Tightrope

Have you ever seen this?
It's a snail, a small snail, and it is climbing a spider's web. Why a snail would want to leave lush garden fronds behind to travel upwards on a thin line to the tree tops is beyond my comprehension. Perhaps this little snail craved adventure, and thought that slender path was it? I don't know.

It was so odd when I first saw it, I didn't know if it was alive. I watched for a while until I saw movement, upward and from side to side as it found its way. The thread it was climbing was one of the anchor threads for this spider web, although I wonder if a sticky web part would have fazed this beast at all. I doubt it would.