Crocs

Australia versus USA: Snakes, Sharks and Crocodiles.

2 December 2011 Australia's Bad Things

Before all that scary stuff about snakes and sharks and death and attacks in Australia and the USA, here are a couple of updates. Summer began here in Australia yesterday and Christmas is in the air. I still can’t get used to the two of them together. As Eddie Izzard said, it’s like having custard [...]

Australia’s ‘Other’ Wildlife: Cute Creatures.

16 November 2011 Australia's Bad Things

Time for another reprint of one of my recent articles for Australia and New Zealand magazine. With impeccable timing, given the cockroach and snake posts of last week, today I’m going to be talking about Australia’s ‘other’ wildlife; the nice stuff. With articles like this, I have an advantage over the magazine, even if I [...]

Crocodiles in Australia: On the Street!

29 July 2011 Australia's Bad Things

Crocs in Cairns I have mentioned crocodiles quite a lot on this blog, but as I live in Brisbane I’ve never seen one in the wild and it’s very unlikely that I ever will this far south in the state. But in Far North Queensland, or FNQ as it’s known, crocodile sightings are becoming more [...]

From Hobart to Darwin

22 July 2011 Australia's Places

Anyone who has read the last two or three posts here during the past week, will know that I have travelled to one of the most southerly points in Australia during the middle of winter. As a result of that, I have spent a week enjoying some of the coldest weather Australia has to offer. [...]

Australia, Salt Crocodiles and Death

7 October 2009 Australia's Bad Things

Welcome to another in the series of Australia’s Bad Things. This category was mainly about intruders and trespassers on my land and in my house. But, as I seem to have covered them all for now, I am now looking at some bad things that live in the sea and in creeks and billabongs. Today [...]

Bad Things a Plenty Today

20 May 2009 Australian Climate

In last weeks Australian bad things, I promised that this week I would show you a little bad thing much badder than the ants I had been talking about. But then I had a bad thing of my own happen. For the last 24 hours or so we’ve had torrential rain here in southeast Queensland. [...]