So i'm bored and thought i'd share some of my stories of my close encounters with Australia's wildlife. I live in a small coastal town surrounded by national parks so my encounter rate is a bit higher that those in more built up area's so dont be afraid to come and visit your more likely to crash your car than encounter something dangerous here lol.

Story 1: The Kewi's And The Lizard

This is a story happened about 6yrs ago when i was 6 months pregnant with my son.

I had just moved back from the city to my mum's and at this time she was renting out her spare room to a pair of kewi sister's. My mum was out of the ocuntry at the time leaving me in charge of things. One night i head to bed early cause im 6 months pregnant and its exhusting lol. 5 mins later i hear a scream like blue murder from the kitchen, so i get up and waddle to the kitchen -you cant really go much faster- i turn in from the hall and see a sight never before seen, one sister on the bench, one on a chair and the aussie boyfriend doubled up with laughter -i've honestly never seen someone laughing so hard- so i ask the sister on the bench what's wrong and she points to the cupboard and said 'its in there' now we keep our brooms in this cupboard so thinking this may be something dangerous i arm myself with a fruit bowl and go to investigate. I open the door and find in the corner a fairly large blue tounge lizard -about 30 cm- so i scoop it up and take it outside, i tell the girls all lizard are relativly harmless in aus and tell off the boyfriend who is still doubled up that as a man that should have been his job to remove the lizard instead of making the pregnant lady do it and go back to bed.

Story 2: The Snake In The Night

This story happened when i was 10 yrs old.

When i was a kid i would go to a horse camp about an hr away from home every holiday, this place is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. One night at this camp I was walking past the senior's cabin when i hear a scream by the mess hall. I ran down to the mess hall just in time to see one of the relatives of the camp owners decapitate a red belly black snake with a shovel. i felt kinda bad for the poor thing though as it was only a baby but even the babies can kill and in a camp full of kids that wonder around the buildings at night -like i was- it had to be done.

Story 3: The Wolf Spider

This happened in town shortly after i got my first car in 2007. I was walking across the car park of macca's when i see in an empty space a fairly large wolf spider, now im not ashamed to admit that im scared out of my pants by spiders regarles of size, so i put about 2 m beteween me and the s;ider and walk past it, as im in line with it it turns my way and i kid you not ran right after me, neadless to say i screamed and ran into macca's as fast as my legs can carry me only to be welcomed by the curious stare's of patrons there cause i must have just looked totally nutso jumping at what from there point of view was nothing.

Story 4: The Brown Snake  and the taipan.

Australian is home to 8/10 of the world most deadleist snakes and up the top are The Coastal Taipan and The King Brown. when i was younger i owned my own horses and would go trail riding all the time and on more than one occasion i have run into both of these snakes, but due to good training and trust between me and my horses, i was never thrown and they were never spooked, i just stop them and wait for the snakes to pass.

Story 5: The Copperhead Python

My first job out of high school was as a stable hand for a riding school, and they would have weekend riding trips to the hinterland area's. One such trip i was coming back from an ice run into town to the camp ground and i see a huge snake on the rd i was already going slow cause it was a pretty bad gravel rd and it was pitch balck, so i stop the car and let the snake pass. From the light of the car i could clearly tell what kind of snake it was.

Story 6: The Carpet Python

This one is not one that happened to me but my dad. My dad lived at this time in a small granny shake on the back of a property in the bush, one day he goes to stroke what he think's is the cat in her basket but instead finds scales instead of fur. he pulled his hand out of the basket and looked inside. He found a 2 m carpet pythin curled up asleep. The cat was fine as he found her a min later sleeping on his bed.

Story 7: The Huntsman

And my last story happened to me when i was still in highschool and staying at my dad's for the night.

One night while watching tv in my bed i feel something crawling on me, i look out of the corner of my eye and see a giant huntsman spider -at least as big as my dad's hand- crawling across my shoulder, for someone who is terrufued of spider this was a nightmare come true. i was so scared i couldnt scream, but as i was gasping my dad turned on the light to check i wasnt having an asthma attack and saw the spider. he scopped it up in a take-away container and dumped it outside. and if your wondering yes i did still sleep there that night lol.

and one last encounter just yesterday i walk out my front door to find this  a very large -35 cm- blue tounge lizard.

Sweet Dreams HP! mahahahahahaha

Hahaha those are awesome stories!

