:canadaflag:Sometimes detecting is a pain in the butt

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose.......had the car, had the time....at least till it was time to get ready for night shift so on Wednesday I loaded Otto for a combo hunt and drove to the Dartmouth area to apply my addiction passing a few strange dudes and dudeets on the way. No wonder kids in elementary schools are having trouble concentrating and turning to drugs when they have murals like this painted on their schools. Looks like a "Nightmare on Disney Street" to this bouy

Anyway arrived at the park and did the lawn then the beach and finally going aquatic.....big mistake me bouy even though I scooped up a few coins for today when I woke up I was full of red, oozing, itching welts from the waist down so now I have a legitamate reason to not feel that I'm lacking in social graces for my butt scratching in public! First bout of the swimmers itch this year. Guess I was due.

Must be getting old for when I was growing up a ball was a ball and still not exactly sure what this toy is that I recovered.

Anyway take for the day was the "ball' and 36 coins @ $7.76 added to the "fund"................or to buy calamine lotion!

In charge at work for the next month and sure is great to have the time to do the important things like.....................this post.

 

[hershey1]

Good post Leslie as usual. Put alchol on that rash it will feel alot better when it quits burning. Nice finds though. Maybe you could shoot the ball out of the double barrel slingshot you found the other day. HH

 

[oldranger]

That is NEAT whatever it is!!!!

As usual good finds Leslie

Ron

RLTW

 

[BigCatDaddy]

What the heck is in the water up there that gives you guys the swimmers itch??? Whatever it is, you can keep it up there, don't need anymore butt-scratchers in Texas, we got enough as it is!!
Good hunt, you should have been rewarded with a goldie for your pain and suffering!!

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Those geese must be the cause using the water as a cess pool.
Good clad find.

 

[Dwayne2010]

Swimers itch hey? Well, your lucky that you don't have to deal with the clouds of mosquitos over here in BC lol. What a pain!

 

[whadda]

We have a large dam near where we live here and at certain times it becomes infested with duck lice which sounds like it results in the same joyful outcome as your swimmers itch . . . . yay!

 

[fongu]

You gotta buy an ocean of calamine lotion. lol
Nice haul on the clad. I have no idea what that toy or ball is. Looks like something to drive you crazy trying to figure out what the heck it is.
I've had the metal detecting itch and redbug itch, but never swimmers itch.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Get some calamine lotion for that itch.

Bill

 

[mitto]

The ball is called a Bakugan. Take a stroll down the toy aisle at Target. It you open it up all of the way, it should turn into a robot or dinosaur, or something of the sort. Kinda like a Transformer. You probably need to wave a magnet over it to get it to open up all of the way.

They are real popular with the elementary school kids.

 

[destructo]

its called a bakugan wave stick it on a nail and it will transform

 

[Teach]

The swimmers itch we get here in the Okanagan is usually found in areas of a lake that doesn't get flushed out very well by wave action and the water is calm and protected. Geese like these calm areas as they can swim, graze etc. and not have to battle waves or wind for the most part. But the problem here comes from the feces of the ducks and geese. There is a parasite as I understand it, that is in the poop. When the birds crap in the water the, the area of the lake that does not get flushed out gets an unusually high concentration of these little buggars. When you go into the water they attack and get into your skin where they complete their life cycle and then once again leave.

It was really bad one year here and in the area where all our kids were taking swimming lessons. The swimming teachers advised the parents to rub the kids down with vaseline petroleum jelly before going into the water. Apparently it creates a barrier the little critters can't get past. This does work. I've seen the differences of the kids that went into the water with the vaseline and those that did not. The kids without were all spotted the next day. And as the others have already recommended.........calamine lotion for the itch.