Still might be worth the risk of life and limb to visit a place where folks think 12oz is a small bottle of beer. To think we call a 16oz Budweiser a "Bud Kinger"

/me makes note to self to add Australia to his list of countries to spend time in before he does the big kibbie.

Thanks China......it was bugging me......I hate forgetting names, too much herb in the 70's I guess

...Dont forget the deadly "Drop bear"

These killers wait for unsuspecting folks to walk under the tree's they inhabit, then "fall" onto them, attempting to rip them to shreds.

And don't get me started about the "Bladder-apes". This nasty fella has a taste for bladders. The rest of you is left untouched, all he wants is ya bladder!

(wink)(wink)



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 Someone else can tell them all about what a Darwin Stubbie is.....think 'keg' and you'd be close....

Darwin Stubby

http://www.signaturebrands.com.au/darwin.html )

It's two bottles to the gallon....and not one of those under-sized US gallons....but a real one....

When there are living examples of Aussie Crocks in the 30 feet long range

Ummmmm.....Jafo ....'Crocs' ....

...Dont forget the deadly "Drop bear"These killers wait for unsuspecting folks to walk under the tree's they inhabit, then "fall" onto them, attempting to rip them to shreds.And don't get me started about the "Bladder-apes".

He's only kidding .... the "Drop Bear" mostly just urinates on politicians!!
Of the 12 most deadly snakes in the world 11 species reside in Australia .... but they help keep the arachnoid population under control.
Wombats are resonsible for most tourist deaths and 90% of the country road MVA casualties.
The 'Darwin Stubby' kills a large number of Territorians each year and has been blamed for Cyclone Tracey....and of course, the Dingo is a known killer of baby Humans ... poor bloody Dingos!
However, if one has a pointed stick and ball of string, one can handle most anything on the Island Continent .... except the 'Bunyip Terra Australis' .... a night stalker with no mercy .... commonly known as 'Jafo'!

the "Drop Bear" mostly just urinates on politicians!!

and justifiably, too....

Re the snakes....I thought it was 6 out of the top ten and we filled the first 4 places.....

Anyway, I've taken to riding with my mobile phone in case of any unfortunate encounters.....as a kid on a school camp we were told we had 1 chance in a million of ever seeing a snake....ten minutes later we clearly had had 2 million chances as we saw 2....both good-sized tigers [around 6 footers].

The same teacher sat on a log the next day....looked down at his feet and there was one curled up at his feet....he flipped backwards over the log to avoid it.....down the embankment and broke his arm.

Teach was none too clever....

I was born in a Desert...Snakes are just a part of the landscape



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Meow.....

China, curl up with a couple of these.

http://snake.fol.nl/Page2.html

I getting a red X Paul...

Fatalities are very uncommon - there have been only 7 deaths in 27 years of protection in the Northern Territory, and 14 throughout Australia. In most cases, the victim was swimming. In virtually all cases, death could have been avoided with correct education. The low incidence of attacks is due to the fact that most people in Australia are well educated about crocodiles.

Oh, great....seems we have all the top ten.....what fun....

China...was just an adult saltie....on that site the largest recorded came in at 33 feet.....that's 10 metres for the metric-heads....

well...I have known bigger snakes in my life than that.


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The two largest reliable records of complete animals are both from 20.3 ft (6.2 m) crocodiles: the first was shot in the Mary River in the Northern Territory of Australia in 1974 by poachers and measured by wildlife rangers the second was killed in 1983 in the Fly River in Papua New Guinea. In this latter crocodile, it was actually the skin that was measured by zoologist Jerome Montague, and as skins are known to underestimate the size of the actual animal it's likely this crocodile was at least another 10 cm / 4 inches longer.

 

The largest species of crocodile in the world is Crocodylus porosus, the saltwater or estuarine crocodile. In fact, this is the largest living reptile in the world, bar nil. Snake afficionados may argue that there are longer snakes, but none combine both length (over 6 metres) and body mass (over 1.5 tonnes) to reach such large overall sizes like the saltwater crocodile can.

#8 by Scribe Fuzzy Logic - 2/26/2004 11:12:34 AM Wombat - a really strange looking animal - typical Aussie really...

Isn't a wombat just a furry road hump you're supposed to hit at top speed?

#25 by China♥Cat - 2/26/2004 9:01:57 PM "A Dingo Took My Baby!"Someone had to say it.

Well, a drongo took mine... but it came back and hit me in the nose, just like a boomerang.

http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/crocodile/asc.html

There you go....some more info on Crocs.....[since the other image link was a dud]

Ah China there are snakes and there are snakes. Both varieties will be around for a while I suppose.

Steve Irwin is the man - i heard his huge in the states wats with that. Hardly huge here (Aus) isnt this site American????

Yep Australia is home to the most poisonous snake - funny enough there are more accidents in toilets than getting bitten by a snake lol

Steve Irwin is the man - i heard his huge in the states

I rather thought of him as another opportunistic wanker riding the 'Crocodile Dundee' wave until I found out how much money he has put into preventing endangered habitat areas from being turned into shopping malls, internationaly as well.

Isn't a wombat just a furry road hump you're supposed to hit at top speed?

Correct .... and being built like a small brick dunny and shaped like a launching ramp Wombats are the cause of 90% of road kills ...
Car hits Wombat, is launched into the air and travels on a Scud-like trajectory into the scenerey at a great rate of knots, usually killing the occupants on 'landing'.
Wombat grunts, dusts himself down and continues his journey up the white line in an even grumpier mood than before!

I was born in a Desert...Snakes are just a part of the landscape

I had an insane mate who had a thing about Joe Blakes .... whenever we happened up one during a field exercise or other similar Army stupidity Johnny Rose (for that was indeed his name!) was inclined to grasp the reptile by the tail and crack it like a stock whip ..... if the day was warm (and they were always bloody hot around Oakey!) it was normal for the head to seperate from the rest of the snake!
I kid you not ... the pointy parts of a Big Brown travelling past one's ear at speed and in close proximity to the lobe would certainly spark up the adrenal glands ..... probably one reason why JR never made it past Corporal!

Well, a drongo took mine...

Only a real Drongo would nick other peoples' offspring ... a Dingo would have too much of a hassle unwrapping one and they'd be a pain in the butt to clean ....

I have known bigger snakes in my life than that.

And yrag has a Woody??
Jafo ... you might explain (quietly) to China what a 'Woody' is in Australia!

Oh.... she knows, Wombat (winky)

I want to see Wombat and Jafo rassel a Croc, not a large one mind you, just a wee little one. Of course this would be after the correct quanity of 24oz curls have been performed to get ready for the match