eggs wrote:I know you can find scorpions in the Adelaide Hills, but very rare to see.
Certainly had one on the kids sleeping bag in the Grampians - and they were in a big tent.
I also read a story once about a snake seeking out the heat inside a sleeping bag...
I have bivouacked a few times without any problems though - Adelaide Hills and Flinders Ranges
Avatar wrote:Going back a bit - 1960s Reader's Digest had a story about a camper in Panama(?) waking to find a fer-de-lance IN his sleeping bag. Tried to alert his companions using his eyes only. They first tried to smoke it out but this caused some problems, eventually they removed the tarp and allowed the sun to heat up the bag which encouraged the serpent to slither out.
Son of a Beach wrote:I've never heard of anybody having been stung. I'm sure it happens, but not to anybody I know. Does anyone here personally know somebody who's been stung by a scorpion in Australia?
FatCanyoner wrote:I have vivid childhood memories of the scorpions in Tanzania. It took me years of being back in Australia before I stopped banging my shoes against the wall before putting them on to make sure there weren't any inside.
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