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Murray River area anyone? if not how far? 20-May-2009 At 2:02:19 AM foreverabumbly

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On 19/05/2009 Sarah Gara wrote:
>and as we were walking through the beautiful mossy wood -we got attacked
>by a load of caterpillers -they were everywhere and every time you looked
>you had another crawling up your leg or on your shoulder -Now I wasn't
>scared as I know nothing in the Uk can kill you but I still didn't like
>them crawling on me. -Am I just gonna have to toughen up?

Dont you have spitfires over there? the poisonous catterpillers (again not joking)

All stirring aside (freaking out Poms about snakes spiders etc is part of our national identity and is a requirement) you do get used to the creepy crawlies, they do tend to keep to themselves. You do need to put up with some amounts of crawling on you, it is what happens. Dry your eyes and get over it. Treat poisonous things with healthy respect and they will do the same too you.

But you also get to witness the beautiful landscapes that are unique to Australia. Get woken up by Kookaburra's (or Gala's) get close to cool animals like Kangaroos, then you can shoot them and eat them. (I just came from a party where we had two roos over a spit - fantastic)
The people are friendly and generous. There is always people willing to help. There are no fanatic football (soccer to us) fans ready to go you with a shank for wearing the wrong colour top. And you think a spider is dangerous!
We embrace and love the metric system which is a far better way of measuring things than pounds and miles - which you lot seem to have hard time letting go of.

And the beer is better.