Do you really want to be attacked by flaming spiders? 
Just remember if you visit Australia, its like that pretty much everywhere, its just that when there are no flood waters* you can’t see them!* 
I’ve been spot-lighting in central-north New South Wales and in paddocks that are pretty much bare earth & rock you can see lot & lots of glittering when you sweep the light back & forth - spiders eyes reflecting the light back at you!
Wagga Wagga has been split in two by these floods, so it’s really two towns called Wagga now.
Spike Milligan used to live in Woy Woy for a long time. Supposedly it means “deep water” in the local aboriginal language, but (he used to say) he could never work out which Woy meant “deep” and which meant “water”.
I love Australia to bits (I visited for two weeks when I was 12 and would move there in a heartbeat if I could take my whole family with me), but I definitely try to block all of the non-cuddly animals/ insects/ sea life from my mind when I think of the place. Just looking at those pictures made me spontaneously evolve wings so I could get the fuck away from all those horrible, sticky, spider-filled webs.
Your Matilda was your swag like a bedroll but with you tools etc. Waltzing Matilda was heading out on the road looking for work.
A billy is not exactly a tea kettle, it is a simple pot that in the old days would have been a jam tin with a wire handle.
Sorry to be pedantic but a billabong is a part of a river that due to falling levels has turned into a landlocked water hole.
Pretty good place to camp due to the concentration of fish and also handy to knick a couple of jumbucks to shove in your tucker bag.
I think you might mean Tamarama; and don’t worry, pretty much every non-native pronounces Coogee that way. I dunno why either - but I do love the endlessly creative interpretations of Woolloomooloo.
You’d think the pronunciation of ‘spider’ would be fairly universal across English-speakers coming here. But somehow, what we call a ‘spider’ is a ‘SSPIIIIDAHHHHHHH!!!’ to everyone else.
There’s a great mnemonic for the spelling of this iconic Sydney suburb, which is to recite the mantra “sheep-toilet-cow-toilet”.
So - will it be renamed to the equivalent of “Spider Spider” now? :eek:
Since I’m pretty sure Wagga is in Kamilaroi country, Rheintochter, just for freaky spider mass, and good ol’ Aussie name place weirdness the indigenous renaming of it would be Gura Gura.
And for no other reason than fuck yeah, I think another Gura should be added.
So Gura Gura Gura.
Advise your travel agent.
Ermm… practical question.
Say, I go to Australia, would I have any inconvenience at the immigration desk if I pack a flamethrower in my luggage?
An American astronaut has an emergency during his reentry into earth’s atmosphere and his space craft crash-lands in the Australian bush, way out in the middle of nowhere.
After what seems like an eternity, he wakes up in a bush clinic, very rustic, dirty, with foul smells and he is bandaged from head to foot. He sees a very large, somewhat gruff looking nurse approaching him as he lay in his cot.
“Did I come here to die?” he asks with a deep sense of resignation and fear.
“No,” the Aussie nurse, pondering the question for several moments, replies, “Ya came here yester-die.”