This weather is bulls–t.
Coughs that bruise my lungs and make me sound like Phyllis Diller are also bulls–t.
Australia is amazing, crazy, and beautiful. But check out this little gem from Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country
“But all of these are nothing compared with the delicate and diaphanous box jellyfish, the most poisonous creature on earth…In 1992, a young man in Cairns, ignoring all the warning signs went swimming in the Pacific waters at a place called Holloways Beach. He swam and dove, taunting his friends on the beach for their prudent cowardice, and then began to scream with an inhuman sound. It is said there is no pain to compare with it. The young man staggered from the water, covered in livid whiplike stripes wherever the jellyfish’s tentacles had brushed across him, and collapsed in quivering shock. Soon afterward emergency crews arrived, inflated him with morphine, and took him away from treatment. And here’s the thing. Even unconscious and sedated, he was still screaming.”
Terrified.
Box jellyfish are bulls–t.
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That was some story. I watched a Discovery-type show on poisonous jellyfish that are microscopic. The reserchers had to wear special suits covering every inch of their body. A jellyfish latched onto the female researcher’s suit and the woman got stung when she took it off. She halucinated, was in an out of consciousness and didn’t recover for 3 weeks. Freaky.
Love Bill Bryson, though. I read his book about walking the Appalachian trail.
Linda,
Guhhh, well I can’t that story helped my nerves much. But I am glad you feel my pain;-)
Bill Bryson is fantastic! This is the first one I have read, but I’m definitely following up with “A Walk in The Woods.”
-Sarah