The worst is when you pull down the sun visor while driving and a big dirty Huntsman spider is hiding between the roof and the visor. I'm going to bet it's an experience most Aussie's have had. 🕷😮
Had that one more than once, worst part is when people in the car start freaking out. Also had them pop out of where I used to store the UBD/street directory, prior to sat nav. Huntsman spiders can flatten themselves out pretty well. I prefer huntsman spiders to wasps, centipedes or stinging ants mind you. Being stung by a wasp on leg while driving…very distracting.
Happened once to me as a little tacker and me old man was driving. Landed right between his legs, never seen the car stop so quick and him jump out, I was in the back seat and had nowhere to go as it was a two door. It's always funnier looking back though.
My worst spider encounter was early one morning when I grabbed my coffee to gulp down the last couple of inches before dashing out the door. I was drinking it and felt something on my lips and partially into my mouth. I spat back into the cup and saw a massive huntsman spider sitting in the bottom of the coffee mug. The morning coffee has always been a little bit different for me from that moment.
When I was about 4yo Mum told me Huntsman spiders wouldn't bite unless provoked and even if they did, they weren't venomous. She was reassuring me because I had found a big one in the shed who's eggs had just hatched. She absolutely freaked when I came back into the house covered in hundreds of spiders! They were on my clothes, in my hair, I had let some crawl into my jacket pockets and I had the big Mumma in my hand 🤣🤣🤣 🕷️
oh dan😮😮😮 mine was ridding bmx bike and a big one came running out the end of the handle bar end. .and ran up my arm dam it freek the hell outta me I thru my bike down and whent. aawe. swaw 😅 lol.
The snake up jeans clip was an April Fool's day prank a couple of years ago by a guy called China Gibson. It was already dead. There is no way a Tiger snake is going to venture up a trouser leg and just sit there not moving, let alone let itself be "clamped off with a vice grip"! Lol! For anyone who knows snake behaviour in Australia, the video has "setup" stamped all over it from the first few seconds. It's also the reason he doesn't show it slithering away at the end.
yes, he said in the comments on the original video: "Occurred on April 1, 2018 / Moulamein, NSW, Australia. I was bored in the tractor and decided this would be a good April fools prank for friends and family. Snake was already deceased. The end result was a bloody good laugh and a viral video!"
@@ToxicMrSmith as a venomous reptile keeper you’d be surprised to hear half the shit I’ve heard people from other countries say about our animals xD I once met a guy from the UK who thought we rode emus and roos
Crocs. Sneaky buggers. I've lived in croc country and camped near croc-infested rivers. They are cunning things and have endless patience. Locals and just about any tourist guidebook worth its salt will advise you to camp at least 30 metres from any creek or river, especially tidal ones. They'll also tell you, that if you're camping for a few days, don't access the creek or river via the same spot every day, and always go in pairs so someone can be a spotter if you're collecting water or even fishing. Crocs will notice unusual activity on the bank from a distance, and if the activity is repeated, the croc/s will come closer each day. You can pretty much count on a croc being very close to your river access spot by day three. And in cloudy water, you won't see it even if it's only six inches under.
Yep , and you could probably bet the crocs can feel the footsteps and vibrations from the river bank into the water , so put one foot wrong and you are dinner :) .
The parachuting clip is at the old Orroral valley tracking station (tracking NASA’s space craft and satellites) about 20 minutes south of Canberra.. Canberra is surrounded by the Brindabella mountain ranges and that is just a part of it
I live in a small country town up the top end of NSW. A good way to tell what kind of fay it is going to be in summer time is open the front (or back) door if the heat slaps you in the face before you go outside at 6am you know it is going to be up around 40C possibly even higher, we've had days where it has reached 47C (116F)
A mate of mine brought a commodore wagon a few years ago. When they drove it home the hit a bump and the roof lining dropped. What they didn't know at the time there was a huntsman nest in the roof. Apparently they were pouring out everywhere hundreds of them.
A huntsman had babies in my car a few years back - about 50 of them. Took me weeks to get them out, never hurt any of them. They're a great spider to have around.
Yes growing up in Oz when the cars were less sealed, often spiders were already inside (eg falling out of the overhead visor). Poor mum screaming, I heard there are statistics kept in Oz for car crashes caused by spiders.
I had a giant huntsman one time crawling on the inside of the drivers side window, inches from my face. I honestly couldn't stop my reaction, taking both hands off the wheel and smashing at it while screaming like a little girl. Very lucky not to cause an accident, I was doing 100km/h on the motorway.
Yep, had this exact same experience, I never leave my car windows down if I’m not in the car any longer, I don’t need another one of those experiences. But I’ve also found a hunstsman inside my shirt and apparently my daughter told me she saw one on my face when I was sleeping one night but she didn’t want to wake me and freak me out lol..
My uncle had a biggun inside on his bush shack window and freaked out so bad he smashed the spider and window with a shovel. I used to pick them up as a kid because I saw Harry Buttler do it on his nature documentaries. We actually used to call huntsmans Harry Buttlers 😁
There aren't any statistics for spiders causing accidents themselves. However it comes under distracted driving which is a leading cause of accidents in Aus, so anything from phones, to snakes, to spiders. I remember a bloke in Sydney had a brown snake in the car he was wrestling while driving, got a fine by a speed camera, followed by the cops and they left him off after looking at the speed camera photo with a snake on the dashboard. That being said, 650,000 crashes a year happen due to bugs, insects and spiders.
I was driving a Semi Trailer at 100kph on a freeway when a huntsman dropped from the sun visor onto the steering wheel, I grabbed a glove and swiped it to the passenger side. Unfortunately I also swerved while doing that. Luckily nothing was beside me! Truck behind called to check to see if I was ok, said my heart rate was a bit high and explained why.
The snake one reminds me of years ago i was doing tractor work in the fire season slashing fence to fence along a country road , , usually we went out into the country doing roadside slashing in pairs , because tractors are dangerous and --it happens , on this occasion my offsider had pulled a sickie and i was out in the country on my own about an hour away from city , on this day , i had a problem with the tractors slasher and had to get out and fix it , upon getting back into the tractor on a slope , i stumbled lost balance and put a foot into the 6 foot high grass behind me and stood on a snake unknowingly , he was obviously pissed because i took a step up into the tractor and he caught me on the blundstone heel , fortunately he took off back in the grass , and i ran the 100 in about 4 seconds in the opposite direction :) . The snake tunnel i observed in the grass was huge , so he was a big fella . Reminds also of when i was a kid , dear old dad interstate trucky bought back a very large carpet snake in a potato sack ( no idea how he caught it ), what a crazy place we live in ay :) .
It's always interesting during summer, you don't need a thermometer to tell you how hot it is when the bitumen roads are that hot that the tar starts re-melting. Every Aussie knows the temp on that day.
First clip, with the spider crawling on the dash happened to me many moons ago while I was driving... The spider was about the size of a tennis ball(all its legs spread apart) and this was at night, so I only saw a silhouette of it crawling on the dash. Beats me how a spider that size got into my car lol. So, without panicking or freaking out, I happened to be close to a servo(gas station) so pulled into there. The spider was nowhere to be seen when I finally stopped. I said to myself "bugger, that's not good" haha. Walked into the servo and got a can of bug spray(luckily they had some), came back to my car and started to spray under the dash, seats etc until the noxious fumes were unbearable then closed the door. Waited about 15 minutes for the fumes to work its magic, opened the door and finally the spider crawled out(in slow motion) onto the driver's side carpet. It was only after I picked it up and brought it outside to the brightly lit area and realised it was a sydney funnel web, one of the most venomous(if not the deadliest) spiders in the world. Its venom can kill an adult in about 15 minutes, so I got lucky haha. Only downside is that my car smelled like bug spray for 2 weeks. 🤣
That first video;This happened to my sister and she's an extreme arachnophobic. She put her feet on the dash, because the spider was on the front of her seat. I told her to stop the car, she said she couldn't... I had to put the hand brake on myself. She jumped out of the car and commanded me to get rid of it. When I tried to get it, the only way I could was to guide it onto me and climb out of the car. She insisted I tell her where it was, and wouldn't take "chill, it's out of the car" for an answer. So I turned around to show it on my back. She freaked out even more. Priceless.
One of those large huntsman spiders was in one of my friends shirts before he put it on, it bit him four times on the back and twice on the arm. The pain is like a bee sting but lasts a bit longer but their bite has a weak poison that has no effect on humans. He was fine five minutes later.
We were out camping. A storm came through about 1am in the morning. We all got under cover about 8 of us. Pouring rain. We turned on the lights. And a brown snake right in the middle of us. Of course every one ran back out into the rain.
I went to a relay for life event a few years ago, there was a man and a young lady inside it, and it was full of tiger snakes. They were walking around with them, and told me they could do it because after being in there for around 20 minutes, staying still, the snakes become used to the fact they are there. A bit later I went to show my wife, we found the pool with the snakes, but nobody was in there. Apparently one of the snakes had crawled up the lady's trouser leg, panicked, and bitten her multiple times on the leg, she had gone for a nice little ride in an ambulance
Went fishing on Stradbroke Island in the 1990's with my mate, his parents owned a home over there, so after cricket on a Saturday we'd often jump on the water taxi and spend the rest of the weekend fishing . We used to use his dads old Holden engined Landrover to get around the Island. We were driving down Rainbow Cresent, anyone who Knows Dunwich, knows the street, It goes down a fairly steep hill directly into the setting sun. My mate flipped his sun visor down as we drove down the hill and a HUGE Huntsman spider landed in his lap, he opened the drivers door and jumped out, no shit, we were only in second gear but, here I was sitting in the passenger seat, going down a fairly steep hill in the passenger seat of a driverless car ! I quickly jumped over into the drivers seat, not easy in a little landrover, and brought the car to a stop, I was laughing hysterically at my mate rolling round in the middle of the road belting himself stupid trying to kill the spider, that was still on the inside of the drivers side door... True story !!! PS, that spider on the steering wheel is a little one, the one that landed on my mates lap was the size of my hand...
