Australia: Everything is trying to kill you

[Morgrim]

Oh come on, it's kinda fun living on a Death World. Always something to talk about.

[url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/koala-chases-dairy-farmer-as-she-herds-cows-on-a-quad-bike/story-e6frg6n6-1227485884454]Koala chasing dairy farmer[/url]

(Warning, autoplay video.) So, apparently a jilted koala can do a pretty good job of keeping up with a motorbike when they want to.

[daboarder]

Oh come on, it's kinda fun living on a Death World. Always something to talk about.

[url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/koala-chases-dairy-farmer-as-she-herds-cows-on-a-quad-bike/story-e6frg6n6-1227485884454]Koala chasing dairy farmer[/url]

(Warning, autoplay video.) So, apparently a jilted koala can do a pretty good job of keeping up with a motorbike when they want to.

HAHAHA DAMN, that Koala is determined!!

Probably was the bike giving a fair imitation of a koala's cry.

[Psychosplodge]

Is Oz a real place? Or are you really just a horror story to scare people away?

[Brakkart]

Ohh this is too funny, and terrifying at the same time!

https://video-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hv...cf&oe=55E6F9B3

[Psychosplodge]

Their faces are priceless

[eldargal]

So Australians are like earths krogan I guess.

[40kGamer]

Their faces are priceless!

Question for our friends down under. One time I decided to hike a 'closed trail' in the Appalachian mountains in the eastern US and I came across a cliff that had thousands of spiders that had built a colony web that stretched from the forest floor up to about 20 feet on the cliff face. The only way forward was to hike the dead zone behind the webs. I have mild Arachnophobia but was able to push through the 50-60 foot of trail that was entirely behind the web wall. Looking out the web was full of fat grey spiders with 3-4cm bodies and 6cm or so leg spans. In 20 years and thousands of miles of hikes I've never seen anything like this. Does Australia have anything like this to offer up? It would be nice to see a big spider colony up close again... even if it's just for the adrenaline rush it would give me.

[eldargal]

[URL="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/pictures/120307-spiderwebs-australia-floods-wagga-wagga-world-science/"]Looks like it[/URL]

[40kGamer]

Yikes! They really do have everything!

[Morgrim]

I've never heard of a spider wall you can hike behind here.

But the orb weavers like building their webs across trials, so there are plenty of invisible spider walls you can hike through.