I am in my 70s I have seen 3 snakes in the wild in my life. When walking in the bush wear boots and jeans Stay on paths if possible. Keep grass around houses short. 3 snakes in 77 years and I live in the country ! You will have to visit a wildlife sanctuary to find some snakes.
Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia all have local competitions of AFL. They also have teams in the national AFL competition, as do NSW and Queensland.
I live on the coast about two hours north of Sydney. It’s very beautiful and tropical - lots of beaches.. you won’t find a terrifying thing but just beautiful sand/shrub and coastline.. It’s also very multicultural - the central coast of nsw, Australia is pretty amazing
Australian towns and cities are very clean. You don't have to worry about stepping on something you shouldn't. Being barefoot is more about comfort than class. Your feet are excellent radiators - you might notice you feel cold if your feet are cold. It works in your favour when it is very hot - you feel cooler when your feet aren't covered in layers of cloth, rubber and leather.
Australian snakes are smart. You rarely see them. I live in a rural area 35 km out from our Capital city Canberra. We have been here for nearly nine years. In all that time, I have seen two Brown Snakes. The first one was a small one and as soon as he saw me he disappeared. The second was in the yard of a church which is next door to us. This one was larger but he wasn't wanting to hang around for a chat. He quickly vanished into the grass and I have not seen him since. I spent 32 years as a geologist. Geologists spend a lot of time wandering around looking at rocks and whacking them with hammers. In my 32 years I only saw 3 snakes. The first one was a rather large Red Belly Black Snake. He was wound around a water bore because it was warm. As soon as he saw us he disappeared. The second was a large Eastern Brown. We had stopped our four wheel drive to take a measurement and when I climbed out of the vehicle and gone to the rear to get some equipment I noticed this large snake attacking the tyre on the passenger's side. I suggested to my friend look out the window and NOT open the door but to take the hand brake off a little and let the car roll back a few feet. We had parked on the snake's tail right at the end. The car rolled back and the snake disappeared. The third one appeared as we were having lunch in a clearing. Another Brown Snake appeared. We all stood up and the snake slowly made his way away into the bush. Lunch continued. So I saw about one snake every 10 years. Don't let it worry you. I don't. Mike in Oz
I often go shopping barefoot but there is no way I go around my property without my gumboots on.... There are 3 varieties of venomous snakes here and the gumboots slow them up quite a bit.
You definitely won't have to worry about the snakes, or the spiders for that matter. Unless you are out in the bush or off the track any type of encounter or even sighting is extremely rare. They are way more scared of us and will be long gone before you even see one.
He did a good job with his video and the way we look at it when you move here permanently we will call you an Aussie and you will soon have mates . Don't worry about the snakes as they will leave you alone and most only bite if your trying to kill them .
Lived in australia 14 years. Probably seen like 1 snake in the suburbs ever. You can see alot out in the wilderness but generally speaking they stay away from people. The only thing youll encounter here that can sometimes get inside is insects, but as far as i know there is plenty of insects in the phillipines too so you wouldnt find it any different.
G'day Ruky👍 I'm just about to turn 58 and I have only ever once seen a snake in suburbia. ..so that's a sh!t reason to miss out on a paradise that is 🇦🇺🪃 🤣 ✌️
Being a dry country, obviously we need to water our gardens during Summer.I hand water (hold a hose) and am barefoot, which can get a bit hairy at times.Especially when you disturb spiders, who are not partial to the wet and might dash straight up your leg to find a dry place.
I can vouch for that. My husband left the big ag sprinkler on the veg patch all night. When I found it in the morning I ran out barefoot through water to my ankles. Turned off the tap in the middle of the yard, turned to head back to the house, felt something tickle my leg. When I looked down I had a trapdoor climbing my leg and then I noticed the water was alive with trapdoors, wolf spiders, huntsman, black house spiders, and mouse spiders. I Jesused my way back to safety.
Shoes or thongs are optional extras down here. Usually only wear thongs if there's too many bindies in the grass, but if you stick to the footpath you don't need to waste money on shoes. I am on the beach though, but a long way from Qld.
