Jolly Buoy Island of the Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park houses the perfect ecosystem for hermit crabs and other other tidal pool marine creatures.
All you need to do is walk along the beach to find scores of such hermit crabs living in sea shells of various sizes, shapes and colours.
On hardly finds a single hermit crab in other beaches across India and to see them in such rich numbers is a very pleasant sight. These good numbers speak of the great environmental health of this marine national park.
I guess due credit should go to the national park authorities for allowing marine creatures to live comfortably in their home and have every day as a field day.
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Excellent shots, sankara! The crabs are so diverse, it's a pleasure to see them..
ReplyDeleteThank you Loshini! It is even more pleasurable to see how they react to our footsteps. These small guys huddle into their shells on hearing external vibrations, only to come back out slowly when we stop for a while :-)
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