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 

https://web.archive.org/web/20170312210711/http://home.earthlink.net/~becky400/paleologia/crabs.jpg

 (was: home.earthlink.net/~becky400/paleologia/crabs.jpg) and ink squid off the Cuttyhunk Fish Dock . . . 

 (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2714840707_301d692739.jpg?v=0) 

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 with periwinkles {snails} - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_periwinkle

see, too: media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/67/9667-004-503088C1.jpg 

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_mussel

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semibalanus_balanoides

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Horseshoe crabs are an ancient species evolutionary biology-wise.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Limulidae

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