We have serious snakes ...

The Aussies have more poisonous buggers than anywhere else on the planet. Hell, even the Vegemite will kill you pretty quickly, but they seem immune to it! :D
 
That shot is definetly from the top end somewhere - it could very well be the Kimberley but I can think of plenty of places in NT and northern QLD that would fit the bill.

Just got back from another trip to the Kimberley myself, making it my third in 12 months.

I don't reckn we lose any more people to danerous fauna than anywhere else. People just adjust their habits.

No-one goes swimming in the rivers or the ocean up in the top end, except for a a few choice waterholes. I notice most people leave a rope dangling in their swimming pools as well. This is for the snakes to climb out......
 
gajinoz-

Got the pic! Thanks, it is incredible! What the HECK kind of snake is that? Any clue? Nature is amazing.


Jared
 
Ming65 said:
I don't reckn we lose any more people to danerous fauna than anywhere else. People just adjust their habits.
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That's probably true. When my wife first got here and moved out to the farm she was terrified of the snakes. (Still is to some extent.) This is the main breeding ground for Tiger snakes in the country.

After a while she got somewhat used to them and learned what to do and what not to do and once I taught her how to use the shotgun in case any got near the house she calmed down a lot.

No-one goes swimming in the rivers or the ocean up in the top end, except for a a few choice waterholes. I notice most people leave a rope dangling in their swimming pools as well. This is for the snakes to climb out......
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Speaking of swimming pools, a few people get caught out with these. Back in my younger days I lived in a bushy area just north of Sydney and there are LOTS of Funnelweb spiders around there. People would see them on the bottom of the pool and, thinking they were dead, would scoop them out with their HANDS!! :eek: Always good for a laugh, these things can live for a couple of days under water.
 
Dang...that is some serious snake.

I don't know much about snakes. I wonder if those constrictors are ambush hunters. They are so large, I assume that they must hang in trees or lie around watering holes waiting for something to pass by rather than chase stuff down.
 
Thats nothing,once you have seen the mighty grass snake eat a cricket in the back yard nothing else compares ;)

This may be a stupid question but I have to ask, where exactly is OZ?
 
Morpeus said:
Thats nothing,once you have seen the mighty grass snake eat a cricket in the back yard nothing else compares ;)

This may be a stupid question but I have to ask, where exactly is OZ?
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Well, the bit that I live in is pretty close to 34.65 south - 148.89 east.
 
I am pretty positive that it is an Amethystine Python. If you could send me the pic, I'll try to see if I can tell for sure. Ranks in the top 5 or so of the largest snakes of the world. Right around the Burmese or Indian python range. I could have bought one as a hatchling once, but I got a Burmese instead. They are reputed to be much tamer than the Amethystine. That other pic look like a carpet python. I would like to get one of those someday.
 
gajinoz said:
....When my wife first got here.....
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Gaj I am most impressed that you got a woman to live with you in the bush - the fact that she is American just adds to the degree of difficulty. You get 10 from the West Aussie judge.......should be running seminars dude.....
 
Ming65 said:
Gaj I am most impressed that you got a woman to live with you in the bush - the fact that she is American just adds to the degree of difficulty. You get 10 from the West Aussie judge.......should be running seminars dude.....
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I've always liked a good challenge! :)
 
Okay--I just gotta see the larger version of this. Gaj--can you email it to me? Thanks.
 
gajinoz said:
..LOTS of Funnelweb spiders around there. People would see them on the bottom of the pool and, thinking they were dead, would scoop them out with their HANDS!! :eek: Always good for a laugh, these things can live for a couple of days under water.
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Big poisonous spiders that can live for days under water. Brrrrrrrr...
You are really creeping me out. :eek:
 
Could it be that all the vegemite you folks eat makes you undesirable prey?
Maybe that's the reason that no more Aussies are killed by the fauna down under.
 
shaldag said:
Could it be that all the vegemite you folks eat makes you undesirable prey?
Maybe that's the reason that no more Aussies are killed by the fauna down under.
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Nah, it's just natural selection. We're all fast and smart, the slow stupid ones are dead. :)
 
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