A Huntsman under the breakfast table

Second Day on T'Island

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December 15th 2006
Suprisingly for a camp site in a spider's equivalent of Clare in a shoe shop we avoided getting bitten or attacked by the little blighters during the night. Our Tent probably resembled NORAD due to the amount of zips and blockers Clare secured during the course of the evening. We haven't encountered any Red Back Spiders yet - they are proper evil - but we have now seen a Funnel Web (will eas ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane » Moreton Bay

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more