I was walking in the woods last sunday, I'm on the Alps.
there aren't lakes or rivers in an area of many kilometres.
while I was walking suddenly I started to smell fish, like if I was in a fish shop, not necessarily rotten fish, just fish
there aren't camping sites either.
I checked the surroundings but I didnt find fish on the ground and trust only a lot of fish would have made all that smell.
This will remain a mistery in the history of these lands
>>1026744
chance are it was a tree or some other plant for example IIRC female Ginko seeds smell like death that if they are planted by mistake in the city they have to cut down once they become adults. they have a rancid butter kind of smell.
so i assume its a plant using flies to pollinate
like
Escallonia viscosa - swines
Thymus comosus - terpenine
Calla palustris - death / rotting meat
Phallus impudicus - death/ meat
>>1026744
my best bet would be mushrooms, there are some species known for smelling of fish or shrimp.
had a similar experience OP, turned-out to be an adolescent squatch having potent nocturnal emissions about a km away. nothing to worry about.
>>1026751
Man, stinkhorns smell VILE. Damn dog always rolls in them.
>>1026751
>chance are it was a tree or some other plant for example IIRC female Ginko seeds smell like death that if they are planted by mistake in the city they have to cut down once they become adults. they have a rancid butter kind of smell.
nah they are dioecious, so cities just plant the males. Sometimes females were planted back in the day and those produce the stinking fruit. I lived in an area with female Ginkgo trees and Chinese people would swarm them in the fall to collect the seeds.
>>1026744
Alpine version of the American Skunk Ape?
I wouldn't worry about it
>>1026751
>>cut them down
haha yeah I fucking wish they would