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This is as close as I can get - the eggs appear to be held together by a thin film of silk, and Pholcus phalangioides seems to be holding on to the cluster with her mouth.
Long Reef, Dee Why, Curl Curl, Freshwater, Queenscliff and Manly beaches, all basking in the morning sun at the start of another perfect Sydney day. On descent into Sydney Airport, I'll be in the surf at Freshie in about two hours...
Yesterday evening the surf was pretty huge and so I took the opportunity to get out my Lee Big Stopper and have a play to see if I could get some of the dynamic water. Here is the result... this is my first attempt at using my Big Stop filter.
Best viewed on Black "L".
A perfect Winter day in coastal Sydney is still, cloudless and about 21°C.. Today was one of those. A number of people were swimming.
This is a view from my seat where we had breakfast. We went to a place in Dee Why. This Winter, by the way.
This highly invasive weed was introduced from South Africa to stabilise sand dunes on the east coast of Australia. It is now a serial pest.
Ironically the South Africans imported from Australia, Acacia longifolia for the same purpose.
So now we have a South African plant stabilising dunes in Australia and an Australian plant stabilising dunes in South Africa. Both are costing millions of Dollars / Rand to control. I sometimes despair at our collective stupidity.