@@fab3laundry I was more concerned with the pilot less car i was careering down the hill in, he yelled when the spider landed in his lap though, I've never seen anyone get out of a car so fast in all my life, funny stuff....
I moved to Australia 22 years ago from the UK. Teeny tiny spiders there. Not an issue. Well I was mowing the back garden under the trees in my early days here and felt someone put a hand on my shoulder. Turned around to see and no one there. Just the dirty great big huge spider that fell and landed on my shoulder. I probably scared every dog for miles around with my scream and run from the garden. I've never mowed the garden ever since. True story.
😂😂😂 Ian you’re hilarious… I got a grey huntsman living in my car… cars silver with grey interior, crawls in and out occasionally, so I told him… you leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone 🤷🏽♂️ All good
you cant say you have driven in Australia if you haven't had a spider whilst driving experience.... Also snakes in the car are pretty common out here in the bush
n. never had one in the car, had one wrapped around the rear axle identified during a tyre change once, no idea how that happened, but it was still alive(I think) might not have been and we'd been driving on unsealed roads for a while so it wasn't well off for the experience. Heading NW from Alice springs I think, it was pale coloured, maybe 4 foot long, may have even been white but with the glare and red dirt, difficult to tell and no idea what species . It uncoiled itself, and stretched out a bit but lay under the car unmoving with it's head facing away from me. Odd After the tyre change, it was still there, on the road, under the car. Not a fan of snakes so didn't check for life signs but, I'm guessing it had injuries incompatible with life since, I hadn't seen it move since it uncoiled and stretched out, it looked a bit squished at one end and when I glanced back as I moved off, it still hadn't moved. Now, Snake up the leg of the overalls when working under a vehicle or centipede? That dude who had one of Australia's Tiger snake species up his trouser leg was lucky not to have been bitten, or possibly not lucky so much, they possibly don't bite things they don't consider a threat, and wouldn't feel like they were being crushed up a trouser leg. The old man had a centipede head up his leg which pinched him multiple times. He was performing some field maintenance on some heavy piece of machinery or vehicle and wasn't in a position to properly extract himself to deal with this crawly thing going up his leg and the thing kept pinching him. In his attempt to prevent it pinching him he ended up mangling it to the extent that there were only bits of the centipede remaining when he managed to extract himself from under whatever he was working on and strip off to identify what it was that had bitten him, he couldn't believe the pain he was in and it was intensifying. The old man's sort of old school, deals with most wounds, cuts and piercings(even ones which should require stitches or tetanus shots), spider bites, ant and wasp stings, scorpion stings, marine stings, blunt trauma, he would just suck it up with minimal complaint. This pain, which he tells me was unfathomable and the worst pain he had ever felt, had him seeking medical treatment pretty quickly. He's almost 80 now but even when a cutting blade from an angle grinder, shattered while he was using it and bits of hot fibrous material embedded in his leg about 10 years ago he was reluctant to go to the doctor. Dad, being Dad, decided to clean it up best he could, showered, shaved, and then heading to the doctor. .....
@@vergadain oh my gosh my dad had the same sort of thing happen when i was about 10. we where in tassie around mathinna area (bush area) and we had an old ford spectron van, we got a flat and he was changing it and all of a sudden he flew up of the ground swearing... a tiger snake was under there and just casually slithered away after about 20 minutes not sure how long he had been calling that place home or weather he hitched a ride lol. i will never forget it though
That first spider is a small one! I remember driving with a very big, very hairy huntsman running around the steering wheel as I was driving, in fact, the big one that you skipped over, that's what was on my steering wheel. I had to keep moving my hands around the wheel to keep out of his way. I'd poop myself with the snake up the jeans one.
My spider encounter is much like that first lady's... hot summer day in Perth, parked my car with the sunroof open a crack to keep the inside cool, and as I drove home in the late afternoon, pulled down the sun visor and PLOP! a huntsman spider falls on my lap. Not something you want to happen whilst doing 60km/h... but yeah, I had to muster an insane amount of self control and not crash!
I was recently driving and suddenly felt something on my face had a large spider crawl across my face and across the edge of my glasses. Managed to keep cool open the window and flick it out without crashing. The next week had a Huntsman run under my pedals somewhere refusing to come out when I had to drive across town 30 mins expecting it to run up my leg. Annoyingly Huntsmans in the car feels like a common occurrence in this country
Hahaha yes, laughing at you but feeling the exact same way ! I spray my car every few months so there won't be any spiders, spray my letterbox and around the door frames. Nothing worse than have a huge spider come out through the car vent when you're driving lol
LOL I spray the house doors and letterbox too!! I am super diligent about making sure all windows are closed when leaving the car though. I HATE Huntsmans!
Several years ago we we’re having a bbq where the parachute clip was at Orral Valley. A group of aggressive kangaroos came out of the bush and a couple of them were literally trying to grab the food from our hands. I’ve had plenty of kangaroo encounters over the years but have never experienced anything like that.
Lots of people have picnics and BBQs there so they aren’t afraid of people. Any males who are feeling territorial and aggressive, usually during breeding season, will square up with whoever catches their eye. The emus can be right bastards too.
yeah they seem to get that way around here in summer, south western aus. i feed em treats sometimes with no dramas but when all the nice green grass dried up they became aggressive. not to me so much but if you chuck a bit of bread to them it turns into a free for all, even if theres enough for each one. theres always a bully or two but knew it must be get'n serious when an adult had a go at a joey and instead of it dropping its treat an jumping aside it growled back an hung onto its piece of raisin bread. yeah i know its bad for em but its only now an then, i get proper stuff from the stock feeders.
Poor buggers must have been starving to approach and steal food ..unless idiot tourist have been feeding them and they have gotten use to human food . Don't feed.wildlife bread ... geeze
😂😂 I just love your reactions. Especially to things that for this Aussie, are just 'normal'. That big Red Roo lived at a sanctuary, having been a hand raised orphan, and handreared roos in many areas are considered too dangerous to be released into the wild. He actually passed away a couple of years ago, and we all cried.
When I was younger our primary school had a metal slide and we had a week of 35+c days anyway for science me a couple kids convinced our teacher to give us a couple eggs to see if the ashphalt could cook it it sort of worked so we tried the slide next and sure enough it starts sizzling away one of us pulled out his stainless ruler flipped the egg let it cook than ate it.
I always just forget how not normal it is to just have really dangerous animals that hang around your house. Like I found a redback underneath a hand towel once, and frequently get ants crawling through floorboards, or dead millipedes at the bottom of public pools. A friend of mine climbed once climbed a tree and there was a huge dugite at the top. It's kind of amazing when you think about it because it's just so normal for most Australians.
100 degrees is mild, in summer. !20 degrees is more common, and that's by the coast. There's a place in Western Australia called Marble Bar where the summer temperature regularly reaches 130 degrees. There's a place west of there, called (ironically) North Pole that gets even hotter.
That's wild. Last summer we reached 117(record breaking for the area of Oregon I was in) for about a week straight, 110+ for about a month. Definitely not the norm out here.
I had an old Nissan Urvan once... plenty of nooks n' crannies for wildlife to inhabit, and somehow make it inside too.. I'm driving to work, look in the rear view mirror and walking towards me on the roof, is one of the biggest huntsmen I've ever seen in town... usually they're bigger out of town, in semi-rural to rural areas.
Worked on a mine site 100km inland from the coast basically desert with some vegetation, up in the north west near Kununurra. 45°C and you walk for a few minutes from A to B and you're sweating. Like standing in front of a blast furnace, and i have .... a brick factory in southern Queensland over summer. Luckily most if what was happening at the site was underground. Quite a few Aboriginals were employed because the heat didn't bother them outdoors, and many of us couldn't do what they did without extensive climatisation. Seriously, you need NASA space suit's to work in parts of Australia.
My brother had a giant huntsman on his ceiling it had spun a web in the corner and he would catch flies and put them on the web then lie on his bed and watch and wait for it to devour it. Almost two weeks had past. Then one night the entire household was awoken by screams and furniture been thrown around, apparently it decided to come down off the ceiling and crawl across my brothers face when he swiped at it half asleep it showed him who was boss by biting him on the top lip he wacked it with a shoe after throwing several random items at it and missing. We all had to go to the emergency room as my sister and eye were too young to be left at home. Some time had passed all was forgotten until my brother found 100's of baby's crawling under his bed, she must off dropped her egg sac. My brother no longer befriends any spiders but almost 40 years on my sister and I still find new ways to take the piss out off our brother. Our favorite is to hide fake ones from time to time and send him pictures of them.
(2007) I was parked in Kirribilli (under the Sydney harbour bridge) one night and came back to find a giant huntsman on my windscreen. i got in and started the car and turned on the wiper to sweep it off ...the wiper hit the huntsman and bounced over it leaving the spider exactly where it was !!!! it then ran around to my driver side door and slid in behind my side mirror. i never saw it again and the car is long gone but i always imagine it's still there waiting to terrorise the new owner.
7:00 All Red Kangaroos are that jacked it's not just that specific one. Totally different to Grey Kangaroos, Red Kangaroos are the ones that can kill you.
the Huntsman and the Wolf Spider are the most common of Australia's big spiders, Yeah they can and will give you an almighty scare. I had a Wolf Spider once actually take a running jump at me, luckily it missed. But the good thing that their venom is pretty harmless, make you pretty sick but thats it.
I had a huntsman spider that lived in my car for years. We traveled the State together. My X girlfriend saw him and freaked out. I said he is okay he keeps the bugs out of the vents. When I would pull up he would just chill out on the roof and climb back into the vents.
