[jacques_chester]

I grew up in Darwin and lived to tell the tale.

It's really very simple. Here is a diagram:

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                                    [me]

So long as I am not doing something dumb like going near an estuarine river filled with invisible deathbeasts, or getting into an ocean filled with transparently-tentacled murder-squigglies, or stomping through grass near logs with dozing fangjectors, I will be fine.

It's just not difficult.

[a3n]

It's seems likely that people growing up in a place called Darwin would, in time, evolve a particular fitness to thrive.

[jacques_chester]

I love it.

Its only rival in my heart is New York.

[phillc73]

One doesn't have to be "dumb" to be in some danger from the fangjectors.

A friend of mine was driving around his property and found the track blocked by a fallen tree. He started pulling branches off the road and trod on a tiger snake in the grass. He was bitten and survived after administration of anti-venom. He wasn't doing anything particularly dumb and probably 99.9% of the time wouldn't have trodden on a snake.

I used to work on a farm. One day after moving the irrigation sprays I went to the well to turn the pump on. Around the well was about a 3 foot high concrete wall, maybe 3 inches wide. I sat on the edge of the wall to wait until the pressure came up and sprays started working. As I turned to leave I happened to notice on the wall, about 30cm from my hand, was a red-bellied black snake sunning itself. Close call.

I remember as a child, my mother chasing brown snakes out of our front garden so they wouldn't be a danger to us children.

If you're outside of a major urban environment in Australia, snakes are around. One just needs to be a bit careful.

[rplnt]

Your diagram got me a bit confused as the empty space was right over the fold and I was wondering why the comments wouldn't load and what a weird error [place where bad things are] is.