>Anyone out there have any exploding MSR tales of terror? I lit up my hand one time and nonchalantly walked around camp using it for illumination much to my companion's amusement. I just got back from camping in Bryce Canyon, Zion etc, and I called Delta several times for their policy on stoves and they said 'fine'. I left it home anyway, rather than risk having to leave it at the airport (which happened to some aerial flares I had in my carry-on a while back). Re: Catskinning; Actually Michael, I think the phrase referres to catfish, which need to be skinned to be eaten. I think they would make an attractive skinboat. (hey, thanks again for the radio; my bro gave me an Apelco 520 for my brithday (great kid, he) so it's a back-up now). Any you swamp cruisers have knowledge of electronic mosquito scamblers? I saw one for 15 bucks which was maybe 2"x2"x.5" said to run 500 hours on a [whatkindof?] battery. Somehow slathering on Deet seems unhealthy. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
At 01:30 PM 3/31/99 -0800, edward sullivan wrote: > >Any you swamp cruisers have knowledge of electronic mosquito scamblers? I saw one for 15 >bucks which was maybe 2"x2"x.5" said to run 500 hours on a [whatkindof?] battery. Somehow >slathering on Deet seems unhealthy. > Play the lottery with your $15, the electronic mosquito scamblers are good conversation starters but do nothing to make them scramble away. I have used one for five years because I have it but put on repelent anyhow. I use good ole toxic DEET not that sissy "skin so soft". We use shotguns on skeeters down here, I got 75 with one shot . Dana *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
I have no personal knowledge of the efficacy electronic bug zappers, however what we have, (and Dana will doubtless attest to the veracity of my statements), is Sandflys! Lil' flying teeth, who I recently found out have gain nothing by their bites but they do it anyway for the 'ell of it all. I am further told that what stings slightly is their questionable practice of defecating in their bites! Imagine! My personal belief is that they first burst onto the scene sometime after the middle of the last century, as some southern patriot made an unspeakable faustian pact with the devil to to attempt to drive dem Yankees northward again, during the Wawl of Gnawthern Aggreysson. What works for them toothy critters and toothy critters of every stripe is: Pam with olive oil!!!! (I'm serious) I kid you not. It clogs their little mouth parts, and they can't bite you!!! DEET has been known to chemically fuse (I jest not!) a cheap vinyl rain suit to the unfortunate's skin! The downside to the application of an oily substance to one's skin is: 1. The toothy tend to drown epidermally, creating a lovely patina of bugs. If you hate these as much as I do, a layer of deceased sandflys actually has pleasant connotation about it. As the Bard succinctly put it ...." a dead enemy smells well." 2. Your subliminal cravings for vinegar and some fresh basil, perhaps a bit of oregano, some romaine, or iceberg and fresh ground pepper is almost beyond human endurance. The advantages to olive oil Pam: 1. Olive oil is good for your skin. (My mother-in-law swears by it and has lovely skin---you gonna argue with my mother-in-law, Olga?) 2. It works. Period. Actually any oily substance will work. I have a friend who got a group of scouts hopeless lost on a misbegotten kayak foray, in these countless sloughs and tidal streams that connect soggy land masses down h'eah in Savannah...... push came to shove when the tide drained out and they had to hoof it for the roadway with kayaks in tow. Somebody told the deerflys about their tender, helpless and succulent plight and untold carnage and suffering ensued. Their only relief was to coat every blessed exposed welted millimeter of skin with .......*MARSH MUD!!!* Leaving only their eyes so blue to belie the appearance of a small troop of as yet undiscovered Georgia aboriginals emerging from the saw grass with fiberglass kayaks. The next trick was to elect one of them brazenly testicular enough to actually thumb a ride to get one of their vehicles in this besmirched condition. Surely a list as august as this could produce similar stories of misery, betrayal and woe. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 4/10/99 7:08:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, chriskayak_at_earthlink.net writes: << Surely a list as august as this could produce similar stories of misery, betrayal and woe. >> No sireee, bob! Not from this quarter. Not bein' raised up on no grits 'n cornpone (what're that may be), this child ain't ne'r goin be able to skin 'em that high! But I cun belly laff at 'em none the less. Harold Just slightly west of Dixie *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
