They were lounging all over the muddy beaches. In this picture, you are looking at 3.5 meters of twitch muscle, capable of exerting the force of a small car on each tooth, with a brain about the size of a peanut. I have about three pages of notes about these things, but the bottom line is a few hundred million years of evolution can't be wrong. These things are nasty predators. This is a nine inch golden web spider we found in the Fog Dam rainforest bordering on the Adeilade river flood plain.
Rainforests host a large diversity of wildlife.
Much of it is toxic, and nearly all of it is wierd. This was one of the last activities I did in Darwin. There is a wharf that attracts hoards of fish. For a nominal fee they will let you feed the fish bread. The larger ones don't get as close.