I used to live in Mackay, Queensland and where we were, there was a lot of frogs and snakes (and dingoes and kangaroos). The property we were on had a really, really old bird cage that was erected on a concrete slab. There was a small hole going under the concrete slab on one side and one day I saw a frog sitting at the entrance of the hole. It looked it was trying to crawl out and was struggling, so I grabbed it and tried to pull it out. It was really stuck! I pulled a bit more and it finally came out, but there was a large eastern brown snake attached to the other end of it. I had just tried to steal a frog from a snake.

-Shivers at Shaes Snake Story-

That there is something I would do!

Now what stories do I have....

1. When I was younger about 8 My dad went to the toilet late at night/Early morning. and He thought there was a belt that had been left on the floor (He hadnt turned on the light) Any way he goes to pick it up and realises its a snake. Next thing I know our dog (Hyperactive Weimaraner) Has been thrown into my room and I'm told to stay put! Somehow my dab grabed the meter long snake, then threw it off our balcony into the bush.... I think it was a Green Tree Snake but really could have been anything.

2. A Similar time to the sotry above, I had a Diamond Head Python live on my veranda for a couple of weeks. He was always in the same spot. He wasnt too big. And Kinda right outside my bedroom window. I use to ride my bike past him run past him, play near him. I had grown up with enough knowledge of snakes to know to give them their space but we werent overly concerned with him. 

3. A few years later, while I was at school my dog (Still the hyperactiver Weimaraner) has been stalking the Aloe Vera that we had growning at the bottom of our back stairs. Well she has enough and gets right into it and attacks a NEST of baby Snakes. she kills them all. Again I was too young and not at home, But I did avoid those stairs for a while.

4. This sotry is from where I currently live. The First 3 I lived in a small country town and snakes, lizards, etc are common. Where I currently live is suburban, but was originally bush maybe 10 years or so ago. My house backs onto a Fire trail so its still quite bushland like. Well my housemate cat, catches and brings in a Snake. Snake Is a Juvinile Green Tree (We think/other wise its a brown) Snake finally escapes her clutches, and hides in/under the washing machine. I was the lucky munchkin that Had to try and get it out! - http://fillyrox.deviantart.com/art/STOCK-Snake-3-383887085 - I actually thought he was quite cute when all was said and done!

Also here have a picture of a CUTE Koala that I spotted on a horse ride about a month ago! http://i.imgur.com/3KO5nyN.jpg

Your spiders make ours look like daddy long legs....NOPE!!! Time to burn everything to the ground! D:

I want to ride where we can see a Koala!

good lord ewwww 

yeah i live in koala central but unfortunatly there hasnt been one seen in yrs, sadly the poor things are nearly extinct in South East Queensland so its sad that my kid may never see a wild oala when i had one living in my backyard for a yr.

and also i forgot a story lol 

Forgotton Story: The Bull Shark

So yrs ago when i was at tafe and living in the town i do now i was fishing off the wier by the river, it was a nice summer day and i had my feet in the water -as you do when you fish off any kind of jetty- and nothings biting and then i feel something rough brush against my foot i look down and i see this shark tail going down into the depths. Its safe to say that a) ive never put my feet in the water there again and b)we have a very healthy river lol.

This all happened in a little cannal right round the river bend from a busy park and whenever my son goes there i make sure to watch the water  and no swim if its been heavy rain. but our river is so clear that although we have sharks there has never been an attack either in the river or at the beach.

i would love to visit australia but the animals freak me out.. 

OhOh!i have a shark story too!!!!

so we all know Chunga-stock and mystery right? well one day they asked me to do like model shoot for them. So here i am about to jump in this river in a freaking wedding dress and next thing i know right in the shallows is a FREAKING BULL SHARK (Ok it was only like 1mtr) chasing its dinner!!! I still jumped in the water... I think im insane

you are nuts but in a healty river system your perfectly safe swimming with sharks even the aggressive bull's lol.

-dies-

I'm so glad that I live where the worst thing I'll probably ever encounter on land is a skunk. xD ...And I get freaked out when I'm in the lake that a harmless catfish might brush up against me. lololol.

I had a close encounter of the huntsman spider kind. Not once, but twice! For a number of years I had to shower on the floor because I didn't have a shower bench. Anyway I would absent-mindedly get undressed and sit on the floor and THEN turn the shower on. On two occasions spiders have bolted out of the drain holes as fast as a flash of lightning and went right up my body. Can you picture what a cat or dog does on lino when it's just laying there minding its own business... and then it hears its owner open the fridge door? (It's legs go all over the place as it tries to bolt from a stand-still). Well that's exactly what happened with me and my useless floppy legs as I tried to hurry away from it on the wet tiles!! hahaha.