pesto3 Posted January 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Are they poisonous? No, they are not really poisonous but they do bite. And what little venom they have will hurt but the most you will get is some inflammation. A red back could be right next to me and it wouldn't bother me. They are poisonous and have killed people but Huntsman's just give me the creeps! I remember when I was 16 and I had to help my boss move house. He had a bunch of old furniture under his house that looked like it hadn't seen the light of day for 50 years. We were carrying this big old table and, as if on cue mind you, dozens of huntsman's were basically following us....running and jumping!! I didn't want to know what was under that bloody table!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pesto3 Posted January 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 You should have seen the jungles in Vietnam everything either crawled, slithered or flew and the ones that flew were filing flight plans, soooo many bugs and they all wanted a piece of you... Looking forward to going there one day!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pesto3 Posted January 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 As I recall, you Aussies have some of the most poisonous spiders and snakes on the planet. Please keep them down there! Yeeeeeeah, we do. I guess growing up with it you don't think about it. Amazingly the biggest killer of tourists in Australia is the one thing they come here for....our beaches. We have savage rips and swells (not to mention the Noah's (sharks)) and people just are not use to it. Even with swimming between the flags it's easy to be pulled "outside" the into the danger zone and by then they are to knackered to do anything about it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FotonDrv Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 6 hours ago, pesto3 said: Looking forward to going there one day! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Be careful what you wish for. I have a buddy who recently moved there for the warm weather, inexpensive living and good food and whatever other benefits might derive. He has found healthcare lacking considerably and that environment is such that good healthcare is essential! Go visit and take plenty of DEET. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parisbrownep Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 My boss at work put this under my chair in the lunch room as a prank. a harmless carpet python, snakes don't bother me. I put it up in the back table and when dave (the Irish man) came in I told him I found one of his tools out on the job "it's right over there in that bucket" well he tipped the bucket over towards him to look inside and the scream was one of the funniest things I have ever heard!! Lmao. So I put him in my truck so I could take him out in the bush to let him go, well I got busy and I forgot and an hour later I look over So I went around to the passenger side to let him out and he went into the dash, so then I had to pull the whole dash apart just to get him out!!He is safe now back in the bush. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pesto, you're going to have to stop with the scary stories about our harmless fauna. You'll be frightening off all the septics. They need a break from Trumpville and we could do with their dosh.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Ora Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 Years ago before the movie arcnophonia came out I live in an old weather board house in the bush I felt something crawl over my cheek sprung out of bed and turned on the light I could see about 20 to 30 of these suckers every where .they can bite but easy to pick up Outback Kamado Bar and Grill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyfish Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 Holy..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beermachine Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 Mate I've seen my share of huntsman spiders but that has to be the biggest I have ever seen! Bloody hell!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
