Mate, I strongly recommend you sort some sort of loose idea what you want to do, once you get here. It’s a long way to double back to see something you missed.
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Will there be a Mrs. F? Does she like cuddling animals? How about Hartley’s Crocodile Farm?
Long story…but there will be an 'er Indoors along with me.
She is into cuddling soft eyed, fluffy, warm, wee animals, but the only scaly, tough skinned critter to get any attention from her is…
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Mrs. F (with her penchant for fluffy wee animals) will adore the spiders here. Many of them are the size of your hand, live on the wall (or the ceiling) and, when you disturb them, they shove off at quite a lick. Sideways 
(I’m taking the mick - huntsman spiders are big, scary-looking brown hairy things but they’re fine. They’re every decent household’s free pest controllers)
Deadly male funnel-web spider 'Hercules' breaks record as biggest ever discovered | Live Science.
Just kidding, mate. I’ve never seen a funnel wed.
Not sure if I have or not, but I have certainly seen redbacks, many of them, in door to door webs in an Internationl truck that was used to take illegal tyres from Buntine’s to the furnaces of the local meatworks.
Nobody warned me when at the outset of the season they sent me across the yard to ‘just fetch that tray over here so we can load it up’. I stood on the running board and gingerly reached in to start it and put it into gear, then steered it from the same place across to the garage where I stopped it in gear by switching it off so I could blow them all out with an air hose.
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I aint been following this, but somebody just drew my attention to this thread …saying.
quote.; '‘One of those sharp croc teeth could deflate her’…or words to that effect.
He didn’t have the nuts to post it, but he knew I would have…sorry.
I certainly would NEVER be so bold nor cheeky to say it, …
nor cast any ‘nasturtiums’.
So dont be giving me any ‘repo cushions.’ over it…but I’ll pass on any forthcoming abuse.
Off back to the Political thread for more wind ups.
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I’ve seen quite a few trapdoor spiders (Atracidae, same family as the funnel-web) and in certain places you know not to go outdoors barefoot.
Redbacks (related to the Black Widow) are pretty much everywhere, there’s one that lives in the corner of my kitchen and a dozen or more of its relatives in the shed.
If you’re messing around with some stuff that’s sat there for some months, wear gloves; if your boots have sat outside for a month, knock them out.
This is a bit out of date, Frangers, but the attractions remain.
You can’t come this far without doing this “iconic”, unique trip. I’m overdue to do it as a tourist, I’ve only ever been up The Cape, for work purposes.
Cheers for that.
Made in the 1990’s it seems. I’ll be looking at some of their other material too’
Oh what a feeling!
Unbreakable?
Sorry Frangers, I couldn’t resist.
Was all that, recovery, investigation, transfer home, transfer of caravan home, hire car, repair and return of Toyota, done under their warranty or the owners’ insurance?
Must have cost a fortune.
what the hell… i know aussies are laid back but 3 months to diagnose a big end bearing and then another month to fit a long engine??? and the bloke thinks they did a good job