Actually the socks were the most fashionable part of my "get up" as our mom would have called it.

Apparently there are small leeches in the forest but we have not yet encountered them and hopefully won't. 

It's rubbish here, not trash because that word might be construed as derogatory to some people. A woman we met on Bruny Island referred to the local rednecks. I don't know if that's a term imported from the US or if it's the same slur which came about organically in Australia.