Don't give Tamo any ideas.
"Webb Pickersgill" <
wpickers@cox.net> wrote:
> I can see it now... "Wait... I think I've found Tamo's cache... What a
> unique container, he put it inside a plastic scorpion... OOOUUUCH!!"
> Whaahahahaa :)
>
> Webb
> TheWebbman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Brian
> Casteel
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:43 AM
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Critters near caches
>
>
> When the weather cools a bit more, I want to wander the desert some night
> looking for scorpions with my black light. Since I've found all of Tamo's
> caches, I need something to do with it until either the Halloween event or
> he puts some more of those uber-micros out there. ;p
>
> Brian
> Team A.I.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bryon Culling
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Critters near caches
>
>
> I was up on Squaw Peak a few years ago watching the Sunset with a
> girlfriend. on our way down, we ran accross a small rattler just off the
> trail. she was clueless and walked right past the thing and never even
> noticed it. How could you not. I heard it and started looking for it with
> the flashlight before moving again. It was only about 3 feet off the trail
> on the up hill side of a switch back but that was close enough. I let it
> find it's way under a bush before I left. I thought it was kid of cool. I
> haddent seen one in town before. They are out there. I know South
> mountain is just full of scorpions. I was up there when I was a kid at
> night and it seemed like they were everywhere you looked. My folks freaked
> out and we left.
>
> Trisha <trisha@brasher.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I thought I'd take this opportunity to remind everyone to be careful
> around any caches that are in areas that could be good habitat for
> rattlesnakes (and I guess you should be careful of scorpions, black
> widows, etc....some of these "urban micros" require reaching into
> likely critter spots). This fall/wet weather seems to bring them out
> in the daytime.
>
> I recently had a face-to-face with a LARGE Western Diamondback
> Rattlesnake up on the Agua Fria near Black Canyon City. See GCGK5D.
>
> I imagine there are areas in the metro Phoenix area where you could
> find pit-vipers, but take special care in the boonies.
>
> It was kinda funny....I'm not afraid of snakes and, having quite a
bit
> of reptile and walking-in-the-middle-of-nowhere experience, I walk
> carefully, and noisily. Luckily! It gave this big guy time to rattle
> and move! off to hide. I was innocently following the GPS to the
cache
> while hubby was taking a pic of a pretty cactus about 20 feet behind
> me when he heard the rattle (cicadas were in the trees, but this was
> louder) and then heard me calmly say, "Um, we have a rattlesnake in
> the way, right there...a big one." By the time he walked to where I
> was stopped in my tracks and watching the snake, he wasn't able to
get
> a pic (it went under a rock). I pick up non-poisonous snakes, Steve
> Irwin style, just for fun, but rattlers deserve a respectful
distance.
>
> The other humorous part was that we were on the way to the DBacks
> game...and ran into a Diamondback, and we did NOT want this one's
> autograph!!
>
> Have fun and BE SAFE OUT THERE!!
>
> Trisha "Lightning1996YCJP"
> Prescott
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