These Things in Australia just defy logic..

[@dennismitchell-h9s]

Ian , those frilled necked lizards , are common in bush areas ; they only bring the frill neck as a defense mechanism .. but don't hurt them they are a good friend they eat funnel web spiders !

[@BabzV]

So funny, here in the Netherlands we leave the little spiders around the house to eat the mosquitos. In Australia you guys keep lizards around to eat the gigantic spiders! That sounds crazy to me. 😮 You Aussies are definitely a ballsy bunch! 💪😁 Warm greetings from the Netherlands. 🌷

[@andrewstrongman305]

Lol, funnel webs don't live in the Outback. Plenty of other spiders and scorpions live there, though.

[@RabidJohn]

And they're obviously not scared of people: it's being filmed they don't like!

[@rjswas]

@@BabzV Some of us (that are not sissies) also keep Huntsman's inside to keep the smaller dangerous spiders away, as they "hunt" smaller insects/spiders, Huntsman's are harmless by the way and don't use webs.

[@RobNMelbourne]

@@BabzV Not quite. The lizards eat the smaller spiders, snails, slaters, termites etc in the garden but when a big hairy Huntsman visits I welcome them as an honoured guest. I give them a name depending on gender (Harry or Harriet, the girls are bigger) and let them stay as long as they like. They only move around the ceiling but might come down the wall to say g'day when I'm working on my computer. They like the warmth from the 3 monitors I have in my workstation. When they are done, my place is devoid of mosquitoes, flys, insects etc and I am very happy. This ritual usually happens every summer.

[@frankmartin3057]

One of the best things I have seen is a ritualistic 'fight' between two big frill necks. We were have a couple of 'sundowners' when two big males spotted each other from about 30 meters apart and started to go into their 'routine' of puffing up, spreading their frills and making themselves look as big as possible by standing on their back legs. Then one would run at the other at amazing speed and stop just in front of them and do their display. The other would back off a bit and then run at his rival and do his thing. They got pretty close to each other but never fought. It was all bravado and display. This went on for thirty minutes, or three cans; whatever comes first. They both kinda crab walked into the bush, still eye balling each other and called it a draw. Best entertainment you could wish for.

[@patelk3648]

@@frankmartin3057 Awesome 😃

[@glyptodon_ch]

I’d pay $5 to see that live at a tourist trap!

[@micade2518]

@@glyptodon_ch Why spoil it all?

[@Patrik6920]

@@micade2518 10$?

[@goingcrazy8186]

I’d even pay $20. When will you see that. And the price would really make it memorable

[@caltravels9454]

Frilled Neck Lizards are harmless, just intimidating, those guys handled it perfectly.

[@artao5]

Tho to be sure, any bit from a wild animal needs a good eye kept on it. These lizards could draw a bit of blood ;)

[@micade2518]

@@artao5 They're simply defending THEIR territory that humans invaded! Fair deal!

[@petert3355]

The worst they will do is shit on you, and yeah, that is not good. It stinks bigtime. The only worse lizards for it are the monitors, just because of extra volume.

[@Aussie_Vintage_Rider]

The only critter that scares me here in Australia in the Cassowary. Bloody deadly

[@lynnryan8881]

I'm with you, the angriest animal on earth.

[@ianhelyar6383]

If the Hook Island critter was a tadpole, I don't wanna meet the frog!

[@Guvament_bs]

Maree man was made with a bulldozer or grader and GPS. It was still a great feat. The builder is known but he denied it.

[@mickhughes6327]

I thought it was an Army corp of engineers that did it?

[@valenciacuttriss4259]

I have black spiders in my bedroom and we rescue them instead of killing them and we also have blue tongue lizards in the garden. It’s just part of life and we have come to accept it.

