When I was about 14, on a family holiday in Spain. My parents had a pool in a villa.. one evening my father was cleaning the filter & dropped the carton very fast, slamming it upside down on the patio. He grabbed a can of insect spray, a huge one, about 15inches of spray! After using the whole can, the pot continued moving inch by inch for a good 30minutes later! :o
The spider underneath must have been at least 5 maybe 6 inches in size with big fat hairy legs & bitey things... I didnt realise you coulld get tarantulas in spain, but you can get some mad animals out there!
A huge 6 inch centipede ran across the balcony & bit my dads foot, it become very swollen. I see a scorpion in a derelict building ground, as I walked with flip flops! SO lucky with that!
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he worst were the funnel web spiders surrounding us as my mother said "Hey lets stop to pick those lemons & oranges" from a field. We stopped the car, went wondering in this field, picking lovely fresh fruit from the tree, before looking down & screaming out tits off & pegging it out of there!
Just to top it off, in the UK, there is hardly any dangerous animals. However, there is an adder. The only poisoness snake in our country. We were on a family walk in the woods, by an American airbase, my father was friends with most of the US guys there, Chicksands airbase, a few miles from us. We wondered & had fun. My mother was hiding behind some trees ahead of us, ready to jump out. When suddenly she jumped out herself sweating & panicking. Only a foot away, curled up, a diamond marked, adder. That gave my father & I a giggle considering she was hoping to freak us
