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Published: February 18th 2008
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cane toad!
just before he went in Ryans shoe!! During the past couple of weeks, I have documented all the wildlife we have in our house… as you can see from the photos, we’ve had loads! Here are a few…
* CANE TOADS AND FROGS
Ok, so imagine trying to watch a film in your lounge and not actually being able to hear a word that’s being spoken due to the weird grunting that’s going on behind your head! Yes, these are our frogs!! They sit n nice and quietly behind the wall of our makeshift lounge wall and as soon as the ‘play button is pressed, like a plea for attention they start their non harmonious croaking!
Well, the other day we had a cane toad in our house, or more specifically in Ryans shoe!! His shoes were in the lounge whilst we were all sitting there, and a big cane toad hopped out! It hopped around a bit and then settled back in its nice stinky home!! (he he, we didn’t actually tell ryan, so I think he had a bit of a surprise the next morning!!)
* THOUSANDS OF COCKROACHES
Disgusting as it may seem, these are all over Australia! We
cockroach!
randomly on our ceiling!! have big shiny black ones and little brown ones! The big ones are a bit freaky when they crawl out of your underwear draw!! The picture is of one on our bedroom ceiling!!
One night, me and gemma were cooking when one appeared at the side of the stove… I grabbed the biggest knife I could find and chopped it clear in half! Cockroaches are really strange,, when they die, they turn on their backs and do a kind of breast stroke swimming action with their legs, this is apparently them laying eggs (I suppose if they’re already dead, they don’t have to go through the pain of labour!!) well, this cockroach that we chopped in half, the back half started doing the egg laying thing and the front half was practically running a marathon around the hobs!! And this is no exaggeration, even after squirting them with ketchup and other kitchen supplies… the two halves actually stayed moving for at least 20 minutes!!
* MICE
He he.. ok s this is quite minging, but we kept seeing a dark shadow run across the wall in the lounge… thankfully far to big to be a spider!!
We
mouse poo!!
right in our cup of tea!!! finally realised it was a mouse.. Jodie opened his drawer and it had made a little nest in his clothes (awww)! From that day on we saw loads of mice… they were in our room one day… 3 of them running around together would you believe!! (though unfortunately, I don’t think they were blind!!!) and one evening myself and Gem had to get something out of our suitcases, which we stored under the bed, and as she opened hers, a mouse ran out!! We found a big mound of fluff… ive attached a photo… see if you can guess what it is (it had us puzzled for ages!!!)
We complained to the land lady about the mice and she gave us some poison and said she was going to get us a cat!! Wooo.. exciting, so she’s got "charlie" a ginger female cat, in her house and we’re getting it in the next couple of days!!
* HUNTSMEN SPIDERS
Ok, ive sent pictures of these before, they’re massive, speedy and creep up on you in the shower… enough said!!
* UNIDENTIFIED SPIDERS AND BUGS
There are thousands! Everywhere! Even in your shoes!
* FLIES
Ok this section is dedicated being harassed, followed, annoyed, (and no, im not talking about about Australian men!!!)
Im talking about the flies here… in actual fact, the plague has now gone.. but I wrote this a while ago and as im writing about animals I’ll post it so you can understand the torture I went through a few months ago!!
So im sure everyone can remember the summer days, having a picnic on the beach/field/garden, and how annoying it was to have a fly land on your food. Well, I remember the days with fondness.
One swipe of your hand and the polite English fly disappears, they rarely land on you and if they do, they don’t dare linger for long.
Well, australian flies are absolutely RELENTLESS!!! They are rude and arrogant, and there are literally thousands of them!! (actually, and I quote from “THE AGE” which is the Australian national newspaper, that there are currently a zillion flies to every Australian!!)
Its strange as Australia is amazingly clean, there is no rubbish on the streets anywhere, no sewers or anything smelly but the flies are like living in a third world country. They live on sweat and tears so are constantly in and out your mouth, eyes, ears and nose, waving your hand doesn’t help, they are immune to it and just come straight back, or don’t move at all!
You can be sitting on the beach and where at first it feels like you’re the only one suffering and waving your arms around like a fool, it soon becomes obvious that everyone out here looks like they have some kind of crazy twitch / tourettes disorder as they constantly battle against the dreaded flies!!!
One day for example, I was walking along the street (surrounded by the annoying beasts as normal, and popped into a shop (which thankfully are usually fly free) and after my short time of sanity, left the shop only to be greeted by the same swarm of flies (ok, so they may not actually be the same, but it does feel like the same ones follow you everywhere!!) this theory was proven (if somewhat unscientifically) when I went on a bike ride. Yes, even on a bike you cant out run them!! Flies were buzzing round my head, and due to the fact it felt like my head was buzzing the whole time, im sure they sat in the grooves of my helmet, waiting for me to dismount in order to launch their attack again!
note... its extremely hard to take a photo of a fly!!!
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