Good day

Mmmmmmmm Flathead, one of the best eating fish in Australia, and I got 2!

Taz was somewhat confused though.

P.S. Face was still swollen from having my wisdom teeth out - I have not put on 2 stone......

Our New House

Thought it was time I posted a few pics of our new home - looking forward to seeing you all here soon!

Mr Sticky

Taz got really excited - so we went to investigate what he found so interesting..... Occasionally you get a reminder that insects here get really big!

Our Most Deadly Visitor

We love our new home, but living on the north shore in a sandstone area comes with its own special problems. On returning home one night Laura asked what the big bug crawling across our doorstep was...

On closer inspection we found our first Sydney funnel web spider, the most venomous spider in the world trying to make its way to our door. Luckily our landlord had copiously sprayed the door areas with hardcore death spray, so the spider was on its last legs (sorry for pun). I finished it of with morteen (another hardcore death spray), which didn't make it that happy - lots of hissing and raised legs & fangs.

Here's a little more info on our visitors special gift:

The bite is usually immediately painful, and if substantial envenomation occurs, symptoms commence usually within a few minutes. They include, progressively:

• Piloerection, sweating, muscle twitching (facial and intercostal, initially), salivation, lacrimation, tachycardia, and then (fairly rapidly) severe hypertension.


• Vomiting, airway obstruction, muscle spasms, writhing, grimacing, pulmonary oedema (of neurogenic or hypertensive origin), extreme hypertension.


• Unconsciousness, raised intracranial pressure, widely dilated pupils (often fixed), uncontrolled twitching, and death unless artificial ventilation is provided. After about 2 hours the muscle fasiculations and most symptoms start to subside, and are replaced with insidious but profound hypotension, primarily due to severe cardiac failure.

NICE!

Natural Disaster!!!!

Well thats what they said it was on the news; ships grounded, the hunter valley flooded, gale force winds and some mighty big waves....... So we went out with the camera!

The raised rock in the middle of the photograph is where I normally fish it's usually about 3m above sea level. To give you some idea of scale, stood on my fishing rock I would be the size of the letter 'i' in this sentence.

going....

going.....













going....

and gone.












I was actually thinking about going fishing. Kinda gave up on that - I like living!