One thing about mangroves that I didn’t know is that spiders really, really love the mangrove forest – and one of the other kayakers really, really didn’t like spiders! Luckily for her, there were several kayaks before her, taking down the webs as we went. That included me. It wasn’t too bad, though – the spiders were higher than us for the most part.Another aspect of the trip was that since I have a bum right shoulder, Tam had to do nearly all of the paddling for us. And therefore we had to use a two-person kayak, which has a much longer turning radius than the single-person kayaks. So we ended up with our nose in the mangrove roots at every single sharp turn – mangrove roots which were full of spider webs. Oh yeah, that was fun.
I have to say that the positive attitude of our arachnaphobic fellow kayaker was so brave. I would have been a screaming meemie by then, I think.
At the end of our trip, our leader found a HUGE wolf spider crawling on her boat. And by huge, I mean three inches across. ::shudder:: Good thing it didn’t fall on anyone else’s boat!!!
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Eww! Spiders! That bottom one looks like one we saw in the lab once. It came crawling out from behind my foot under my desk. My coworker saw it first, since my view was blocked by the desk top. We trapped it and let it go outside. I had shivers for awhile, imagining it crawling up my leg instead of coming out on the floor.
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