I live in Whyalla South Australia and I see people doing it all the time it's just people that want to show off, it's a look how bad ass I am for rejecting society
Snakes use internal plumbing and crawl up the pipes and jump out at you from the toilet and bite. 🤣Just kidding. You may never see a snake in your lifetime, but they are about, so be aware. On hot days you should avoid areas of natural habitat. like long grass and bushland. Snakes are just as scared of us as we are of them. Ruky, you could get a job as a goal umpire, and live in Aus and go barefoot in the supermarket. Just not in the long grass. 😊
The "C Bomb" is what you would call pek pek. We do swear a lot, but some of us won't swear in front of kids or women. My Filipina Wife has never heard it from me as it is bastos. Don't worry about the snakes, you rarely see them outside of the warm months.
No there is not a lineup of snakes outside my door when I leave of a morning. Our biggest poison snake is 3m long so your not on the menu. In fact, horse kill more people in Australia than our poison animals.
I have a very good mate (pal) I work with and he is from the Philippines, he's been here for 8~ years. He was apprehensive about all the nasty creatures at first but, then he realized it's really not a problem 🙂
Naked feet in Australia? Surely there's a law against nude feet in Australia! And snakes in Australia, most people in Australia have never snake a snake outside a zoo.
The average person living in Australia goes through life around cities, never personally seeing a snake or dangerous spider. Except in TV documentaries or zoo the average person never is confronted by these dangers. Some like myself spent lots of time actually finding and catching these and other creatures, but even with lots of activities in isolated hiking and camping situations, I would not have more than a couple of cases of unexpected encounters, and those not dangerous instances, just seeing these creatures in the wild as they try to get away. Too much is made of the dangers and the wildlife here. The likelihood of injury from pets like cats and dogs is orders of magnitude higher, and death from dog attack exceeds snakes enormously, while spiders only the Sydney Funnel Web is in many decades the only spider to cause a few deaths, the only other spider Red Back a close cousin of US Black Widow, has had no deaths for almost 50 years. Scary for many, the big Huntsman spiders are effectively harmless, and actually are good to keep nasty bugs/flies/moths under control in your house. They also leave NO webs around, except the egg sack hatching young ones and that not normally in visible places. Have even had children stroking these Huntsman Spiders, very silky to touch. Bees and wasps are if anything far worse than any spiders, causing numerous hospital treatment needs, and even deaths than any spiders.
Ok if you're letting children pat spiders well that's child abuse because you're putting them in danger , now as kids we were taught all spiders are dangerous that way you don't get in trouble if you're not teaching the kids this they possibly could find themselves needing medical assistance because of your pathetic parenting. now they may not be many dangerous creatures in the city but I'm continuously seeing spiders in my house in the country
@@James-kv6kb you are very wrong, as they were being taught that the correct way to handle these creatures is awareness. The same spider was stroked for over a week each day without even any bad reactions by the spider and they were taught the differences and hazards of different creatures, including two scorpions, and large centipedes, snakes vs lizards what to touch what not to touch, overcome basic fear that is so prevalent while getting to understand the place these creatures have in overall ecology and life. Not just blind EXTERMINATE EVERY MOVING CREATURE. They learned by experience what makes these various creatures dangerous and which are dangerous. How to handle exposure if such occurs. Not one has come to harm.
@@helmuthschultes9243 mate I'm not reading a fucken' essay get to the point now obviously you're a very young father because you write such long-winded statements but you've got no idea
Snakes, pfft we ain't scared of snakes 😂 just last night a lady had a diamond python curled up in her back yard up in the blue mountains near me in the local FB page. Some people said call a snake catcher and they'll come and get it for her. Some including me just said pick it up and put it in a bag. Pythons don't bite well they do but only if feel threatened. Besides that they only snap at you and it's just a quick tap. 😜 If your gentle and careful you should be fine picking it up by the tail. It's just the Browns and red bellies that have fangs and venom and could kill if not taken to hospital. But no one has died for many years now due to a snake bite and that goes too with spiders. Yes there snakes and spiders around but snakes are where there's bush land and if houses are near by. Snakes don't want to be near you and they will get away from you. You leave them alone they will leave you alone.
