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Najakcharmer -> RE: Brown recluse spider (12/7/2006 6:51:27 PM)
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ORIGINAL: timeoutgurlie
Agree with bull, and even if it's only the topics you post about, you've posted about *this* one so let me tap your knowlege fountain a sec please...is it rational to cancel the vacation to Australia based on the spiders? At a resort is it likely they'd be anything to worry about?
Where specifically are you going in Oz, and what activities do you plan to be involved in during your vacation?
I specifically go visiting places to seek out toxinous organisms, and I have to say that it's a hell of a hard job and I feel damn lucky when I find some. It's not like I'm ever lucky enough to find places that are so automatically "infested" with them that I don't have to spend hours, days or even weeks driving slowly down desert roads, climbing rocks, flipping tin sheets, moving rotten logs, etc, just to get my hands on a few. I am not sure those places &%%$! exist, because that would make my life just too darned easy. Considering the fact that I spend the vast majority of the hours in my vacation day (and night) actively seeking the local toxic fauna and I always feel bloody lucky to get my hands on any, I do not imagine the average tourist in normal tourist accommodations is going to have much to worry about.
If you are staying in a flophouse in the middle of the outback, and your planned itinerary includes hiking, camping, climbing rocks and trees and digging in the dirt, you have a very good chance of encountering some creepity crawlies. Be kind enough to bring them back in your suitcase for me, would you please? [:D]
If you are staying at a normal tourist accommodation in a big city and not poking your nose deeply into the wilderness, your chances of encountering interestingly toxic wildlife drop to near zero. And that is why I spend my vacations doing the former and not the latter.
I mean, I could probably write you a treatise on how to go looking for the most interesting, attractive and medically significant toxinous organisms of a given area. Then I'd warn you that you should not be too disappointed if you worked hard at doing these things for hours or days and still didn't find any. I get very annoyed when that happens, but it's not an uncommon outcome of days or nights in the field looking for the buggers on purpose. Since you are being kind enough to forfeit your share of these treasures to folks who appreciate them more, all you need to do is NOT go looking for them. It's not like they usually show up in nice hotel rooms.
Er, unless of course I'm staying there at the same time and stashing my finds in the bathroom. [8D]
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