferatu bats. The bitten survivors were… changed.”
28. “The wombat at Tribal Origins (I think it was called). Walked through the middle of our camp and let everyone pat him except one person that he seemed to hate. Never seen a wombat try and bite someone before or since.”
29. “This 7 ft Sasquatch with dreads offered me a doobie.”
30. [redacted]: I saw a dude climb into a “wombat” hole once.
[redacted]: Haha my partner fell in one.
31. “A friend tripping hard stumbled across the dam at [redacted] one evening a few years ago, where there were a few people enjoying the serenity. My friend notices a turtle hanging out with them, gives everyone a funny look and walks off. Promptly runs into me and states “The people over at the dam brought their turtle here. Who brings a turtle to a doof?!”
32. “I once had a big ass goanna lick my toes when I was half passing out on top of my swag.
I squealed in fear.
I ran.
It ran.
Then we laughed and laughed.
Good times.”
33. “Yeah nah, this one time I was having a camp, try to have a break after 3 days of constant music. All snuggled up in my swag and then, out of nowhere this snake crawled up my arse, coiled it’s way up my spinal column and then crikey the bugger bit me on my pineal gland!!!”
34. “Mate owns a dingo. Takes it to doofs. I wonder how many trippers think they saw and tamed a real dingo in the middle of the night tripping balls.”
35. “Got bitten on the flap by an ant twice at 2 separate doofs in a matter of weeks.”
Heartwarming
36. “I was on the dance floor at Earth Frequency this year right up the front in the middle and I seen a dragonfly and it flew right over to me and landed on my nose it was so cool! It just floated on the spot and I walked off the D floor and it flew away.”
37. “Found this huge earthworm when we were tripping. I originally thought it was a bunch of caterpillars following each other. So cool though, we put it near some cow poo after this.”
38. “Seeing the dance floor at rainbow party as someone escorted a spider across the ground to safety.”
39. “Echidna pats.”
40. “I saw my first ever wombat.”
41. “A sugar possum high fived me.”
But, why?
42. “Peed on a red belly.”
43. “My mate once smoked a fly through a dab rig no worries hahaha.”
And then there’s this guy:
44. “I am the wildlife at a doof.”
