Oh, I know! This photograph surprises you, or even put you off ... Like me! Actually no, to be honest I found my picture rather successful, but I feel a real revulsion at this kind of beast. As you no doubt.
But she is not beautiful damsel in this warning on its huge canvas stretched between two coconut trees? Paunch ... A pale yellow, mandibles moving about in real hooks predators, and eight slender legs like glass, zebra of orange. For you, I approached to within six inches of it to succeed in this photo 60mm. A feat! Please be aware that it ran to over four inches, it's something to be suspicious ... even though everyone assures you that no animal or insect is poisonous to Tonga.
Of such as these, we have seen dozens of Foa island adjoins Lifoka in Ha'apai archipelago, and less than five meters from our cottage. And what about all those we have not seen? ... Spiders abound on this island, the paintings are highly resistant to pressure and wider than elsewhere, cover the open space between shrubby hibiscus and palms. They are everywhere! And Patrick has concocted a nice little scene in the forest to film these spiders: Jean-Baptiste, our sound engineer, found himself propelled into leading the way and opened the way bravely through a sheet palm which he beat the air in front of him for scaring the most visible of them. Me, I hid behind the middle of Denis, our underwater cameraman, who preceded me.
Well I discovered two things during this sequence: first, these creatures are carapatent at the speed of sound, then it's not just women who hate spiders! ...
