Calling Sydney

My ex-housemate Daniel recently found this interesting creature on his pillow (!) and was nice enough to share his discovery with me. Apparently it was a Huntsman spider, which is also sometimes called Australian tarantula. It is not deadly though, but its bite can be quite painful. And apart from that it really isn’t that beautiful; nothing you would like to find on your pillow.

If you really want to see it, go for it and click here. If you plan to visit me and suffer from Arachnophobia you shouldn’t. And no: it’s not dead, it just pretends to be. And Daniel didn’t kill it, he relocated it to the garden.

OK, I admit, I don’t like spiders, especially not the ones of that size. I had a similar one in my hut when I stayed at Gokarna beach in India. Here, I luckily haven’t found any strange animals in my room yet, or at least no strange animals that were larger than 1cm. The only (rather big) cockroaches I found in my house so far were one in the kitchen and one in the stairway. That might change, when I start traveling, but luckily I have an agreement with Michele – she’ll take care of the spiders and I’ll handle the snakes :)