What does your day look like?

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It's the Darlington Point Sports Club you filthy animals. Get your minds out of the gutter. Jeebus.
 
Did some tractoring for the community garden project I am working on. Moving and spreading mulch, bit of mowing, bit of poisoning, moving topsoil and spreading that.

Poisoning meant walking through the gardens including the wild garden with the spray wand from the tractor spray tank.

On the way home I felt the unmistakable bite of a tick on my neck. Yep a bush tick. Removed it within about 30 minutes. I have a big hard lump under the bite this morning. I am joining poodles nuke the ticks from space campaign.
 
Dales Cannon said:
Did some tractoring for the community garden project I am working on. Moving and spreading mulch, bit of mowing, bit of poisoning, moving topsoil and spreading that.

Poisoning meant walking through the gardens including the wild garden with the spray wand from the tractor spray tank.

On the way home I felt the unmistakable bite of a tick on my neck. Yep a bush tick. Removed it within about 30 minutes. I have a big hard lump under the bite this morning. I am joining poodles nuke the ticks from space campaign.
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Fuck those pricks. Good luck.
 
My day is building my gravel bike. I finally have everything but I'm slightly anxious about the routing the internal cables. I don't have the Park Tools IR-1.n kit but the frame does already have plastic tubing routed through it.

I just need to work out the outer cable lengths which I won't fully know until I see how deep the outer cable goes in the frame until it hits the cable stop.

It looks like the inserts around the holes could be removable which would mean routing the outer gear cable completely through the frame. Too bad there is no manual that comes with it. I bought it on AliExpress I'll ask the seller but it's probably in Mandarin.
 
We don't seem to get many ticks down here in Tassie. I've never had one, but I have seen the pets with a few but not very often. Leaches are about as worse as it gets, and you have to go bashing through the bush to pick one of them up. Would be pretty rare to get one on the bike.
 
Stredda said:
We don't seem to get many ticks down here in Tassie. I've never had one, but I have seen the pets with a few but not very often. Leaches are about as worse as it gets, and you have to go bashing through the bush to pick one of them up. Would be pretty rare to get one on the bike.
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They are prevalent in cattle areas here, but wildlife seems to spread them too. I found a dead bandicoot in the yard years ago and the poor thing had about 10 ticks on it.
 
Flow-Rider said:
They are prevalent in cattle areas here, but wildlife seems to spread them too. I found a dead bandicoot in the yard years ago and the poor thing had about 10 ticks on it.
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Yeah, I've seen a few Blue Tongue Lizards with them. I just don't hear them being much of an issue with people picking them up. I've done plenty of off trail bush scouting and never had one. Maybe just luck. 🤷‍♂️
 
My father's parents had a farm in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. As a kid growing up that and the neighbouring bush were fair game. It was all cattle country so many many ticks removed at home that night. Where we live now is also a tick area so cats and dogs get the goo and daily rub downs. Bandicoots carry ticks without being badly affected if at all. We have many many bandicoots. Mostly because we have a no hackers drive policy. Years ago I was trimming trees at the Scout grounds during a working bee and that meant climbing the camphorlaurels. I had 7 ticks on me that day. I hate the things.

My favourite leech event was bush walking in the Border Ranges NP and when we got back to the car all five of us had leeches. It was really wet that day and boots and shoes were soaking wet. So one by one I salted the little buggers and carried the kids and wife to their seats. Got one off me too. About halfway down the range I felt one on my shin so .I yanked it off and defenestrated it. Parked in Murwillumbah to grab lunch and as I walked across the road a woman on the footpath started screaming. I looked down and my boot and sock and the road were red with watery blood from the leech I tore off. Oops.
 
Dales Cannon said:
My father's parents had a farm in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. As a kid growing up that and the neighbouring bush were fair game. It was all cattle country so many many ticks removed at home that night. Where we live now is also a tick area so cats and dogs get the goo and daily rub downs. Bandicoots carry ticks without being badly affected if at all. We have many many bandicoots. Mostly because we have a no hackers drive policy. Years ago I was trimming trees at the Scout grounds during a working bee and that meant climbing the camphorlaurels. I had 7 ticks on me that day. I hate the things.

My favourite leech event was bush walking in the Border Ranges NP and when we got back to the car all five of us had leeches. It was really wet that day and boots and shoes were soaking wet. So one by one I salted the little buggers and carried the kids and wife to their seats. Got one off me too. About halfway down the range I felt one on my shin so .I yanked it off and defenestrated it. Parked in Murwillumbah to grab lunch and as I walked across the road a woman on the footpath started screaming. I looked down and my boot and sock and the road were red with watery blood from the leech I tore off. Oops.
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Yeah, they sure make you bleed!
 
Went for a Dive and on the way home a whale breached right in front of the boat, was only 4-5m from colliding. Due to time constraints and pucker factor no photo was obtained at the time.
So I'll post a couple of less traumatic experiences i've had with them from previous encounters.
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Stredda said:
Anywhere it is wet and damp you'll find them and any place that grows tree ferns is prime leach territory.
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I was shocked the first time I seen one wiggling like a little spring on my leg.

Never seen one before that, Ireland doesn't have them, South Aus doesn't have them and I've been in a few wet places/hikes in Vic and never picked one up.

Then on one visit to Tas, we had about half dozen small ones on the boys and I. The last trip there with the Adventure company was a Derby wash out, one of the blokes got a massive one through the gap at the back of his kneepad on a quick AYG run before they took us to Blue Tier, it sucked the crap out of him for the whole bus journey then when we got to BT the amount of blood soaked into his sock, you'd have though he'd stabbed a hole in his leg.

This fat 10cm leech was then removed from the back of his knee joint 🤮
 
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