by Margaret Kendrick
I think it was Bill Bryson who wrote “There are more things that can kill you in Australia than anywhere else in the world and the worlds 10 most poisonous snakes are all there too”.
Various reports over the holiday season of a bull shark caught in shallow water 15km upstream from Noosa, a box jellyfish nearly killing a young girl 20 km from the sea in a Queensland river and several drownings. Then to top it all off a mad bat in the Town of 1770 bit 3 people in unrelated attacks.
This got me thinking of other “Nasties” that are around. Things like our funnel-web spider, toxic caterpillars, paralysis ticks and stone fish that are the most lethal of their type in the world. Blue-ringed octopus and cone shells on a Queensland beach are exceedingly venomous.
You can be chomped by sharks or crocodiles, carried out to sea by strong currents and rips or bake to death in the Outback.
What really gets to me is the signs on some golf courses that advise you not to get between a large male kangaroo (and I have seen some really large ones on the greens) and his females. It can really put you of your game when trying to put while a large male huffs and puffs behind you.
I have not even mentioned the snakes! I know they are out there in my garden and the bush beyond but I stamp around and sing loudly. The singing seems to work as I very seldom see one but I am sure it annoys the neighbour but one must do what one must do to protect ones self.
A LACK OF ORGANISATION ON YOUR PART DOES NOT WARRANT AN EMERGENCY ON MY PART.
© Margaret Kendrick 2010
This entry was posted by mvandyk on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Dog's Breakfast.
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