It all started the moment I saw a dangerous spider chart on MLCM's fridge door..
Oz is supposed to be awash with the poisonous buggers, and so began my slightly unhealthy obsession to find one. Any redback or funnelweb would have done. Just far enough away to observe without any risk of high-tailing it to casualty for an anti-venom jab.
My quest was somewhat rewarded when I spotted this monster. Thankfully dead but still large enough to worry.
"Nah", said MLCM rather matter of factly. "It's only a harmless Huntsman".
Harmless and dead it may have been, it still scared the bejesus out of me.