Monomad Challenge | Blue Crab

Hello there, black-and-white photography lovers!

Crabs are a usual sight around my neighborhood. They appear in houses or the streets when it rains. It has to be a long period of rain or a heavy one to make come out of their holes in the sand. It happens because the houses where built on what used to be a mangrove forest. It does not matter how much filling they put on the foundations, crabs will always find a way to crawl and get into our yards.

The usual ones we see are small crabs. They are brown and have orange claws. I guess they grow and get white until they become this version of blue crab. I cannot tell if they are the same kind or different species. Mangrove ecosystems tend to have a variety of crabs.

Anyways, these animals do not live long after they get out of they flooded houses. You can usual spot the corpses the day after they came out. They get squashed under tires; dogs fight them; cats hunt them. Many things happen to these creatures. Then we are left with crabs in the street. They are not usually a lot. The cleaning services usually scoop them up and throw the bodies away.

Sometimes, one cat get lucky enough to capture the presence of the body in photos like these. Of course, I did not have enough time to move around nor the means to do it. I was already going late for a date, but could not miss the chance of taking some photos of a crab like this. It was kind of big. At least as big as my foot. I am a 43 EU in size.

These are among the other kinds of animals I get to see around here. They are kind of cool. Crabs look like a tank of the beach. They help doing a lot of work in the ecosystem and some of them are delicious. These I do not know. I think they are not edible. I would not try to cook them. In occasions, you can see some with really big claws. These live even less than the normal ones. They get spotted and eaten fast.