When we were in Indonesia last year, we got up at 3:am to hike up to the top of a volcano to see the sunrise. For about the first half hour, we hiked (with our guide) through tall grass & low hanging trees. Fast-forward to after the incredible experience of watching the sun rise at the summit, on our way down we kept seeing these MASSIVE spiders hanging out just above our heads in the trees. I'm an arachnophobe, so you can imagine how uncomfortable this was for me. Anyways, our guide explained to us that during the night these freakishly large spiders hang out a few feet lower than they do during the day. Something to do with hunting & heat from the sun...I didn't really hear or comprehend what he was saying because all I could think about was walking though those trees,
undoubtedly brushing by these monsters without realizing it for 30 STRIGHT MINUTES. We asked him why he didn't warn us about the spiders, and he said he didn't tell people because he knew they wouldn't do the hike.
Here they are, when we finally got to the set-off point I was brave enough to take some pictures of these guys hanging between streetlights. They don't look that big in my photo, but to put it in perspective, most of the ones we saw would dwarf a spayed hand.
I don't know what kind of spiders they are, but I did some Googling, and found a couple more photo's to add to the creey factor (These aren't my photo's. Note the considerable difference in photography ability
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