Beware of the Crabs on the Beach!

Last month my husband and I enjoyed a week long vacation down to the Jersey Shore. We love the North Wildwood area and when we go, we spend a lot of time sitting on the beach or walking on the beach.

Well, this time around something weird was going on and hundreds of horseshoe crabs were washing up on the beach! Some were alive and some were clearly dead. I don’t know if it was mating season or what…but it was really weird to see all of these horseshoe crabs on the beach.

My “Almost Wordless Wednesday” photo is one of the horseshoe crabs that we found on the beach that was still alive. He was beached up there and my hubby was “brave” and got him (without being pinched) and put him back out in the water. The crab quickly headed out to sea and seemed to be happy about the rescue.

We had to be careful at times walking through the surf because of the horseshoe crabs, some dead and some ready to pinch the heck out of us. Every few feet, hubby would say to me “Beware of the Crabs” so that is the caption for this photo! Enjoy!