things found while herping - Page 2

Swampwalker · 02-27-04, 09:59 PM

I'll be giving guided "herp" tours for the low low introductory price of $100 per person. No guarantees though.

chamitch · 02-27-04, 10:10 PM

yea, i wasnt herping but we had a fire in the middle of a feild. and i noticed a bushy plant growign right beside teh fire. sure enough was a marijuana plant, just a baby.

maybe the herps love it.

BoidKeeper · 02-27-04, 10:50 PM

Are you guys herping or hemping?
Never found anything except a garter wraped around a 4 barrel carb on an old ford thunderbird.
Cheers,
Trevor

crimsonking · 02-28-04, 04:43 PM

swampwalker: did you "collect" you find??
I once found my stolen bike when I was a kid--like 2 yrs later and miles away from where it was stolen, I had forgotten about it, but had memorized the serial#. ( I think I could still recite it haha)
and:
-Bowling ball at the bottom of a quarry-- Fred Flintstone's??
-Bag with a diamondback rattlesnake in it in the everglades-- collector must have forgotten it!
I'm sure there are others that will come to me.
:Mark

Dozer · 02-28-04, 09:01 PM

found a really cool balloon, i blew it up only to figure out it was a condom

JD@reptiles · 02-28-04, 09:27 PM

swampwalker doesn't collect. he is very much interested in the conservation of animals.

in jamaica if you grab the plants you get shot if you get caught. i dont bother. not worth my life...

Bartman · 02-28-04, 09:30 PM

i wasnt really herping either but near my house theres a ton of trees and in there are tons, and tons, of toys...no idea

Neo · 02-29-04, 01:46 AM

my inner child

xdiversichicx · 03-01-04, 03:15 AM

lol well i find lots and lots of used condoms *yuck* - porn movie boxes lol my bf gets all excited about those cuz he hopes someone will leave the movie in them lol boys - and out in the middle of nowhere in the forestry park we were doing an overnight field day (lol i like to call them field days.. makes me feel like im back in school on a field trip) and we found what looked to be a brand new deep freeze... we walked about three more miles down the mountain and found the box it had been in. its really weird because theres no way possible to get a car or truck or anything like that up there. you can barely take a four wheeler through there because the trees are so close together.

but the coolest thing ive ever found was while i was rock climbing last summer. i stuck my hand in a hole right above my head that i couldnt see in the get a better grip and i felt a little sting. pulled my hand down and there were two puncture marks and a bit of blood. worked my way on up and found an injured milksnake in a birdsnest. so i sat down and bandaged my hand real fast (didnt wanna infect it.. there was poison ivy all over that cliffside and im only allergic to it if it touches an open wound.. yea werid huh. i could take a bath in it and it wouldnt bother me lol) but anyway.. there were no eggs or birds there. it looked like more than likely a hawk or something of that sort snatched him up and was saving him for later. but i could tell he was suffering, so i stuck him in my backpack and took him to our local vet. she fixed him right up. he stayed in recovery for about a week so she could make sure the stitches didnt get infected, and we released him back around the same area that we found him as soon as she said she thought hed be ok. i hope hes doing well, and i hope the bird found some more lunch lol.

Swampwalker · 03-02-04, 01:21 AM

No, I didn't collect my find. I don't collect herbs or herps.

C.m.pyrrhus · 03-02-04, 01:42 AM

Golfballs, the oddest thing to find miles out in the middle of a mountain range. I bet everyone finds these odd finds themselves while out. I have found arrowheads, rare gems and such, even a gold nugget in a creek. Found old Indian ruins, which is common here in AZ. Abandoned camp sites that were many years old.

And to top it all of, at the age of 13 while hiking and catching some garters, my brother, a friend and I found a campsite (not abandoned) with several bags of soil, water lines and dozens of marijuana plants strung about a hillside. We checked the tents, and were loaded with food and one had several remote control cars. We told my dad whom went back and collected some for himself.

Retic chic · 03-02-04, 09:09 PM

Great to see there are so many budding herbetologists on the forum.

Dozer · 03-04-04, 05:12 PM

herbs is for 10 years olds

lizzardcomputer · 03-16-04, 03:50 AM

First time out this year 2 bullfrogs and yes pot and to think when I used to smoke it I couldnt buy it.

Tom Cat · 03-21-04, 11:27 AM

Couple weeks ago while coming back from Florida, I stopped at an old house to lift some tin. Didnt find any herps right away but did find an old bootleg operation. I thought that was a cool 'Southern experience' but the best was still to come. On my way back to my car, I went to lift an old sink and found a full grown Copperhead sunning itself right beside it. I took a picture, I'll try to post it later. Thanks Tom