Australia

Jillaroo said:
Anne i encountered 2 Wolf spiders in an old dairy farm home, the first was on the floor in the lounge and it was huge it's legs were as thick as my little finger, we disposed of him as i would not have stayed in that house with him in it, and next morning my daughter stood outside our bedroom and said be careful when you come out as another Wolf spider is above your door, hubby disposed of it the brave man.
I made enquiries with a pest controller guy and he said if bitten they will make you ill but won't kill you, they usually live behind bark on trees.
I'll tell you one thing i have never seen such a huge spider before and very aggressive too, i will respect Katy's fear and refrain from putting a picture of one on here.
We had a lot of the Orb spiders where i lived, you had to be careful walking around at night as you could easily walk into their web , but they are harmless i think.
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Thank you for not posting a pic, Jilly. I can barely stand even read your post, but did see that part. Don't know why I'm even on this thread other than my pure fascination with Oz.:)
 
They just highlighted Australia on a TV show this morning, the scenery was spectacular...would definitely be a wonderful place to visit!
 
The problem with our scenery is that it's spread so far and wide. Everything is at least a day's drive from everything else it seems.

Too many tourists arrive and expect to see the beaches, Ayers Rock, the Gt Barrier Reef and Tasmania on a 2 day lay-over.

A UK fella I worked with cracked us up when he told us his tales of his 'assimilation' when he arrived here. His first priority was to see as much of the country as he could before his money ran out and he had to find a job.

So armed with a small map and a backpack he set off on the overnight train to Melbourne. When he arrived next day, and feeling as though he'd just crossed half the planet, he dragged out his little map and discovered he'd covered an inch and a half of OZ.
He did some calculations and saw Adelaide was another 2 inches, Perth another 4 and Darwin at least 5 or 6 from there. He bummed around Melbourne for the day, caught the night train back to Sydney and went looking for a job next day. He would have run out of money about day 4.

An Irish friend never did adjust to the distances here. He couldn't believe we holidayed 400miles away up the coast. "Jayyyzus, we'd be in bluidy Germany if we did that!" He used to take the family on the ferry across to Manly for a couple of days. They were around 17 miles from home but that was far enough for them. The scenery is nice at Manly at least.
 
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The house is rockin, the town is creaking and the thunders crashin' and I'm about to pull all the plugs. Ahhhl be baaack. hopefully.
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I saw that big low on the weather map. Any orchards and the like round that area?
A hail storm was threatening in the western Bay of Plenty, the home of Kiwifruit, hail can ruin the crop in minutes so they were all keeping their fingers,along with everything else, crossed. Odd how things go, you can almost bet your life that they will get a hailstorm in November every year.!
 
There's a big blueberry farm just inland and it has acres of white netting over it to keep the fruit bats off the berries so you can imagine what happened when the nets caught the hail. Saw it on the TV news. They were sagging to almost ground level, big bags of ice. It looked really funny, but they kept the damage down. Normal hail just gets slowed down and goes through them but this was too big and built up.

No banana plantations up this far but if they got that size hail around Coffs I'd say the price of bananas will be up again. It shredded my poor little banana palm. siiiigh.

Hope those Kiwifruit get through, they already cost an arm and leg here.
 
That one was featured in one of SeaBreeze's threads of unusual places and piccys recently. It should have fascinated me more than it did I guess, ... but don't know of anyone who's seen it sorry.

But I'd bet the Kooris have a ripper legend to explain it.
 
That would have been picked up in testing though wouldn't it? I wonder does anyone drink it?

It got the better of me, Google Earthed it ... it's on an Island! Off the S. coast of WA a bit East of Esperance. There's a similar lake across on the mainland but not pink. They look to be drainage ponds from the higher rocky ground around them and are at sea level so probably brackish.

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That's all I've got, still looking.
 
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