Just for your info their are 14 ski resorts in Australia with 142 ski lifts and nearly 300kms of ski runs. The Australia Alps receives more snow fall a year than the Swiss Alps. Maybe that Aussie warm vibe is starting to wear a little thin with the number of people who are arriving here on temporary visas as it is making life harder for locals. Housing shortages and the pressure being put on essential services is not particuarly appealing . As grey nomads who travel the country 6 months a year with our caravan we feel we are being both crowded and priced out of visiting the places that we have been going to for the last 50 years especially on the east coast. Once quiet little beach towns are being overdeveloped,, long term rentals have disappeared from the market and replaced with short term rentals. and local venues in popular tourist destinations like Byron Bay are often full of drunken backpackers.
I used to go to Byron Bay years ago and it was great but when up there two years ago it's now been tuned into a tourist hell hole. There are crowds of foreigners everywhere all pushing and shoving each other an Aussies too so that's another place to avoid.
When you look at it geographically, the Swiss alps are tiny "in area" compared to the Australian alps. So that comparison sounds good but it is stupid!
@@jasonwebb7978 The Australian Alpine region is .15% of the continent (not counting Tasmania) around 11,000 sq.kms Switzerlands Alps cover 60% of the country or 25,000 sq.kms
Love you two ! Some more information -- * The southern states have four seasons, however winter does have some blue skies. In Melbourne the local indigenous people recognised seven seasons and really we should follow what they knew as they have been living here for many thousands, if not millions of years For example the summer here was divided into wet warm summer and then the later dry, hot summer. The early settlers in Oz classed our climate and weather on their European knowledge. The north of Australia has two seasons - the wet (and very humid) and the dry. Both are warm to hot. Remember that Australia, unlike the UK, is a BIG country and we have about seven to nine climate zones. Our weather mainly depends on the dipoles from the South Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean. * We do have snow in the mountains, mainly on the The Great Dividing Range, which is on the eastern side of the country. There are snow associated resorts in some areas with snow sport activities In such places as -Thredbo, Perisher, Mt, Buller, Falls Creek, Mt. Hotham, Mt. Baw Baw, Mt. St.Gwinear, Mt. Kosciusko and more. . Most of them are in Victoria and New South wales. Other states do get snow at times. * Australia is mainly flat due to the fact that it is a very ancient country and the earth is worn down. The volcanoes here are all dead so there is no renewing of the land from them. Also, the desert part of Australia, eons ago, was a sea-bed, which is the main reason why it is desert now. *Aussies are mainly a casual, laid-back and friendly people, Of course there are some awful people as in every country. Also, Australia has a big immigrant intake of many ethnicities - over 200 ethnicities in Melbourne, the biggest city now. Some of these people are often still adapting to our Aussie way of life. * Don't let anyone tell you that the drop-bears are not real. Of course they are real ! When walking under a tree anywhere - BEWARE ! They are angry and nasty. Before you know it they will have drop-landed on your head and be scratching it for the taste of blood. It seems they prefer the smell of blood particularly from people who come from the UK, Ireland and the USA. I don't know why ? It's perplexing ! Keep enjoying life in this beautiful and different country and culture. My parents emigrated from the UK 70 years ago and I feel blessed that they did.
Sydney actually gets double the amount of rainfall annually than London. I know London is fairly dry compared to most english places but it's funny that all state capitals in Australia other than Adelaide receive more rainfall than London. It's just that Australia particularly sub tropical and tropical areas such as NSW, QLD and most of WA receive most of their rainfall in heavy downpours where London tends to get drizzle. Just goes to show just how dry the interior is if the coastal areas receive large amounts of rainfall yet it's still the driest inhabited continent.
Melbourne actually averages less rainfall per annum than Adelaide, not that you would know that from how most people portray it. Adelaide 547mm Melbourne 518mm www.bom.gov.au/climate/australia/cities/
You'll get snow in the Snowy Mountains (of course!) but other places as well.. An occasional snowfall in Canberra, along the Dividing Range from the Queensland border south, and the higher parts of the Blue Mountains outside Sydney. We live on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, and 30 or more years ago, we had a light fall of snow - we'd gone for a late coffee on a bitterly cold winter afternoon at a nearby café, as usual sat down outside, very well rugged up. Half way through the coffee, there was a very light fall of snow, which lasted about 10 minutes. Now in our late 70's, that's been a one-off event.
