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Dec. 6th, 2007 11:41 amYesterday, a nasty ant attacked my toe.
I had just climbed down a bank covered in blackberries, walked across a swampy, reedy ditch and climbed up on overgrown rock bank, and was walking along a flat, wide ditchthing with short grass considering the wall above me, when I felt a sharp pain in my toe, like I'd stubbed my toe on a thorn. But it was a big black ant that had grabbed hold of my toe.
I shook it off and then my pondered my poor toe. It was stinging but it was only a bull ant and I don't think I'm allergic to them. That is, we stayed in a shack at Rocky Cape on summer, and every time I stopped walking, I got bitten by an ant. Literally. When I was in the area outside of the shack, I had to either keep moving or sit down with my feet off the ground. I wasn't allergic to the little buggers then.
Not counting the time it would get out of the ditch, the nearest shops/buses were about 15 mins walk away, and, having come this far, I didn't want to walk all the way back again without taking the photos I'd come here to take.
So I considered my toe. It went a little bit red and kept stinging, but no bad reaction, which was good because it might have become a bad situation. So I limped around and took my photos, and walked back to the bus, and back to the hotel, and by then it was just an awareness of it hurting. Which has gone today. Not even itchy,
I had just climbed down a bank covered in blackberries, walked across a swampy, reedy ditch and climbed up on overgrown rock bank, and was walking along a flat, wide ditchthing with short grass considering the wall above me, when I felt a sharp pain in my toe, like I'd stubbed my toe on a thorn. But it was a big black ant that had grabbed hold of my toe.
I shook it off and then my pondered my poor toe. It was stinging but it was only a bull ant and I don't think I'm allergic to them. That is, we stayed in a shack at Rocky Cape on summer, and every time I stopped walking, I got bitten by an ant. Literally. When I was in the area outside of the shack, I had to either keep moving or sit down with my feet off the ground. I wasn't allergic to the little buggers then.
Not counting the time it would get out of the ditch, the nearest shops/buses were about 15 mins walk away, and, having come this far, I didn't want to walk all the way back again without taking the photos I'd come here to take.
So I considered my toe. It went a little bit red and kept stinging, but no bad reaction, which was good because it might have become a bad situation. So I limped around and took my photos, and walked back to the bus, and back to the hotel, and by then it was just an awareness of it hurting. Which has gone today. Not even itchy,