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Brewer720 · 01-11-2005, 01:09 PM

I can remember when I was probably nine or ten that I was at a camp and there was a raft a ways out that the older kids would swim to and jump off. This was at a lake local to me, not Winnipesaukee, but one day I decided to try and make the swim out there too. So I headed out and as I got about 3/4 of the way I started getting really tired. It was with, what I thought, was my last bit of energy that I reached out for the raft, and almost put my hand on what looks from the pictures here must've been a very large Fisher Spider. This thing was as big as my hand! At that moment my adrenal gland dumped a large dose of adrenalin into my bloodstream, and I turned around and headed back to shore. I made it easily, and never went near that raft again that summer.

01-11-2005, 01:09 PM	#21
Brewer720 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Leominster, MA, USA Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I can remember when I was probably nine or ten that I was at a camp and there was a raft a ways out that the older kids would swim to and jump off. This was at a lake local to me, not Winnipesaukee, but one day I decided to try and make the swim out there too. So I headed out and as I got about 3/4 of the way I started getting really tired. It was with, what I thought, was my last bit of energy that I reached out for the raft, and almost put my hand on what looks from the pictures here must've been a very large Fisher Spider. This thing was as big as my hand! At that moment my adrenal gland dumped a large dose of adrenalin into my bloodstream, and I turned around and headed back to shore. I made it easily, and never went near that raft again that summer.