Australia is even worse than Africa...
Snake… machete… game over.
Don’t like snakes. Nope. Uh uh. Nyet. Nein.
Pythons are the LEAST of your threats in Australia.
The oceans there are filled with deadly threats from stinging jellyfish with poison that stops your breathing to monster sharks that often run 25 feet long.
Australia has some of the deadliest, poisonous snakes on Earth in great abundance.
Northern waterways are loaded with salt-water crocodiles in great numbers and massive size to bite you into pieces.
There are many spiders there that have deadly bites.
There is even a blue-ringed octopus that is small but has a deadly bite.
Consider cassowary flightless birds with razor sharp, three-toed feet that can eviscerate an adult human in seconds. They are known as “the deadliest bird on Earth.” They are as tall as an adult human and weigh as much. They are referred to as “dinosaurs.”
Australia has endless, beautiful beaches and clear, warm ocean water but locals swim in man-made pools beside the ocean.
Good thing Grandpa was there to rescue to rescue the lad. Yay, Gramps, you rock!
Lots of baddies in SE Asia as well as Australia. I recall reading about a man partially eaten by a python in Malaysia back in the mid-90s. This was a couple of years after a huge reticulated python decided to hang out in our office bathroom in Cambodia. When a staff member rushed in to tell me about it, he called it a Pee-ton. So I had to play “I’m thinking of an animal” with him.
“What color is it?”
“Color like the camouflage, Lady.”
“Okay. How many legs?”
“No legs, Lady.”
“Oh, a python!”
I was going to go catch the darn thing and put it out, but decided to check out whether they can bite first and got on the sat phone. Good thing I did. Of course they are not poisonous, but they do have a nasty germ-laden bite. We chased it away by banging spoons on pots instead.
One swallowed a woman whole in Indonesia a few years ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39427462
We had lots of poisonous snakes including sea snakes, huge salt crocs, scorpions galore, humongous poisonous centipedes, big bad poisonous spiders, etc., too. But the darn rats were the most bothersome. The tropics are such fun! But you do get used to it.