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• Just heard on ABC TV news that with increasing temperatures in our seas, some northern species are crossing Bass Strait - in early March I travelled with family to the North Coast of Tasmania where I saw on incoming tides in a rocky shore area the largest fish I have seen onshore literally 1 metre from the beach - and also a school of about 40 toadfish in the same area - the larger fish moved like a shark and I believe it was a gummy dogshark with dark and sandy mottled markings - I would think just over a metre long. Is this perhaps a species not seen here before?
• I live in Tasmania & several years ago read in a magazine how a mother treated her child for a white tailed spiderbite with a common dock leaf found in most gardens (I think plantain is the real name for it) She rushed to a doctor firstly and when the treatment didn't offer much relief or cure she found the common dockleaf may offer a cure - it worked like magic (on an upper arm strapped with soft cloth overnight) and her doctor suggested she continue the treatment - my sister has also tried this in N. Tasmania with good results (the leaf contains an acid which counteracts the poison) Worth trying - Felicity