I just dug my camera out of the glove-box of my scooter and there were some photos on it from the fall that I never got around to posting
First of all, Spiders love my life-jacket. I keep a life vest in my kayak at Lake of the Isles and I’ve often noticed that it is a bit spiderier than your average piece of landscape, but this summer I left it unused for a month and found it entirely coated in cobwebs and egg-cases.
I brushed them and scraped them off and shook my vest a whole lot. I am slow on the uptake, but opted not to actually wear the vest. I crammed it behind my seat and set off. Here is a once-in-a-lifetime photo of me living dangerously and paddling without a PFD:
And here’s a close-up that I’m especially proud of. It represents one of the many varieties of spiders that I discovered climbing all over me, my paddle, and my boat moments after I took the above photo. I did not take the close-up while on the water but only after a brisk, tense paddle back to shore followed by a few minutes of calming down.
I’d have totally bailed out of the boat if I saw one of those things on me. Probably would prefer to *swim* back to shore than get back in a cockpit full of those!