Thomas
The media certainly makes Nile sound like a nasty one.
FWIW there are no snakes and very few bugs and other nasties in NZ that will hurt you... a bee or wasp sting is about as bad as it gets though every so often one of those awful australian spiders turns up in a port.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
