>>> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/212608329_1ddb12ac0f_o.jpg
>>>
>>> The body was about 1cm long, but it's legs were probably 10cm each 
>>> making it look huge and scary.
>>>
>>
>> Harvestman, or Daddy Long Legs, depending on your vernacular. very 
>> harmless. Technically not a spider.
>
> In the UK at least, harvestmen are very skinny spiders with small round 
> bodies about 0.5cm across and long hairlike legs. Daddylonglegs are a type 
> of fly reminiscent of a large mosquito but with a very skinny body and 
> stupidly oversized legs just like harvest-spider. Both are completely 
> harmless.
>
> Scott's photo definitely shows an arachnid of some kind if those are all 
> legs.

Yeh, they were all legs.  The body was the size of your little finger nail, 
and all the legs spread out so it was about the size of an out-stretched 
hand.  It just seemed amazing to me how the legs would work being that long 
and that thin, especially as (IIRC) they had 1 or 2 joints in them too.

I did have a photo of the whole thing somewhere but I can't find it right 
now.

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