If I ever get to sit on a 'plane for three bloody weeks and journey to Oz I'd have to stick to the cities - which would mean missing the best bits of the country!
I can handle spiders, they don't scare me, but snakes - AAARRRGGGHHH - I even have problems with the little non-venemous grass snakes we have in the UK - when I took the kids to the zoo I was in & out of the reptile house in less than a minute and looking for somewhere to have a smoke!
The only good snake is one that's been treated to both barrels of a 12-bore loaded with 'swan-shot'.....