I am missing home.

[El Presidente]

I am  missing home. 

A red bellied black snake in Brisbane was caught making a nuisance of itself yesterday. 

I know how it feels 

They are poisonous but generally placid.  Ben stepped on one when he was round 10. He blamed me ......but he really needs to get over it 

[Dozerhead]

Is there anything in Australia that isn't venomous? ?

[irratebass]

Damn, look at that thing!

[inter4alia]

That's just the baby that they caught. You should see its parents! Gotta love Australia! 

[kalibratecuba]

How are they for eating?

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[Fuzz]

19 minutes ago, kalibratecuba said:

How are they for eating?

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Tastes like lizard.

[CptGoodTimes]

And this is the imagery I have for all of down under.  ? Oh and whatever that guy gets paid, isn’t enough imo. 

[Colt45]

Boots!

[Riverstyx]

I found this piece on snake bites from '05-'15 interesting:

http://www.emergpa.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/ASP-20.pdf

Highlights:

2 deaths per year (1/4 by snake handlers)

Brown snake by far the most deadly

median time to get antivenom is longer than I expected at over 4 hours.

 

[JoeyBones777]

14 minutes ago, Riverstyx said:

I found this piece on snake bites from '05-'15 interesting:

http://www.emergpa.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/ASP-20.pdf

Highlights:

2 deaths per year (1/4 by snake handlers)

Brown snake by far the most deadly

median time to get antivenom is longer than I expected at over 4 hours.

 

Seems the Death Adder isn't really living up to its ominous name. Looks like the chump of the pack.?

[cfc1016]

5 hours ago, Dozerhead said:

Is there anything in Australia that isn't venomous? ?

Just JohnS.

[Zigatoh]

5 hours ago, Dozerhead said:

Is there anything in Australia that isn't venomous? ?

Some of the sheep. 

[cfc1016]

29 minutes ago, Zigatoh said:

Some

 

[Bill Hayes]

10 hours ago, Dozerhead said:

Is there anything in Australia that isn't venomous? ?

If you fight your way through the jellyfish, the stone fish and the sea snakes, then you'll find the sharks and crocs aren't venomous.

[Fuzz]

6 hours ago, cfc1016 said:

Just JohnS.

Not yet, but he is learning, the longer he hangs out with me.

[Ken Gargett]

10 hours ago, JoeyBones777 said:

Seems the Death Adder isn't really living up to its ominous name. Looks like the chump of the pack.?

death adder is seriously venomous if it gets you but it does not want to. 

the place we go to for a week's fishing every year on fraser island has a a set of steps down to the old bbq. one of the groups just before us was telling me that they had been up and down those steps all day before someone noticed something move in the leaves at the bottom of them. a death adder. people had stepped over it all day and it did nothing. might have done something if it had been stepped on. 

the danger with death adders is that they are one of only two snakes in the world, and i do not know the other, which can, if you hold it by the tip of its tail, reach all the way up and bite you. most can't do that. 

[Ken Gargett]

12 hours ago, El Presidente said:

I am  missing home. 

A red bellied black snake in Brisbane was caught making a nuisance of itself yesterday. 

I know how it feels 

They are poisonous but generally placid.  Ben stepped on one when he was round 10. He blamed me ......but he really needs to get over it 

i remember ben doing some cleaning at my place and discovering one. but as rob says, generally placid. we actually like them as they are one snake that will eat browns. we do not like browns and taipans. 

not happy with the wildlife at the moment. was washing up last weekend, had just had a shower. felt something on my neck so pulled it off. a tick.

it must have just attached as it was still absolutely flat as a tack - a tick tack? but it needed a good wrench to get it off - i could not see what it was as it was at the back of my neck. i think, from reading about these things, that i must have squeezed all the poison into myself when i grabbed it. one should just get tweezers and grip the head and do it that way. made a mess of me that evening. hardly lift my arm. and have had a hell of a lump on my neck all week. going down now but still the size of my thumb. 

what gets me is where the hell did it come from. never seen one in doors here before. i had not been outside for 12 hours and had just had a shower? very strange. 

[OZCUBAN]

The most Venomous thing in Oz is the government......tobacco tax 

[BoliDan]

King brown snake. That's when you need to worry. This jerk will chase you for a mile.

