On Blogging and Poincianas

Writing this blog is forever a game of catch-up. Vilis’s and my recent adventures in the desert, Daintree, and on the great Barrier Reef punched big holes in my writing time, but provided exciti...

Golden Orb Web Spider

Australia is home to an impressive array of spiders, some of them, like the Sydney funnel web spider, dangerously venomous to humans. Golden orb web spiders, also called golden orb weavers, on first e...