A standard working day here for us today. Susan weeding and myself cutting and swabbing. There were some moments of excitement.
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| Attaching the rope to the pontoon |
First off we helped remove a floating platform from the dam. It had supported a paperbark population but had turned turtle.
The other excitements were not so positive. I managed to disturb a large jack jumper ant nest when ripping out a lantana runner. I had to run away swatting one off my leg with the saw and a tick as well for good measure. I left my camera in the midst of the ants but returned with a 4 metre piece of bamboo to hook it out from a distance. Later when they had returned to their burrow I retrieved gardening tools.
We had an excellent Thai beef salad for tea. After tea we had a bit of a discussion about helpex and I was able to subject our hosts to a skim through the blog pictures for longer than they needed.
Susan sent me out to the car to get the first aid kit since she was looking for the nail clippers.
This was ironic since i detected a lump in my armpit which was of course a tick. Kevin had a couple of tiny ones earlier which are a grass tick larvae where as mine was a bigger one. Lyclear was applied and after about 20 minutes Susan did an excellent job of removal. She also found a couple of tiny ones. One under each armpit. I think I will be going for the long shirt in future and the gallon of insecticide.
Bedtime here night folks
Cheers Simon
Pulling out the pontoon
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