Unreasonable Searches If a player hits his ball into a deep ravine, a steep gully, or any other wild or inhospitable terrain that appears likely to contain noxious or injurious plants or to conceal menacing animals, insects, or reptiles, he need not search for that ball, and he may, without penalty of stroke or distance, drop another ball in the nearest playable lie on an adjacent stretch of safe ground from which he can clearly see and point out to any fellow players the precise spot where he knows his original ball must have come to rest.