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Advice re Katoomba & Spiders!
Hi, I've another question. We'd like to visit Katoomba. Could anyone
reccommend a good place to stay that would range from 120-170 a night for 6 people? Like most people, we're trying to do things on the cheap but a lot of the websites for Katoomba list very expensive accommodation. Also, my nephew is freaked out about Australian spiders and thinks there will be one lurking under each blanket. What is it with the spiders anyhow? They'd be deep in the bush, right? He thinks we have to be extra cautious or something. Now he's got my mom worried and it's getting contagious. What's the real story? Thanks. Kathy in BC, Canada |
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Advice re Katoomba & Spiders!
Of course there are spiders, just as there are wolves in Canada - and I'm
sure more Canadians die under the fangs of wolves each year than Australians die from spider bite!!! Only 2 venomous spiders are common - the redback, which is a nervous and reclusive distant relative of the black widow (which I believe is in Canada) - and the funnel web which is a ground dwelling spider and not aggressive unless you break into its tunnel. I can't remember when the last spider bite fatality occurred!!! For cheapish accommodation go to the Blue Mountains option on: http://www.wotif.com.au "Kathy Garner" wrote in message news:%xfoc.66$RM.40@edtnps89... Hi, I've another question. We'd like to visit Katoomba. Could anyone reccommend a good place to stay that would range from 120-170 a night for 6 people? Like most people, we're trying to do things on the cheap but a lot of the websites for Katoomba list very expensive accommodation. Also, my nephew is freaked out about Australian spiders and thinks there will be one lurking under each blanket. What is it with the spiders anyhow? They'd be deep in the bush, right? He thinks we have to be extra cautious or something. Now he's got my mom worried and it's getting contagious. What's the real story? Thanks. Kathy in BC, Canada |
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Now, calm down, "A Mate" I'll forward your reply to the kid.
Nope, never seen a wolf...only a sasquatch! :-) Thanks for the link. Kathy A Mate wrote: Of course there are spiders, just as there are wolves in Canada - and I'm sure more Canadians die under the fangs of wolves each year than Australians die from spider bite!!! Only 2 venomous spiders are common - the redback, which is a nervous and reclusive distant relative of the black widow (which I believe is in Canada) - and the funnel web which is a ground dwelling spider and not aggressive unless you break into its tunnel. I can't remember when the last spider bite fatality occurred!!! For cheapish accommodation go to the Blue Mountains option on: http://www.wotif.com.au "Kathy Garner" wrote in message news:%xfoc.66$RM.40@edtnps89... Hi, I've another question. We'd like to visit Katoomba. Could anyone reccommend a good place to stay that would range from 120-170 a night for 6 people? Like most people, we're trying to do things on the cheap but a lot of the websites for Katoomba list very expensive accommodation. Also, my nephew is freaked out about Australian spiders and thinks there will be one lurking under each blanket. What is it with the spiders anyhow? They'd be deep in the bush, right? He thinks we have to be extra cautious or something. Now he's got my mom worried and it's getting contagious. What's the real story? Thanks. Kathy in BC, Canada |
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"A Mate" wrote: Of course there are spiders, just as there are wolves in Canada - and I'm sure more Canadians die under the fangs of wolves each year than Australians die from spider bite!!! Only 2 venomous spiders are common - the redback, uh no, You are perpetuating myths. No one has been killed by wolves in Canada for a generation or 2. Dogs, definitewly, dingoes definitely, but not wolves. I wager more Aussies die from spiders in..... 6 months than Canadians from wolves in the past 20 years which is a nervous and reclusive distant relative of the black widow (which I believe is in Canada) - and the funnel web which is a ground dwelling spider and not aggressive unless you break into its tunnel. I can't remember when the last spider bite fatality occurred!!! For cheapish accommodation go to the Blue Mountains option on: http://www.wotif.com.au "Kathy Garner" wrote in message news:%xfoc.66$RM.40@edtnps89... Hi, I've another question. We'd like to visit Katoomba. Could anyone reccommend a good place to stay that would range from 120-170 a night for 6 people? Like most people, we're trying to do things on the cheap but a lot of the websites for Katoomba list very expensive accommodation. Also, my nephew is freaked out about Australian spiders and thinks there will be one lurking under each blanket. What is it with the spiders anyhow? They'd be deep in the bush, right? He thinks we have to be extra cautious or something. Now he's got my mom worried and it's getting contagious. What's the real story? Thanks. Kathy in BC, Canada |
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"Not the Karl Orff" wrote in message news:canwine-
I wager more Aussies die from spiders in..... 6 months than Canadians from wolves in the past 20 years Interestingly- http://www.general.monash.edu.au/muarc/hazard/haz35.pdf reports 46 cases of spider bite attending emergency departments in Victoria in 5 years, with NO deaths, There were 5 deaths in those 5 years from other stings/bites - 3 from allergic reaction to bee stings and 2 from snake bite. For heavens sake - be VERY careful crossing the road. -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books |
