Couple of shots here for you. Baby huntsman we found living underneath the lid of the compost bin (gave me a shock, I can tell you), and I think a golden web or orb web spider in QLD. This one had spun his web across the trail and we nearly walked straight into it, and as for size, he was about 8 or 9 inches across!

We've got a tree over our driveway that germs and spreads berries all over the driveway for about 4 weeks in the year. The bats love it during this period. Problem is, because they hang upside down as soon as I come walking down the driveway making even the remotest of noise they release their grip and fall to gather speed before spreading their wings and flying off. They have caught me on the top of the head so many times now, mostly only the wings though

I love the wildlife here...............was coming home from a drinking session with my mates the other day and there was 2 baby roos, not 50 yards form my front door..................another day took a drive up the coast and pulled over to watch the emus................whom then came strolling up the road to look at me!!

I love the wildlife here too but not the creepy crawlies, they give me the heebie jeebies!

Went up to Australia Zoo on Sunday - wow, the crocoseum is brilliant! Just a shame Steve Irwin is no longer with us, his picture is all over the zoo and it's really sad.

OMG, I'm so jealous!! I would love bats around my house, they are like we angel mice! The spiders on the other hand . . . I tend to introduce them to the sole of my shoe!

Not for the huntsmen though - a bunsen burner is required for those beauties

Or a hand granade!!!

I've only seen 1 in the 5 months we've been here, it was a baby and on the window ledge outside, i was too scared to venture out!

I've seen 1 big and loads of wee ones - oh and 2 snakes (luckily for me they were both dead!)

Not seen snakes yet. Not scared of snakes, so not too bothered, it's just spiders that I can't handle. We had a few big ones in an old house in Glasgow, but nothing compared to the ones here!

We get bats regularly, who seem to like the palm trees. Also have a possum visit about 5 nights a week and seems to enjoy our company.
these were taken on the back deck

See, now that's the sort of visitors I want. We used to have squirrels that came into the kitchen, back in Glasgow. I miss the fuzzies in the back garden - think you could package me up one and send it over to WA?

Yeah we had lots of big spiders (i hate even saying or typing that word) in Port Glasgow where we lived, as we lived up at the back, basically in the country on the road to Kilmacolm, so as you could imagine, farms and stuff.

But as you say, nothing compared to the mutant freaks you see lurking here

Ha... last time I went bush for a camping trip my aussie GF caught me with three cans of bug spray!!!

Now Where is that bug spray....