Christmas critters and snail babies

Sadly we're all back at work now after a pretty uneventful holiday period. When it wasn't too hot it was too wet and so I didn't really get up to anything apart from a couple of swims in the ocean. A few sharks are hanging about off the Sydney beaches at the moment though so I might even give the swimming a miss for the immediate future.

Eastern Blue-tongue

The In-laws' place in the Blue Mountains is always good for the critters though and so I just sat back with a cold beer and let the wildlife come to me.

Brown Cuckoo-Dove

Mantis

Back in Sydney the house had attracted a few spiders and one particularly large individual decided to set up home in Emily's shoe. Just as well she saw it move as her foot headed for the opening. Terrifying! I'm now banging my shoes before I put them on.

Welcome home!

In altogether more pleasant news my Golden Apple Snails had babies while we were away and the tank was swarming with the little ones when we got home. Apparently they're good eating so that might be a good way to reduce the numbers to a level that the small tank can cope with!

A proud father and offspring