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[earthmother45]

30 MINUTES . . .

I went to the bridge that takes you into the west entrance of Robinson Preserve last night. It was almost dusk and very cloudy, so I didn’t think there would be much of a sunset.

While walking on the pathway to the bridge . . . .

Comments

[sahlah]

That fellow has lots of snacks! :)

[earthmother45]

That's exactly what I thought, too. They seemed to go on and on.

[egg_shell]

I love that photo looking north - the one intense spot of warm pearly orange in the sky.

[earthmother45]

Yes, that's about the only color there was in the sky.

[auntysocial]

That spiderweb is just amazing. I've never seen one high in the air like that.

[earthmother45]

Me, neither, or that huge. It just seemed to go on and on.

[kabuldur]

That spider looks like our Golden Orb weavers, but ours get nowhere near as big as that. The only spider I have seen as big as my hand was a couple of kilometres from here, in sclerophyll forest (we have rainforest here), but it was a hunting spider on the ground. I have seen one on that gravel track which is about half a kilometer long or so from the mailbox to the house twice (I doubt the same one). I'd say your spider was pretty harmless. I think the way they 'fly' is to hang from a thread and get blown by the wind, but that's only a theory of mine. We have another species of spider here which has a fatter body, and it eats tiny frogs! They are not nearly as big as that, though.

I loved your other photos as well. You certainly had a downpour. I particularly loved the one looking north, it looks just like an oil painting :)

[earthmother45]

I think he was harmless, too. Only scary looking because of the size. We found out that the one we saw in the house a few months ago was also harmless.

That's a good theory. I wouldn't know how else they would get across to something over 6 feet away but wait for the wind.

Wow, a frog-eating spider!

Yes, we are in our rainy season right now. It will continue on for another two months or so. This is the time of year the tropical storms and hurricanes are forming.

[auntconi]

Again ~ another amazing post with interesting photos!

I agree on the 'consideration of the spider' to have his web above the pathway of others. Now I wonder how it withstood the heavy rains of that night?

[earthmother45]

Thank you!

Yes, so nice of the spider. I hate walking through a spider web, especially on my face. We've had some pretty heavy rains lately, so it seems pretty sturdy.