In the intertidal zone

This is my entry for the #monomad challenge.

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When the tide rises, many things are covered under water. You just watch the ripples and its soft voice. If you wait patiently for the ebb and flow, you will discover a lot.

You will find a life that seems very busy on the muddy sand that was previously covered with sea water. They are tiny creatures, the largest of which is only about 2 inches. With one larger claw, they looked like calling out. Because of that they are also known as calling crabs. They were males, and the claws that moved as if calling out were their courtship combat ritual. They are so lively. Your one move, even if it's just a breath, will make them instantly, in the same second, disappear into their holes. They wouldn't reappear from the holes until there really wasn't any movement they suspected. You thus have to wait, frozen there, to photograph them up close. They are Fiddler crabs.

Not only are they there. The shells of various mollusks are easy to find, but there are many that you might think are immobile. In fact, they move, but very slowly. Like land snails, the snails in the intertidal zone also move very slowly, so you think they are just scattered shells.

There, on the muddy sand that had been covered by seawater at high tide, it turned out to be full of life. A life that played its part without noise, and now appears in its black and white pictures.

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