Nasty. That's probably 5 inches from front to back, including the legs. At that point Tara began to lose interest in the botanic gardens, but we ventured on and saw a bunch more cool plants. After the gardens we went and walked around a little bit on the Red Arrow walk. This is a short 1.3km track right close to the botanic gardens where locals go to work out. They all jog along the relatively mellow track through the forest. We saw a pile of wild scrub turkeys and a few more nasty spiders. We didn't do the walk, we just checked it out.
Then we went to the Tanks right next to that. The Tanks are a series of large oil tanks that were used during the second world war by the Americans. Apparently Cairns was a substantial base for their battle with Japan. The inlet (Trinity Inlet) was used to keep the boats safe and out of sight. These Tanks were hidden on the side of a little mountain to keep them hidden as well. Now one tank has been converted into a hall, one into an art gallery, one into a theatre and two have been torn down. Pretty neat.
Sunday I went on the Blue Arrow with Julian and Dave. It was fairly laid back compared to the other walks we've done so far. It took about 2.5 hours to get up and down. The terrain was still rough but nothing compared to the Pyramid. It was great. The view from the top is up close to the airport and you can see a lot of the beautiful water around the town. The Blue Arrow starts as the Red Arrow, but it breaks off half way along and turns into a real walk, not like the running track of the Red Arrow.
Sadly the picture doesn't do this any justice. But it's the best I've got. Later.
Nick
Ok. So I got home and went through some of my pictures and I took a picture of the same kind of spider in Newcastle. Interesting how my only spider picture was of the same spider. - Don
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