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Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Thu 25 Sep, 2014 4:19 pm
by PhatE
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Thu 25 Sep, 2014 4:47 pm
by BaptismByLoli
Just another day in Australia

( I miss Steve Irwin

)
And I've been to Australia before about a decade ago if not more when I was a kid. Nice place ^^ but quite cold for me since its quite hot and humid where I'm from. And a Koala took a dump on my dad's hand when he was holding it, trying to pose for a picture

Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Thu 25 Sep, 2014 8:03 pm
by Arbit
Here's what I remember from my trip to Australia from a couple years ago:

These things love to hang about head level over popular trails. The biggest ones we saw were probably 4" from leg tip to leg tip.
Lovely scenery, but... fuck your wildlife
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Thu 25 Sep, 2014 8:20 pm
by Swift
Going to the toilet in the dark? Putting your shoes on in the morning? Trying to leave the house? Don't, Spiders, feckin Spiders. In the toilet bowl. Disgusting.
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Fri 26 Sep, 2014 1:24 am
by Torpid
Yeah. I would die. Those spiders. I don't want to think about it. My arachnophobia goes deep

Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Fri 26 Sep, 2014 1:38 am
by Phoenix
Looks like catachan devils would love to live in Australia

Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Fri 26 Sep, 2014 2:14 am
by BaptismByLoli
That's a beautiful looking spider

, no joke
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Fri 26 Sep, 2014 8:20 am
by Swift
Everyone thinks I am crazy for being scared of them. They are horrible creatures, look at them, luckily they can't get any larger due to their single circulatory system. Still, some of them are large enough.
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Fri 26 Sep, 2014 9:15 am
by Superhooper01
pretty crazy how u have super animals in uk only animal that is anything near dangerous is a adder which are pretty rare and hide. Not like your snakes, the ones like like to go shopping:p
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Fri 26 Sep, 2014 10:04 am
by PhatE
The last place I worked at I was chatting to one of the electricians and he was telling me when he was a child he and a friend used to go snake catching. But instead of something that was sort of not life threatening they went for Brown Snakes which is the most dangerous snake here.
To be fair it's very rare (heh) to see a lot of these animals, reptiles, arachnids, etc without going much further out of the cities.
The most dangerous spider I've come across is the redback spider which is very poisonous (fatal if not treated soon). Huntsman spiders are probably the most frightening given how fucking fast they run but hardly poisonous.
Also really rare for a Crocodile to be swimming in the ocean, salt levels are too high for what they're naturally used to.
Discreet wrote:...And a Koala took a dump on my dad's hand when he was holding it, trying to pose for a picture

hahahah!
Snakes in the toilet is news to me but I can see one getting inside a house looking for water perhaps and finding a nice little comfy spot underneath your anus and/or testicles
Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Fri 26 Sep, 2014 12:47 pm
by Nurland
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Sat 11 Oct, 2014 8:06 pm
by RagingJenni
Arbit wrote:Here's what I remember from my trip to Australia from a couple years ago:

These things love to hang about head level over popular trails. The biggest ones we saw were probably 4" from leg tip to leg tip.
Lovely scenery, but... fuck your wildlife
That's quite a beautiful spider you got there, wouldn't want it hanging out above me though.

Torpid wrote:Yeah. I would die. Those spiders. I don't want to think about it. My arachnophobia goes deep

(I don't known the correct terms here so the following paragraphs might sound very weird)
At a previous job I had I helped spraypaint a boat. My boss had a movable scaffolding/rack around it with a half a meter wide walkway so you could walk around and spraypaint it.
Before we got to do that however we had to remove the tarp that was covering the deck. Since it had been sitting there for a few years however, the tarp had been infested with literally hundreds of spiders. I'm not arachnophobic in the least, but walking around that boat removing tape and pulling up the tarp (which was just above your head when you were on the scaffolding) with little space to move around without risk of falling off was one of the most nerv wrecking things I've ever done, seeing as everytime you lift the tarp up spiders would fly in every direction, or glide down attached to their strands of web.
Probably the longest hour of my life.

Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Sun 12 Oct, 2014 8:51 pm
by Swift
Jenni, that is actually disgusting. It made me look up. I would die just knowing they were under the tarpaulin.
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Tue 14 Oct, 2014 3:46 pm
by Toilailee
But what about boxjellyfish?

Also on a side note, you've convinced me to never ever visit Australia.

Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Tue 14 Oct, 2014 9:47 pm
by Nurland
Yeah. Dem jellyfish [emoji52]
Re: Thinking of visiting?
Posted: Tue 14 Oct, 2014 9:54 pm
by BaptismByLoli
Nurland wrote:Yeah. Dem jellyfish [emoji52]
Dem Wildlife
