Went to the beach today after getting fishing tickets for tomorrow and going through some swimwear and t-shirt shops in town.
Crabs were everywhere! Many different kinds too, only got decent pictures of 4 species. Never seen so many different kinds in one place.
Ghost crabs live on land, there are burrows for these everywhere in the sand near the water. Cece had never seen one before so I tried to dig one of the smaller ones up, the bigger burrows are wayyy too deep. That burrow was empty but we got lucky and found a few walking around on the way back to the bike.
The blue crabs were rather feisty. If a shadow went over the water while they were.. ahem, busy.. the males would snap their claws out of the water and splash. The first one surprised and scared Cece so badly she screamed and fell backwards, almost completely off the rocks into the water, then I almost fell in the water from laughing so hard.
Cece holding a baby hermit crab we found. When it came back out of its shell it started trying to graze on her hand and trying to pinch and pull algae off her palm. “Ow ow ow! Hurry up and take the picture!”
Lots of hermit crabs in the rock jetties.
Stone crab?
Yep! Blue Crabs are not my friends.
They scare me and jumping too.
WOW! I had fun looking at different crabs on the beach.