I was serving in the Royal Australian Air Force at Fairbairn air base in Canberra. On one morning in June 1970 the radio announcer said that Canberra had recorded its lowest minimum temperature of 6 degrees Fahrenheit. I was a clerk working in the headquarters orderly room. My sergeant asked me to get the milk from catering section because the general hand who normally gets it had a frozen radiator was delayed getting to the base. At about 8:10 I drove around to catering and went inside. The cement floor made the warehouse colder than outside. I could feel the cold going through my shoes and up to my knees. There was no one in sight so I did a complete search of the place including the offices and couldn't find a soul. I finally went back into the warehouse area and I called out "Is anybody here!" A little voice came from somewhere saying "We're in here!" Unable to work out where the voice could come from I yelled back "Where's in here?" The reply was "In the chiller!" I walked over to the chiller and opened the door to see the entire staff of about a dozen people inside all having coffee. There I was standing mouth wide open in disbelief, the door handle in my right hand and the stainless steel jug in my left hand. The Catering officer, who was at the very front, grabbed my left hand taking the jug to pass down to the back where the milk was and said "Get in here you idiot, it's bloody cold out there, then closed the door". As I was waiting for the milk I said "Gee, It's nice and cosy in here."
It snows every year in the blue mountains . I lived there for over twenty years. About six years ago the snow shut the highway for about three days and was still there about Two weeks later.
Great vid, I love seeing other people's perceptions of Aus, I find it very educational as an Aussie myself (one of the friendly ones). PS. So glad you love Perth. This heat has been unbearable though! Bring on the cooler temps!
There is a red back spider in every back yard in Australia. Nobody is scared of them, they don’t attack people. I live in suburban Canberra and saw a roo yesterday morning on my way to the shops. He was just bouncing along the foot path.
I’m 70 and live in a suburb of Melbourne. I’ve seen only one red back spider in my life. I’ve been on holiday in Victoria, QLD and NSW and I’ve never seen a snake - I have never been scared of Huntsman until I had a plague of them only once, that was creepy lol, called the spider exterminator man, all gone, never came back. We make up half the stories for others as it’s our wicked sense of humour lol.
@@bernadettelanders7306 I lived mostly in Sydney on the north side of Botany Bay and have seen hundreds of them. Saw dozens of eastern brown snakes in this area as well. The rabbit population around the golf courses is what keeps them so numerous.
@@geoffc5196 Maybe the Melbourne snakes are scared of me lol I once lived in a suburb surrounded by trees and a small river. We got 2 notices in years, a few had seen 2 snakes. I woke to the sounds of Kookaburras and magpies. Magpies never swooped. I would sit on my balcony and mum with her new babies would check me out. I just sat still. They knew I was no threat, and it was a delight to watch mum feed her babies, they watch as bubs would squawk and mum would refuse to feed them to teach them how to find their own food. Oh I was bitten by what docs said was probably a white tail spider once. Pain was unbearable. Finger is still slightly bent. I won’t tell how in I think it bit me - you’d end up paranoid lol
BTW - We rarely use the word forrest too, unless talking a pine forrest (non native tress), swap in the word bush or outback if a few hundred kilometers from cities.
Brisbane Queensland gets cold in winter it gets down to 2 degrees Celsius as well though it is rare for it to get to 2 degree Celsius but it does and also in chinchilla in Queensland it get down to 0 degrees Celsius
I live in Melbourne where it is cold and wet in Winter but had not owned a coat in 50 years (my duffle coat days were left behind in the 1960’s) until I was taking a trip to the UK one December where I was told I would find myself in sleet, snow and freezing wind. Luckily I found a woollen coat a week before I departed for the UK at the Queen Victoria Market (it was our Summer and no stores had them in stock). The spiders are real, drop bears are not, but If you are staying in any residence in Australia I would always check that there are fly screens and screen doors fitted. It is also a good idea to check your washing before bringing it into the house by giving it a good shake because that is generally how spiders get inside your home and always turn your shoes upside down and bang them a couple of times before putting them on if you have left them outside first any length of time. Oh, and if you leave your car window or doors open, always flip the sun visor down BEFORE sitting in the front seats … you don’t want a spider falling in your lap … it happens.
@MichaelRogers-et8dq as we are finding out. It has rained since yesterday but we have had to fill our water tank twice in June because we ran out of water to flush our loos.
Checking toilets is a region thing...north Queensland coastal areas you are best to check the toilets (especially toilet blocks in camping nd caravan parks) mainly for frogs and toads.
I live about 140kms west of Sydney, at about 1000 metres above sea level and we do see snowfalls here sometimes. The coldest temperature I have experienced here is minus 11C. I don't bother snakes and spiders and they don't bother me. Your video is an accurate appraisal of Australia. Cheers.
There are no bears native to Australia. The original drop bear was a product of a Bundaberg Rum advertisement, the mascot of which is a polar bear. This polar bear appeared in an ad that warned tourists to beware. Over time (about 30years) the drop bear has morphed into a koala with terrible gnashing teeth and red eyes. This animal, as everybody know is not a bear (placental mammal) but a marsupial. However I think I saw a drop bear fighting with a bunyip the other night, but they shook hands and declared it a draw.
Drop bears were a myth long before the Bundy Rum ad. The ad just played on the myth. Bundy Rum was founded by a group of Scandinavian migrants and the polar bear was used as the logo to remind them of their homelands, Norway and Sweden. One of the founders was my great grandfather.
