Another stoopid question ....
You're bivvying .... ever had any unwanted visitors? I suspect snakes would steer well clear .... what about slugs? Or Wild Boar?

Guessing the Zombie Apocalypse hasn't occured yet, or mad axe men..... p!ssed off farmers is a possibility .... but it's mostly wildlife I'm interested in. We once had a inquisitive Hedgehog get stuck in a bin bag when camping .... made quite a racket !!

My last bivi I had slugs

One even crawled half way through a hole in my Povket Stove Ti and got stuck. It was particularly disgusting and messy removing that little sod

Slugs are the most obvious uninvited guests :/

I've had boar pretty close but not in camp.
Deer, badgers, pheasant's and dogs have all featured in my bivi's.

Taylor wrote:I've had boar pretty close but not in camp.
Deer, badgers, pheasant's and dogs have all featured in my bivi's.

See this is why tents sound more sensible

All those were during hammock nights.

While in the IOM I was woken by a slug tickling my lip ... quite glad it woke me up.

Slug and a snake in Cyprus

I had two owls once on a beach on North Uist. Bloody scary it was - and I'm not normally one to worry about these things. I don't know if it was that I was attracting insects or I was just pissing them off but they were flying over very, very low in the dark (like barely more than arms length away). I started waving my head torch at them but then grew worried that someone inland would see the light flashing around and call the coastguard. I decided just to hunker down in the bivvy bag and hope they'd get bored.

Years back when I had a moustache and a mullet I was lying in a bivy bag just below the Trient glacier when I felt something hopping about on my face.

Like Winston in room 101 I thought it was a rat coming for me.

On opening the bivy bag eventually I saw the smallest frog/toad skipping about.

Australia is the worst: snakes, scorpions, spiders, ticks. Lizards the size of your leg. But Christ, the cockroaches on the New South Wales coast. You need both barrels to kill those bastards.

I had two owls once on a beach on North Uist. Bloody scary it was - and I'm not normally one to worry about these things. I don't know if it was that I was attracting insects or I was just pissing them off but they were flying over very, very low in the dark (like barely more than arms length away). I started waving my head torch at them but then grew worried that someone inland would see the light flashing around and call the coastguard. I decided just to hunker down in the bivvy bag and hope they'd get bored.

You were pissing them off. Our cat has been subjected to that whilst it scrabbled for traction on a conservatory roof.

Slugs...

Hedgehog that got in to a plastic bag and waa wandering round the tent rustling and grunting.

Tent it is.

ootini wrote:Tent it is.

Sounds like a plan

I've had a couple but these ones scared the Sh1t out of the time at the time. On one occasion I was biving up on N.Y. Moors, it was a clear and frosty night so zipped up in my bivvy bag, had just drifted off to sleep when something hit me in the stomach. I spent the next 30sec panicking trying to get out my bivvy before I was murdered/eaten! When I looked out I discovered it was a sheep who had decided to step on me!!!

The other was when I was much younger and had long flowing locks, I was woken up by something in my hair. Turned out to be an inquisitive mouse.

Wild Boar outside my tent grunting and digging during the Tuscany Trail this year... Those things are big and loud. All I was thinking is, how the hell do I get out of my sleeping bag and tent if it decides it wants to investigate this strange thing in his neighbourhood...

I spent the next 30sec panicking trying to get out my bivvy before I was murdered/eaten! When I looked out I discovered it was a sheep who had decided to step on me!!!

Classic!


Had a wild boar, a large one, moving a couple of feet away through the bush I was bivvied next to, in France. It grunted and trotted off as I woke up and moved. Made me jump with a WTF-OL.
Spanish police waking us up at 3am with flashlights shone in our faces was a scary one for a moment but first thought was that yoofs looking for trouble wouldn't use lights like that, they got back in the car and drove off after seeing we weren't anything dodgy. The scariest was something in the woods I bivied on the edge of in Montana, no idea what it was, heard it moving ~15ft away, I stayed still and tried not to let the imagination run wild. Proably just a racoon, but bear-paranoia was still high so that was my first thought. The second was "did I finish that dinner burritto before camping .. I did, right ..?"
I opened my eyes in the local woods one morning to see a deer no more than 3ft away, lay still watching it for a minute or 2, that was quite special. They've also come out of the woods and eaten corn within a few feet, almost at my feet as I sat against a tree with the wind blowing in my face. Dusk light, a dark jacket, the wind direction and no movement meant they didn't realise I was there until I moved slightly after maybe 10 mins. Amazing to see such easily-spooked animals so close.

Where's Ian with his story of supernatural goings on in north Wales? ... certainly sounded unwanted.

Bearbonesnorm wrote:Where's Ian with his story of supernatural goings on in north Wales? ... certainly sounded unwanted.

Could be worse, Texan-style experiences of UFOs and probes ..

Racoon about to start eating through my framebag at Luder's Creek campground south of Salida, CO. Threw a stone at it, and it was mighty pissed off.

Slug in my ear on the first night of this years WRT.... YUK!

Si

ye slugs, have a net on my bivi bag now,

when riding away from a bivi at4 am on the sand stone way i got hit in the head and removed from my bike by a startled grouse there were loads just flying up out of the under growth

I did a stealth bivi in some privates wood near where I used to work. There was a small herd of deer in there, that was pretty special now I think about

Being stepped on by a sheep is hilarious.

I've often thought that if I need to make a sudden emergency exit from my borah bivy that I'd probably be stuck!

Slugs, shoes & the odd Urban Fox

http://cycleofaddiction.blogspot.co.uk/ ... night.html

Have posted this before about the night I took the missus on her first bivvy !!