"Rusty Hinge" wrote...
Aries on MacBook wrote:
On 28/09/2010 08:52, Bob Hobden wrote:
The first time I went to Australia I arrived on my own in Port Douglas
tropical Queensland at our apartment and as it was getting dark pulled
the curtains. The biggest spider I have ever seen outside of a zoo fell
to the floor and laid there upside down not moving. Must be dead I
thought so I went to pick it up and it jumped a foot in the air, I
jumped 6ft, it was tropical Australia after all. I had to get a large
pudding basin to cover it, catch it and put it outside.
Later found out it was a harmless Huntsman.
Later that same day, after my wife had arrived having travelled another
route, whilst shutting the front door behind me, a large bright green
frog landed on my chest with a thump and stuck there. Another welcome to
the tropics!


NOT a very nice experience!

Now I would have welcomed both experiences.

The spider might have become a favoured guest...

I can assure you that you too would have had a fright, unless you recognised
the Huntsman immediately, and the large green frog landing on ones chest in
the dark an hour or so later and sticking there wouldn't do your nerves much
good either. :-)

Then on the same trip there was the Ozzy shouting "Don't step back" at me as
my head was 6inches from a "Funnel Web", and my cousin in Adelaide saying
"If you go in the garage don't put your hand on anything unless you look
well first, there are Red Backs in there"!
--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK