Saturday, July 10, 2010

Gargantuan Mangoes and Spiders

I've already mentioned before how large some of the mangoes are here. HK imports 99% of all it's fruits since land is worth more for housing than farming. Most of the mangoes here come from the Philippines (the sweetest ones) and Taiwan (the biggest ones). Ive been on the search for the biggest mango and yesterday i found one the size of my face:

Today we decided to have a beach day at Tai Long Wan again (big wave beach). Located in the middle of the nature reserve there are a couple hiking paths leading up to it. We took a different path than last time, this one cut through some pretty dense vegetation. We soon discovered that we were entirely surrounded by the biggest spiders i have ever seen in my life. On average they were bigger than my hand and the body of the biggest ones we saw was larger than my thumb. They were hanging in webs above us and next to us. Needless to say we reached the beautiful (spider free) beach in record time :)

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