I found in Europe the temperature range is small between night and day, maybe 1 minimum and 5 maximum for the day. In Australia it can be quite large. A 1 degree night can turn into a 20 degree day in winter The whole southe east mountan ranges are covered in snow in the winter. It's a huge area of NSW, Victoria and parts of Tasmania. Also, Australia seems cold because the houses in general are not well insulated. I found the houses in Europe to be too hot of a night time during winter. Sometimes I would have to go for a walk outside during the night to cool down because I'm used to a cooler house. Conversely, European visitors to our house thought it was way too cold for them during a winter night. I think it's whatever you get used to.I
Thank you for making the point about our spiders and snakes. Yes we have more venomous snakes than non-venomous, and when walking in bush land (including in cities) you need to look where you are stepping, but snakes do tend to clear off when they feel a larger animal coming near them. But I do not understand the fear of spiders. Huntsman spiders are NOT dangerous. My friend was talking about her father who got bitten by one (quite a feat to get actually bitten as they normally run away) and he suffered pins and needles for one hour. Also they eat bugs and cockroaches. Up to 2000 people are year are bitten by Redbacks a year, and 300 people are year are given anti venom. Since 1979 there have been no confirmed deaths. Do not pick them up or disturb them, but do not panic if bitten. Seek medical help, and chances are you won’t even need anti venom. There are only 2 types of spiders you need to worry about - the Sydney Funnel Web, which is dangerous but only found in a very confined area ie a couple of hundred kilometres of Sydney (and not even in all of Sydney). I think there is also a mouse spider in Queensland that might be dangerous. I suspect the myth comes from Australians making a joke years ago to scare tourists- a bit like the drop bear stories. Now it is a fact people believe.
If your looking for trouble it's not hard to find,tourists should educate themselves on the dangers in each state including beaches and what animals to keep an eye on
You certainly live a sheltered life in Oz (haha). I live in an outer-eastern suburb of Melbourne and hunstmen are a normal part of life. We don't get as many inside the house as we did 10 years ago but still get the occasional one. We simply put a plastic jar over it and wiggle it until the spider drops in. It is then released into the garden. Redbacks are everywhere but you rarely see them. They like darker places. The thing about redback spiders is, though they are poisonous, they make you a bit ill but will NOT kill you.
Never ceases to amaze me how few ppl do their research about Australia before they come over. It's a huge country, so of course we have a range of climates. It regularly gets really cold in some parts of southern Australia. I lived in Canberra for 7 years and it often got down to minus 5 in winter. If you don't have a good heater and warm overcoat, you're screwed 😂
Ha, come to Canberra, it gets down to minus degrees. Snow is not restricted to Mt Kosciusko. There are Ski resorts in Victoria. Where I live in Canberra, it can snow. I always see Kangaroos and wallabies, often bounding down the road. There is a male kangaroo who visits my yard all the time. I live near a mountain reserve and in Summer, he shelters in the shade.
Yeah the poms and yanks think Australians love them for some reason but we couldn't care less,I've never heard anybody I know say they want to visit the UK or USA and I'm 38.
doing a shortcut through the forest traveling thailand i walked in to a huge banana spider and its web and i freaked TF out. Sure i'll visit the country again, but im done visiting their forests
As a proud and genuine Australian ! In regards to drop bears ? Are you suggesting that they don't excist and Aussies might be just having a lend of the tourist gullibility ? I must say that many Australians could be Offended ! A few different things to keep eye open for ! The nth QLD military ropesnake, West Australian crusty undies bird, also the Tasmanian cataract fish And they are not easily seen at all !
I emigrated here in late 70s and was purposely introduced to a dozen different spiders on my second day while moving (old) stored brick, it was the most effective lesson. I only annoyed a bird eating spider (name says it all) other wise known as a S.E. QLD tarantula after 4 decades living here so no they’re not that common. Stick to the capital city’s if that makes you comfortable. P.S. I work in the Sydney office CBD but live in Campbelltown just for perspective. NSW in Oz
You had better learn a bit more about snow and ski resorts in Aus. There are plenty in southern NSW and the Victorian Alps. Australia actually has a greater area of snow in winter than Switzerland, it’s just not as deep but very skiable. Season only lasts about 3 months - mid June to Sept. There are always a few Aussies entered in the Winter Olympic and have won 19 medals - 6 Gold, 7 Silver and 6 Bronze. I live in Melbourne and I have 3 major ski resorts about a 3 hour drive north east.
Hey, here in Cairns it sometimes gets down to 10C... brrrrr..... I always interchange the days each year.... this year winter is going to be on a Saturda y, 2025 Sunday and so on... We travelled by car from Cairns to Perth in 1969 and never saw ONE kangaroo.. well lots of dead ones, but live ones? NONE>🤣🤣🤣
I live in a built up part of Australia had a kangaroo jumping down my drive way and the roads not a thing that happens a lot You may not se them but there are plenty of spiders around
It’s cold in Australia in the winter but please it is not freezing in Perth or Sydney not even in Melbourne in winter is it anything like freezing cold Britain. More snow falls in Australian Snowy Mountains than Swiss Alps.
