This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Batchel.

Beach weather.

It's hot in Australia across the whole continent.

Perth to New South Wales, to Brisbane, and certainly to Victoria and Melbourne.

However, going to the beach is not what I consider to be healthy right now because I was not

born in Australia and do not know how to recognize that this is a danger zone. There is a photograph

that Jeremy sent of a young family on the beach.

It looks extremely hot.

They're relaxed.

They're sitting there talking.

The beach is beautiful.

It's Perth.

Except what do I see, Jeremy?

Well, John, if you look very closely, what you see just only meters away from this family

enjoying the time of their life on a beautiful Perth day at the beach. You see a Western brown snake laying there happily enjoying itself as well, but again, only meters away within striking distance. And I must say too, John, in this photo, looking at the size of the brown snake, it is absolutely an adult, which means it has its most potent venom in its system as that family is there enjoying its time at the size of the brown snake, it is absolutely an adult, which means it has its most

potent venom in its system as that family is there enjoying its time at the beach. And John,

you mentioned there that there are a lot of dangers at the beach. And the world around,

everybody associates beaches with ripped tides, with large waves that can pull you out to sea

and drown you and basically all the normal

dangers you would expect, except here in Australia, ironically, and as this photo proves, probably

one of the biggest dangers you actually have on our beaches is the fact that you may get bitten

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