The kangaroo and paraglider happened at a place called the Orroral Valley Space Tracking Station located 50 km south of Canberra. I have a couple of stories. I will preface this by saying I used to work with spiders, mainly funnel webs and other venomous species and also spent some time doing snake and croc shows all over the east coast of Oz. I was driving in heavy traffic one day with my then, 15 year old son in the passenger seat, when a huntsman about 10 centimetres across came out from under the visor. Son started freaking out. It came across the windshield to my side and then across to my side window. Was climbing down the window next to me while I was trying to calm my freaking out son, as I managed to find a place to pull over. I got out and calmly guided the spider onto an old magazine in the car and then walked up off the footpath and released it into a tree. The snake up the trouser leg? Been there, done that. I was doing a snake show in a major shopping centre on the mid north coast in the late 90's and had an Eastern Brown Snake out loose in the pit with me. I was chatting away to the crowd when I heard the entire crowd gasp. My first thought was 'This is not good' and I looked down. The brown had gotten his head up under my jeans. I was wearing ankle length boots, a pair of ankle length socks and the aforementioned jeans. I saw about 8 or so inches of the snake had made its way up the inside of my jeans. Did a quick mental 'Can I feel the snake on my bare skin above my socks?' and when I couldn't, I just lifted my right leg, gave it a shake and the snake dropped out. I continued with the show. Quite a few people came up to me after the show and told me I looked so calm. I can tell you if someone had had me on a heart monitor when it happened, I would have blown that thing up!! Fun times!
The biggest surprise I ever had is when I pull down the sunvisor in my car while I was driving and huntsman spider fell onto my lap scared the shit out of me.
Those are bettles. Near extinct in some parts of Australia (harmless mind), and in others an abundance. The colour of there shells change over time. Those are babies. The older they are the more colourful they get. Grew up with them in Northern NSW as a kid. By the age of 18 they were rarely seen for me. It's actually beautiful to see so many like that. (The toilets are probably a rarely used set of toilets or abandoned public toilets). We live by the lands rules here not by human standard rules. That guy flushing them like that smh. Don't blame him of course but still. I hope he put a large portion of them outside before he exterminated or got rid of the rest. They are seriously some of the most beautiful, harmless bettles I've ever seen. I loved watching their shells turn from brown to rainbow green/purple/gold/pink etc.
We get them every year after the first rain at the end of Summer in Western Vic. I put out huge bins under the lights at night and then feed what I catch to the chooks, ducks, turkeys and guineafowl. They rarely get through even 1/4 of the beetles caught and the rest all scuttle away under the leaves.
@@zeropoint546 yeah we call them Christmas beetles in WA, i think cos they have both a red and green kinda hue on their shell in adults ... but ive NEVER seen a 'swarm' of them before though! this video is insaaane
@@DaveWhoa Christmas beetles in Sydney are called that because they show up right around Christmas. They're a dull brown colour, and there's generally so many of them that flushing them down the toilet starts to sound less cruel and more like good sense.
There's an ABC news clip from Darwin from this week with a fairly big croc chasing a Barramundi that a guy had caught, right up to it being landed. The best bit was his mate going TOWARDS the croc to rescue his cap!
That was a decent size Barra the kid caught. I would've fought the croc for it too. It was really funny. It went from, 'Reel it in reel it in', to 'Let him have it' very fast.
I live in outback QLD and our summer began at the end of September (first month of Spring) last year and ended in April this year. Was a relentless, long, hot and somewhat humid summer. I was well over it and looking forward to the cooler months. Usually from November to March out here it's 40+ deg c (104f) every day but this last one went forever. We're finally dropping into the high 20's during the day and low teens at night. Now I'm feeling cold lol
Just stay in the cities and in very popular hotels eg. one where the rooms are always booked coz if a room is left unused for a little while that’s when the spiders move in.
About 4 years back I was bitten by a snake on my left ankle- when he dug his (assuming male 😄) fangs in I just kick my leg and sent him flying into the garden area - hopped into my house and called the Emergency number as I didn’t know if venomous or not - was a long thin blackish snake - taken to hospital and had to go through an 18 hour envenomation process - not how I planned to spend my night 😂 yep! Australia again 🇦🇺
@@DaveWhoa - they can’t give anti venom if the snake is not identified- they monitored me every half hour checking bloods and breathing, heart beat and eyes and other vitals for the first few hours then dropped back to every hour- normally the process is for approximately 12 hours but because my oxygen levels were a bit low, they kept me under observation until my oxygen levels came up- you don’t get much rest in Emergency- eventually took me to another area with low lightning but the man in the next bed behind the curtain was snoring so bad, I still didn’t get much rest between check ups - went in a around 7pm and left around 1:30pm the next day - ankle still itches when I think of snakes- think a bit of fang still in there 🤔 episode was definitely not one of my most pleasurable experiences.
@@DaveWhoa - I stepped on the bugger at dusk and it gave me a warning of a slight bite but then quickly sunk its fangs in a couple of seconds later good and proper- I tell you, it didn’t stay there on my ankle long when I kicked it off and sent it flying- left a little blood- the Emergency woman who took my call gave me instructions on what to do and said ‘you are the calmest person I’ve dealt with after being bitten by a snake’ I said ‘what can I do- it’s happened- just get the Ambulance here as soon as possible please’ - it or another one came into my outside entertainment area about 6 months later but when I opened the door, it took off to the same garden asap - guess it realised it didn’t kill me and didn’t want to fly again 😂
@@mariagrant2072 that'd be fascinating if it was the same individual snake! I think maybe your emergency operator was telling you "youre the calmest i've ever heard" to help keep you calm - I had to call 000 emergency just two weeks ago as my neighbour was unconscious, the 000 operator on the other end of the line was SO GOOD at 1) keeping me calm, 2) giving me concise instructions, and 3) keeping me positive with "you're doing really well" etc - I couldn't imagine getting better help. Kudos to our triple zero emergency operators, savings lives every hour
The clip where the guy was cooking the egg by the swimming pool. I remember going to work that summer BEFORE the sun was up and if was already 33 degrees Celsius (91.4 Fahrenheit) approx 5:30am. Yeah it gets f'ing hot here 🍺😉👌🇦🇺
My fiancee came out of the shower wrapped in a towel only to see a Huntsman Spider on the door frame & freak out dancing on the bed naked LOL. We were dressing to go out & all I could do was smile. As a WA girl, every spider is a killer funnel web to her.
The Huntsman spider at the start is just a baby. I had one that was at least three times that size fall down from behind the sunvisorthat I had pulled down as went down the steepest hill in the district. But they are essentially harmless...
The parachute jumper was landing just outside Canberra ( I can't remember the name of the site, I only drove past it every day for 6 or so years. Never paid attention) on the Goulburn side. It made the news.
As a person who fears almost nothing but snakes.. if I seen a snake in my pant leg I would have died of a heart attack long before it could have killed me.
I've woken up twice in my life with a big (size of a small hand maybe) huntsman spider on my face. I usually take a while to get going in the morning. Not on those two occasions. Fully awake real quick.
Nope, just no. The first time it happened, I'd move house. Second time, I'm leaving the country! I would love to visit Australia one day, it looks amazing and the people are awesome, but then I read shit like this and realise, my arachnophobia is real.
I had that spider climb up onto my steering wheel. It was a Huntsman and it was bigger and chunkier than that one. It just sat on the round part in the middle and stared at me. I had the fright or flight moment. I stopped in 4 lanes of traffic, I didn’t pull over, I just stopped, threw open my door and ran away. I left my daughter and her new baby in my car but at the time I didn’t even know my name. I can hug a snake but I cannot do spiders. My daughter got out of the car, walked around to the drivers seat and came and found me. To get me back into my car she emptied 3 cans of spider killer inside of it. The baby was outside with me. Then she left the windows slightly open and took me to have coffee for a couple of hours. My husband had to come and get us because she couldn’t show me the body. 😳
Yikes! I'm with you on that. Snakes I can handle, but spiders trigger that deep primal fear. Oh and I'm from the UK so our spiders aren't even scary, never mind dangerous!
She couldn’t show you the body coz it wasn’t dead. You could let off a bomb in your car and it would still find a good spot to hide where it would survive. Then it would play dead. Yes I am serious (all Aussies know this but I don’t know if other spiders do this) and then magically resurrect once you go nearer.
The first one is a rain spider & yes I've found one pop out while driving (more than once). It's freaky. You just have to be cool & pull over to try get rid of it.
I'm trying to figure out the bugs in the last clip. The closest I can guess is that they look like Dung beetles, which are in the Scarab family. They are really really useful for cutting down fly numbers, because they bury dung before flys lay maggots in it. Also the dung buried by the beetles fertilises the soil quicker than it rotting on top. However I've never seen a swarm of beetles like that, and It's definitely off-putting.
The Tiger Snake is dead. I watched it in slow motion heaps of times months ago. Zoomed in. It doesn't have a head. And a Tiger Snake just wouldn't lay still like that without attacking first.
That storm - it wasn't rain, but hail....and a tame storm compared to some we've had. Hail hurts! Spiders in the car, yup. Was driving Sydney to Brisbane when my kids were small, night time...one kids says "there's a spider" - i says "where?"...."on the roof".....so i slow down a little (100kms/h is probably a bit fast to check the roof lining)...it's a huntsman, twice the size of the one in the video....I tell the kids to let it be, and it won't hurt them....It crawled from the rear of the car to the front (station wagon), and down under the dash somewhere....Never stopped to look for it...never saw it again either.
driving along pull the visor down had a huntsman drop into my lap, leapt out of the car leaving my passenger going what the F, then chased after the car to pull the brake and look for the darn thing. Found it 3 days later
Ahhhh do not worry about this spider. It is called " Huntsman ". It can grow to a size of palm of a hand. It is highly venom's but because of it's extremely small poison fangs, can not pierce human skin. It is good to have one in home, because it kills other poisonous spiders like " Red Back ". Yes, they usually sneak under sun visors LOL :) I always say, Huntsman keep house cleean.
