Even the vegetables and salads are out for you. Toxic spinach causes hallucinations and delirium in Australia Toxic spinach has sparked an urgent health alert in Australia after people who consumed it suffered severe sickness and hallucinations. Nine people have needed medical care after eating the Riviera Farms baby spinach from Costco. Health authorities say their symptoms have also included delirium, spiked heart rates and blurred vision. Riviera Farms says it believes the spinach was contaminated by a weed, but no other products have been affected.
My son and his family moved into a home in the Blue Mountains a week ago. They discovered that they had inherited a house pet which lives by the pool - a Diamond Python about 6 feet long. Very pretty.
Surfer carries a shark back out to sea at a beach Only in Australia Surfer carries a shark back out to sea at a beach on Victoria's Great Ocean Roadhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-31/surfer-carries-shark-out-to-sea-at-beach-in-victoria/101819460
This happened at my local beach at the end of my road. I guess Mr Shark wasn't hungry. Notice the long shadow in my picture ? I am glad I wasn't in the water that day. https://youtube.com/shorts/eSE9aJ_OxQM?feature=share
This is awesome but you need a bit of background to appreciate it. In Australia Centrelink is our welfare agency so a lot of kids and even older people wear centrelink branded clothes as a bit of a joke or to brag about the fact that they’re being bums on welfare. The last thing anyone would suspect a bloke in a Centrelink singlet of being is an undercover cop about to do a high risk arrest. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/r...t/news-story/1a899e222965b96368e51206a2bbe415
This beach is a couple of K's north of me. They were swimming my way so I am glad I wasn't at the beach. https://thewest.com.au/cke86om2a017...lose-to-swimmers-at-whitfords-beach-c-9439292 A three-metre tiger shark has swum alarmingly close to swimmers at a popular Perth beach as school holidays attract hundreds of families to the coast. Filmed by beach-goer Sarah Hutchinson at Whitfords beach in Hillarys — witnessed by her two small children aged 11 and 8 — the creature appeared to dart through the waves four metres from shore. Alerted by lifeguards around 10.15am as her children swam in the knee-deep water, Sarah said the beast “was so close, it was unbelievable”
As kids here in NZ it was not an unfrequent experience to have 1 meter long sharks ( Grey Nursing sharks we were led to believe) swimming around us in 12 to 18 inches of water at the local beach, luckily we weren't seals We thought it was a bit of fun ( we were sub 12 years old) and Jaws the movie wasn't out then
At the old place I had a friend who’d come and hang out with me in the workshop of an evening: A Tawny Frogmouth, he’d follow me around the back yard at night, I dunno maybe he’d been raised by humans and released, but he didn’t mind me being real close.
Probably a bit like Fantails here in NZ they follow you around because as you move you scare the local wildlife giving them a chance to see and catch it. Unfortunately owls over this side of the pond arn't that friendly, which is a shame as I think they are cool.
It’s a Aussie Forum run out of Queensland We just let the US and UK-EU guys play also. ( I’m up here in Darwin making sure the cable to Singapore is all secure for them )
Some years ago I built some animatronic kangaroos for a special effects company, they were used in Myer’s department store Christmas window displays. Here is Frank ( Frankenroo ) He was given to me by the special effects company as a thankyou, once the display was dismantled: I built 40 of them, so there maybe up-to 39 other robot kangaroos roaming around out there just waiting for their chance to get you!
And here’s the Roo Bar & Grill, A taxidermied Eastern grey Kangaroo head mounted on the bonnet (hood) of the old Ford F250 truck. I found the head in a mates hay shed, no one knew what it was doing there, or why someone would bother taxiderming a roo head, it had proper glass eyes n’all. So of course I bolted it to the front of the truck, ol’ Skip got to see a lot of the country perched up there….a very well travelled roo!
