Well, I'm back from Florida. I didn't read these messages until just now.
We only had time to find 2 of the 3 letterboxes, but both had had 2 or 3
visitors besides ourselves. We found the Celebration Box and the Wilderness
Lodge Box. We didn't come across any big spiders, thankfully. We did see an
alligator doing laps in the little pond described in the Celebration clues.

Mark
of the 4-hearted Fitton


At 09:54 PM 1/17/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Subject: Florida Spiders: was Postings
>
> >Be prepared to dodge some spider webs....BIG spider webs, with BIG
> >spiders.
> >
> >All the best,
> >Aili
>
>I think you are referring to what we call Bannana Spiders where I
>grew up in Florida. We do grow them BIG down here. I _strongly_
>suggest that anyone who decides to go into the woods (particularly
>wetlands) off well marked trails down here carry a spider stick. Any
>stick will do and you just wave it in front of you like a magic wand
>to pull down any spider webs before you walk into them. I can tell
>you from experiences it is no fun to get tangled in one of those
>webs with a spider as big as your hand who is not very happy. The
>bright side is I don't believe they are poisonous, just scary.
>--
>Regards,
>
>Eric Mings