Last weekend we went down to Utah to visit my family. My sister Lori and her kids were visiting from Minnesota so we made a quick trip down. On Saturday we decided to go to Antelope Island. None of us had ever been there before, so we thought we'd give it a try. It's a state park at the Great Salt Lake. I'm not sure why it is called Antelope Island. All together I think I saw five pronghorn. A more appropriate name would be Spider Island... WARNING: Arachnophobics DO NOT proceed!
No seriously, I don't want you to hate me for posting this! But some sick instinct in my gut made me grab my camera and snap some pictures.
There are millions (I don't think that's an exaggeration) of orb weaver spiders on Antelope Island. I'm talking ten separate webs between every sagebrush, sign-post, etc. Anyone who has been to that area of Utah knows how closely the sagebrush are spaced. Multiply that by ten, and like I said, millions is not an exaggeration!
Orb weaver spiders are the same kind of spider as Charlotte--you know the pig-saving spider-- if that makes it any less disgusting. Only I didn't see any webs that said "stupendous" or "World's Greatest Pig." All I saw was millions of giant spiders that made the hair on the back of my neck raise and every inch of my body feel like something was crawling on it. I have never seen so many spiders in my life. On the bright side, they're not poisonous and they stay on their webs. Oh, and do you want to know why they get so big? Because they devour whole dragon flies like they are going extinct.
I warned you, but you just had to keep reading now didn't you? Sweet dreams :)
I can't make any promises, but hopefully after I clean house tomorrow I will post some pictures of it.
1 comment:
gross all those spiders! and that one antelope on the far right looks like a nice size antelope! That is the hunter coming out in me!
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