Drop bears are a myth. However, a sleepy koala could fall out of a tree and land on someone below, reaching out with their claws to grab something to stop its fall to the ground. And be frightened to be captured by a strange clothed animal and bite in fear. So, maybe there is a grain of truth.
In Canberra they MUST eradicate thousands of kangaroos every year otherwise they will cause massive traffic problems. In western Sydney suburbs I see kangaroos every single day!
One more thing - forget about danger about animals- the real danger is from drowning. 99 people drowned in Australia (many tourists on unpatrolled beaches) in 2023. In the same year 2 died from snake bite. There have been 3 fatal crocodile attacks since the beginning of 2018.
Australia did its best to kill me. Never mind the snakes....it's the roos and the bluebottles you gotta watch out for. And the demon birds. And friends holding their phone filming you with a grin on their face...
6:20 All Australians are not friendly like the stereotype - Yes, that's 100% correct. I came to to Aus over 10 years ago and that's certainly true. They love to boast how friendly and laid back they are, but there are plenty of countries with much friendlier and easy going people, they just don't boast as much as the aussies lol
@@geoffc5196 I'm not, but funny you should say that. My Kiwi friends say that in NZ if someone is being rude or making a nuisance of themselves in public they just assume that he's Australian haha
@@navs485 get real In all my 70 years I have never known this to ever come up in a conversation. I have known people from over seas say this but Australians boasting about it seems very unlikely to say the least. You must be making this sh!t up. NZers would say that I’m sure. But who cares.
@@navs485 I don’t claim we are are the friendliest people on the planet I am just saying that you getting into conversations with Australian people boasting about how friendly they are is just not believable.You said Australians plural so that must mean three or more times. How on earth did you get into such conversations? Just not logical. The reason you know so much about what NZers think of us is probably because you are one yourself.
Well no its not jyst one place it snows. It snows all over the Australian Alps which have several ski fields across 2 states. Lots of areas acros NSW and Victoria get light snow quite often tho it doesnt stay around very long. And depends where you live but its not at all unusual to see kangaroos in urban areas. In fact Canberra has yearly kamgaroo culls necause they can breed quickly and are a traffic hazard on major roads and streets and they hang out on golf courses and by Lake Burley Griffin. Wildlife in the toilet is only an issue in the warmer northern tropical regions. And huntsmen ARE everywhere. You just havent noticed them. And drop bears ARE real dont be fooled. To make sure they dont attack smear vegemite behind your ears.
Australia is a lot more fertile than many people than Australia thinks. Sydney has twice the annual rainfall of London. Fun fact - if you look at amount of arable land in each country (in hectares) Australia is about 7th largest country in terms of amount of land under cultivation. However a lot of it is in what be seen as semi arid, but not desert.
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Hey, all you scared tourists, by all means if you want to follow the sun by staying up in the northern states, remember that's also where you start to encounter far more spiders, roos, buffalo, snakes and crocodiles.😂 good luck.
Just for your info their are 14 ski resorts in Australia with 142 ski lifts and nearly 300kms of ski runs. The Australia Alps receives more snow fall a year than the Swiss Alps. Maybe that Aussie warm vibe is starting to wear a little thin with the number of people who are arriving here on temporary visas as it is making life harder for locals. Housing shortages and the pressure being put on essential services is not particuarly appealing . As grey nomads who travel the country 6 months a year with our caravan we feel we are being both crowded and priced out of visiting the places that we have been going to for the last 50 years especially on the east coast. Once quiet little beach towns are being overdeveloped,, long term rentals have disappeared from the market and replaced with short term rentals. and local venues in popular tourist destinations like Byron Bay are often full of drunken backpackers.
I used to go to Byron Bay years ago and it was great but when up there two years ago it's now been tuned into a tourist hell hole. There are crowds of foreigners everywhere all pushing and shoving each other an Aussies too so that's another place to avoid.
When you look at it geographically, the Swiss alps are tiny "in area" compared to the Australian alps. So that comparison sounds good but it is stupid!
@@jasonwebb7978 The Australian Alpine region is .15% of the continent (not counting Tasmania) around 11,000 sq.kms Switzerlands Alps cover 60% of the country or 25,000 sq.kms
Love you two ! Some more information --
* The southern states have four seasons, however winter does have some blue skies. In Melbourne the local indigenous people recognised seven seasons and really we should follow what they knew as they have been living here for many thousands, if not millions of years For example the summer here was divided into wet warm summer and then the later dry, hot summer. The early settlers in Oz classed our climate and weather on their European knowledge. The north of Australia has two seasons - the wet (and very humid) and the dry. Both are warm to hot. Remember that Australia, unlike the UK, is a BIG country and we have about seven to nine climate zones. Our weather mainly depends on the dipoles from the South Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean.