The parra glider is landing on the remains of Orroal Valley Tracking Station near Canberra ACT. It was part of the Honeysuckle Tracking Station which is where the transmission of the 1st stepping on the MOON was received on earth. Yes it is very special and beautiful place. Cheers Nick Rose
Australia, the only country on my to do list I haven't visited, I don't understand why my two main school project, was about Australia and snakes and Australia and spiders, yes I like bitty poison stuff, and I like Australia even though I never been there. Love from Denmark 🇩🇰 Edit: coming from a country where nothing is deadly, I find it appealing that a country like Australia are filled with animals that's just waiting to kill you!
My cousin in Shepparton in Victoria was playing Aussie Rules and he wasn't going too good towards the end of the 3rd ¼. The coach sprayed him. But he fell over as the 4th started. He woke in hospital and they found a redback had bitten his scrotum. He was very popular with the nurses for some reason.
Very funny episode. According to news sources the location of the paragliding and roo is Orroral Space Tracking Station in Australian Capital Territory, Australia. I had huntsman in my car while driving before. Bugger that Tiger snake up the jean leg I would have passed out lol
I live in the Australian bush and came in one day and flopped down on the bed for a short nap and then felt something slither along my leg, fast, when I sat up I saw his back half going out the van door..I ran to the door and he had stopped a couple of yards from the door and was raised up about a foot looking back at me and you could tell I had scared the poor thing. A snake only about four foot but I am colour blind so I am not sure if it was a green ( harmless) or a brown ( deadly) I think it was brown but fortunately I did not get bitten..it's not nice they say... Also I kept getting this huge spider running across my tablet as I watched it in bed and it gives you a heck of a fright..I finally figured out he was just chasing insects drawn in by its light. He stayed around for a month or two..but I put on little light on away from me and he hung out there...I called him speedy.
That huntsman spider on the dashboard thing has happened to me three times. The third time (I hate spiders) I crashed the car into a tree. Now I live in the city and never see them anymore. I miss the country but not the spiders!
I live in Sydney, and i perpetually have spiders in the car.....for some reason they like getting behind the passenger side wing mirror. Haven't had one in the cab for quite some time though.
I grew up on a farm in a remote area. Our loo was around 30-40 metres from the house, and it was constructed from corrugated iron held together by some old wooden posts. Not surprisingly, on a hot day snakes would hide in there to get out of the sun, and there were frequently red back spiders spinning webs in there. One night I went to the loo, but ran screaming back to the house, saying I would never sit on the seat because of the redback spiders. My mum scoffed, and said, "if you don't bother them, then they won't bother you." Strangely, she was right.
Used to have a Huntsman Spider that lived up in one corner of the kitchen. We discovered he liked cheese, Kraft processed cheese, so we'd have breakfast with the spider. One thing was we never had another insect in the house the whole time Timbo, that's what we called him, was there. When we moved we took him out into bush and let him go rather than have the new tennants kill him.
There's a video of a guy who does a whole beef roast in his locked up car in Australia. Well worth a look. The car was a Datsun and his name was Stu Pengelly. NBC News had a video on it. Car got up to 81 Celsius or 178 Farenheit, and honestly it wasn't even that hot a day (35 C in Perth). You'd crack 100 C at least in some parts of the country.
when a huntsman spider drops on you when you are driving its hard not to lose your cool. the worst thing is when you get your mojo back , where the f is the spider now? no doubt waiting , lurking somewhere to do the same again. as mal said, ex aussie pm , life wasn't meant to be easy.
I had to fast forward most of that and I live here, city girl. I’ll jinks myself lol. I’ve had a plague of Huntsman, first few didn’t bother me, but, about to get in shower, one in there. About to turn washing on, one near start button, I actually took a pic of that one lol. On my hand, on mouse on pc, that freaked me. And one running at me on loo, shoe off, splattered him and many more. Called pest control, all gone. Girlfriend had spider in her car, hysterical story, she wrote to me about it, way back in 70s Still have her letter lol.
I had a job up on the New South Wales Queensland border, I was working on a tractor and it was that hot I had to put leather mechanics gloves on to hold the spanners. I went through five litres of water in less than an hour.
When I was kid someone forgot to zip the tent up. Woke up and completely froze. A Browny slipped into my sleeping bag. Neither the snake or myself where hurt
Funnily enough, many males hate spiders but don't mind snakes, whereas I don't mind spiders but hate snakes. Growing up in Australia you get to be aware of them and keep a lookout. My son squeals like a little girl every time he sees a spider (he's 26) lol!
The clip with the young Eastern grey kangaroos, attacking the parachuter is in the ACT. Just south of the capital, Canberra. It is a tourist / historical place, where you can see the remains of one of the old Tracking Stations - used to track American space craft, exploration etc - maybe Honeysuckle Creek ?
Spider is not a problem. Just stroke it and tell to go away. They are quite silky to stroke, I had three kids, 6, 8 and 10 yrs old, youngest a boy and two girls, for over two weeks of camping want to go stroke a large Huntsman Spider spanning a hand size across its legs. The first day, while strolling the shore of a lake, we found it under a large chunk of ark on a tree. Just peacefully minding it's own business as I pulled the bark away. While I held it in place by a finger on the throat, I had each of the kids stroke it after convincing, much convincing, it was not going to bite as my Finger was holding it and would be the first thing bitten. After that the bark was lodged back in place. Sure enough next day it was still there, and again holding it, they all spent nearly 5 minutes stroking it each. The rest of our camping time each day we, they insisted, revisited for more stroking. By third day I did not even hold it down, it just accepted the stroking hardly moving, though it did move a few cm several times, and sat in different places at times, always under the large bark piece. A couple of times they left it a grasshopper they caught while we went there. The spiders are NO MONSTERS, and certainly not out to get you.
My most memorable spider encounter was at the local drive-in theatre many decades ago. Thinking of a strategy to get all touchy-feely with my date when a gaint huntsman ran across the wind-shield. In a split second my date was on my lap clinging from my neck. Thanks spider, was a memorable night. Not the most original method of breaking the ice, but it worked. Second most memorable spider moment was when I reached into my ammo box for a 300 Win Mag round and came out with a furry spider. I now look first. I gave up stalking through the bush when I was bitten on the upper thigh by an Eastern Brown and now crash around like an elephant and treat every dead branch as a snake in waiting.
Zip up your swag at night! Snakes are attracted to warm people and often they can curl up in your sleeping bag and sleep with you. The sun in Tassie seems the most horrible (and I live in QLD). 20mins in the sun and your cooked. That guy with the croc in the water, he is Andrew Ucles and he catches animals barehanded - he is a funny guy and has some GREAT videos.
Huntsman's are EVERYWHERE! Once in my friends car (I was the passenger) one crawled across the windshield and into the driver side window, don't ask me how but I jumped out the BACK door and ran up the road. There is NO escape from these giant things!
My scariest spider encounter was when I went to pick up my skateboard but there was a big redback underneath. It was snacking on a lizard. Also, completely irrevelant but there was a snail in my milo once. I don't know how it got there.
my wife stopped at a traffic light as you do, suddenly she jumped out of her car and started dancing in the street right there at the lights,i went up to see what was wrong (usually quiet and placid A large huntsman spider jumped down from the sunviser went down her top and we never did find it so for 3 years she was looking for it was never seen again they are quite harmless just very quick my little boys would be so scared of them I told them that it was only Sam who cam to eat the nasty flies they were never scared again sam became cousin sam still to this day they are in there thirties
That beetle video is pretty accurate, there’s a place my folks go camping every year and there is a pool nearby that is always filled with those little black beetles
The worst is when you pull down the sun visor while driving and a big dirty Huntsman spider is hiding between the roof and the visor. I'm going to bet it's an experience most Aussie's have had. 🕷😮
Had that one more than once, worst part is when people in the car start freaking out. Also had them pop out of where I used to store the UBD/street directory, prior to sat nav. Huntsman spiders can flatten themselves out pretty well. I prefer huntsman spiders to wasps, centipedes or stinging ants mind you. Being stung by a wasp on leg while driving…very distracting.
This is the worst, it's happened to me twice. You have my sympathy.
Happened once to me as a little tacker and me old man was driving. Landed right between his legs, never seen the car stop so quick and him jump out, I was in the back seat and had nowhere to go as it was a two door. It's always funnier looking back though.
Yep.
Can't say I've had that, but I'd be guaranteed to shit myself and stack my Hilux into the nearest tree
My worst spider encounter was early one morning when I grabbed my coffee to gulp down the last couple of inches before dashing out the door. I was drinking it and felt something on my lips and partially into my mouth. I spat back into the cup and saw a massive huntsman spider sitting in the bottom of the coffee mug. The morning coffee has always been a little bit different for me from that moment.
When I was about 4yo Mum told me Huntsman spiders wouldn't bite unless provoked and even if they did, they weren't venomous.
She was reassuring me because I had found a big one in the shed who's eggs had just hatched.
She absolutely freaked when I came back into the house covered in hundreds of spiders!
They were on my clothes, in my hair, I had let some crawl into my jacket pockets and I had the big Mumma in my hand 🤣🤣🤣 🕷️
That would have woken you up!
Same happened to me but it was a cockroach, I’ll pick the roach any day 🤣.
@@strayandrongo7461 Yep I chucked the coffee cup out the back door into the garden and headed straight
for the mouthwash.
oh dan😮😮😮 mine was ridding bmx bike and a big one came running out the end of the handle bar end. .and ran up my arm dam it freek the hell outta me I thru my bike down and whent. aawe. swaw 😅 lol.
The snake up jeans clip was an April Fool's day prank a couple of years ago by a guy called China Gibson. It was already dead. There is no way a Tiger snake is going to venture up a trouser leg and just sit there not moving, let alone let itself be "clamped off with a vice grip"! Lol! For anyone who knows snake behaviour in Australia, the video has "setup" stamped all over it from the first few seconds. It's also the reason he doesn't show it slithering away at the end.
Yeah totally agree you on this
yes, he said in the comments on the original video: "Occurred on April 1, 2018 / Moulamein, NSW, Australia. I was bored in the tractor and decided this would be a good April fools prank for friends and family. Snake was already deceased. The end result was a bloody good laugh and a viral video!"
