Off to my left, a deer barked in alarm. I stopped my slow walk along the boundary firebreak. The deer could not have seen or heard me, and the wind was right. Something else must have disturbed it.
The boundary ran by the edge of a long ridge, just a little off the top of the crest. The rim had a 50m-wide strip of thick scrub and lantana. There was a long, open glade of grass on the other side of the elevation, a likely spot to find deer just
