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This story really belongs in the Florida trip but I
didn't remember until two days ago when I was reading a book about
animals with my boys and I saw a picture of horseshoe crabs. For the
record the horseshoe crab looks like a drawing from a medieval
naturalist book where they hear about something and then just draw
some crazy pictures to try and match the verbal description. They
look like giant alien bugs and I mean that in a very good way. During
the trip we went down to Panama City which is on the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico. Florida in the winter is nice but it is still winter
and in our mind we had been hoping for some sunny fun on the beach
but it was just cold and windy. That was not the deal breaker though.
When we got there the beach was covered with the horseshoe crabs
washed up on the shore and rotting in the sun. I guess they had been
breeding and dieing there in a deliberate effort to ruin our trip to
the beach. The other major problem is that there were millions of
jelly fish all over she shore an din the water as well that had blown
in in a storm. So we walked around in the piles of rotting sea life
and picked up a couple of the shells from the crabs and then figured
it was too cold and we needed to head home. Once we had the shells in
the camper my mom decided pretty quickly that her budding naturalists
were not allowed to bring half rotten meat inside of shells into the
vehicle. She threw them out. She must hate science. Rude.
