Right before I moved to Australia with my husband, who is Australian, I watched a television show about the ten most deadly creatures in the world. I looked right at my husband and joked, that, if all ten were from Australia I was not moving. Little did I know I was not far off. Nine out of the ten creatures were from Australia.
The first encounter I had was with a spider. It was late and I noticed a large shadow on the wall near the light switch. When I turned on the light the spider jumped at me, nearly missing, and ran away in the opposite direction. I later found out that it was a Huntsman spider, which are actually harmless and great to have in your home. These spiders eat blowies, blue bottle flies). I later found out that my medium size can of bug spray would not kill it, considering spraying a whole can on the spider would be useless.
The waters seem no safer to me then the indoors. With the box jelly fish and killer whales, I am petrified to go anywhere near the ocean. Imagine the day I had when my husband decided we should go sailing in the Whitsundays, I was not keen on the idea but I reluctantly agreed.
Whitsundays, was breathtakingly beautiful. Turtles were swimming in the shallow waters and dolphins surrounded us in the deeper waters. After trip I became a little braver about swimming in the ocean.
The water is so amazingly crystal clear here and so blue it is mesmerizing, that is until you see a dark shadow in the depths below you that seems to be coming nearer and nearer. It would be an understatement to say that I almost ran on top of the water shrieking like a banshee. I leapt up the ladder to find my Husband in fits of laughter pointing to what I had been swimming from " not a shark as I had automatically assumed or a jelly just a Clown Fish . Well it WAS the size of a dinner plate but I guess I was the clown!
The first encounter I had was with a spider. It was late and I noticed a large shadow on the wall near the light switch. When I turned on the light the spider jumped at me, nearly missing, and ran away in the opposite direction. I later found out that it was a Huntsman spider, which are actually harmless and great to have in your home. These spiders eat blowies, blue bottle flies). I later found out that my medium size can of bug spray would not kill it, considering spraying a whole can on the spider would be useless.
The waters seem no safer to me then the indoors. With the box jelly fish and killer whales, I am petrified to go anywhere near the ocean. Imagine the day I had when my husband decided we should go sailing in the Whitsundays, I was not keen on the idea but I reluctantly agreed.
Whitsundays, was breathtakingly beautiful. Turtles were swimming in the shallow waters and dolphins surrounded us in the deeper waters. After trip I became a little braver about swimming in the ocean.
The water is so amazingly crystal clear here and so blue it is mesmerizing, that is until you see a dark shadow in the depths below you that seems to be coming nearer and nearer. It would be an understatement to say that I almost ran on top of the water shrieking like a banshee. I leapt up the ladder to find my Husband in fits of laughter pointing to what I had been swimming from " not a shark as I had automatically assumed or a jelly just a Clown Fish . Well it WAS the size of a dinner plate but I guess I was the clown!
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