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Post by JonW on Oct 11, 2011 9:54:04 GMT 1
I know he likes snakes and snakes with legs... This was in my parts stash...  Told him, 'its my garage, bugger off!' and he did...  I was just thankful he wasnt a snake... we get all sorts where we live, blue tongues, shinglebacks and thousands of smaller skinks. The Blue tongue will bit you if you pee him off, and they have the locking jaw like a croc so its not ideal. he isnt poisonous tho, which is rare here LOL |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2011 10:14:13 GMT 1
good photos jon, love my blue tongues, main problem we have up here with them is they like to slowly waddle across the lawn and then some bloody cat or a mutt comes and kills them, thats a good size one to, when i get my camera back ,i might do a wildlife picture or 2 aswell, back when we lived in the bush,i would come across , red belly blacks which didnt overly worry me but those big king browns frightened the shite out of me, but for pure thrills i would be up close looking into my citrus trees looking for pest ect and about a foot from your face you would eventually see a coiled up green tree snake waiting to punch you in the face, i would scream for my big old pig hunting dog to get it and she would start jumping all over me.
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Post by JonW on Oct 11, 2011 12:47:25 GMT 1
Cheers m8, well I took loads of them to go with my collection of wild creatures pics, as like you we get all sorts here, which is cool most of the time. Ive had some larger pregnant females come thru as well, they really do waddle! LOL!
Cant wait for your pics Ken, you can keep the snakes but I can send you some funnelwebs if you like, we have plenty behind the garage, I think the brush turkeys eat em which means im not sad to have them waddling about here as well. one of the few non dangerous things, unless you upset em and they chase you off! LOL!
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Post by Norbo on Oct 11, 2011 13:04:26 GMT 1
Excelent . i came accoss them all the time when i lived in OZ . allso worth a menshon that they do some times shite allover you when you pick them up.
In the Uk that would be worth around £150 to £200
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Post by JonW on Oct 11, 2011 23:12:35 GMT 1
LOL! im not about to start picking stuff up, one end bites the other end shits... sounds like a bad idea!  wow, money in the bank, tho i reckon its great they just wander round here, same as all the other critters. Ive been here almost 6 years now and I still see a parrot and think 'some one left the cage door open...', yet we have billions of em flapping around, eating your house etc. ...now then whats a box of skinks worth? Ive got hundreds of those, some might be almost 20cm from tongue to tail, most are around half that.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2011 23:34:55 GMT 1
im glad we dont have funnel webs up here, they worry me more than some snakes,,we only get the occasional red back here, but everynow and then a big old huntsman crawls up the between the wall and the computer ,i will be downstairs looking at the bike having a beer and i hear a scream,so i have to come up and kill it,the girls are scared shitless by them,but when i tell them i am too they tell me to man up, those big ones can jump on you and they are really fast, i know there not venimous but thats not the point.
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Post by lcolin on Oct 11, 2011 23:41:28 GMT 1
I'm so glad i live in in the good ol' UK - about the worst we're likely to come up against is an earwig!! Fine by me.
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Post by JonW on Oct 11, 2011 23:57:01 GMT 1
Ken, funny you should say that, I read a while back that one of the biggest killers was the Orb Weaver... its non venomous... but, it strings a huge web up across a driveway or garden and you walk into the web and spider at night and it freaks people out enough to have a heart attack! We used to have them in our old house but not here, which is weird as we only moved about 250m LOL.
We have funnelwebs here and I agree Im scared of them. Its not a big spider, and you die very quickly if you dont get help. I dug one up with my hands a year or so back, freaked me out totally for the rest of the morning! Weve found that if you come across them in the day tho they are pretty docile and easy to 'remove'.
Redbacks... yep plenty of those here too, but mostly up by the letterbox. Ive twice had them crawling on me and not been bitten, maybe i dont taste too good... heres to hoping.
Huntsman... our old house had them like you have them, big suckers. but so far we only have small ones here and very infrequently. In the house we now have an annual pest spray, seems to keep most things at bay, but i am very careful when picking up boxes of old bike parts in the garage and most of my good parts are in those 50/53liter clear boxes with lids you can pick up everywhere for about $8, saves me some of the worry.
Colin earwigs... i never did understand what they 'do'... LOL. We have some nice 1inch ants here you might like, they nip a bit but luckily ive only ever seen them in 1's, a whole hoard of them would be scary.
In reality Australia isnt that scary, and you hardly ever see these creatures if im honest. I worried about it when i first got here, but am ok with now. What did freak me out was rattlesnakes in the in USA this year. After visiting the Rattlesnake museum in Albuquerque I realised just how well camouflaged there were and wasnt too happy to be trudging thru the desert areas after that...
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Post by JonW on Oct 12, 2011 2:00:01 GMT 1
Another pic of this handsome fellow...  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 2:54:29 GMT 1
bloody orb weaver, when i was a teenager id go up hunting in some mountains and youd be walking really slowly looking side to side and down so you wouldnt walk on a snake and then straight into a web,because they wrap heaps of bugs up you could feel hard bits stuck to you and ,well put it this way anything in 1/2 a kilometer would hear me and be gone, probably one of the reasons i wasnt a good hunter,it was allways a good feeling to see the spider on what remained of the web,this happened about once every 2nd time i went to this place and that was every week end for a couple of years, the webs would be like the size 2 or 3 meter flag with a golden bullseye and i still wouldnt see them.
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Post by JonW on Oct 12, 2011 4:38:50 GMT 1
haha! yeah I know what you mean. Amazing thing is some of them make a web after dark and suck it back in by morning if they know its in the way of a car or something as they get sick of losing their web material i guess. big spiders tho... defo dont want one on your face...! {shiver}
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 6:03:54 GMT 1
another funny thing happened once, we were out west somwhere ploughing underground optic fibre cables in along the side of the road when we spotted a bloke on a pushbike with bags and all that, he pulled up and had a bit of a chat, turned out he was from the USA and he was traveling around by bike, he said"what are those big allagator looking things that keep running out in front of me"we told him they were goannas, they can get very big,he said because of them he was too scared to put up his little tent and was going to re think his journey,we all had a bit of a chuckle, but having said that he did have a point, some of them go close to 6 feet and they sometimes can have a bit of a temper, i think one of the reasons they probably hung out abit near the roads was all the roadkill.
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Post by Norbo on Oct 12, 2011 9:17:17 GMT 1
LOL .
I remember chacing a big one around 4.5 feet up a tree one time and as i tryed to grab it avoiding its thrashing tail it empted its bladder all over my head i bloody stank for a week you just cant wash the smell away .
But it was worthit to get sutch a lovely monator.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 10:39:40 GMT 1
lol
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Post by JonW on Oct 12, 2011 12:29:55 GMT 1
Haha superb! We were on Fraser Island one time and were having a romantic stroll in the mid arvo when all of a sudden a huge 6footer comes bounding up and runs up a tree and sticks to the trunk as if to say 'you cant see me now....' both me n the mrs just burst out laughing! Same trip saw dingos and bandicoots... reminds me Norbo, my mrs says can we swap a blue tongue or a bucket of skinks for a squirrel... |
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