Apr-22-2010, 05:08 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Apr-22-2010, 05:08 PM (UTC) by Nuytsia.)
Oooh those people with snake pics are both great!!
Yep Farseer, I DID certainly consider how far you are from medical attention when thinking about venomous snake encounters! The whole story makes far more sense to me with your extended version, phew! Glad to hear you were all ok (well relatively!)
I feel sad that I haven't seen any snakes here on our property - they have a part to play in the ecosystem as you guys obviously are well aware, and I just hope there are at least some doing their thing out there.
We used to have close encounters with snakes in Perth from time to time inside buildings. Usually dugites, which I think can kill you but didn't seem agressive in my experience. Once we had one in the boss's office at work hehehehe and they had to call in a snake catcher to relocate it back to some bush.
Heheh yes Maulkin sheep and cattle stations in Australia are so big it really blows my mind!!! Ours here in Tassie are not even big enough to be called 'stations'!
Hmm I thought I made a post about Crocodile awesomeness in the thread about dragons but I think it got eaten and I couldn't be bothered retyping it.......? Unless I posted it somewhere else? Basically saying it's funny how you take for granted whatever it is you grow up with. I think people from Britain are a bit scared a spider or snake is going to kill them when they visit Aus but to me I never think about those things hurting me (even though theoretically it could happen), Whereas when I visited Far North Queensland I was sort of pathetically terrified that a Crocodile would get me... there were these scary signs everywhere...... and one time we went for a walk in the rainforest and this huge slithery thing was moving through the undergrowth and I was JUST About to freak out and yell CROC!!! when I saw it was a huge lace monitor (a harmless (?) big goanna type thing).
Yep Farseer, I DID certainly consider how far you are from medical attention when thinking about venomous snake encounters! The whole story makes far more sense to me with your extended version, phew! Glad to hear you were all ok (well relatively!)
I feel sad that I haven't seen any snakes here on our property - they have a part to play in the ecosystem as you guys obviously are well aware, and I just hope there are at least some doing their thing out there.
We used to have close encounters with snakes in Perth from time to time inside buildings. Usually dugites, which I think can kill you but didn't seem agressive in my experience. Once we had one in the boss's office at work hehehehe and they had to call in a snake catcher to relocate it back to some bush.
Heheh yes Maulkin sheep and cattle stations in Australia are so big it really blows my mind!!! Ours here in Tassie are not even big enough to be called 'stations'!
Hmm I thought I made a post about Crocodile awesomeness in the thread about dragons but I think it got eaten and I couldn't be bothered retyping it.......? Unless I posted it somewhere else? Basically saying it's funny how you take for granted whatever it is you grow up with. I think people from Britain are a bit scared a spider or snake is going to kill them when they visit Aus but to me I never think about those things hurting me (even though theoretically it could happen), Whereas when I visited Far North Queensland I was sort of pathetically terrified that a Crocodile would get me... there were these scary signs everywhere...... and one time we went for a walk in the rainforest and this huge slithery thing was moving through the undergrowth and I was JUST About to freak out and yell CROC!!! when I saw it was a huge lace monitor (a harmless (?) big goanna type thing).
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