My new housemate

We made it back to Airlie Beach and off the boat it was still only around lunch time so I loaded up my bike, said goodbye to the A-Team again and set off out of town. I didn’t see the point in hanging around for another night at the hostel, I knew I’d only go to bed early for an early start the next day so why not just get moving then instead. Save a few bucks too!

I’d planned to just get outside the town somewhere but there was a nice tail wind and before I knew it, I’d knocked out 90km before it got too dark to keep going. Outside Bowen I stuck my tent up on the side of the road, it was dark and I couldn’t really see exactly where I was. In the middle of the night a terrible rumbling noise woke me up, I thought I was about to be run over by a truck. Turns out in the dark I set my tent up about 10 feet from a railway line. Eventually I went back to sleep again, about every 2 or 3 hours in the night trains came rumbling by, didn’t quite wake me again but made my dreams bloody wierd!

In the morning I opened my eyes groggily to see a spider eyeballing me from about a foot away. Bugger was about 4 inches across! I thought I’d left my tent open but when I was frantically trying to get out it was zipped up tightly! When I was trying to get him out of the tent he wasn’t having any of it. When I gave him a poke he’d just rear back and spread his legs wide in a “bring it on” kind of pose. I eventually got a him into a bag and out of the tent. I’m still not sure what kind he was, maybe a huntsman but I was told they were grey and my friend was brown.

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