Why Does Australia Have Such a Bad Rap About Its Wildlife?

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de would he see any snakes or spiders. “<i>Of course not,</i>” I reply. “<i>There’s a baby blue tongue lizard running around this morning but he won’t hurt you.”</i> This is only the third blue-tongue I’ve seen in 6 years of living here, so not a common occurrence.</p><p id="bc2e">Keeley and I are in the pool with Caelin when Franz arrives home from a walk. He says he saw a snake and he has photographic evidence to prove it. It’s a python, not a baby, but not fully grown either, but big enough. I proceed to tell him that pythons are harmless and kill by wrapping themselves around small creatures before they eat them. They are not naturally aggressive.</p><p id="1bcd">But Keeley wants to frighten him even more and shows him a video of a python leaping out of a garden attacking a small dog! You must have seen this video, Anne! That’s not normal behaviour for these types of snakes. He must have been very hungry. I spent the best part of my twenties living with snakes — literally.</p><p id="4179">We lived in a farmhouse with sugar cane fields all around us. A very pretty carpet snake made h

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is home on the railings of our front porch. I didn’t want him coming into the house but was happy for him to stay there. Stacey was a 4 month old baby and I didn’t want this fella thinking she could be his breakfast or dinner.</p><blockquote id="dc63"><p><b>Back to today!</b></p></blockquote><p id="8ece">I couldn’t believe Franz had seen a snake! Maybe the more fearful you are, the higher the possibility of seeing one.</p><p id="7f13">I’ve got to stop telling snake stories and frightening people away from Australia.</p><div id="ce95" class="link-block"> <a href="https://andiebee-17203.medium.com/list/55ebcc6a6e11"> <div> <div> <h2>Snake Stories</h2> <div><h3>Edit description</h3></div> <div><p>andiebee-17203.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*9391347ce4dd8975e121d9921af9b30497c530eb.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

I can’t understand it

A koala asleep in a gum tree My photo

Anne Bonfert says “I have no desire to visit Australia. Maybe I’m too scared of all the dangerous animals that live there everywhere.”

Anne, who jumps out of planes for a living, lives in Africa part of the year where there are lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes, warthogs, hyenas, hippos and rhinos to name a few and I’m pretty sure they have snakes and spiders there too.

Sure, we have a few dangerous animals here but if you’re sensible, they won’t attack you unless you interfere with them. Just leave them alone.

This happened today.

I have a German student here for 5 months and the first thing he asked me was if he went outside would he see any snakes or spiders. “Of course not,” I reply. “There’s a baby blue tongue lizard running around this morning but he won’t hurt you.” This is only the third blue-tongue I’ve seen in 6 years of living here, so not a common occurrence.

Keeley and I are in the pool with Caelin when Franz arrives home from a walk. He says he saw a snake and he has photographic evidence to prove it. It’s a python, not a baby, but not fully grown either, but big enough. I proceed to tell him that pythons are harmless and kill by wrapping themselves around small creatures before they eat them. They are not naturally aggressive.

But Keeley wants to frighten him even more and shows him a video of a python leaping out of a garden attacking a small dog! You must have seen this video, Anne! That’s not normal behaviour for these types of snakes. He must have been very hungry. I spent the best part of my twenties living with snakes — literally.

We lived in a farmhouse with sugar cane fields all around us. A very pretty carpet snake made his home on the railings of our front porch. I didn’t want him coming into the house but was happy for him to stay there. Stacey was a 4 month old baby and I didn’t want this fella thinking she could be his breakfast or dinner.

Back to today!

I couldn’t believe Franz had seen a snake! Maybe the more fearful you are, the higher the possibility of seeing one.

I’ve got to stop telling snake stories and frightening people away from Australia.