Ian: Yeah, how yous all going there? Ah, my name's Ian Caudell. Ah, I'm from far north Queensland. [break in audio] There's animals crawling in and out of me house all day. And, ah, snakes, everything you can imagine. And once you—once you—they don't feel a fear off you, they're not scared either. They're even more scared first. And, ah, once they don't have a fear off you, well, then, they feel safe there, there's no way you'll get hurt. They won't hurt you. And, um, you just got to check all the time, lifting up wood because things are asleep and you don't want to startle them, and things like that. Just be careful if you've got wood in the yard, and things like—lifting things up. There might be a snake under there and that's pretty general in any part of the world, all that sort of stuff. A lot of amazing animals in Australia, although, there's a lot of travellers I've met from overseas that are going, "Wow, man there are so many dangerous animals here,"—well and there is but there are other places too. At least you can sleep out in the bush here. There's not too many things that can get you. I'd feel more scared in the States or something like that in a national park where there's bears and things. I think it's more scary than what's here. Or tigers or things like that. I stayed in places in—in...ah—in Europe—I ah, what do you call it...Asia—West Java and all sorts of wild places. There's tigers and things like that. Now that's a bit freaky for me. Ah, I don't worry about snakes and all that. I mean there's—you're lucky if one person dies from snake bite now. And, ah, I mean, a lot of people still get bit, but you're close to help. [interrupted]

Michael: Are there any spiders?

Ian: Yeah, spiders are a bit of a worry. But you just got to keep your eye out. If you're living—I mean, they're pretty much everywhere even the cities. Sydney's full of redback spiders and things like that. And, ah, there used to be an old bushy about, ah, the, ah, bloke that went to the outside toilet there that we used to have in the old days and he got bitten on the bum because they like living in the toilet, see?

Michael: What do you call those?

Ian: A redback spider. And there's an old song about, "Got bitten [singing] by a redback spider in the dunny last night." [Laughing] You see, but it actually happened to me once [laughing] in a—in an old dunny. I bloody got bit like the old song! It's the only time I got bit by one of them and I freaked out because at certain time of the year the—the—I can't remember but it is quite poisonous and depending on their size too and stuff. They make you sick and some people can die depending on their condition and how your heart is and if you're young or old and whatever. But people have been known to die.