What you can encounter here in Australia - pics

… when you are changing a puncture.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a174/WeirdAl777/Bike1.jpg

Seems pretty normal so far.

Time to look around at my lovely surroundings…

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a174/WeirdAl777/Bike2.jpg

Did you see it?

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a174/WeirdAl777/Spider.jpg

Holy shit! That thing has a bigger body that a small child!

That’s probably what gave you the puncture!

Definitely just dry heaved.

Nice! What sort is it? Poisonous?

We have some big ones here in North Carolina, but other that black widows (which are pretty easy to avoid) and the brown recluse (which you do have to be careful of) they don’t do much harm. Kind of cool animals.

My skin just crawled off and went to hide in the other room
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Cool is ita pet? Bet there are no mice around.

Huntsman, isn´t it?

Nice spiders to have as they eat everything

Huntsman, isn´t it?

Nice spiders to have as they eat everything

+1
her arse looks fat… maybe she’s preggas! :stuck_out_tongue:

http://gonewiththetwins.com/pages/90s/screenshots/arachnophobia/002.jpg
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Yeah, I don’t mind Huntsman spiders too much. Big but not dangerous or aggressive at all.

I have more worried about encounters with Redbacks or white tails, not to mention that nice little spider that lives in the Sydney area :slight_smile:

Thought for sure you were going to show a python wrapped around something in there. Spider not so bad… python, bad.

I’ve been told that Australia has the largest/most diverse set of dangerous animals in the world. A miracle man can survive there.
Apparently the animals know this… I zoomed in even closer on that nasty spider…
http://members.cox.net/steves6/images/HTFU.jpg

Too good! But what does it mean for an Australian spider? Classic HTFU, or Happy To FU? Happy To Frighten U?

Also, clearly she doesn’t like to be down under: she’s up & up side down :wink:

Dude!. OMG. nearly spewed my soda all over my screen. Fricken’ hilarious.

While I was living over there, I found about 3 or 4 red backs (the same summer), in the shed we kept our bikes. I went on the internet, and when I saw they’re as poisonous as rattle snakes, just thinking about going in there to get my bike gave me the hibbyjibbies (not sure if that’s how you write it).

Huntsman it seems. Harmless. Take it in your hand and say ‘crikey mate, look at this beauty’

And that’s why i’ll never live in Australia. You guys have *wild *wild life

Amen. They even have freakin poisonous sea snails F the whole damn continent. Honestly spiders are the scariest damn bugs alive.

Is it wearing Aero Helmet?