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i love how they stand really staunch. We have one at one of our parks that is muscular as fuck. He's staunch as
Dumbest thing about roos is driving in the outback at dawn and dusk. the silly fluffybunnies are big for jumping in front of cars. If you don't have bars your car is going to get fucked up.
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@Victor-Meldrew Aussie Armed forces have taken on the wildlife before (and lost)
Funny seeing this from back then.
By December 1932, word of the Emu War had spread, reaching the United Kingdom. Some conservationists there protested the cull as "extermination of the rare emu".[19] Dominic Serventy and Hubert Whittell, the eminent Australian ornithologists, described the "war" as "an attempt at the mass destruction of the birds".[20][21][22]
For some reason my mind always goes to a variant of this image when the Emu war comes up.
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Emu are terrifyting. They are huge, they are stern looking, and they have big fuck off beaks and claws.
Thankfully they aren't as angry as Cassowary. Cassowary will fuck your shit right up.
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@mariner4life said in Straya!:
i love how they stand really staunch. We have one at one of our parks that is muscular as fuck. He's staunch as
Dumbest thing about roos is driving in the outback at dawn and dusk. the silly fluffybunnies are big for jumping in front of cars. If you don't have bars your car is going to get fucked up.
During the cooler months down here, the roads are littered with corpses. Everyone's going to or from work around dawn/ dusk when they're about feeding. If you light up the side of the road it can be quite disconcerting how many and how close they are.
Especially when they come in as a result of drought.
Some of them are big. They do a hell of a lot of damage. Taking out suspension, or worse through windscreens still kicking. They're dumb as shit too. Run alongside a slow moving car, and then simply turn into you. Fucking stupid animals.
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Growing up on a dirt farm in country NSW you're never far from the wildlife. Possums in the roof. Spiders in the eaves - or the shitter - and snakes around the backyard loving the water and occasional rodent.
Mustering sheep one day as a lad, had to take a piss, so I got off the motorbike and started my business. Red belly black about 4 feet long slides out of the grass between the tips of my toes and the landing point of my stream.
You can bet I pushed as hard as I could for as long as I could until he buggered off. Not risking a drop on the scaly bastard's back to cause a whip around and sink fangs in my leg.
Earlier in life, got bitten on the bottom of the foot by a Huntsman. Screaming ensued, but I was probably 7.
One day at school not long after there was a brown snake in the verandah area where we hung our bags. Fortunately it was dead, because primary school me was too fucking stupid not to want to touch it.
Things have changed though with the drought - particularly animals coming into urban areas. Most disturbing is the lack of bug splatter on the windscreen when you drive out in the country. In the old days you'd have to clean the windshield at the end of every day and sometimes at lunch.
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Things have changed though with the drought - particularly animals coming into urban areas. Most disturbing is the lack of bug splatter on the windscreen when you drive out in the country. In the old days you'd have to clean the windshield at the end of every day and sometimes at lunch.
interestingly enough I saw a 'meme' on social media recently showing that very fact...
some fella came on and said most modern cars are more aerodynamic and therefore bugs will most often bounce or glance off, which is why you get less bugs on w/s...sounded plausible enough, but who knows, I'm not a bugmotortologist
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Talking of roadkill, has anyone been to Tassie?
Spent 10 days there over Christmas (excellent trip, barely scratched the surface) and was amazed at the incredible amount of roadkill. Wobbles, pademelons, possums, the odd devil (or at least looked like it), and definitely a quoll or two.
Dunno if you get similar amounts elsewhere in Aus but certainly not here in Qld, and I don't recall it in SA either.
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Talking of roadkill, has anyone been to Tassie?
Spent 10 days there over Christmas (excellent trip, barely scratched the surface) and was amazed at the incredible amount of roadkill. Wobbles, pademelons, possums, the odd devil (or at least looked like it), and definitely a quoll or two.
Dunno if you get similar amounts elsewhere in Aus but certainly not here in Qld, and I don't recall it in SA either.
I've always wanted to do a food trip to Tassie. Looks fantastic.
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@MajorRage said in Straya!:
@Hooroo oysters I had there were the best I've had on the planet.
Thing which seemed weird and completely unappealing to both Mrs Boo and I but popped up on signs everywhere was "scallop pies".
Seemed to be a waste of both scallops and pies.
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Growing up on a dirt farm in country NSW you're never far from the wildlife.
When I lived in semi-rural Berkshire, we used to often attend parties/dinner parties with friends who lived near a large country estate with a menagerie (Lord Hanson's place IIRC). The wine often flowed freely and semi-comatose party-goers staggered or were driven home, generally very post-midnight and generally very pissed. Good times.
One night several party-goers returned in a stare of shock shortly after leaving, almost psychotic with fear and vowing never to drink again, babbling about seeing white kangaroos hopping down rural Berkshire lanes
In said menagerie were several Albino Wallabies who often found ways to escape......
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surprised me because the seafood in Australia is usually great.
Personally I have had mixed results.
Prawns usually great, oysters not even close to Bluff but I'm not a fan of the "Pacific" variety anyway. Some of the fish is O.K. but the favourite "Barra" was best summed up by my nephew when he moved over to Straya as a kid - "Mum it tastes like mud" were the words to my sister. You would need to know my nephew to understand how he knew what mud tasted like, but I think his assessment would be accurate.As for phucking scallop pies, I have no words. That says more about the people than the produce.
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surprised me because the seafood in Australia is usually great.
Personally I have had mixed results.
Prawns usually great, oysters not even close to Bluff but I'm not a fan of the "Pacific" variety anyway. Some of the fish is O.K. but the favourite "Barra" was best summed up by my nephew when he moved over to Straya as a kid - "Mum it tastes like mud" were the words to my sister. You would need to know my nephew to understand how he knew what mud tasted like, but I think his assessment would be accurate.As for phucking scallop pies, I have no words. That says more about the people than the produce.
Yeah, I don't find Aussies seafood that great, obviously they do pretty good prawns. But agree with you on Barra, also the stock/standard fish here is Basa compared with Hoki back home. Basa is an awful fish.
The mussels are midgets too.
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@Nepia Basa tastes like egg white. It's a bottom-feeding fish out of the Mekong river. The pollution in the Mekong has turned the water black and killed just about every other living thing, except the Basa. DO NOT EAT IT.
We eat Flake or Hoki. Don't mind Barra when its good. But when its bad its horrible.
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Barracks straight out of a river is beautiful. Farmed is shit. And fresh water is like any fresh water fish, tasteless.
Coral Trout, Red Emporer, Nanigai. Beautiful
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@mariner4life said in Straya!:
Barracks straight out of a river is beautiful. Farmed is shit. And fresh water is like any fresh water fish, tasteless.
Coral Trout, Red Emporer, Nanigai. Beautiful
I've eaten barra and coral trout. Give me NZ tarakihi, blue cod, hapuka, gurnard, flounder and all the rest thanks
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