[@michaelfink64]

Hi Ian, my wife and I were lucky enough to see Marree Man when we did a charter flight over Lake Eyre from the Flinders Ranges last year. It is an awesome sight. It is even bigger than it seems in this photo: 2.7 km tall with a perimeter of 28 km and the lines are up to 35 m wide. It seems to have been made using a grader. Unlike most of our wildlife, the frill neck lizard is not venomous. It appeared on the Australian 2c piece, which is no longer in use. The reason he ran up the guy's leg is that he was trying to find a place to escape (normally, it would run up a tree). I believe the "doomsday fish" is an oarfish.

[@chrispeak9883]

The fish at the end in NSW is called a HAIRTAIL and is also known as a OARFISH which is in JAPAN is the warning for Tsunami.

[@Kayenne54]

One was found stranded on a beach in Western Australia, before the Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia (caused by undersea earthquake). A few months before, can't recall how long. Also shark attacks and sightings ramped up before that event.

[@cjod33]

That's not actually a Hairtail. It's closely related though and belongs to the family of cutlass fish and ray fined fish. There's dozens of types in the family including the Hairtail (which is caught off western Australia as well as the Hawkesbury and east coast) . The oar fish is the largest known. Not exactly sure what the one in the photo is but in my years as a commercial fisherman we certainly pulled up our share of unidentified sea creatures. There out there

[@benny82ish]

Yeah 100% mate. I was a commercial coral trout fisho for 20 years. That’s not an oarfish. Worked out of Bowen and around the Whitsundays for the best part of 8 years. Hook island is pretty special. The sea monster is definitely a school of fish changing direction and the pic taken before the last of the fish rejoin the school. See that everyday. If I had my camera pointed at bait, I’d go viral with the shapes I’ve seen. 😂

[@BluthBoy1]

I was the first stinger victim of the 1998 season while snorkelling off Hook Island. It wasn't an Irukanji but another stinger that ripped my left forearm open like Freddie Kruger. Felt like a blow torch and itched for weeks afterwards.

[@BluthBoy1]

We recently had Polish visitors (my brother-in-law's in-laws) and when we got home from dinner I found a rather large Huntsman ( completely harmless but big) on our dinning room wall. I just had to show them and to their credit they did not freak-out but just watched it in wonder. They had never seen a spider so big😃.

[@mickhughes6327]

Yes Frill necks bite, and they don't like to let go. But apart from the very minimal risk of an infection, they're pretty harmless.

[@aussiebornandbred]

G'day Ian, now that you mention Jurassic park, a fun fact is just before the dinosaur (T rex i think?) eats the man that was sitting on the toilet, the dinosaur growls,,,, which is actually a koala sound amplified and slowed a little,for the sound effects 😂😂😂😂

[@nolaj114]

I didn't know that 😅😅😅

[@lynettegraves6261]

I believe the dolphin in Spongebob is also a kookaburra sped up 😂

[@IWrocker]

@@aussiebornandbred that’s hilarious 😂 I never knew that🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Herc-eles]

The golden beetle... In Queensland we also have golden mosquitoes. They look like they have a gold suit of armour on and they are about 10 times bigger than the standard Bastard Mozzie although the gold ones don't bite or drink blood, they instead feed on the larvae of the Bastard Mozzies... which is a good thing!

[@ianhelyar6383]

Those beautiful golden beetles were responsible for a "die-back" event on the New England Tableland a few decades ago. Apparently, their larvae feast upon the roots of trees. I remember at the time, noticing the increasing sparsity of the Eucalypt forest on the hills around our farm. I didn't connect the abundance of beetles around Christmas with the loss of trees until several years later when I read about it.

[@Herc-eles]

@@ianhelyar6383 Hmmm... They sound like little bastard beetles!

[@glenmcinnes4824]

round my parts the Golden Beetle is known as a "Christmas Beetle" they start as a Brown beetle and turn golden around Christmas time.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

The frilled neck lizard is harmless. It's just a display to scare off predators.

[@UncleJoeLITE]

In primary school we were all taken to the cricket nets to watch a giant wasp drag a Huntsman all the way home. I was sorta shocked at 9.

[@bernieozzie7480]

Photo looks like a school of fish. A moving mass of fish continuously moves making many shapes avoiding predators.

