Saturday, May 30, 2009

Horseshoe Crabs: Further Recollections of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts growing up there in the 1960s & 1970s, Very Ancient Sea Creatures



Further Recollections of Cuttyhunk island:  Occasionally I'd see horseshoe crabs at the far end of the Cuttyhunk pond in the cove, in particular, and near the Cuttyhunk Yacht Club. Very ancient, beautiful creatures ... Merisomata - eol.org/pages/1919 




 We'd also go fishing for crabs 
 (was: home.earthlink.net/~becky400/paleologia/crabs.jpg) and ink squid off the Cuttyhunk Fish Dock . . . 




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 with periwinkles {snails} - 



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 - which we'd have to crack with rocks, for bait. And we'd also go hunting for mussels - 




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- while avoiding stepping on the barnacles on rocks with our bare feet.





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Horseshoe crabs are an ancient species evolutionary biology-wise.

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