sleeping under hilux

Hi Grunta & Hi Stephen,
Grunta ! I think many of the reasons given not to sleep under your car are very valid.
However Stephen,
I usually agree with your posts but not this one....LOL. No wild animals in Aust.?
Snakes to start with, scorpions, centipedes. Yes, I know that they aren't animals but one of them comes to bed with you, you need to leave your bed asap slowly and cautiously if you can!.
With a snake sometimes people light a fire as close to where he is to cook him out of your swag if you can't get out without avoiding being bitten. Not a good idea under a car.LOL.
Then there are the rats which come along and chew on your toes. Bang goes your head( Yes Hubby saw the rats chewing on Aboriginal stock man's toes in stock camp they have very tough feet.)
Also Grunta.
Then there are those humans who like to steal cars!
There are many scenarios which make sleeping under your car risky.Stephens set up is a good one but I wouldn't have my feet under the car either.
Warmest wishes of the season & every good wish for the coming new Year.
Take care, safe travels.
Bye Ma.

Hi Ma
When we head bush, it is during the winter months and we have never seen snakes in any on the remote placed that we travel to. As we all know, snakes are cold blooded and on those cold crisp desert nights, the snakes are snug in bed, either down their burrow, under or in a hollow log or somewhere else where they are out of natures elements. The same could not be said during the warmer months. One example was 5 years ago when we did the Hay River run and where we had our sway out at Batton Hill. Lindsay said that there is no way he would put a swag down where we had ours during the summer, as he said it would be crawling with snakes.. LOL

If you notice from our pictures above, we never unroll the swag until we are ready to get into it. As for scorpions and centipedes, they do not each much and there have been a number of times when we have rolled up the swag in the morning, only to find the small desert scorpions under the swag and between the ground sheet. I would never put our feet under the vehicle, but as you can see, we uses a small piece of shade cloth along the bottom of the running board. This stops pillows and anything else from getting under the vehicle.

Where we go, the last thing that would happen is have our vehicle stolen. The great thing about being in remote desert locations, the car is never locked, key is left in the ignition for the simple reason is that there is no one where we go. If feels like you are in the big smoke when you get to a Caravan Park even in remote places like Ilkurlka when you have to lock up because there are other people around.

All the Best to you both Ma and Pa for the Festive Season and see you out bush sleeping out in the swag where there are no wild animals...LOL


Cheers

Stephen

Hi Stephen,
I was away yesterday, so got your message today.
We get our hols in Sept and always head back into the desert we love for our Hols.
I love the sea as well but I hate to say it, remember SWMBO, well just turn the S into an H although he sometimes lets me have my choice of place to go.
We know of one occasion when the day had been hot & the night could and the snake crawled in with the bloke to cuddle up & get warm. He was an Aboriginal and a decent bloke. His mate built a fire next to where the snake was & it crawled back out cos it got too hot! Not LOL!
No, we only go into C.P's to have a good cleanup of ourselves, the clothes and the mess in the back of the vehicle and a day's break from driving.

Now, these wild animals! Some do come into camp to rummage through your camp, you jump up to chase them away. Under the car & you're startled, I agree with another post . Wear a stack hat to bed!!!? LOL.
Now we come down to the subject hubby & I always get into a debate over is.
I wouldn't call evil people animals, but.......
They haven't found Peter Falconio yet!!!!
I like this new Live tracking idea but I grow a few feathers( chicken) in the dark out in the dongers. I get to thinking. What if some luny is following us.
Now I've opened myself up for some jokes but I really could do with a good laugh at the moment so don't get too mean.

I've been bitten by a big blue centipede No, he didn't eat much but he hurt much even though he didn't get a good grip.
I've already wished you the warmest wishes of the season & every good wish for the coming new year.
Bye for now & safe travels.Ma.

Stephen - Ha Ha - What about Crocodiles :-)

What about the guy that got ripped out of his tent 50 m from the beach up in Lakefield :-)

What about the baby that got taken from a tent :-)

We have wild animals and poisonous creatures

Rooftop tent is the way to go :-)

Cheers Tony

Check this out

Crocidile Mick link

Discussion on Croc Attack

Hi Tonyfish
You have not read my post, as I only refer to "the deserts", and I am not referring to the tropics where there are large bodies of water and those big crocs just waiting for their next feed, that is a very different kettle of fish.

As for the baby from the tent, I have my personal views of that and they differ from what was claimed to have happened. There have been many times out in the desert where dingos have walked over the bottom of our ground sheets and left paw prints as proof.

I refer to "wild animals" as bears, tigers, lions, hyenas etc. Yes we have the top 10 deadliest snakes in the world. Almost all snake bites can be prevented and usually involve the snake either being cornered or trying to be captured. Snakes feeling our vibrations will try and get as far away from us as we of them.

Yes we live in the lucky country where our deserts are free of wild animals and I never feel safer that out there, hundreds of kilometres from anywhere and a millions stars to gave up to at night.


Stephen

And mate this is a true story, i know there has been many case's of Tank Crews over the years being killed this way, I am ex Army and an ex APC, TANK V.M. 106 fdwksp.

Sorry Stephen for wrong spelling.
Cheers Dave..

Hi Busy Bee,
That's a good one I needed a laugh today! A crash hat to bed!
With best wishes of the season & every good wish for the coming New Year.
Take care, safe travels.
Bye Pa & Ma.

http://www.thetimecapsule.org.uk/TimeCapsule/1940s_Jinx_Tank.htm

One extreme example if you read about half way down