Life...

Golden Orb Weaver Spider
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Bearded Dragon
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Bearded Dragon thinks you're upside down
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Praying Mantis
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Well camouflaged Praying Mantis

Zebras in trees, and babies with brains

We have a lively flock of zebra finches around the house. They are tiny- the length of the palm of my hand- but super-quick and very curious! They enjoyed sitting on top of the bird netting over the veggies and watching us watch them.


The male zebra finch has orange cheeks.

This weeks random conversation with the class involved them overhearing me use the phrase 'baby brain." One of the girls said that "Baby doesn't have a brain yet." And I said, "It does, its just like a real baby, only littler." So they wanted to know how big the baby was, and I showed them with my hands. Then they wanted to know what baby did all day, and I said it mostly slept. I asked them what they thought the baby did when it wasn't asleep, and the suggestions included looking at my ribs, heart, and guts!

Another visitor to the farm...

What is it?


It was a perentie... he wound up in the front room of the farm... he startled Dave as much as Dave startled him! We have seen its' footprints all around the house and farm recently.
Perentie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perentie


Amazing looking creature. Wrinkly, too.



Funny footprints.



Smaller than a house.

Marlin!

Last Wednesday I went fishing with the guys from work. Being in aquaculture has its perks! I had to wear a special belt-thingy (it has a specific name) that you put the end of your fishing pole into so it doesn't poke your belly. My arms were quite tired after reeling it in!

We didn't catch the broodstock we were after, but we did each catch a marlin. You can see its' fin to the right of my fishing rod.

It unhooked itself when it came near the boat, so a good outcome- we didn't have to unhook it and release it ourselves. I think it was a decent sized one, maybe 3-4 feet long.

Yay!