Snake......Red Belly Black Snake

Actually, my urge to travel anywhere has pretty much shriveled up to what I can drive in a couple of days, and I need a damn good reason to do that. All done flying and don't have (or any urge to get) a passport. Logged enough miles during my Navy career to last me a lifetime.
 
This is as dangerous as NZ gets:
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The Pipi........
 
Just catching up with this thread. All I can say is, oh well...as long as there are no recorded deaths, then nothing to worry about.

:yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes: NOT F@CKING LIKELY!!! :yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

It took me a couple of reads to realize that the thing was INSIDE your home. Geeezzz Doug, I don't like snakes much and one that big would cause a change of underwear if it were me.

...and Europeans and Down-Unders always express concern about our bears....

Usually, I think that you folks in Oz got the better deal when they split up the British Empire - at least in the weather department - until I read more about your snakes and spiders.

Sheesh!
 
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about 2 months ago a mate got bitten by a taipan ,he killed it and its mate afterwards ( must get a bit stroppy if interupeted having fun) drove himself to hosp as thought would be quicker then waiting for ambo , 25 mins away ) was in hosp for 3-4 days being monitored every hr or so after first few hours , wasnt given anti venom as told now days only given as last resort as the side affects can be worse than the bite and long term , reckoned a lot of pain / sweats / and a bit of delirium and on a drip most of the time ....after let out of hosp aches and pain for about a week with no energy at all .. but after that came good fairly quickily , few yrs back i got bit by either a python or a low dosage snake and was amazed how gental the bite was , hardly felt a thing , mates said the same thing with the taipan , hardly felt it and had to check for bite marks to make sure ... some of our snakes (not taipans) will dry bite just to warn you off .. and as far as our famous red back spider goes. normally just makes you hot and sweaty for about 1/2 hr or so and thats it .. withg most of our nasties , leave them alone and they do the same .. except for that odd one that wanders into your house .. at least here except for sharks and crocs they just bite and not try to eat you
 
...yeah, even I would buy into that strategy - and I am a Canadian!

Yes, and I imagine you would apologize to your neighbors for the noise and blasting half of their houses away too. LOL
 
Not saying i didn't shit myself or was scared for a time........Certainly left an impression on me for the next couple of days.........saw shadows moving, doing double takes.........

Red-Ballied Blacks are very shy and for it to come into the house is rare..........Will strike when threatened but apparently they don't strike with an open mouth unless really threatened.......Pays to know your enemy's................

Steve Erwin has been mentioned...........he forgot the cardinal rule when working with dangerous animals, and payed the price..........never underestimate their capabilities and if you get withing their zone then !!.............Not saying he deserved it but he lost respect of what a wild animal can do
 
Skull, the Katipo spider. I have never seen one in all my 30 years in NZ. Apparently they exist in a very small region according to my father.

"Named after the Māori word, katipō, which translates to “night-stinger”, the Latrodectus katipo spider has gained an almost mythical status in New Zealand, where it’s notorious but rarely seen, and so fiercely protected due to its rapidly declining population, it’s illegal to catch or deliberately kill one.

With just a few thousand katipō left in roughly 50 areas on the North Island and eight on the South Island, these dangerous little beauties are now rarer than a kiwi."


See: https://www.australiangeographic.co...sole-venomous-spider-is-the-stuff-of-legends/
 
Paul, I checked that link on the spider (ewwww...) and saw a reference to "drop bears". I can't shake the feeling that I'm having my leg pulled. Is that really a thing?
 
The Katipo account is factual, but as for "Drop Bears" we will leave that for the Australians to decide.
 
image.jpeg One of me wild and free pets......think this was last year and around this time. Early June brings the snakes out along with the effin' coons and chiggers.
There were two snakes on the back deck that day, a corn snake and a rat snake. Looking at the pattern I'm thinking this is the corn.
 
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