Look before you leap

[catalyst2]

If the snake in the library wasn't enough, now it is a croc in the pool! Not my pool, fortunately, but a public pool in Darwin. Admittedly Darwin is about 4 200 km from where I am now but, in my book, not even that distance is enough!

Comments

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

Dude, you live in Australia. Aren't there crocs in every pool there?

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

Holy carp, I hope not! (whoops, I think that would be far more effective if it said "crap"!)

No, I've never seen a croc here - this is all that bloody Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin image. It's like everybody thinks America is all Starbucks and MacDonald's and - hang on ...... ;-)

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

Haha. You aren't totally wrong. I go outside my apartment and throw a rock and hit a Starbucks. I'm surrounded by them. In fact, the coffee shop below me was bought out by Starbucks and just closed up. New Starbucks, coming soon! Take into account that I live downtown in the heart of the city though. And there's a McDonald's down the street from me too.

When I think of Australia I think of the Outback. I also think of that soapy miniseries I loved so much when I was a pre-teen, Return to Eden. The main character was attacked by a croc! That and Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin are my frame of reference.

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

It's funny because 90% of the Australian population lives within cities, all within 25km of the coast so there's this tiny inhabited strip and then a massive internal space with a very sparse population. Most Australians have barely even seen the Outback themselves.

I should get you to watch McLeod's Daughter's - it is country-based (as opposed to Outback which is untouched bush and desert) but a *little* closer to reality since they are on a farm. Of course, dramatic conventions dictate that someone falls off a horse/tractor/roof and sustains life-threatening head injuries/internal injuries/coma/amnesia every week but still ....

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

Is that a soap opera?

Did you ever see Return to Eden? I'd love to see that again. I liked it so much that I even bought the book adapted from it. The DVD hasn't even been released here, for shame.

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

It is certainly one of the top viewed programmes here - can't say that it is to my taste but then that's just me. Details here (http://www.tv.com/mcleods-daughters/show/4327/episode_listings.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=tabssh&tag=tabs;episodes). I suspect that if you liked Return to Eden, you might like that too.