* We do have snow in the mountains, mainly on the The Great Dividing Range, which is on the eastern side of the country. There are snow associated resorts in some areas with snow sport activities In such places as -Thredbo, Perisher, Mt, Buller, Falls Creek, Mt. Hotham, Mt. Baw Baw, Mt. St.Gwinear, Mt. Kosciusko and more. . Most of them are in Victoria and New South wales. Other states do get snow at times.
* Australia is mainly flat due to the fact that it is a very ancient country and the earth is worn down. The volcanoes here are all dead so there is no renewing of the land from them. Also, the desert part of Australia, eons ago, was a sea-bed, which is the main reason why it is desert now.
*Aussies are mainly a casual, laid-back and friendly people, Of course there are some awful people as in every country. Also, Australia has a big immigrant intake of many ethnicities - over 200 ethnicities in Melbourne, the biggest city now. Some of these people are often still adapting to our Aussie way of life.
* Don't let anyone tell you that the drop-bears are not real. Of course they are real ! When walking under a tree anywhere - BEWARE ! They are angry and nasty. Before you know it they will have drop-landed on your head and be scratching it for the taste of blood. It seems they prefer the smell of blood particularly from people who come from the UK, Ireland and the USA. I don't know why ? It's perplexing !
Keep enjoying life in this beautiful and different country and culture. My parents emigrated from the UK 70 years ago and I feel blessed that they did.
In the winter Australia has snow over an area larger than Switzerland.
Huntsman spiders won't hurt you. They just catch pests.
Sydney actually gets double the amount of rainfall annually than London. I know London is fairly dry compared to most english places but it's funny that all state capitals in Australia other than Adelaide receive more rainfall than London. It's just that Australia particularly sub tropical and tropical areas such as NSW, QLD and most of WA receive most of their rainfall in heavy downpours where London tends to get drizzle.
Just goes to show just how dry the interior is if the coastal areas receive large amounts of rainfall yet it's still the driest inhabited continent.
Melbourne actually averages less rainfall per annum than Adelaide, not that you would know that from how most people portray it.
Adelaide 547mm
Melbourne 518mm
www.bom.gov.au/climate/australia/cities/
Redbacks are everywhere even in heavily built up areas...usually wherever there is a bit of yard that has junk and mess there.
You'll get snow in the Snowy Mountains (of course!) but other places as well.. An occasional snowfall in Canberra, along the Dividing Range from the Queensland border south, and the higher parts of the Blue Mountains outside Sydney. We live on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, and 30 or more years ago, we had a light fall of snow - we'd gone for a late coffee on a bitterly cold winter afternoon at a nearby café, as usual sat down outside, very well rugged up. Half way through the coffee, there was a very light fall of snow, which lasted about 10 minutes. Now in our late 70's, that's been a one-off event.
@MichaelRogers-et8dq Thanks - I had missed this.
I was serving in the Royal Australian Air Force at Fairbairn air base in Canberra. On one morning in June 1970 the radio announcer said that Canberra had recorded its lowest minimum temperature of 6 degrees Fahrenheit. I was a clerk working in the headquarters orderly room. My sergeant asked me to get the milk from catering section because the general hand who normally gets it had a frozen radiator was delayed getting to the base. At about 8:10 I drove around to catering and went inside. The cement floor made the warehouse colder than outside. I could feel the cold going through my shoes and up to my knees. There was no one in sight so I did a complete search of the place including the offices and couldn't find a soul. I finally went back into the warehouse area and I called out "Is anybody here!" A little voice came from somewhere saying "We're in here!" Unable to work out where the voice could come from I yelled back "Where's in here?" The reply was "In the chiller!" I walked over to the chiller and opened the door to see the entire staff of about a dozen people inside all having coffee. There I was standing mouth wide open in disbelief, the door handle in my right hand and the stainless steel jug in my left hand. The Catering officer, who was at the very front, grabbed my left hand taking the jug to pass down to the back where the milk was and said "Get in here you idiot, it's bloody cold out there, then closed the door". As I was waiting for the milk I said "Gee, It's nice and cosy in here."
There are snow resorts in Victoria and New South Wales, plus Tasmania has snow
It snows every year in the blue mountains . I lived there for over twenty years. About six years ago the snow shut the highway for about three days and was still there about Two weeks later.
Great vid, I love seeing other people's perceptions of Aus, I find it very educational as an Aussie myself (one of the friendly ones). PS. So glad you love Perth. This heat has been unbearable though! Bring on the cooler temps!
Thanks for watching😊
When I came back to Australia, I was warned of all the ticks
It has snowed in Sydney in the past. 1905 snow fell on George st. In 1995 it snowed on the top of the harbour bridge.
There is a red back spider in every back yard in Australia. Nobody is scared of them, they don’t attack people. I live in suburban Canberra and saw a roo yesterday morning on my way to the shops. He was just bouncing along the foot path.
