Saturday, October 17, 2009

Tarantulas of Santa Barbara County


The following pictures were taken last weekend on my brand new phone! On Sunday, I saw seven tarantulas (six living), touched two (one living), and dropped my brand new phone (out of fear) once. Unfortunately, a lot of the shots I took ended up being quite blurry (apparently there is a learning curve to my new phone) or poorly framed (tarantulas tend to ignore instruction). Here is all I could salvage. These furry eight-legged models reside along Tepusquet and Foxen Canyon Road.






There's plenty more out there!!!

3 comments:

mendacious said...

ooooh wellll! look at your spiders! HMPH!

Anonymous said...

that just freaks me out!!!

Karen said...

I live in a canyon in Solvang and saw a tarantula crossing the road the other evening. You are much braver than I was. I stopped my car and got out to watch it cross the road, but NO way would I be aiming a cell phone at it while trying to get it to 'Say CHEESE'. In reading about these I have found that the ones we see crossing the road are males searching out the elusive females.