Warning Signs

No worries, just some of the wildlife and potential natural disaster warning signs that we've encountered.

Some wag turned a speed bump sign into a dead cassowary on the road to Cape Tribulation, in the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland.

Note the bottle of vinegar thoughtfully provided by local authorities for the treatment of jelly fish stings at Thornton Beach, again in the Daintree. Fortunately, it wasn't jelly fish season (although most of the year is), and anyway, the day was too cold and cloudy for a dip.

Again, no worries. These crocodile warning signs were posted at intervals along the beaches and in residential areas of Port Douglas. There were people sunbathing on the sand just on the other side of the bushes behind the sign pictured here. Note that the word "warning" is posted in English, German, and Japanese--probably the three biggest language groups with the financial wherewithal or hereditary incentive to travel all the way to the edge of northeast Australia.
These ice and wave warnings are posted at Fox Glacier on the central western coast of New Zealand's South Island. The place was a bit like Times Square, what with all the tourists trekking up and the down the glacier's ravine. But you can't actually walk on the glacier unless you pay to have a guide take you up the slope. Probably a good thing, for both the glacier and the health of overly enthusiastic visitors.

And of course, signs for kangaroos all over the place. This one is near the psychiatric hospital at Morisset, on Lake Maquarie, about 30 minutes south of Newcastle. It's our favorite place to feed wild kangaroos. Here, Sarah is making a pitch, at my behest, to get published in Pitt Magazine.