Deadly Tenant

So when I moved out here, I had to make peace with sharing the land with a large collection of scary, deadly creatures. Australia's meanest include:

• Estuarine crocodiles (these b*tches lurk in the ocean!)
  
• Venomous snakes, including the Inland Taipan, Coastal Taipan, Tiger Snake, Brown snake and Red-bellied black snake
• Marine creatures such as the Blue-ringed octopus, Box jellyfish, Stonefish and Irukandji
• Great White Sharks
  
• Spiders such as the Sydney Funnel web spider and the Redback spider

The last of the list -- the redbacks, who carry enough venom to kill a small child or eldery person -- have taken up residence in our shed and have nested on our back porch. The most dear to us is "Dexter" who created his kill room on our shed door (see photo).

In order to learn more about these natural born killers, we trapped two in a jar with a daddy long legs. Who do you suppose won the UFC? The redbacks of course! But since it was two against one, I'm not sure it was a fair fight..

If I haven't sold you on Australia yet, this song will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_TB6onHVE