As I was walking up the steps tonight to our place after getting home from work, I was thinking about how it was going to be empty like last night. I was completely unprepared to see who/what was waiting for me on the stairs. A SPIDER!!! I got past it safely, but I had the worst case of the shivers imaginable. Suddenly every nook and cranny might hold one of these monsters and you can bet I was on high alert.
After I recovered my equilibrium, I decided I just had to get a picture of this thing. This required that I come back down the stairs which meant I had to go by it one more time. I made it, but had to go through another shivery thing before I could take the picture. Now this is one of those moments when having a camera lens that doesn't require you to get too terribly close is mighty handy. As you can imagine I put the biggest lens I have on the camera and then zoomed all the way in. Even that was giving me the creeps.
I snapped off a few pictures and then realized I had to get past the spider yet again to get back into the house. I did the third set of the shivers after getting by it and shivered all over again when I started looking at the pictures. Man, I do not like spiders!!!
I spent some time trying to figure out what kind of spider it was besides a really big and hairy one. It looks like it is probably a Huntsman spider which is fairly benign as far as Australian spiders go (like any spider could possibly be benign!).
I have been having a great time seeing all the Australian wildlife - up until now. We saw a wild koala before Eric left. Now that's cool. Spiders, on the other hand, not so much.
Now you'll have to excuse me as I go turn the house upside down making sure he doesn't have any friends inside!
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