more fun with the locals down under

[peanutpete]

do you have any wild life in Australia that does not kill?

[Thomasdenaro]

a further grab from an article on 9 news

The fisherman was knocked to the ground by the shark’s fin, and fought to stand back up as the shark lashed around the small vessel.Mr Selwood managed to make a distress call from his radio as he took refuge on the nose of the boat.

Marine Rescue worker Lance Fountain said Mr Selwood was “covered in blood” and “quite shook up” from the encounter when first responders arrived.

“We pulled up beside and brought him onto the boat," Mr Fountain said.

“We noticed a bloody big shark on the bottom of his boat.

“It had knocked him for six."

Apparently they took him back to shore and then went back for his boat and towed it back with the shark in it still. he was about 1 kilometre out to sea.

[Ken Gargett]

1 hour ago, Thomasdenaro said:

a further grab from an article on 9 news

The fisherman was knocked to the ground by the shark’s fin, and fought to stand back up as the shark lashed around the small vessel.Mr Selwood managed to make a distress call from his radio as he took refuge on the nose of the boat.

Marine Rescue worker Lance Fountain said Mr Selwood was “covered in blood” and “quite shook up” from the encounter when first responders arrived.

“We pulled up beside and brought him onto the boat," Mr Fountain said.

“We noticed a bloody big shark on the bottom of his boat.

“It had knocked him for six."

Apparently they took him back to shore and then went back for his boat and towed it back with the shark in it still. he was about 1 kilometre out to sea.

well had i known he was such a wuss, i never would have posted.

[Fuzz]

5 hours ago, peanutpete said:

do you have any wild life in Australia that does not kill?

Possums, but they make a bloody racket if they get into your roof.

 

[gweilgi]

20 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

Possums, but they make a bloody racket if they get into your roof.

 

The trouble with possums, in my experience, is not that they kill but that they like to die under my floorboards.  The stench is bad enough, but the flies are enough to drive me bonkers...

[polarbear]

23 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

box jellyfish are now kid's stuff. we found a more deadly one - the irukandji jellyfish. tiny little thing - a cubic centimetre, apparently the venom from the stingers it can fire off like little darts is more than 100 times as powerful as a cobra. and they are sometimes found in blooms of a great many. not that you can see them.

A friend of mine is a pearl diver and copped a sting a few years back
Reckons it was so painful he would've slit his own wrists if he could have mustered the strength

Those little bastards are no joke

[WoadyCypress]

That's nuts! I've had 3-4 foot flopping around on the deck and that's crazy enough.

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[CaptainQuintero]

On 2017-5-30 at 2:35 AM, Ken Gargett said:

while not the focus of this thread (i'm allowed to hijack my own thread), i recently discovered that wombats, at night, produce around 100 poo pellets to mark their territory. nothing too weird re that. what is odd is that these are almost perfectly cubic. and no one has a clue how they manage it.

Just don't shake hands with them in a morning