Monster Walking Stick

This was the largest Walking Stick I have ever seen. An arm's length of a brown wingless stick. This one must have been quite old, it has suffered a previous loss of a front leg and most of both it's antennae. It has it's own personalized fauna, including mites, spider webbing and algae. We found it on the back of a chair on the terrace overlooking the ocean. When I moved it to the garden, it climbed slowly about until it had positioned itself in a well camouflaged spot near other brown branches (5th picture). We were only able to get close-ups of it's face because of the loss of one front leg which left one side clearly visible. There is a strange little finger-like thing on the neck area that I can't figure out…….The eye was especially beautiful in a face only a mother could love. Family Phasmidae.