Orly?

 

Give me a saddle and I'd try riding that sucker.

Edit: If I don't die first

 

Feral pigs are one of those monsters of the bush I really don't want to ever run into. Second only to saltwater crocs, I reckon. Poisonous snakes might kill more people, but you can take precautions against that. Some of the huge feral pigs, otoh? Forget that noise. Some people love hunting them [Spacks does, I think], but they breed pigging dogs, are armed, and know what they're doing. Some rube stumbling across them is going to get torn open.

 

My uncle pig hunts. So I can safely say, all pig hunters are batshit insane. His dogs get ripped up and he just stitches them up right there in the bush and keeps on going. He says its the only time hunting with a hand gun is viable since he basically gets right up to it and point blanks it. Any further away and he would hit the dogs.

 

Just evidence that true bad ass-ery is still out there. I guess that's cool, if you need something else to add to your bucket list.

 

You know, the whole time I have been living in Australia (1 year), I haven't once seen a spider bigger than we have in NZ. The biggest there are Daddy Long Legs. The advantages of living near the middle of Melbourne I guess.

I haven't seen a single fucking kangaroo, except dead ones on the side of the road. (No fucking idea how this is still the case)

Haven't seen any Snakes either, and I like snakes. I want to see snakes. Where I used to live in Footscray, we had a sign in the park nearby saying "Caution, Beware of Snakes". On that note, there are 8 different types of snakes in Melbourne. They're all poisonous.

I've only seen a Redback once, and that was in a couch I was going to be sleeping on at a mates place out in the country. *Shudder*

Oh, and in regards to Huntsman spiders, Apparently they jump at you if you get too close. I have no qualms in saying that I'd scream like a little girl if that happened. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.

 

That's Victoria; miserable place. To make it even worse, it's full of Victorians.

Maybe you only stick to populated areas? Heck, we get kangaroos who come into town and eat our lawns, same goes for feral sheep and some cattle which wander in off the stations. I was driving up to Karumba and killed six of them in a half hour - they were in plague proportions and unavoidable on the road, bounding into the front of the ute. Roos are mostly active at dawn and dusk, so if you don't drive at those times you won't see them. Their bodies blend into the long grass and bushes fairly well, you can spot them when you see their eyes reflecting your headlights. And then they spring infront of your car, because they're bloody stupid.

We had a kangaroo try to race against our car and trailer when I was a kid. Ended up springing sideways into our car to try and knock us off course or something and came out distinctly second best.

You get lots of snakes hanging in trees and cave walls waiting to strike bats as they fly past at dawn/dusk, that the snakes get tangled up in knots they're that many of them in the one spot waiting for a feed. It's hilarious how many people don't look up and see them, and then get terrified when I point them out.

Spiders are everywhere. I miss wolf spiders and huntsman spiders. We don't get many of them in this part of the country. I have no idea why you can't see them, but rest assured they can see you.

I have to check under the toilet seat every time I go to use it at home. You just never know... I've only found three hiding under there in the past five years, but that's still three too many.

I don't like being bitten by spiders in any case, but especially not on my arse or dangling bits when I'm on the toilet!

Bah, Huntsman's are just big babies. Nothing to worry about.

 

You know, I just want to point out, you're saying that Victoria is a miserable place, but we don't seem to have any of those horrors that you are describing.

And no, all of my friends are from the country, and they're just as confused about the fact that we haven't seen any Kangaroo's while im out there with them.

Where about's are you?

 

Dozens of freakin' kangaroos invaded our uni last year daily; I lived on campus and had ten of the things outside my window fucking jumpin' around all day. When I went to take a shortcut across a field to get to my exam hall, I had to sneak past at least a hundred of them to avoid being roundhoused kicked in the face. Again.

Before that year? Except all the dead ones on the road, I saw maybe four in my life, all while driving, and two of them ended up dead in the process. My car won, sans left headlight the first time and windscreen the second time.

AND FUCK YOU YAK. VICTORIA PRIDE, SON.

 

I'm from the Pilbara, in the north of Western Australia, though I've lived and camped through most of the state, and absolutely love the top end of the country. I need to get back to the Northern Territory and far north Queensland soon. Love 'em.

Damn Mexicans.

 

Well, that explains a lot lol.

I do want to travel up there though, it looks like an amazing place. I want to go everywhere in Australia actually, it's a pretty amazing country, the diversity is incredible.

 

Haha, yeah.

 

Relevant to both the jumping spiders discussion and the thread:

 

NOPE-NOPE-NOPE-NOPE-NOPE-NOPE

 

Ah, some form of tarantula if I am not mistaken.

 

Huntsman spider. Native to Australia, apparently TheWiseTomato keeps them as pets.

I suspect he's breeding a spider army to take over the world. The leaders of the U.N. Just laughed at me, but they won't be laughing when the facehuggers are implanting eggs into their guts.

 

These must not fall into Skitter's hands. Such power would be too great and too terrible for the world to bear.

 

Waaiiiittt for ittt.

 

but australia isn't a continent. that would be oceania or australasia right? at least according to that fuck of a geography teacher in 9th grade who docked me on that test.

and i bet oceania has a volcano somewhere

>ruining the joke