While this is the truth it’s more fun to leave people from other countries thinking it’s real 😝
@@HomelessKoala you have to be a special kind of silly to think that shits real.
Snakes be fucking crazy out here.
@@ToxicMrSmith as a venomous reptile keeper you’d be surprised to hear half the shit I’ve heard people from other countries say about our animals xD I once met a guy from the UK who thought we rode emus and roos
Crocs. Sneaky buggers. I've lived in croc country and camped near croc-infested rivers. They are cunning things and have endless patience.
Locals and just about any tourist guidebook worth its salt will advise you to camp at least 30 metres from any creek or river, especially tidal ones. They'll also tell you, that if you're camping for a few days, don't access the creek or river via the same spot every day, and always go in pairs so someone can be a spotter if you're collecting water or even fishing. Crocs will notice unusual activity on the bank from a distance, and if the activity is repeated, the croc/s will come closer each day. You can pretty much count on a croc being very close to your river access spot by day three. And in cloudy water, you won't see it even if it's only six inches under.
Yep , and you could probably bet the crocs can feel the footsteps and vibrations from the river bank into the water , so put one foot wrong and you are dinner :) .
The parachuting clip is at the old Orroral valley tracking station (tracking NASA’s space craft and satellites) about 20 minutes south of Canberra.. Canberra is surrounded by the Brindabella mountain ranges and that is just a part of it
I used to take my kids up there every second weekend.
Yep the kangaroos are employed by the government as security.
Pretty much a standard Australian backdrop tho.
I live in a small country town up the top end of NSW. A good way to tell what kind of fay it is going to be in summer time is open the front (or back) door if the heat slaps you in the face before you go outside at 6am you know it is going to be up around 40C possibly even higher, we've had days where it has reached 47C (116F)
A mate of mine brought a commodore wagon a few years ago. When they drove it home the hit a bump and the roof lining dropped. What they didn't know at the time there was a huntsman nest in the roof. Apparently they were pouring out everywhere hundreds of them.
yeah , we tend to say many times in australia , ' that suns got a bit of bite to it . ' you can be out for 1 minute in summer , and its burning ,
A huntsman had babies in my car a few years back - about 50 of them. Took me weeks to get them out, never hurt any of them. They're a great spider to have around.
yep they are freaky but they kill alot of the really dangerus stuff
Yes growing up in Oz when the cars were less sealed, often spiders were already inside (eg falling out of the overhead visor). Poor mum screaming, I heard there are statistics kept in Oz for car crashes caused by spiders.
I had a giant huntsman one time crawling on the inside of the drivers side window, inches from my face. I honestly couldn't stop my reaction, taking both hands off the wheel and smashing at it while screaming like a little girl. Very lucky not to cause an accident, I was doing 100km/h on the motorway.
Yep, had this exact same experience, I never leave my car windows down if I’m not in the car any longer, I don’t need another one of those experiences. But I’ve also found a hunstsman inside my shirt and apparently my daughter told me she saw one on my face when I was sleeping one night but she didn’t want to wake me and freak me out lol..
My uncle had a biggun inside on his bush shack window and freaked out so bad he smashed the spider and window with a shovel. I used to pick them up as a kid because I saw Harry Buttler do it on his nature documentaries. We actually used to call huntsmans Harry Buttlers 😁
There aren't any statistics for spiders causing accidents themselves. However it comes under distracted driving which is a leading cause of accidents in Aus, so anything from phones, to snakes, to spiders. I remember a bloke in Sydney had a brown snake in the car he was wrestling while driving, got a fine by a speed camera, followed by the cops and they left him off after looking at the speed camera photo with a snake on the dashboard. That being said, 650,000 crashes a year happen due to bugs, insects and spiders.
@@davespanksalot8413 i think ol' harry an a couple others have alot to answer for but i think we are lucky we had them blokes growin up .
I was driving a Semi Trailer at 100kph on a freeway when a huntsman dropped from the sun visor onto the steering wheel, I grabbed a glove and swiped it to the passenger side. Unfortunately I also swerved while doing that. Luckily nothing was beside me! Truck behind called to check to see if I was ok, said my heart rate was a bit high and explained why.
The snake one reminds me of years ago i was doing tractor work in the fire season slashing fence to fence along a country road , , usually we went out into the country doing roadside slashing in pairs , because tractors are dangerous and --it happens , on this occasion my offsider had pulled a sickie and i was out in the country on my own about an hour away from city , on this day , i had a problem with the tractors slasher and had to get out and fix it , upon getting back into the tractor on a slope , i stumbled lost balance and put a foot into the 6 foot high grass behind me and stood on a snake unknowingly , he was obviously pissed because i took a step up into the tractor and he caught me on the blundstone heel , fortunately he took off back in the grass , and i ran the 100 in about 4 seconds in the opposite direction :) .
The snake tunnel i observed in the grass was huge , so he was a big fella .
Reminds also of when i was a kid , dear old dad interstate trucky bought back a very large carpet snake in a potato sack ( no idea how he caught it ), what a crazy place we live in ay :) .
It's always interesting during summer, you don't need a thermometer to tell you how hot it is when the bitumen roads are that hot that the tar starts re-melting. Every Aussie knows the temp on that day.
First clip, with the spider crawling on the dash happened to me many moons ago while I was driving...
The spider was about the size of a tennis ball(all its legs spread apart) and this was at night, so I only saw a silhouette of it crawling on the dash. Beats me how a spider that size got into my car lol.
So, without panicking or freaking out, I happened to be close to a servo(gas station) so pulled into there.
The spider was nowhere to be seen when I finally stopped. I said to myself "bugger, that's not good" haha.
Walked into the servo and got a can of bug spray(luckily they had some), came back to my car and started to spray under the dash, seats etc until the noxious fumes were unbearable then closed the door. Waited about 15 minutes for the fumes to work its magic, opened the door and finally the spider crawled out(in slow motion) onto the driver's side carpet. It was only after I picked it up and brought it outside to the brightly lit area and realised it was a sydney funnel web, one of the most venomous(if not the deadliest) spiders in the world. Its venom can kill an adult in about 15 minutes, so I got lucky haha. Only downside is that my car smelled like bug spray for 2 weeks. 🤣
Oh god, you could have died.
That first video;This happened to my sister and she's an extreme arachnophobic. She put her feet on the dash, because the spider was on the front of her seat. I told her to stop the car, she said she couldn't... I had to put the hand brake on myself.
She jumped out of the car and commanded me to get rid of it.
When I tried to get it, the only way I could was to guide it onto me and climb out of the car.
She insisted I tell her where it was, and wouldn't take "chill, it's out of the car" for an answer. So I turned around to show it on my back.
She freaked out even more. Priceless.
One of those large huntsman spiders was in one of my friends shirts before he put it on, it bit him four times on the back and twice on the arm. The pain is like a bee sting but lasts a bit longer but their bite has a weak poison that has no effect on humans. He was fine five minutes later.
Apart from the mild heart attack he suffered
We were out camping. A storm came through about 1am in the morning. We all got under cover about 8 of us. Pouring rain. We turned on the lights. And a brown snake right in the middle of us. Of course every one ran back out into the rain.
I went to a relay for life event a few years ago, there was a man and a young lady inside it, and it was full of tiger snakes. They were walking around with them, and told me they could do it because after being in there for around 20 minutes, staying still, the snakes become used to the fact they are there. A bit later I went to show my wife, we found the pool with the snakes, but nobody was in there. Apparently one of the snakes had crawled up the lady's trouser leg, panicked, and bitten her multiple times on the leg, she had gone for a nice little ride in an ambulance
But they were used to her hahaha
Gotta wonder how some people make it to adulthood without getting run over aye
The Huntsman is tiny! Much love 🇦🇺
Went fishing on Stradbroke Island in the 1990's with my mate, his parents owned a home over there, so after cricket on a Saturday we'd often jump on the water taxi and spend the rest of the weekend fishing . We used to use his dads old Holden engined Landrover to get around the Island. We were driving down Rainbow Cresent, anyone who Knows Dunwich, knows the street, It goes down a fairly steep hill directly into the setting sun. My mate flipped his sun visor down as we drove down the hill and a HUGE Huntsman spider landed in his lap, he opened the drivers door and jumped out, no shit, we were only in second gear but, here I was sitting in the passenger seat, going down a fairly steep hill in the passenger seat of a driverless car ! I quickly jumped over into the drivers seat, not easy in a little landrover, and brought the car to a stop, I was laughing hysterically at my mate rolling round in the middle of the road belting himself stupid trying to kill the spider, that was still on the inside of the drivers side door... True story !!!
PS, that spider on the steering wheel is a little one, the one that landed on my mates lap was the size of my hand...
Dear straddie 😎💕💕💕
@@annekerr1729 I love Straddie Ann, used to spend a lot of time over there, I still live close...
Was your mate screaming “get it off me!!!!!”
Living @ Point Lookout 😁
@@fab3laundry I was more concerned with the pilot less car i was careering down the hill in, he yelled when the spider landed in his lap though, I've never seen anyone get out of a car so fast in all my life, funny stuff....
I moved to Australia 22 years ago from the UK. Teeny tiny spiders there. Not an issue. Well I was mowing the back garden under the trees in my early days here and felt someone put a hand on my shoulder. Turned around to see and no one there. Just the dirty great big huge spider that fell and landed on my shoulder.
I probably scared every dog for miles around with my scream and run from the garden.
I've never mowed the garden ever since. True story.
