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

The snake probably ate the Wren!

The rare hopping snake? 🤣

Skippy?

How big?

Just a tidler 😀
My first trip to OZ I came across one twice that size, I hate spiders! put me right off living in OZ altogether but to be fair I quite like jumping spiders which are a whole lot smaller and you can have a lot of fun with them and there antics.

Huntsman spiders are great, there are always some roaming about the house, catching bastard mosquitos, flies etc.
Without spiders we would be overun with bloody bugs!

Mind you it's also possible to be overun with spiders!

When I moved into the last place the shed obviously hadn't been used for donkey's years, the place was thick with cobwebs and you could see hundreds of spiders. So I nuked the place with 5 of those flea bombs, set 'em off and closed the door and waited outside for a while doing other stuff, I couldn't believe how may spiders came running out under the door! They got a whack on the head for their trouble.
When I opened the door and let the toxic shit dissipate, there were thousands of dead spiders!
They must've been eating one another.

When I was back living in the wilds of East Gippsland, there were these Mud Wasps, they would catch young spiders paralyze them and entomb them in their nest of dried mud to feed the young as they hatch.
The damned things were everywhere and any small hole would have a nest built in it, they would block up the exhaust pipes on small engines like chainsaws and lawnmowers, any bolt hole without a bolt in would have a nest in it, every open ended hose would be blocked with a nest. You had to wear pants outside, otherwise the buggers would try to build a nest in your arse if you bent over! ( At least they wouldn't have to go far for the mud!)
There would have been billions of them, mind you, without them to keep the numbers down, the bloody spiders would have carried away all the cattle!

God damn! 😲 Biggest Ihave seen is 3 maybe 4 cm.

Just got back from Down Under last Friday, and my wife's brother had a Hunstman run across his dash one evening while we were there. His wife had asked calmly to stop the car, and then he took care of it. We were there the next day and could still see the aftermath on the dash (big smear and a few legs).

We borrowed his wife's Toyota Rav 4, and we were headed out to see some friends a day or so later. My wife was driving and she walked around to that side of the car, and then she asked me in a slightly strained voice to come over there. I did, and found this:



She said she only saw it just as her hand was about to grab the door handle, and it moved.



So we got a stick from across the road and encouraged it to move along, and off the car. I made sure to check any car door handles before reaching in after that. Jacqui's uncle said that if she had continued to reach in, she surely would have been bit because it was cornered...

Had to google that one to be sure. Theres places on the body that you really dont want to get bitten!

We had a much more dangerous track than Mt Panorama at Bathurst.........Hume Weir Raceway in country Victoria was built in an old quarry that was used to build the near by weir. around the section of track that formed the loop were the unforgiving quarry walls to crash into and there was only a bloody great concrete wall between the entry and exit of the loop, many a car raced it's last against this wall!
Sometime cars would hit it and tumble over it, into the path of some poor unsuspecting bastard coming the other way in the opposite direction!

It was a good spectator circuit because you could see the whole track from the top of the quarry walls and popular because of the close proximity of all the serious action.


A couple of "Humpy" Holden FXs wallowing their way past the wall

Showing the quarry walls from the esses used for spectator vantage points


Looking away from the loop

Another of our more hazardous tracks was Longford down it rural Tasmania,

it had numerous interesting features including a straight with a hump that got the cars airborne


Getting some air!

A couple of unforgiving timber trestle bridges
More old Humpy Holdens, some Ford Lotus Cortina Mk1s, a pair of Ford Customlines , one getting a bit sideways, and a VW Beetle in the background.

A Ford Galaxy leading a Chrysler Valiant

And a railway dissecting the track, a one point over the track with a viaduct
it would be lovely hitting that in one of those!

and at another with a rail level crossing, they cars would have to stop if a train came along.....yes that actually happened!


And a pub on the corner!
Some blokes with balls the size of boulders even raced motorcycles there!