I’m 70 and live in a suburb of Melbourne. I’ve seen only one red back spider in my life. I’ve been on holiday in Victoria, QLD and NSW and I’ve never seen a snake - I have never been scared of Huntsman until I had a plague of them only once, that was creepy lol, called the spider exterminator man, all gone, never came back. We make up half the stories for others as it’s our wicked sense of humour lol.
@@bernadettelanders7306 I lived mostly in Sydney on the north side of Botany Bay and have seen hundreds of them. Saw dozens of eastern brown snakes in this area as well. The rabbit population around the golf courses is what keeps them so numerous.
@@geoffc5196
Maybe the Melbourne snakes are scared of me lol
I once lived in a suburb surrounded by trees and a small river. We got 2 notices in years, a few had seen 2 snakes. I woke to the sounds of Kookaburras and magpies. Magpies never swooped. I would sit on my balcony and mum with her new babies would check me out. I just sat still. They knew I was no threat, and it was a delight to watch mum feed her babies, they watch as bubs would squawk and mum would refuse to feed them to teach them how to find their own food.
Oh I was bitten by what docs said was probably a white tail spider once. Pain was unbearable. Finger is still slightly bent. I won’t tell how in I think it bit me - you’d end up paranoid lol
BTW - We rarely use the word forrest too, unless talking a pine forrest (non native tress), swap in the word bush or outback if a few hundred kilometers from cities.
There are ski resorts in New South Wales, Victoria AND Tasmania.
Brisbane Queensland gets cold in winter it gets down to 2 degrees Celsius as well though it is rare for it to get to 2 degree Celsius but it does and also in chinchilla in Queensland it get down to 0 degrees Celsius
I live in Melbourne where it is cold and wet in Winter but had not owned a coat in 50 years (my duffle coat days were left behind in the 1960’s) until I was taking a trip to the UK one December where I was told I would find myself in sleet, snow and freezing wind. Luckily I found a woollen coat a week before I departed for the UK at the Queen Victoria Market (it was our Summer and no stores had them in stock). The spiders are real, drop bears are not, but If you are staying in any residence in Australia I would always check that there are fly screens and screen doors fitted. It is also a good idea to check your washing before bringing it into the house by giving it a good shake because that is generally how spiders get inside your home and always turn your shoes upside down and bang them a couple of times before putting them on if you have left them outside first any length of time. Oh, and if you leave your car window or doors open, always flip the sun visor down BEFORE sitting in the front seats … you don’t want a spider falling in your lap … it happens.
@MichaelRogers-et8dq as we are finding out. It has rained since yesterday but we have had to fill our water tank twice in June because we ran out of water to flush our loos.
Checking toilets is a region thing...north Queensland coastal areas you are best to check the toilets (especially toilet blocks in camping nd caravan parks) mainly for frogs and toads.
I live about 140kms west of Sydney, at about 1000 metres above sea level and we do see snowfalls here sometimes. The coldest temperature I have experienced here is minus 11C. I don't bother snakes and spiders and they don't bother me. Your video is an accurate appraisal of Australia. Cheers.
There are no bears native to Australia. The original drop bear was a product of a Bundaberg Rum advertisement, the mascot of which is a polar bear. This polar bear appeared in an ad that warned tourists to beware. Over time (about 30years) the drop bear has morphed into a koala with terrible gnashing teeth and red eyes. This animal, as everybody know is not a bear (placental mammal) but a marsupial. However I think I saw a drop bear fighting with a bunyip the other night, but they shook hands and declared it a draw.
Drop bears were a myth long before the Bundy Rum ad. The ad just played on the myth.
Bundy Rum was founded by a group of Scandinavian migrants and the polar bear was used as the logo to remind them of their homelands, Norway and Sweden.
One of the founders was my great grandfather.
I found in Europe the temperature range is small between night and day, maybe 1 minimum and 5 maximum for the day. In Australia it can be quite large. A 1 degree night can turn into a 20 degree day in winter The whole southe east mountan ranges are covered in snow in the winter. It's a huge area of NSW, Victoria and parts of Tasmania. Also, Australia seems cold because the houses in general are not well insulated. I found the houses in Europe to be too hot of a night time during winter. Sometimes I would have to go for a walk outside during the night to cool down because I'm used to a cooler house. Conversely, European visitors to our house thought it was way too cold for them during a winter night. I think it's whatever you get used to.I
Thank you for making the point about our spiders and snakes.
Yes we have more venomous snakes than non-venomous, and when walking in bush land (including in cities) you need to look where you are stepping, but snakes do tend to clear off when they feel a larger animal coming near them.
But I do not understand the fear of spiders.
Huntsman spiders are NOT dangerous. My friend was talking about her father who got bitten by one (quite a feat to get actually bitten as they normally run away) and he suffered pins and needles for one hour. Also they eat bugs and cockroaches.
Up to 2000 people are year are bitten by Redbacks a year, and 300 people are year are given anti venom. Since 1979 there have been no confirmed deaths. Do not pick them up or disturb them, but do not panic if bitten. Seek medical help, and chances are you won’t even need anti venom.
