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    Quote Originally Posted by MickR View Post
    Only in that you don't expect to be disembowelled by a bird, where as you might sort of expect a bear to give you a bit of a tickle if you got within range.


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    I guess it is all in what you get used to. That Cassowary wouldn't happen to be from the Australia Zoo would it? Our friends in Belli Park took us there and that I where we saw one. I see you are in the area.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightblade View Post
    I;ve heard ostrich horror stories....nothin to mess with......but then again ,seems everything in Straililand will either bite,sting or munch ya to death. What's up with that ?!
    The one up the top is the one to be wary off. Bob has it right in that it's a Cassowary. This one is safely contained in an enclosure at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (so no Bob, not Australia Zoo. You wouldn't be able to pay me to go there. Don't like the owners much. Too ocker!). You find them in the rainforests further North of me. Emu's (pronounced Eeem-You, not Ee-Moo) seem to be everywhere you go, much like Kangaroo's, which, by the way, are quite capable of disembowelling you too! Our wildlife looks fairly placid, but seem to have a nasty streak just under the surface. Even the funny looking little Platypus has a razor sharp spur that can make a mess of ya in a short time.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MickR View Post
    The one up the top is the one to be wary off. Bob has it right in that it's a Cassowary. This one is safely contained in an enclosure at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (so no Bob, not Australia Zoo. You wouldn't be able to pay me to go there. Don't like the owners much. Too ocker!). You find them in the rainforests further North of me. Emu's (pronounced Eeem-You, not Ee-Moo) seem to be everywhere you go, much like Kangaroo's, which, by the way, are quite capable of disembowelling you too! Our wildlife looks fairly placid, but seem to have a nasty streak just under the surface. Even the funny looking little Platypus has a razor sharp spur that can make a mess of ya in a short time.


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    Mick, from what I've seen and read, just about everything down your way can screw you up! Out of the ten World's worst snakes, you have like five of them, or so. Ants can kill you, spiders that actually come after you, dingoes eat babies, and I'd wouldn't be surprised if I heard your butterflies are venomous!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by donv View Post
    Mick, from what I've seen and read, just about everything down your way can screw you up! Out of the ten World's worst snakes, you have like five of them, or so. Ants can kill you, spiders that actually come after you, dingoes eat babies, and I'd wouldn't be surprised if I heard your butterflies are venomous!!
    It appears that Australia has the most dangerous animals ; while my state of Florida has the most freaks.

    I'd rather live with the dangerous animals.
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    It can't be all that bad here. So many people seem to avoid animal attacks...Of course so many people don't and there are always those that turn into shark food or drown, which is pretty much the same thing. On this particular camping trip (not at this campsite, but another earlier on in the week) I woke up and shone the head torch around from my repose in my swag, and I saw I was surrounded by all these pretty blue little gemstone looking things on the ground around me. On closer inspection those gemstones turned out to be thousands of eyes belonging to some quite large spiders. Felt like I was in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts or something.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MickR View Post
    It can't be all that bad here. So many people seem to avoid animal attacks...Of course so many people don't and there are always those that turn into shark food or drown, which is pretty much the same thing. On this particular camping trip (not at this campsite, but another earlier on in the week) I woke up and shone the head torch around from my repose in my swag, and I saw I was surrounded by all these pretty blue little gemstone looking things on the ground around me. On closer inspection those gemstones turned out to be thousands of eyes belonging to some quite large spiders. Felt like I was in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts or something.


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    Well mate...Unlike what happened to Harry Potter, I was eaten to death, never to be heard from again... No mate, in all honesty, I wasn't much phased by it. I just told them to F&%k off and leave me alone, and went back to sleep. Figured if they hadn't bothered me by now they most likely weren't going to. They might have decided to cuddle up for a bit of warmth through the night, but I never felt them...Well except for one that ran across my forehead. But he, at least took his boots off, and tip-toed quickly.


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    So that means they were not poisonous and zzzzzz ! Mmmkay !

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    And the next morning after not being seen at breakfast..much to their horror our intrepid Mick was found in a state of dessication and green and covered in webbing and spiders.Fade out with creepy organ music !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightblade View Post
    So that means they were not poisonous and zzzzzz ! Mmmkay !
    I wouldn't say they weren't of a toxic variety mate. In fact I'm sure they were. I didn't bother them and they didn't bother me. We got some dangerous critters here, but they don't just go ya without good reason...Well except for them bloody Koala's...All I was doing that day was stringing up my hammock...


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