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Not all things in Australia want to kill you..........

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Awesome picture, mate!

If your talking about this one
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This is the biggest one I have seen ever, and I fish in a lot of rivers across Northern Australia. Easily over the 5meter mark. The fright the guys on the boat got when this thing moved. Mate has a video of it and you can hear me saying sit down guys repeatedly as I knew it would spring into action the minute we got any closer. The billabong where this one lives runs along a cattle station and the owner regularly looses double figures a year to crocodiles. Also the fish being this big keeps them fed
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They usually disappear under water when you get too close but the bigger one’s aren’t that intimidated by a 4.5 meter boat 😉
 
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I was just getting ready to go out to the barbecue to do some snags for dinner when I noticed that the barbie was “occupied”, so i decided that we could cook them in the air fryer 😜

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You just grab that tail and walk backwards Jim, easy done. 😉
 
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You just grab that tail and walk backwards Jim, easy done. 😉

The tail was a bit too close to the head mate.

Annie made me call "The Man".

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speedydownunder speedydownunder
Hope Stewy remembers to bring the Snake Bite Kits to the Kids Parties...

Shouldn’t need them, it’s like sticking your finger in a fan the best way to learn is real life 😉


The poster is just listing all the places snakes turn up in Australia even without Stewy
 
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michael22 michael22
Not at all. Very strict regulations for guns & knives in all states & areas.
mickygee mickygee
just a couple here, red bellied black snakes on my mountain biking route
in 16mths, 3 people managed to fall to their deaths from these cliffs
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this is happening in the us quite a bit. People take selfies in bad places
 
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Walrus Walrus
this is happening in the us quite a bit. People take selfies in bad places
That looks like a safe pic to me.
 
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michael22 michael22
That looks like a safe pic to me.
That one yes but people have been getting to close to the Grand Canyon here and falling in
 
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Walrus Walrus
That one yes but people have been getting to close to the Grand Canyon here and falling in

Becaus ethers is no warning sign 😁
 
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sxl2004 sxl2004
Becaus ethers is no warning sign 😁
Ya a few hundred foot fall or more isn’t a good warning. They actually did put up signs specifically warning about selfies but if you want to get crazy you can find areas where it’s not posted. The place is absolutely beautiful but if you just stay aware of your surroundings you are good. I think a Chinese tourist fell last month. I went last year but at the worst possible time if you don’t have gallons of water with you the heat can kill. I got one of those bags of water you wear like a back back and went through the whole bag. People say oh it’s not bad it didn’t have humidity in Arizona I told them either does an oven. Scorpions and big ass snakes all over as well. I’m on the east coast I only have to worry about bears and bobcats and a limited amount of dangerous snakes
 
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michael22 michael22
How do they differentiate between accidents & suicides?
Probably interviewing families checking for trauma, mental illness or other signs. Probably a percentage are suicides but if you want to take yourself out I don’t know if you would be to concerned with a selfie. Plus planning a vacation is a sign you want to enjoy things but yes prob some could be suicides but many have been with groups of people who said they were having a great time but had their backs to the mountains and just stepped back too much or stumbled. Interesting thought though. A few people who just got married tumbled, good jobs and happy about the marriage etc. most suicides have had previous attempts. I’m no expert but did work in the mental health field for years out of school,
 
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Most of the Crocodile warning signs have new translation for the tourists that seem to get eaten a bit more than others 😁
They seem to enjoy Germans a bit
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JimInOz JimInOz
The tail was a bit too close to the head mate.

Annie made me call "The Man".

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Hows Stewy going Jim, out of hospital yet 😉
 
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I don’t see any warning in German. No wonder the poor ignorant German tourist get tricked by crocodiles. 🍿
 
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So I just learned that most Koalas have chlymadia while Kangaroos and Wombats have Herpes
 
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