onsen wrote:You do get used to thought of so many harmful beasts....otherwise you'd never leave the house !
Try not to Google, trapdoor spider, taipan, brown snake, irukandji jellyfish, tiger shark... they'll give you nightmares.
I spent some time gold prospecting in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales/Victoria and one day saw a snake slither across my path. I poked my stick into the scrubby, heathery plants it had hidden in. Suddenly, and with some alacrity, the wretched reptile launched itself from the foliage and climbed up my stick! The stick went flying, I screamed like a girl and ran like the bloody hell away. I later descibed it to a bloke down in Jindabyne; "a brown snake about five feet long with a copper-coloured head", and he whistled and told me it's a copper-headed brown snake, very venomous and quite aggressive. Oh dearie me... I couldn't get used to the spiders, snakes, crocs, and the plethora of marine creatures all out to kill me.
- Huntsman spider; not so venomous, but you have a heart attack at the sight of the thing...
- Saltie - nice...
- Bluebottles on Manly Beach. Portugese Man O'War Jellyfish.