Don't be telling porkies now, EB. You didn't warn them about ......
My great uncle got drunk at a party once and had to go to hospital after trying to pick up a koala. Let's just say that they have very sharp claws.
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Don't be telling porkies now, EB. You didn't warn them about ......
My great uncle got drunk at a party once and had to go to hospital after trying to pick up a koala. Let's just say that they have very sharp claws.
We also do cute:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-03/butterfly-photobombing-koala-joey-goes-viral/7897804
Awwww. Koala. And butterfly...
Not much has to go wrong in the Top End (Northern Territory) for you to die. It is a tad more than twice the size of Texas with less than 1% of Texas' population, 244,000 compared with 25 million - and Texas ain't too crowded.
They always knew where he was but there was no-one around to help out till it was too late.
Interestingly the US Marines have just opened an advanced joint training area in the NT with the Australian special forces, where they train soldiers how to operate in tropical and desert conditions. Lesson 1 apparently, is how not to get lost.
Yeah, NT is probably the most dangerous part of Australia. Practically everything that can kill you in Australia you can find there.
I got to cuddle a koala at a wildlife park in Adelaide
You don't have 8 foot, 1500 lb. grizzly bears down there, so that's a plus.
You don't have 8 foot, 1500 lb. grizzly bears down there, so that's a plus.
You can see and hear grizzly bears approaching.
If a grizzly wants to attack you, you'll be lucky if you see or hear it before it's on you.
But I get your point...
Here, we beware the neighbors.Anywhere in Australia - city, town or open country - something small can get you.
Here, we beware the neighbors.
Well, sure, but . . .
that's Texas.
Yeah, NT is probably the most dangerous part of Australia. Practically everything that can kill you in Australia you can find there.
You can see and hear grizzly bears approaching.
Many species of dangerous Australian wild life are small, or secretive, or both. The danger you don't see is more of a threat than something the size of a small truck.
My most recent story was set in the Northern Territory capital city Darwin, about a young couple who are meant for each other who have a chance meeting. Unfortunately, this happens at Christmas in 1974.
...except if you're in the NT near a body of water, in which case the danger you don't see might well be something the size of a small truck. Salties look so fat and ponderous on land, but in water they just disappear.
And Croc's heart is through his stomach
What was special about Christmas, 1974?
A cyclone.
A very big cyclone.
Christmas day, a barbeque, and a fucking cyclone. That is so very Aussie; sadly also a killer, with 65 lives lost - Darwin was literally blown off the face of the earth, Christmas Day, 1974.
A cyclone.
A very big cyclone.
Oddly enough Tracy was a very small cyclone, only 35 miles across, the smallest recorded world wide until the even smaller Hurricane Marco (28 miles diameter) a few years back in the Carribean, but Tracy was an intense Cat 4 and hit a small city that was very badly built.
Oz has had a number of Cat 5's but none has ever hit a major population centre. Yasi in 2011 was huge; it killed no-one, but it wiped out 90% of the Banana crop! One day either Cairns or Townsville in Tropical North Queensland will get hit and that will be nasty.