Boddam Crabs
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 26 Jun 2019 23:27
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Some of the Crabs We Met on
Boddam Island
  No sooner than we had stepped ashore
than we saw our first hermit crabs.
  A home with a
leak, we know how that feels – Bear
is still scratching his head and battling our leak in the office. Every step
caused so many brown chaps with white gloves to
scurry away, their feet making the leaf litter rustle.
 Sitting atop a wall to a ruined
building – our first coconut crab. Without Bear in
the frame for size comparison he could be a just a couple of inches across not
the ten inches he was.
  Our second
chap was resting in a tree. Bear gently pushed a twig
toward him and ‘snap’ cut in the vice-like grip of an impressive
claw.
 This chap, the
reddest we saw, was slowly climbing up a wall seeking
shelter.
 Curious creatures – all legs and claws with a small bottom.
 Coconut crabs everywhere as we
approached the ruins of the small island church. Bear liked
this chap.
 Hard to believe these chaps can live into their
mid-sixties.
 All slightly different in colour but all have very long
antennae.
 This chap stood unafraid, his claws were
massive.
 The biggest chap
on the island. Our word is the only proof that his burrow
was three feet across.
 Our favourite is still a hermit crab, before he grows up to be a coconut crab as they do
here.
ALL IN ALL SPLENDID
CHAPS
AN AMAZING
SWARM |