I see a group of young people in a mild frenzy taking pictures with their phones of something on the ledge right where I intend to sit. I approach thinking I’ll just take a seat and watch them. Well my eyes zoomed in on what had their attention.



Noooooo those few hermit crabs weren’t the center of attention, it was their family and friends on the other side of the stone wall that had the girls squealing and the guys chiming “B*C”. I looked over the edge but didn’t get the full effect until the flash from my camera cast the spot light on the scene.



There were literally hundreds of hermit crabs in this one section on the wall and the ground in front of it. Now, I was the only girl in my neighborhood who thought little crawly things were cool so this, to me, was super cool. Being nocturnal, they are most active at night, that I understood. What baffled me is why do they only gather in that particular section on the wall and hardly any came over? As much as I wanted to stay and try to shoot video of the hermit crab party, the crowd dispersed so I did too.