[LargeFormat] Typical - lovely weather for landscapes

[john frost]

Icky Yuck!!
http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Ebush/dugite.html provides more info than
I care to no.....
john (:>)

rstein wrote:
> 
> Dear Philip,
> 
>      I'm afraid Dave is right in a way. It is considered prudent to open
> parcels I send with heavy canvas gloves on and your trousers tucked into the
> tops of your boots. A long forked stick and a shotgun are not out of the
> question, either.
> 
>      The reason for this, as Larry Hamilton can attest, is that Perth still
> has a considerable amount of good bushland in and around what are peopled
> suburbs. Just how many erstwhile denizens of the bush have taken to the
> urban environment with a gusto is evident on our city freeway. I have seen a
> number of roos bounding around Woodlands and unsuccessful foxes smeared out
> on the side of the road. And as far as our slithery friends - well I was
> pulling into the carpark of our local hospital a year or so ago and as I
> waited to pass the little dinky gate I looked down and a 6-foot Dugite
> steamed past in the gutter, intent on going across the road and enjoying
> itself in the cages of the Murdoch University veterinary school. Or the
> canteen, or wherever.
> 
>      Dugites are not deadly unless they bite you and you die - sort of like
> funnel web spiders and redbacks and that sort of thing. Or sharks. Sharks
> are fine in the ocean. I like sharks. I have an agreement with them - I do
> not go in the water and they do not come into the saloon bar. It is a mutual
> comfort.
> 
>     But  do beware of the parcels. The Fedex man gets a haunted look on his
> face whenever I call him up.
> 
>      Uncle Dick
> 
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