Paranoid? Me?!
Did you know that a bull sharks young eat each other inside their mothers woomby thing and only the ones that survive get born...not that I've been researching sharks or nothing. They apparently patrol these waters.
Oh, and tiger sharks grow to 8 metres. And will eat anything. They also apparently patrol these waters. Both of these sharks like the really really shallow water as well as the deep stuff. GAH. Mind you a lot of Saudi guys go swimming here really late at night...near the reef...and there's been no reported injuries ever.
Conch shells shoot out darts that'll kill you. However we have mighty dive boots.
The scorpions here'll kill you in 10 minutes and are prone to getting in your shoes. (Apparently...this one's from local camp people and they love to exaggerate.) Bear in mind these are people who haven't grown up with all the creepy crawleys we have. (Bar the Africans. My God those guys won the draw when it comes to nasty creepy crawleys.)
Oh and instead of rodents there are lizards and skinks here everywhere. You'll be walking along and they'll be scooting every which way in front of you. We have one that lives in our garage and gets shirty every time we up the door.
Oh and last night when we were walking along the beach we saw little crabs all over the place running so fast we thought they were spiders. They're almost transparent and about the size of a 50 cent coin if not a bit bigger. They look really funny trying to get out to sea through the surf. There are also some really big ones just offshore about a metre or two that would be about a foot and a half across. I've got a talent for stepping on them by accident and getting nipped. They bury themselves in the sand so you can't see them.
Oh, and tiger sharks grow to 8 metres. And will eat anything. They also apparently patrol these waters. Both of these sharks like the really really shallow water as well as the deep stuff. GAH. Mind you a lot of Saudi guys go swimming here really late at night...near the reef...and there's been no reported injuries ever.
Conch shells shoot out darts that'll kill you. However we have mighty dive boots.
The scorpions here'll kill you in 10 minutes and are prone to getting in your shoes. (Apparently...this one's from local camp people and they love to exaggerate.) Bear in mind these are people who haven't grown up with all the creepy crawleys we have. (Bar the Africans. My God those guys won the draw when it comes to nasty creepy crawleys.)
Oh and instead of rodents there are lizards and skinks here everywhere. You'll be walking along and they'll be scooting every which way in front of you. We have one that lives in our garage and gets shirty every time we up the door.
Oh and last night when we were walking along the beach we saw little crabs all over the place running so fast we thought they were spiders. They're almost transparent and about the size of a 50 cent coin if not a bit bigger. They look really funny trying to get out to sea through the surf. There are also some really big ones just offshore about a metre or two that would be about a foot and a half across. I've got a talent for stepping on them by accident and getting nipped. They bury themselves in the sand so you can't see them.
posted by George at
1:24 pm
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And you have to watch out for the drop camels, too. You can be walking innocently under a date paln when WHAM, one lands on you and bites your head off and acidic stinky camel spit goes everywhere.
Beware the drop camels and their toxic loogies...
Love your posts, they always make me crack up. Tom says hi too!
luv,
NAy
There are lots of little crabs on Fiji beaches, too. The tiny ones are very hard to see, being sand coloured, until they move - very fast. There were some bigger ones about 6 cms across but they disappear into the sand as soon as they see you coming from about 50 meters away - they must have wonderful eyesight!
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