For those who are thinking of coming to Oztralia for a holiday and make it to Queensland, you need to know a bit about our local fauna.
Now BAZ is a cane toad, one of the great unwashed so to speak. He belongs to that group of vertebrates that just shouldn't be here - introduced by some well meaning scientific types back in the early 20th century to control the cane beetle but he decided that life in Qld was too good to be eating little grubs, and what with our quality beers and fine shunshine thought he would go walkabout a bit.
Well since then he has been sighted everywhere - he even popped up in Dunnedoo a few years back, but by then he was reportedly stuffed.
So to all you would be Aussie travellers, it is a condition of entry to this wide brown land that you know the story of Baz so that you can keep an eye out for him on your travels, and how to deal with him when you do find him.. There will be a test.
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Now BAZ is a cane toad, one of the great unwashed so to speak. He belongs to that group of vertebrates that just shouldn't be here - introduced by some well meaning scientific types back in the early 20th century to control the cane beetle but he decided that life in Qld was too good to be eating little grubs, and what with our quality beers and fine shunshine thought he would go walkabout a bit.
Well since then he has been sighted everywhere - he even popped up in Dunnedoo a few years back, but by then he was reportedly stuffed.
So to all you would be Aussie travellers, it is a condition of entry to this wide brown land that you know the story of Baz so that you can keep an eye out for him on your travels, and how to deal with him when you do find him.. There will be a test.
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