Wild life

Tonight, Daile and the kids are down the coast at Carlene's because the local area shopping centre is not delivering on the present front. The one down on the Gold Coast on the other hand has more. In my opinion, they're all pretty much of the same thing. It seems that its all pretty much worthless....'cept for Bunnings the tool shop of course!
Its very quiet here without the reprobates and not altogether unpleasant! Ha ha. We had a cute bit yesterday evening though when we were all watching a nature prog about lizards and crocs. Matilda has taken to watching this kind of thing on 'YouTube'....and is particularly enamoured with one that shows an antelope being swallowed, horns and all, by a python. I've walked in to find her watching that no less than 4 times now...
Its a bit of a worry that she'd figured out how to find this kind of stuff, and I'm not entirely sure what to do about it. I'm looking at software that could stop her finding porn or stuff that could do some damage to her developing mind. I don't mind her looking at the nature stuff, although some of it IS a bit macabre, and makes me wonder what she's going to end up as....!
So getting back to the cute bit...here's a pic of the nature prog... a croc going for a Zebra....



and here's a pic of the girls watching it, whilst being protected by Wayne! Ha ha. Bless. Note Tild's curled toes!



Earlier, they'd made up a game that involved needing Monty to be a reindeer...



He didn't quite get into the part...but at least he looked it!

Today I've been up at Channel 7 on Mount Coot-tha. Its got quite a view from up there, and although I was on my own all day, I enjoyed getting stuck in. At one point, the news helicopter took off from outside the workshop...



and if you look up from the workshop, this is what you see:



A little further round the hill, you come to a 'lookout' from which this was taken. Cloudy day, but good view non-the-less.



Yesterday, I was at the Iceworks workshops, and there's a couple of interesting steel sculptures outside that I really like. However, when I first looked in behind them to examine the construction, I walked into this fella....I don't know what he (or more likely she) is, but she has a habit of lining up her catches.



She lives between the two sculpts...and the web is like wire.



Elsewhere on them, there are a plethora of other insects, including wasps living in the bells of the jester...





Surprisingly, I was more scared of them! Wayne puts spiders higher on his avoid at all costs list than snakes. Wonder why? Have you ever heard of the Schmidt sting pain index? If not, check it out in the side links.