There are only 2 types of spiders you need to worry about - the Sydney Funnel Web, which is dangerous but only found in a very confined area ie a couple of hundred kilometres of Sydney (and not even in all of Sydney). I think there is also a mouse spider in Queensland that might be dangerous.
I suspect the myth comes from Australians making a joke years ago to scare tourists- a bit like the drop bear stories. Now it is a fact people believe.
Great reaction video to Australian Myths.
If your looking for trouble it's not hard to find,tourists should educate themselves on the dangers in each state including beaches and what animals to keep an eye on
Red back spiders are dangerous, but they will not chase you, or attack you. They will only bite in defence of themselves or their nests.
You certainly live a sheltered life in Oz (haha). I live in an outer-eastern suburb of Melbourne and hunstmen are a normal part of life. We don't get as many inside the house as we did 10 years ago but still get the occasional one. We simply put a plastic jar over it and wiggle it until the spider drops in. It is then released into the garden. Redbacks are everywhere but you rarely see them. They like darker places. The thing about redback spiders is, though they are poisonous, they make you a bit ill but will NOT kill you.
Never ceases to amaze me how few ppl do their research about Australia before they come over. It's a huge country, so of course we have a range of climates. It regularly gets really cold in some parts of southern Australia. I lived in Canberra for 7 years and it often got down to minus 5 in winter. If you don't have a good heater and warm overcoat, you're screwed 😂
The Huntsman spider is actually harmless. It's actually good to have them around, because they eat the mosquitoes 🦟
Ha, come to Canberra, it gets down to minus degrees. Snow is not restricted to Mt Kosciusko. There are Ski resorts in Victoria. Where I live in Canberra, it can snow. I always see Kangaroos and wallabies, often bounding down the road. There is a male kangaroo who visits my yard all the time. I live near a mountain reserve and in Summer, he shelters in the shade.
Yeah the poms and yanks think Australians love them for some reason but we couldn't care less,I've never heard anybody I know say they want to visit the UK or USA and I'm 38.
Touche
On the cold thing is it's only at dawn when it's really cold. Most winter days will still reach at least 15°c
This is not where I live. Winter has a normal range -4c to 9c. If up on the Great Dividing Range this'll be normal.
Australia has an average altitude 30 metres more than Europe. Compared to the UK, Australia is mountainous.
@@BasilPunton yeah but that doesn't really count. Only the heavily populated areas count
@XaviRonaldo0 Try to say that about the largest city in Australia (no, Sydney is not the largest).
@@BasilPunton I've never seen a day with a max as low as 9 in Melbourne. Must be extremely rare.
doing a shortcut through the forest traveling thailand i walked in to a huge banana spider and its web and i freaked TF out. Sure i'll visit the country again, but im done visiting their forests
Guys... What interruption did you really have 😂❤
It snows in Tasmania!!!
Haven't come across our friedly hunstman spiders. They like to live in the house sometimes and take care of the insects for us. 😎
For every spider you see, there's a hundred others looking at you that you can't see.
that spider you mentioned on the bridge wasnt a huntsman it looks like a wolf spider of some kind
I’m surprised that the warnings about the dangers of Hoop Snakes have not been adequately covered.
You guys wouldn’t be happy in the penthouse at the Hilton, the dripping tap might keep you awake.
As a proud and genuine Australian ! In regards to drop bears ? Are you suggesting that they don't excist and Aussies might be just having a lend of the tourist gullibility ?
I must say that many Australians could be
Offended !
A few different things to keep eye open for !
The nth QLD military ropesnake,
West Australian crusty undies bird, also the
Tasmanian cataract fish
And they are not easily seen at all !
I emigrated here in late 70s and was purposely introduced to a dozen different spiders on my second day while moving (old) stored brick, it was the most effective lesson.
I only annoyed a bird eating spider (name says it all) other wise known as a S.E. QLD tarantula after 4 decades living here so no they’re not that common. Stick to the capital city’s if that makes you comfortable.
P.S. I work in the Sydney office CBD but live in Campbelltown just for perspective. NSW in Oz
You had better learn a bit more about snow and ski resorts in Aus. There are plenty in southern NSW and the Victorian Alps.
Australia actually has a greater area of snow in winter than Switzerland, it’s just not as deep but very skiable. Season only lasts about 3 months - mid June to Sept.
There are always a few Aussies entered in the Winter Olympic and have won 19 medals - 6 Gold, 7 Silver and 6 Bronze.
I live in Melbourne and I have 3 major ski resorts about a 3 hour drive north east.
Hey, here in Cairns it sometimes gets down to 10C... brrrrr..... I always interchange the days each year.... this year winter is going to be on a Saturda y, 2025 Sunday and so on... We travelled by car from Cairns to Perth in 1969 and never saw ONE kangaroo.. well lots of dead ones, but live ones? NONE>🤣🤣🤣
All mountains have snow & other cool areas as well. Australia is not flat!
