Hope you're all coming to terms with sharks after the posting below and I can now tell you that one of the other great lurking threats in Australian life, spiders, are not all they're cracked up to be either.
"Experts" ie two doctors, one from Australia and one from California, say most pose no threat to humans and are scapegoats for flesh-eating lesions. "Diagnosis of a spider bite continues to be based on mainly on suspicion and fear of spiders, and diagnosis of a chronic ulcer in stories of suspected spider bites causing devastating necrotic fasciitis (flesh eating disease)", they say.
Apparently, the wolf spider and the white-tail spider are the main species unjustly blamed, usually becuase they just happened to be hanging around when some poor person's flesh started eating itself. And in an extension of the sharks versus very big lorries analogy, they point out there have been only 26 deaths from spiders here in Australia in the past century whereas 1,183 people died in motor accidents in 2001.
Thought you should know. But my visiting son, Iwan, still refuses to share the small downstairs toilet with the burly Huntsman that crept in the other day.
More shark news - The Coffs Harbour Advocate reports today that a spearfisherman from Byron Bay was the centre of a media bidding war after being attacked by a grey nurse shark. The Advocate obviously didn't bid high enough so I can't tell you what happened but it have a jolly picture of the fisherman on his hospital bed with what seems to be one-and-a-half legs.
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