Just don't' touch the dirt or water, and wash your hands afterwards!
Denise
on 24/9/11 9:56 AM, Carl Clifford at wrote:
> Denise,
>
> Should I pack a Bio-hazard suit if I plan to visit Leanyer?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
>
>
> On 24/09/2011, at 6:32 AM, Denise Goodfellow wrote:
>
> Most birders are pretty responsible when it comes to dealing with
> crocodiles
> and other threats, when they know about them. There is the odd one who
> behaves recklessly or feels that the natural world should fit in with
> them
> rather than the other way round. But mostly it's ignorance that springs
> from people coming from a low-risk environment (crocodile-wise, that
> is).
>
> To give an example a relative and I took Jonathon Franzen to a
> waterfall in
> Arnhem Land. To our horror he squatted on the sand a few metres from
> the
> water's edge. He'd obviously not noted the signs around Gunbalunya of
> the
> "big hungry crocodile" lurking there. By sitting down he'd made himself
> bite-size.
>
> Una and I were only a short distance away from Jon, and we immediately
> raced towards him, yelling at him to get up.
>
> However, there are other threats at the Leanyer Sewage Ponds such as
> mosquitoes (I caught Ross River there some years ago), and various
> organisms
> in the soil and water eg cryptosporidium and giardia. So as a guide I
> warn
> people about putting things on the ground there. I also carry alcohol
> hand
> wash and ask people, to not touch their mouths, and to wash their
> hands well
> on arriving home.
>
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