Florida Living
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 by mschleisner | Discussion: Community
If I get another person who tells me we don't have Alligators or Crocs here in Florida I will pull my hair out, they say, you don't have swamps, you don't have Eagles, rattle snakes, you name it. Look folks if you don't live here and don't google it then please do not argue with me I have lived here over 25 years, had gators at my back door from the pond, big ones. We are tropical here, we have lizards, free flying parrots, and bigger bugs then you can guess. Algae covered trees and swamps. Forrests, beaches ofcouse, but more than most people know. Flamingos do fly free here. Monkeys are loose here too, Bobcats, foxes, wolves, bear, and racoons, possums, and armadillo. Killer bees too. Spiders that would send northerners back home, yes they are big. I have taken many pictures recently and had them questioned, two were in my computer that were in a download from key west, they turned out not to be mine. Didn't know who downloaded them or how they got in the folder, and we saw this same type of thing in near Key West while hiking in the woods, I have several others but will not post. I go through the woods at Hillborough State Park and now that one came into question so no more posts at this time. I will post on my own site outside wincustomize for now. One was reposted by someone else. I give up. my membership will just be for my own satisfaction and not those who know nothing about Florida and how we live, and what animals, bugs, birds live here. If this seems harsh it's not. I just don't think people know what is here and what isn't. I have seen other items taken off the net and posted here as someones photos, not everything here is a photo taken by the person who posted them, and no credit was given to the person who took the photo. Thanks for looking at my photos anyway.
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Reply #42 Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:21 PM
Didn't inhale, we all know that was a crock, but it made for great news didn't it. Opps off track again, sorry. to long to read. Oh well..... Can't even remember what the whole thing was about in the first place. Later.
Reply #43 Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:51 PM
Came across a taipan West of Dalby a few years back....was mating season and quite a harrowing experience. It was easily 10 - 12 foot long and would not allow us past on the bit of road it was occupying....kept rearing up and striking quite ferociously at us if we approached any closer. Despite being in a large furniture removal truck, my traveling companion would not proceed because he said they can get up into the chassis and find their way into the cab....
Uh, oh...thought I....and being a 16yo migrant lad from England, where the most potent slithery thing I'd seen was a non-venomous grass snake, it was a case of: "ya wanna reverse this thing back the 400 miles to Brisbane" Having read that the Western Taipan has more than enough venom in a single bite to drop a dozen elephants, I wanted out of there pronto, like yesterday, even.
Luckily for us, a couple of Aboriginal blokes came along to extricate us from our (potentially bowel moving) predicament....brave boys, those, very, very brave boys. They approached the striking taipan, caught it with their bare hands
and removed it from the road.... 
I saw somewhere that we have a species of stonefish which may be the deadliest of all critters....its venom capable of causing total paralysis within 30 - 40 seconds...death within a minute or so. Got a feeling it was on one of Steve Irwin's doco's.
Reply #44 Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:54 AM
Steve Irwin "RIP". Widow and Daughter doing great, glad he has such a strong family. Bindi is soooooo sweet and she will grow up to be just like daddy I am sure, great role model for the little girls in this world. Daddy would be so proud.
Reply #45 Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:09 AM
You find mating harrowing?
You must be doing it wrong...
Interestingly there's been 2 or 3 people who have survived Taipan bites...
Of course, we ALL 'know' Ayres Rock is just a burial mound for all them that didn't....
Reply #46 Friday, July 27, 2007 2:26 AM
You find mating harrowing?
You must be doing it wrong..
You obviously didn't know my first missus, then....reasons to be fearful, parts 1, 2 and 3. These days I'm not mating at all....too old n' grumpy to have the patience for full-time kids. I mean, I love it when my kids bring my grandkids to visit (visit being the operative word), but when I weary from all the excitement/attention giving, I can say to my kids: "Don't you think it's time to take these lil mites home and get 'em ready for bed.
Um, that's Uluru these days...especially to we European invaders....and now I know that I shan't bother to dig it up to see wots under it.
Reply #47 Friday, July 27, 2007 3:22 AM
...yep, they're silly alright.
You ought to see their impression of Clint Eastwood in 'Dirty Harry'.
"In all that confusion ...did I fire six deadly stingers into you, or only five?" "To be honest, in all that swimming & diving, I can't remember, but ...." "Do ya feel lucky, snorkelpunk?" ....."Well, .... Do ya?!"
Their acting is so damned transparent!
Reply #48 Friday, July 27, 2007 5:20 AM
Yeah, I usually like a performance with more substance....but in the case of the (deadly) impersonating jellyfish, I'd be more than happy to miss the show entirely. Was up at Airlie Beach a few years back when a rescue launch brought some guy in who got stung by one off one of the islands....poor bugger, was touch and go for a while.
Reply #49 Friday, July 27, 2007 8:43 AM
helluva head stone......
probably just as well......more than two thirds of the rock is actually hidden beneath the ground.....and wot with you an' your gammy back an' all......
Reply #50 Friday, July 27, 2007 12:04 PM
Ah, so it's like an iceberg, eh...the biggest bit's underneath.
I didn't really need an excuse not to dig it up. You're right, with me crook back I didn't wanna have to anyway, so when Jafo said wot wos under it I wos relieved. Now yer tells me it's mostly underground (like a huge bloody great chunk of it), I can refer to that instead and save face big time when I make the formal announcement not to dig up Ayers...er, Uluru on national telly. Thank goodness you came along when you did, like before somebody tricked me into it by suggesting that Jafo lied about all them people bein' buried under there.
Reply #51 Thursday, August 2, 2007 12:21 AM
Sure wish I could get up the nerve to go out and take some pictures of something, Other than the problems with the Condos here. New trash compactor idea, one for 31 units instead of 12 dumpsters, and not handicapped accessible, it is dumping out into the parking lot every night, and the smell and flies,maggots, wow 
. This place went crazy in the past two months with problems. Camera full of that stuff. Oh well back to the Dishes now....never ending. Later my friends, oh yeah Fun in Florida....today not so much.Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
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Reply #41 Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:58 AM
We seem to top all the lists....in any form of 'killing' thingie....some silly jellyfish up north is the deadliest of all critters.
All I've ever had to dodge was a brownie....or two....