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Australia Is A Whole Different World, And These 50 Photos Are Here To Prove It
"This land is cursed; the animals hop not run, birds run, not fly and the swans are black not white. This land is cursed and I'll have nothing more to do with it," wrote William Dampier, one of the first Europeans to ever explore the continent of Australia, back in 1688.
In case you didn't know, 26 January is the national day of Australia. And what could be a more beautiful way to celebrate the occasion than by honoring all the little things that make this country the beautiful, interesting and absolutely bizarre place that it is. With that being said, Bored Panda invites you to look through some of our favorite photos shared by people on the interwebs proving that Australia isn't just another country, but a whole different world. As per usual, don't forget to leave a comment here and there and vote for your favorite pics!
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Saw This On My Local Facebook Page
This Interesting Plant Is Native To Australia
This Is How Much Food You Can Get For The Cost Of A Pack Of Cigarettes In Australia
A 6 Month Old Baby Kangaroo I Am Raising Is Very Impatient At Bottle Time....
Too Hot For Jesus In Queensland!
Rainbow Wrasse Caught Off Christmas Island
An Emu Egg I Found A Few Years Back In Australia
Camping In Australia
"Just Pan Over To The Left Barry"
Lizards In Australia
This Accursed Land
Spencer Lake In Australia, Naturally Pink
He Came Down Through The Fireplace And Trashed The Place, Ate My Bananas And Jumped On Me At 2am
Wave Rock, Australia
Meanwhile In Australia
...You know Australia is going to be fun when it has drunk cockatoos
It’s So Bloody Hot Here In Australia At The Moment, And I Wondered Why Birds Weren’t Using Our Bird Bath
Still A Better Receptionist Than The One We Had On Check In
Finally, Something In Australia That Doesn't Want To Kill Me. Banana For Scale
You Know You're In Australia When Frogs Eat Snakes
Sexy Calendars In Australia
wow. it is clear that the kangaroo is THE most beautiful out of everyone. periodt.
Im Stuck In Europe Because Of Covid And Then My Family Took This Photo And Sent It From Their Camping Trip At Skenes Creek Victoria... Ok, Now I’m Really Homesick
Two Extremely Cute And Endangered Barking Geckos Waring Up On My Hand On A Cold Morning In Western Australia. These Are The Only 2 I've Ever Come Across So Was Pretty Awesome
Honey, There Is A Kid On Our Bug...
...I'm just going to move to the other side of the Earth. Dont mind me. \(""￣▽￣)/
Don't Expect Thanks From Loretta If You Find Her
As An American, You Guys Are Kinda Weird
This Tree In The Daintree Rainforest (Queensland, Australia)
Flushed All The Cane Toads Out Of My Brothers Dam. Some Of Them Took The Easy Way Out - Hitching A Ride On The Back Of A 3.5m Python
the little frog on the right is like, "mum, that train is SO lit! can we ask this snake for a ride? what?! is not dangerous!! look, my friends are on there, oh mum please let me try this train!"
This sums up Australia very well! Toads hitching a lift on a snake while no one really pays attention to the toady 3some going on!
Judging by the pair on the right I conclude that it's a specific sesson and these toads are seeking a ride of a different sort!
frogs and snake astonishing humans once again... cmY6vcT-60...0a9496.gif 
I read that the frogs were..confused. They think the snake is a mate.
Reptilian brain and no frontal, or other, lobe - the bit that we don't use much at all but rather fall back onto the other bit for the most part.
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That would end up very poorly for the python; Cane toads are an invasive species, that is extremely toxic. Just about any animal that eats them dies. They have caused some species of predators in Australia to nearly die out. Thankfully most of the animals in Australia have learned to not eat them.
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The frogs are trying to mate with the snake... it's a strange case of mistaken identity
Better than mating with each other. Cane toads are an invasive species in Australia.
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These darn non indigenous toads are deadly poisonous to native animals. I hope some progress is being made in getting rid of them.
those toads need to be disposed of...worst thing imported to Oz besides cats and rats (and all things AFTER Europeans)
Not just frogs, blasted things will anything they can swallow.
