Thursday Two Questions Meme #2

Why would anyone climb down a jagged, steep cliff, while talking on a cell phone only to perch upon a rock that is hundreds of feet from the ground?

What in the world is this?

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the second one, don't know is that some kind of fungi?
Perhaps a very weathered piece of a palm tree?
2) It is part of a tree trunk, or a close-up shot of the sugar cane.
2) That was the installation art that the guy made somewhere on those rocks. LOL2!