Life in Australia – What it is Really Like – By BobinOz
What it's Really Like Living in Australia
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Australia hasn’t been a barrel of laughs lately. There have been bush fires in Western Australia, a tornado in north Queensland, severe flooding in southwest Queensland with around 500 homes (and rising) affected and, of course, that almost but not tsunami.
So I thought I’d end the week WITH a barrel of laughs, courtesy of Ross [...]
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I had an email from a reader called Dottianne the other day, and she has rightly pointed out that the pictures of the possums over at my post called Strange Australian Back Garden Beastie Sound Explained are not, how can I break this to you, possums.
They are both “opossums”. Click the link above, check them [...]
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It’s been quite a while since I have had a new kind of intruder come into my house. I have had new intruders on my land recently, I think the last one was the beautiful green tree frog. But nothing actually in the house for some time.
Until yesterday.
First, a little background. Having had a perfectly [...]
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The day was Friday, 5 February, that’s when it happened. On that day I had been living in Australia for two years, two months and 22 days, which is nice and easy to remember.
And that was the day it happened, at last! I saw my first real wild snake.
Yes, previously I had seen a carpet [...]
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Even in Australia, Bad Luck Comes in Threes
You can live in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, (we certainly think we do) but sometimes it doesn’t matter where you live. The forces, whatever they are, can always combine to “bite you”. Bad stuff happens!
We recently had a bad, bad, bad day in [...]
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Forget sharks, blue ringed octopus, stonefish, box jellyfish, Irukandji, crocodiles and cone fish. It’s worse than that!
Believe it or not, I’m usually pretty well organised here at BobinOz. Usually, on Monday, I decide what I’m going to write about for the rest of the week. Then I write the article on the actual day so [...]
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You will already know if you have read my entire blog, (you have read my entire blog, haven’t you?) That the most venomous creature in the world is the box jellyfish. I told you all about him on September 10, 2009.
Now, I really didn’t want to tell you this, but I have decided I must [...]
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