RE: Snakes, Rats & Chats

[Steveqld]

Unfortunate fact of life that a minority of people are dishonest.  I think everyone should be taken at face value originally but even so it would be naïve not to be wary.

Some of the best false pretenders I ever spoke to are the ones who are overly nice and try to establish a rapport with you through shared interests.

I married a lady from Ayr, Queensland which is only a small town so everyone there knew my name even though I worked in Townsville.  One day my staff came back to the station and asked me if I knew "so and so" because they had just stopped him in a car and he professed to being my close friend.  I had never heard of him so I took off my nametag and went around to see him.  For 15 minutes he continued to profess to being my best friend and when I introduced myself he suddenly "realised" he must have been thinking of someone else.

Then he got 2 tickets instead of 1.

[robbiegal]

hey !!
my doggie is from Ayr/Homehill

a little cane field terrier - they call them 'ratters' cause they kill the rats in the cane fields

pretty area
my niece was a nurse at the hospital in Ayr/Homehill before she moved to Innisfail - hubby was a firey there too

small world

[Steveqld]

they call them 'ratters' cause they killed the rats in the cane fields

I thought the 20ft carpet snakes ate the rats and the terriers were called "lunch" for the crocs down Plantation Creek.

In Laws had a cane farm down Rita Island for a while then he was a builder in town.  I miss those wideflap bucks (mudcrabs) straight from the pot into the urn (back in the 70's).

I worked in Ingham and was at the Petrol Station one day when someone came in with a rolled up snake skin that they rolled out and it started before the first bowser and ended after the last bowser.

One of our cars was coming back into town from Forrest Beach late one night and hit a snake.  The head was in the canefield one side of the road and the tail was still in the cane on the other side.  Gave the car 2 flat tyres and slithered off as if nothing happened.

Also used to be a croc in the creek outside town.  Everyone knew it was there and they only lost a dog every now and again.  A farmer was on the way into town one day and came across the croc literally across the road.  The tail was in the water one side of the road and the head was in the water on the other side of the road and it wasn't moving.  National Parks and Wildlife thought they better move it on.

[trout]

they call them 'ratters' cause they killed the rats in the cane fields

I thought the 20ft carpet snakes ate the rats and the terriers were called "lunch" for the crocs down Plantation Creek.

In Laws had a cane farm down Rita Island for a while then he was a builder in town.  I miss those wideflap bucks (mudcrabs) straight from the pot into the urn (back in the 70's).

I worked in Ingham and was at the Petrol Station one day when someone came in with a rolled up snake skin that they rolled out and it started before the first bowser and ended after the last bowser.

One of our cars was coming back into town from Forrest Beach late one night and hit a snake.  The head was in the canefield one side of the road and the tail was still in the cane on the other side.  Gave the car 2 flat tyres and slithered off as if nothing happened.

Also used to be a croc in the creek outside town.  Everyone knew it was there and they only lost a dog every now and again.  A farmer was on the way into town one day and came across the croc literally across the road.  The tail was in the water one side of the road and the head was in the water on the other side of the road and it wasn't moving.  National Parks and Wildlife thought they better move it on.

Bloody Queenslanders and their SKINNY roads :laugh2:
Some of the biggest crocks (and I have seen heaps) are at a place called "Shady Camp" off the Ahrnam hwy on the way to Jabaru in the Northern Territory :ok:

[robbiegal]

my mum had a carpet snake in the ceiling in a house that we lived in along the banks of the Brisbane river
i'd lay in bed at night when a kiddie and listen to the familiar sound -   like a hand slowly rubbing sand across paper
 
then i'd hear a    squeak squeak  eeek  ekkk .... quiet

bye bye mousey

speaking of carpet snakes and crocs eating terriers and north QLD
we've seen our little ratters catch ém (rats not crocs or snakes)  and by God those dogs are fast - the rat is near their size - they just latch on, flick and drop the dead rat

then they strut around knowing that in rat killing territory - mate, they're hot stuff ha ha

i'm scared of snakes but somewhere here I have a picture of one that was sunbaking on a dirt road near Carnarvon (QLD - might have the spelling wrong with this spell checker) anyways, the creature goes entirely across a fair sized dirt road - we had wait quite some time for it to slither off the road as we were on the motorbike or else we could have ended up in quite a tangle with the big fella  

