Hi Kerry:
The worst part about working in nature is being forced to drop your equipment
in panic and then having to retrieve it! I left an early model Olympus
Pearlcorder [note the OLY content] at a nest site when I was swarmed and stung
about 22 times. It can also send you running and then you do stupid things
like trip and fall.
Fear of snakes has a way of shutting down both my right and left brain. I
pretty much have to hike in my snake boots to be able to get over it and
concentrate.
I got over a fear of alligators by swimming with them in Bugg Spring - my old
backyard in Okahumpka, FL. I watched my mentor, a former Univ. of Hawii
zoology professor, play chicken with them by swimming right at one. Now I
know they have a fear of people.
Poison sumac is a potential problem for folks photographing in northern US
wetlands. It once got it the outside of my vest. I wore the vest a week
later and rubbed my arms on it repeatedly. I ended up with a bad case of
dermititis.
Gary Reese
Las Vegas, NV
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