We’ve spent the last couple of days getting caught up on homework and being lazy on the beach. We’ve really enjoyed being back at the coast and love how green everything is in the tropics.
I think I could live on a beach. While we’ve been here the weather has been wonderful and the landscape sooooooo beautiful I hated going back to the bungalow. This picture shows the walk down to the beach.
One day I walked at least a mile down the beach just watching the tide come in and the creatures it brought with it. I watched this crab for a while; it was so interesting.
The wave brought this one in. It was on top of the sand for a minute or so and then it scurried off and buried itself. After a few minutes the waves would uncover it and it scurried off and did it again.
When we first arrived and went down to the beach we saw millions of these little dots all over. We couldn’t imagine what they were. They were arranged in these patterns for as far as you could see.
Turns out it’s this little sand crab that’s making them. The ones we saw varied in size from the size of a dime to a fifty cent piece.
When I came down to the beach early the next morning all of the balls were gone, the tide had flattened them. By late afternoon they were back. That’s a ton of work for such a little creature (there must be thousands of them). It’s hard to believe they do this everyday!
With the gorgeous setting we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take a family picture. Here’s a few we took.
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