This 64 year young Aussie has only seen a snake, on average once every 8 or 10 years. Between living in a coastal town for the first 40 years & in the country for the rest. Have a good day sweetie 😉
I'm a friendly Aussie. Before the internet existed I used to make random calls to the US just to have a chat to strangers, it was my version of social media long before social media existed haha. I know it's weird, but I just wanted to be friendly and have a chat with people overseas, and the phone was the only technology, other than radio, that could do it. I found that most people were nice about it, but the ones who mostly had a negative attitude were the people living in the Hood/Ghetto for some reason. Us Aussies have pretty much stayed away from the crazies in the world, don't get me started with the crazy woke and Rainbow people in the US now, they've completely lost the plot haha, they can keep them. Unfortunately America has gone bat shit crazy. I have a fair few American friends and they all seem to want to come to Australia to live haha. Also about being barefoot, I'm barefoot 95% of the time, or I try to be as much as possible, and my feet look young and very healthy considering I'm in my 50's. I grew up being barefoot and my feet are thankful haha.
I love his videos. He has embraced being an issue so well with his humour and sarcasm. He's an Aussie now with an British accent 😜
I am in my 70s
I have seen 3 snakes in the wild in my life.
When walking in the bush wear boots and jeans
Stay on paths if possible.
Keep grass around houses short.
3 snakes in 77 years and I live in the country !
You will have to visit a wildlife sanctuary to find some snakes.
Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia all have local competitions of AFL. They also have teams in the national AFL competition, as do NSW and Queensland.
I live on the coast about two hours north of Sydney. It’s very beautiful and tropical - lots of beaches.. you won’t find a terrifying thing but just beautiful sand/shrub and coastline..
It’s also very multicultural - the central coast of nsw, Australia is pretty amazing
Australian towns and cities are very clean. You don't have to worry about stepping on something you shouldn't.
Being barefoot is more about comfort than class. Your feet are excellent radiators - you might notice you feel cold if your feet are cold. It works in your favour when it is very hot - you feel cooler when your feet aren't covered in layers of cloth, rubber and leather.
Wow! The idea about all the scary wildlife been absolutely everywhere really took off. I wonder how many people avoid us when making holiday plans 🤔
Australian snakes are smart. You rarely see them. I live in a rural area 35 km out from our Capital city Canberra. We have been here for nearly nine years. In all that time, I have seen two Brown Snakes. The first one was a small one and as soon as he saw me he disappeared. The second was in the yard of a church which is next door to us. This one was larger but he wasn't wanting to hang around for a chat. He quickly vanished into the grass and I have not seen him since.
I spent 32 years as a geologist. Geologists spend a lot of time wandering around looking at rocks and whacking them with hammers. In my 32 years I only saw 3 snakes. The first one was a rather large Red Belly Black Snake. He was wound around a water bore because it was warm. As soon as he saw us he disappeared. The second was a large Eastern Brown. We had stopped our four wheel drive to take a measurement and when I climbed out of the vehicle and gone to the rear to get some equipment I noticed this large snake attacking the tyre on the passenger's side. I suggested to my friend look out the window and NOT open the door but to take the hand brake off a little and let the car roll back a few feet. We had parked on the snake's tail right at the end. The car rolled back and the snake disappeared. The third one appeared as we were having lunch in a clearing. Another Brown Snake appeared. We all stood up and the snake slowly made his way away into the bush. Lunch continued. So I saw about one snake every 10 years. Don't let it worry you. I don't. Mike in Oz
Like my boss said one day... "I'd rather be at the beach! Look at that beautiful day out there!"
I often go shopping barefoot but there is no way I go around my property without my gumboots on.... There are 3 varieties of venomous snakes here and the gumboots slow them up quite a bit.
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Lmao. Got taipans and eastern browns around mine and used to go everywhere barefoot as a kid. Through the cane fields fully grown and down the creek.
@@LordDoddka Heh, when we were kids we thought we were bullet proof.
You definitely won't have to worry about the snakes, or the spiders for that matter. Unless you are out in the bush or off the track any type of encounter or even sighting is extremely rare. They are way more scared of us and will be long gone before you even see one.
He did a good job with his video and the way we look at it when you move here permanently we will call you an Aussie and you will soon have mates . Don't worry about the snakes as they will leave you alone and most only bite if your trying to kill them .
Lived in australia 14 years. Probably seen like 1 snake in the suburbs ever. You can see alot out in the wilderness but generally speaking they stay away from people.
