Our wildlife experience

We visited the Sydney Wildlife Museum last Sunday in order for us to see some "touristy" things around here. Besides the discovery that we have the 3 most venemous snakes in the world we did pretty well! The Inland Taipan snake is the deadliest and one bite can produce enough venom to kill 100 humans!! Guess we're screwed if we run into that one. The good part is that they live in the northeast part of Australia, so we should be OK. I have to say, though, that the most poisonous snakes here look pretty unobtrusive... we also discovered that we are the only continent in the world where the venemous snakes outnumber the "friendly, non venemous ones".

We also got to see the Sydney Funnel Web spider up close (through glass). This spider is the deadliest spider in the world. Since the anecdote came out in 1980 no one has died... but before then you were dead if you got bitten. If you get bitten you need to immediately dial emergency at 000 and tourniquet the bite so the venom doesn't travel to your brain and send your nervous system into an uproar. Sounds fun, doesn't it?? We've been told we didn't need to go to the museum to see one, we'll likely see one on our own fairly quickly. Fabulous.