These tiny crabs, camouflaged on the white sand of Home Beach, leave nothing behind but their footprints. Who would have thought a such a delicate creature could leave this intricate pattern behind?
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The Eternal Traveller 
Argh! Crabs always remind me of spiders and I have just found an enormous brute in my bath tub!! Ok at least ours aren’t poisonous, but I cannot stand crabs or spiders – it’s the way they move I think.
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At least you won’t find a crab in your bath tub! And a spider you can just whack with a shoe! It’s snakes I can’t deal with and we had a 2 metre long red bellied black snake at my school this week. It was sunning itself on a cement path. Thank goodness I didn’t see it and the men on staff dealt with it. They caught it and put it in a bin to be removed to a bush location out of town.
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True. We don’t see many snakes here.
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You are lucky. Actually I don’t see many either, but when there’s one around it gives me the creeps.
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I shouldn’t ‘like’ your comment, but I know what you mean having lived in South Africa, where there were snakes.
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Unlike Jude, I love crabs. We used to holiday at the coast when I was a kid and my brother and I would always roam through the rockpools and collect crabs. We’d keep them in a bucket with sand and rocks and seaweed for the week and then let them go when we went home.
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I love watching how they scuttle across the sand and then stop perfectly still in the hope that you can’t see them. I can see this post has brought back fond memories for you and not so fond memories for Jude.
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Crabs are such interesting creatures! I am fascinated by them. We once saw these crazy little patterns in the sand and were told that the crabs flipped the sand up!
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I love finding the little balls of sand they make.
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I love watching crabs I find them so interesting. What fantastic photos capturing the patterns
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Thanks. They were tiny crabs but moved very fast.
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These are great photos! How did you manage to get so close to the crab without it scuttling off? 🙂
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Elaine I have an amazing zoom on my camera so I stood a little away and zoomed right in on him.
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I suppose that makes sense. I had a vision of you crouched down on the sand, nose to nose with him! 🙂
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Elaine, that is hilarious. I don’t do animals, so I wouldn’t be getting anywhere near him.
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Thank goodness for excellent zoom lenses! 😀
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What a fabulous choice for a challenge to photograph footprints.
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It’s great when a photo matches the challenge perfectly!
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