😂😂😂 Ian you’re hilarious… I got a grey huntsman living in my car… cars silver with grey interior, crawls in and out occasionally, so I told him… you leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone 🤷🏽♂️ All good
you cant say you have driven in Australia if you haven't had a spider whilst driving experience.... Also snakes in the car are pretty common out here in the bush
I was at a drive thro and as I was ordering one just slowly came down in front of my face
@@archittles9856 oh yuk!!! makes my skim crawl thinking of it lol
n. never had one in the car, had one wrapped around the rear axle identified during a tyre change once, no idea how that happened, but it was still alive(I think) might not have been and we'd been driving on unsealed roads for a while so it wasn't well off for the experience. Heading NW from Alice springs I think, it was pale coloured, maybe 4 foot long, may have even been white but with the glare and red dirt, difficult to tell and no idea what species . It uncoiled itself, and stretched out a bit but lay under the car unmoving with it's head facing away from me. Odd After the tyre change, it was still there, on the road, under the car. Not a fan of snakes so didn't check for life signs but, I'm guessing it had injuries incompatible with life since, I hadn't seen it move since it uncoiled and stretched out, it looked a bit squished at one end and when I glanced back as I moved off, it still hadn't moved.
Now, Snake up the leg of the overalls when working under a vehicle or centipede? That dude who had one of Australia's Tiger snake species up his trouser leg was lucky not to have been bitten, or possibly not lucky so much, they possibly don't bite things they don't consider a threat, and wouldn't feel like they were being crushed up a trouser leg.
The old man had a centipede head up his leg which pinched him multiple times. He was performing some field maintenance on some heavy piece of machinery or vehicle and wasn't in a position to properly extract himself to deal with this crawly thing going up his leg and the thing kept pinching him. In his attempt to prevent it pinching him he ended up mangling it to the extent that there were only bits of the centipede remaining when he managed to extract himself from under whatever he was working on and strip off to identify what it was that had bitten him, he couldn't believe the pain he was in and it was intensifying.
The old man's sort of old school, deals with most wounds, cuts and piercings(even ones which should require stitches or tetanus shots), spider bites, ant and wasp stings, scorpion stings, marine stings, blunt trauma, he would just suck it up with minimal complaint. This pain, which he tells me was unfathomable and the worst pain he had ever felt, had him seeking medical treatment pretty quickly. He's almost 80 now but even when a cutting blade from an angle grinder, shattered while he was using it and bits of hot fibrous material embedded in his leg about 10 years ago he was reluctant to go to the doctor. Dad, being Dad, decided to clean it up best he could, showered, shaved, and then heading to the doctor. .....
@@vergadain oh my gosh my dad had the same sort of thing happen when i was about 10. we where in tassie around mathinna area (bush area) and we had an old ford spectron van, we got a flat and he was changing it and all of a sudden he flew up of the ground swearing... a tiger snake was under there and just casually slithered away after about 20 minutes not sure how long he had been calling that place home or weather he hitched a ride lol. i will never forget it though
That first spider is a small one! I remember driving with a very big, very hairy huntsman running around the steering wheel as I was driving, in fact, the big one that you skipped over, that's what was on my steering wheel. I had to keep moving my hands around the wheel to keep out of his way. I'd poop myself with the snake up the jeans one.
I think I’d quickly hack off my entire leg if a snake did that to me.
@@fab3laundry haha, it'd probably be a thought that ran through my head too!!
My spider encounter is much like that first lady's... hot summer day in Perth, parked my car with the sunroof open a crack to keep the inside cool, and as I drove home in the late afternoon, pulled down the sun visor and PLOP! a huntsman spider falls on my lap. Not something you want to happen whilst doing 60km/h... but yeah, I had to muster an insane amount of self control and not crash!
Definitely had the huntsman spider in the car a few times
I was recently driving and suddenly felt something on my face had a large spider crawl across my face and across the edge of my glasses. Managed to keep cool open the window and flick it out without crashing. The next week had a Huntsman run under my pedals somewhere refusing to come out when I had to drive across town 30 mins expecting it to run up my leg.
Annoyingly Huntsmans in the car feels like a common occurrence in this country
OMG ! That was full on! Thanks for effort - I know a lot of it was tough for you so ta.
Hahaha yes, laughing at you but feeling the exact same way ! I spray my car every few months so there won't be any spiders, spray my letterbox and around the door frames. Nothing worse than have a huge spider come out through the car vent when you're driving lol
LOL I spray the house doors and letterbox too!! I am super diligent about making sure all windows are closed when leaving the car though. I HATE Huntsmans!
@@lynwill65I hear you - I had a hunstman inside my little VW beetle once, not fun I can tell you lol
I've never thought of doing that! Good idea, I'm into it!
Several years ago we we’re having a bbq where the parachute clip was at Orral Valley. A group of aggressive kangaroos came out of the bush and a couple of them were literally trying to grab the food from our hands. I’ve had plenty of kangaroo encounters over the years but have never experienced anything like that.
I've never seen kangaroos that aggressive. Very strange. I wonder what's going on in that area...
@@zeropoint546 possibly during a drought?
Lots of people have picnics and BBQs there so they aren’t afraid of people. Any males who are feeling territorial and aggressive, usually during breeding season, will square up with whoever catches their eye. The emus can be right bastards too.
yeah they seem to get that way around here in summer, south western aus. i feed em treats sometimes with no dramas but when all the nice green grass dried up they became aggressive. not to me so much but if you chuck a bit of bread to them it turns into a free for all, even if theres enough for each one. theres always a bully or two but knew it must be get'n serious when an adult had a go at a joey and instead of it dropping its treat an jumping aside it growled back an hung onto its piece of raisin bread. yeah i know its bad for em but its only now an then, i get proper stuff from the stock feeders.
Poor buggers must have been starving to approach and steal food ..unless idiot tourist have been feeding them and they have gotten use to human food .
Don't feed.wildlife bread ... geeze
😂😂 I just love your reactions. Especially to things that for this Aussie, are just 'normal'.
That big Red Roo lived at a sanctuary, having been a hand raised orphan, and handreared roos in many areas are considered too dangerous to be released into the wild. He actually passed away a couple of years ago, and we all cried.
When I was younger our primary school had a metal slide and we had a week of 35+c days anyway for science me a couple kids convinced our teacher to give us a couple eggs to see if the ashphalt could cook it it sort of worked so we tried the slide next and sure enough it starts sizzling away one of us pulled out his stainless ruler flipped the egg let it cook than ate it.
I always just forget how not normal it is to just have really dangerous animals that hang around your house. Like I found a redback underneath a hand towel once, and frequently get ants crawling through floorboards, or dead millipedes at the bottom of public pools. A friend of mine climbed once climbed a tree and there was a huge dugite at the top. It's kind of amazing when you think about it because it's just so normal for most Australians.
100 degrees is mild, in summer. !20 degrees is more common, and that's by the coast. There's a place in Western Australia called Marble Bar where the summer temperature regularly reaches 130 degrees. There's a place west of there, called (ironically) North Pole that gets even hotter.
That's wild. Last summer we reached 117(record breaking for the area of Oregon I was in) for about a week straight, 110+ for about a month. Definitely not the norm out here.
I had an old Nissan Urvan once... plenty of nooks n' crannies for wildlife to inhabit, and somehow make it inside too.. I'm driving to work, look in the rear view mirror and walking towards me on the roof, is one of the biggest huntsmen I've ever seen in town... usually they're bigger out of town, in semi-rural to rural areas.
Worked on a mine site 100km inland from the coast basically desert with some vegetation, up in the north west near Kununurra.
45°C and you walk for a few minutes from A to B and you're sweating.
Like standing in front of a blast furnace, and i have .... a brick factory in southern Queensland over summer.
Luckily most if what was happening at the site was underground.
Quite a few Aboriginals were employed because the heat didn't bother them outdoors, and many of us couldn't do what they did without extensive climatisation.
Seriously, you need NASA space suit's to work in parts of Australia.
yeah mate, I'm a little west of you in Port, I'm sweaty when I get out of the shower before I even get to dry myself on those 40+ days
My brother had a giant huntsman on his ceiling it had spun a web in the corner and he would catch flies and put them on the web then lie on his bed and watch and wait for it to devour it. Almost two weeks had past. Then one night the entire household was awoken by screams and furniture been thrown around, apparently it decided to come down off the ceiling and crawl across my brothers face when he swiped at it half asleep it showed him who was boss by biting him on the top lip he wacked it with a shoe after throwing several random items at it and missing. We all had to go to the emergency room as my sister and eye were too young to be left at home. Some time had passed all was forgotten until my brother found 100's of baby's crawling under his bed, she must off dropped her egg sac. My brother no longer befriends any spiders but almost 40 years on my sister and I still find new ways to take the piss out off our brother. Our favorite is to hide fake ones from time to time and send him pictures of them.
That’s terrible Murial!
(2007) I was parked in Kirribilli (under the Sydney harbour bridge) one night and came back to find a giant huntsman on my windscreen. i got in and started the car and turned on the wiper to sweep it off ...the wiper hit the huntsman and bounced over it leaving the spider exactly where it was !!!! it then ran around to my driver side door and slid in behind my side mirror. i never saw it again and the car is long gone but i always imagine it's still there waiting to terrorise the new owner.
7:00 All Red Kangaroos are that jacked it's not just that specific one. Totally different to Grey Kangaroos, Red Kangaroos are the ones that can kill you.
the Huntsman and the Wolf Spider are the most common of Australia's big spiders, Yeah they can and will give you an almighty scare.
I had a Wolf Spider once actually take a running jump at me, luckily it missed.
But the good thing that their venom is pretty harmless, make you pretty sick but thats it.
Spider in the car quite a common thing, they like to hide under the visor and ever since I big one ran out from behind mine I always check it.
I had a huntsman spider that lived in my car for years. We traveled the State together. My X girlfriend saw him and freaked out. I said he is okay he keeps the bugs out of the vents. When I would pull up he would just chill out on the roof and climb back into the vents.
The kangaroo and paraglider happened at a place called the Orroral Valley Space Tracking Station located 50 km south of Canberra. I have a couple of stories. I will preface this by saying I used to work with spiders, mainly funnel webs and other venomous species and also spent some time doing snake and croc shows all over the east coast of Oz.