[@BradGryphonn]

That's a herring trail at Hook island. Or a blackweed trail. Edit: Or, it's a mass of fish caught in a drag net. The bloke on the boat is probably pulling the net with the fish balling at the close end.

[@waterpolowizard]

I believe the latter

[@marfel7613]

The perfect Sunday morning: Fresh coffee and Australian wildlife.

[@raskalkat9092]

They are harmless. It is to scare you away, nothing more.

[@-sandman4605]

Just another day in Australia for Australians.

[@Specifically_Me]

that lizard running reminds me of how people run across hot sand at the beach haha

[@neilf1059]

seems to be running in the same way the 'Jesus Lizard' does over water

[@spasmmcspasm]

You think that's impressive you should see them run across creeks and small dams, they can literally run on water.

[@patelk3648]

Frill neck lizards are extremely beautiful....we see them often in the Goldfields of Western Australia

[@Neocharm]

I saw such in The Jurassic Park movie. Only then fluids sprayed out of its mouth. 😅

[@robertwynne6451]

I believe because of summer at Christmas time in Australia we call them Christmas beetles, you Americans call them June bugs in your summer.

[@RobNMelbourne]

The Majorca building is well known and is at 258 Flinders Lane in the central business district. Best viewed from Degraves Street.

[@jsegal8385]

The Irukandli jelly has tentacles streaming up to a meter long. The pain can be so intense that if you are swimming alone you may well drown before reaching shore. You may have noticed all the beautiful beaches up north and wondered why there is never any people on some of them. Between the crocs, jellies, sharkes and other nasties the local keep away. So, if the locals dont swim there neither should you

[@jokervienna6433]

Yep, do what the locals do (or don´t). I have seen videos of people that got stung by an Irukandji, and it is not pretty. At all. No antivenom either (if they haven´t developed one recently) and the poison seems to block painkillers. The only way out is to suffer through it. It is also almost impossible to spot in the water, the main body not being bigger than a fingernail and transparent. Bad ass creature.

[@Jeni10]

I clicked and the first thing I notice is a Christmas Beetle! There used to be millions of them but now I see maybe one a year! They’re normally about an inch long and metallic green and gold, not defined but shimmery all over.

[@lynettegraves6261]

I think I heard a good few years ago that they were worried about them getting too close to extinct. Whatever happened between then and now, they’re back with a vengeance! I’ve got 50 odd in my shed at night now

[@Jeni10]

@@lynettegraves6261 Really? WOW! 😃🇦🇺🥰👍

[@maursyf16]

They are definitely back they are inundating my workplace.

[@woman4womenkids547]

I saw only two, last Christmas. So very sad. We don’t tolerate grubs and insects, and we lose wonderful things as we try to control everything.

[@aaronpatton814]

The frill-necked lizard is such a cool little guy. No venom, they may bite if you're really provoking them, but usually they'll just extend their frill to make themselves look as large as possible. Funnily enough, the Dilophosaurus from JP never had a frill, that was just hollywood.

[@iamonlyme9514]

your reaction to the frilled neck lizard running was hilarious, as a kid we used to catch them all the time to keep as pets. Sadly the Christmas beetles are rare to see now where I live and haven't seen a gold in over a decade

[@michaelwilson9764]

The Marree Man is a modern construction. It was created by Army Engineers working on bombing ranges in the 60s. They were still talking about it at the School of Military Engineering in Sydney when I did my basic Engineers Course in 1977. I even met the grader operator who did most of the work. It was done before satellite navigation and was mapped out by surveyors.

[@AndrewFishman]

Doomsday fish is the Giant Oarfish.

[@AwesomeFish12]

In that pic it's mouthparts were extended, they have a super flat face/head normally. Definitely an Oarfish. They often wash up after seismic activity(before or after an earthquake or tsunami) but generally keep to the deep water where they aren't encountered, hence the name "Doomsday Fish".

