Cairns man snaps incredible pics of snake-eating spider

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25. I lived in Australia for a year.

We lived out in the country. My then-seven-year-old daughter was with me. It was hard teaching her that every snake in Australia is poisonous and there are poisonous spiders, too, without scaring the shit out of the little kid. We had a wood-burning stove in the kitchen that heated a hot water tank next to it as well as an oven and cook top. We had a wood pile in the back yard. I was instructed to ALWAYS use the rake next to the wood pile to pull off a log before picking it up because snakes loved wood piles. My daughter was NEVER allowed to bring in wood. There are rules to live by in snake country -- never go out on the pavement after dark (they like the warmth and you might not see them), never run through grass (it doesn't give them enough time to get away from you), never reach into something you can't see into (both spiders and snakes). In spite of all that, I loved Australia and would probably go back there to life if I had the chance. The people were very nice and they even liked Americans!