I was driving in heavy traffic one day with my then, 15 year old son in the passenger seat, when a huntsman about 10 centimetres across came out from under the visor. Son started freaking out. It came across the windshield to my side and then across to my side window. Was climbing down the window next to me while I was trying to calm my freaking out son, as I managed to find a place to pull over. I got out and calmly guided the spider onto an old magazine in the car and then walked up off the footpath and released it into a tree.
The snake up the trouser leg? Been there, done that. I was doing a snake show in a major shopping centre on the mid north coast in the late 90's and had an Eastern Brown Snake out loose in the pit with me. I was chatting away to the crowd when I heard the entire crowd gasp. My first thought was 'This is not good' and I looked down. The brown had gotten his head up under my jeans. I was wearing ankle length boots, a pair of ankle length socks and the aforementioned jeans. I saw about 8 or so inches of the snake had made its way up the inside of my jeans. Did a quick mental 'Can I feel the snake on my bare skin above my socks?' and when I couldn't, I just lifted my right leg, gave it a shake and the snake dropped out. I continued with the show. Quite a few people came up to me after the show and told me I looked so calm. I can tell you if someone had had me on a heart monitor when it happened, I would have blown that thing up!! Fun times!
The biggest surprise I ever had is when I pull down the sunvisor in my car while I was driving and huntsman spider fell onto my lap scared the shit out of me.
Spiders are worse when you pull down the sun visor and one falls in your lap. I think the kangaroo one was somewhere in Canberra\ACT.
Looked like CBR - they are rampant here - huntmans and roos.
Those are bettles. Near extinct in some parts of Australia (harmless mind), and in others an abundance. The colour of there shells change over time. Those are babies. The older they are the more colourful they get. Grew up with them in Northern NSW as a kid. By the age of 18 they were rarely seen for me. It's actually beautiful to see so many like that. (The toilets are probably a rarely used set of toilets or abandoned public toilets). We live by the lands rules here not by human standard rules. That guy flushing them like that smh. Don't blame him of course but still. I hope he put a large portion of them outside before he exterminated or got rid of the rest. They are seriously some of the most beautiful, harmless bettles I've ever seen. I loved watching their shells turn from brown to rainbow green/purple/gold/pink etc.
Thank you for reminding me that we get a plague of beetles after a rain event. Don't leave any lights on.
We get them every year after the first rain at the end of Summer in Western Vic. I put out huge bins under the lights at night and then feed what I catch to the chooks, ducks, turkeys and guineafowl. They rarely get through even 1/4 of the beetles caught and the rest all scuttle away under the leaves.
Yeah, I mean we get Christmas beetles most years, and they're completely harmless and fine. My kids play with them.
@@zeropoint546 yeah we call them Christmas beetles in WA, i think cos they have both a red and green kinda hue on their shell in adults ... but ive NEVER seen a 'swarm' of them before though! this video is insaaane
@@DaveWhoa Christmas beetles in Sydney are called that because they show up right around Christmas. They're a dull brown colour, and there's generally so many of them that flushing them down the toilet starts to sound less cruel and more like good sense.
There's an ABC news clip from Darwin from this week with a fairly big croc chasing a Barramundi that a guy had caught, right up to it being landed. The best bit was his mate going TOWARDS the croc to rescue his cap!
That was a decent size Barra the kid caught. I would've fought the croc for it too. It was really funny. It went from, 'Reel it in reel it in', to 'Let him have it' very fast.
@@elizabethscott7660 Yep. I certainly wouldn't have given it away.
I live in outback QLD and our summer began at the end of September (first month of Spring) last year and ended in April this year. Was a relentless, long, hot and somewhat humid summer. I was well over it and looking forward to the cooler months. Usually from November to March out here it's 40+ deg c (104f) every day but this last one went forever. We're finally dropping into the high 20's during the day and low teens at night. Now I'm feeling cold lol
Same in WA. We had a record breaking summer.
Huntsman spiders are so chill. One accidentally bit me once, only a local rash for a couple of hours, I still let him live in the bathroom
LOL!!! Do you still want to come over Ian? Just another normal(ish) day in Paradise. Always love your reactions, mate!
Just stay in the cities and in very popular hotels eg. one where the rooms are always booked coz if a room is left unused for a little while that’s when the spiders move in.
About 4 years back I was bitten by a snake on my left ankle- when he dug his (assuming male 😄) fangs in I just kick my leg and sent him flying into the garden area - hopped into my house and called the Emergency number as I didn’t know if venomous or not - was a long thin blackish snake - taken to hospital and had to go through an 18 hour envenomation process - not how I planned to spend my night 😂 yep! Australia again 🇦🇺
so in that situation where the species of snake can't be identified what do the doctors do? did they give you antivenom?
@@DaveWhoa - they can’t give anti venom if the snake is not identified- they monitored me every half hour checking bloods and breathing, heart beat and eyes and other vitals for the first few hours then dropped back to every hour- normally the process is for approximately 12 hours but because my oxygen levels were a bit low, they kept me under observation until my oxygen levels came up- you don’t get much rest in Emergency- eventually took me to another area with low lightning but the man in the next bed behind the curtain was snoring so bad, I still didn’t get much rest between check ups - went in a around 7pm and left around 1:30pm the next day - ankle still itches when I think of snakes- think a bit of fang still in there 🤔 episode was definitely not one of my most pleasurable experiences.
@@mariagrant2072 wow that's very interesting! thankyou
@@DaveWhoa - I stepped on the bugger at dusk and it gave me a warning of a slight bite but then quickly sunk its fangs in a couple of seconds later good and proper- I tell you, it didn’t stay there on my ankle long when I kicked it off and sent it flying- left a little blood- the Emergency woman who took my call gave me instructions on what to do and said ‘you are the calmest person I’ve dealt with after being bitten by a snake’ I said ‘what can I do- it’s happened- just get the Ambulance here as soon as possible please’ - it or another one came into my outside entertainment area about 6 months later but when I opened the door, it took off to the same garden asap - guess it realised it didn’t kill me and didn’t want to fly again 😂
@@mariagrant2072 that'd be fascinating if it was the same individual snake! I think maybe your emergency operator was telling you "youre the calmest i've ever heard" to help keep you calm - I had to call 000 emergency just two weeks ago as my neighbour was unconscious, the 000 operator on the other end of the line was SO GOOD at 1) keeping me calm, 2) giving me concise instructions, and 3) keeping me positive with "you're doing really well" etc - I couldn't imagine getting better help. Kudos to our triple zero emergency operators, savings lives every hour
@01:24 the location is the former Orroral Valley Tracking Station (now a camp ground) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
The clip where the guy was cooking the egg by the swimming pool. I remember going to work that summer BEFORE the sun was up and if was already 33 degrees Celsius (91.4 Fahrenheit) approx 5:30am. Yeah it gets f'ing hot here 🍺😉👌🇦🇺
My fiancee came out of the shower wrapped in a towel only to see a Huntsman Spider on the door frame & freak out dancing on the bed naked LOL. We were dressing to go out & all I could do was smile. As a WA girl, every spider is a killer funnel web to her.
even tho we dont have funnel web spiders in WA lol
Rightttt, pics or it didn't happen
@@inb4230 Well we are now married so there's 2 chances - none or buckleys LOL
The Huntsman spider at the start is just a baby. I had one that was at least three times that size fall down from behind the sunvisorthat I had pulled down as went down the steepest hill in the district. But they are essentially harmless...
The parachute jumper was landing just outside Canberra ( I can't remember the name of the site, I only drove past it every day for 6 or so years. Never paid attention) on the Goulburn side. It made the news.
As a person who fears almost nothing but snakes.. if I seen a snake in my pant leg I would have died of a heart attack long before it could have killed me.
I've woken up twice in my life with a big (size of a small hand maybe) huntsman spider on my face. I usually take a while to get going in the morning. Not on those two occasions. Fully awake real quick.
Nope, just no. The first time it happened, I'd move house. Second time, I'm leaving the country!
I would love to visit Australia one day, it looks amazing and the people are awesome, but then I read shit like this and realise, my arachnophobia is real.
I had that spider climb up onto my steering wheel. It was a Huntsman and it was bigger and chunkier than that one. It just sat on the round part in the middle and stared at me. I had the fright or flight moment. I stopped in 4 lanes of traffic, I didn’t pull over, I just stopped, threw open my door and ran away. I left my daughter and her new baby in my car but at the time I didn’t even know my name. I can hug a snake but I cannot do spiders.
My daughter got out of the car, walked around to the drivers seat and came and found me. To get me back into my car she emptied 3 cans of spider killer inside of it. The baby was outside with me. Then she left the windows slightly open and took me to have coffee for a couple of hours. My husband had to come and get us because she couldn’t show me the body. 😳
Yikes! I'm with you on that. Snakes I can handle, but spiders trigger that deep primal fear.
Oh and I'm from the UK so our spiders aren't even scary, never mind dangerous!
She couldn’t show you the body coz it wasn’t dead. You could let off a bomb in your car and it would still find a good spot to hide where it would survive. Then it would play dead. Yes I am serious (all Aussies know this but I don’t know if other spiders do this) and then magically resurrect once you go nearer.
I picked up a young wolf spider to take it outside of the house
I love the grey. ‘Oy mate! Who said you could land here?! F#^* off!’ Haha 😂
The first one is a rain spider & yes I've found one pop out while driving (more than once). It's freaky. You just have to be cool & pull over to try get rid of it.
I'm trying to figure out the bugs in the last clip. The closest I can guess is that they look like Dung beetles, which are in the Scarab family. They are really really useful for cutting down fly numbers, because they bury dung before flys lay maggots in it. Also the dung buried by the beetles fertilises the soil quicker than it rotting on top. However I've never seen a swarm of beetles like that, and It's definitely off-putting.
Yeah. big spiders in cars is really common, but they're nearly always Huntsmen, harmless.
The Paraglider clip: It's near Canberra place used to be an astronomy/satellite tracking station.
once again love the video's keep it up!