[@WestAussieBackyardNature]

💰🪙 Ian, if you were given a 2 cent coin, have a closer look at it(or look it up online).. there's our frilled neck lizard 👍 ..just bluff, no venom etc cute little buggers imo. Plus ya gotta love our thorny devils. I've filmed a spider wasp dragging away a huntsman a few different times now. Their tenacity is amazing! 😎 ✌️❤️🇦🇺

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

The gold beetles are “Christmas beetles” named because they start coming out of the ground around December

[@petebeatminister]

That golden beetle is really beautiful!

[@TheFalconerNZ]

Running on it's kind legs with its frills out is to make it look bigger & more intimidating as it runs towards a danger in the hopes it will scare it off, also allows it to run a bit faster so if it does have to run it might get away.

[@leohickey4953]

The Majorca Building was faced using a ceramic material called faience, which is not unique to Australia but was a popular material for external building decorations (and all the other uses of ceramics) from ancient times until the end of the Art Deco architectural period of the C20th. There are some good examples in the USA, especially in the older cities of the northeast and midwest, and one of my favourites is the Natural History Museum in London.

[@Firmbie]

As south Australian am so proud of you ,and all your success.

[@sonyan2902]

That sea monster could be a gulper eel and that long fish is an oarfish. Frilled neck lizards are harmless. We also have green metallic christmas beetles.

[@AndrewFishman]

The Frilled Neck Lizard is related to the Bearded and other Dragons. They are harmless. That neck and the approach are just bluff.

[@tonys1636]

Falling out of the landing gear bay is the least worry of one smuggling themselves into another country, they strap themselves to the landing gear. Freezing to death at 35,000 feet is and not being able to breathe through lack of oxygen are the biggest killers. Even short haul flights climb to above 30,000ft.

[@lyndabutler3499]

If you want something freaky, I'm from Mount Gambier, South Australia. The local lakes change colour from Navy Blue to Aqua depending on the season.

[@daveamies5031]

After the Irikanji the next most dangerous thing in this video was the "cute" sea lion, Ian by now you've seen enough of Australia noting should surprise you anymore.

[@retrozmachine1189]

Some beaches in QLD still have chicken wire / meshed swimming enclosures intended to keep box jellyfish, and the occasional shark, away from swimmers. Unfortunately the irukandji are small enough to simply drift through. We didn't know what actually caused the symptoms of an irukandji sting for quite a while since they are so small and essentially invisible in the water. Most beaches have a container of vinegar with a sign advising how to use it if someone is stung by a jellyfish.

[@garryellis3085]

Camped on Hook Island ( Whitsundays )back in the day. Magical place, unfortunately the picture looks like a bait ball to me.

[@Jeni10]

That sea creature could also be a huge school of tiny fish.

[@Jeni10]

Europe is full of ancient buildings, some of them decorated in minute detail, often specially made tiles, but also other forms of artistic details. They’re so old that architecture today doesn’t want to spend years constructing them, they want the building up and operating as fast as possible, which can also be high risk - the World Trade Centre and the apartment buildings collapse in Florida spring to mind.

[@siryogiwan]

I used to work on Hayman Island, across the channel from Hook Island, where the boats anchor for safety on Hook, has some of the oldest graffiti in the world, some almost 200yo (not sure exact dates on them)

[@ahdoodeclair]

Marre Man is 3.5km top to bottom. It is unknown who first made it but In August 2016, local business owners, concerned about the loss of what had become a tourist draw, decided to restore the fading geoglyph. With accurate GPS coordinates for the original in hand, they used a construction grader to redraw Marree Man over a period of five days.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

The Majorca Building is a historic office building in Melbourne, Australia, completed in 1930. Located at 258-260 Flinders Lane, it was designed by Harry Norris in an exotic Spanish /Moorish style, in strongly coloured faience.

[@lmaree200886]

Not offices, there are private residential apartments inside. It was renovated in 1993.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@ Ta, well I didn’t know that. Haven’t been in the city for quite a few years.

