Yup, levitation is real, and I see my wife do it nearly every time we run across a snake (usually a garter snake, mind you, utterly harmless). Sara does this thing where she jumps up and seems to pedal in the air. It’s adorable. What really surprised me the other day was when we ran across a large brown tarantula crossing our path in New Mexico. Damned if her spider levitation doesn’t exactly match her snake levitation! Now I’m just curious about what else would cause this kind of magic?
amazing Tom - that is now three responders who all attest to the same phenomena. That's extraordinary - I honestly thought it was just me, but your phrase "pedal in the air' is precisely what I felt ... its like something from a Loony Toon cartoon strip as the hero keeps going after walking off a cliff. The shame is that there is no means of testing this in a lab - either its something you have experienced, or it is not.
Of course it might be some kind of trick of the mind - but I think not!
Probably several orders of magnitude more deadly than an Adder - but the relative toxicity is not the first thing that enters your head - I think we all have a deep-seated fear of snakes - though I used to catch and keep the harmless ones like slow-worms (OK its actually a legless lizard) in my pocket as a schoolboy to show off at school ;-)
Almost stepped on a pygmy rattler once on a day hike in the Everglades. They have one of the deadliest venoms of the snakes but fortunately they cannot inject enough to kill a human. The worst though is camping out on Cape Sable there in a tent without no seeum netting (mosquito netting holes being larger) . Sand fleas come out at night and went right through the netting and they raise welts and draw blood. The wee little midges drove me almost insane.
Aye Donna. The thing to do is camp wisely. These days the netting is way better and you don't have to use DEET with good natural and non nylon clothes eating alternatives. That and scheduling trips to avoid the worst of season insects. Spent a week in the Yosemite Wilderness recently. Took an ounce of repellent and used it once one afternoon in a river bottom. If you go in just past snow melt the skeeters are sometimes as bad as in the Maine woods in mid summer.
They have that in common with Skye then, which is notorious for its midges. I have camped there several times, but the Glen Brittle Youth Hostel or Bunkhouse is a far better option.
Never made it out there and with King Chuckles the Turd at the helm promoting crazy plandemic policies I doubt I will be out there anytime soon. I grew up on the other side of the pond and stayed at our non drive up hostels in the White Mountains of New Hampshire like Mount Madison, Lake of the Clouds, Mizpah, Zealand Falls...all run by the Appalachian Mountain Club.
Did do a mountain bike trip from Glenneg to Montrose trans Scotland with Wildcat Tours back in the day. Lovely country.
A sunny week on Skye is a rare treat - I've been there many times over the past 50 years, and clear skies are a bonus. In 1975 I was driving down Glen Brittle - perfect dark sky area - and witnessed the finest shower of shooting stars in my lifetime - it was like a cosmic firework going off for many minutes. Skye is a magical place.
I'm a bit of a mongrel, mixed English and European, but I do have a rather famous ancestor from Aberdeenshire - the Ironsides moved down to Sheffield and became radical Chartists and Methodist preachers.
Wow. Who knew there were adders in the UK!?? Not this girl. But thankfully I have read the HitchHiker series and have its wisdom permanently implanted in my brain. Now where did I leave that towel…..
Yup, levitation is real, and I see my wife do it nearly every time we run across a snake (usually a garter snake, mind you, utterly harmless). Sara does this thing where she jumps up and seems to pedal in the air. It’s adorable. What really surprised me the other day was when we ran across a large brown tarantula crossing our path in New Mexico. Damned if her spider levitation doesn’t exactly match her snake levitation! Now I’m just curious about what else would cause this kind of magic?
amazing Tom - that is now three responders who all attest to the same phenomena. That's extraordinary - I honestly thought it was just me, but your phrase "pedal in the air' is precisely what I felt ... its like something from a Loony Toon cartoon strip as the hero keeps going after walking off a cliff. The shame is that there is no means of testing this in a lab - either its something you have experienced, or it is not.
Of course it might be some kind of trick of the mind - but I think not!
Once almost stepped on a Diamondback rattler leaaving a home in New Mexico. I levitated.
Probably several orders of magnitude more deadly than an Adder - but the relative toxicity is not the first thing that enters your head - I think we all have a deep-seated fear of snakes - though I used to catch and keep the harmless ones like slow-worms (OK its actually a legless lizard) in my pocket as a schoolboy to show off at school ;-)
Almost stepped on a pygmy rattler once on a day hike in the Everglades. They have one of the deadliest venoms of the snakes but fortunately they cannot inject enough to kill a human. The worst though is camping out on Cape Sable there in a tent without no seeum netting (mosquito netting holes being larger) . Sand fleas come out at night and went right through the netting and they raise welts and draw blood. The wee little midges drove me almost insane.
This is why I have banned camping from my list of recreational activities. Also, stay off the dunes in Cape Hatteras. The flies will eat you alive 😳
Aye Donna. The thing to do is camp wisely. These days the netting is way better and you don't have to use DEET with good natural and non nylon clothes eating alternatives. That and scheduling trips to avoid the worst of season insects. Spent a week in the Yosemite Wilderness recently. Took an ounce of repellent and used it once one afternoon in a river bottom. If you go in just past snow melt the skeeters are sometimes as bad as in the Maine woods in mid summer.
They have that in common with Skye then, which is notorious for its midges. I have camped there several times, but the Glen Brittle Youth Hostel or Bunkhouse is a far better option.
Never made it out there and with King Chuckles the Turd at the helm promoting crazy plandemic policies I doubt I will be out there anytime soon. I grew up on the other side of the pond and stayed at our non drive up hostels in the White Mountains of New Hampshire like Mount Madison, Lake of the Clouds, Mizpah, Zealand Falls...all run by the Appalachian Mountain Club.
Did do a mountain bike trip from Glenneg to Montrose trans Scotland with Wildcat Tours back in the day. Lovely country.
Had a great sunny week visiting Skye. No adders spotted!
Discovered woollen jumpers pick up the smell of whisky after visiting Talisker Distillery.
Reminds me of a cross-country school run around Blackburn Lake where I spotted a snake sunning itself too late and had to "fly" over it.
A sunny week on Skye is a rare treat - I've been there many times over the past 50 years, and clear skies are a bonus. In 1975 I was driving down Glen Brittle - perfect dark sky area - and witnessed the finest shower of shooting stars in my lifetime - it was like a cosmic firework going off for many minutes. Skye is a magical place.
Yes, I visited Skye in 1981. My ancestors were mostly from Aberdeenshire, but who knows before records began?
I'm a bit of a mongrel, mixed English and European, but I do have a rather famous ancestor from Aberdeenshire - the Ironsides moved down to Sheffield and became radical Chartists and Methodist preachers.
Aberdeen Epitaphs:
NETHERMUIR.
In memory of Alexander Leslie, mason in
Auchreddie, who died 23rd November, 1842,
aged 74 years. And of his wife, Elizabeth
Ironside, who died 14th December, 1851, aged
86 years.
Wow. Who knew there were adders in the UK!?? Not this girl. But thankfully I have read the HitchHiker series and have its wisdom permanently implanted in my brain. Now where did I leave that towel…..