A movement on the road caught my eye and on approaching was thinking of either something had caught a chameleon or it was injured and thrashing about in death throes. They were absolutely still after this flurry of movement, just eyes moving. One brief flurry again, followed by another long period of almost absolute motionless, another brief flurry and they parted. Never seen one as pitch black as the female, marking around the eyes standing out almost as clearly as under UV light. Both returned to more normal colours rapidly after parting, both removed by hand to the relative safety of near by shrubs. Total time actually witnessed 1 hour and 5 minutes, but I believe from others that they started mating some time before that.
Comments of selling price of a breeding pair shocking at R12 000 or there abouts!

The lizard was so intent on keeping its prey it didn't skedaddle, giving us a chance to take pictures.
I assume it wasn't scavenging and actually caught it, but you've got to be fast to catch these insects!
Prey here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10597608

Pretty alien?

The dominant lily on this little pond with scalloped leaves, some green, some bronze. Pond also contains indigenous lilies, Blue (N. nouchali) and Small Yellow (Nymphoides thunbergiana).

Stage 1: Saw the larva in the rain water bucket and placed it in a container.
See Stage 2: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9178581
See Stage 3: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9178582

Mystery thing

For all the clever clogs out there, what's this then? I'll zoom out gradually if necessary.

UPDATE: As per Jakob's guess, mating rain spiders, conveniently positioned between two glass doors and impervious to my prying lens.

This was not a speedy process. Some sperm was passed, followed by an intercourse pause (a phrase we usually reserve for the dinner table) and then more sperm was passed, perhaps from the other pedipalp?

The last four photos are from the morning after.

The video isn't great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0rnsEmFpBs&feature=youtu.be

Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is!

It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing.

Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic.

Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

I managed just a few quick shots from the car as an Osprey flew by with a fish over the Pedernales River in Johnson City, Texas. This was the only shot of the 4 or 5 that was in decent focus. This fish has been identified as:
American Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma cepedianum)
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4870751