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This looks horrific enough on its own, let alone doing it in the dark?! What genius thought that would be a good idea! Just nope!
But how on earth did someone stand there log enough to take this picture?!?
Pythons are non-venomous so no real problem.
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GIMME ALL THE FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSS
An Emu Just Cruising Around My Rural Towns Little Airport
Selling Point For Aussie School
This Roo In A River
My Daughter’s Boyfriend Has Been Helping At His Parents’ Farm In Kingaroy, Queensland. He Took This Shot When The Sheep Came Up To Say G’day
In Australia, This Is Why We Check Our Shoes
Summer In Australia
Typical Road-Side Ditch In Australia
Australia. Where Even The Hail Can Kill You
Rose-Breasted Cockatoo, Aka Pink And Grey Galah
March Of The Hairy Caterpillars
That’s A Blue Ring Octopus, Whose Venom Can Result In Death Within Minutes
Australian Moth
Shopping, Australian Style
A Seal Chilling Outside Sydney Opera House
Maybe I’ll Just Hold On
I See Your Possum Outside Your Window And Raise You Our Break And Enter Culprit Last Night
They Did Not Find The $1.47 A Litre Emusing
Kangaroos: F’ing Up Your Cars Since 1901
Lost count how many tourists I told not to drive after dark in the outback. Kangaroos love sitting on the warm bitumen at night. And are dumb as a thick plank.
What Ever Your View On Today Respect Your Neighbours
Jesus Sydney Take A Chill Pill
Oh god that must be a pain in the a** to figure out where ur going
Felt A Tickle On My Leg, Australia
40 Degrees Up North Vic Today. Had A Little Visitor Come And Smack The Door With His Tail Before Taking A Dip In Our Pond
New Coat Of Arms For Australia?
Note: this post originally had 70 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Australia- the land of everything beautiful.Wouldn't live anywhere else! 🐨🦘
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It's funny as an Australian seeing all these non-Australians freak out over all this stuff. For real, the chances of seeing the actual dangerous animals is pretty slim, I live on a property in rural Queensland and I rarely see any of the actual dangerous animals.
Most dangerous thing in Australia is the sun. Worst sunburn of my life... Bondi beach.
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These are terrifying but it doesn't really discourage me: I'd love to go to Australia someday
yeah! i would like to see all the un-noped animals!
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I feel like ireland is the polar opposite. It's cold, raining, and our spiders are tiny, also, no snakes.
No snakes in Ireland and it's cold, if I move I'll gladly come to live there. I don't support the high heat in summer and don't want to a have a snake in my toilet.
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The amount of people holding in their hands or taking pictures of giant posionus stuff is insane, Australians fear nothing holy s**t
Sooo... how many people are carpooling to Mars? And do you guys have room for one more?
I am so torn between " I want to go to Australia" and "I never want to go to Australia"
At this point i wouldn't be surprised if Uluru just turns out to be an egg sac for a few dozen Plane-sized Kissing Bugs.
Australia is actually fabulous as hell. I've visited many times and I love love love it there.
every time i think it will be cool to move to australia i see stuff like this
You all know the song that goes, oh no , oh no, oh no no no no no. Australia version. Oh. Noer oh noer oh noer noer noer noer noer
lots of stuff was really pretty but i dont wanna go there cuz of snakes and stuff
I think this may be Australia's subtle way of discouraging cowardly tourists. It worked, I ain't going. ( Well, that, money and a long, long plane ride.
Thanks for the PSA...I will now cross that continent off my bucket list
I'd go find me a big-ol python and i'd see how close i could get to it and if i could pick it up cuz im an idiot
Phew, got through the whole post and not a single spider picture. Thank god...
Australia: the land of "i'll be dead within a week due to allergic reaction"
I actually wanted to visit Australia. but now I have seen those photos that Australia I actually don't want to visit anymore. from snakes, hot weather, many bugs and even those green things. look. I will stay in Athens! I have made my decision
Someone should have showed a picture of that scary as hell funnel web spider! I couldn't go to sleep at night unless it was in a clear locked box!!!
