via theage.com.au
With its crocodiles, sharks, and jellyfish, Australia is often painted as a place too deadly to visit despite its glittering beaches and sparkling weather.
This was captured neatly just days ago, when the winner of Tourism Queensland's "Best Job in the World" competition found himself in agony after being stung by the potentially lethal irukandji jellyfish while jetskiing.
But the fact is that 2009 brought few fatalities at the hands of our killer critters.
According to authorities there were no shark-related deaths, no funnel-web fatalities, only a couple of croc maulings and a few deaths from animal-related disease.
1 got something to say:
Thank goodness. Those venomous snakes and spiders were the bane of my youth.
Happy New year Colin
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