Current Events > Is going for a walk in the woods a no no in Australia?

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or do they have special forest areas that are free from deadly animals

For over 45,000 years - the Kamilaroi people, and other Aboriginal groups have been doing "Walkabouts", in Australia.

Well, we dont have freaking bears, mountain lions, wolves or coyotes, so its probably a damn sight safer than in America or Europe.

Unless youre in the top end, where there may be crocodiles or cassowaries (dont fuck with cassowaries), its reasonably safe dangerous animals wise.

Snakes are the biggest risk animal risk, really. Boots with high ankles are good for reducing snake bite risk, as well as very thick socks. Also dont go the fuck near them and look where youre putting your feet.

Otherwise, theres the risk of getting lost or if youre unprepared/ try to hike or something in warm weather. You need to take lots of water and should have one of those beacon thingies if youre going off track.

Ive had heat stroke on a hike, back when I was in army cadets for school. We went hiking in early September (spring here) and I got so overheated I fainted a few times. I just got laughed at for being a wuss. My body doesnt deal with heat very well. In retrospect, that was kinda fucked up.

No there are flying invisible spiders that explode

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Well, we dont have freaking bears, mountain lions, wolves or coyotes, so its probably a damn sight safer than in America or Europe.

Unless youre in the top end, where there may be crocodiles or cassowaries (dont fuck with cassowaries), its reasonably safe dangerous animals wise.

Snakes are the biggest risk animal risk, really. Boots with high ankles are good for reducing snake bite risk, as well as very thick socks. Also dont go the fuck near them and look where youre putting your feet.

Otherwise, theres the risk of getting lost or if youre unprepared/ try to hike or something in warm weather. You need to take lots of water and should have one of those beacon thingies if youre going off track.

Ive had heat stroke on a hike, back when I was in army cadets for school. We went hiking in early September (spring here) and I got so overheated I fainted a few times. I just got laughed at for being a wuss. My body doesnt deal with heat very well. In retrospect, that was kinda fucked up.

yall got nasty ticks'n shit? thats what i worry about most here in the us.

BuckVanHammer posted...

yall got nasty ticks'n shit? thats what i worry about most here in the us.

Oh yeah, weve got paralysis ticks. Those can be nasty if you dont find them.

You should get a friend or loved one to give you a tick check after youve been hiking.

Edit: to be honest the worst thing Ive encountered (aside from giving a few snakes a respectful amount of distance) have been leeches. A few leech bites Ive had have stayed irritated for months after.

Ive been followed by a red belly black snake before. Was doing some walking off a track and it followed me through the undergrowth for about 200 metres. Theyre venomous, but not brown snake venomous. They can be aggressive too, but this one was just curious I think.

If you stick to the walking tracks and pay attention to the signs I don't think there is much risk of anything happening.

Either way no there isn't some huge paranoia about the forests here.

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Well, we dont have freaking bears, mountain lions, wolves or coyotes, so its probably a damn sight safer than in America or Europe.

Unless youre in the top end, where there may be crocodiles or cassowaries (dont fuck with cassowaries), its reasonably safe dangerous animals wise.

Snakes are the biggest risk animal risk, really. Boots with high ankles are good for reducing snake bite risk, as well as very thick socks. Also dont go the fuck near them and look where youre putting your feet.

Otherwise, theres the risk of getting lost or if youre unprepared/ try to hike or something in warm weather. You need to take lots of water and should have one of those beacon thingies if youre going off track.

Ive had heat stroke on a hike, back when I was in army cadets for school. We went hiking in early September (spring here) and I got so overheated I fainted a few times. I just got laughed at for being a wuss. My body doesnt deal with heat very well. In retrospect, that was kinda fucked up.

I just googled cassowaries, them MFs are lethal!!

Theyre basically velociraptors, if velociraptors ate fruit and just disemboweled you because theyre assholes.

KalimariX8 posted...

I just googled cassowaries, them MFs are lethal!!

As for eating the cassowary, it is supposed to be quite tough. Australian administrative officers stationed in New Guinea were advised that it "should be cooked with a stone in the pot: when the stone is ready to eat, so is the cassowary".

Australia has forests?

Never been to Australia but I assume if you stick to hiking trails it's probably not much different than most other places.

I mean, hiking in Alaska or Montana there's a chance you'll run into a grizzly. You're not gonna run into anything like that in Australia.

On a semi-unrelated note, I remember when I travelled to New Zealand I looked up dangerous animals to look out for while hiking, only thing that ever kept coming up was a bird called the Kea that was known for basically tearing your car apart, biting off the rubbers seals, mirrors, and wipers. Lol they basically have no land predators, and only 1 native mammal, a bat.

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I really wanna visit Tasmania, lots of old growth forest, still

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Well, we dont have freaking bears, mountain lions, wolves or coyotes, so its probably a damn sight safer than in America or Europe.

Unless youre in the top end, where there may be crocodiles or cassowaries (dont fuck with cassowaries), its reasonably safe dangerous animals wise.

Snakes are the biggest risk animal risk, really. Boots with high ankles are good for reducing snake bite risk, as well as very thick socks. Also dont go the fuck near them and look where youre putting your feet.

Otherwise, theres the risk of getting lost or if youre unprepared/ try to hike or something in warm weather. You need to take lots of water and should have one of those beacon thingies if youre going off track.

Ive had heat stroke on a hike, back when I was in army cadets for school. We went hiking in early September (spring here) and I got so overheated I fainted a few times. I just got laughed at for being a wuss. My body doesnt deal with heat very well. In retrospect, that was kinda fucked up.

We also have massive wild hogs that can be as large as a bear. In the southwestern US, we are trying to reintroduce the Jaguar. We have a bunch of venomous snakes, but you usually live if you get anti venom (although Ive read its the same case with Australian snakes). Oh, and alligators (not as bad as crocs, but they kill people every year).

Whatever nonsense the Americans have fed you about wildlife in Australia is all fake. Yes we have poisonous spiders. No, people dont die from them anymore due to a little something called modern medicine (which is affordable, or free even in Australia). Its way more dangerous just to walk down an American street just due to how many guns there are, and if you call 911 you end up with a 5 digit bill.

yeah nah, we do it often enough. most of the place is trees or desert. australian wildlife being dangerous is a meme. i've seen two brown snakes in my entire life growing up on the edge of the bushland and one of them a dog had a death grip on its head and i'm p sure it was dead.

the one thing you wouldn't want to run in to is a cassowary or an angry wombat. Cassowaries will dead set fuck your shit up, wombats are just annoying little bulldozers when they get mad; but you're only gonna find cassowaries in rainforesty areas tho

i've been kicked by a kangaroo but that was my own fault tbh. don't recommend it.

Irony posted...

As for eating the cassowary, it is supposed to be quite tough. Australian administrative officers stationed in New Guinea were advised that it "should be cooked with a stone in the pot: when the stone is ready to eat, so is the cassowary".

LMAO

Hehe, I wanna use that line at some point.

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Well, we dont have freaking bears, mountain lions, wolves or coyotes, so its probably a damn sight safer than in America or Europe.

Unless youre in the top end, where there may be crocodiles or cassowaries (dont fuck with cassowaries), its reasonably safe dangerous animals wise.

Snakes are the biggest risk animal risk, really. Boots with high ankles are good for reducing snake bite risk, as well as very thick socks. Also dont go the fuck near them and look where youre putting your feet.

Otherwise, theres the risk of getting lost or if youre unprepared/ try to hike or something in warm weather. You need to take lots of water and should have one of those beacon thingies if youre going off track.

Ive had heat stroke on a hike, back when I was in army cadets for school. We went hiking in early September (spring here) and I got so overheated I fainted a few times. I just got laughed at for being a wuss. My body doesnt deal with heat very well. In retrospect, that was kinda fucked up.

Which are worse cassowaries or emu?

Way safer than in America.

Noumas posted...

Which are worse cassowaries or emu?

Emus can be dicks, but theyre not anywhere near as aggressive or dangerous.

Despite the cassowary reputation they've only killed one person in the last century. I don't think they're as bad as people think

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Emus can be dicks, but theyre not anywhere near as aggressive or dangerous.

Imagine running into a beauty like that, right there in the aboriginal!

Xethuminra posted...

Imagine running into a beauty like that, right there in the

Do you make jokes about other races too?

Paralysis ticks huh?

I suppose in the us we have meat virus ticks technically (allergy), but almost no one has actually met an effected person.

The ONLY danger in the woods in Australia is drop bears. Maybe the occasional snake.

It ain't the wildlife you gotta watch out for.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/2/AAeXcuAADXo0.jpg

Hornswoggled posted...

It ain't the wildlife you gotta watch out for.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/2/AAeXcuAADXo0.jpg

Ill have you know I come from a long line of bush pigs and bogans on my fathers side.

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Emus can be dicks, but theyre not anywhere near as aggressive or dangerous.

So basically... those cassowaries really are dinosaurs/raptor descendants?

Where I live, the main rule of thumb is not to walk in tall grass. That's where you're most likely to get bitten by a snake.

They have the Australian cousin of the Sasquatch there. It's referred to as the Trashsquatch. It's less aggressive than its NA kin, but prone to posting garbage takes on gamefaqs.gamespot.com

Noumas posted...

So basically... those cassowaries really are dinosaurs/raptor descendants?

All birds are.

Hornswoggled posted...

It ain't the wildlife you gotta watch out for.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/2/AAeXcuAADXo0.jpg

The best guy to hitch a ride

As long as you know how to avoid drop bears, you'll be sweet as.

Australia was the first foreign country i ever had interest to visit. I had a teacher that had just come back from a year there. Her stories made Australia sound really cool

But then I found out about Huntsman spiders and I noped

I too want to visit Australia some day because I heard they have nice beaches

The only thing you have worry about are the Australians. Peculiarly they seem to enjoy this sport called Aussie Rules Football, similar to Quidditch.

But seriously when I lived in WA the biggest threat was Cyclones, also some insane lightning storms. I saw some interesting spiders, lizards, hornets, ants, etc. Never saw a snake even though some of the deadliest were in the desert nearby.