What is This Thing For?

Not to mention cone shells, sharks, box jellies, bluebottles, Irukandjis, blue-ringed octopus, Pfeffer's flamboyant cuttlefish, blue dragons. The marine life can kill you in so many wonderfully excruciating ways, many of them mercifully short. It's all part of the charm!

I said visiting Australia is on my bucket list, not swimming in your waters.....

Oh come now. Even the utes* go surfing. Mainly around Perth. Their drivers are even worse than the ones on the east coast.

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^{_{* utes - utility vehicles, ie, 'pickup trucks/cars with a truck bed'}}

That's bad, but nobody drives worse then those coming in this state from Sarnia or Windsor... I am sure I will eat crap for this statement but I have driven I94 with Canadians looking for the next best deal. I love our Canadian neighbors but some of them can't drive for *@#%.......

Come to think of it, this pair were on their way to Toronto.

Hey! As a Canadian (and from Ontario too) I... have to agree with your comment.

Don't need to go near the water to find plenty of nasties - and they aren't all animals!

Lots of that in Queensland. I posted on this a few weeks ago.

Guess that's where I learned about it. Thought I'd heard it on the radio. Sorry for the lack of credit (senior moment ).

Just don't do what the post office here does: confuse Australia with Austria. My fiancee's Christmas present arrived six weeks late. She hadn't received it and it had been over a month; I inquired at the post office and they said it was in New York.

"Why is it in New York? That's not even the right direction."

"They shipped it to AUSTRIA and now it is on it's way back, and from here we'll ship it to Australia."

"How did it get shipped to Austria in the first place? The label was clearly marked "Australia" and the receipt reads "Australia," and so the bar code has to be coded for Australia as well, given that it was printed at the same time with the same address as the receipt? Isn't much of the package sorting done by machine?"

"Evidently your package was handled by someone who flunked geography."

an "a" and a "l", really, you don't understand that... I graduated in 1984, with common core, I don't think my kids have half the education I received.

You want cool you should come in winter. Best place on earth (speaking from MPOV} and those things that want to kill you wont if you leave them alone. I have encountered them all and I am still around. Please try to make it here one day and be pleasantly surprised.

Yes, The River Crab is the place. Still have some vouchers for free drinks and meals.

I loved the little bit of shoreline on the channel near the road just North of the entrance. Some nice crunchy sand and lush soft grass. Spent a little time there walking with my shoes off and relaxing.

Usually stayed at "Bugle Boy" strip mall just out of town.

That is on the St. Clair River, pretty much everything that comes from Lakes Superior, Michigan, and Huron, flowing through that river to lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Niagara river, Niagara Falls, Lake Ontario, out through the St. Laurence Sea Way.....21% of the fresh water on the planet by volume.....so that channel you liked so much has a little more meaning.....Being a Great Lakes child, thought I would give meaning to what you enjoyed. Most people visiting don't realize what they are enjoying, they see the St. Clair river, or they Detroit river and don't realize all that water goes over Niagara falls and is part of 21% of this planets fresh water.

Nothing a dab of Vegemite behind the ears and under the armpits wouldn't cure. Just don't use Marmite - drop bears think it's a sex pheromone. The last bloke who tried that barely made it out of the bush alive, swearing that he'd just been shagged by a fleet of jackhammers.

What made it so disconcerting to many is that he crawled back in for another go.

OMG!!! ROFLMAO twice already!!!

Nah !! We call them kittens, when they grow up, they usually hunt lions. :-0

Seriously, we have neither in this country.. Feel sorry for you folks who do.