On Jun 5, 2015, at 10:00 am, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes we have some venomous snakes (hardly unique there), venomous spiders > (ditto), crocodiles (ditto), box jellyfish (ditto), sharks (ditto). > > About the only dangerous thing in the Australian bush is the chance of being > bulldozed over by a galloping wombat or being pissed on my a koala that's > sick of being cuddled. The fellow at the reptile centre in Alice Springs pointed out that you have to try pretty hard to be killed by a snake in Australia. The venom may be highly toxic but the snakes have very short fangs so it takes a long time for the venom to get anywhere important, and immobilising the limb buys a lot more time again. They won’t get through clothing so if it’s not too hot, trousers & shoes should be all you need. Once you do get medical help they have kits to identify the venom so the correct treatment can be applied. The spiders though… they still scare the crap out of me :) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
