worked with a woman who did her PhD in Australia and I was telling her I was not a big fan of Australia because virtually everything there wants to kill you..England did not make it a penal colony because it was a great vacation spot......AND they have GIGANTIC spiders....she agreed...and then told me it was the smaller (but still bigger than anything here) brown spider you really had to worry about.....she also told me about a brush fire that made her choose between burning to death or jumping in the water (where a river meant the sea) and worry about sharks.... and of course there was the bat guano story.....