>Are sandflys what you Yankees up in the Carolinas call no-see-ums? Probably. I remember getting bitten a lot by something so small I couldn't see it when I lived in Florida. Here in NJ we have what's called a "Greenhead" which is a small deerfly with bright green eyes. -- A really hard bite! Of course, in Florida you had chiggers but after a couple of months you seemed to acquire a temporary immunity. > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:47:46 -0400 Chris & Ellen Kohut <chriskayak_at_earthlink.net> writes: (((SNIP))) > Surely a list as august as this could produce similar stories >of >misery, betrayal and woe. *** You can defame sandflies and deerflies, but a little respect now for our "state bird" here in Louisiana ...the skeeter... Mister Mosquito to be on a more formal basis ! The talented skeeters will take your battery-powered-electronic-bug zapper away from you and use your fresh batteries to power their "musical Boom Boxes" for evening entertainment after their feeding ritual. You can usually hear them around most campsites, sometimes far off, but usually camped fairly close by to your tent !! I, myself, was once taken hostage by a band of marauding mosquitos. They stopped at the edge the woods and one of the mosquitos said, "Do we eat him here at the beach or take him further into the woods ?" I distinctly heard the answer that if "they went further into the woods, the really BIG mosquitos would take me away from them !!" Fortunately, I was wearing my rope cutting, mosquito gutting river knife and managed to escape with only an occasional nightmare now and then from my ordeal...... ::--)) Peyton (Louisiana) >************************************************************************ *** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ >************************************************************************ *** ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
My Mother in Law uses a drop of lavender oil. Cure might be worse than problem and I don't know what it would do to other pests but it seems to ward off Aussie Mossies for her. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
edward sullivan wrote: > > Any you swamp cruisers have knowledge of electronic mosquito scamblers? I wouldn't recommend scrambling mosquitos, the legs and beaks get twisted together into a tough, chewy mass. Much better to bread them and fry them like popcorn shrimp. Steve -- Test Scoring & Reporting Services Sometimes, you never can University of Georgia always tell what you Athens, GA 30602-5593 least expect the most. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
>Any you swamp cruisers have knowledge of electronic mosquito scamblers? I saw one for 15 bucks which was maybe 2"x2"x.5" said to run 500 hours on a [whatkindof?] battery. Somehow slathering on Deet seems unhealthy. > My research interests used to be in bioacoustics. There's little if any evidence that mosquitoes can hear at all. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
The best Deet solution is the 3M stuff designed for the military. It has the Deet bound ina slow release polymer which also reduces skin absorption. cu -----Original Message----- From: owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net] On Behalf Of dldecker_at_se.mediaone.net Sent: Saturday, April 10, 1999 6:13 PM To: PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Stoves, cats, and skeeters At 01:30 PM 3/31/99 -0800, edward sullivan wrote: > >Any you swamp cruisers have knowledge of electronic mosquito scamblers? I saw one for 15 >bucks which was maybe 2"x2"x.5" said to run 500 hours on a [whatkindof?] battery. Somehow >slathering on Deet seems unhealthy. > Play the lottery with your $15, the electronic mosquito scamblers are good conversation starters but do nothing to make them scramble away. I have used one for five years because I have it but put on repelent anyhow. I use good ole toxic DEET not that sissy "skin so soft". We use shotguns on skeeters down here, I got 75 with one shot . Dana *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Just saw a solar powered scrambler at Brookstone... cya -----Original Message----- From: owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net] On Behalf Of Joe Pylka Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 9:48 AM To: sullivaned_at_pop.mts.kpnw.org; PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Stoves, cats, and skeeters >Any you swamp cruisers have knowledge of electronic mosquito scamblers? I saw one for 15 bucks which was maybe 2"x2"x.5" said to run 500 hours on a [whatkindof?] battery. Somehow slathering on Deet seems unhealthy. > My research interests used to be in bioacoustics. There's little if any evidence that mosquitoes can hear at all. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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