"Mommy, my cwab is gone..."
"What do you mean Savona? What do you mean gone?"
Well, after looking through Savona's 'crabitat' for about
10 solid minutes...I realized what she meant by gone.
Recently, as part of a homeschool project, in the marine biology
department, we decided to bring home two,adorable hermit crabs.
One we called Harold and the other Rambo.
As it turns out,Harold shouldv'e been named Houdini.
So,as with any emergency,the Captain was immediately alerted.
He was engrossed in his novel but still came running,headlamp in hand.
Savona started to cry.
I started to worry about a tiny hermit crab rotting in some dark corner of my boat.
Elias tried to soothe Boo.
Kimberly tried to stop laughing.
The good news is later that evening we found Harold.
We also found that hermit crabs can climb straight up walls.
We chalked it up as agreat discovery AND as a lesson to secure a new crabitat.
Harold was liberated on November 20th 2009 at Bahia Los Muertos.
Rambo was also showing some signs of disorderly behavoir,so we liberated him at the same time.
We found two more. We named them Tiny and Tony and so far they have been wonderful.
Savona took time online to find out what they eat and drink...so as it turns out it was a great project idea.
She did find out that sometimes they eat poop...and even though her Dad said he would be more than happy
to contribute to the cause, we have chose,for obvious reasons, to just feed them dinner scraps.
Now we have picked up anchor and headed to La PAz, where perhaps these fine little beasts can start a new colony
of their own.We plan on being here for awhile..so don't worry I will write soon. To all our friends and family,
here is hoping you have a warm and wonderful turkey day xoxox..._/)_...