So, I went on a difficult hike in the bush yesterday with a mate, no tracks for much of it so we were pushing through waist and chest high bush. I had my first encounter with stinging nettles in the process, what fun
I caught it mainly in the V between the first two fingers of my left hand, which pretty effectively put that hand out of action due a combination of stinging pain and numbness, very odd. I put my gloves on at that point.
When I got home I Googled it and learned that I'll be annoyed by it for a few days. But tonight I noticed it had stopped bothering me already. However, we have a cow in labour and I just went up to check her. I made the mistake of putting those same gloves on as they have dried out today. And I soon noticed the stinging was back, though not as bad as originally. Is this something that has contaminated my gloves now? If so, how do I kill it?
Otherwise, it was a very interesting trek. Unfortunately I didn't have the map on Avenza so couldn't record the route. I took lots of photos but only about 30% have GPS coordinates, which I plotted on GoogleEarth last night. We had to wade back and forth across the creek up to our knees about 40 times. Very slippery rocks under fast flowing water but neither of us managed to fall over at all. We didn't quite reach our goal as I decided if we wanted to get back to the vehicle early enough to drive out before dark we had to head back. After plotting our route on the map we were only about 150m from the waterfall I've been looking for. Very annoying but I'm looking forward to getting in there again very soon. I took my helmet camera to record the hike but the battery was flat, next time I'll take two cameras, spare batteries and a pile of SD Cards.