Too many big spiders in Australia.

 

They won't go where people live in cities and suburbs.

 

Oh wait...then again...I live in a nice little suburb on the outskirts of Brisbane. Today got a cane toad in my garage...and...well...a kookaburra

 

Oh and in the past year, there's been 3 green tree frogs magically appearing in our toilet. 

 

Oh, and the time we had a brown snake in our front yard.

Edited October 24, 201312 yr by Cam

They won't go where people live in cities and suburbs.

 

Oh wait...then again...I live in a nice little suburb on the outskirts of Brisbane. Today got a cane toad in my garage...and...well...a kookaburra

 

Oh and in the past year, there's been 3 green tree frogs magically appearing in our toilet. 

 

Oh, and the time we had a brown snake in our front yard.

 

Didn't know what a cane toad was... Just did an image search.

 

 

 

Christ! 

Ummmm....yeah, it wasn't quite that big pal....

 

If it was, I'm pretty sure I'd be dead from shock

Ummmm....yeah, it wasn't quite that big pal....

 

If it was, I'm pretty sure I'd be dead from shock

 

Don't you get Huntsmans everywhere? I thought they were very common in Australia. Especially in houses. 

Don't you get Huntsmans everywhere? I thought they were very common in Australia. Especially in houses. 

 

Not in my house...

 

Get some other spiders, not many dangerous. If there have been huntsmans in the house, I haven't seen them.

 

But now I'll be trying to get to sleep and picture one falling on my face....so cheers for that.

Dont you get kangaroos just hopping down the street? Dont you have to wake up each morning and wrestle crocs that are sitting by your post box?

Dont worry about spiders going on your face, your hat with the corks hanging down will keep them away!

Dont you get kangaroos just hopping down the street? Dont you have to wake up each morning and wrestle crocs that are sitting by your post box?

Dont worry about spiders going on your face, your hat with the corks hanging down will keep them away!

 

Only on Tuesdays

 

And I take my cork hat off in bed....duhhhh

My mate in Perth once sent me a photo of the stuff found dead after his garage was fumigated. It was like something of a hellish alien film.

Didn't know what a cane toad was... Just did an image search.

 

 

 

Christ! 

 

Is that Raul Meireles?!?!

Don't you get Huntsmans everywhere? I thought they were very common in Australia. Especially in houses. 

 

Yep we get them down in Victoria, but they're not poisonous.

Dont you get kangaroos just hopping down the street? Dont you have to wake up each morning and wrestle crocs that are sitting by your post box?

Dont worry about spiders going on your face, your hat with the corks hanging down will keep them away!

Cam's real name is probably Bruce.

Yep we get them down in Victoria, but they're not poisonous.

 

Poisonous or not I'm still sh*t scared.

 

How often would you say you get them in your house?

Poisonous or not I'm still sh*t scared.

 

How often would you say you get them in your house?

Every couple of months, but they're a pretty cool spider in that they'll go around the top of the ceiling and eat all the little spiders(which are messy little buggers with their webs) without leaving a trace.

 

And you can just pick them up and chuck them outside when their done.

 

Red backs are the ones to look out for though and they love hiding in dark places.

Edited October 25, 201312 yr by skippy

Okay it's settled, not going to Australia anytime soon...

Okay it's settled, not going to Australia anytime soon...

Only because it's too far away, honest!

They won't go where people live in cities and suburbs.

 

Oh wait...then again...I live in a nice little suburb on the outskirts of Brisbane. Today got a cane toad in my garage...and...well...a kookaburra

 

Oh and in the past year, there's been 3 green tree frogs magically appearing in our toilet. 

 

Oh, and the time we had a brown snake in our front yard.

 

I have a Kookaburra,  but keep it in my kit bag,

Every couple of months, but they're a pretty cool spider in that they'll go around the top of the ceiling and eat all the little spiders(which are messy little buggers with their webs) without leaving a trace.

 

And you can just pick them up and chuck them outside when their done.

 

Red backs are the ones to look out for though and they love hiding in dark places.

 

Blimey, don't think I'll be heading over any time soon.

 

Can't imagine what it's like having a spider phobia over there.

 

Streuth.

Crikey mate! At least you could put shrimps on the barbie!

 

 

 

Kalou is looking fabulous   

The wig makes Kalou look like a woman.

Suffice it to say this thread's gone bonkers in the last few pages.

 

In nearly 24 years living in Australia I've yet to happen across any snakes, cane toads (odd you'd never heard of them by the way, FC), man-eating kangaroos, rotting kookaburras in garages or anything of the kind. Obviously more big spiders here but it's nothing unmanageable - I can't recall seeing a hunstman or a red-back for some time. I'd sooner fret over the intolerable (at times) climate!

 

I live in Adelaide though, can't speak for Victoria or Queensland where the other users here live, I think.

Edited October 28, 201312 yr by Teritus

Do you wrestle crocs? When you go to a bar do you say "thats not a knife, THIS is a knife"?

Yes. In fact just the other day I trotted along to the nearest pub - some fifty miles away on the other side of the desert - Foster's beer in hand, clad in my thongs, singlet and hat with corks dangling from the side. When I got there I went to the nearest person and held up a spoon saying "that's not a knife, this is a knife", while simultaneously boxing with the local kangaroo and stuffing copious amounts of Vegemite down my throat. Meanwhile my mate, by the name of Trevor Bruce, wrestled with a crocodile and a drop bear at the same time while a koala bear lurked in the distance, all the while Steve Irwin playing on the TV and the shrimp well and truly sizzling on the barbie.

 

At the end of the night we cleared out the dozens of dead 12-inch spiders before taking a brief smoko and hopping inside the pouch of the kangaroo-taxi to make our 50 mile journery back to our outback home, preparing for the next flock of sheep to shear the next day.

Edited October 28, 201312 yr by Teritus

Yes. In fact just the other day I trotted along to the nearest pub - some fifty miles away on the other side of the desert - Foster's beer in hand, clad in my thongs, singlet and hat with corks dangling from the side. When I got there I went to the nearest person and held up a spoon saying "that's not a knife, this is a knife", while simultaneously boxing with the local kangaroo and stuffing copious amounts of Vegemite down my throat. Meanwhile my mate, by the name of Trevor Bruce, wrestled with a crocodile and a drop bear at the same time while a koala bear lurked in the distance, all the while Steve Irwin playing on the TV and the shrimp well and truly sizzling on the barbie.

 

At the end of the night we cleared out the dozens of dead 12-inch spiders before taking a brief smoko and hopping inside the pouch of the kangaroo-taxi to make our 50 mile journery back to our outback home, preparing for the next flock of sheep to shear the next day.

 

 

Blimey, no wonder the crime rate's soaring in Oz...the kids have got sod all to do.

Yes. In fact just the other day I trotted along to the nearest pub - some fifty miles away on the other side of the desert - Foster's beer in hand, clad in my thongs, singlet and hat with corks dangling from the side. When I got there I went to the nearest person and held up a spoon saying "that's not a knife, this is a knife", while simultaneously boxing with the local kangaroo and stuffing copious amounts of Vegemite down my throat. Meanwhile my mate, by the name of Trevor Bruce, wrestled with a crocodile and a drop bear at the same time while a koala bear lurked in the distance, all the while Steve Irwin playing on the TV and the shrimp well and truly sizzling on the barbie.

At the end of the night we cleared out the dozens of dead 12-inch spiders before taking a brief smoko and hopping inside the pouch of the kangaroo-taxi to make our 50 mile journery back to our outback home, preparing for the next flock of sheep to shear the next day.

LMAO thats exactly what i wanted to hear! But what is a drop bear?