Fishing spider

Life colonises all environments, they say, but some habitats are more hospitable than others. Around our house, the swimming pool and its surrounding paving are actively hostile to small life – deliberately so, in a way, because we want to swim in clean water. We normally keep it salty and chlorinated, and the paving is bare, clean (-ish!) and dry. Nevertheless, life has found a niche – quite literally: there is a groove between the lip of the paving and the edge of the fibreglass which is a good little refuge for small-enough critters. Tiny skinks hide there, for instance, darting out to seize anything that lands on the paver above them.

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