Chilli I thank you for your posting. When we are out detecting we JUST NEVER know what to EXPECT ? {LEASE ALL BE CAREFUL 11
Could you please TELL US the LOCATION of these PARKS J/K
Not so dangerous, to me anyways, but just the other day while water hunting I had 8-10 sharks swimming around me, they would come as close as 8' then turn away. As for hunting where you could be approached, I always carry a big hunting knife on my side, let them see that first and decide if they still want to approach. Happy Hunting.
Same here,I never lost anything in the ocean so no reason to go there.
I do like me some seafood. I just do not want to be seafood.
Any time I seafood I eat it!! Probably how sharks feel about me!!
I have a shark story. I think it was around 2005. We were staying at Cape San Blas on the Panhandle. I like to surf fish and had surfed fish out on the Cape. Gorgeous beach. Wasn't my best fishing outing but always peaceful. Uneventful. We left and the very next week a teenage boy from Tennessee was attacked by a shark in waste deep water while surf fishing. He lived but lost a leg.
Love my fishing. Only freshwater now where I am. But we lived in central Queensland once near the coast. I used to fish like that on the beaches, wade out to my waist and cast at the schools of fish. Id not do that now in hindsight. Especially now with the crazy increase of shark attacks and lucky near misses here these days. We hear of one nearly every week now. Id be using a longer rod and keeping my feet dry now.
You know what Crash? These guys that dive have my utmost respect and they likely think me a wussy. Know what? They are right about me and sharks. And I am
Got any crocs where you are? Australia is full of bad ars animals. And it looks like some of them are in the government now.
I am sure glad you folks are posting these events, MAYBE it might save someone's life
😆 Yeah hard to tell the difference now, though id take my chances with the wild animals, they're more predictable.
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Thanks for the education, Chilli. Never heard of bulldog ants. Bad critters.😆 Yeah hard to tell the difference now, though id take my chances with the wild animals, they're more predictable.
No crocs where we are now. They were there in QLD where we were. I used to catch small sharks in the harbour, reef sharks up to a few feet long, some big shovel nose (they were fantastic eating) biggest I got of those was 7 foot but they grow up to 25 foot. I hooked a few really big ones but they're unstoppable. In the harbour I reckon I hooked a big Tiger, fight lasted about 20 seconds😆 swallowed 6 foot of steel trace and I got back about 12 foot of completly frayed line where it had been abrased by its skin. They used to come in there along with lots of other fish to feed off of the scraps from the prawn and fishing trawllers, they also had a cooking processing building there so it was fish smorgasbord.
Our worst here are the brown snakes, lots of those around but even though they are highly venomous they prefer to get out of your way. You'd only get bit if you step on one or badly surprised one. The worst really believe it or not are bulldog ants. They can be several inches long and have stingers with venom. They are highly aggressive and will seek you out if your near the nest within say 15 feet. Nests are often very small visual wise even though there are hundreds in it. They can ruin your day. Iv been stung a number of times. It says in the link below coastal areas which is not true, they are found nearly everywhere in Victoria well inland hudreds of kms from the coast. There can be within 200 meters in either direction in some places up to 30 nest sites. Thankfully they dont like suburban areas and only like the bush.
They can easy get bigger than quoted too, iv seen numerous around the 4 to 4.5 cm length. They are wicked.
Most dangerous ant
VERY WELL PUT and thanks for replying😆 Yeah hard to tell the difference now, though id take my chances with the wild animals, they're more predictable.
No crocs where we are now. They were there in QLD where we were. I used to catch small sharks in the harbour, reef sharks up to a few feet long, some big shovel nose (they were fantastic eating) biggest I got of those was 7 foot but they grow up to 25 foot. I hooked a few really big ones but they're unstoppable. In the harbour I reckon I hooked a big Tiger, fight lasted about 20 seconds😆 swallowed 6 foot of steel trace and I got back about 12 foot of completly frayed line where it had been abrased by its skin. They used to come in there along with lots of other fish to feed off of the scraps from the prawn and fishing trawllers, they also had a cooking processing building there so it was fish smorgasbord.
Our worst here are the brown snakes, lots of those around but even though they are highly venomous they prefer to get out of your way. You'd only get bit if you step on one or badly surprised one. The worst really believe it or not are bulldog ants. They can be several inches long and have stingers with venom. They are highly aggressive and will seek you out if your near the nest within say 15 feet. Nests are often very small visual wise even though there are hundreds in it. They can ruin your day. Iv been stung a number of times. It says in the link below coastal areas which is not true, they are found nearly everywhere in Victoria well inland hudreds of kms from the coast. There can be within 200 meters in either direction in some places up to 30 nest sites. Thankfully they dont like suburban areas and only like the bush.
They can easy get bigger than quoted too, iv seen numerous around the 4 to 4.5 cm length. They are wicked.
Most dangerous ant
I work as the ops manager for Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), a humanitarian mine action INGO in Palau, working on conducting a targeted technical survey on a Confirmed Hazardous Area (CHA: 01-HAZARD-16) in Aimeliik state in the island of Babelthuap conducting QC on an already cleared lane, when my mine detector (Vallon VMC-4) started squealing. The spot was NOT flagged, so I scanned the target with the deminer’s issued Schonstedt 72GA-72Cd to see what readings he would get…. A magnetometer mid-range signal usually indicates mineral rocks, but also anything else, ranging from deeply buried projectiles, shallow armor-piercing rounds to subsurface frag at less than 50 grams. (non-conformities are rated at Japanese, Type 97 hand-grenades at 20cm, a 25mm AA HE/Frag at 15, or a 20mm AA HE/Frag at 12cm).
The thought of being buried alive makes my skin crawl, it's one of my worst phobias. How old were you and your brother when this happened?
