Going to Australia for the first time any advice please? (Page 2) Anne aka Mags: The souvlakis @ Stelagtites was a fave of mine when I lived in Melbourne!  love the NGV & International Gallery too. Barnesy♪ღ♪: If you are planning on a road trip! watch out for the roo's on the road. with this wet weather, they come towards the roads, for water..  SignalHunter: add snakes and spiders to the list ... and care in the water for great whites. Lucky for us the drop bears only come out at night.  Tess8: I can see the Aussie humour is alive and well on the replies to your post. Thats whats makes a trip to our country so enjoyable.You are getting lots of good advice, hope you are coming for a long time....so much to do....lol
 Killryde: Maxx did I say that you said dropbear? no, It was merely an example of the kind of stories we tell tourists, alot of countries do it. And what kind of Aussie doesn't make lighthearted cracks about neighbouring states? I live in Tas and I bet you've made a few "two headed" or "incest" jokes yourself, and so I refer to WA as the Texas of Australia, because quite frankly, it is. Bimba Dolce: Hi Tess 8, looks like a fantastic country to visit. I hope to stay at list for 5 weeks, i should know sometime next week if in work the give me the permision to take all my annual leave in one go, lol!! Is a long way to travel for less than 1 month and is so much to see.:-)  max_opp: As an aside approx 75% of all the worlds animals are only found in Australia. In addition to the drop bear mentioned above is the "hoop snake". This snake puts it's tail in it's mouth and springs into a hoop and bowls along after you! Only way to escape is to climb a tree!  SignalHunter: I must look it up. I am sure its a distant cousin of the death adder. Have you ever tried the drop punt method of removing these ones, I have heard it works and I am sure this is where our football code was developed from. No wonder us Aussies are good at sports. Killryde: 75% of all the worlds animals only in Australia? what is your source for this information? max_opp: Ah Killryde I was wondering when your negative trolling would make a reappearance. And here we have one Australian questioning another on source of facts. Our education system must have by passed Launceston. Hardly any encouragement for our potential visitor! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Australia Killryde: As anyone should be aware of, you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet, hence my request for the source, and yet you direct me to Wikipedia? possibly the most untrusted encyclopedia online, I'm gonna need something a little more official than that.  MegglePaws: If you feel comfortable, let us know where you plan to travel. There are some of us who would be willing to give you a place to stay and even take you out and about so you not only get the tourist perspective but also the local perspective. I'm happy to say if you ever make it to rural Victoria (East Gippsland in particular) that we'd happily give you our spare room and drive you around etc. max_opp: Well you find it then as I don't plan to provide the obvious shortcomings in your education. Try the encyclopdia Brittanica Killryde: You mock a person because they weren't aware of ONE bit of information? doing so implies that you claim to know everything amd anything, there is only one tpe of person who does that and it's not a good one. I am sure that there are many, many things you do not know yourself, even about our own country.  NormanClature: @max opp Wow! Had no idea Platypus were venomous! (Ehem) Launceston makes for a lovely segue within a visit to Tasmania. Beyond it you'll find state forests and highlands offering wilderness to the horizon in every direction. We have rough seas for the adventurous surfer. And passionate primary producers supply ingredients for a kings feast. (Edited by NormanClature) tle_brad: Melbourne, Byron Bay, Cairns, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Broome. Maybe Uluru. Depends what u wanna do, whether its see cool stuff, or party harty! | Travel Chat Room Similar Conversations |
