I believe after looking it up it's some type of Trapdoor Spider, not a Funnel Web as I initially thought.
It's not a juvenile, they get quite large these ones, red line to red line in the pic is the track left by a 7:50x16 Land Cruiser tyre.
They're about 180 mls across the tread.
I like snakes, get the occasional visitor wandering in from time to time.
Sitting inside heard a commotion on the street out the front one night & it was one of the locals yelling out to us there was a snake had just entered our yard, summer time, knee high grass hadn't yet been mowed after rain.
Wandered out & had a yarn for a bit, looked around with a torch & finally found a nice sized Black Headed Python doing his best to pretend he wasn't there in the long grass...very very hard to see even with a bright torch from right beside it, camouflage is excellent.
Took him out of town & let him go otherwise idiots would have run over him & killed him.
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