Man - this is never a good sign on a trail ride report!
Hard core. I don't think I'd ride there again! "World's biggest f'n bee hive you've ever seen" and "trail ride" just don't go well together!
Excellent story telling though. Yikes!
Maybe in the wintertime, when the little bastages are frozen!
..."World's biggest f'n bee hive you've ever seen" and "trail ride" just don't go well together!...
LOL!! Tell me about it! But to be fair, according to the owner of the camp, apparently that beehive had been there for quite a while and they'd had all kinds of groups go down and look at it, even with little kids, and nobody ever got stung. But by gosh, they definitely can't say that now! And I don't know what we did to provoke it. We were just talking in normal voices, no shouting, and we were taking pictures. Maybe it was the flashes going off, although I always turn mine off in dark places because they don't reach and make the exposure darker anyways, or maybe it was the horses feet making noise on the rocks, although they've supposedly had large groups in there before, or maybe they just didn't like the way we smelled that day, but whatever it was, they were SERIOUSLY PISSED.
And they weren't regular honeybees either. They were smaller and black. I wondered if they weren't Africanized bees, but I think if they were we'd all be dead. I mentioned them to a co-worker and he said "Oh yeah man, those little black honeybees are MEAN! My Grandaddy used to keep bees and he wouldn't even touch them they were so mean." So apparently they've been here for quite some time because this guy is in his 60's. So who knows what kind they are. But I seriously don't want to see them again!