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

  1. DeepBlue Oct 31, 2019

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    Awesome picture, mate!
     
  2. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Oct 31, 2019

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    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 DCBC211E-AA07-4A71-AE28-B3F985CF9C1F.jpeg
    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 ;)
     
  3. JimInOz Melbourne Australia Nov 11, 2019

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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 :p

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  4. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Nov 11, 2019

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    You just grab that tail and walk backwards Jim, easy done. ;)
     
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  5. JimInOz Melbourne Australia Nov 11, 2019

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

    Annie made me call "The Man".

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  6. speedydownunder Nov 11, 2019

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    Hope Stewy remembers to bring the Snake Bite Kits to the Kids Parties...
     
  7. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Nov 11, 2019

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    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
     
  8. speedydownunder Nov 11, 2019

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    Skippy, Quick! Go and get the Snake Bite Kit...

    Skippy...?


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  9. SpeedyPhill Founder Of Aussie Cricket Blog Mark Waugh Universe Nov 11, 2019

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    Wombats & more...
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  10. Walrus Nov 11, 2019

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    this is happening in the us quite a bit. People take selfies in bad places
     
  11. michael22 Nov 11, 2019

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    That looks like a safe pic to me.
     
  12. Walrus Nov 11, 2019

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    That one yes but people have been getting to close to the Grand Canyon here and falling in
     
  13. sxl2004 Nov 11, 2019

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    Becaus ethers is no warning sign :D
     
  14. Walrus Nov 11, 2019

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    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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  15. michael22 Nov 11, 2019

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    How do they differentiate between accidents & suicides?
     
  16. Walrus Nov 11, 2019

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    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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  17. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Nov 11, 2019

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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 :D
    They seem to enjoy Germans a bit
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  18. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Nov 11, 2019

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    Hows Stewy going Jim, out of hospital yet ;)
     
  19. sxl2004 Nov 11, 2019

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    I don’t see any warning in German. No wonder the poor ignorant German tourist get tricked by crocodiles. ::popcorn::
     
  20. Beepos Nov 11, 2019

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    So I just learned that most Koalas have chlymadia while Kangaroos and Wombats have Herpes