For the record

[den]

That danger map could be made for any country. Everywhere has dangerous animals.

Except New Zealand. The most dangerous thing there are eldery bowls ladies in Toyota Crowns.

Comments

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

Ya, ya, you were half serious and half entertaining us. But I think we all got a kick out of it -- with all those comments you got!! But then you have given me a new idea....

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

I'm not too sure about Singapore though (excluding random escaped/refugee critters)... but if we're using the scale you're using for Australia, it still wouldn't be a very big map anyhow. :o

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

I had assumed you were inspired by this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/trollprincess/817403.html).

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

yep! no regular earthquakes* or volcanoes, though.


*only 2 towns have been badly damaged by earthquakes.

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

you need to put a big circle around all of australia
"verry over due for a massive earthquake"

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

we don't have the faults for huge earthquakes. We site in the very middle of the plate.

[jenny_evergreen]

So, eventually, all the California refugees will be moving to Australia. ("I NEVER WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT AGAIN!") *grin*

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

One reason why I did this was because a lot of people say Australia is an amazingly dangerous place, but we've only ever had one really destructive cyclone (Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin in the mid 70s) and one really destructive earthquake (4.9, Newcastle 1988). Floods tend to be slow-moving, muddy affairs that don't wipe towns off the map, mountains don't explode, tornadoes are rare, and we don't get state-wide blizzards that bury trains, freeways and towns. Heatwaves are a non-issue because we expect them every year.

The only things you have to remember is to keep an eye open while you walk, carry a stick, and don't pick it up if you don't know what it is.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I thought the Wetas (http://weta.boarsnest.net/coverpic.jpg) were pretty nasty, though.

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

and so huggable!!

[jamesb]

Or even worse ... eldery bowls ladies in Morris Oxfords.

[beki.livejournal.com]

And killer sheep!!! Must not forget killer sheepies.. It's the zippers you know.... :)

[targaff.livejournal.com]

Surely the only thing we have are all the animals we've imported from other dangerous places ;)

Well, there's one snake, I suppose.

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Adders. And... er...

...

...well, there are some *plants* that would be pretty deadly. If you, um, decided to try eating them.

(The most dangerous things you're likely to encounter in the English countryside are bulls, and farm dogs.)

That's one of the nice things about walking in this country actually, no need to worry about bears or anything :) Just the weather.

[smof.livejournal.com]

Pikies. Very dangerous. Should not be approached. Warning signal of "Oi, cunt!" should be reacted to with fast running in the opposite direction.

And right now we have nasty mosquitos carrying dengue fever and stuff. Apparently lots in Portsmouth, so that'll be fun.

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

Plus poisonous spiders arriving in bananas, and scorpions around Portsmouth, Plymouth and several other ports. Carry a UV lamp to go into those areas at night, scorpions really do glow under UV, but they aren't really bright so you have to be fairly close to see anything.

Recently there has been a case of a rabid bat. Things are getting interesting... but I still want to see Wolves and other large species reintroduced in the Highlands of Scotland.

Saskatchewan vs Australia

[annvole.livejournal.com]

Saskatchewan is flat and thousands of miles from oceans, (almost) no earthquakes and middle of a plate so no volcanos BUT we have lots of poisonous snakes and spiders - one species each but there are lots of them. Twice I had a confirmed black widow (closely related to those red backed spiders) crawling on me and several other times I was quite sure it was one (the red hour-glass spot on black widows is on the belly so you have to flip the little guys over to see for sure). I have unintentionally touched rattle-snakes more then once (OK twice). This week we had two bear maulings in the prairies. Saskatchewan has been known to have bear attacks from 4 different species of bear (black, brown, grizzly, and polar - polar are quite rare but they go after boaters in the remote northern lakes). Cougars, scorpions, mad moose, more tornadoes than anywhere else, blizzards, some of the coldest recorded temperatures AND the highest, biggest hail stones (basket ball sized), Lots of lightning strikes on humans (likely a record of some sort)

So, why are Saskatchewan people one of the longest lived populations on the planet?

[slothphil.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that in NZ, keas will eat your car if you're unlucky.