Everything in Australia Will Kill You

[Ryrin]

Giant Cassowaries

 

 

Paralysis Ticks

 

Pythons Eat Everything

 

 

Abnormally Big Hail

 

 

Fresh Water

 

 

The heat

 

 

Brown Snake

 

 

The Box Jellyfish

 

 

Stonefish

 

 

Blue-ringed octopus

 

 

Oh, all the Spiders

 

 

Crocodiles

 

Sharks

 

Irukandji jellyfish

 

Flying Foxes

 

 

I'll stay in the hotel, where it's safe.

 

[Basel Gill]

I'm intrigued as to what our resident Aussies will say here.

[Ryrin]

Let's wait and see.

[Wren of the Brown]

*cough*

 

Aielstralia.

[Barid Bel Medar]

You missed a few things: 

 

That ain't a Python THIS is a python: (and yes, it is actually real.)

 

 

 

The Brown snake is only 3rd on the most Venomous list, the Inland Taipan's venom is the most toxic in the world. 

 

 

 

 

 

Australia has 80 different Cone Shell snails that can kill you. They like hiding, they look just like pretty shells.

 

[Ryrin]

Thanks for the correction and additions!

[Ithillian Turambar]

Even the platypus is poisonous :)

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

crikey

[The_Fnorrll_Reborn]

Snails and fishies can kill you?

[dawnflower8]

I think that vegemite may be more deadly than all of those....

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

but the flying foxes are so cute....

[Ryrin]

Yes, those things can kill you, Fnorrll.

 

Flying foxes carry life threatening diseases.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

so they're as deadly as chipmunks and squirrels. better than the crocs.

[Ryrin]

I think that vegemite may be more deadly than all of those....

Lol.

[Ryrin]

so they're as deadly as chipmunks and squirrels. better than the crocs.

Flying foxes in Australia are known to carry two infections which can pose a serious risk to human health - Australian Bat Lyssavirus and Hendra virus.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

Squirrels like all rodents can carry plague, hantavirus, hemorrhagic fevers and leptospirosis among other lovelies.

 

this minds me of a sign on assateague island - do not hug the ponies. they have chiggers and ticks.

 

best to just stay home. mmmmhmmm

[Ryrin]

Ya, stay home or in the hotel.

[Millon]

why is fresh water on the list of things trying to kill you??? lol

[Ithillian Turambar]

Because of the Bunyips in the billabongs

[Barmacral]

[Ryrin]

Lol, Barm.

 

"Some Australian swimming holes have Amoebic Meningitis in them. This is highly lethal, with only a 3% survival rate."

 

[Ryrin]

Surfing croc.

 

 

Surfing sharks.

 

 

Dingo eating shark.

 

[Ithillian Turambar]

Dingos are definitely un-nerving.

 

I was on Fraser Island - where the last pure wild dingos live - and one came up and watched us relentlessly while we made dinner. Stand up and make yourself look big, they told us.

 

We did the sensible thing and went and played cards in the truck.

[Ryrin]

Snakes at the golf course.

 

 

Shark at the golf course.

 

 

Croc on the street.

 

[Ryrin]

Dingos are definitely un-nerving.

I was on Fraser Island - where the last pure wild dingos live - and one came up and watched us relentlessly while we made dinner. Stand up and make yourself look big, they told us.

We did the sensible thing and went and played cards in the truck.

I'll bet that was creepy.