My brother John who recently returned from the UK is notorious for bullshitting*. While working in Oxford he told some of his work colleagues about Drop Bears. At first they didn't believe him but then he found a website with obviously doctored pictures, and they believed that. He also told them that in Australia we don't have Dogs and Cats as pets, we have Wombats and Kangaroos instead. When they asked him what you did with a pet Wombat his reply was "we put them on a lead and take them for a walk", and yes they believed him.

Can't blame you about not wanting to swim at the beaches around Australia, I don't do it myself.

In Port Lincoln, the possibility of getting taken by a Great White Shark is a reality. I was too young to remember this but when I was three years old a woman got taken while her young children played on the beach, tragic stuff.

Some of the underwater scenes from the original Jaws movie were filmed in Boston Bay (the main harbour going into Port Lincoln). Suffice it to say Great White Sharks are one of the reasons I never learnt to swim, the other being I believed my evil older siblings when the threatened to drown me when ever we went to public pool as a family.

*Bullshitting - an Australian term used to refer to someone who is pulling your leg.