I used to go up Ingham from Townsville for my work (to the hospital and around the place seeing people at home - some, way the billio out in the mountains)
the best 'home visit' that I did - the family had fresh mudcrab and fresh white bread waiting on the table when I arrived - I totally appreciated the feast and they totally appreciated a health worker doing a home visit that took in 170 klms

even though I never go back there - I do have some fond memories
the hubby goes back every year to Townsville -

my father was a crocodile hunter in the Solomon Islands in the 1950's - I thought that movie with Paul Hogan was sort of stupid having grown up in a house with a man who really did hunt them for a living

Steveqld you just got up other people for posting in the wrong part of the forum this discussions going off topic and has nothing to do with (coin chit chat)

hey man
sorry i'm off topic too

threads can tend to go that way

I spose we have to delete them or put them somewhere else

i'll start a crocs and rats and chat thread

steve and I can chit chat til the cows come home - me being an ex north queenslander and all !

[Nevol]

Your wish is my command!

[trout]

WOOHOO, the crocodile Robeeee thread :yahoo:

[Steveqld]

Copied from the old thread.........

Until the thread's split I love the old tales - like reliving one's youth.

 We had friends up Innisfail and like all cane farmers they had a ski boat so we went skiing on the Johnstone River. Years later I did a joint helicopter flight up the Johnstone with Boating and Fisheries. We saw about 8 good sized crocs. One (only a baby about 8' long)was sunning on the bank and we hovered about 10 feet away and he wasn't in the least bit fazed. Thought it was dead until a quick flick of the tail and it was off.

 The hills outside Ingham would be up near Wallaman Falls, largest single drop falls in the southern hemisphere. Spectacular in the wet season and they don't have them near "Shady Camp" off the Ahrnam hwy on the way to Jabaru in the Northern Territory.

 Trout, can the NT match this one from Cape York???

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/death-of-a-monster/story-e6frg8gf-1111118162303:taunt::taunt::taunt:

[purplepennyhunter]

WOOHOO, the crocodile Robeeee thread :yahoo:

I read with interest..

[trout]

Loved reading that Steve , Thanks Mate :good:

[Steveqld]

Loved reading that Steve , Thanks Mate :good:

They are beautiful animals.  Snakes however are another matter.

[Fulvio]

Bloody Queenslanders and their SKINNY roads :laugh2:

You got THAT right...

I was coming back from Cairns in a brand new Magna Executive a few years ago, and decided to go inland to Townsville via Charters Towers to get away from canefields.

140kph, on a dead straight highway about 3 feet wide, with a bloody great truck trying to climb in my boot. Six foot tall grass either side, and suddenly six roos jumped out in front of me.

Talk about needing new undies... not a damn thing I could do. Touch the brakes and I'm flattened, swerve and I roll, so full steam ahead.

Luckily, the big ones jumped again across the road, the rest hopped back to the left, except for the little bloke, who went under the left corner.

When I managed to stop, about 2km down the road, the plastic bumper was a bit wonky, but otherwise all OK.

Mr Avis ended up charging us two and a half grand for that little episode when I got back to Melbourne, and my boss was NOT happy. Still, the bastard cheated me out of thirty grand not long after, so I could care less.

But yeah, give me Victorian roads ANY day!

[robbiegal]

Your wish is my command!

fanks aunty!! :heart:

[robbiegal]

Trout, can the NT match this one from Cape York???

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/death-of-a-monster/story-e6frg8gf-1111118162303:taunt::taunt::taunt:

hey Steve
I remember those people from when I lived in Karumba
it's great when people turn conservationist

but yes, that was exactly how my father hunted crocs
in long boats and at night and when at best, with the single shot
it was a small extra job just to earn extra money, fashionable at the time and an expensive sought after commodity and it helped to feed a family
and the shootings helped to keep the small islands a little safer as the salties there were definitely man eaters  in those days

[trout]

as the salties there were definitely man eaters in those days

Nothing has changed (Except that the population of Crocs has risen) they are still Rather  good at killing people :ok: