A few things to keep in mind when visiting Oz....







Roger

Charming!

I'm now stuffing two best-qual snake-bite bandages in my duckshooting kit and the PLB so a chopper can come and get me.

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Charming!

I'm now stuffing two best-qual snake-bite bandages in my duckshooting kit and the PLB so a chopper can come and get me.

And funnily enough I understand it is illegal to kill snakes in Aussie, or parts of it.

Complete opposite to us here, we don't have snakes, but any other bird or animal that becomes a nuisance is declared a pest and can be killed at will. Canada geese used to be a gamebird requiring a licence to hunt and having a hunting season but now is a declared pest and can be killed anytime, anywhere, and with any gun or rifle.

News article just the other day that our farmers in Southland are up in arms over the high population of mallard ducks in that area destroying crop fields, the sky black with ducks. The farmers are calling for mallards to be declared a pest.

Stay safe with those snakes.

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Originally posted by eagle27:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by sambarman338:
Charming!

Stay safe with those snakes.

A lazy Sunday arvo encounter with a very fat Tiger just out of hibernation...venom amount? FULL!

Its the bad bastard we all hate. Mr Brown. A photo I took a dozen years ago that never ages and he`s been here prev.

Eagle, I think the general practice is to kill any snake you see around your house but leave those you come across in the bush. Not only are they protected but you'd probably never see them again and your best chance of being bitten comes with killing them.

I haven't see one for yonks but they were everywhere when I was a kid. So were rabbits and I bet baby rabbits explained their build up in numbers.

We had this Copperhead in the workshop after the floods a few months back...



Roger

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Charming!

I'm now stuffing two best-qual snake-bite bandages in my duckshooting kit and the PLB so a chopper can come and get me.

Now you know why His Majesty’s judges sent all your ancestors there!

Live in the city. Have had some browns in our tiny back yard. Red bellied black next door.

Hate browns, would never harm a red belly. Never had one get aggro, whereas browns, tigers are default angry.

Seen lots snakes in Africa. Maybe mambas and a pretty puff adder. Funny in Swahili mamba means crocodile but they still know what a mamba snake is.

Taipans are bloody lovely, but the browns and Tigers I would avoid.

Roger

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Charming!

I'm now stuffing two best-qual snake-bite bandages in my duckshooting kit and the PLB so a chopper can come and get me.

Now you know why His Majesty’s judges sent all your ancestors there!

Not all our ancestors, Saeed. Mine included a second son sent to work for his mother's friends (the Henty family at Portland), a game keeper who'd bagged his boss's daughter, a London lawyer who thought digging for gold would be more profitable - and a ship's captain who, infected with gold fever, abandoned his own ship.

In truth, they were probably little better than some of the poor buggers caught stealing bread or poaching rabbits a few years earlier.

This is not a made up pic...it's actually just a wet Koala, but imagine this appearing out of the dark....we call them Dropbears...



Roger