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

How big do our snakes grow......this is an Olive Python having a snack....



Roger

I always thought the wombat was proving that God has a sense of humor

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Originally posted by gryphon1:
A lazy Sunday arvo encounter with a very fat Tiger just out of hibernation...venom amount? FULL!

A post joking about snakes and Oz slang and you say "arvo", too rich!

lazy sunday arvo`s with a box of stubbies along with either a barbie or some even like a dogs eye with dead horse....mmmmm!

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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!

and the ones that survived were sent to the frozen land of canada lol

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Originally posted by yumastepside:
How big do our snakes grow......this is an Olive Python having a snack....



Roger

One of my favorite photos of an Olive. I used to own one and she was a nasty bitch

I remember stepping over one about 5 meters long out on a pig hunt once. Made me step smartly

This is Gladys, she once spent three days on our front verandah digesting. We had no visitors for three days.



Pete

Do you hire Gladys out

Hahaha!

You got Tony too!

Are you saying Tony can spend 3 days on the porch digesting too?

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Are you saying Tony can spend 3 days on the porch digesting too?

I reckon that Joseph has a ringtail in it or small cat.

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Do you hire Gladys out Big Grin

Gladys is about the worst tempered carpet snake I have ever met. We have had several arguments especially when we first bought the house. She insisted on getting into the roof via the garage. We have Springer Spaniels so that was never going to happen. We eventually came to an understanding that she could access the roof via a hole in the wall under our power box. The lump she has I believe due to a feral cat that moved into the area. If you want to borrow her you will need to come get her yourself and bring lots of help. She is strong.

Pete

Smallish Olive from Katherine.

This is the state I live in....





Notice how most of the names are Tasmanian ?....

....just a clue as to how big this place really is......



Roger