Originally Posted by
JackieC
Tartan Tumchie, if you want to meet some cachers locally then most will be at the Langspoon event in Glenrothes on 3/4/5th April. They're a friendly bunch so go and say hi (I'll be there Friday night:socool
. The new cache count is over 300 now, so its a cachers bonanza!!!
There are lots of ticks in the UK, and their population is growing.
Its got so bad in some parts of Scotland that I've started leaving tick removers in caches as you're almost guaranteed to have some on you by the time you reach the cache.
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Hmm, is the problem worse in the north of this island than in the south, I wonder? I'm not very active now due to ill health, but in all the caching I've done and all the long walks I used to go on I never once got a tick.
And years ago, before I discovered caching, I had a dog for ten years. I took her for many long walks in the sort of areas where one might expect ticks, and to the best of my knowledge she only ever got one, on her forehead, and that dropped off of its own accord!
What are others' experiences?
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