As with most nights, last night we were hanging out watching animal planet. We watched a show on Australia's top 10 deadly animals (yes there are more than 10 deadly species so they had to limit it). To name a few (beyond the obvious sharks, crocs, spiders and snakes) there are the blue ring octopus (not a lot of fatalities due to their bright coloring); the box jellies (hard to see killers along popular beaches by the reef); rock fish (which lay in the shallows by beaches and look like you are stepping on a rock); then there is the shell snail- if you are picking shells in the shallow waters around half of the country you could easily mistaken this bad boy and when you touch it you will likely die. After hearing how many things will put you in horrible pain, dizzy/numb, with some you go temporarily blind and some you stop breathing........it is amazing that anyone leaves the house let alone goes the beach.
But the best (and only funny) part of the evening is when they interviewed a surfer who was attacked by a great white shark. The guy was out with some mates taking in a birthday surf when he was mistaken for snack. Luckily he only sustained relatively minor injuries and the doctors saved his legs. Nate turn to us and said "bet that was his worse birthday ever". Michael almost fell off the couch laughing.
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