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jwolf6589

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Anyone ever been there and if so do you have photos? I would love to visit one day and take my Canons for some good photography.
 
Australian here. How many do you want?
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Sunday morning last week around 7am in winter, magic.

Location: Mermaid Beach: Gold Coast: Queensland.
 
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This is a picture of kids learning Surf Life Saving skills in the ocean, they train a few days per week in the swimming pool and in the surf, starting at 6 years old and training and competing for their whole life, it is a lifestyle.
 
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I just found this thread, while looking for something else.

I thought I might start with a panorama of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
There is a spot, on Blues Point Reserve, where you are exactly opposite the middle of the SHB. That's where this was taken.

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Wow. But land Australia is loaded with vipers I do know this by watching a science show.

We have no vipers, we have elapids, instead (mostly they have a small head). Think King Brown Snake, Cobra and Taipan. We have a thing called a 'Death Adder', no relation to the African 'Puff Adder', that is really an elapid, but with a triangular head.

The King Brown is the deadliest, not because of the venom, that goes to the Taipan, but because it hangs on and chews, injecting lots of venom.

A sea snake, Hydrophis belcheri, actually has the most toxic venom, but is very timid.

As for aggressive, the prize would probably go to the small Brown Tree Snake, which will look at you, and rather than run away, will then go for you. Fortunately, it is a colubrid, or rear-fanged snake, which is why I am still here...
 
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