I live in a built up part of Australia had a kangaroo jumping down my drive way and the roads not a thing that happens a lot You may not se them but there are plenty of spiders around
Australia is number 6 in the world in the area of forest - despite all the dry places in the red centre it is still green with all that forest
You can hardly compare winter in Australia with winter in England. More snow falls on the Australian Alps than the Swiss Alps.
It’s cold in Australia in the winter but please it is not freezing in Perth or Sydney not even in Melbourne in winter is it anything like freezing cold Britain. More snow falls in Australian Snowy Mountains than Swiss Alps.
Drop bears are a myth. However, a sleepy koala could fall out of a tree and land on someone below, reaching out with their claws to grab something to stop its fall to the ground. And be frightened to be captured by a strange clothed animal and bite in fear.
So, maybe there is a grain of truth.
More snow than Switzerland. Duh. Highlands have SNOW!!!
You’ll see kangaroos occasionally in the western suburbs of Sydney, they aren’t that uncommon these days.
It can get that hot it melts the road you drive on 😅 in Queensland than you need to deal with the rainy season 😏 good luck with that 😉
In Canberra they MUST eradicate thousands of kangaroos every year otherwise they will cause massive traffic problems. In western Sydney suburbs I see kangaroos every single day!
One more thing - forget about danger about animals- the real danger is from drowning. 99 people drowned in Australia (many tourists on unpatrolled beaches) in 2023. In the same year 2 died from snake bite. There have been 3 fatal crocodile attacks since the beginning of 2018.
More snow falls in the snowfields of Australia than in the Swiss Alps.
😂😂 drop bears.
It's just part of our humour.
If you see a spider, it probably won't be poisonous or venomous. Most spiders aren't.
It snow's in at least 3 states in Australia.
The misconceptions are Poms thinking Australian is like the set of Home and Away. How clueless of the Poms.
Didn't mention the hoop snakes. Those bastards will chase you.
Australia did its best to kill me. Never mind the snakes....it's the roos and the bluebottles you gotta watch out for. And the demon birds. And friends holding their phone filming you with a grin on their face...
6:20 All Australians are not friendly like the stereotype - Yes, that's 100% correct. I came to to Aus over 10 years ago and that's certainly true. They love to boast how friendly and laid back they are, but there are plenty of countries with much friendlier and easy going people, they just don't boast as much as the aussies lol
You must be a Kiwi.
@@geoffc5196 I'm not, but funny you should say that. My Kiwi friends say that in NZ if someone is being rude or making a nuisance of themselves in public they just assume that he's Australian haha
@@navs485 get real In all my 70 years I have never known this to ever come up in a conversation. I have known people from over seas say this but Australians boasting about it seems very unlikely to say the least. You must be making this sh!t up. NZers would say that I’m sure. But who cares.
@@geoffc5196 I've been all over the world, so I know what I'm talking about. Sorry the truth hurts.
@@navs485 I don’t claim we are are the friendliest people on the planet I am just saying that you getting into conversations with Australian people boasting about how friendly they are is just not believable.You said Australians plural so that must mean three or more times. How on earth did you get into such conversations? Just not logical. The reason you know so much about what NZers think of us is probably because you are one yourself.
Well no its not jyst one place it snows. It snows all over the Australian Alps which have several ski fields across 2 states. Lots of areas acros NSW and Victoria get light snow quite often tho it doesnt stay around very long. And depends where you live but its not at all unusual to see kangaroos in urban areas. In fact Canberra has yearly kamgaroo culls necause they can breed quickly and are a traffic hazard on major roads and streets and they hang out on golf courses and by Lake Burley Griffin. Wildlife in the toilet is only an issue in the warmer northern tropical regions. And huntsmen ARE everywhere. You just havent noticed them. And drop bears ARE real dont be fooled. To make sure they dont attack smear vegemite behind your ears.
Australia is a lot more fertile than many people than Australia thinks. Sydney has twice the annual rainfall of London.
Fun fact - if you look at amount of arable land in each country (in hectares) Australia is about 7th largest country in terms of amount of land under cultivation. However a lot of it is in what be seen as semi arid, but not desert.
Red backs are everrywhere.
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You will find kangaroos in the cities......at most golf courses.... even in Perth.
We did come from England as criminals 😅 remember 🎉
Only around 30% Australians with UK & Ireland ancestry have a convict ancestor. I've only found 1 and it would explain a lot if I had a few 😂
@@XaviRonaldo0then you are a fool. Join a genealogy group. Scratch the surface of grandparents backgrounds.
Kangaroo's do love a golf course.
Those kangaroos are relocated onto the gold course.
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You pair dribble soooo much crap its hard to watch
Hey, all you scared tourists, by all means if you want to follow the sun by staying up in the northern states, remember that's also where you start to encounter far more spiders, roos, buffalo, snakes and crocodiles.😂 good luck.