Bike Ride to Antelope Island

I am not a person who wakes up early to exercise.  My sleep is far too precious to me.  However, one Sunday morning, I woke up at 6:30.  I tried feebly to go back to sleep but could not.  So I got up, left a note for Cody & the kids, loaded up my bike and drove out to Antelope Island.

I rode the causeway out to the Island and back.  Here's a lone coyote I saw on the way out.  I was a little excited to take his picture I guess because I nearly wrecked trying to get it.  I had my phone in my right hand so I had to brake with my left (front brakes) and I hit it a bit too hard.  I'm not sure how I stayed standing but my bike flipped over and ended up on the ground.  With me standing over it.  Luckily (or unluckily) there were no witnesses to my death-defying super-hero skills of staying upright.  But I got the damn picture.  

 Deserted causeway

 Beautiful morning for a bike ride!

 Does anyone look good in a bike helmet?  I'm sure there are people who do.  I am not one of them.

 Once I rode the 7 miles to the island, I came across this sign.   I nearly upended myself again when I saw this spider.  Dangling right down the middle of the Ladyfinger Point sign.  Had to stop to get a picture.  I parked my bike off to the side near a bush and got it. 

I went to retrieve my bike and saw more spiders.  Then, like some sort of horror movie... everywhere I looked... SPIDERS!  I know where there is water, there are spiders.  They are always plentiful around lakes and rivers.  But Oh My Hell there were a lot of spiders.

 Can you see them?  They are there.  Lurking...

Every bush was covered.  And I'm talking BIG spiders.  It looked like Spider-Man himself came and just sprayed webs all over the damn place.

And they were perfectly happy to all live together.  Apparently there are enough bugs to go around.  Look at this web with like 15 GIANT spiders just hanging out.  This was everywhere.  I tried to go up onto the island a bit but I chickened out.  As i rode along and the bushes were all just glistening with webs and through the glint of sunlight up the hill, I could see glistening web just floating across the road.  No thank you.  Not wanting to end up covered in SPIDERS THE SIZE OF MY HAND.

So, 17 miles that day.  It is a beautiful bike ride out the causeway and back.  But i still get the heebie-jeebies thinking about it!