Er - the chances of actually tangling with a male platypus' poison glands are vanishingly small!
Snakes just require a little common sense in the bush.
Spiders are themselves - usually try to avoid us.
we ARE terrified of your bears, though!
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Tue 25 May, 2004 08:40 am
"Snakes just require a little common sense in the bush." <tee hee>
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dlowan
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Tue 25 May, 2004 08:45 am
Bad clown.
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squinney
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Tue 25 May, 2004 09:05 am
Cav- You "beat" me to it. That was WIDE open, dlowan!!! I'll restrain myself from further comments here and just let them keep snaking through my mind.
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dlowan
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Tue 25 May, 2004 09:09 am
Damn rabbits. They're VERMIN here.
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margo
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Tue 25 May, 2004 01:25 pm
We're all fairly urban here (not necessarily urbane, though). All the Aussies here live in cities (or suburbs).
Biggest problem is visiting Americans tormenting our pet emus.
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Wed 26 May, 2004 04:13 am
Julchen1980 wrote:
Hello msolga!
Thanks for replying to my message Well, "assistant teachers" are people who are not real teachers yet but who are from a foreign country and help the language teachers either in class or by taking a small group of students to an other room. An "assistant teacher" can come from Germany for example and teacher German in Australia. These people usually go to schools where their language is taught. Do you know what I mean?
Would you like me to investigate & get back to you, Julchen?
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Montana
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Wed 26 May, 2004 01:08 pm
squinney wrote:
Montana - Maybe we watch too much Crocodile Hunter and Animal Planet. I'm with you on the fear of spiders. Probably not any worse than those here in US, but TV makes them look and sound like they are everywhere, they are huge, and they have ferocious deadly bites!!!
Crikey, Me Arm!!!
Maybe we could go together... Might give the Aussies a good laugh to see us tiptoeing around as we cling to each other in fear.
LOL Squinney! I can just see us now. The only thing left is that I'd have to be knocked out cold and carried onto the plane
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Montana
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Wed 26 May, 2004 01:12 pm
Wilso wrote:
We do have seven of the world's ten deadliest snakes, and even male platypi have poison glands that'll do you no good at all.
This does not help with our fear Wilso
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Wilso
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Wed 26 May, 2004 10:56 pm
I haven't seen a snake in about 15 years. And only saw that one because we were 4WDing in the bush.
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JoanneDorel
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Wed 26 May, 2004 11:25 pm
There ya baywathchbabe Gus was right in the beginning of the thread. Wilso is an Aussie and he only sees snakes while 4WDing in the bush.
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Adrian
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Wed 26 May, 2004 11:25 pm
I saw a snake about 2 months ago. I was walking across a bridge that was under about 3 feet of flood water with 2 other guys. We were about half way across when I noticed something moving to my left. Looked across to see a bloody great big brown snake swimming across the creek about 10 feet away. We left it alone and it left us alone. No worries.
Snakes will only go you if you step on them or corner them.
Except death adders... They're cranky.
Got chased about 50 feet by one of them when I was a kid.
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JoanneDorel
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Wed 26 May, 2004 11:28 pm
Are death Adders every where or just in the bush?
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Adrian
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Wed 26 May, 2004 11:37 pm
You can find them just about anywhere.
The one that chased me was in the southern highlands just outside of Sydney.
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JoanneDorel
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Wed 26 May, 2004 11:51 pm
They, the adders, must be like rattle snakes and tarantulas - in over 30 years in the desert Southwest of the US I have yet to have a problem with them. And the scorpions have not been a problem there either.
All these nasty critters dislike humans more than humans dislike them I think.
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Adrian
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Thu 27 May, 2004 12:27 am
I agree JD.
Reckon the adder only went after me because I was making a lot of noise.
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Montana
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Thu 27 May, 2004 12:27 am
Wilso wrote:
I haven't seen a snake in about 15 years. And only saw that one because we were 4WDing in the bush.
Ok, then I guess we'll be ok as long as we stay out of the bush ;-)
Now, what do we do about them creepy spiders?
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JoanneDorel
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Thu 27 May, 2004 12:47 am
Speaking of spiders I just checked and mine has moved back towards the window in the bedroom. Guess she thinks she will get more good thing to eat there.
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margo
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Thu 27 May, 2004 01:43 am
Brown snakes killed 2 of my cats - when I lived on the outskirts of Sydney! They're mean beasties!