[@raydillon1638]

The last one is a southern ribbon fish, it is not an oar fish. The oar fish has long filaments as the first rays of the dorsal fin, southern ribbon fish don't. The head looks strange because it can project its jaws forward when its catching it's prey. Southern ribbon fish are constantly called oar fish or doomsday fish but they are not the same fish

[@teroholopainen1017]

The closest inhabitation to the Marree Man is the town of Marree, population 65. It's about 40 km away.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

My grandsons and I have been snorkeling off Hook Island a couple of times. It's not really in north Queensand, but is in the Whitsunday Islands off the Central Coast. The only initially fearful thing we saw in the waters around this now uninhabited place was the huge Maori Wrass fish. They can be as huge as 180 kg and yet are very friendly. Often one would come up to us as we swam around.

[@TheOMT]

That was a fairly small frilled neck lizard, they get to be 90cm (about 3 ft)

[@MsTtilly]

Definitely a net full of fish being pulled into a boat❤

[@katetoner3077]

those glow in the dark lines look good. where i live, you can't see your hand in front of your face on the new moon, must get the rubbish bin out before dark..........

[@Flirkann]

Even if that's a heavy duty hinge, that's a small Huntsman Spider (and male by the abdomen)

[@robertleeimages]

Marree man is 3.6km from the tip of the boomerang to the tip of the right foot, he appears to be a lefty and is facing to throw from east to west

[@mikeparkes7922]

Ian, Apparently (when people have mentioned it before on your channel) you hadn't seen the (many) comments that "Marree Man" (created in northern South Australia between May 27 and June 12, 1998), and was made with a bulldozer and/or grader (and GPS). It was made twice by Bardius Goldberg). The second time he "improved on it, making it more defined. (See Wikipedia). Cheers from Oz.

[@mikeparkes7922]

In August of 2016, a grader was used (a 3rd time) to redefine the image yet again, as the image was being constantly eroded by the wind. Eventually, nature (inevitably) won.

[@stephencox4224]

When in a remote area and you get stung if there are any boats around with outboard motors the exhaust water from these is hot but not too hot but enough to kill off the toxins from the stingers, Many do not know that Hot water will neutralise many of the toxins in venom from different stingers and as a first aid option it may be all you have available

[@ramiromaia592]

I also came close to a frill neck lizard in Darwin

[@Jeni10]

“Irukandji jellyfish are found throughout the world, even in all your favourite holiday destinations such as Bali, Thailand, The Phillipines and more countries from South East Asia, to the Caribbean, Hawaii, South Africa and even the United Kingdom.” Ear-roo-kahn-dji - slight emphasis on kahn

[@waterpolowizard]

I was not aware of that

[@ChrisKuni]

These road markings 17:05 are actually a really nice idea.^^

[@PeteV.53]

Fun fact : the Frill Neck Lizard featured on our 2 cent coins from 1966 (when we went Decimal) until 1992 (when 1 & 2 cent coins were discontinued). Lots of the 2 cent coins went to Japan during a period when there was a craze in Japan for anything and everything to do with Frill Necked Lizards.

[@evilsaddist666]

The frill neck lizard is harmless, we also get water dragons in the back yard, they have a frill too. The lace monitor is the scary one. I actually found a bandicoot in my backyard the other night. He has claimed the territory for himself and chased off the resident echidna that used to eat the ants for me.

[@gregoryparnell2775]

I wife & I witnessed the wasp paralyzing a Huntsman spider While visiting our Baby Grand Daughters grave 20 years ago & the sound of the wasp clipping the spiders' legs off was so loud it sent shivers down our spines. It then dragged it up a nearby tree & wedged the spider behind some loose bark & then proceeded to lay an egg on it's back. Nature is fascinating but can also be scary at the same time.

[@AwesomeFish12]

You can scale up a drawing in the sand or painted on a rock into a giant geoglyph with two sticks. Draw your small original version, then take a small stick and measure the different lines with it, you now know how many sticks long each line is. Now take a much larger stick and do the same marking it out with rocks as you go, you now have a fairly accurate scaled up geoglyph using stone age technology. So long as you always use the same small stick(or one the same length) to measure the small version and the same large stick for the large version the measurements will scale. This is how it was done, it's easy to work out, that's why so many countries have giant geoglyphs.

