Photography..

[TheViking]

I was outside yesterday (yes, it was a beautiful day, is today too) and saw this creature :shock: climbing around on the tree that lives right outside our front door. Gotta be the mother of all spiders.

How big would you guess it was? Approx. :roll:

 

[Paganwolf]

Massive ! and I thought I had seen some big spiders!! what does it eat? Helicopters? :roll: :rolmao: :biggthump

 

[JakeR]

Me, all spiders have it in for me...not sure if i have told this story : I was swimming in a tidal river in Vermaiklaakaid in South Africa and i got out (i had left my towel on the floor :roll: ) and i felt a little tickling on my leg. Looked and there was an enormous Baboon Spider on my leg :yikes: About the size of a small plate. And all black...gives me the shivers.

:shock:

:rolmao: I learnt then never to leave my towel on the floor.

 

[RovingArcher]

Hmm, lessee. It's body has to be at least 2.5 centimeters. :wave:

The tree was indeed in the background by 15ft. or so. We have taranchula (spelling) here though and they get pretty big. Once when I was in the hills showing a friend how to stalk the final approach on a deer, we spotted an egg sack web in a distant tree that was so big and dense that we thought the tree was actually much closer than it was. It took us 15 minutes of steep and rugged territory to get to the tree. The web ball was huge. :shock:

Here's the other photo I got of peewee.

 

[tomtom]

ah so not such a GIANT spider.. dam it you could have trained it to carry your kit lol

 

[TheViking]

Here is some pics from yesterday. Today the snow is totally gone. :shock:
Beautiful holes in the ice eh? Well IMO.
Don't worry, the ice did crack a little when we walked on it, but the water is only 4'' "deep".

 

[tomtom]

Hay thats pretty amazing andy.. i never get nearly that cold down this end of the country!!

(thanks for bumping the photo thread too! )

 

[zambezi]

There have been some stunning pics in this thread. Stuart and Martin's really stand out. It is images like these that sustain the wanderlust through the winter/less active months. Keep up the good work.