6/9/09 Saint Catherine's Island
Good day today, learned lots but nothing particularly blogworthy. I did, however, want to write down for future memory the fact that I actually saw a horshoe crab orgy. Apparantly they come to shore to breed in the late spring (or obviously the early summer), and they were at the shore in droves on the N. beach of the S. side of McQueen's inlet. There are plenty of dead crabs washed up all over the island, but this was the only time I (and apparently Dr. Potter, the geologist who has been running the first nine days of the program since its comensal, some 30ish years ago) have ever seen live horshoe crabs all congragated together, especially in the quantities that were there. It just struck me as neat.