My view of the world

Here are a couple of photos of signs from northern Australia I found in one of the photography news groups.
Kinda makes you wonder why swimming is so popular down that way.

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They net the beaches to keep the sharks out, a small, extremely venomous spider that looks like the american black widow is invading the yards, the houses are nearly all made of brick because of the termite problem, and all the snakes seem to be poisonous, as near as I can tell everything in N. Australia is either venomous or hungry.

I occasionally exchange email with some people down that way, but they live along the southeast coast. They still have the snakes and spiders, but not nearly as many of them and the water’s a bit safer even if it’s cooler.

One of these days I really need to get down that way, I’d really like to spend some time in both Australia and New Zealand.
That kind of travel is expensive, and with having spent $12k on the dentist last year and more coming up, I’ll have to put off travel for a while.
(I know, I know, brush and floss twice a day.)
Still, I aint dead yet, and with a little patients and avoiding the computer and camera stores it’s not out of reach.

I appologize to the photographer for using these pictures without permission and for not giving him credit, but I can’t remember where I found them.
They say the first thing to go is the mind and I can’t remember what’s next.