Some of the travelers from the week at Yax were real arachnophobes. And wouldn’t you know it, we saw lots of spiders that week! We found a tarantula, one person had a big spider in her suitcase one night, and it seemed every day produced another spider to test the nerves of some group members.
The funniest encounter occurred behind the kitchen worksite in a banana grove where we were picking up rocks to use as filling for the foundation of the kitchen. Nancy picked up a rock that was lying beside a pile of chicken feathers and out scampered a rather large spider with a big egg sack on its back. Another similar spider scrambled to find darkness under the chicken feathers. That’s all it took for stories to start about the spider having eaten the chicken --- leaving behind only its feathers as evidence!
We laughed and kept up the humor as a way to calm to nerves of those that were really afraid of the spiders. So if you find yourself face to face on a dark night in the jungles of Chiapas with a giant chicken eating spider, just remember not to cluck.
Friday, March 31, 2006
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