We finally arrived at the Gold Coast of Coolangatta late this afternoon. We quickly unloaded the bags, returned the rental car and walked down to the beach at Snapper Rocks for a nice swim in the warm, beautiful, blue ocean. Followed by a lovely dinner at my favorite Malaysian restaurant Little Malaya…we were full and tired as we walked back to the unit.
However the neighbors were all hanging outside (the apartment is in this great little complex with only 9 units and its always full of young, cool people) drinking beers so we joined them for a cold one. We proceeded to tell them our spider in the car story which gave everyone a good laugh. As we were turning in for the night I went to my room and thought I saw something on the ceiling above my bed…a flick of the light confirmed it, there was a big Huntsman spider in my room!!! Ok, it was not as big as the one in the car, but it was still huge…bigger than any spider you ever see in California. I spun around and ran to the front door convincing 3 of the neighbor boys to come in and get it. Check out the video.
The bummer is he is still in the room somewhere, he crawled in a hole behind the bed…hopefully never to be seen again, I hope. We stuffed the hole with tissue and I spray it every night before bed with spider spray…can’t believe we experienced two huge Huntsman spiders in the same day!!!
xo, Rana
Note to self: Keep all bags completely zipped up at all times so no creepy crawling critters can get in!
We packed up our car and hit the road…while driving out of town we saw about 15 kangaroos in the football fields and pulled over to take pics. After many photos we jumped back in the car and we were just about to pull out onto the road, when I looked up and saw a huge 4″ Huntsman spider crawling up the inside of my car door. Needless to say I started screaming, Loyann stopped the car and we all jumped out of the car screaming and doing the spider dance. Luckily a man about 50 yards up the road heard and saw us, so he came to our rescue and calmly got the spider onto a towel and let him go back into the grass. Thank goodness he did, as there was no way any of us were going to do it, as we all suffer from arachnophobia. I think we gave our rescuer a good laugh…as I’m sure he’ll be telling his friends the story of the 3 American girls that were chased out of their car by a Huntsman spider.