Apr 06, 2011 01:06
I started sniffing spiders on the beach at night in South Carolina. My dad and I learned together from a tour guide, we got to be pretty good at it. You don't really smell them, you just pretend to by putting the flashlight up to your nose. You line up your field of vision with the top of the beam of light as you scan the ground; the spiders' eyes will reflect in the grass like electrical sparks. My dad liked to be comical about it and pretend to be sniffing very hard to find them. I understood that it was not just a joke, we were finding them using special tools we possessed. These sensors were much more powerful than flashlights and eyeballs. We were opening the eyes of these spiders, we were making them look our way.