Hermit Crabs in Ocean City, Maryland

Hi peoples!

     I'm back! I took a break from blogging for a bit. I don't know if my dad is still going to post a little more. My parents said that if I didn't put dates as my titles, I wouldn't as stressed about keeping track. So here goes.

     When me and my family were visiting ocean city, Maryland, I would go biking out to the pier on the bay in their neighbor. And almost every day I would find Hermit Crab shells. One I found actually had a Hermit Crab in it. In the morning birds grab crabs and other kinds of sea creatures from the bay and drop them on the pier to crack their shells so they could get to the meat. So when I went in the morning I had more chance of finding Hermit Crabs that didn't have a broken shell, or hadn't dried out from the sun.

     The one that I found that was still alive died over night in the garage because I did not know how to take care of it. So after that happened, I Looked up how to care for a Hermit Crab from the bay. My research said that all you really need is a cage with sand, a bowl of water, and a log. And that they could pretty much eat anything. I never did find another one that was still alive. :(

     When me and my family went to the beach, my cousin Tommy and Uncle Tom found all kinds of little Hermit Crabs with really pretty shells in the sand! So me and my Aunt Louise went to a store that was along the boardwalk next to the beach, to get a cage. But it turns out that those Hermit Crabs were salt water ones. Which means I would have had to keep them in a tank of water instead of a cage. Bummer. So we had to release them back into the ocean. I guess there are different kinds of Hermit Crabs.

     Here are some pics of the beach and board walk.

My Uncle Mike and Aunt Louise are to the right. In the pink in my mom. And to the left are my cousins Tommy and Savanna and Aunt Pam and Uncle Tom.

Here's Uncle Mike, Uncle Tom, and Shane in order on the boardwalk.

-Rusty