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"Not the Karl Orff" wrote in message news:canwine-
I wager more Aussies die from spiders in..... 6 months than Canadians from wolves in the past 20 years Overseas visitors to Queensland may find the reasons for hospital visits listed here of interest- http://www.qtic.com.au/documents/WILKS2_000.pdf As one might expect, the major risk is MVAs! -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books |
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"Not the Karl Orff" wrote in message news:canwine-
I wager more Aussies die from spiders in..... 6 months than Canadians from wolves in the past 20 years For those interested in snake bite treatment - http://www.rfds.org.au/monographs/snakebite.pdf This paper seems to suggest that snake bite treatment is so advanced in Australia, that, if you must be bitten - Australia, in the vicinity of a hospital, is probably the safest place to have it happen - BTW 2.6 deaths per year - MVA about 3 000! -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books |
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Just had a visit to Katoomba (and other places in NSW) and did'nt see a
spider the whole time we were in Katoomba. Maybe because I just don't think about them or look for them. Spiders are not a particular concern in most places in Oz. Like to have a look at some photos of Katoomba? http://users.tpg.com.au/users/rwanddem/index.html Ross "Kathy Garner" wrote in message news:%xfoc.66$RM.40@edtnps89... Hi, I've another question. We'd like to visit Katoomba. Could anyone reccommend a good place to stay that would range from 120-170 a night for 6 people? Like most people, we're trying to do things on the cheap but a lot of the websites for Katoomba list very expensive accommodation. Also, my nephew is freaked out about Australian spiders and thinks there will be one lurking under each blanket. What is it with the spiders anyhow? They'd be deep in the bush, right? He thinks we have to be extra cautious or something. Now he's got my mom worried and it's getting contagious. What's the real story? Thanks. Kathy in BC, Canada |
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I had never seen a funnel web spider until we put a swimming pool in our
backyard - now I fish 2 or 3 out of the pool every year. Nor had I ever seen a snake in the suburbs; I dragged one out of the pool filter box last Xmas day. Not bad for 12 kms from the centre of Sydney! (Am I making you feel any better yet?) As Tony and the others said, you have essentially zero chance of dying from spider bite. About 2 or 3 people in Sydney are bitten each year (Sydney is the centre of the funnel-webs range); there have been no deaths at all since about 1970 when an anti-venene was discovered. I doubt a tourist has ever been bitten by a funnel web, let alone died from a bite. Redbacks are less of a concern, as they are not as poisonous - typically only children and the elderly are at real risk of death if bitten. Despite the overseas image of Australia as inhabited by spiders, snakes, sharks, crocodiles, box jellyfish, baby-eating dingos, blue-ringed octopusses and serial killers (he seemed a nice man, but kept to himself a lot), Australia would have to be one of the safest countries in the world for inhabitants and visitors alike. Chill, and remember to drive on the left when you are here - that really will kill you a damn site faster than any spider you may find in your underpants. "Kathy Garner" wrote in message news:%xfoc.66$RM.40@edtnps89... Hi, I've another question. We'd like to visit Katoomba. Could anyone reccommend a good place to stay that would range from 120-170 a night for 6 people? Like most people, we're trying to do things on the cheap but a lot of the websites for Katoomba list very expensive accommodation. Also, my nephew is freaked out about Australian spiders and thinks there will be one lurking under each blanket. What is it with the spiders anyhow? They'd be deep in the bush, right? He thinks we have to be extra cautious or something. Now he's got my mom worried and it's getting contagious. What's the real story? Thanks. Kathy in BC, Canada |
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G'day Kathy,
Yep I'm scared of spiders too, and I live here. We have no more spiders than anyone else I think. We do have a few big hairy ones though, but they mostly are out of sight and you're unlikely to see one unless you do get into the bush and then you probably won't see them anyway. If you're after some more Australia information on the web, have a look at www.mr-travl.com Craig. "Kathy Garner" wrote in message news:%xfoc.66$RM.40@edtnps89... Hi, I've another question. We'd like to visit Katoomba. Could anyone reccommend a good place to stay that would range from 120-170 a night for 6 people? Like most people, we're trying to do things on the cheap but a lot of the websites for Katoomba list very expensive accommodation. Also, my nephew is freaked out about Australian spiders and thinks there will be one lurking under each blanket. What is it with the spiders anyhow? They'd be deep in the bush, right? He thinks we have to be extra cautious or something. Now he's got my mom worried and it's getting contagious. What's the real story? Thanks. Kathy in BC, Canada |
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