I went outside and spotted a medium sized wallaby doing some lawn maintenance. I grabbed the camera and was just about to click the shutter release when it was spooked by a noise from the forest. Yet another cassowary in the garden. I’m going to miss these when we move back home. Cassowary having a [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2011
Golden orb weaver spider
To give you some sense of scale this little lady is larger than my hand. Cute! It’s probably a Nephila pilipes and also likely to be a juvenile female. You can read more about this baby on Wikipedia. There are nine male admirers sitting in her web and waiting for her to return. The males [...]
What have the Greeks ever done for us?
I was thinking today about Greece and the problems it faces. Should the European Union bail out Greece with large sums of money? No, the EU shouldn’t but the entire world should. I can already hear the economists among my two readers saying that this is a bad thing. They may be correct. Argentina decided [...]
Flappity flap
We had the first storm of the wet season last night – two weeks early – and the shade sail at the renter decided to let go of one corner this morning. I can’t see this lasting long in a real blow. A 6m x 6m sail blowing around in a strong wind isn’t [...]
Goanna in the garden
A fine specimen stomping through the garden and searching for breakfast. This big boy is about 1.5m (4 foot) long. The usual stuff about taking photos through a fly screen applies. Click the thumbnail image for a much larger version, as always.
