Hi well I can say Not like This
http://youtu.be/GdtpsG--V3I (http://youtu.be/GdtpsG--V3I)
Yikes.....
I'm staying home.
Don't be so limp. It is a nasty, untrue libel that 20 out of 20 of the most venomous animals on earth live in the Australian outback. It is, in fact, only 19; the 20th, the red back spider, prefers to live in town, under toilet seats.
Perhaps you could carry an inflatable dinghy
Those sharks are slacking off.
Don't think the sharks are losing their edge, Andre -- rather, we may have a categorization problem: the 5 a year doesn't include the 59,995 who died of a heart attack just thinking of the possibility, or seeing a nearby fin, or watching re-runs of "Jaws", etc., etc.
You're a wicked cynic, John. Seriously, I've been explaining for years that the truly dangerous animal to avoid is the hippopotamus, which is a foul-tempered beast, and unstoppable because it weighs several tons. I once put three magnum bullets into hippo and it kept coming. My bearer was in such a hurry to disappear up the tree, he climbed right over my back and stepped in my face, nearly knocking me off the trunk. The hippo tried chewing through the trunk -- not an unlikely ambition; I once saw a hippo take a bite out of the metal roof of a truck we were trying to rescue from a river in flood -- but fortunately lost interest and wandered away. I told the bearer, whose name was Jimbo Makwekwe, to change his socks more often. Later I heard Jimbo dined out on the story of how I missed with three shots at an animal that filled the whole horizon, and he singlehandledly pulled me up this tree... I retaliated by having my mate Andrew McCoy put Jimbo in a book in a most unflattering light.
the truly dangerous animal to avoid is the hippopotamus
Even worse than crocodiles, coming into summer and the beach life, lots of people worry a lot about sharks.
;)
(http://i.imgur.com/FJx6wzu.jpg)
Sharks on average kill 12 people per year world wide, people kill 100,012,920 sharks per year.
At 8,334,410 to 1 it's people sharks should worry about.
For a visual representation:
http://www.upworthy.com/heres-a-fact-about-sharks-and-humans-thatll-stay-with-you-every-hour-on-the-hour-today (http://www.upworthy.com/heres-a-fact-about-sharks-and-humans-thatll-stay-with-you-every-hour-on-the-hour-today)
Sharks are nice to eat too.Does it taste like chicken, Pete? Snake kinda does. Everything kinda does!
Does it taste like chicken, Pete? Snake kinda does. Everything kinda does!
Maybe Il Padrone could eat the crocs while crossing the ford?
Best,
Dan. (...who thinks that may be a tad off-topic for Il Padrone-Pete's request for info on river crossings where crocs might be)
I've eaten croc; much more agreeable that way round! Its not very flavoursome being frank and needs perking up a lot to mask the taste of muddy river. A mate of mine used to have a business doing all that tucker stuff for the tourist trade. Bush barbeques, that sort of thing. Best thing by far was the barramundi fish, with a bit of lemon. Oh and the roo steaks, they were pretty good eating too. Croc though? Thanks but no thanks!
If you're Down Under, Skippy makes good BBQ. I'd explain how to get a joey to volunteer by jumpingg into the roasting bag and rolling himself up oven-ready but I suspect there are some bleeding hearts here
I would not have thought there'd be enough meat on a Joey, but feel free to let us know how to get one to "volunteer". I'm intrigued as always.
This could be of interest:
http://safeshare.tv/w/KkkEFRtyiS
Cheers,
pj
http://safeshare.tv/w/KkkEFRtyiS
Here's a novel by a chum that I edited; clicking the cover takes you to the description at iTunes. I was there, which is how I know about the taste of croc eggs.
He has a stout wire cage with a trap door in the floor. He stands in the cage while it's helicoptered in and dropped on to the nest while the crocs are absent. he undoes the trap door and collects the eggs, then the chopper returns to pick him up. He's suffered a few injuries when the croc has returned, including the loss of a hand that was successfully sewn back on but cost him a few months income. Also (I think?) an accident when the chopper and cage parted company.
BTW, I read Atrocity Week when it was released. I don't want to think how long ago that was!
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Does anybody remember the famous Raleigh advertisement of the fellow pedaling hell for leather across the savannah with a maned lion (most unrealistically -- it's the female that does the chasing) running him down?
Only $550 for an original copy, http://postergroup.com/posters/10027/raleigh-bicycle-lion-chasing-man
There's a great collection of cycling images at this pinterest page http://gb.pinterest.com/Cyclemiles/ from the guy that runs the Cyclemiles online shop, where he also sells some bike related art http://www.cyclemiles.co.uk/
oh to be in all that sunny weather
I'm off to the UK for 6 months in April. I hope you can lay on a decent summer for me.
That's good advice Jags gave you. When I first returned to the UK from Oz, I walked around in a sheepskin flying coat in what they laughably called their "summer", and April ain't the summer yet. There was a whole group of us in Cambridge with sheepskin coats in the socalled "summer"; we used to nod to each other affirmatively and mouth "Only mad dogs," and add, as we stopped our foreign cars (only mad dogs etc drove British cars in those years of Red Robbo's ascendancy in the union at British Motors) with the drivers' doors facing and wound down the windows 2cm max, "If only there were some midday sun to go out into."
In the interests of balance:
Thanks Anto and Andre for the sound advice.
I have been to the UK a few times and know the weather can be unpredictable...
http://s572.photobucket.com/user/berlioz_bucket/media/DSCN0801_zps7fe553b4.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0
http://s572.photobucket.com/user/berlioz_bucket/media/85_zps2668a30c.jpg.html?sort=2&o=1
And to John,
The first 5 days of my LEJOG in 2006 were so hot I thought I would expire. It was in the mid 30's consistently. I've attached a photo of the beach at St. Ives to prove it. It rained and blew in true British style further north but then the last 3 days in Scotland were glorious. (t'other photo)
Cheers,
pj
Hi All,;D ;D ;D ;D thanks pete rub it in ;D
Why do you all live in a Ice Box?
Pete
In the interests of balance:
I remember the Fens with some pleasure. Why, one September, though I took a ride every afternoon for the whole month, I was only soaked 11 times.
You say that like it's a good thing ???
To my way of thinking 11 times soaked in one month is a pretty poor cycling record.