[@tonys1636]

There are many giant depictions of Neolithic men and horses carved into chalk hills in the UK, one is the Long Man of Wilmington. During a recent renovation his massive penis and testicles were restored as had been allowed to grow over by the grass in Victorian times. They were offended by it. They are believed to have been carved to appease the gods of hunting and fertility.

[@travcat66]

I went on a snorkelling trip off Hook Island and had to wear a stinger suit. It was a little outside of the season so I didn’t have to wear the booties or gloves. My trip to the outer reef was cancelled when the big boat engine broke down, so I went for a second trip to the other side of Hook Island. Absolutely amazing and the coral colours are completely different on each side of the island. Purples and pinks on one side and yellows and greens on the other.

[@richardrejmer8721]

19:53. . The "Doomsday Fish" is an Oarfish. . They live at great depths in the ocean, so are rarely seen at the surface. . Surprisingly, they are very often found dead at the surface shortly before or after major earthquakes. . As if they KNEW the catastrophe was about to happen. . Hence the name "doomsday" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish

[@MrTjonke]

The native australian are the only native population that never invented the bow and arrow, they relied on their boomerangs.

[@vihreelinja4743]

They also have no predators.

[@LikkieAU]

@@vihreelinja4743because they hunted them to extinction….

[@LeighFraser-yw6ew]

The aboriginal people are very efficient spear hunters they use a device called a Woomera that is a piece of wood with a small spike pointed back towards the handle end that hooks into the back end of the spear effectively doubling the length of the person’s arm and giving much more leverage and in turn throwing power

[@johncunningham4820]

That Gigantic Sea Creature looked like some kind of Monstrous Salamander . Yeah those tiny Irukandji Jellyfish are one of the Worlds most Toxic Animals . The size of your Thumb Tip .

[@8lueeyes911]

The road markings are starting to happen near me at Bulli pass they are starting to paint them. Not sure where else they are in Australia.

[@RaccoonLex]

Lizzy was like HEYYYYYY! Yes you! Can u give me a ride? The asphalt is hot, i have cool frills, how about a ride huh? Huh? 13:25 too close? I feel im too close, even tho im at the otherside of the planet😅"not the smartest"? Ian , you are smart, you are constantly trying to learn new things, that's why i think you are smart. 19:25 good that they got a picture, the usual "it was this big- we swear!" Tale. 😂

[@85NickT]

Australia is so far away from here they qualify as aliens, which explains a lot.

[@waynedieckmann9840]

17:50 I can come up with a few reasons for glow in the dark lines. 1 may be painted in areas suitable for light aircraft landing. 2 shit happens sometimes you loose your headlights.3 something for people to talk about. We did it first.

[@ajorngjdonaydbr]

The road markings aren't glow in the dark, the paint has light reflecting properties which your lights will illuminate as you drive along.

[@davexenos9196]

If Hook Island critter is a tadpole, then we are all in for a lot of trouble.

[@craigwise6374]

Just subscribed, love your take on our bit of paradise

[@IWrocker]

Thanks 🎉 Welcome to the channel

[@deaninchina01]

Melbourne, and Victoria,have a lot of nuts building, during the gold rush it was the richest city in the world. People went crazy spending money on buildings and railway stations.

[@nolaj114]

A lot of bluestone buildings, including Pentridge, were built with bluestone from my great-grandfather's quarry. 😊

[@Herc-eles]

Majorca is pronounced "May-orca" and is in Spain. It is a tax haven/hideaway for corrupt politicians and business owners. Back in the 80's we had a thing called "The Skase Chase" which was the saga of Christopher Skase who owned Channel 7 and the biggest Mirage Resorts in Oz. When things went bad for his main company, Quintex, he was forced to sell his resorts to Japanese investors and sell Channel 7. He fled Oz to Majorca with his wife Pixie (who died a few weeks ago in Melbourne) and the Aus g'ment and collectors tried to have him extradited from 1989 to 2001 but gave up because it was fruitless and he was getting old and sick... he eventually died form stomach cancer in Majorca and he never saw justice.

