The first thing I did on my holiday was to lie down. After the long drive and the excitement of hurtling away from home there is nothing better than unpacking and then having a lie down. On the bed, on the floor, on the beach if you are organised enough. Not even the collapse of the table tennis table or the downstairs fridge needing to be defrosted could take the shine off the first lie down of a holiday.
“What are you doing?”
“Lying down!”.
This is one of the Huntsman that lives in our holiday house. It wanders up and down eating insects. It may even be lying down in this photo, how can you tell it isn’t? You can’t.
My new best friend
This is a list of the animals we have seen so far:
- Ants
- Koalas
- Apples
- Shark Fish
- A series of huntsmen
- A dead toad fish
- A real estate agent
- Many cockatoos and all of their loud bird friends of whom there are many
- We didnt really see any koalas
- But I did see an echidna
- Some Currawongs
I am always impressed by currawong’s beaks.
Here is a photo of the Echidna.
An Echidna searching for better 3G reception in a pile of sticks
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I thought you had discovered a whole new animal with that Echidna photo before I realised that it wasn’t a nose or “proboscis” even… just a leaf. Boring.
A holiday without lying down is a badly thought out holiday.
Well FD. Let’s just say, as a photographer, you make a pretty good cartoonist.
Clearly, you’re going to need one or two more lie downs, before we see Bill Henson looking over his shoulder and worrying about the new dog on the block.
Glad to hear you survived your encounter with the real estate agent.
(They can be nasty beasts when cornered.)
Do I really want to visualise what Bill Henson might do with an echidna? How old is that echidna anyway? What would Peter Faris think?
And if you like currawongs, you might like this photo of a juvenile pied currawong I took the other day.
Oh poo! Your bastard website ate my picture! You’ll have to look at it over on my website instead.
I don’t know what the hell kind of Huntsman that is, but its only got 7 legs!