PE - camping in snake country

[Cherie Nolan]

You know when I was little I used to be a tom boy with by brother and our friends we was in the swamp area of jean La Feet (not the right spelling) national parks. A
lot!!!!!!!! of snakes was there. We was the crocodile hunter we caught a lot of snakes and a really small crocodile. I wood kill my kids if they did what we did as kids.
But we had a lot of fun we never tryed to get a way from them always looking for them. :) Tom and huck would have been proud! Marguerite



j'lynn yeates wrote:
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> > MacAnndra
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> > Subject: Re: PE - camping in snake country
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> > I have heard that when sleeping on the ground in desert on would
> > lay a hempen rope (i.e. a very hairy type of rope like sisal) on
> > the ground a good distance around the sleeping bag. Snakes, who
> > feel with  their tongues, would encounter the harsh and hairy
> > surface of the rope and  not crawl over it, but instead go around.
> 
> classic urban legend ... unlike mammels whose tongues are designed to
> sense texture (among other things) snake tongues are primarily heat /
> vibration / electricity sensors ... rope has *zero* effect (this was
> demonstrated at Philmont one year i attended during the scouting
> phase ...) ... purely a placebo solution - you think it's a barrier
> so you stop worrying about it
> 
> humans are NOT snake prey, they don't like you, they will stay away
> from you.  small mammels are their prey - keep your food well sealed
> so you do not attract rats & mice, and you will have no snakes in
> your campsite.
> 
> watch where you put hands & feet (especially when climbing in rattler
> country), stay clear of rocks and brush piles where they den .. turn
> over rocks and logs with a tool ... carry a staff and thump the
> ground when you walk (they will flee the alien vibrations) ... keep
> your hounds leashed - especially if urban raised and don't know about
> snakes ... shake out clothing and bedding before getting in (more to
> keep scorpions away).. and if it still bothers you, get a mongoose
> (g)
> 
> best advice, ignore them, leave them alone, and they will leave you
> alone  ... given any option, they want nothing to do with humans.
> 
> 'wolf
> .. lived and camped in snake country all my life of 43 winters
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