[Ken Gargett]

21 minutes ago, BoliDan said:

King brown snake. That's when you need to worry. This jerk will chase you for a mile.

browns are a problem - eastern browns, king browns and so on. they are very fast and quite nervous and extremely poisonous but all the stories about them chasing people seem more urban legends. they come about because browns might see the human in the way of how it wants to escape or where it wants to escape to. 

and no way would one ever chase anyone for a mile. they are simply so much faster than us that no one is going a mile before it would catch you. be lucky to get five yards. usain bolt might get ten yards. 

the reality is that the vast majority of times, a brown will either try and hide or try and escape. if cornered or threatened or surprised, then watch out. but they don't chase humans, at least not in the way we think. 

[CaptainQuintero]

6 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

browns are a problem - eastern browns, king browns and so on. they are very fast and quite nervous and extremely poisonous but all the stories about them chasing people seem more urban legends. they come about because browns might see the human in the way of how it wants to escape or where it wants to escape to. 

and no way would one ever chase anyone for a mile. they are simply so much faster than us that no one is going a mile before it would catch you. be lucky to get five yards. usain bolt might get ten yards. 

the reality is that the vast majority of times, a brown will either try and hide or try and escape. if cornered or threatened or surprised, then watch out. but they don't chase humans, at least not in the way we think. 

  Have you come across the green mamba story that Roald Dahl wrote from his younger years in Africa? It's in the 'boy' book.

  Now that's a scary snake; can move faster than you can run so you don't have many options if one comes for you, hence the story of his gardener standing still with a garden take raised above his head waiting as the mamba sprinted full pelt right towards him!

[Ken Gargett]

11 hours ago, CaptainQuintero said:

  Have you come across the green mamba story that Roald Dahl wrote from his younger years in Africa? It's in the 'boy' book.

  Now that's a scary snake; can move faster than you can run so you don't have many options if one comes for you, hence the story of his gardener standing still with a garden take raised above his head waiting as the mamba sprinted full pelt right towards him!

when i went travelling in africa, they were the one thing i was terrified of. more than crocs or lions or hippos and we had close encounters with all of those. i was always on the lookout for a mamba. never saw one but did have an experience with a massive cobra. 

we were camping in a sort of enclave near kano in nigeria, which i think is mostly bokul harem territory these days but was fun when we were there. some locals were sitting around drinking beer (i swear, in africa, women work their butts off and men just sit around drinking - heaven). this was about 10am. we were travelling by truck and always had at least two people stay with the truck and guard it. my turn this day. most of the group had gone into town. i was airing out the sleeping bag, as were others. chatting to the locals. there was a large, ten foot high wall along one side of the enclave but every 8 feet or so, a small hole next to the ground.

i asked why the wall? to keep the cobras out. the area next door was apparently rife with them.

so why the holes? thy were to let the cobras escape back to their area in case any got into the enclave. yes, i immediately saw the flaw in this plan.

but lo and behold, half an hour later, about ten foot of cobra comes along the wall looking for an escape. scared the crap out of me. locals suggested i check the sleeping bag as they like to get in them and curl up. so i got my stick (this was a snake stick i found in a dry riverbed in the cameroons and which i still have and use today) and started prodding the bag, very gently. i would sneak up on it, give it a nudge and rush away. must have looked ridiculous. i was so absorbed in this that i did not notice one of the locals sneak up behind me and pinch the back of my leg. i got the fright of a lifetime, threw the stick forty feet in the air, fell to the ground screaming about instant death, clutching my leg. life flashed before me. then i saw the group of locals absolutely paralitical laughing. and realised what happened. i am not making this up. it was close to twenty minutes before they stopped laughing long enough for me to talk to them.

so gave up guarding and airing etc, and got some beers and joined them. 

 

[bwgan]

On 9/25/2019 at 1:39 PM, El Presidente said:

I am  missing home. 

A red bellied black snake in Brisbane was caught making a nuisance of itself yesterday. 

I know how it feels 

They are poisonous but generally placid.  Ben stepped on one when he was round 10. He blamed me ......but he really needs to get over it 

Jesus....thats terrifying!!!! Look at the size of its head!!

[Vortigan]

Even the inanimate objects are lethal! The Segway tour of Perth publicly dressed me up like a twat before unceremoniously smashing my face into the tarmac by The Swan river   Never again! 

[Ken Gargett]

think there might be a big python back again. been away a few days and back to one pot plant tipped. this thing the size of half a wine barrique. and was tied down. i doubt i could have shifted it. but something did and the only thing could be a big python.