Come to Australia (Queensland/Northern Teritory) & "play" with sharks,salt water crocks or jelly fish,
no need to mention snakes or creepy crawlies 
..you have no large land predators, like bears, wolves, mountain lions, tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards.
About the only large predators you ever did have (except the dinosaurs) were very large monitor lizards, and a carnivorous kangaroo. And that was eons of yrs ago.
We have the great whites, we have the venomous snakes, although not as venomous as in Australia. And we have crocs and alligators, except the neither get as big, and the gators are not as aggressive as the salties.
Down in South America, there is a whole lot more lurking in the water...just watch River Monsters...