{"id":349,"date":"2009-12-17T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T08:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:45:27","slug":"giant-golden-orb-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Giant Golden Orb Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took an hours drive to the Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, only to find it was shut on Thursdays! Just nearby we had noticed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pascoalfarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pascoal Spice Farm<\/a> &#8211; offering a view of the spice plantations and a restaurant set amongst some tropical forest. After a massive meal of chicken, fish curry rice and various drinks, we decided to wander amongst their walkways to burn off the food. Early on the path, we came face to face with this monster of a spider.. the size of a hand, it looked rather intimidating but was in fact quite harmless &#8211; something I only found out after shaking nervously a few inches away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0809.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0809-s.jpg\" title=\"Golden Orb Spider India\" alt=\"Golden Orb Spider India\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0810.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0810-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nShooting underneath, I was sure it was about to launch an attack<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0801.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0801-s.jpg\" title=\"Golden Orb Spider India\" alt=\"Golden Orb Spider India\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0790.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0790-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0798.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0798-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0806.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0806-s.jpg\" title=\"Golden Orb Spider India\" alt=\"Golden Orb Spider India\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0579.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0579-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0761.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0761-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAngus and his nephew, Matthew<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0832.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0832-s.jpg\" title=\"Jua Bridge, Santo Estevam\" alt=\"Jua Bridge, Santo Estevam\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJua Bridge, to Santo Estevam &#8211; the alternative longer route<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0867.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0867-s.jpg\" title=\"Sant Estevam\" alt=\"Sant Estevam\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0874.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0874-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0895.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0895-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0917.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0917-s.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0930.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0930-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFriendly villager of Santo Estevam, selling fried potato and samosa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0933.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0933-s.jpg\" title=\"Fried samosa Goa\" alt=\"Fried samosa Goa\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0945.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_0945-s.jpg\" title=\"Goan 85L\" alt=\"Goan 85L\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother villager awaiting her order<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=warrenwilliams\" class=\"addthis_button\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" style=\"border: 0px none\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took an hours drive to the Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, only to find it was shut on Thursdays! Just nearby we had noticed the Pascoal Spice Farm &#8211; offering a view of the spice plantations and a restaurant set amongst some tropical forest. After a massive meal of chicken, fish curry rice and various drinks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-nature","category-people","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}