On Wednesday, June 16, 2010, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Haven't been working at it have you?
> Handled a Red Bellied Black, come close to Copperheads, Tigers, Browns
> and Blacks in the wild.
> Noosa may be nice and sterile for the yuppie reffos but the rest of
> the wide brown land is chockers with things wot bite, scratch, sting,
> poison and so on.
Ohhh, you're such a cute, widdle, old teddy bear when you do your Mick
Dundee impression. Just makes me want to see you wrestle a croc, big
fella.
http://www.parknmeter.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=237
Noosa's my place in the sun, but being a RAAF-brat takes you a bit
further afield than comfortable distance from a latte, and kinda stays
with you. Most of my snake experience comes from camping during
adulthood. But if you wanna say you've camped more and handled more
snakes than me, well, I cheerfully cede the dubious honour. ;)
>For goodness sake, we've got stinging trees and a
> lethal octopus! (Pretty little beast it is too).
Box Jellyfish, Irukandji, et cetera, et cetera. I'm familiar with the
marine unfriendlies, spent as much time in their environment as I
could (though got more injury from big surf than beasties), near-lost
a good friend to a Box Jellyfish in the off-season, and you can't call
yourself "Bruce" unless you've had to hand-untangle some bluebottle or
jellyfish tentacles from your legs every so often. Grabbed a handful
of Giant Stinging Tree once, stumbling on a track in Bunya
Mountains...that was the most hurty. I almost feel...blokey!
Still...soft, old Noosa, hey? Kind of wrecks completely the awesome
impression of hard-yakka, true-blue, dinky-di, red-blooded,
footy-lovin', Bundy-drinkin', manliness that people have always
assumed in me. Still though, I will struggle to proceed, ever the
disappointment. :)
Cheers,
Marc
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