I wonder is australian jails are full of criminal animals cause surely there not going to let them animals get away with the theft and the breaking and entering gotta show dem animals whose boss
Huntsman Spiders. The one reason why I refuse to go to Australia (also the massive orb weavers).
Prob would explain why all the creatures are creepy looking, not regular sized, etc. Some look like the bugs you encounter in Fallout lol
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To be hones, the show Border Patrol is a much bigger deterrent than the bugs / other scary wildlife. The show makes it seem as if they think that there are 100% good guys in A and 100% bad guys everywhere else, (You took LSD once fifteen years ago? We might want to hold you back for half a day to discuss if we risk the downfall of our nation by letting you stay for your holiday), I quite like snakes, so I would need somebody to follow me and say "NO, do NOT try to pet it idiot, it might kill you"
Australia- the land of everything beautiful.Wouldn't live anywhere else! 🐨🦘
Load More Replies... It's funny as an Australian seeing all these non-Australians freak out over all this stuff. For real, the chances of seeing the actual dangerous animals is pretty slim, I live on a property in rural Queensland and I rarely see any of the actual dangerous animals.
Most dangerous thing in Australia is the sun. Worst sunburn of my life... Bondi beach.
Load More Replies... These are terrifying but it doesn't really discourage me: I'd love to go to Australia someday
yeah! i would like to see all the un-noped animals!
Load More Replies... I feel like ireland is the polar opposite. It's cold, raining, and our spiders are tiny, also, no snakes.
No snakes in Ireland and it's cold, if I move I'll gladly come to live there. I don't support the high heat in summer and don't want to a have a snake in my toilet.
Load More Replies... The amount of people holding in their hands or taking pictures of giant posionus stuff is insane, Australians fear nothing holy s**t
Sooo... how many people are carpooling to Mars? And do you guys have room for one more?
I am so torn between " I want to go to Australia" and "I never want to go to Australia"
At this point i wouldn't be surprised if Uluru just turns out to be an egg sac for a few dozen Plane-sized Kissing Bugs.
Australia is actually fabulous as hell. I've visited many times and I love love love it there.
every time i think it will be cool to move to australia i see stuff like this
You all know the song that goes, oh no , oh no, oh no no no no no. Australia version. Oh. Noer oh noer oh noer noer noer noer noer
lots of stuff was really pretty but i dont wanna go there cuz of snakes and stuff
I think this may be Australia's subtle way of discouraging cowardly tourists. It worked, I ain't going. ( Well, that, money and a long, long plane ride.
Thanks for the PSA...I will now cross that continent off my bucket list
I'd go find me a big-ol python and i'd see how close i could get to it and if i could pick it up cuz im an idiot
Phew, got through the whole post and not a single spider picture. Thank god...
Australia: the land of "i'll be dead within a week due to allergic reaction"
I actually wanted to visit Australia. but now I have seen those photos that Australia I actually don't want to visit anymore. from snakes, hot weather, many bugs and even those green things. look. I will stay in Athens! I have made my decision
Someone should have showed a picture of that scary as hell funnel web spider! I couldn't go to sleep at night unless it was in a clear locked box!!!
I wonder is australian jails are full of criminal animals cause surely there not going to let them animals get away with the theft and the breaking and entering gotta show dem animals whose boss
Huntsman Spiders. The one reason why I refuse to go to Australia (also the massive orb weavers).
Prob would explain why all the creatures are creepy looking, not regular sized, etc. Some look like the bugs you encounter in Fallout lol
Load More Replies... To be hones, the show Border Patrol is a much bigger deterrent than the bugs / other scary wildlife. The show makes it seem as if they think that there are 100% good guys in A and 100% bad guys everywhere else, (You took LSD once fifteen years ago? We might want to hold you back for half a day to discuss if we risk the downfall of our nation by letting you stay for your holiday), I quite like snakes, so I would need somebody to follow me and say "NO, do NOT try to pet it idiot, it might kill you"
