Wednesday, September 16, 2009

It's A Shame He's Such A Crab

Eddie found this while we were on the beach in Fort Zachary Taylor State Park. We were snorkeling on our own with our $8.00 snorkeling gear from Kmart when he hollered for me to come over and take a look....he said he saw a rock move.

He clearly was not getting enough air through his snorkel! Moving rocks?

But it wasn't a rock, it was this little crab. He is known as a box crab or a shame faced crab because he holds his little claws up to hide his face. He was totally cute and very durable.

I took some video of him (which I will put in the next post) and when we were done...

Eddie returned him to the sea. Rest assured, no crabs were hurt in the filming of the video.


2 comments:

Gil said...

Just eaten?

Anonymous said...

Some other crabs were eaten, but not this one. Haha
-Ed