Hi Sunshinecoasting!
Thanks for you post.
It looks beautiful where your at!
FYI: Shark attack capital of the world is gotta be New Smyrna Beach on the East Coast of Florida!!!
They don’t even put up any warnings for the public either…it would scare away the tourists and that would be bad for business….
The prime place to find the sharks is just out past where the swells begin to break….
They hang out there all year round too!
At least in Australia I believe that they make the effort to post warnings at the beach approaches.
You guy also have a much better attitude toward guns!
Here there are way too many and a lot of factually unjustified fear-mongering driving it.
It’s more like an intimidation thing for a lot of them.
When I spent six years as a city medic in Texas the vast majority of gunshot wounds we treated were actually self inflicted but our Center for Disease Control is legally prohibited for researching and reporting on gun violence and the individual states often don’t have requirements for communities to have mandatory reporting to the state or the federal level so a lot of it never really get tabulated or researched accurately.
NOTE: This isn’t USA bashing, it’s just what we have here.
Much safer in Australia on that count……
Yes, we do have a lot of snakes here as I regularly have had to deal with copperheads and a variety of rattle snakes and then there are the coral snakes in various areas when I used to be out hiking. Fortunately they generally don’t bother you as they really just don’t want to be bothered. Trick I use is to just avoid putting feet or hands where the critters might like to hide like crevasses and crannies or tuft is grassy brush or dead logs where they might also be foraging for ice and such. Making a bit of noise when hiking tends to give them warning so they can more likely move off for their on safety. A lot of domestic dogs get bit when out for woodland of field walks because they are curious and Like to stick their noses everywhere they smell something different which is sometimes where he snake went to hide. They also blend into their surrounding pretty well too! A sunning snake (they like the warm sunshine too) are also a bit dopey and can be a easily startled (just like my brother-in-law) and wake up poorly…
Only snake I’ve ever seen deliberately, consistently come after me (or others) are the cotton mouths which are a variety of water snakes along much of the East Coast, particularly in the southern states.
I’ve had them climb up onto docks with people on them and jump into occupied bass boats. Territorial maybe?
There are also a lot of poisonous species of spiders here too that are just about in any area.
The brown recluse and black widow are pretty common in the domestic hose and yards in nearly every state.
Ticks are another thing as being carriers of Rock Mountain Spotted Fever (generally found on the EastCoast.. go figure) and has a potential mortality rate associated with it (good friend inHigh School went through a real life/death struggle with that one and barely made it out) and then there’s Lyme Disease which is a bacterial infection that is not nice to come down with. It can take months if not years to clear once it becomes established. Some times it’s fatal.
Then there are all the mosquitoes and the nasty things they can share it’s people…..
So Australia isn’t so bad by comparison ….
Best Regards
Over Easy
