On May 3, 9:35*am, Frogwatch wrote:
Poison ivy. *On a canoe trip Sunday to Dry Creek near Marianna, FL
which was at flood level, the water was flowing thru the trees
carrying our canoes under numerous vines. *I must not have managed to
wash all the oil off because this morning my neck is breaking out and
my shoulders feel it too.
Unfortunately, this is the only thing to which I am extremely
allergic. *As a kid, we'd get it so bad we looked as if we had severe
burns all over us. *The only remedy was cold spring water.
This reminds me of the remedy for stinging nettles. *As kids, we'd
never wear shoes and would get our feet covered with nettle welts.
The remedy for that was to immerse our feet into hot sand heated by
the sun.

The only hazard I'm anticipating and being precautionary of is my wife
getting a sun burn. She's lilly-white and I'm not. I dont' burn
easily. But another thing is that a lake Carlyle there are some
scruffy beaches where people pull up to party. I let my grand kids run
around on one a couple years ago, before one of them pulled up a
string of rusty fishing hooks out of the sand, and the kids were in
their bare feet. So, no more of that.