To give you some sense of scale this little lady is larger than my hand. Cute!
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
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 are probably 5% of the size of the female. Yes, they really are that small.
Shade sail that suffered in this morning's wind
Shade sail that suffered in this morning's wind
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 the safest thing to be around.
Garden Cassowary
Garden Cassowary
Another fine specimen wandering around the garden. As with the photo of the recent juvenile cassowary visitor these were taken through fly screens covering the louvred windows.
Luckily this was on the outside of the car as it arrived in my peripheral vision:
Huntsman Spider
Things are moving apace. If you have a problem you need the right tools for the job:
Tidy Garden
Tidy Garden
Tidy Garden
Tidy Garden
Oops, there goes the brand new fence 🙁
Lisa’s choice of battleship grey to replace the pink paintwork was 100% correct:
No more pink
No more pink
No more pink