The Tiger Snake is dead. I watched it in slow motion heaps of times months ago. Zoomed in. It doesn't have a head. And a Tiger Snake just wouldn't lay still like that without attacking first.
That storm - it wasn't rain, but hail....and a tame storm compared to some we've had. Hail hurts!
Spiders in the car, yup. Was driving Sydney to Brisbane when my kids were small, night time...one kids says "there's a spider" - i says "where?"...."on the roof".....so i slow down a little (100kms/h is probably a bit fast to check the roof lining)...it's a huntsman, twice the size of the one in the video....I tell the kids to let it be, and it won't hurt them....It crawled from the rear of the car to the front (station wagon), and down under the dash somewhere....Never stopped to look for it...never saw it again either.
driving along pull the visor down had a huntsman drop into my lap, leapt out of the car leaving my passenger going what the F, then chased after the car to pull the brake and look for the darn thing. Found it 3 days later
Fun fact: Huntsmens can squish themselves paper thin to get into practically anything.
Yeah not sure fun is the right word. Terrifying fact sounds more like it.
@@fab3laundry 🤣
Ahhhh do not worry about this spider. It is called " Huntsman ". It can grow to a size of palm of a hand. It is highly venom's but because of it's extremely small poison fangs, can not pierce human skin. It is good to have one in home, because it kills other poisonous spiders like " Red Back ". Yes, they usually sneak under sun visors LOL :) I always say, Huntsman keep house cleean.
The parra glider is landing on the remains of Orroal Valley Tracking Station near Canberra ACT. It was part of the Honeysuckle Tracking Station which is where the transmission of the 1st stepping on the MOON was received on earth. Yes it is very special and beautiful place. Cheers Nick Rose
Australia, the only country on my to do list I haven't visited, I don't understand why my two main school project, was about Australia and snakes and Australia and spiders, yes I like bitty poison stuff, and I like Australia even though I never been there.
Love from Denmark 🇩🇰
Edit: coming from a country where nothing is deadly, I find it appealing that a country like Australia are filled with animals that's just waiting to kill you!
Your reactions are gold Ian 🤣
On two occasions I've seen a car abruptly pull over and the oerson get out flailing. I knew immediately what happened...huntsman.
My cousin in Shepparton in Victoria was playing Aussie Rules and he wasn't going too good towards the end of the 3rd ¼. The coach sprayed him.
But he fell over as the 4th started.
He woke in hospital and they found a redback had bitten his scrotum. He was very popular with the nurses for some reason.
Very funny episode. According to news sources the location of the paragliding and roo is Orroral Space Tracking Station in Australian Capital Territory, Australia. I had huntsman in my car while driving before. Bugger that Tiger snake up the jean leg I would have passed out lol
The snake was a classic, she was ready to swim in her blue bathers until they saw the crocodile.
Loved the toilet and flushing the bugs...😀😀😀
I remember watching Malcolm Douglas cooking on a part of a front quarter panel that he had scraped free of paint, just from the sun.
Where I lived outside Perth we had Tigers, Western Brown’s and Death adders. Plus Red Backs and necrotic spiders too.
I live in the Australian bush and came in one day and flopped down on the bed for a short nap and then felt something slither along my leg, fast, when I sat up I saw his back half going out the van door..I ran to the door and he had stopped a couple of yards from the door and was raised up about a foot looking back at me and you could tell I had scared the poor thing. A snake only about four foot but I am colour blind so I am not sure if it was a green ( harmless) or a brown ( deadly) I think it was brown but fortunately I did not get bitten..it's not nice they say... Also I kept getting this huge spider running across my tablet as I watched it in bed and it gives you a heck of a fright..I finally figured out he was just chasing insects drawn in by its light. He stayed around for a month or two..but I put on little light on away from me and he hung out there...I called him speedy.
That huntsman spider on the dashboard thing has happened to me three times. The third time (I hate spiders) I crashed the car into a tree. Now I live in the city and never see them anymore. I miss the country but not the spiders!
I live in Sydney, and i perpetually have spiders in the car.....for some reason they like getting behind the passenger side wing mirror. Haven't had one in the cab for quite some time though.
I grew up on a farm in a remote area. Our loo was around 30-40 metres from the house, and it was constructed from corrugated iron held together by some old wooden posts. Not surprisingly, on a hot day snakes would hide in there to get out of the sun, and there were frequently red back spiders spinning webs in there. One night I went to the loo, but ran screaming back to the house, saying I would never sit on the seat because of the redback spiders. My mum scoffed, and said, "if you don't bother them, then they won't bother you." Strangely, she was right.
Used to have a Huntsman Spider that lived up in one corner of the kitchen. We discovered he liked cheese, Kraft processed cheese, so we'd have breakfast with the spider. One thing was we never had another insect in the house the whole time Timbo, that's what we called him, was there. When we moved we took him out into bush and let him go rather than have the new tennants kill him.
There's a video of a guy who does a whole beef roast in his locked up car in Australia. Well worth a look. The car was a Datsun and his name was Stu Pengelly. NBC News had a video on it.
Car got up to 81 Celsius or 178 Farenheit, and honestly it wasn't even that hot a day (35 C in Perth).
You'd crack 100 C at least in some parts of the country.
when a huntsman spider drops on you when you are driving its hard not to lose your cool. the worst thing is when you get your mojo back , where the f is the spider now? no doubt waiting , lurking somewhere to do the same again. as mal said, ex aussie pm , life wasn't meant to be easy.
I had to fast forward most of that and I live here, city girl. I’ll jinks myself lol. I’ve had a plague of Huntsman, first few didn’t bother me, but, about to get in shower, one in there. About to turn washing on, one near start button, I actually took a pic of that one lol. On my hand, on mouse on pc, that freaked me. And one running at me on loo, shoe off, splattered him and many more. Called pest control, all gone.
Girlfriend had spider in her car, hysterical story, she wrote to me about it, way back in 70s Still have her letter lol.
I had a job up on the New South Wales Queensland border, I was working on a tractor and it was that hot I had to put leather mechanics gloves on to hold the spanners. I went through five litres of water in less than an hour.
Once had a huntsman on our garage door with a leg span as big as a dinner plate. Always see the buggers inside when ya get some rain.
When I was kid someone forgot to zip the tent up. Woke up and completely froze. A Browny slipped into my sleeping bag. Neither the snake or myself where hurt
Bathurst 12 hours race is on right now - why are you not racing, Ian ??? LOL
Funnily enough, many males hate spiders but don't mind snakes, whereas I don't mind spiders but hate snakes. Growing up in Australia you get to be aware of them and keep a lookout. My son squeals like a little girl every time he sees a spider (he's 26) lol!
The clip with the young Eastern grey kangaroos, attacking the parachuter is in the ACT. Just south of the capital, Canberra. It is a tourist / historical place, where you can see the remains of one of the old Tracking Stations - used to track American space craft, exploration etc - maybe Honeysuckle Creek ?
Spider is not a problem. Just stroke it and tell to go away. They are quite silky to stroke, I had three kids, 6, 8 and 10 yrs old, youngest a boy and two girls, for over two weeks of camping want to go stroke a large Huntsman Spider spanning a hand size across its legs.
The first day, while strolling the shore of a lake, we found it under a large chunk of ark on a tree. Just peacefully minding it's own business as I pulled the bark away. While I held it in place by a finger on the throat, I had each of the kids stroke it after convincing, much convincing, it was not going to bite as my Finger was holding it and would be the first thing bitten.
After that the bark was lodged back in place. Sure enough next day it was still there, and again holding it, they all spent nearly 5 minutes stroking it each.
The rest of our camping time each day we, they insisted, revisited for more stroking. By third day I did not even hold it down, it just accepted the stroking hardly moving, though it did move a few cm several times, and sat in different places at times, always under the large bark piece. A couple of times they left it a grasshopper they caught while we went there.
The spiders are NO MONSTERS, and certainly not out to get you.
My most memorable spider encounter was at the local drive-in theatre many decades ago. Thinking of a strategy to get all touchy-feely with my date when a gaint huntsman ran across the wind-shield. In a split second my date was on my lap clinging from my neck. Thanks spider, was a memorable night. Not the most original method of breaking the ice, but it worked.
Second most memorable spider moment was when I reached into my ammo box for a 300 Win Mag round and came out with a furry spider. I now look first.
I gave up stalking through the bush when I was bitten on the upper thigh by an Eastern Brown and now crash around like an elephant and treat every dead branch as a snake in waiting.
Zip up your swag at night! Snakes are attracted to warm people and often they can curl up in your sleeping bag and sleep with you.
The sun in Tassie seems the most horrible (and I live in QLD). 20mins in the sun and your cooked.
That guy with the croc in the water, he is Andrew Ucles and he catches animals barehanded - he is a funny guy and has some GREAT videos.
Huntsman's are EVERYWHERE! Once in my friends car (I was the passenger) one crawled across the windshield and into the driver side window, don't ask me how but I jumped out the BACK door and ran up the road. There is NO escape from these giant things!
If I was driving that car at the beginning of the video the passenger would be on their own, out the door for me. 🤣🇦🇺
My scariest spider encounter was when I went to pick up my skateboard but there was a big redback underneath. It was snacking on a lizard. Also, completely irrevelant but there was a snail in my milo once. I don't know how it got there.
A redback snacking on a lizard? I don't think it was a redback Boofhead. They aren't big enough to tackle a lizard.
my wife stopped at a traffic light as you do, suddenly she jumped out of her car and started dancing in the street right there at the lights,i went up to see what was wrong (usually quiet and placid A large huntsman spider jumped down from the sunviser went down her top and we never did find it so for 3 years she was looking for it was never seen again they are quite harmless just very quick
my little boys would be so scared of them I told them that it was only Sam who cam to eat the nasty flies they were never scared again sam became cousin sam still to this day they are in there thirties
That beetle video is pretty accurate, there’s a place my folks go camping every year and there is a pool nearby that is always filled with those little black beetles