The only thing youll encounter here that can sometimes get inside is insects, but as far as i know there is plenty of insects in the phillipines too so you wouldnt find it any different.
G'day Ruky👍 I'm just about to turn 58 and I have only ever once seen a snake in suburbia.
..so that's a sh!t reason to miss out on a paradise that is 🇦🇺🪃
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He never moved to Australia, he moved to Queensland .. barefoot bible belt .. it’s about 30 years behind the rest of us 🍺🦘🦘🦘
Being a dry country, obviously we need to water our gardens during Summer.I hand water (hold a hose) and am barefoot, which can get a bit hairy at times.Especially when you disturb spiders, who are not partial to the wet and might dash straight up your leg to find a dry place.
I can vouch for that. My husband left the big ag sprinkler on the veg patch all night. When I found it in the morning I ran out barefoot through water to my ankles. Turned off the tap in the middle of the yard, turned to head back to the house, felt something tickle my leg. When I looked down I had a trapdoor climbing my leg and then I noticed the water was alive with trapdoors, wolf spiders, huntsman, black house spiders, and mouse spiders. I Jesused my way back to safety.
@@elizabethscott7660 That is a story guaranteed to make an Aussie chuckle.
Going barefoot only happens in holiday areas and Queensland, but they are a whole different race.
I saw it in Canberra yesterday. Mind you, he was getting into a Queensland-registered car....
Shoes or thongs are optional extras down here. Usually only wear thongs if there's too many bindies in the grass, but if you stick to the footpath you don't need to waste money on shoes. I am on the beach though, but a long way from Qld.
Who's "they" Julie?🤔
& Folk in Western Australia go barefoot all the time
I live in Whyalla South Australia and I see people doing it all the time it's just people that want to show off, it's a look how bad ass I am for rejecting society
@@steelcrown7130 I saw shit in Canberra that just shocked me on a daily basis those people are nut cases
Snakes use internal plumbing and crawl up the pipes and jump out at you from the toilet and bite. 🤣Just kidding. You may never see a snake in your lifetime, but they are about, so be aware. On hot days you should avoid areas of natural habitat. like long grass and bushland. Snakes are just as scared of us as we are of them. Ruky, you could get a job as a goal umpire, and live in Aus and go barefoot in the supermarket. Just not in the long grass. 😊
I’m conflicted 😂
thats a stunning chair behind u xxx
The "C Bomb" is what you would call pek pek. We do swear a lot, but some of us won't swear in front of kids or women. My Filipina Wife has never heard it from me as it is bastos. Don't worry about the snakes, you rarely see them outside of the warm months.
No there is not a lineup of snakes outside my door when I leave of a morning. Our biggest poison snake is 3m long so your not on the menu. In fact, horse kill more people in Australia than our poison animals.
I have a very good mate (pal) I work with and he is from the Philippines, he's been here for 8~ years. He was apprehensive about all the nasty creatures at first but, then he realized it's really not a problem 🙂
Ninety-nine percent of Australians have probably never even see a snake or a venomous spider
It's just those drop bears they gotta look out for 😉
the game is not AFL it is Australian Rules Football
What do you actually add to the video?
Naked feet in Australia? Surely there's a law against nude feet in Australia! And snakes in Australia, most people in Australia have never snake a snake outside a zoo.
There are no snakes in the cities, they only live in the countryside. Been in Melbourne 12 years, never seen a snake except on TV.
I’m packing my bags then 😅
Sydney is lousy with snakes.
Live in Canberra. We had an eastern brown in the main city shopping street two years ago.
Look harder, they are there. My sister lives near Melbourne, 6km to CBD, and has the dammed things in her yard.
The average person living in Australia goes through life around cities, never personally seeing a snake or dangerous spider. Except in TV documentaries or zoo the average person never is confronted by these dangers.
Some like myself spent lots of time actually finding and catching these and other creatures, but even with lots of activities in isolated hiking and camping situations, I would not have more than a couple of cases of unexpected encounters, and those not dangerous instances, just seeing these creatures in the wild as they try to get away.
Too much is made of the dangers and the wildlife here. The likelihood of injury from pets like cats and dogs is orders of magnitude higher, and death from dog attack exceeds snakes enormously, while spiders only the Sydney Funnel Web is in many decades the only spider to cause a few deaths, the only other spider Red Back a close cousin of US Black Widow, has had no deaths for almost 50 years.
