Allways check your boots.

[Dave1]

Over the Christmas break we were at my sisters place in the Barossa Valley. My little fella left his gum boots outside overnight. The next morning we were going to fetch the chook eggs. He was about to stick his foot into the boot when he said Dad there is a snake in my boot. I thought he was messing around as usual ( typical 5 year old). To my horror I found an adult Red Belly Black curled up inside his boot looking menacing. Lesson learned allways check your boots.

[CraigE]

Over the Christmas break we were at my sisters place in the Barossa Valley. My little fella left his gum boots outside overnight. The next morning we were going to fetch the chook eggs. He was about to stick his foot into the boot when he said Dad there is a snake in my boot. I thought he was messing around as usual ( typical 5 year old). To my horror I found an adult Red Belly Black curled up inside his boot looking menacing. Lesson learned allways check your boots.

Lucky your little fella was observant. Had he been a couple of years older he probablly would not have checked.

[Tombie]

Lesson learnt! Glad no-one was hurt!

Rules of camping - Leave boots / shoes in the tent or the vehicle..

The moist, warm environment of these articles is perfect for spiders, centipedes and as you found out - snakes...

Put your footwear inside :cool:

[vnx205]

Dave1, when I was about the age of your young bloke, I was told by my grandfather that even at home you should look inside the gumboots and bang them on the heel and upend them.

He said before he started doing that he once squashed a mouse in his gumboot.

I've been checking my boots and gumboots for almost 60 years now but have never found a spider or a mouse and certainly not a snake.


NM, I think I will ask you to do more than just wipe your boots on the doormat before you are allowed into my place. :p

[beforethevision]

Invert your dirty socks from the day pulled tight over the top of your boots. it keeps the critters out and airs the socks so the car/tent doesn't smell. :P

Cheers!

[camel_landy]

Invert your dirty socks from the day pulled tight over the top of your boots. it keeps the critters out and airs the socks so the car/tent doesn't smell. :P

Cheers!

Good thinking batman...

We taught our kids to always check the boots while out in Oz.

M

[Thommo]

Not only your boots!

May I also take this opportunity to remind people camping "light" (that is real camping sleeping on the ground LOL) NOT to unroll sleeping bags prior to jumping in. Sleeping bags left unattended during the day in the outdoors also attract creatures both great and small.

I am amazed when I see people find a suitable campsite then immediately clear all the "leaf litter & debris" to make a smooth sleeping floor then drop there bivie/swag/sleeping bag on top and unroll. Then go off to light campfire etc whilst all the varmints that have just had there home turned upside down are now looking for a new home for the night! Guess where..............:eek:

Cheers
Thommo

[AussieAub]

A few weeks back, whilst in our house, my missus pulled on a pair of regular shoes ready to go shopping with one of her mates.
Unknown to her there was red back in one of the shoes. She wasn't bitten immediately but a little while later whilst shopping.

She felt a sharp pain whilst in the local shopping centre, felt giddy a few moments later, and she collapsed in the shopping centre. Her friend rushed her up to the hospital, said she had felt an intense pain in her foot, and the nurses then found the dead spider still in her shoe. They kept her in for a few hours with medication, and then sent her home with the dead spider in a specimen jar for her to keep!

So beware, it doesn't always happen just when out camping!!

Cheers,

..:: KIEREN ::..
2000 Disco II Auto V8 (lemon edition)
AussieAubs Disco Page (http://aussieaub.blogspot.com)

[JohnF]

Once I put on my boots and felt someing under my foot inside them. Took them off and found the dead funnel Web spider that I had squashed while putting then on. Since then have always shaken anything out before putting them on.

[BigJon]

Not only your boots!

) NOT to unroll sleeping bags prior to jumping in.

How do you get in if you don't unroll it? :D:D

[Boxhead63]

I work away from home generally 7-8 months of the year with a team of 6 blokes. Sometimes camping, sometimes putting up in a pikey park. On one of these trips a young fella i work with thought it would be funny to put an egg in my work boot one night, so i could have scrambled eggs in the morning in the when i put them on. Yes, i did put them on without checking them first. One of the rare times i haven't. A nice mess but none the less a great laugh was had by all even myself. How ever the young guy still can't work out why every time he uses his swag he starts itching and scratching like a mad man. The first chance i got i emptied a whole container of black pepper into it. That was in August last year and it was still working last week. I,ve never told anyone from work about it. they just think i'm going madder but i'm still laughing every morning.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.


Cheers Rob