Quote Originally Posted by BEEDEE View Post
Both Australia and New Zealand are ultra-cautious about insects and diseases getting in and affecting their agricultural interests. Every time I have gone home to NZ and brought fly fishing gear my boots and waders are taken away and sprayed.

Brian
Yep, our isolation from the rest of the world has protected us from many outbreaks and its nice that way. A friend returning from the UK a few years ago, the quarantine guys asked where he'd gone to visit, once he said he'd been in farm country they took all his shoes and steam cleaned them (cleaner than they'd been for years). Better than bringing Mad Cow disease here though.

I've driven to areas where they get you to stop and hose off your vehicles tyres on a metal grid to stop the spread of dieback though infected soil as well.

We checked the quarantine site before I made the Kangaroo fur semidress sporran I'm taking to Edinburgh, I wanted to know I'd be able to get it back through, but it's not on the endangered list.

Al