How careful do we really need to be??

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Originally Posted by graceysdad

And watch out for joe blakes and drop bears

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and hoop snakes

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Originally Posted by Redback

This is one of the funniest threads i've read in a long time:eek::eek:

I dunno how we have survived:unsure:

Baz.

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Yes - typically strine type conversation is taking place. We sure like to take the mickey out of the poms in any way we can....

But statistics show that we're pretty safe from our nasty fauna. Only not very safe from one another when we have WMDs in our hands (our cars).

It would make interesting reading to know or survey how many here have been bitten by our nasty snakes/spiders/box jellyfish/crocodiles???

Personally never bitten by any of these really nasty types (but have been close many times and would have been if didn't have my wits about me). But of my family & acquaintances:
* 2 survived funnel web bites
* 2 survived tiger snake bites (1 worked with them)
* 1 died from brown snake bite (older relative many years ago)
* 1 survived black snake bite (stood on and felt beast taping away at his ankle.

It's scarey to think though of the number of colleagues, friends, relatives, school mates etc who have been killed on our roads or who may have suffered accidental death such as drowning.

To our English friend - please take the camping under our 'gum' trees seriously. 2 girls dies only a year or two back in one of our local forests when a branch came down on top of them.

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Originally Posted by 29dinosaur

To our English friend - please take the camping under our 'gum' trees seriously. 2 girls dies only a year or two back in one of our local forests when a branch came down on top of them.

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Yes, our gum trees have the nasty habit of dropping what appear to be perfectly healthy branches.. and I'm not talking small branches either :eek:

Yep, the large gums might look as healthy as Mr Gates's bank account,, but WILL drop perfectly sound (large) branches for no reason(crump?).

Thanks guys - Clearly I deserve to have the p**s taken out of me - POM doing his best to make sure he gets home after the event and all that!!!

Very interesting and funny read - good stuff.

I am St John Emergency first aid trained but I suspect that may not count for much on your side of the pond - Most of my training is power distribution and construction industry biased. Flash burns and crushing injuries are probably the least of my worries!!

Now time to google pictures of gum trees!

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Originally Posted by p38arover

Here's a preview: http://www2.skynews.com.au/books/pag...Die_050308.pdf

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Yep that's the one Ron.

Jon Did you read the link yet. One of the guys in the Irkandji story was from Driffield also.

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Originally Posted by Phil633

Yep that's the one Ron.

Jon Did you read the link yet. One of the guys in the Irkandji story was from Driffield also.

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Thanks for the link - someone suggested this book a few weeks ago. I looked then but couldnt find it. I'll read it all now Ive got it, but have read the jelly page re the man from Driffield - I didnt know of him. What a terrible way to go.

Saw hoop snakes were mentioned but not described.

Since the desert is so hot, these snakes have developed a technique whereby they put their tail in their mouth, form their body into a loop and roll.

Gets them up off the hot sand and they can pick up a fair turn of speed. I had one of them keep up with the car for a good few kilometers before it speed up down hill and left me behind.

Poisonous too.

r

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Originally Posted by carjunkieanon

Saw hoop snakes were mentioned but not described.

Since the desert is so hot, these snakes have developed a technique whereby they put their tail in their mouth, form their body into a loop and roll.

Gets them up off the hot sand and they can pick up a fair turn of speed. I had one of them keep up with the car for a good few kilometers before it speed up down hill and left me behind.

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Bulldust! Don't believe him. :mad:















They don't get up to that sort of speed. :D

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Originally Posted by carjunkieanon

Saw hoop snakes were mentioned but not described.

Since the desert is so hot, these snakes have developed a technique whereby they put their tail in their mouth, form their body into a loop and roll.

Gets them up off the hot sand and they can pick up a fair turn of speed. I had one of them keep up with the car for a good few kilometers before it speed up down hill and left me behind.

Poisonous too.

r

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There was reputed to have been one on Speewah station that was so big that the groove it left in the sand became the Darling River.