Scary for many, the big Huntsman spiders are effectively harmless, and actually are good to keep nasty bugs/flies/moths under control in your house. They also leave NO webs around, except the egg sack hatching young ones and that not normally in visible places. Have even had children stroking these Huntsman Spiders, very silky to touch.
Bees and wasps are if anything far worse than any spiders, causing numerous hospital treatment needs, and even deaths than any spiders.
Ok if you're letting children pat spiders well that's child abuse because you're putting them in danger , now as kids we were taught all spiders are dangerous that way you don't get in trouble if you're not teaching the kids this they possibly could find themselves needing medical assistance because of your pathetic parenting. now they may not be many dangerous creatures in the city but I'm continuously seeing spiders in my house in the country
@@James-kv6kb you are very wrong, as they were being taught that the correct way to handle these creatures is awareness. The same spider was stroked for over a week each day without even any bad reactions by the spider and they were taught the differences and hazards of different creatures, including two scorpions, and large centipedes, snakes vs lizards what to touch what not to touch, overcome basic fear that is so prevalent while getting to understand the place these creatures have in overall ecology and life. Not just blind EXTERMINATE EVERY MOVING CREATURE. They learned by experience what makes these various creatures dangerous and which are dangerous. How to handle exposure if such occurs. Not one has come to harm.
@@helmuthschultes9243 mate I'm not reading a fucken' essay get to the point now obviously you're a very young father because you write such long-winded statements but you've got no idea
@@James-kv6kb Actually I have over 65 years of handling wildlife.
Snakes, pfft we ain't scared of snakes 😂 just last night a lady had a diamond python curled up in her back yard up in the blue mountains near me in the local FB page. Some people said call a snake catcher and they'll come and get it for her. Some including me just said pick it up and put it in a bag. Pythons don't bite well they do but only if feel threatened. Besides that they only snap at you and it's just a quick tap. 😜 If your gentle and careful you should be fine picking it up by the tail.
It's just the Browns and red bellies that have fangs and venom and could kill if not taken to hospital. But no one has died for many years now due to a snake bite and that goes too with spiders.
Yes there snakes and spiders around but snakes are where there's bush land and if houses are near by. Snakes don't want to be near you and they will get away from you. You leave them alone they will leave you alone.
I can’t even look at a picture of a snake so no thanks lol
I’m Aussie and hate foul mouths. The c word is still disgusting.
Don’t think I will explain the C word
No way Australian are nicest people..love it here and I call Australia home. Originally from the Philippines
This 64 year young Aussie has only seen a snake, on average once every 8 or 10 years. Between living in a coastal town for the first 40 years & in the country for the rest.
Have a good day sweetie 😉
Walking barefoot is good for your body. Just think Aboriginals have done this for 70 thousand years 😜
No bare feet in the stores here. Not happening…
I work in a shopping area in summer 20% of people are barefoot.
Dropping the C bomb in Australia is seriously taboo outside of a Queensland caravan park .. ☕️🦘
My doctors favourite word and she will let you know if you are one .
@@keithkearns93 😅😅😅. ... ahh ya gotta love bogans .. I lived in places like that 😂
@@Sluggo57 Yup, definitely a bogan word.
I'm a friendly Aussie. Before the internet existed I used to make random calls to the US just to have a chat to strangers, it was my version of social media long before social media existed haha. I know it's weird, but I just wanted to be friendly and have a chat with people overseas, and the phone was the only technology, other than radio, that could do it. I found that most people were nice about it, but the ones who mostly had a negative attitude were the people living in the Hood/Ghetto for some reason. Us Aussies have pretty much stayed away from the crazies in the world, don't get me started with the crazy woke and Rainbow people in the US now, they've completely lost the plot haha, they can keep them. Unfortunately America has gone bat shit crazy. I have a fair few American friends and they all seem to want to come to Australia to live haha. Also about being barefoot, I'm barefoot 95% of the time, or I try to be as much as possible, and my feet look young and very healthy considering I'm in my 50's. I grew up being barefoot and my feet are thankful haha.
Yep,barefoot unless I can't ..& I'm sliding into 58y.
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