Once or twice a year, all the spiders decide to make webs at the same time. Half the hill on the right as we look at the picture was covered in webs.
Several things about this not-so-very-attractive picture catch my eye. The webs, of course, but also the colour of the dam water after a dry summer and a dry autumn, and most of all the three Silver Wattles at centre and centre-left.Today in 2025, as I post this picture taken five years ago, all three are gone. The big one on the left blew over in a storm earlier this year; the other two died in 2022 or so and stood there for three years longer before another big wind took them both out just last month.
Silver Wattles are fast-growing, short-lived trees; in a few years there will be some new ones to replace them. In the meantime, the spiders will have to find somewhere else.