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

Naaahh mate, you're just on our level brilliance. Keep at it bro, you'll understand our beer fueled logic in no time! The leading for Marree Man is that some American soldiers stationed at Woomera did it for a laugh. If that's true then I'm bloody proud of the very Aussie nature of the joke and pulled off on a pretty decent scale. Well played lads. Well played.

[@4x4andfishing]

Adult sea lions are no joke, they attack humans every now and then, there was a teenage girl bitten on the neck and she was lucky to survive

[@markwandy]

I'm in the UK, i had a pet frilled neck for 15 years, they are amazing creatures, they can give quite a nasty bite if you upset them, but they are mainly all show. I really miss him.

[@wazza1085]

The Far North Queensland coast. If the crocs don't get you, the stingers will...

[@whitelytr]

The boy fell 200 feet and died on impact. Just AWFUL 😢

[@pamelabaars6896]

Yes my husband and I saw Marree Man a few years back when we flew over that area, it was amazing.

[@johnfitzgerald5158]

The tarantula hawk wasp lives in the Americas, too. It is the state insect of New Mexico. I've even encountered a smaller variety her in PA going to town on a large wolf spider right on my front walkway.

[@russellcollins4291]

I love frillies. All sass and no real malice.

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

The Maree Man is thought to be a modern-day glyph, possibly created by an artist by the name of, Bardius Goldberg, using satellite navigation and earthmoving machines. Goldberg lived northwest of there in Alice Springs. He died in 2002 at age 61 - If he was involved, the secret went with him to his grave. It's believed that the images from Hook Island are possibly of a large shoal of fish. Like Mark Twain once said - "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" The Frill-Neck lizard was using bluff as a defense, however, it probably realized that those guys were French and took off in fear of being eaten by them.

[@leialuminous]

You always think you live in a dangerous place and then you remember that there's Australia where you not only have to concern yourself with the safety around humans but creatures, nightmare anomalies and things that haven't yet been identified.

[@marieravening927]

Really it's rare that we in Australia have to deal with any of our "dangerous" wild life. We just don't come into contact with it in our daily lives.

[@annewilson8454]

Your Lockness monster looks like a bait ball.

[@LeighFraser-yw6ew]

Those glowing road lines are not far from where I live they are just out of a town called Metung in east Gippsland Victoria and I believe they are reflective also, to make the lines reflective they sprinkle very small glass balls on top of the paint when it wet, you should have a look at the east Gippsland area it is a very beautiful part of the country.

[@sgtleska]

Great video, mate! Cheers.

[@krazy_m0ntr570]

They don't know who made the Murray man but they know how it was made, it is somewhat recent to Australia. I think it's a tourist attraction for the indigenous culture

[@jessbellis9510]

Pretty sure the big fish thing those guys caught was an oarfish. They're normally deep sea dwelling, hence the size of the eyes and why they look so weird on the surface. When they're found washed up on shore in Japan, they're generally seen as a sign of impending disaster, in particular for earthquakes and as a result tsunamis.

[@TheJaybez]

I think the last one is also known as an ore fish, it's a deep-water fish.

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

Amazing what you can do with g.p.s navigation regarding mari man 😂😅😊

[@Lee-astrololee]

Glow in the dark lines should be on every bitumen road everywhere!

[@bEverCurious]

Frill-necked lizard, yes it is a defense mechanism. Trying to make itself look larger and more menacing. Yes they can bite, these two drongos were lucky. No venom. They run like that because they're running over incredibly hot soil. They are part of the dragon family. The tarantua hawk wasp photo was enlarged. They don't get that big.

[@andrewmaher5334]

flew to maree a few years ago there is a good pub there and it has the lake Eyre yacht club. the Maree man wasnt there is did vanish for a while due to storm i think its back but don't quote me, maree also has a lots of trains in the centre of town.

[@1763-o3f]

That Hook Island tadpole is going to be a massive Frog one day.