My quest to meet genuine Aussie animals to an unexpected turn as we arrived at our weekend holiday home in Jervis Bay. I saw an interesting looking spider climbing up the garage door, and thought "What an interesting red spot it has on its back- could it be a red back spider?" Fortunately help was at hand, and the heroic handyman bopped it with a paintbrush before I could take a photo. I think he was secretly a bit worried as he'd just opened the garage door.For those of you who don't know, it's one of Australia's poisonous spiders, and can kill you. Apparently it timid, and not as dangerous as a funnel web spider.............
We also did some more scheduled animal spotting. On the way home from Jervis Bay we stopped in Kangaroo Valley for a sunset picnic watching wombats and wallabies. The wombats are bit like a cross between a koala and a teddy bear. These o
nes were happily snuffling around a campsite, content to ignore us and pose for the camera. Evan thought they were great, but Carys preferred chips.
Oh, and how could I have forgotten the echidna (funny, large hedgehog like animal) we spotted crossing the road.
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