Attack of the Dragon

[KeithH]

These lizards seem to have a good sense of smell, perhaps some pungently scented repellent or some type of pheromones would ward off an attack?

but if i had a weapon here it is

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=11101&langId=-1&productId=49906&tabselected=tech&isFirearm=Y&parent_category_rn=15707

 

[Joel Stave]

Look, forget about all the weaponry. Forget the long stick. Just travel with someone you don't like very much, and who can't run as fast as you.

 

[1894]

Look, forget about all the weaponry. Forget the long stick. Just travel with someone you don't like very much, and who can't run as fast as you.

I think that is were the long stick may come in handy , If the above mentioned person gets a head start on you , trip them with the long stick

Seriously though , Have a great time , and , bring back lots of pics to share here .

Phil

 

[mr_wilson]

These are lizards , more or less.
Fear as in girlyman fear is one thing , fear as in respect is another , any one of the above creatures could either , kill you in an instant , crush you to death, maul you or tear you to bite sized pieces.
If you are telling me you would not run like mad from an adult Salt Water Croc , you are either telling a rather big fib , or you're loony tunes.

All the suggestions of long sticks with pointy object on the end are spot on.
Otherwise I would forget about any close combat with a Komodo ( I'd put my $$ on the 'lizard').

Nice change in topic subject, not for you tho.......

My first gator experience came at the age of 5 as dad had a gator in the backyard which I grew up with.

I spent 18 years as pipeline surveyor, many of those in the swamps of LA where if ya stopped to kill a snake or a gator you'd be killing all day and never get any work done, so this "kill me in an instance" and "my money's on the lizard" BS is just that bs.

Then of course there's no way you could have known any of this or that my own pet gator was obtain one fine day back in the late 70s; the day I accidentally fell over my head into a gator nursery (which contained mommy and 20-30 babes) in the swamps of Anahuac, Texas. Took him home and put him in dad's pond where he stayed for almost a decade.

Just because some folks get the willies over lizards and snakes, I never have and captured at one time a whole collection of snakes (yes many were poisonous ie. rattlesnakes diamond & ground, cotton-mouths, coral and copperheads) which I milked regularly for the HS chemistry teacher - he sold it for additional funds at the little hick school I attended.

Respect for animals is one thing I do have, fear ain't.

mike