Deadly creatures in Australia...We know a song about that, don't we children.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_TB6onHVE

I was with a few others on Philip Island, near Melbourne, for the "Penguin Parade" (as dusk falls, thousands of little penguins come out of the sea and back to their nests). Bit of time to kill, so we went for a wander around the nature reserve next door. There's a little throng of people standing on one of the paths, staring at something on the ground. Sure enough, there's a little brown snake, curled up asleep, mebbe three or four feet from our feet, with nothing in the way.

"Look, mate, it's a brown snake!"
Yeh, I can see that. Is it something special, then?
"No, mate, it's not a brown snake, it's a brown snake!"
Ummm...

After a few rounds of this, it turned out to be not just any old snake that just happened to be brown-hued, but a Brown Snake.

A what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_brown_snake


Oh. I stood back a bit.

No it is simply not true what you hear. More people are killed on Australian road than being killed by creatures. Yes some death occurs each year mainly shake bites, spider bites even the European wasp kills people. Crocs takes 1 or 2 people per year same for sharks but they like chewing on surfers. Some kids get in to trouble on the beach picking up ‘’interesting’’ things.
Scorpions are rarely seen only when collecting firewood, you’ll need to look before grabbing the wood. Millions of Australian and tourist are camping in the wonderful outback with no worries. Some idiots die after 8 hours, trying to walk back to the last town, when their car breaks down. The sun or heat is also a killer.
The huntsman is completely harmless but very big. When dropping form the sun visor it is easy to freak out. Here we sleep on the ground as we do often no worries at all. You don’t really need to sleep in the car unless its raining but that is unlikely during the dry season.

Well that is the right and only thing to do. NEVER provoke a snake or you'll get the bite you don't need.

Behaviour
The Eastern Brown snake is diurnal (meaning it is active during the day). When highly agitated, they hold their necks high, appearing in an upright S-shape. But despite their fearsome reputation, brown snakes are reluctant to bite and react only to movement; standing still when in close proximity to one will result in it ignoring you. They are attracted to rural and farming areas, probably due to the large numbers of associated rodents. Such areas also normally provide shelter in the form of rubbish and other cover.

I certainly wouldn't want to sleep on the ground in the middle east where there are Camel Spiders, especially after seeing the effects of what one did to a mate's face after he failed to use a net round his camp cot. Yeuch.

my friend showed me what a camel spider did to some ones leg not nice.