Its actually painful to get there. Once you're there the fly's kill you.
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Yea, fly season is brutal there.
Woah, white noise machine in your ear to block the ringing ? Very cool. Oddly one of the things about this I enjoy is getting deep enough Into the woods, away from all other human sounds, total silence and I start to hear the ringing. That and spiderwebs across the trail let me know I am alone.
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fun fact:
Round Pond population: 582
New Haven population: 1721
@Rockland - yep. we also used to go out to Louds and hang out a lot during teenage years. there are a few houses there (my buddy paul built one of them a few years back) and a little church, graveyard, etc. it's a cool place with an interesting history. haven't been out there recently, definitely since the ship ran aground (2016?)
SPIDER PATROL.
I got so accustomed to that riding in the early morning in Florida. It's always banana spiders here (Golden orb-weavers) which are huge and scary looking, but harmless. If you just wait a second, they will cut themselves free and drop off. Nothing worse than trying to wash off a half pound of spider guts with your water bottle. I would collect up the web and give it back to them, they eat it to make a new web.
I just watched my disproportionately wealthy neighbors pay for someone to remove all the spiders and webs from around their house and yard. In a few weeks all the fruit trees in the neighborhood will start to drop rotting fruit all over the place and swarms of flies will descend upon us. They gonna miss those spiders.
New Haven, VT population density: 42/sq mi
Bristol, ME population density: 81/sq mi
well! cramped and crowded it is then! round pond's is roughly in between, at 67 / square mile.
@Rockland's bringing back the memories. One of going kneeboarding in the ocean between the harbor and that island and doing 360s off of lobstah boat wake; another of working as a sternman and setting traps off the island; and a final one of an old skool neighbor of ours: a retired bishop who, in his 70s and 80s, would go out in his dinghy and row around the island (3 x 1 miles) a few times a week. Good stuff.
I went scallop diving off Vinalhaven late one November...
Have you ever been to Isle Au Haut?
Once, maybe.
I am normally the same way.... the white noise factor is super low to the point during normal conversation you wont hear it.....
Its just some days the tinnitus hits hard enough I swear Someone slapped me.
Was on some seriously off camber, rooty trail with tons of spiderwebs and had to let one crawl on my face because I'd crash if I took a hand off the bars.
Spiders walking on me don't bother me at all.
Even on your face ?
I usually operate on a catch and release program for spiders indoors with the notable exception of Black Widows. Those I reluctantly squish.
the other week i was cutting out some big downfall from the trails after a storm and was running the saw when I felt some manner of large bug land on the back of my neck. for whatever reason my mind instinctively thought it was a yellow jacket and started shifting to panic mode. i managed to keep it together enough to take my handle off the throttle first, otherwise a sting would have been the least of my problems.
Oh yeah, I'm sure that Yellow Jackets just love chainsaws.
i'd seen a bunch earlier before i started cutting. i've never seen so many trees - and such large trees - uprooted in my life. i'm assuming a bunch of nests got disrupted given how large of an area was impacted.
(not all my pics, and i should note that each photo depicts a separate downed tree / trail section)
this one was actually cool to cut (one i did myself), the lower trunk and root ball uprighted itself once it was cut through.
Even so.
His moustache is actually a rare species of Venus Fly Trap. It catches and eats the spiders.