Hi Nik,
ignore the testosterone junkies. There are plenty of spiders, snakes, mosquitoes, leeches and ants etc. in Oz but you're more likely to die of a road accident than from an insect or snake bite. I once climbed past a Diamond Python in Nowra that the girl leading hadn't even noticed it! Most Ozzie biters will retreat before you get there.
Climb safe, ignore the drop bears and panthers and remember the old adage - the leader must never fall - especially now after the intensive bushfires and the loose holds that they must have inevitably have created. |