They saw it happen and we're upset but didn't blame me for it .

Never never swerve to avoid wildlife. Brake as hard as you can instead. Swerving will cause you to lose control & end badly for you while skippy watches on uninjured.
So many fatalities are caused by swerving to avoid wildlife that would have simply hopped out of the way if you hit the brakes hard. It takes a lot of self control but may save your life. Something I'd not considered until I did an advance offroad driving course with the fire brigade.

Thanks for that Cresta

So no aliens yet then?

Driving a campervan in Victoria on dusk, saw what looked like a huge black pig on the roadside, as we got closer it was a wombat, I had no idea they could get that big!! kids were amazed, the road was empty, rural, and we simply could not believe the size of it.

Stopped for gas, just after dark and the attendant told us if vehicles hit them its like hitting a tank, hitting one is as bad/worse than hitting a roo.

Beautiful creatures but apparently many wander onto the road at night.

Sat at a campfire one night I had a mulga snake appear (king brown) while in a VERY remote location and it just looked at us and went between my legs. A tense moment.

When I was exploring in China my wife came to visit and the country side was stunning and as an artist, she was very happy for me to take her out every day on the back of the trial bike and drop her with her sketch pad. She reported a funny feeling repeatedly that she felt she was being watched. We dismissed it.

After she left, one of the local guys came to me very forcefully and demanded "why I no like my wife. She is great lady" I was confused. Then I learnt the reason for his comment. We didn't know we were in a tiger reserve.

a few questionable people but none confirmed

I'm sorry, but I've got to do this...

Yes I wondered about that one in this case...No other cars on the road, but.... there are trees on the side and usually gravel edges eh and sometimes ditches.


Never hit a Roo, but had them jump into the side of the car whilst driving along slowly. Had a Galah hit my windscreen on the Newell on my last trip north. That woke me up and left a bit of a mess. Ran over a few snakes in our time. Weirdest one of the lot was having my windscreen totally smeared out to the point of blindness through midges or some other small insect swarming near Sealake in Victoria. Everyone had to pull over.

Opps nearly forgot about the daytime thing with Emus in Preston Beach WA.... That really surprised me, one running across the road about 150 meters in front of the car whilst driving along fast and my wife telling me to slow down quickly as there were usually partnered and sure enough another came running along right in front of the car about 3-4 seconds later. We also went for a walk amongst the dunes in Preston Beach... came across a big mob of resting kangaroos, there would have been at least 30 maybe 50 of them and we right in amongst them. They stood up and peered hard at us.... the whole lot of them, we just kept strolling slowly along amongst them on either side of us in front and behind us. I know they attack dogs in situations like that, but not heard of mobs attacking humans ? Sometimes you get a stray rogue one cornered in suburbia or elsewhere that has a go... but not heard of resting mobs having a go ?

I wonder if they're the largest land based wild animial that you are more or less safe with/amongst ?

I was most upset when the car in front of me ran over a lorikeet: its partner flew down to be beside it as it fluttered in its dying throes, and I ran over it.