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Title: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Dave_Trible on January 18, 2025, 09:31:40 AM
A very reliable 'little bird'  aka spy tells me it quite likely............Now we just need a Team Trials.........


Dave
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Steve Berry on January 18, 2025, 10:41:51 AM
Are fliers going to have enough time to learn to fly the pattern inverted and clockwise since it's "down under"?  LL~ LL~

Steve
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Dave_Trible on January 18, 2025, 10:43:13 AM
Are fliers going to have enough time to learn to fly the pattern inverted and clockwise since it's "down under"?  LL~ LL~

Steve
They just have to fly it left handed....
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Jim Svitko on January 18, 2025, 04:33:56 PM
Just remember one thing----some of the most deadly critters on planet Earth are in Australia.  Snakes, spiders, you name it.  And not all are land based.  If you go in the water, what are your chances of encountering sharks, blue-ringed octopus, etc?

Nevertheless, I would like to visit that place sometime, maybe also a side trip to New Zealand.
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Dave_Trible on January 18, 2025, 05:01:01 PM
Just remember one thing----some of the most deadly critters on planet Earth are in Australia.  Snakes, spiders, you name it.  And not all are land based.  If you go in the water, what are your chances of encountering sharks, blue-ringed octopus, etc?

Nevertheless, I would like to visit that place sometime, maybe also a side trip to New Zealand.
You forgot the gosh dang drop bears.....

Dave
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Geoff Goodworth on January 18, 2025, 05:52:22 PM
Most of the dangerous critters are fairly timid — unless you step on them or they are cornered.

However, as Dave said, the drop bears are a real danger.

Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Jim Svitko on January 18, 2025, 06:47:18 PM
Killer Koalas.
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Ken Culbertson on January 18, 2025, 07:51:34 PM
Killer Koalas.
The only beast to put terror into the heart of Paul Hogan.

Ken
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Jim Svitko on January 19, 2025, 11:39:05 AM
I saw this on Yahoo news:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-deadliest-spider-harboring-killer-223053182.html
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Dave_Trible on January 19, 2025, 04:06:57 PM
I saw this on Yahoo news:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-deadliest-spider-harboring-killer-223053182.html
A least a couple times a season I find black widows in my car or at home.  These crawl onto my flying kit at the field and I carry them unknowingly away.   That bothers me enough.  I'd hate to have the same happen with one of these critters.

Dave
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Ken Culbertson on January 19, 2025, 04:10:31 PM
I saw this on Yahoo news:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-deadliest-spider-harboring-killer-223053182.html
Do they feed on drop bears?
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Brett Buck on January 19, 2025, 04:40:12 PM
Do they feed on drop bears?

  *Nothing* feeds on Drop Bears, they are apex predators.

     Brett

p.s. Next on "Focus on Australia" I will explain the allegorical underpinnings of "Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo".
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Les McDonald on January 19, 2025, 06:18:19 PM
Just stay out of the tall grass-----and the water------and the trees!
Title: Re: Aussie 2026 Worlds?
Post by: Steve Helmick on January 20, 2025, 11:54:21 AM
Despite spending a full month in Australia (1983 World FF Champs), other than in a couple of sanctuaries, I saw zero killer critters. From Melbourne to some distance North of Brisbane, and West to Goulburn. I did not go tramping through the tall grass or swim with the sharks. I did walk all around the TSR "stock route"...a trail for cattle drives to the rail yard.
I rode the commuter train from Cabulture into Brisbane, which was interesting and different!

I rented a car and drove the 600 miles from Brisbane to Sydney on the "wrong" side of the road...and survived...it's tricky around town, but easy on the highway. Roundabouts were interesting, but now that we have some around here, they're getting easier. Finding a restaurant open for breakfast was nearly impossible. Food was different. Be careful when buying a burger, lest it come with pineapple and slices of beets...OMG!  n~ Steve