It was one of those small coincidences in life with utterly no significance but It must have impressed me a little as I feel like blogging it! I wore my Kilt to Okinawa Honto this weekend and among other things I wore it while watching the England Paraguay football game. As a result I was feeling a little Scottish! While browsing a magazine on Okinawa I came across an article on Okinawan Spiders. It interested me a little as I have notices the large black and yellow Forest spiders (and sometimes Banana spiders). These are quite large, I have seen them up to 10cm and being Orb spiders make huge webs (diameters of 6 feet plus). In the article I saw there was a spider called the St. Andrews spider! Being the Scottish patron Saint this caught my eye. It is so named because it rests with its legs in a cross, like the St. Andrews cross (the same cross which is on our flag). Anyway I forgot about it but when I returned to my island and was walking home from the ferry port I happened to glance down to my right and lo and behold! There was a St. Andrews spider! Of course I had to stop and take a picture. The small one is the male I believe.