Australian readers may be amused to hear that a local story from Cairns is making the email/blog rounds here in the USA (and, presumably, worldwide). I of course refer to this:
All I’m going to say is… well I don’t know quite what to say. I’ve strode through my share or Orb Weaver webs in my time but never seen something quite this shockingly large! Poor bird 🙁
That’s one thing I don’t miss from Australia: bloody huge spiders!
In California we might have mountain lions and rattlesnakes, but at least they stay in the wilderness where they belong.
I can’t count the number of times I’d find a brown Huntsman as big as my hand drinking water in the bathroom, or scurrying along a wall, or, the ultimate nightmare, resting on my pillow as I wake up!
words cannot describe teh horror…
One time I went to the creek behind out house with some friends and we splashed around. Afterwards, when I put my foot in my shoe, I crushed a large spider (almost certainly an Orb Weaver) that had crawled in. Even now I can remember the sticky and very green fluid that filled my shoe…